![]() The first set is hit or miss, with more energy building after a slow start. The Eyes>Stella combo is a particularly upsetting “casualty”. It’s frustrating, and kills any chance this show had of making top spots. Through the problem you hear what sounds like it was probably the most energetic of the sets, as told by Promised Land. Things improve moderately after that, though there is still some issue I can’t accurately name. Unfortunately, the sound quality is so poor here it diminishes what otherwise sounds like it may have been pretty good, though one can’t be sure. PITB reprises right out of the outro jam of the Rat, which stays at a nice pace to end the set without having paused. Thankfully Bob doesn’t wait long to start strumming the opening chords to what developed into a fine Wharf Rat. Phil bombs bring us out, and they go into another rather lackluster jam segment until the 6 minute mark, where it gets the legs that carry it through to the verse. At 14 minutes in Bobby signals TOO, Jerry joins, as does Phil, but it disintegrates into another drummer segment. We get the first hints of TOO at 11:30 of the NFA, and they do make an effort to have a nice NFA outro. Staying drum-centric, they launch into a NFA, which kind of plods along. It falls into drums around 14 minutes in. The energy is nice, Mickey back out with the boys to help out! There’s a fine moment of mutual guitar jamming around 6:30, and this kind of interplay is in and out of the entire jam from that moment on. PITB opens the 2nd set, Donna blessing it with a heartfelt shriek. He does take the second attempt, changing his scale appropriately.īobby goes to old reliable in Around & Around to close the set in proper rock ‘n’ roll fashion. Jerry rejects the first attempt to go into the feeling good jam and keeps noodling. ![]() Effect, slows things down a bit more than I would like.Ĭhina>Rider, a great, extended transition here. I can’t figure out what the effect is still, but it seems to be a delay on the drums, which is funny considering the other drummer will later be joining the band again.īrokedown is rather strangely placed in the setlist. TN Jed has the same effect and gets into the X factor zone during the climax, A+ Jed.Įl Paso gallops through successfully. There is some kind of reverb/delay they didn’t typically use. ![]() Jack Straw is quite psychedelic, the jam at the end is awesome. Mama Tried is a good push to get energy going, but it doesn’t get all the way there.ĭuring the crashdown for Loser is where I can pin point the set getting some more energy. ![]() This was the only show to have a shot at the Mary Lou Retton perfect 10, per my scoring system.Ĭold Rain & Snow opens the show. The boys had already developed a reputation for blowing the big ones, so they went ahead and pre-named this a big one. The Wharf Rat descends without a bump into the minor keys of the Playin' jam and the music pours back with demonic intensity for a few short minutes until we return to the country-twanged Reprise, played majestically, as if for the last time. Somehow they pull it all together for a Wharf Rat that will be played perfectly, with Phil and Jerry engaging in some fantastically lovely musical dialog during the intro. The Other One is completely different from any other version you'll here, alternating segments of abstract, nitrous-filled space with some beautiful low-key interplay between the guitars and Phil's towering bass lines. This NFA slides down into some dank and funky tunnels before Bobby screams his guts out and the drummers take their turn. The jewel here is the mysterious and wacky Set II, an hour-long Playin' sandwich that sounds better and better (and makes more sense) with every puff that you are able to stuff into your lungs. The "slapback" delay is some artefact of the mixdown process and you could hear the same sort of thing on the opies of Veneta that floated around in the late 80s and early 90s. ![]() I sorta prefer the sound of this to the "officially released" version if only because it's more similar to the cassette that I used to have. ![]()
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