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Jack A Roe
Sept. 29, 1989
Shoreline Amphitheatre

You know the crew is feeling spritely and in a cowboy mood when they play this, blessed frequently in '89 with it.
3
Wang Dang Doodle
Sept. 29, 1989
Shoreline Amphitheatre

Poker-hot WDD
3
Lazy River Road
June 11, 1993
Buckeye Lake Music Center

Sweet, sweet, down-home and yokey Jerry.
5
The Same Thing
June 11, 1993
Buckeye Lake Music Center

Pigpen cut revived for the 90's with the group in kind of a slow crawling king snake vibe. Vince knows how to lay down some organ. Top late form.
5
Ship of Fools
Feb. 22, 1974
Winterland Arena

Premiere of this stately Jerry ballad.

Comments

He's Gone
Feb. 26, 1981
Uptown Theater

20 minutes plus and claws into your brain for every damn second of it, phantoms floating all over this perfect hes gone.
Bird Song
Feb. 26, 1981
Uptown Theater

Glimmering, watercolor uplifting cappuccino jam
Little Red Rooster
Feb. 26, 1981
Uptown Theater

chicago loveeeee The music is playing them, very activated and "loose but tight". This one hooked me... weir's vocal puts you up against the wall at knife point, dude knew how to balance that goofy fun persona with jusssstttt a pinch of old school leather clad menace.
Althea
Feb. 26, 1981
Uptown Theater

Wow!! Heartfelt dispatch from some goopy post-nuke abyss, appropriately sparkled with inspiring phil (head straight for Chappell matrix) Explosive and expansive
Althea
March 9, 1981
Madison Square Garden

.... all 80's love is created equal bro but if you need another Althea check out 9/6/80 Lewiston Maine, more hard-edged and agressive variety