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Drums -> Space
May 10, 1978
Veterans' Memorial Coliseum

ambitious, abstract, and involved in the multi-dimensional trappings. Plenty of curiosity but tethered to that amazing 2nd-set logic
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Easy Answers
June 21, 1995
Knickerbocker Arena

hurricane version coming out of space
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Good Lovin'
April 27, 1977
Capitol Theatre

Piping hot delivery, right after Scarlet Fire! Yee-haw! That burgundy-smooth, cinnamon in yer coffee-sweetness of 77 flavor! Mickey thwacking as well
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Turn On Your Love Light
July 4, 1970
McMahon Stadium

https://youtu.be/aJhnOq2q3ag yes indeed
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Might As Well
Sept. 6, 1983
Red Rocks Amphitheatre

finger-lickin' good Red Rocks show, Lazy lightning/supplication for a while straight into this barnstorming Might as well, fireworks!!!

Comments

Walking Blues
July 13, 1985
Ventura County Fairgrounds

Baptizing shredfest of righteously pan seared riff wreckage and chug, second jerry solo is lucid and piercing, heroic stuff
Fire On The Mountain
July 13, 1985
Ventura County Fairgrounds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOpcK8b39VU Trouble ahead grand slam at ventura. Multi-armed vishnu
Black Peter
June 27, 1985
SPAC

this one always knocks it out of the park. Kafkaesque plea for release whose severity always sets up all manner of levity to follow in that classic GD pindrop style
Truckin'
June 27, 1985
SPAC

Blue-hot. Gem of a truckin>spoonful, gnarled and ravaged, miraculously glove tight
Drums -> Space
June 27, 1985
SPAC

guitarists work their tone, the boys send you to hell and back. Exemplary version