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Looks Like Rain
April 17, 1984
Niagara Falls Convention Center

another bathroom mirror cabinet aria, this time with crack vibrato synth work, healy leprechauning, disco phil, chamber devils NOT ur average LLR
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Row Jimmy
April 17, 1984
Niagara Falls Convention Center

carpeted spires of woolly synth, iconic drummer latte sunday chat, along with sunday mass with geniusly staggered jer lead work. Rewarding long row
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New Minglewood Blues
April 17, 1984
Niagara Falls Convention Center

legit, alchemical, firehouse Minglewood. Factory line tenacity, playboy panache, sparkplug brent and jer
3
Gimme Some Lovin'
March 19, 1990
Civic Center

Apollo 90 mammoth Gimme some lovin. Rolex and a bump add to yer bombin' stew for this
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Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad
July 14, 1984
Greek Theatre - University of California

refined and elegant. calm splendor for the cali regular heads

Comments

Playin' In The Band
Oct. 7, 1977
University of New Mexico

11-minute PITB jam starts with a nice phil feature and gets as good as any from this year!!!! Are you crazy, 3?!?!?!
Sugar Magnolia
Oct. 7, 1977
University of New Mexico

All-time version to close a surreal sequence, Jerry puts in 150%, just screaminggggg!!!!!!!!!!
Wharf Rat
Oct. 7, 1977
University of New Mexico

Critical consensus for 77 often points to this year as being a concise song-driven melee of easygoing funk-rock textures. The whole story is more complicated and on certain gigs you'll get a Terrapin->playin->drums->iko iko->the wheel->wharf rat->sugar mag that gets as out there as any jamming they did. Particularly wheel and wharf are crazy, though. This version is probed straight from another deranged cranium to ours, the accompaniment accentuating the freakish paranoia and backing it up all the way. Both wheel and wharf geniusly dissolve into frantic, roaming improvisation. Clean and rocket sharp 77, but also jazzy af.
The Music Never Stopped
May 9, 1977
War Memorial

dream-like
Around and Around
May 7, 1977
Boston Garden

heady round 'n' round closer after a navel-gazing, psychedelically expansive reading of "Wharf Rat" - prankster move to head to Chuck Berry. The "round 'n' round thing" that is in conversation with "The Wheel"!!!!!!