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Help On The Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower
Sept. 19, 1990
Madison Square Garden

A big version. Listen as the baton gets passed without missing a beat.
5
Big River
Sept. 19, 1990
Madison Square Garden

An A1 performance that just improves with repeated listenings.
5
They Love Each Other
April 13, 1983
Patrick Gymnasium, U of Vermont

A bull's ass in fly season and the boys on this one are both TIGHT!!! (Although tight might not be the correct word for an awesome TLEO.)
19
Brokedown Palace
Sept. 28, 1972
Stanley Theatre

While not without imperfection, this version gets at that misty quality central to the ethos of the tune.
69
The Wheel
Feb. 3, 1978
Dane County Coliseum

A thin slice of sublime cheese in an earwateringly delicious sandwich: EP>Eyes>Playin'>Wheel>Playin' Reprise.
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Dark Star
Oct. 31, 1971
Ohio Theatre

The last is second-best: 6/24/70 first, and then this, as the two 'Tighten' Up's that bear the most/biggest/best fruit out of all those lovely 'Tighten' Up's, methinks.
Truckin'
Feb. 28, 1973
Salt Palace

Top shelf 'Truckin'' from '73.
Dancin' in the Streets
July 3, 1978
St. Paul Civic Center Arena

Goes in directions those of '77 don't, and does so quite nicely.
Cold Rain and Snow
April 29, 1971
Fillmore East

Big time stuff.
Alligator
April 29, 1971
Fillmore East

On what was tied for my earliest tape well before LAGTGD ever was a thing. This one gets me going Pavlonian, in some psychedelic sense. Get what Carrion is saying, and so I think of this along with Shrine '68 and Thelma '69 as three of the highwaters from certain respective eras of this tune.
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