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Deal
July 29, 1994
Buckeye Lake Music Center

yet another heavy duty Deal. This one is a still life watercolor. Patient, refined, excellent.
2
Althea
July 29, 1994
Buckeye Lake Music Center

I love speedy 90's altheas!!!! Lots of chaw and twinkly starfall.
1
Space
April 19, 1978
Veterans Memorial Auditorium

elastic, serpentine, walls of the cave smeared with battle stories hidden by shadows.
1
Bertha
Nov. 2, 1984
Berkeley Community Theatre

A post-space one. tender Berkeley love. A gust of "what just happened" curious joy.
3
Touch of Grey
May 8, 1984
Silva Hall at the Hult Center

triple shot of pure Jerry!! Great "a-ha" FOTM tease. Phil's boxing ring tone becomes the kick, brent's hot rhodes the drums, devils go artisanal baker

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Walking Blues
July 13, 1985
Ventura County Fairgrounds

Baptizing shredfest of righteously pan seared riff wreckage and chug, second jerry solo is lucid and piercing, heroic stuff
Fire On The Mountain
July 13, 1985
Ventura County Fairgrounds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOpcK8b39VU Trouble ahead grand slam at ventura. Multi-armed vishnu
Black Peter
June 27, 1985
SPAC

this one always knocks it out of the park. Kafkaesque plea for release whose severity always sets up all manner of levity to follow in that classic GD pindrop style
Truckin'
June 27, 1985
SPAC

Blue-hot. Gem of a truckin>spoonful, gnarled and ravaged, miraculously glove tight
Drums -> Space
June 27, 1985
SPAC

guitarists work their tone, the boys send you to hell and back. Exemplary version