
| Friday, 5/21 | Saturday, 5/22 | Sunday, 5/23 |
|---|---|---|
Good Times Roll Feel Like a Stranger Friend of the Devil Me & My Uncle Big River West LA Fadeaway Eternity Liberty China Cat>>>Rider Way to Go Home Estimated Prophet ~spaced~ He's Gone drums/space Watchtower Morning Dew Baba O'Riley/TNK |
Mississippi 1/2 Step Little Red Rooster Brown-Eyed Women Broken Arrow Supplication!!!!! Stagger Lee Promised Land Foolish Heart Women Smarter Ship of Fools Corinna drums/space Last Time Stella Blue Saturday Night I Fought the Law |
Jackstraw Loser All Over Now Tom Thumb Blues Birdsong Music Never Stopped Aiko! Wave to the Wind Saint of Circumstance Terrapin ~jammin~ drums/space Need a Miracle The Days Between Not Fade Away Lucy in the Sky |

Nice start...the sound is dialed in and stays there...Stranger cooks long and emerges well-done...FOTD projects clear and especially emphatic...nice Vince jams on Big River...Jerry at his funky best on West LA ...cornball Bobby aside, Eternity is an intriguing musical effort...as is Liberty, which is about as over-"Hunter-ized" as a song can get...China Cat is a ripper, the transition jam solid and inspiring...some extraneous noodling around before Vince rips loose on Way to Go Home...he is definitely working up a serious sweat these days, intense and yet totally open to pumping The Machine for all it's worth...Estimated lurches out of a cold start and quickly gets up to speed...apparently too quickly for Jerry, as he takes a right turn at the bridge after only the first verse...Bobby drops his hands with a look of WRONG! and counts it back into line...the post-tune jam gets really interesting, covering alot of ground/space before finally alighting on He's Gone (my personal favorite out-of-Estimated)...Bill and Mickey get a major groove working, the beat keeping time for 20,000+ hearts in unison...Mickey is still working the Beam when the boys return and continues to space with them...the sound drifts off to some extremely stretched places...Bobby with a wisp of Watchtower, Phil answers with a glimpse of Other One...the wisp returns stronger and soon a full-scale effort erupts to assault the senses...Jerry has the Beast by the neck and the vivid mental flashes reveal the intensity of the struggle...that issue dealt with, freshly empowered with success, The Machine stalks off in search of some Big Game...no hurry now, the prey comes to the hunter - and it is none other than a MONSTER DEW!!...physical levitation enters this Reality...First Class Transportation to The Edge...mind-numbing jolts of acousto-shock therapy...I**L*I*K*E**I*T....hot Baba, Jerry doing an excellent Townshend sound (though minus the windmill) ...great sound, great show, great scene, great night, yeah, yeah, yeah............Mississippi is a super opener...Rooster is full-bore smokin...Jerry likes Brown-Eyed so much he sings the last verse again...Phil obviously likes singing Broken Arrow, leaning into the words...Bobby fucks with his equipment yet again, then turns and starts a little riff that sounds-like-but-can't-really-be-what-I-think-it-is...sure enough>>>Supplication!!...now this is very cool...and then he even takes a shot at singing the words!!! ...it would have been fine by me to just keep that groove going all night, but the thing just comes to a Bobby-signalled dead halt...bumped my head on the dashboard...Jerry still can't get everyone to start Stagger Lee together...Promised rocks it into the break...Foolish Heart makes a welcome return, surprisingly clean after some time out of the rotation...Women was OK for dancin...Ship of Fools is a good lead to Corinna, and the intense jam beyond...the drums take on a deep, dark jungle river trip...Last Time is big and very strong, nicely countered by a truly precious Stella...the slow, sweet sounds probing every possible source of connection...the wrap-up and encore leave the house rockin the night away......
Jackstraw/Loser/All Over Now for the California Cowboy trifecta...Phil is at it again on Tom Thumb ...Birdsong reaches Deep Space yet one more time...solid, though not incendiary, Music...Aiko strikes a jivin chord...even more Phil(!!!) on a finally semi-danceable Wave>>Wind...they could still leave the words out, but the intricate meter/chord changes are coming together...Jerry even finds some free space to poke around a bit...Saint builds to a big peak which fuels a completely inspired Terrapin...the jam rises and crashes without letup...nice, nice Space...Miracle fends off the Other One this time and shakes real hard...the Gothic structure of Days Between amazes the senses with strength and character...leaving little for NFA, the band and heads drained of reserve...the hometown debut of LSD is truly transcendent, the harmonies and images overpowering in intensity...Total Satisfaction.