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He's Gone
Sept. 22, 1991
Boston Garden

the feeling on this rich, blue-hot hornsby one is that of exquisite elegance in that puffed-up mindless sense
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Pretty Peggy O
Sept. 3, 1988
Capital Centre

tight, gallopping, mournful, phil
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Drums -> Space
July 6, 1990
Cardinal Stadium

bill and mick dip their toes into a dozen things, keeping their turntablism abreast of the breathing tree of life. Sensational stuff. Continued
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Little Red Rooster
Sept. 3, 1988
Capital Centre

everyone impatient to bust out passionate stuff on this searing version
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The Wheel
July 2, 1988
Oxford Plains Speedway

Strap on the goggles and microscopes to find traces of this in jerry's playing as soon as the intro dies down into a no nonsense sparkplug wheel

Comments

Ramble On Rose
March 10, 1993
Rosemont Horizon

deep and powerful
Sugaree
Sept. 18, 1982
Boston Garden

sprawling and deep, could use some love. Episodes of ecstasy
Uncle John's Band
Sept. 18, 1982
Boston Garden

Fantastic samson>uncle john>playin, they get the place vibrating. Activated jerry gives way to a tribal thunderous reading on the first 2 and acres of nomadic, rainsoaked mystery on the PITB.
Stella Blue
June 6, 1991
Deer Creek Music Center

a chaotic brief wheel>watchtower breaks the dam leaving a crystalline bruce stella in its wake. A foggy dawn shimmering through stained glass icons of the passions. Tortured and despairing + everyone makes em' shine on this
Uncle John's Band
June 6, 1991
Deer Creek Music Center

nourishing streams of salty, homeostatic kindness. Maples all crisping in some meadow. this one has some zip and bob and vince pick up the slack excellently, seas of omnisonic glory