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Dire Wolf
Dec. 21, 1978
The Summit

Sweet Solstice Wolf!!!
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Stagger Lee
Dec. 21, 1978
The Summit

Jerry’s tone at this show makes this perhaps the heaviest version ever played!!!
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Me and My Uncle
Nov. 25, 1979
Pauly Pavillion

Spirited MAMU > Big River! (Criminally underrated show)…
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Friend of the Devil
Oct. 6, 1977
Activity Center. Arizona State U

Transcendent version + with Jerr going full-on spacey! (Weird, like the whole show!)
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Passenger
Jan. 10, 1978
Shrine Auditorium

Perfect encapsulation of this show: not a lot of highlights, but absolutely rippin’, at the same time.
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Comments

Deal
Jan. 10, 1978
Shrine Auditorium

Again, very indicative of the show. No highlights, but hot as fuck.
Sunrise
Jan. 10, 1978
Shrine Auditorium

Fuck yeah, Donna! (And fuck absolutely anyone who doesn’t get down with the DG! If you don’t like her, you should’ve confronted Jerry face-to-face back in the day, to tell him how much his musical choices for the band sucked. You wouldn’t have lasted a day inside the band/on tour, yet she fuckin’ owned it for years. Here’s an Angel for you to make your complaint to…)
Me and My Uncle
Jan. 10, 1978
Shrine Auditorium

“Fuck yeah!” version! Everybody in high gear!
Bertha
Jan. 10, 1978
Shrine Auditorium

Holy-fuckin’-smokes! Jerr is almost just exactly perfectly on it, which is good enough, and he’s rippin’ (along with everyone else) until the 4:30 “I had to move” breakdown (Miller mix), when they all lay down an absolutely all-time sequence that should go down in the annals as a hall-of-fame + mind-blowing 30 seconds. This is why we listen to this band. (3 votes, as of this writing = ugh. Where is everybody…?!)
Bertha
June 18, 1983
Saratoga Performing Arts Center

The between-verse-fills have almost no equal from any time, before or after, as they didn’t exist 9-13 years earlier, and certainly not after the coma. Unbelievable level he was at, though it wasn’t nearly as coherent as it had been, from a cohesive band standpoint. Strange but good times.
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