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16
Shakedown Street
March 24, 1981
Rainbow Theater

15+ minutes of funk w/extended overlapping vocal rounds of "just gotta poke around", etc. before jam Brent adds cool "fuzzy" SFX
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Big Railroad Blues
Oct. 30, 1971
Taft Auditorium

Check out Keith on this one! He's never been so up front before & right outta the gate!!
20
Cream Puff War
July 3, 1966
Fillmore Auditorium

Peppy early version w/Jer belting out lyrics & Pig doin' some nice work on organ. No archive copy exists; got this off 30 Days of Dead-worth the DL!
8
Passenger
May 7, 1979
Allan Kirby Field House

Super-charged EARLY Brent version rips and tears and shreds. Final jam before the coda is the best they ever did in this tune. Goes to 11.
30
Little Red Rooster
Nov. 30, 1980
Fox Theatre

All about Brent.
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Comments

Maggie's Farm
Dec. 6, 1992
Knickerbocker Arena

Started checking this show out after a great rec for Masterpiece & found this gem of a MF...Miler board available on the archive is one of the crispiest you'll ever hear, a bonus for a rollicking hard-rockin' version of a Dylan classic--the boys all nail their respective lyric sections & it's a byoot all around.
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Dec. 6, 1992
Knickerbocker Arena

Slow crunchy, yet propulsive, grunge-rock version....far under most masterpiece radars and well worth a bump
Eyes Of The World
Dec. 10, 1973
Charlotte Coliseum

More '73 magic...jazz clinic jams & a wonderful meld into Brokedown, not to mention the sweet segue from NFBM that precedes this version.. Excellence all around.
Ramble On Rose
March 23, 1972
Academy of Music

Phil's deep rhythmic opening bass salvo, as thick and solid and propulsive as you'll ever hear on a ROR was enuff for my upvote, and the rest is pretty dang hot too. Easy plus one.
Wang Dang Doodle
Oct. 13, 1994
Madison Square Garden

Crazy good fuzz guitar faster paced kick ass version getting very little traction & undeservedly so. Check it out. Whole show is somehow under the sonar.
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