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Dupree's Diamond Blues
July 7, 1984
Alpine Valley Music Theatre

Cancer season kiss. Vaudevillian propulsion
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Space
July 7, 1984
Alpine Valley Music Theatre

clean, investigative, squelchy, cratering symphonic adjacent!! jerry, bobby, mickey. midwest plains poetry
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The Wheel
April 8, 1991
Orlando Arena

Spielberg hot air balloon landing, nice jazzy buoyant stuff. face stealing chugging wheel miracle.
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Truckin'
April 8, 1991
Orlando Arena

Boomin!!!! Long and awesome phil led post jam!!!!
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Man Smart, Woman Smarter
April 8, 1991
Orlando Arena

Great one. Clean

Comments

The Wheel
June 14, 1976
Beacon Theatre

bound to cover just a little more ground, for only 3rd time, chunky and dancing version, powerful
Help On The Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower
June 14, 1976
Beacon Theatre

The approach to this trifecta as a victory lap rather than a bust out of the gate yields an arguably even more rewarding version of the composition. Slip is not a melter so much as a slow burn...
Cosmic Charlie
June 14, 1976
Beacon Theatre

mega heady, so mellow!!! loving this version of cosmic charlie
Lazy Lightnin' -> Supplication
June 14, 1976
Beacon Theatre

rippling and full of alignment, just shredding
Playin' In The Band
June 14, 1976
Beacon Theatre

For sure under-voted, it's playing in the band and they go crazy on this one. Returning to the D modal jam from craziness, you can start to see why this is Keith Godchaux's "catatonic" phase, his Rhodes playing doesn't take us as far as say, a Dark Star from two years prior would. But it's still nasty and great. Iconic Donna wail coming back around. One of those PITB's that'll take you through several distinct cycles of mood