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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

Weather Report Suite
May 14, 1974
Adams Field House, U of Montana

Really really nice full WRS. In a nice contrast to some which really blow your face off, this has more of a beguiling and rippling effect on your imagination with less blunt force and more interplay.
Dark Star
July 12, 1990
Robert F. Kennedy Stadium

Tasty, sumptuous and symphonic '90 DS.
Victim Or The Crime
July 12, 1990
Robert F. Kennedy Stadium

menacing version of votc
Take A Step Back
July 12, 1990
Robert F. Kennedy Stadium

Let there be Box of Rain to ease the pain, love to see you through, and songs to Phil the air. Happy birthday to PL
Ripple
Oct. 31, 1980
Radio City Music Hall

This version of ripple i return to as an emotional salve, a balsam soak. Hunter's lyric for this one is a hymn, a guidebook to how to live a curious life. It's a song about magic, knowing that physical reality ain't the only area that the world has