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Let It Rock
Sept. 6, 1989
Nassau Coliseum

Gutbucket Chuck funk
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Gomorrah
Sept. 6, 1989
Nassau Coliseum

Gutbucket w/amazing backup vox
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Sugar Magnolia
April 14, 1985
Irvine Meadows

Sweet Magnolia Daydream - flawless version
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Gimme Some Lovin'
Nov. 21, 1985
Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center

Wailin' B-3 Paradise
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Jack Straw
April 4, 1984
Providence Civic Center

One of the marks of a great jack Straw is when jerry does those guitar fills around Bob's vocals. Jerry nails that here.

Comments

Morning Dew
Nov. 2, 1985
Richmond Coliseum

Best version of all time in my opinion. Reaches more and higher peaks.
Jack Straw
Oct. 20, 1984
Carrier Dome, Syracuse U

This is one smoking hot Jack Straw. There were flames coming out of my speakers.
Help On The Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower
Aug. 13, 1975
Great American Music Hall

This show is an absolute monster. It is indelibly etched in my brain ever since an early 80's hitchhiking trip up the CA coast. It got dark when I was between towns somewhere north of LA. I ended up bedding down on a hillside overlooking the pacific on a moonlit night, not enough dough to go to a bar, just hanging out in the middle of I did not know where, and I had a tape I had recently copied of this show and I had a Walkman and I listened to this show and I heard every note down to the depths of my soul while I watched the waves in the midnight moonlight. That was some cosmic shit. The Help-Slip-Frank, needless to say given all the very astute comments above, is mindblowing.
Let It Grow
March 25, 1985
Springfield Civic Center

I have to agree on this one. It is listed first in John Dwork's Taper's Compendium and it has it all including that raw east coast energy from 1985. The fat man rocks.