The ---jam>Help>Estimated will get me thru the winter!
Some of the strongest music I have heard from Furthur.
You know you are off to a good start when folks are saying things like, "Wow, What's going on here?"
Only B.E. had any chance of no let down after that opening
Drink down a bottle and your ready to kick-------------------
CASSIDY-Jam about 4 minutes in is all cylinders firing!
TENN-every once in a while when I am totally blissed I walk down the road singing this tune with wreckless abandon.
Lots of keyboard here! And seamless the way JK and Bob tag team the lyrics
ANY ROAD-catchy guitar ,lyrics worth reflection, dance!
Weather Report Suite worth the price of admission.
WEATHER-This version is just beautiful. Bob dwells with perfect emphasis on the lyrics, The backing vocals are up to par with the early 70's and the Steve Winwood like- Traffic like- Whiter shade of Pale like -keys are soulful. The transition into the more rocking LET IT GROW is smooth and the Grow jam just naturally builds with Phil and the entire band getting going which sure include J.K.!
I would enjoy this anywhere anyplace anytime in a set but notice how strong it is here closing out the first set!
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The Second set reflects diverse lists we saw on West and East coast tours late in the year with the uncoupling of some of the standards Scarlet sans Fire, China w/o Rider and my oh my Phil -Unbroken Chain-FURTHUR!
GDTRFB is such a great thinking about the past tune while moving into the future song...
Chris Scott, Fl
and FURTHUR more>>>the musical intro into CHINA-CAT is just mind blowing it is so heavily influenced by the previous BIG BAD BLUES that it takes the crowd some time to even recognize what is usually one of the easiest tunes to i.d. live. Seriously if you listen to nothing else check out this CHINA-CAT-- the bass work from Phil is stellar, lyrics also top shelf and the seque into SCARLET is precise and JK has the crowd with him all the way, the back-up vocalists kick in at just the right time "Once in a while we get shown the light in the strangest of places if we look at it right, look at it right! Look at it right!" We even get a brief Donna moan from Sunshine just before the final jam in Scarlet which seems to be a speeding space probe to a distant galaxy setting down with Bobby "sitting and staring out of the hotel window" actually one could argue for a slight SPEEDWAY tease before the familar TRUCKIN signature windmill intro...
The audience at this point?-- well hearts are melted,
you can feel it in the recording, just reckless abandon and I am still catching that Speedway riff and Phil just tearing it up.and OH BOB is just on with the lyrics here "Aint it a f-ing shame" The later TRUCKIN jam is very heavy as it cascades into SPEEDWAY full power JK just trailblazing and no doubt about the Speedway as the tempo drops and JK sings and man does he sing it , and then up steps BOB, Bobby always on the road, even when we all went on with our day jobs, and making and having babies, Bob Weir out there flying the freak flag 24/7 on the road , JK gets a hot solo in and then sings the next verse"It's got no signs or dividing lines" back to Weir "If the horse don't pull" and then everybody sing THIS DARKNESS GOT TO GIVE!!! AMEN!!! A world going insane THIS DARKNESS GOT TO GIVE!!! People going crazy THIS DARKNESS GOT TO GIVE!!!
and just briefly acapela. first notes of Unbroken Chain lots of chatter on the audience mic you gotta talk to somebody after that combo ChinaCat Sunflower>Scarlet >TRUCKIN>New Speedway Boogie (talk if you must but make it brief) Phil stepping up to the Mic
and after the opening lyrics the band heads back out into the stratosphere at the seven minute mark Phil begins his bass probe into the nooks and crannies of the UNBROKEN jam spaces within this tune and then Jeff C gets in some nice organ work and we are back to Phil again "Lilac rain, Unbroken Chain,"( please never ever talk while Phil or anyone else in the band is singing, just common courtesy, especially if someone is recording!
not a vow of silence but you know -if you smile at me I will understand because that is something everyone everywhere does in the same language.)
The jam is just straight ahead led by JK on his guitar, what I love about the chain is it has a bunch of emotions inside it as you go and it ends differently then it began.
STANDING ON THE MOON-ever been to California?
this tune is a California love song to me, walking on the beach past the golden Gate bridge looking out of the natural harbor with it's cliffs moved apart by the Almighty and all those great sea stones of so many sizes and hues, you can almost forget the madness of this world, and the singer needs to go to the moon to find peace but then he remembers "He who loves loneliness loves it alone" such a lovely view of heaven but I would rather be with you.
And for me that speaks to my faith in Jesus, HE had it all, perfect fellowship with GOD yet HE humbled Himself taking on human flesh and walked among us we who stumble and bumble our lives away, we who see the speck in our sisters and brothers eye yet neglect the log in our own eye,
and JESUS who was unlike us without sin, so HE would never have known death, HE tasted death for His people, a blood sacrifice for HIS people, the innocent for the guilty, the passover Lamb and I am crying now as GDTRFB comes on strong "I am going where the climate suites my clothes" Before I knew GOD in the churches of this world, GOD knew me swaying and dancing and needing sweet Salvation, I -like one time forgot- following a bunch of idealistic hippies around the corner, around the U.S. and yes around the globe, not caring for what the world was selling, living show to show, shaking the hand that shook the hand, Oh great transition into Slipknot! hard to even remember this show started with a smoking HELP ON THE WAY>FRANKLINS--There was an audience tape from Alaska I got my hands on I believe it was 1980? and some guy in the audience was urging the band on during the call and response part of FRANKLIN'S one of the most passionate ROLL AWAY THE DEW'S! ever.
This Franklins is real nice, Phil steady on the vocals,
JK still getting out great mini solo's. Good organ work too,
I am spent what a second set! What a 1st set!! and wow just what a show!!!
e) Baby Blue- Weir does a great job with this song!
freedom signing off.
Chris 'freedom' Scott, fl