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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

Ship of Fools
July 12, 1989
RFK Stadium

all late Brent ships are massive fatty versions, love this squishy silvery gloaming-hour one!! you want garcia to just guide you through to sitting in the old folks home sans all the bullshit but at least there's hot summer 89 to distract us in the meantime. Really dynamic brent work gets piano synth and organ into this one. This one slows down and only gets more rhythmically diverse as it goes on. primo blends
Man Smart, Woman Smarter
July 12, 1989
RFK Stadium

A wondrous 19 minute segment of Hornsby training wheels for tiger football stadium inspiration movements. Sugaree heats on the coil, first innocent then mortal and staggering. This long man smart flows like the Ganges.
Sugaree
July 12, 1989
RFK Stadium

mellow melodious and frolicing through daisy fields of nutritional buds.
Mississippi Halfstep Uptown Toodeloo
July 12, 1989
RFK Stadium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om6L59TqXmw duuuuuude this shit is VISCERAL furious and beautiful
Wharf Rat
June 24, 1985
River Bend Music Center

An epochal call to send this night out on cosmic tonez and plains of imported planetive headiness. Floorboard levitator