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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.
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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.
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Ship of Fools
Feb. 22, 1974
Winterland Arena

Premiere of this stately Jerry ballad.
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Foolish Heart
June 11, 1993
Buckeye Lake Music Center

Tender promise and smooth crispy jerry and philly goodness. Devils brew on this is endlessly beckoning, seamlessly bridging the spaces between the subdivisions, the blend is the juice in the smoothie, dig?
Jack Straw
June 11, 1993
Buckeye Lake Music Center

Purple shirt jerry out to play
Dark Star
Oct. 26, 1989
Miami Arena

Speechless. Holy fuck i'm in ecstasy right now listening to the atonal melt part
Estimated Prophet
Oct. 26, 1989
Miami Arena

Sick version everyone's on fire
Dark Star
April 8, 1972
Wembley Empire Pool

For the record it might be the most "ambient" dark star, for everything that's said, every statement feels like a smooth and long, blurry transition from the last. Complete freedom harmonically and rhythmically and episodic moments of stasis, and builds and valleys of glory.
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