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Jack A Roe
Sept. 29, 1989
Shoreline Amphitheatre

You know the crew is feeling spritely and in a cowboy mood when they play this, blessed frequently in '89 with it.
3
Wang Dang Doodle
Sept. 29, 1989
Shoreline Amphitheatre

Poker-hot WDD
3
Lazy River Road
June 11, 1993
Buckeye Lake Music Center

Sweet, sweet, down-home and yokey Jerry.
5
The Same Thing
June 11, 1993
Buckeye Lake Music Center

Pigpen cut revived for the 90's with the group in kind of a slow crawling king snake vibe. Vince knows how to lay down some organ. Top late form.
5
Ship of Fools
Feb. 22, 1974
Winterland Arena

Premiere of this stately Jerry ballad.

Comments

Dark Star
March 28, 1973
Civic Center

WRS prelude stane-alone intro. (heady as fuck) This effect lands as if you are in the lobby atrium of a grand operatic presentation, mingling and preparing for the feast within the great doors. Get your money's worth of accurate reporting from the nether realms, beyond the orb, on this whirly-dirly DS, dude. Yeah, this finds the guys swirling around in their cauldrons mysterious goop. The stove starts getting almost too hot to handle with the fusion pyrotechnics, again instigated by our Bill at the midway point. Then it's like you say - who knows what could happen during Space. If you have a quadrophonic PA in your listening room that you are debating setting up, now might be the time to do that. Phil will shake your skull during this beautiful avant-garde section, all frequencies. Just gorgeous. It's all effortless, it all grooves hard, it's all probing. There is definitely an ambient mindset, in the sense that Eno meant it on his titular series of 4 albums (the manifesto of the early genre) to this DS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mississippi Halfstep Uptown Toodeloo
March 28, 1973
Civic Center

Overlooked, has punch and bite in spades. mmmmmmmm
Stella Blue
March 28, 1973
Civic Center

Look out for the powerful bridge on this smoker unreleased Stella, possible to space yer butt to this shit! Phil so powerful, once again. Loping maze of beautiful chromaticism. A spire.
The Race Is On
March 28, 1973
Civic Center

Lots of cowboy songs in set 2. Don't tell my professor, but I want to cut to that Dark Star a little quicker. Guess the race is on to do that
China Cat Sunflower -> I Know You Rider
March 28, 1973
Civic Center

Billy is the comet force behind this notable china rider