Scarlet Begonias -> Fire On The Mountain
Dec. 22, 1978
Dallas County Convention Center Arena
Wish there were a crisper recording up on Archive, Sounds like the tape i had. i remember when this was considered ok quality not good or great but certainly ok. now its bad but to me still listenable and the performance is top rate, the Scarlet has an extra little bounce to it and the fire is nice and jammed out. Scarlet is longer then fire like some of the later 1978 pairings. Drums and Jerrys vocals sound real good on the tape his guitar is less audible when he's singig but can be heard during the instrumental passages where he is playing some great lines. Keith too is playing some real cool runs during scarlet. The longer you listen your ears adjust to the lower quality audience. Donna is nice and dreamy during the transition not over singing or shouting but beautifully floating on top of the music with jerry's guitar. The exit jam and transition gets really out there and spacey and is nice and long, A Jerry noodle fest with the drums and phil keeping nice foundation. Around 11:00 mark it starts to sound a little like playin they get so far out there, the drums start to bring it back nicely, Jerry just noodolling away i a spacey beautiful way. Its really cool the way the drums start thumping towards fire as jerry is just noodoling of to outer space. Keith starts steering it towards fire as well Jerry still in space. Jerry then just falls right into the fire wah out of his noodoling still not quite there then the band starts fire so Jerry starts hitting the Fire notes A real cool transition out of deep space. quick but powerful like a mike tyson fight a killer pairing for late 1978.