The new SBD's are crystal clear, with everyone audible. Whoever that Billy guy is could sure play some goddamned drums. He's solid gold on this one.

Charged up and triumphant. The whole week of shows before Europe is killer. Thanks go to C. Miller for the great archive versions.

Key moment in transforming PITB into a cosmic monster. 9.5 minutes of gooey goodness here. C.Miller's version is the best. Dig in boys.

The outro might be the three most intensely energetic minutes of GD music ever. The first part rocks too. Why not here yet? This show is a goldmine.

Now I know a lot of you don't dig this song, but goddamn they pour it on for this one. Great Jerry filagree backing the passionate vox. Listen to the

Almost a Caution jam in minute 12.

It's also a chaotic scramble, to be sure, but a beautiful one at that.

Perfect performance and at once perfectly non-sequitur and perfectly appropriate for the massive and outer-cosmos free jazz in the TOO around it. Why is MAMU their single-most performed song? Maybe because it could fit anywhere in either set, and maybe because when they were flying us through the weirdest wormhole in the outer planes of music, they could crest a wave and just hit on that cowboy groove that somehow emerges out of nothing and brings it all back down to earth (before lifting off again).

Era E's tastes are always impeccable. The only thing to add is that this first tour with Keith led to some fascinating, inventive TOOs. They explore ideas, one after another, in the space of a few minutes, in ways that seem to continue the 'new kid's' education and tryout. Here they migrate through hard acid drenched power, country blues, outer-reaches weirdness, and a teeny-tiny Feeling Groovy jam in the 8th minute, all before the first chorus. Nov. 6, 7 (especially) and 12th all share in this experimentation. It shows how TOO could be their scary, dangerously close-to-insanity rocker, but so many other things as well. Considering what we used to trade, I don't find the sound unlistenable at all, but just don't expect a clean sbd.

Starts in a fervor and hard rock fever, then hits a unique jam around the seven-minute mark including some real nice Bobby and Keith telepathic gogo. Then more phases and jams, never quite losing the 6/8 theme, revisiting it and turning it around until it charges back. Not a scary TOO, almost Dark Star-ish in its invention. Should be much much higher on the list.