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Big River
April 8, 1978
Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Sweet, jammy, and just the right amount of funky. Jerry Keith and Phil do a little mind-melding in the middle. Wonderful joint

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Shakedown Street
Dec. 28, 1978
Golden Hall, Community Concourse

this is the tightest shit you've ever heard in your life. The post-ending jam is joy sublime, genuinely feel-the-spirit-dance-in-the-aisles caliber of boogie. Someone should press it as a bootleg 12"
Comes A Time
Oct. 15, 1976
Shrine Auditorium

Not your mama's Comes a Time outro jam! This one stretches out into a glorious 12/8 thing, a golden ray of sunshine that leaps across a tape cut on the soundboard. The Audience tape is beautiful and so dreamy. The reverb is rich and thick; like velvet, or a good pickle. The jam sticks an abrupt, though no less graceful, landing onto an inspired Franklin's. PS: It's not quite unique in the oeuvre, as CarrionCrow suggests -- a longer, more jammed-out instance of this motif is also on 7/17/76, into Drums and then The Other One.
Eyes Of The World
April 8, 1978
Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Jerry’s refining his “fast Eyes” technique and style, thankfully without the overly-fast tempo of the 79-late 80s arrangement. Incidentally, he sounds like he’s the perfect amount of fucked-up. Rhythm section is also locked in, and so is the dosage. A fantastic artifact of a song in flux, worth checking out.
Dancin' in the Streets
May 9, 1978
Onongada County War Memorial

Some guy in the comments for the preceding "Ship of Fools" called this 'pretty good' which is the understatement of the century. I like my verses a smidge slower but the jam is fantastic.
Turn On Your Love Light
Dec. 27, 1970
Legion Stadium

Warning: this WILL cure what ails ya! Great from the moment you hear Pig yell from off-stage “OH NO YOU DON’T!!” and his footsteps as he bounds up to the mic… I guess he didn’t want the band to tease the song again after doing so in the first set. The band teases UJB to end the show after Lovelight, maybe ‘cause they were feeling cruel that night.