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Promised Land
May 11, 1991
Shoreline Amphitheatre

this one is a gimme for Hornsby's jumpstart chops which makes for a devastating affair with jer and the guys lockin' in.
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Drums -> Space
May 11, 1991
Shoreline Amphitheatre

Laconic and textural, devils hang loose. Chasms of endless spirals of blank fear only to be boingy wackjob cyberjazz, menacing, for OG 90's heads
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Uncle John's Band
May 11, 1991
Shoreline Amphitheatre

High spirited and activated septet playing. Lengthy tonal solo and manic 7/4 takeoff
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Playin' In The Band
May 11, 1991
Shoreline Amphitheatre

Blazing steamroller, Hornsby, flutterbird PITB. Elegant, direct, emblematic of the late style.
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I Need A Miracle
July 21, 1990
World Music Theatre

Mystical, blazing

Comments

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