Grateful Dead Reviews

Note: Dates from 65-67 may be slightly wrong.
      This is because I tried to listen to everything, and I'm sure I repeated bits of music because the labelling
      on those early shows is often up for debate.

1: In general, the best sound source was selected for each show (almost always a soundboard).
2: The whole show was listened to.
3: The rating means "What do I think of the SHOW":
    1:   Unlistenable.
    2:   Terrible.
    3:   Not a good show.
    3.5: An average show.
    4:   This show has some good stuff.
    4.5: A proper GD show that I suggest you listen to.
    5:   The cream of the crop.


Things I have learnt:

1: Sound quality is king.
2: The set list is important.


Date        Score  Comments
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01-11-65    2   Cassidy + Warlocks, circa late 1965. Possibly worst sound ever. Also, date is wrong.
03-11-65    3.5 Scorpion records outakes. Great studio stuff. Hard to rate, obviously.

08-01-66    3   Acid test madness. Not as messy as you'd think. Jerry is great.
29-01-66    1.5 Listed as a GD show. Is this the Dead? Interviews are interesting, music is not musical.
05-02-66    3   LA studio rehearsals. Lots of snippets. Viola Lee is long and jammed. Rest is pretty boring.
12-02-66    3.5 Watts acid tests. The Jerry + Pig show. Everbody else mixed too low.
25-02-66    2   No jams, more like Pigpen raps. Singing can be bad.
12-03-66    4   Probably wrong data, maybe December? Still, it's 3 complete songs. Nice quality and it's on point.
09-03-66    3.5 Labelled "LA Practice", but who knows? Surprisingly open to jamming, and a nice relaxed feel.
10-03-66    3   Studio snippets again. Great quality. Fast and furious, and pretty short as well.
12-03-66    3   Same as a previous show, I think
25-03-66    3.5 Mix was Jerry, keys and drums! A long Pig solo as well
19-05-66    3   So, young Bobby can't sing!
??-06-66    1.5 Many small outakes. No real full songs. Boring. Possibly same as next entry.
01-06-66    2   "Birth Of The Dead". Very repetitive takes. Studio quality is good again, so it has that.
15-06-66    4.5 "Live at Various". Great quality from the Dead Hour. They even sound like a good band!
01-07-66    2   Short and not inspiring.
03-07-66    1.5 Short, cuts, zero jams. Talking is best part.
16-07-66    3.5 First Jerry ballad. Schoolgirl was proto-jamming.
17-07-66    2   Short, not that sweet. Haven't heard any Phil yet really.
29-07-66    3   Not too shabby. First Canadian gig.
30-07-66    2.5 Second Canadian gig, but first was better. Similar though.
01-08-66    3   Possibly April 66'. Only 3 songs (1 repeated). Ideal for Pigpen fans - essentially long raps.
16-09-66    4   Alright, this sounds like a slightly different band. Is this date correct?
02-10-66    3   Not really GD at all. Apparently Jerry is on the organ. Too much dialog. Weird, some parts are good.
07-10-66    3   A little too short. But sound is better than early part of the year.
31-10-66    -   Pretty sure this is not the Grateful Dead. 9 minute instrumental jam.
19-11-66    3   Novelty of 1966 has worn off, but this is a bit better.
29-11-66    2.5 Quality a bit dodgy. Full show, like 2 first sets.
01-12-66    3.5 Elements of some jamming happening here, but not a lot.
05-12-66    3   High energy (sped up?), no vocals, reasonable fun.
04-12-66    3.5 Seems like a complete show. 3 full sets. Very very good view of 1966, quality is acceptable.
xx-xx-66    3.5 Grateful Dead Hour broadcast. Sounds very early. Nice Caution.
xx-xx-66    2   Primal GD Gems. Heard before. Mix is very poor, almost no vocals.
xx-xx-66    2.5 'Jools' - 2/66? Short, a bit hissy. Mix is ok though.
xx-xx-66    2.5 'Wanderin' Man' song session. Good quality. Strange song from a studio session.

14-01-67    3   Human Be-In. Lively, sound not bad.
27-01-67    2.5 Horrible audience with lots of energy. Date is probably wrong.
12-02-67    3   Great quality, but far too short to really rate.
18-03-67    3.5 Not too shabby, best 67 yet, SQ was decent as well.
08-04-67    2   Fragment of TV(?) show. Tiny, annoying fragments. Interview is best.
05-05-67    4   Powerful, full of energy, best early jam so far.
18-06-67    4   Best jam so far! Just raw energy, needs a little direction.
23-07-67    3   Neil Cassidy backed by the Dead. There's a strange combo. More the former than the latter.
04-08-67    4   Monster 20 minute Viola Lee. Jerry hints at space at the end.
05-08-67    3.5 Similar to last show. Just getting short clips right now.
03-09-67    3.5 Some nice jammin' on Alligator, Pig rap a little long though.
04-09-67    4   Tiny snippet with first feedback jam.
15-09-67    3   Terrible aud. Dreadful sound, some jams are on point.
20-10-67    4   Recording sessions. Hissy, but well worth it. First Cryptical.
22-10-67    4   Morning Dew start! Such a difference from a year ago.
31-10-67    -   This is actually cuts from 10/11 Nov, even though it is often listed as a show.
10-11-67    3.5 Nice quality, jams not as frantically bad-ass as recent ones
11-11-67    3   Nothing really grabbed me from the show.
14-11-67    4   Studio outakes. Sounds well orchestrated. First Dark Star! Very short.
xx-xx-67    4   Studio outakes (Etree #81259). Like the above, quite enjoyable.

17-01-68    4.5 Very short Dark Star. Best feedback jam so far, which is why so high.
20-01-68    3.5 Another Dark Star. Which is cut! Quite short.
22-01-68    4   First real Dark Star. Kinda sounding like the GD a bit. Jammy.
23-01-68    4   Horrible cut, nice sound, nice jams.
27-01-68    4   Sounds like the end of 23-01, from where it cuts. Very short.
02-02-68    3.5 Short and jammy. 68' seems to sound very similar after a while.
14-02-68    4   Nice, and a bit trippy at points.
03-02-68    3.5 Early Eleven, surprisingly laid-back I thought.
16-03-68    3.5 Nice sound, jamming a little uneven.
17-03-68	4	Solid segment in great quality. Jammin is long but not crazy crazy. Gets better as it goes.
29-03-68    3   A bit muddy, and nothing stood out for me.
30-03-68    3   A lot of similar shows here. Jamming needs some kick of a sort.
31-03-68    4   Nice feedback jam, more snippets though...
18-05-68    4   Some screwed up conversation at the end. Harder jamming.
14-06-68    3.5 Horrible aud. First St Stephen. Sounds crazy loud.
21-08-68    4   Very clear Phil. Nice sound. Pigpen bits drag on. Jams are good.
22-08-68	4.5	Madness, but it's in a controlled way. Starts a little rough but Alligator onwards is top notch stuff.
23-08-68    4   Nice Caution > Feedback. Less Pigpen raps is good for me.
02-09-68    5   Great start into Star. Fine space. Betty Nelsons Organic Raspberry Farm!
20-09-68    2   36 minutes, 26 of which is drums!
12-10-68    4.5 Great show, but no Pigpen?
13-10-68    4.5 Still no Pigpen on these shows. They sound great though.
20-10-68	4.5	Short, blistering jams and everything kept very very tight. Excellent example of 1968.
06-11-68    1.5 Studio rehearsals. Many tedious snippets of "The Eleven".
22-11-68	4	Rough aud. This is great 68 jamming but the tape really needs to be better quality.
07-12-68    3   "You have just been victimised by the Grateful Dead" says Jerry. So-so.
21-12-68    4   Not bad, could have been better though. A little spacey, not so much fire.
29-12-68    4   Tasty. Everything coming together nicely.
xx-xx-68    3   Midnight Hour only (id: 97671). Mostly a Pig rap.
xx-xx-68    3.5 Un-labbeled vault tapes (id: 9426); many shows, all very similar for 68.

17-01-69    3   Really kind of washed over me. These shows are like never-ending jams.
18-01-69    3   Playboy After Dark TV show. Although the video itself is great, the music is all over the place, and cut like heck.
23-01-69
24-01-69    4   Comes with mad audience drumming chants. Also ends with drums...?
25-01-69    4   The madness is real.
26-01-69    4   Sound quality issues are pretty bad for first 5 minutes though.
02-02-69    3.5 Shows now seem to lack any stand-alone normal songs.
04-02-69    4   Nice jamming, although Jerry complains a bit.
05-02-69    4.5 Short and crushing.
06-02-69    4   Nice, though previous night was better
07-02-69a   4   Early show. Short, Dark Star was the highlight.
07-02-69b   3.5 Short songs, although they all jam.
11-02-69    4.5 "Fuck the teeth", as Jerry just wishes to blast into jamming as quick as possible. Fiery, but even the standalone songs are done well.
12-02-69    4.5 Nice fiery Alligator. No song seems to stand alone.
14-02-69    4   Bad sound but show wasn't bad.
15-02-69    5   Good development of the Dark Star, and feels almost like a full show.
21-02-69    4.5 Long songs, and Lovelight was a little too long. But DS + Eleven both good.
22-02-69    4   Tough to rate these shows as they all have similar formats and songs.
27-02-69    5   The Live Dead Darkstar. Not the greatest Star ever but the rest of the show is also complete. Even the Lovelight is decent.
28-02-69	5	This has to have like every single major jam of the era in the massive setlist. A nearly 2 hour explosion of jamming in the 2nd set.
01-03-69    5   Absolutly crushing New Potato Caboose follows frantic Other One. Possibly more jammed in the first set, but set 2 is no slouch.
02-03-69    5   This is just as debauched as the previous night, and longer. The Caution explodes several times. Very minor cut at end.
15-03-69    4.5 Cracking Dark Star. These DS are really starting to develop.
22-03-69    3.5 Cut short, and not very exciting.
28-03-69    4.5 Great Dark Star, rest a little rushed.
29-03-69    3.5 Fade out at end. SQ is good, but music needs more inspiration.
04-04-69    4.5 Very good show, lovely Eleven > Feedback.
05-04-69    4.5 Nice long show.
06-04-69    3.5 Some songs not jammed! Power is switched off in encore.
11-04-69    3.5 Terrible quality from Dark Star onwards.
12-04-69    4.5 Another good Dark Star - the highlight, really.
13-04-69    4   Enjoyable, not so much ragged energy. Cuts, unfortunatly.
14-04-69    3.5 Too short to tell you much. China Cat is back though!
15-04-69    4   Hand-held mic, bad but not utterly dreadful. Fairly standard for the era (pretty ripping!) but the SQ stands in the way.
17-04-69    4   Other than being quite mellow in places, this is normal 69 madness in exellent sound quality.
18-04-69    3   Nothing stand-out, really, and a few more short songs. A bit messy.
20-04-69    4   Only major dissapointment was the Lovelight.
21-04-69    4   First set too many short songs, and DS did not stand out. Otherwise good.
22-04-69    4.5 That's a proper show. 69 jamming is a little similar, though
23-04-69    3.5 Something about this didn't inspire me. Setlists are starting to change though.
25-04-69    3   Mainly a massive Lovelight, and a terrible Yellow Dog story.
26-04-69    3.5 These Lovelights are getting longer and longer.
27-04-69    4   Long meaty set with some decent jamming. A long Lovelight, but split as open and end. Again jamming a little repetitive.
02-05-69    4   Fast, very furious and full of energy, but unfortunatly a bit short. No real long songs. The Eleven was the highlight.
03-05-69    4   You can actually hear the organ on this show. High energy playing, although it's not the whole show.
07-05-69    3.5 Jerry singing Good Lovin'! Jeez these Lovelights go on forever.
10-05-69    4   The highlights are mainly the Dark Stars in these shows.
11-05-69    4.5 The tape warbles, cuts, shakes and smokes energy.
16-05-69    2.5 Very short, no real jams. Not a lot to see here.
23-05-69    4   Star through 11 was very good, unfortunatly a 30 minute Lovelight again.
24-05-69    4   Starts with 30 minutes of Lovelight! But the ending was good.
29-05-69    4   Terrible quality in large areas, but the Other One suite was pretty energetic.
30-05-69    4.5 Wild, ragged and a little bit out of tune. Pretty decent, perhaps just a little too crazy! Bob does a solo in Lovelight.
31-05-69    4.5 Better quality and better Lovelight both help in this nice show.
05-06-69    5   Relaxed pacing, tunes, melodies... a nice show in admist the chaos.
06-06-69    2.5 No Jerry until the final Lovelight! This must be unique.
07-06-69    3.5 First ever acoustic and Janis on Lovelight, but nothing musically stand-out.           
08-06-69    2   Worst Lovelight. Slowest Other One. Missing the band in parts!
13-06-69    3.5 A bit of flute somewhere. The Lovelights continue to be a bit lazy.
14-06-69    3.5 Lovelight 3 times? Seems to be 2 shows joined.
21-06-69    2.5 First set abysmal quality. Second set short, dominated by Lovelight.
22-06-69    3.5 2 songs are from a flaky SBD but the rest is a real struggle to listen to. Star > Other One > St. Stephen though.
27-06-69    4   Nice Dark Star is the single highlight. Some strange songs.
28-06-69    2   Some strange songs and a subdued (but 30 minutes!) Lovelight. No highlights.
03-07-69    4   Short and a stange list but very unusually for 69 the really slow songs are clearly the best. Great High Time.
04-07-69    3   Bit of a mixed bag; slower, with less energy. I actually almost enjoyed the Lovelight.
05-07-69    4   Nice Dark Star in there, some decent jamming.
07-07-69    5   First Dark Star to lose itself to some degree. Great show.
11-07-69    4.5 Nice show, and it seemed to contain a first set as well.
12-07-69    3   Rough quality at the start. Not much value compared to previous shows.
02-08-69    4   A nice mellow Other One. But yet another 30 minute lovelight...!!
03-08-69    3.5 The saxaphone is not good in places. Violin can barely be heard.
16-08-69    2.5 Woodstock. No real spark, and a long ass break in the middle.
21-08-69    4   Quite mellow, and an improvement. With added flute on some tracks.
23-08-69    5   Best Dark Star so far, even the massive Lovelight was good. Solid show.
29-08-69    3   Jerry sings Good Lovin'. Dominated by a massive Lovelight.
30-08-69    4   Good Dark Star, although the rest is a bit hit and miss.
01-09-69    4.5 Starts with a fairly quiet first few songs, and then a pedal to the metal Grateful Dead finish. Even Lovelight was good!
06-09-69    2.5 Another Jerry Good Lovin'. Fragments of a show?
07-09-69    3   Grateful Dead and the Airplane take requests? What a unique setlist! Not really a GD show though.
26-09-69    2.5 This is a particularly rough aud. So rough I can't hear the audience. Jam sounds OK but far too hissy, almost unlistenable.
27-09-69    2   Terrible sound quality, no jams, lacking highlights. One for completists only. Opening Morning Dew is best part of this tape.
29-09-69    4   Another hissy aud, but it does contain "The Seven". You can also hear Weir on a 69 aud, which is maybe even more unusual.
30-09-69    4   Swirl, hiss, inaudible vocals. Weir up in the mix again. First China > Rider. Cleans up a bit towards the end. Short but sweet.
24-10-69    3   No swirl, less hiss, faraway sound, murky, boomy and too short. Quality too harsh to be of fun, although arguments on stage are fun.
25-10-69    4   Some sound issues, and it could do with a little more fire.
26-10-69    3   Nice but predictable. Like a first set.
31-10-69    3.5 Sound quality is bad. Mostly like a first set again, except stupid long Lovelight.
01-11-69    3   New songs, more first-set like. But nothing stood out here.
02-11-69    4   Nice Dark Star, rest needs a little more fire.
07-11-69    4   Although it does have the Star > Other One > Lovelight combo!
08-11-69    4.5 This 69 show has a mellow Star that then goes through a series of jams into Feedback. 37 min Caution > Feedback! Tuning to end?
15-11-69    2.5 Terrible quality. Washington's teeth story. 42 minute Lovelight.
21-11-69    2.5 Lots of hiss, no big jams.
04-12-69    3.5 Starts with an invite to Altamont. First mention of Sam Cutler. Not a great SBD. Unfortunatly cut up as well. Unfortunate.
05-12-69    3   Bass heavy but reasonable audience. Taper sings in Cosmic Charlie. Proto Playin > UJB jam. Super slow Baby Blue to finish.
07-12-69    3   Night after Altamont. The Eleven is the highlight of a subdued show. Ropey aud, and the Lovelight is a bit too long at 30 minutes.
12-12-69    4   Is this the night before as well? 3 hours! Great quality but it takes 2 hours to get the good stuff, an Alligator > Caution jam.
13-12-69    4   A decent quality board. Honest, quality Dead that suffers from no real jamming except in yet another mammoth Lovelight. Decent.
19-12-69    4   First ever acoustic is just Jerry + Bob for 4 numbers. Decent, and also the resulting set after is pretty decent.
20-12-69    3   Unfortunatly, this is an overcompressed, hissy sbd. Musically not too bad, however the first Speedway Boogie has terrible singing.
21-12-69    3   Short, and the singing is a little off key. The Other One summons some excitement, but this is a little boring.
26-12-69    4   Billy misses first set. First acoustic set? Strange, but Star saves the day!
28-12-69    4   No massive jams, but its punchy sound and great dialogue make this worth it.
29-12-69    4   Jams appearing in some new songs straight out the box. Wildly different from early '69.
30-12-69    3.5 Nasty cut in Dark Star towards the end but quite nice fun.
31-12-69    3.5 Lacks a little something, and the order is a bit strange.

02-01-70    4.5 Cracking little show to start off the year, despite a nasty Dark Star cut.
03-01-70    4   Another nice show. Sound quality seems to have improved a little.
10-01-70    3   Decent Lovelight but the rest was so-so.
16-01-70    3   Nothing too stand out, although the shows are acquiring a different flavour to them.
17-01-70    4   Nice show, good Star
18-01-70	3	Only 80 minutes, little jamming. Surprised this was an offical release, to be honest. Good quality though.
23-01-70    4.5 Lovely pace and progression. Dark Stars getting even better.
24-01-70    3   Only about half a set in this show, no major jams but sounds ok.
30-01-70    3   Rolled over me. Nice but maybe not stand out. Needs more review.
31-01-70    3.5 Day after bust. Bass amp fails at start of 2nd set so only acoustic.
01-02-70    3   First famous guest (Peter Green) for a bust benefit. Nothing stand-out.
02-02-70    5   Only a fragment... but it's the perfect fragment!
04-02-70    4   Lots of energy, no big jams. Encore / filler with Santana / Airplane.
05-02-70    4   Setlists seem almost random now. Great Mason's. Nearly 4.5
06-02-70    4   Cracking little Other One. Such a big change from 8 months previous.
07-02-70    2.5 Lacking energy, inconsistent sound, no jams.
08-02-70    3   Mix of terrible aud and good sbd. Long long Lovelight. Star is butchered a bit.
11-02-70    4   Strange mix, although Star and jam both very good.
13-02-70    5   Greatest Dark Star ever? Greatest final set ever? Possibly my favourite show.
14-02-70    4.5 This is a long show. Epic, even. First set is probably the best.
23-02-70    2.5 Not exciting.
01-03-70    2.5 Messy tape, and nothing stands out. Super slow "It's all Over Now Baby Blue".
07-03-70    3   Rough audience. Hard to extract quality, but no seeming stand-out.
08-03-70    1.5 This show has the "mystery guest" who destroys the end of the show. Vince's first show!
20-03-70    3.5 Possible first Cutler introduction. Setlists are still chaotic. Pig asks for girl at end.
21-03-70a   4   Tolerable audience. Insane Viola Lee Blues - best ever?
21-03-70b   4   Opens with a killer Dancin', which had 90% of the jamming. High energy though.
24-03-70    4   Not a bad show, not erupting into highlights though.
03-04-70    3.5 Lacked a bit of punch, really.
09-04-70    3   2nd set sound quality dips to a very rough audience, hard to rate.
11-04-70    3   Really only the NFA > Lovelight at the end.
12-04-70    4   Another great Viola Lee to end the show.
15-04-70    4.5 Super fast intense jam out of Cryptical.
24-04-70    3.5 Recorded from the toilet? Eleven sounds good though.
01-05-70    3   Acoustic set stood out far more than the electric. Great sound quality.
02-05-70    4.5 Very good with killer Other One. Just lacking in space.
03-05-70    1   Truly dreadful audience, only for completionists. Also, no jams.
06-05-70    3   Campus strike for Kent state shootings. Nice sound, Dancin' was the highlight.
07-05-70    1.5 "Jerry Garcia looks like Phil Spectre". Boomy audience, and very long.
08-05-70    1   Another hissy, terrible aud - unlistenable. Sounds like a good jam at the start.
09-05-70    2   Worst soundboard ever? Part of an acoustic set.
14-05-70    3   Another hissy tape, but gets better. Didn't stand out though.
15-05-70a   3.5 A bit too relaxed but the jams were nice and the quality was definitly good.
15-05-70b   4   Pig says Bobby has a dirty mouth. Slighty more energy in the jams.
16-05-70    2   Another super rough audience, with added cuts. Nothing of excitement here.
24-05-70    4   First UK gig. Improvements in structure, jamming and sound quality.
04-06-70    2.5 Semi-decent audience, but literally no jams. Bit boring.
05-06-70    3   Finally a decent sbd. But also no big jams. Acoustic set might be the best part.
06-06-70    4   Had potential. Great Alligator jam but too short. Bobby sells the latest record.
07-06-70    3.5 First Main Ten jam and Sugar Magnolia (last is worst version ever). Very up and down.
13-06-70    3   Nice energy, no jams. Big jamming seems to have gone away. Long ass Lovelight.
21-06-70    2.5 Another pretty bad audience with no jamming. Nothing exciting.
24-06-70a   4   Specifically for the high energy Other One, even though it was short.   
24-06-70b   3.5 Not a great aud but high energy and a strange split Dark Star.
01-07-70    3   Only existing Canadian train ride audio. Too short, and slightly rough.
10-07-70    2   The tide of auds continues. This one is pretty bad. Band is also sloppy.
11-07-70    3.5 This aud is particularly bad. Acoustic set is not bad, and the electric set is better.
12-07-70    3   Another very rough aud. Mixed bag, Dancin' was probably the highlight.
14-07-70    4   Finally, not an aud! Best acoustic of 1970 so far. Lots of cuts in 2nd set though.
16-07-70    4.5 Janis Joplin sits in on Lovelight. What more do you need to know? Also a SBD.
30-07-70    3.5 Only the acoustic set, but in pretty good quality. 14/7 was better though.
05-08-70    3.5 Only an acoustic show. Good representation of what they were doing at the time.
17-08-70    2.5 This may be the wrong date. Snippets only. Again an aud. Hard to rate.
18-08-70    3.5 First Truckin' and Ripple. Back to auds again. Train wreck Sugar Mag.
19-08-70    3.5 Introduced as "The kodiac woodchuck motherfuckers". Similar to last night.
30-08-70    4   Cracking Easy Wind on this short TV show. Worth watching.
17-09-70    4.5 Dreadful sound quality. Jerry directs the PA crew. First Box Of Rain? Great Dark Star.
18-09-70    4.5 Best acoustic Truckin'. Show gets better and better; first set is mostly missing though.
19-09-70    5   Great gig and the 2nd best Star of the year so far. Also rare Darkness > China Cat jam.
20-09-70    5   Jerry on piano! Best acoustic set so far. Cutler intro again. Feedback jam!
04-10-70    3.5 Slight car crash on Casey Jones. Studio quadcast, so strange set list. Nice sound, no highlights.
10-10-70    3   Rough murky aud, and only 1 set. Hard to listen to, Other One > NFA sounded reasonable.
11-10-70    2   Hissy, muddy, warbly - what a dreadful aud! Seems like a good show though, just unlistenable.
17-10-70    4   Another dodgy audience. Quietest Star ever. Show would be great in better quality.
23-10-70    3.5 Reasonable aud tape for the time, but the jams are pretty short. "Been nice trippin' with you!".
24-10-70    3.5 It's a soundboard finally, but not great sq. First NFA > GDTRFB > NFA. No big or medium jams.
30-10-70    3   Jerry complains about having 2 shows. So-so, with no jams really; set-list deceives.
31-10-70a   3   Early show. A normal 1970 first set, although the acoustic stuff seems to have gone missing.
31-10-70b   4   Late show. Pig songs are great as are Hard To Handle and the Other One. A bit short though.
05-11-70    4.5 First show with Ned Lagin. Awesome set list. Terrible SQ. Possibly a 5 if the SQ was better.
07-11-70    2.5 Another dreadful aud. Long, with no major jamming except an early Truckin > Drums > Other One.
08-11-70    4.5 First Main Ten jam. Also has first Hard To Handle jam riff, minus the song. Good show.
09-11-70    3   Mix of aud sources, probably not this date. And in terrible aud cuts with no jams.
11-11-70    2   Jam with Hot Tuna at end. First La Bamba! Sound quality is bad, and then gets worse.
16-11-70    4.5 Awesome quality for 70, and with Steve Winwood! Sounds like a real fun show.
20-11-70    3   Another tape with a "super-jam" at the end, but it wasn't anything special for me.
21-11-70    4   Also listed as Ned's first show. Nice, but really too short. Nice late Cosmic Charlie.
29-11-70    3   Rough, far away type aud. Nothing of major interest here, except worst NFA start ever.
12-12-70    4   Nice to have a soundboard. Unfortunatly, there are cuts and it's hissy. Great Good Lovin' though, and a decent show overall.
23-12-70    3.5 You want this for the clear quality and smoking Good Lovin': rest of short show hs nothing of length.
26-12-70    3.5 Again the best part is the Good Lovin', mainly because it's the only song they jam. Black Peter is also worth a listen.
27-12-70    3.5 New songs are getting better. This picks up more steam towards the end: Pigpen songs are probably the best of the bunch.
28-12-70    3.5 Nice quality in the main and some jams are decent, but nothing really cuts loose. Once again, the Pig songs are the best.
31-12-70    3   Source is half aud, half sbd, and a little all over the place. Recently setlists a little crazy. Good Lovin' saves the day.

21-01-71    4   Aud with a faraway sound. Other One jam was pretty good, but tough to listen to. A very partial SBD exists. Would like to see more.
22-01-71    3   Dreadful audience, you really need to be a fan to listen! Sounds like a fun show. Decent but no jamming really.
24-01-71    3.5 Setlists nowadays are really all over the place. This is reasonably well done stuff but lacks a bit of adventure. Also short.
18-02-71    4.5 First ever Betty board! Where did this amazing band suddenly spring from? This is a cracker of a show. The beautiful jam!
19-02-71    4   First night without Mickey. Solid show with great sound quality. However it has to be said the flow and jamming could be better.
20-02-71    4   Much like the previous 2 nights, although that's not a bad thing. First long Lovelight for a while. Decent, need more jams.
21-02-71    3.5 Bobby keeps saying Mickey is sick. It's again similar to the last few nights but not quite as good, although Good Lovin' tries.
23-02-71    3.5 These shows have very similar setlists but they are pretty decent. Some crazy tuning lengths! Again no real decent jam here.
24-02-71    4   Really nice mellow vibe in the first set, unfortunatly it extends a little too long. Killer Lovelight to finish though.
03-03-71    4   Pigpen's organ is very loud in places. However the sound stabalises and gets a lot better. Decent jamming, final few songs so-so.       
14-03-71    4   Opening Truckin' has a jam! Decent jam out of Wharf Rat. Good Lovin' was also decent. Again though, very similar setlists.
18-03-71    4   Come for the 2 mini-jams in the second set (with the final ever feedback). Well done but repeats a lot of songs from recent gigs.
20-03-71    3.5 Again similar to recent shows, and the best bits are largely the Pig-centered jam tunes. Lovelight has a crazy over the top ending.
21-03-71    3   Aud, but not too bad for the era (just too hissy). Only just over 30 minutes. Sounds ok but really too short to be decent.
24-03-71    3.5 Good quality. Strange to get the longest jam in the first set. New songs still a bit hit and miss. Lacks a bit of depth or pathos.
04-04-71    3.5 A bit like the previous show. This sounds great and there is nothing exactly wrong, but it lacks any real meaty highlights.
05-04-71    4   Good show but a little all the place setwise. Jams are slightly hindered when they hit new songs. Lovelight is good and again long.
06-04-71    3.5 It's a decent show, quite long and in good quality, but it again lacks jamming. The Truckin' encore is an indicator of the future.
07-04-71    3.5 Another show in good quality and well played. It again lacks jams, but this may be due to the terrible cut after drums. Middling.
08-04-71    4   Really hard stereo but decent quality. First Second That Emotion. Short but pretty sweet Dark Star, and a decent run to the end.
10-04-71    3.5 Guitar heavy sound. The mix makes it hard to enjoy as you really just get the Jerry and Bobby show. Good Lovin' the best song.
12-04-71    4   Consistent SBDs make a big difference from 70'. Horrible cut in Hard To Handle. Phil is awesome. No big jams, but sounds great!
13-04-71    4   At a Catholic youth centre! Hi energy throughout, although again this lacks any meaty jams. Phil is awesome throughout.
14-04-71    4.5 "Just exactly perfect". Great first set, nice SBD, face-melting Other One, Jerry talks to the crowd, Bobby takes a solo. Phew!
15-04-71    3.5 Great quality again but this was really a long first set, the only jam being a long Good Lovin' that didn't appear too special.
17-04-71    3.5 Sound quality issues are a thing of the past. Crowd seems really up for it here. Most crazy Pig raps are really good tonight!
22-04-71    3.5 Decent show. Jerry is not happy about being shut down 45 minutes into the set 2. Good Lovin' is the jam. Show like a full 1st set.
24-04-71    4   "Can't you see how beautiful this all is?" and it's hard to argue, although it's yet 71 with no major jamming. Sounds great though.
25-04-71    3.5 Pigpen raps with rhymes. "Where were you Dark Star people 2 years ago?" says Jerry. Again it's jams that are again lacking.
26-04-71	3.5	Duane Allmans sits in on a few numbers, with little effect. Star > Wharf Rat, but too short. Kinda fun but lacking some depth.
27-04-71    3   With the Beach boys. Otherwise this really is like 2 first sets. Beach boys stuff is fun, but not really musically. A little boring.
28-04-71    4.5 High energy set. Band sound like they are having fun. TC drops in for half a set. Dew, Star, Other One, St Stephen in the same set?
29-04-71    4   Maybe longest show up to this date? Killer Hard To Handle. Very tough to rate: excellent throughout, with a one short awesome jam.
29-05-71    4   Famous "LSD punch" show. Show had a much more modern set-list layout. Dodgy aud for set 1, improves in set 2. Decent Other One.
30-05-71    4   Just half the show, despite being in pristine quality. Only real substance is the Truckin' > Lovelight, but it's all done very well.
21-06-71    4   Chateau d'Herouville show. Continues the trend of being well played, good quality '71 Dead that lacks adventure and otherworldness.
02-07-71    4   Yet another very high quality show from 71 - closing of the Fillmore West - that never quite goes fully over the edge at any point.
31-07-71    4.5 First glowsticks. Killer Star in 1st set! This show has everything but the chaotic 71 setlist order fails it. Overall really good.
04-08-71    3.5 At Owsley's prison, and stacked with bass. Overall this is a really well played, very long first set. Even Lovelight was short.
05-08-71    4   Mainly a lovely quality. Excellent early version of Sugaree. Other Onbe > wharf Rat is the stand out, again like a long first set.
06-08-71    4.5 Killer Hard To Handle. Even more killer Other One (though a little short). The jams are generally excellent but far too short.
07-08-71    3.5 Can't see why this is Dicks Picks #35. The SQ is killer but again it suffers from no major jamming. As a first set it's excellent.
14-08-71    4.5 Great show for Phil fans, he's everywhere on this killer board. Like a lot of 71, when they jam they go for it, but a bit too short.
15-08-71    4.5 Another quality SBD. Snippet of White Rabbit played for audience member. Killer second set, a bit short but oh so very sweet.
23-08-71    4   These summer shows are pretty good. Band are tighter than the spring and the jamming is coming back. Especially in these Other Ones!
24-08-71    3.5 Again don't understand why this is a Dicks Picks. It's slightly better than the 7th though, it has a semi-decent short Other One jam.
26-08-71    5   This is like the longest first set ever. Bob sings the "Colorado Rain" verse in Rider. Totally killer killer jam in Other One.
19-10-71    4   Keiths first show and 5 new songs! First Playin' to have a jam. All the new songs are played with high energy. Jams were lacking.
21-10-71    4   SQ is awesome. PITB is short but it's not messing about now. Star short and sweet. Keith a bit too loud in the mix. Decent show.
22-10-71    4.5 Again has that 71 vibe of a really long first set, but everything is really well done. Then they slap a 30 minute Other One down!
23-10-71    3.5 This is definitly 2 long first sets. Also the audience sound unfriendly at times. Ultimatly well played but lacking spark.
24-10-71    4   Another "1971 first set", but they are really well played. Decent Star but it's literally the only jam. St.Stephen's now short.
26-10-71    4.5 The first set is so long that they have to cut the second set short. Still, it features another killer Other One. Rocking end.
27-10-71    4   Another welcome for Keith. And yet another long, very well played first set. The new songs are all bedding in very well.
29-10-71    3.5 When the jamming stops, the scores suffer. None of this is bad, but this is another show that is too much first set material.
30-10-71    3   Really similar setlist to the previous night, really you could say it's more or less exactly the same show! Last night was better.
31-10-71    4.5 Show has more of a first/second set split in the setlist. Great - not stellar - Dark Star, crushing ending rocks to the finish line.
06-11-71    3.5 A 20 minute Other One suite but the jamming didn't really go anywhere, despite being quite furious. Keith's piano a little broken.
07-11-71    4   Rare appearence of the feted Dark Star > Other One combo. But it doesn't jam too hard and goes back to first set material.
11-11-71    3.5 This really is entirely like a long first set! It also suffers from a very standard setlis order as well. Well played but weak.
12-11-71    4   Other One is already going places 4 minutes in. Great jam in Big Railroad Blues (!). Rest of show is a lot more normal 71 fare.
14-11-71    4   Second set has a more traditional setlist and longish jam, although a little short. Worth a listen, they even split the Other One.
15-11-71    5   The second part of Dark Star has the jam of the year. The second has a unique best-of-class jam out of NFA. Best show of the year.
17-11-71    4   Audio is a bit iffy. Best Playin' so far. Band are having fun. Could be a great show if SQ was less erratic. Ramble On Rose encore?
20-11-71    4   First set not as good as recent efforts. Second set features a fairly long and robust Other One. Another China Cat jam in NFA.
01-12-71    4.5 First set is a dreadful aud, excellent sbd for the second though. Other One gets to space real fast. First real hint of the future.
02-12-71    3.5 Blistering Big Railroad Blues. Largely cooking throughout, and notable for the total lack of jamming. Pip and Lovelight are back.
04-12-71    4   Great version of Smokestack with Pigpen. Very spacey but short Other Jam is the notable highlight. Bobby screams too much sometimes.
05-12-71    4.5 Another "best Playin' jam so far". Short, split Dark Star with the deepest space dive of the year. Too many short songs though.
06-12-71    4.5 Really great SQ. First set is great throughout. Another great Other One. Not a lot of jams but when they go, they go deep! Killer.
07-12-71    3.5 Seems to mine the same vein as yesterday, except this time there's almost no jamming. Killer Brokedown. Mainly rocking throughout.
09-12-71    3.5 This really is 2 first sets. But every song is done well. NFA > GDTRFB > NFA is short but totally killer. Great ending to NFA.
10-12-71    4   Every single show is hot now. For this one, they add some jams! Decent Good Lovin, great Other One. Blistering end to the 2nd set.
14-12-71    4.5 It looks like the same set list as the last show. Delightful, playful Other One. Almost a second set. Wonderfully relaxed vibe.
15-12-71    4.5 A bit short, and goes into Deal, but the Dark Star is pretty good. First Lovelight surprises as well. Overall, a very decent show.
31-12-71    4   Decent show overall but lacks a little bit compared to recent efforts. Not quite a countdown, but first show to feel like a New Years.

02-01-72    3.5 Has a Good Lovin' that tops 15 minutes but everything else is a buttery smooth first set. Really needed some exploration in there.
05-03-72    3.5 Rough tape. Wavy Gravy passes a single beer around the audience. Sounds like a wild party, but like the previous show, no real jams.
21-03-72    4   First Playing to really get out there (and nearly 10 minutes). Some lovely free-roaming jamming. Not quite spacey enough for me.
22-03-72    3.5 13 min Playin! That's the standout, in a show with a 30 min Caution! Just missing a sense of structure. Mainly first set material.
23-03-72    4   Another long first set. As per usual, mainly excellent. All the jamming comes in the Dark Star but it doesn't really go that far out.
25-03-72    4   With Bo Diddly, which is ok but doesn't showcase the Dead. Dead open with 2 rarities. Once the weirdness is over, a nice show.
26-03-72    4.5 Cracking setlist - set 2 looks like a set 2! First major Truckin' jam. Other One jam goes places. Pretty decent from start to finish.
27-03-72    4   Mainly a long first set, except for a totally stunning Playin' jam. What follows is decent but cannot match the energy or passion.
28-03-72    4.5 Long, killer Other One dominates second set, and the finishing songs are a rocking end. Everything before is merely very well played.
07-04-72    4.5 Sam Cutler sounds tired in intro. Decent first set with no stand-out. Joyfull, effortless playing. Ramble on Rose is in the wrong place.
                The jam this evening is a pretty mighty Other One split by El Paso, although the first half is the better. Playing was a touch short.
                Inspired Pig + Bobby duet singing at close of NFA. Rocking end, awesome start to the tour. The band sound confident, even slighty cocky
                at times. The Other One could have gone deeper and another minor jam would have been nice.
08-04-72    5   Cutler sounds more up for it. The band just power through set 1 like a hot knife through butter, a greatest hits collection of 70's GD.
                A jam in the obvious place, Playing, is also matched by small break-outs in both Good Lovin' and Truckin'. Everything leads up to the
                Star, which flows as if no effort is required. Stunning riff forms at the end of the song into a absolutly perfect Sugar Mag transition;
                but is the exit transition to Caution actually even better? Confidant, almost egotistic Dead; near perfect, I struggle to fault this.
11-04-72    4.5 Open tracks not as blistering as previous nights - could they be? Very minor BIODTL error shows how tight the band have been this tour.
                First set is very well done but has nothing unusual. Real excitement starts with the Good Lovin'. The main course tonight is a 50 minute
                Truckin > Other One. It takes some considerable time to get to a meltdown but it might be the best this tour so far. This is a really
                good show by any standard but is not as good as the previous nights. The Other One could maybe have gone a bit further out.
14-04-72    4   Copenhagen. Again it is all quality, but it is hard to distinguish best first sets since they sound similar (although all are very good).
                The Playin' in this first set is slightly more relaxed and exploratory than previous ones on the tour. It's a very long first set.
                Star wanders a little too much for it's first half. Wakes up more towards the end with a feeling groovy jam but doesn't go as all out
                as I would have liked. The last 30 minutes has a bit too much Pigpen rapping. Suffers from being next to the previous shows.
16-04-72    4   This is the least jammed show so far, although the Playin' may have been the better of the ones so far. As before, the first set is
                the normal very well done run through, although there were no obvious killer tunes. There is an Other One in this show but it arises
                out of the back of a long Truckin' jam that finally arrives at a decent space but takes 20 minutes to get there. A whole Other One >
                Me & My Uncle > Other One takes just 9 minutes. Perhaps they were short of time?
17-04-72    4   Tivoli. Good chunk of the first set was filmed. First set doesn't quite flow as well as recent shows, although it's hard to really
                quantify the issue. It does end with a particularly volcanic stand-alone Truckin'. The last hour is practically the same as the 11th,
                Star > Sugar Mag > Caution and although not as well constructed as that nights, it is still a formidable tour de force well worth
                listening to. I've now got used to the Europe '72 sound.
21-04-72    4.5 Bremen. Filmed in a TV studio. Shortest show of the year is goofy, laid back and not really taken seriously till the Dead attempt
                to hit warp speed in A Truckin > Other One that simply gets weirder as the clock runs down. The video quality of this show is a
                major standout for 1972, being both high quality and in a TV studio. This is pure, joyous '72 Dead but treating it as a show doesn't
                work. The Dead played for the cameras, but they did that very very well.
24-04-72    4.5 Serious tiger meltdown in Star, possibly the deepest of the tour so far. Show has one of those annoying mini-sets after the main
                jam, 25+ minutes that could easily be removed and would likely make the show better, or at leat more concise. The split Star has
                the major meltdown but otherwise lacks a decent theme, however it improves after the Uncle placed in the middle. The first set was like
                others but really nothing to be sneezed at, what with 11 minutes of Playing and 17 of Good Lovin'. Despite the order, very good.
26-04-72    4.5 Hundred year hall. Dominated by the crazy long Other One. The jam is bookmarked by a 15 minute Truckin' > Drums to get started, and
                then a very well structured Comes A Time > Sugar Magnolia to end with. There is some more after this, but it isn't another mini set
                and is the better for it. As always, to comment on the first set is almost superfluous: again quality abounds and although not
                bursting with jams there was more of a laid-back quality to this than recent shows.
29-04-72    4   Opens with a Playin', most unusual for any era. The main jam is once again a Dark Star > Sugar Mag > Caution, but I can't say that
                this one was a great version. Any Dark Star from this era is generally going to be good music, but of all the nights so far I think
                that this was the least exciting. The jam didn't go anywhere particularly special and seemed more mellow than recent shows. At least
                there was no mini-set after the jam.
03-05-72    4   First sets now really are similar - they are all great. What makes things stand out is usually a killer Pig tune or a jammy Playin'.
                This first set has the former, a rocking Good Lovin'. Not the longest version but very decent. The main jam tonight is, surprise, an
                Other One - so far at every odd numbered show. This version arrives after a Truckin'. It is very competent but does not go very deep.
                Mini-set after the jam fades a bit at the end but the final Saturday Night ends with a crescendo that can crack concrete.
04-05-72    4   Great Dark Star split jam but the appearence of a mini-second set at the end again doesn.t really work. First set is again very good,
                this time the Good Lovin' was the stand-out Pig number.
07-05-72    5   This show has pretty much everything. Killer jams in Playin and Other One; 2nd set has a Star > Other One jam. The Other One goes deep.
10-05-72    4.5 Even the second set mini first-set cannot blight the Truckin' > Other One jam that precedes it. The rest is just brilliant Euro 72.
11-05-72    5   6 mins into the first set and we are in space! 2nd set open with Dew. Long, LONG Star is entertaining throughout. Killer show all over.
13-05-72    4.5 The issue with these shows is you know where the jams will come. The face-melting jam comes in the Other One; end of set 2 is a frenzy.
16-05-72    4.5 Shorter show because of radio broadcast. More concise, sped up slighty? Still manages to go places. Weir dedicates Sugar Mag to Frankie.
18-05-72    4   Despite a Dark Star > Dew, this show felt like it had a little less energy than previous ones, and the Star didn't really go out there.
23-05-72    4.5 Playin' almost went a little spacey. Star takes a little while to get there but goes to the right places. Great laid back Dew.
24-05-72    4.5 For Rev. Gary Davis. These Other Ones are the highlight of the jamming vehicles on this tour. Another meaty half-hour here.
25-05-72    4.5 Excellent double punch Good Lovin / Playin' in first set. Dark Star is decent but as a show doesn't gel as well as previous night.
26-05-72    5   Audience force NFA in first set. Longest Truckin jam so far is nearly 20 minutes. Best jam of the tour in a meandering Other One.
16-07-72    4   Other One + Phil.
18-07-72    4.5 Dark Star!
22-07-72    2.5 First Bird Song?
25-07-72    4   Very solid show, although the audio starts a little rough and a large Sugar Mag cut.
26-07-72    4
12-08-72    4
20-08-72    4   Other One Meltdown.
22-08-72    4.5 Mental Bass > Other One!
24-08-72    4.5 Another great Dark Star.
25-08-72    4   Bertha fuckup?
27-08-72    4.5 First bass solo.
03-09-72    5   Bass solo again.
09-09-72    3.5 Nothing stands out.
10-09-72    4   Long and spacey.
15-09-72    3.5 Only about 30 minutes.
16-09-72    4   Hard to rate, only 1 hour, nice Dark Star.
17-09-72    3   Nothing stood out. Bad review?
21-09-72    4   Dreamy Dark Star.
23-09-72    4   Cryptical!
24-09-72    4.5 Horrible Playin' cut but very impressive.
26-09-72    4.5 Truckin' of the year, excellent transition.
27-09-72    4   Previous night better.
28-09-72    4.5 Bass > Other One > Tiger!
30-09-72    4.5 Monster show, some cuts, good energy.
02-10-72    3   No big jams, relaxed.
09-10-72    4   Great Playin', but cut. Box of Rain!
17-10-72    3.5 Awesome Playin'. New PA? No big jams.
18-10-72    5   Perfect.
19-10-72    3.5
21-10-72    4.5 Incomplete, but solid fragments. Massive Phil.
24-10-72    4   Nice, but too short (fragments).
26-10-72    5   Long, glorious Playing goes many places. Only a Truckin > Star > Sugar Mag to follow! SQ a bit ropey.   
28-10-72    5   Awesome Star -> End!
12-11-72    3   Terrible mix. Hard to rate.
14-11-72    2.5 Competent. Nothing special..?
15-11-72    3.5 Great mix, no stand-outs.
17-11-72    4   Lost in second set...
18-11-72    4.5 Only second set, but great!
19-11-72    4.5 Needs more review.
22-11-72    3.5 Good, but average for the time.
24-11-72    3.5 Great end, nothing stand-out.
26-11-72    3.5 Terrible sound quality, maybe good?
10-12-72    4   Awesome Playin', great show. Last Pigpen mention!
11-12-72    4   Some horrible cuts but great.

09-02-73    4   Professional, new songs.
15-02-73    3.5 Watered down version of the previous show.
17-02-73    3.5 Good, nothing stood out except China > Rider.
19-02-73    4.5 Great second set.
21-02-73    4   High quality, no big jam.
22-02-73    4.5 Great PITB, very solid. Almost a great.
24-02-73    4.5 Dreadful aud, great SBD. Cut up, maybe half the show. Could be a monster hidden inside.
26-02-73    4.5 Nice, relaxed, great sound.
28-02-73    4.5 Bad SQ, horrible cuts. Best Eyes so far.
15-03-73    4   Only 1/2 show, Playin end fucked up. Jam and OO was good.
16-03-73    4.5 Nearly perfect. Dreamy, laid back Star > Dew.
19-03-73    4   Another consistent 73 show. They moved Casey Jones!
21-03-73    5   Insect space Star. Best Step-Back. First Weather Report test.
22-03-73    4.5 Nearly 5! Star > Eyes, Star a little short.
24-03-73    4.5 SQ so-so. First China > Groovy jam. Has a Spanish jam.
26-03-73    5   Sick. Jams everywhere in set 2. Post Eyes! Weather Report!
28-03-73    4.5 Star > Eyes > PITB > JB Goode?!? Nearly 5.
30-03-73    4   Sloppy review, SQ not great.
31-03-73    4   Short but very sweet.
02-04-73    4   Very good. Needs a longer jam. Nearly 4.5
13-05-73    5   SQ mix is terrible. Show is awesome from Playin' onwards.
20-05-73    4.5 Sick semi-feedback jam before Eyes.
26-05-73    4.5 Kezar... enough said!
09-06-73    4.5 RFK... long jams, mellow, good.
10-06-73    4.5 Dew opener! Great Eyes. With Allmans, so-so.
22-06-73    5   Awesome Truckin' > Other One.
24-06-73    5   Phil 'er up! Great Star > Eyes.
26-06-73    4.5 SQ not good! Couldn't match recent shows.
29-06-73    4.5 Fantastic Other One > feedback. SQ not good.
30-06-73    4   Tough review. Star nice but short.
01-07-73    4.5 Insane OO, Great Playin'. Hard to say what is lacking.
27-07-73    4.5 Watkins Glen Jam. Strange.
28-07-73    3.5 Needs more review. All over the place.
01-08-73    4.5 El Paso ruins the fun! Star > El Paso > Eyes > Dew!
07-09-73    5   Step-Back awesome! Eyes of the year?
08-09-73    3   Nothing stood out.
11-09-73    4   First horns (only a little). Phil great in Dark Star.
12-09-73    2.5 Ugly horns. Nothing grabbed me.
15-09-73    2   Horns ruined Truckin'. Only 2nd set. Horns ruin most songs.
17-09-73    2   Jerry sings start of Sugar Mag! Damn horns.
20-09-73    2   Dodgy SQ. Bloody horns!
21-09-73    3.5 Much less horns. Needs more review.
24-09-73    3.5 Horns kill big jams. But mixed better here.
26-09-73    4   Best horns is least horns!
19-10-73    5   Star > MLB > Dew. Eyes > Stella encore!
21-10-73    5   Playin' and set 2 of awesome.
23-10-73    5   Sublime set 2. Fight stops encore!
25-10-73    5   Another crazy second set!
29-10-73    4   Good. Eyes in first set? Strange set-list
30-10-73    4.5 No complaints. Needs more review..
01-11-73    5   Partial. Great jamming.
09-11-73    4   Needs more review. A few cuts.
11-11-73    4.5 Great end to DS. Awesome encore.
14-11-73    4   Solid...but not as good as others.
17-11-73    4   Song selection solid...just needs more.
20-11-73    3.5 Other One started great! But no highlights.
21-11-73    3.5 Good but not as good as others.
25-11-73    4   Bid you goodnight! Needs more space.
30-11-73    4.5 SQ is great. Hints of greatness. Needs more jams!
01-12-73    4.5 Long Step-Back, great Playin' > UJB jam.
02-12-73    5   Intense Playin' > MLB, super mellow after. Encore is Dew!
04-12-73    4.5 Fantastic meltdown after Eyes.
06-12-73    4.5 45 minute Star was a little unexpected!
08-12-73    5   Severe OO meltdown into proto Seastones.
12-12-73    4   Very nice (like most of '73), but no major jams.
18-12-73    5   Ain't nobody who does what the Dead do!
19-12-73    4   Needs more review.

22-02-74    4   Very well played but nothing stand-out.
23-02-74    4.5 No obvious stand-outs but still very good.
24-02-74    5   Dark Star > Dew!
23-03-74    4.5 Another crazy Playing > UJB > Dew > UJB > Playin'!
12-05-74    4   Partial show from Truckin'. Nice Truckin' meltdown.
14-05-74    5   Let It Grow > Dark Star. Crisp sound, great jam. Pure Dead.
17-05-74    4.5 Needs more review, but still, what a show.
19-05-74    4   Can't remember anything bad, but no major stand-outs.
21-05-74    4.5 Although the 45-minute Playin' deserves a 5.
25-05-74    3.5 No big jam, excellent otherwise.
08-06-74    5   Awesome PITB - best so far?
16-06-74    5   Another mental PITB, and that's just the 1st set.
18-06-74    5   Pretty mental, best Let It Grow so far. Nearly 4.5.
20-06-74    5   These shows are crazy. WRS great, Eyes jam with Slipknot.
22-06-74    4.5 Tough call. The Playin' is fantastic. Eyes almost goes Seastones.
23-06-74    4   Nice Spanish jam, but a bit short on jamming.
26-06-74    4.5 Longest China Rider starts with a decent jam. Truckin' is listed at 30mins but includes Other One tease. Crazy Eyes for the encore.
28-06-74    5   Best WRS ever, with MLB and Star jams.
30-06-74    4   Maybe should be 4.5, Playin' is good, jam double-dips.
19-07-74    4.5 Loving me these Spanish jams.
21-07-74    4   The Playing jam is great but a little short. Compared to shows around it, a little more subdued. Good Wall Of Sound AUD tape.
25-07-74    4.5 Short show, but nice Star.
27-07-74    2.5 No jam in 2nd set, although US Blues tried to start one.
29-07-74    3.5 Better, small Spanish jam but no real big jams.
31-07-74    4.5 Best Truckin' jam I ever heard, almost a 5.
04-08-74    5   Great Playin' and really good 2nd set.
05-08-74    5   Now THIS is what a Truckin' jam should be like!
06-08-74    5   Greatest first set so far, and Spanish Jam > Other One in 2nd
09-09-74    4.5 Tough. Short show, nearly a 5. Cut up a bit too much.
10-09-74    5   Awesome Star > Dew. Best Dew so far?
11-09-74    5   Most epic Seastones > Eyes combo.
14-09-74    4   Some fluffs mixed with nice jamming.
18-09-74    3.5 Nice - but lacks big jams.
20-09-74    4   As above, really - Needs more review.
21-09-74    4.5 Slightly unusual set-list, majestic 17 minute Dew.
16-10-74    5   This show has everything.
17-10-74    4.5 Nice recording, not as good as last night.
18-10-74    4.5 Seastones > Star! Although end of set 2 is anti-climatic.
19-10-74    3.5 Didn't really stand out. Truckin' start was weird as hell though.
20-10-74    3.5 All of these shows are a bit strange, really. Nothing stand-out.

23-03-75    5   Up there with the best shows ever. Totally unique. Check out the radio announcer before the encore!
17-06-75    4   Nice, slightly strange setlist, as you'd expect.
13-08-75    5   No particularly mad jam, except maybe the encore, but everything about this screams "class". First set is awesome.
28-09-75    3.5 Another "nice" show, lacking in any out-there jamming.

03-06-76    2.5 Too slow and laid-back; lacks any spark or major jamming.
04-06-76    3   Weak PITB, seems very tame. Gets slightly better near the end.
09-06-76    3   Slightly better. The pace of these shows is a little uneven.
10-06-76    3.5 PITB had a reasonable jam. Band is really different though.
11-06-76    3   These shows have jamming, but it doesn't really grab you.
12-06-76    3.5 I'm not registering these shows much. Band was tighter.
14-06-76    4   Shows are getting better, but scary space has left.
15-06-76    3.5 Slightly hard to rate these, but they seem to be getting better.
17-06-76    3.5 These shows all sound similar. All the jams are contained.
18-06-76    3.5 Lacks energy until the end of second set.
19-06-76    3   Didn't stick out at all. Strange set list again.
21-06-76    3.5 The set lists seem very similar, as does the vibe.
22-06-76    4   FOTM jam in Playin' led by Phil. Laid back with seemingly 2 mini second sets.
23-06-76    3.5 "Garcia has the biggest beard!". Long gaps between songs. 2nd set too slow.
24-06-76    4   Pretty upbeat for June 76. Great quality 2nd set. Short but not shabby at all.
26-06-76    3.5 Same as almost all the other June 76 shows....
27-06-76    3.5 Thin Jerry sound in 1976. Like others of this time, lacks bite and energy, even if well played.
28-06-76    4.5 Eyes 6 minute intro, and bass solo at end. Only 'Happiness Is Drumming'. Solid throughout.
29-06-76    4   Slightly better. Not a bad jam in Playin'.
12-07-76    3   Didn't grab me. A lot of songs have the same speed.
13-07-76    4   Some space, and some improvements.
14-07-76    4   Things are looking up at last. Not a bad show.
16-07-76    4   Second set only; format seemed more usual. Not bad!
17-07-76    3   Needs more review, but didn't grab me in any way.
18-07-76    3   Nothing outstanding...par for the period, it seems.
02-08-76    3.5 My first audience... Playin' was ok, more usual second set.
04-08-76    2.5 It rolls, but doesn't rock.
23-09-76    3.5 Awful sound quality, show wasn't too bad though.
24-09-76    3.5 Highlight is the decent Playin' to end first set. Slipknot > Drums > Slipknot? Second set fails to gel. Terrible Stella Blue.
25-09-76    3.5 Decent Let It Grow in first set. Second set lacks energy. Last Cosmic Charlie. Second set messy and low energy. Cut at end.
27-09-76    3.5 Not a fan of the long Franklin's in this era, but not bad.
28-09-76    4   Nice first set, and second set not too shabby either.
30-09-76    3   Needs more review, but didn't grab me particularly
01-10-76    4   Good show, just needs some more energy. Great jam in Slipknot, maybe best yet.
02-10-76    3.5 Rough aud. Whole show seems to have an octave pedal  for the vocals. Nice Dancin' though.
03-10-76    3.5 Only set 2. Little China cat jam in there. Good, not stellar.
09-10-76    4   Hey...not bad! Good feeling of energy, the first for a while.
10-10-76    4.5 I'd venture to say that was actually a good show!
14-10-76    3.5 Only set 2. Not as good as previous night but good energy.
15-10-76    4   Keeps the energy. Not bad, but only just a 4
31-12-76    4.5 Best show of the year, but still not quite a 5!

26-02-77    5   Awesome first set. Just a great show really.
27-02-77    3.5 Still has vestiges of 1976 - slow and lacking in energy. Terrapin is strictly by the numbers.
18-03-77    4   Low energy or very laid back? Only Terrapin flyer. From the sublime to the ridiculous at the end.
19-03-77    4   Pretty good. Different feel straight away with 1977.
20-03-77    4   These seem to have more structure and energy than 1976.
22-04-77    4   Weird... better but similar, these shows.
23-04-77    4.5 Rocking and good.
25-04-77    4.5 Terrible SQ quality, jam in second set is great.
26-04-77    3   Pretty bad aud - sounds like a bar band. Show itself seemed fixed in one gear. Nothing great.
27-04-77    3.5 Bad sound, and not as good as 2 nights ago.
29-04-77    4   Strange set-list pre-drums. Great HSF to start. Sound quality so-so. Interestring, not amazing.
30-04-77    4   Good show, high energy but few jams.
01-05-77    3.5 Only 2nd set, didn't inspire me.
03-05-77    3.5 Didn't flow so well in the 2nd set, a very stop start effort. Moore's aud is good though.
04-05-77    4   Jerry out of tune at start. Get this for the dreamy Playin' jam at the end of the 2nd set.
05-05-77    4   Rocking end, jams are contained in the songs and not between.
07-05-77    4   Another good 1977 show with little jamming.
08-05-77    4.5 It is as smooth as butter, as they say.
09-05-77    4   Almost 4.5, very smooth as well.
11-05-77    3.5 Shows are hard to review. All the space jamming has gone.
12-05-77    3.5 Aud runs fast at end of 2nd set. Pretty mellow throughout. Standard for the period, I'd say.
13-05-77    4   Good Other One and a rocking end to the show
15-05-77    4   Nice 1st set. Bit slow in middle of 2nd set.
17-05-77    4   More songs, less variation. Sets are good though.
18-05-77    4   Seems 4 is a bit common. I enjoyed the show though.
19-05-77    4   Nothing wrong with this show, other than a slight lack of pace. Ending suite is really good.
21-05-77    4.5 Very slick show. Not a bad number throughout. Just lacks a bit of space at the end.
22-05-77    4.5 Terrapin missing first section, pretty unique but doesn't work for me. Awesome Morning Dew at end.
25-05-77    4   Another 4? The setlists are become a bit more modern.
26-05-77    4.5 Nearly a 4, but better than others around this time.
28-05-77    4   Back to the standard 1977! Setlists are becoming modern.
04-06-77    4   Fantastic setlist for the 2nd set; which was good, but felt like a greatest hits collection.
07-06-77    3.5 Had a great Dew but the rest didn't shine for me, despite what seems like a great set-list.
08-06-77    5   What a nice, tasty 77 show. Jam before NFA is great.
09-06-77    4.5 Is everything just exactly perfect? Just ask Bob. Awesome Help>Slip. Maybe it nearly is. Good show.
03-09-77    4.5 Infamous Raceway Park gig. Good on a lot of levels. Most songs are excellent. What a NFA as well!
28-09-77    3.5 Maybe it just didn't stack up against the last couple of shows.
29-09-77    3.5 Also not so inspiring.
01-10-77    3   What can you do if nothing inspires? Nothing stand-out.
02-10-77    3.5 Nothing wrong, nothing right.
06-10-77    4   Sources are strange. All sounds typical 77 but the NFA > Black Peter is great. Crazy key change back into NFA. Partial show.
07-10-77    4   Only has partial show (about 90 mins). Still a pretty cracking set list and has plenty of energy.
09-10-77    4.5 First real drums, great Sugaree and Truckin'
11-10-77    3.5 A little too mellow, especially the Eyes onward. Starter Help > Slipknot was probably the highlight. Nice rhythm changes in Deal.
12-10-77    3.5 Like real second sets! Some lazy song choices.
14-10-77    4.5 Really helped by the 18 minute Playing, best since '74.
15-10-77    4   Nice Estimated > Drums > Other One. Out of tune US Blues.
16-10-77    3.5 Another decent Estimated. Black Peter was also a good version, rest of the show was competent but lacked drive at times.
28-10-77    3.5 Nice energy, main jam was He's Gone... not a fan.
29-10-77    4.5 Best Let It Grow since '74. Space in second set!
30-10-77    4   Jamming in this show was pretty decent, it just needed more. Highlight is clearly the Playing > Other One pre-drums.
01-11-77    4   Rocking end, but quite a short show. Truckin' was the highlight.
02-11-77    4   Toronto show. Short but sweet Estimated. Very rocking and powerful end to the show, and the encore was great.
04-11-77    3.5 Not as good as recent ones. Needs more review?
05-11-77    4.5 Monster Half-Step as 2nd song. 2nd set starts Bass solo > jammy Step back > Eyes. Eases later but still a really solif show.
06-11-77    4   Killer Truckin' is the stand-out.
27-12-77    3.5 Nice energy, didn't catch much. Rocking at the end.
29-12-77    4.5 Absolutly rocking show at the end. It's a fine fine show, only really lacking in some jam intensity. '77 in a nutshell.
30-12-77    4   Some nice playing, but very very short.
31-12-77    4   Standard for the year. These shows are quite short.

06-01-78    4   Phil breaks a string. Jerry's voice pretty bad. All Bob songs in 2nd set. Fiery end.
07-01-78    4   No Jerry songs at all.  Long Dancin' meanders a bit then opens up. Tough to rate.
08-01-78    3.5 Tiny 'Close Encounters' riff at start of 2nd set. Phil sings on Good Lovin'. Uncle Bobo present.
10-01-78    3.5 Weak voice from Jerry. Also set choice wasn't that great for me on this one. Nice MOTB though.
11-01-78    4.5 Plenty of rocking energy, and the Playing was very good.
13-01-78    4   Close Encounters themes all over this month. Space section after drums. Nasty cut at end.
14-01-78    4.5 Hissy SBD. But has a great tiger almost into feedback territory.
15-01-78    4.5 Best Playin' since 1974? Great last 50 minutes. Only AUD for 2nd set though.
17-01-78    4   Nothing really stand-out; Space and Estimated save it.
18-01-78    4   Another good Playing. Tape is not the best quality. Blackbird riff at start of encore.
22-01-78    5   Cooking second set, even hotter after the close encounters jam. Best solo Jerry.
30-01-78    3.5 Didn't stick out, although full of energy at the end.
31-01-78    4   Good, don't know whether they are starting to sound a bit samey though. Another space.
02-02-78    4   A little short, it seems, but filled with quality.
03-02-78    5   Great first set, awesome Music Never Stopped. The jewel is the 40 minute Eyes > Playin. Best post-retirement Playin'? Could be.
04-02-78    4   Only audience for first set. Jams are decent but lack the edge of the previous night. NFA manages to add a chord in the final chorus!
05-02-78    4   Monster, nearly 30 min Scarlet > Fire. Last 40 minutes has the 20-minute song syndrome but is done very well. Even has a Bobby joke.
06-04-78    3.5 Nothing too shabby, nothing too special. Bad PA static in last 2 songs does not help.
07-04-78    3.5 Again, it rolled over a bit like the last show. Nothing really bad though.
08-04-78    4   Slightly better. But these shows are starting to sound very familiar. More close encounters.
10-04-78    3   A unique (?) terrible joke. Otherwise largely uninspired.
11-04-78    3   Bit better. First Iko Iko, but a long-ass drums and not much jamming.
12-04-78    3.5 Jerry painfully out of tune in BIODTL. 26 minutes of drums! Bad cut at end of 2nd set.
14-04-78    3.5 Second time Jerry out of tune, at start of 2nd set. Nice but nothing special.
15-04-78    4.5 Best first set start ever with Half Step > Passenger? Good Playing, only Dew of 1978. Nearly 5.
16-04-78    3.5 Drums and space is becoming formalised. Continues the 78 standard of 3.5
18-04-78    3   Tape is all over the place, especially in Passenger. Another Blackbird tease. Pedestrian.
19-04-78    3   Again a bit too pedestrian. Post drums and first Werewolf make up for it a little.
21-04-78    4   Best drums and space of the year so far. A step up from recent shows.
22-04-78    3.5 Dicks Picks 15. These shows can be more miss than hit.
24-04-78    4   Monkey drums and space is probably the best so far. The rest of the set is similar to early 78 stuff.
05-05-78    3   Phil out of tune in NFA? He plays some bum notes at the end of Werewolves. Slightly boring.
06-05-78    4   Awesome LLR and Deal in first set. Teddy Bears picnic riff before Terrapin. Better than average for 78.
07-05-78    4   Nothing in particular stood apart from the great MNS, but overall not a bad show at all.
09-05-78    4   Pretty bad AUD, but still a nice show. Spaces are getting interesting. "USA" chant before the encore.
10-05-78    4   Rough aud (this and the last show are DP 25). Like 77, sometimes the 4's come in batches.
11-05-78    3.5 Lots of laughs in Dancin'. Drums a little long. Nice Stella Blue. Weir solo in Werewolves. Double encore.
13-05-78    4   Another quite nice show. Quite a while since a really decent show though.
15-05-78    4   Tough. Hate to keep giving these 4, but that's what it is. Nice UJB encore made a change.
16-05-78    3.5 You can hear Weir on the audience tape. More solo Jerry in space. Slow second set.
17-05-78    3.5 Great Space > Terrapin choice near the end couldn't raise the profile of this.
04-06-78    3   Space has some terrible Donna squealing, and motorbikes. Band sound drunk or high. Manic ending.
25-06-78    4.5 Stunning (for 1978) feedback jam and chaos after drums. Solid show.
01-07-78    4   Wille Nelson 4th July picnic. Unusual show with 1 long set, but still pretty good.
03-07-78    4   Phil: "Whoever is throwing firecrackers belongs in the Ted Nugent concert". Awful slide in Werewolves.
05-07-78    3.5 Estimated almost went somewhere. Space was good, but the rest of the show lacked any major spark.
07-07-78    4   Very short second set (1h 5m or similar). Unusual 'Nobodies fault' jam in NFA. Not bad.
08-07-78    4.5 Tiny tiny hint of Star out of space? Good show. Killer encore, and laid back throughout most.
30-08-78    4   First "Miracle". Only 2nd set. Screwed up BEW. Phil scat sings in space. Excellent IIHTWTG.
31-08-78    3.5 Nasty SBD cut in Terrapin. First "Shakedown" - not bad. Weak end to Sugar Mag.
02-09-78    4   Good jam pre-drums, only 1 song after space which is an out-of-tune Sugar Mag.
14-09-78    3   First Eygpt show. It's pretty messy, with the starting jam and space being the best.
15-09-78    3   Jerry talks offhand - first time for a long long time. Better than first night, but still not great.
16-09-78    4   You can hear Jerry call a song. Shakedown has best jam of Eygpt. Excellent drums > space.
17-10-78    4   Jerry asked for banjo lessons in space. Wonderful IIHTWTG, and a show with nice structure.
18-10-78    4   Nice Good Lovin'. Shows have picked up since Eygpt. Good, but not ground-breaking.
20-10-78    3.5 Dancin' outro jam was the best; nothing else really popped out.
21-10-78    4   Nice show, but it's hard to reach those 4.5 scores now. Still, Lee Oskar was good.
22-10-78    4   Nice NFA jam, the whole show was 'nice' but didn't go crazy anywhere. Still, has a Caution jam...
11-11-78    3   Nice video, short but sweet. Quality is pretty nice. Of course it has zero jamming.
13-11-78    4.5 PITB > Drums > Space > Black Peter > Playin' had an almost dreamy quality to it.
14-11-78    3.5 Not terrible, not special. One of those that sails past you without offending.
16-11-78    4   Worst audience for a while. Band weird from drums onward. Best Truckin' of 78? Nearly 4.5.
17-11-78a   4   Early acoustic. What a strange gig. Not musically exiting but a real change.
17-11-78b   3.5 Terrible audience tape that has cuts. Hard to rate, seems to have good energy.
18-11-78    4.5 At last a decent soundboard. Monster He's Gone > Other One. Best Other One since 1974.
20-11-78    4.5 Bobby was sick, misses a lot of the show. Cuts aplenty. Craziest set opener since the 60's?
21-11-78    4   Props to the clever woman in the audience. Great Truckin', pity about the sound quality.
23-11-78    3.5 Show is a soundboard but it's very choppy and cut up. Best is the Eygpt space > Shakedown. Nearly 4.
24-11-78    4.5 Great show with perhaps the ultimate 78 Shakedown. Avaliable on video as well.
12-12-78    4.5 This is a very smooth show that I enjoyed, it was very relaxed and reminded me of 74 second set ends.
13-12-78    4   Lovely Playin' in this one. Late 78 is definitly a step up from the summer.
15-12-78    3.5 Good energy at the end but it overall this show didn't stand out.
16-12-78    4   Says aud but sounds like Matrix! Overall nice energy and long songs. But not cutting enough.
17-12-78    3.5 The auds keep coming. Last Egypt jam? Out of tune Sugar Mag, long drums.
19-12-78    3.5 Another aud. Stella > NFA is the smoothest transition ever. Good on paper kind of show.
21-12-78    3   Dreadful aud. Boomy, and at the back of the hall. Black Peter may have been good.
22-12-78    3   Another dreadful aud! Cut at the end to. Didn't sound musically worse, but the sound was dreadful.
27-12-78    3.5 Yet another aud, better but more crowd noise. Nothing stood out at particularly good or bad.
28-12-78    4   Finally a crisp board. Lovelight riff at end of Eyes. Jerry tells Keith to be quiet. Killer Sugar Mag.
30-12-78    4   Great first set. Good Hamza. St. Stephen with Mu-Tron is awesome for first 5 seconds.
31-12-78    4.5 This show has everything in 3 sets. Best part is post-Star in the 3rd set.

05-01-79    3.5 Starts as a high-energy aud. Lots of cuts. Nobodys Fault jam was the highlight.
07-01-79    3.5 First show at MSG. PA craps out near end of 2nd set. Nothing too special.
08-01-79    4   Another aud, quite a lot in this period. Jerry's voice is shot. 2nd set like a 77 show.
10-01-79    4.5 First East coast Dark star for a while. Good show; Star better than 31-12-78.
11-01-79    4   Maybe all auds on this tour. End of second set post drums is where the action is.   
12-01-79    4   Continuing the auds. Has a super-long Dancin' but it didn't grab as much as it could.
14-01-79    3   Worst aud of the tour so far. Bobby high in the mix. The 2nd set is a little rushed.
15-01-79    4.5 Fantastic aud, and a great second set Terrapin > Playing make this worth a listen.
17-01-79    4   Another stunning aud. Bit of an epic as well, long 2nd set. Jerry has a weak voice near end.
18-01-79    3.5 No drums for a change, but I didn't get much from this show.
20-01-79    4   Another Dark Star, but pretty short. Could have been better. Moore's aud is great.
21-01-79    3   Dreadful aud, boomy with no top. Hard to tell, but didn't sound special.
03-02-79    4   First set sbd, 2nd set aud. Nice overall show with good energy.
04-02-79    4   It was another decent show. Jerry has a certain "super fast licks mode" which is getting more common.
07-02-79    3.5 Jerry hits 4 valiums. Recording is incomplete and in the wrong order. Sluggish.
09-02-79    5   Dodgy aud with a lot of hiss. Long He's Gone leads to sublime jam > drums > space. Shakedown encore!
10-02-79    4.5 Noisy aud again. Eyes has got pretty fast recently. We're hotting up on this tour!
17-02-79    4   K+D's last show. Messy in parts (Bertha / Shakedown), but some jamming was on point.
22-04-79    4   Brent's first show. Different sound straight away. Space is great.
03-05-79    3.5 Some strange PA issues in Black Peter. Nice Playin', but pretty normal even with Brent's new sounds.
05-05-79    3.5 "Good morning Philip" says Bob in the opener. Obvious new toys in space + drums. Punchy encore.
07-05-79    3.5 Not a good Brent patch for Estimated. Great NFA with Cippollina. Slightly plodding until the end.
09-05-79    4   Phil wears a Pigpen t-shirt. Great Masterpiece tease/jam. 2nd set much better than the first.
11-05-79    3.5 Another super-speedy Eyes. Brent + Drums section is very jazzy. No encore spoils the end a little.
12-05-79    3.5 Aud is very 'windy'. Terrapin' > Playin is where the heat is, although nothing surprising.
13-05-79    3   Another aud, quite a lot for this period it seems. No obvious highlights, sq is bad though.
28-06-79    3   Only the 2nd set, and not a great sbd. Some nasty cuts kill the flow.
30-06-79    3   Another pedestrian show. Aud conversation about Brent was probably the best part.
01-07-79    3.5 Great quality in comparison to recent shows, not sure it was a significantly better show though.
04-08-79    4.5 First appearence of Tiger, Althea and Lost Sailor. Good first set. Great Playin', awesome Stella Blue.
05-08-79    3.5 Not as good as the previous night and a few too many cuts to songs. Triple encore though.
12-08-79    4   2nd year at Red Rocks. Best Eyes jam for a long time, cracking drums. SBD runs fast though.
13-08-79    3   Can't say anything stood out at this show. End Truckin' was probably the highlight.
14-08-79    3.5 First Brent song. I swear Jerry sings "drink your wealth" in the last 2 US Blues.
31-08-79    3.5 New songs a bit botched. "Can we play something easier?". Eyes is too fast again.
01-09-79    3.5 Really good space - best for a while. Second set was too short - Scarlet > Fire > Drums??
02-09-79    4.5 Set list is killer. Awesome return for Let It Grow. Another good Stella Blue.
04-09-79    3.5 Lots of comebacks recently - China Rider this show. He's Gone very jammy. Too many songs have mistakes.
05-09-79    3.5 Hotting up on the Half-Step > Franklins openers. Nice Estimated, Eyes again too fast. End was lame.
06-09-79    4   Mind Left Body hint after NFA! Better than the previous 2 nights and good from Terrapin onwards.
24-10-79    5   Already tired of "Easy To Love You". Good "Fire". Short but sweet Playin'. Short killer 2nd set.
25-10-79    4.5 What a Shakedown! Crazy space with fairly mental bass. Not quite as killer as the previous night though.
27-10-79    4   Some jamming length epics, but the fire was sparked less frequently than the last 2 shows.
28-10-79    3.5 Jeez those long Franklins go nowhere. Nice China Rider and Playing though.
31-10-79    4   China > Rider opener. Jerry speaks about crowd crush. Good Shakedown 2nd set opener. Ends well.
01-11-79    4.5 38 mins of Scarlet Fire: most jammed version? Space was good; some potential was missed though.
02-11-79    4   Lots of stage talk in jam pre drums. Another 20+ minute Franklins. Good, but greatness eludes.
04-11-79    3   First Alabama Getaway. He's Gone is best part of pedestrian show. Horrible cut at end as well.
05-11-79    3.5 Rare China Rider opener. Sailor > Saint out of drums. Long songs doesn't always mean more jamming.
06-11-79    4   Quality first set. Good set list in 2nd set, helped by 20 min Playing, Still, that 1st set...
08-11-79    4   Only Morning Dew of 1979 tipped this one over to 4. Lots of talking in drums/space. Short 2nd set.
09-11-79    4   Smoking Alabama > Promised opener. End of Dancin' pretty smooth. Gloria jam in He's Gone.
10-11-79    3.5 First CR+S for a while, Sound mix a bit all over the place, but the second set was fairly good.
23-11-79    4   Rare High Time. Great Music > Sugaree to start set 2. A bit up, a bit down, but more up than down.
24-11-79    3.5 Jerry solos over a strange part of Ship Of Fools. A little lacking in energy.
25-11-79    4.5 Some space in pre-drums jam, excellent Stella Blue. Possible Jerry is drunk or high? A litle strange.
29-11-79    3.5 Great SBD. Rare High Time. Sloppy end to 2nd set, but at least the Eyes jam was decent.
30-11-79    4   Good Alabama opener and solid Dancin' in 1st set. Nothing stellar, but not a bad show.
01-12-79    4   Slightly bizarre jam out of He's Gone - quite unusual. Lacks energy, but makes a change.
03-12-79    3   Shows have become a bit more predictable, but the first sets have got better. Nothing new here.
04-12-79    4   First interesting jam out of Franklins. Great Stella Blue (as always, it seems). Not bad.
05-12-79    4.5 2hr 5 mins for the 2nd set! Crazy Other One. Scat singing in Black Peter. 5 uptempo songs to end!
07-12-79    4   Terrific fanning on MNS. Beautiful space pre-drums. Has some good touches, but doesn't sustain them.
09-12-79    4   7 shows pre drums in 2nd set! Weird Playin' jam out of Saint. Very up and down, but above average.
10-12-79    3.5 First aud in a long time. Easy To Love You sucks again. Explosive Truckin'. Very up and down.
11-12-79    3.5 Get the Matrix! Unusual Estimated jam with no estimated. Alabama encore, but 2nd set seemed rushed.
26-12-79    4   15 minute Shakedown > UJB opener? Mixed, but harder to say what is bad than what is good.
27-12-79    3   2nd set back to the auds. Double encore is nice, but SQ makes it hard to love the 2nd set.
28-12-79    4   Best Playin' for a long time. Whistling jam in drums. Good ending but bad song selection.
30-12-79    3.5 Pretty short show, most noticable for being so short! Best part was the Let It Grow jam.
31-12-79    3.5 Space before midnight countdown; 3 sets, all strange. Uncle John's meltdown is good. Bobby has a cold.

13-01-80    4   Single set show. Santana and Cippolina for end of set jam. Jerry sings "Shah of Iran" in US Blues.
30-03-80    3.5 Encore with John Belushi. First Far From Me. Train wreck Saint Of Circumstance.
31-03-80    4   Some songs missing. First Stranger. Quite a fun audience. Great set list.
01-04-80    4   With April Fools Promised Land. Great Stranger and China Rider to start 2nd set.
28-04-80    4   Setlists are a bit similar recently. Still, great start, Black Peter was good and high energy.
29-04-80    4   Fantastic aud. Long Terrapin jam; Miracle > Bertha > Good Lovin set 2 ends suck a little though.
01-05-80    3.5 Really weird Estimated > UJB change. Short Drums > Space. 2nd set a little rushed and short.
02-05-80    3.5 Another Miracle > Bertha > Good Lovin' 2nd set end. Raging energy, no jams. 1st better than 2nd.
04-05-80    4   Good setlist, with nice little Playing jam. 1980 seems repetitive but this is just about a 4.
06-05-80    3.5 Stranger is either jammed or a train wreck. Needed more of something.
07-05-80    4.5 "Playing in the Barn"; another well constructed show in Barton Hall, almost 3 years to the day.
08-05-80    4.5 Best Eyes pace for a long while. Decent 'modern' UJB. Drums > Space very on point.
10-05-80    3   Messy in places (Stranger, Estimated). Energy is right up there though. 7 songs pre drums.
11-05-80    3   Stranger > Terrapin, nice idea on paper but not on stage. Around is worse now attached to JB Goode.
12-05-80    4.5 Raging opener. 1st sets can now be fast and furious. Excellent He's Gone jam. Very solid.
14-05-80    3.5 Easy To Love You goes wrong. Short but very sweet space. 1980 seems inconsistently consistent.
15-05-80    3   Nice set list but nothing really that attracted my attention. Again, 1st set mayber better.
16-05-80    3   Even a rare Morning Dew couldn't do much to raise my interest in this show. 
29-05-80    2.5 Not a great source - boomy and cut up. Not that enjoyable on many levels.
30-05-80    3.5 Professional, but even the Playin' jam didn't go anywhere at all. As normal as it gets.
31-05-80    3.5 Alabama followed by Alambama again! High energy at the end but lacking exploration.
05-06-80    4   Surprisingly mellow Terrapin Jam into a decent space. Rest was typical 1980's stuff though.
07-06-80    4   Passenger! (although not a great version). Had some fun elements. Decent 'Saint of Circumstance'.
08-06-80    3.5 UJB > Playin' to open the 1st set! And a cool Eyes jam. All around is average though.
12-06-80    3.5 Set 2 starts with drums. Some jamming was on point, but overall it lacked a little spark.
13-06-80    4   Passenger has no energy. This space has feedback! Jerry out of tune in Alabama.
14-06-80    3   Anonymous first set. Second set wasn't much better, although Stella Blue was good.
19-06-80    3.5 Rare 2nd set Peggy-O. Good show but fails to spark, like a lot of 1980. First Alaska show.
20-06-80    3.5 Pre-drums was great. Duck whistle jam in drums. Around & Around's new arrangement still sucks.
21-06-80    4.5 Despite not hearing this show for 25 years, I still remember parts. Best show of the year?
29-06-80    4   Enjoyed this one, even though it lacked in jams (the normal complaint for this period).
01-07-80    3.5 Possibly the quietest SBD I've ever heard. Overall not so bad. Repetitive set formats though.
16-08-80    3.5 Outdoor festival show. Very easy for these shows to pass over with nothing standing out.
17-08-80    2.5 Lazy Fire jam into drums, and short pre-drums. Lack of excitment post drums, even with a Wheel.
19-08-80    4   Slighty messy Eyes into awesome post-Eyes jam. Nice unusual set list. Playin' reprise!
20-08-80    3.5 Last 2 shows feeling a bit different in the setlists. This still lacks major jamming though.
21-08-80    3.5 Last night of three. 2nd set starts with drums>space. Nothing stunning but another strange setlist.
23-08-80    3   Another back to back Alabama. Shitty aud. Didn't stand out, then again the quality was terrible.
24-08-80    3   Stranger > China > Rider > Drums ?! Bit of a novelty factor re set list, but nothing new here.
26-08-80    3   Mixed up setlists are continuing, but can't make up for the lack of excitement here.
27-08-80    3.5 Good Althea, and they finally got the end to Stranger. Speedy Eyes again. Not so bad.
28-08-80    3.5 Lovely first Bird Song for a few years. Nice jam out of Terrapin. But no other obvious highlights.
29-08-80    3.5 Nice sound quality and enjoyable, but too non-descript. Strange setlists again.
30-08-80    4.5 Finally they start a show with Stranger! Nice 1st set. Best LLR? Cracking 2nd set with high energy.
31-08-80    4   Solid first set. Excellent Comes A Time. Fan rips out Jerry's cables in the encore, causing a Bobby solo.
02-09-80    4   Another Dew - can't complain. Shows have picked up a bit and the setlists are getting better.
03-09-80    3.5 Felt a little phoned in by halfway through the 2nd set. He's Gone out of drums though.
04-09-80    3.5 First mention of Brent on stage in tuning. Strange Supplication jam in 2nd set. Eyes too fast.
06-09-80    3   A LOT of songs in the setlist. Very long show, interesting setlist, but nothing really shines.
25-09-80    4   Acoustic first set. Jerry: "We figured wtf, might as well try". First set makes this a good one.
26-09-80    3.5 Great acoustic set followed by 2 very normal sets, which is similar to the previous night.
27-09-80    4   Bad sound quality. He's Gone > Other One leads to meltdown. Key change in Miracle?
29-09-80    3.5 Heaven Help The Fool in acoustic set. Good Terrapin > Drums > Space, but quality is so-so.
30-09-80    3   Tape sounds quite quiet. Very similar to last few nights. Super slow He's Gone.
02-10-80    4   Band argument after 'To Lay Me Down'. Jerry asks crowd to sing along! 2nd set starts with drums. Mellow.
03-10-80    3   Normal acoustic set. Tiger sounds very bright. Decent Playin'. Not really a good aud.
04-10-80    3.5 Jerry is loving these acoustic sets. Nice 'Let It Grow'. Miracle has the key change again. Long show.
06-10-80    3   Train wreck Terrapin "counting stars...". Not good if all you remember is the major error.
07-10-80    3   Sources are messy on this one. First Shakedown for ages. Again: acoustic set was the best.
09-10-80    4   Mellow, but good for it. Also, this was the first decent sbd of the whole run. Worth a listen.
10-10-80    4   Excellent acoustic set. Real long show. Rare promised land end of set. Sound issues near the end.
11-10-80    3.5 Funky Stranger. The final 2 sets are sucked of energy, even though again the first set was great.
13-10-80    4   Brent is great on piano here. 11th gen SBD! Cool little jam into Samson. Decent post-drums jam.
14-10-80    4   "Hey Jerry, did you like the 8-ball?". Great end to 1st set. Bass solo??? Long show.
18-10-80    3   Breezed past without being particularly noteworthy. Nothing bad, but also nothing that great.
19-10-80    3.5 Jerry said these 2 New Orleans shows were the best of the acoustic run. He's wrong about that.
22-10-80    3   Very quiet aud recording. Everybody sings in set one. Not very exciting, even with audience comments.
23-10-80    4   Good version of the Wheel. Cracking end of second set really. The audience tape was awesome.
25-10-80    3.5 Very loud, energetic crowd even clap along to Black Peter! Octave doubling artifact throughout on vocals.
26-10-80    4   Lovely soundboard. Slow Althea. Whole second set is slow. Bobby adding lots to the Good Loving end.
27-10-80    3   Short 3rd set. Sounds like Jerry is phoning it in. Bad ending of 4 rockers. First set was best.
29-10-80    3.5 Nice but not nice enough. Even the acoustic sets are strating to grate, despite some great banter.
30-10-80    4   Drums with Billy Cobham. Nice little He's Gone minor meltdown. Drums in Drums > Other One are great.
31-10-80    4   Really good acoustic set, maybe the best. Killer space. Rest is a lot more normal.
26-11-80    3.5 Back to 2 sets. Satisfaction encore. Bass solo out of space, but it didn't really lead anywhere.
28-11-80    4   Less Go To Heaven material is better. Nice Let It Grow > Terrapin jam, mainly mellow throughout.
29-11-80    3.5 Live at Alligator Alley. Amazing aud tape. Ridiculous Stella Blue key change. Nice set list.
30-11-80    4   Cooking Deal. Best Playin' for quite a while. End of set 2 has a nice China Doll but lacks energy.
06-12-80    4   Strange single set acoustic for charity. Like the other 1980 acoustic sets but more talking.
12-12-80    3.5 He's Gone for John Lennon. Supposedly Jerry was in tears, but it didn't really move me.
13-12-80    4.5 Nice solid show. Great Scarlet, Playing jam was long for 1980 and Black Peter was good also.
14-12-80    4   Like last night, stand-out space and drums. But the overall show was better last night.
26-12-80    4   Great Cassidy, despite being short. Spanish jam hints. Longish Playing as well.
27-12-80    3.5 Very good Eyes. Shows seem a lot stronger than the summer. SQ very good. Mellow throughout.
28-12-80    3   Seemed a very sleepy show. Always seems to be with the New Years. 3 mins after Terrapin was ok.
30-12-80    3.5 Best Truckin' jam for a long time, but that was the only thing that stood out. Saving themselves?
31-12-80    3.5 A little lazy and lacking in direction. Last acoustic set? Unusual dark space. Subdued show.

26-02-81    3.5 Crazy long He's Gone, but it lacked a little something with the rest of the second set.
27-02-81    3.5 Pig screaming and some dude says 'Hi!' in space. Excellent quality. Just lacking a decent jam.
28-02-81    3.5 Good Let It Grow, also a nice Terrapin. But yet again, merely "nice" and lacks a bit of drive.
02-03-81    3.5 Three Playin's! Very slow Shakedown to start first set. Slightly tired ending to the set.
03-03-81    3   Slow, grinding Deal to close 1st set. Lacks energy throughout, and not in a good way.
05-03-81    3.5 Second set starts with unique jam with no Jerry. That's all stopping it from a 3, to be honest.
06-03-81    3.5 Nice LIG > Deal to end the first set. Nothing major is standing out in early 1981 so far though.
07-03-81    4   Killer first set with 17min+ Bird Song. Interesting 2nd set jam. Energy dies away a bit after drums.
09-03-81    4   Both Estimated and UJB have good jams. Awesome Stella Blue. Very mellow second set.
10-03-81    3   Officially bored of Sailor/Saint now, even this 15 min version. Truckin' tried a jam.
12-03-81    3.5 Nice pre-drums jam of Terrapin > Playin' > He's Gone. But overall again missing some energy.
13-03-81    3   First set better than 2nd. Recently pace has been very similar for a whole show - not good!
14-03-81    3   Jerry riffs on Bach after Other One. Lazy second set apart from maybe the Stella Blue.
20-03-81    3.5 Back to London. Really good Deal. Good example of what was going on at the time, but nothing special.
21-03-81    3.5 Dad's first show. Nice space into NFA. Very similar feel to the previous night.
23-03-81    4   Good overall show with good first set and decent versions of Playin' and Stella Blue.
24-03-81    4   Sound quality just so-so, but a nice mellow jam in He's Gone. Screw up in encore - Jerry says sorry.
28-03-81    3.5 Rockpalast show, notable for that great Sugaree and Pete Townshend appearence. Better on video.
25-04-81    3.5 No Brent or Phil, with added John Kahn. Short acoustic set. Nicely played but not that special.
30-04-81    3.5 Nice Estimated and Shakedown, but speedy Eyes. Show kinda goes downhill shortly into the 2nd set.
01-05-81    3.5 Continuing the long running "nice but not naughty" run of shows lacking bite. Stranger was good.
02-05-81    3.5 Still a little cruising. The NFA was a hint to the future though, with Bobby pushing the audience.
04-05-81    4   Very unfortunate cut in drums space. Good show until post drums. Playin' of the year?
05-05-81    4   Truckin' with a hint of Spanish jam in it. Second set didn't really have a clunker either.
06-05-81    4.5 Bobby Sands He's Gone. One of the very best post '74 jams so far. Rest of show suffers by comparison.
07-05-81    3   Tom Synder TV show. More fun seeing this on video, it is pretty standard stuff with no jams.
08-05-81    4   Awesome setlist. Only 1 hour for first set. As a show, better than 2 nights ago, but lacked a crazy jam.
09-05-81    4   Very messy Eyes, but jam afterwards was good. Great space. Screw up in Brokedown Palace encore.
11-05-81    3   First Brent scat singing in CC Rider. Weakest Playin Reprise I ever heard. Mostly uninspirational.
12-05-81    3.5 Bob Marley He's Gone. This song is THE major jam vehicle nowadays - which is why this is not a 3.           
13-05-81    3.5 Another cracking Deal. First sets these days are very reliable. First Aiko. Good Stella  Blue.
15-05-81    3   Bob Marley inspired Estimated, although this show didn't seem to give any other highlights.
16-05-81    4.5 Spanish jam is short but very good. Second set is better than the first, and a great UJB encore.
17-05-81    3.5 Slightly anonymous compared to the previous night. Unusual but short Other One before drums.
22-05-81    4   Benefit gig with John Kahn on bass. Interesting, with a few semi-decent jams. Kahn blamed for early finish.
02-07-81    3   First Man Smart. Eyes was ok but was too short. Largely unmemorable, except the new song.
04-07-81    4   What a setlist! Excellent Playing', with Bob led guitar jam at end. One more 4th of July.
05-07-81    4   Feelin Groovy jam in Shakedown, first song! Other One also good. Let down by setlist and pre-drums.
07-07-81    3   Except for the firts Dancin' for a while, this show has nothing special. Eyes was fast again.
08-07-81    3   Tape doesn't sound good. Hot Sugar Mag to finish, otherwise lacked a bit of sparkle and fun.
10-07-81    3.5 Weird jammed out post-drums setlist with Bobby ripcording Playin' reprise. Could have been better.
11-07-81    4   A decent Truckin' jam for a change with a touch of Spanish. Best Truckin' of the 80's so far?
13-07-81    3   Lots of vocal errors in Terrapin, on the other hand the best Satisfaction encore to date.
14-07-81    3   2 long jams (Shakedown and Eyes) that don't really go anywhere. Car crash Good Lovin' intro.
12-08-81    4   Best spanish jam and Morning Dew for a long time. Cheesy Truckin' intro got old very fast though.
14-08-81    3.5 I enjoyed the set list and encore but it's not great sq wise and fails to really spark at any point.
15-08-81    3.5 Surprisingly rough aud for the time, probably the worst of the 1980s. Nice jam after Terrapin though.
16-08-81    3   Slightly rough SBD. Short first set. Weird drums with the Pranksters. Lacked a lot of excitement.
27-08-81    3   Note this second set is similar to the last show. Apart from the Cumberland breakout, nothing exciting.
28-08-81    4   Best Wheel ever? No flow though - highlights quite segmented. Spanish jam after drums.
30-08-81    4   Lovely post-drums, very mellow and some good song choices. Other One > Stella Blue is great.
31-08-81    4   Pretty decent first set. Most excellent Playin' > Drums > Space. Slightly messy ending. Needs a good source.
11-09-81    3.5 Joan Baez sings Happy Birthday to Hart. First Greek show. Nice setlist but no stand outs.
12-09-81    4   Killer CC Rider solo - phew! Also a good Shakedown to start the first set, always a good sign.
13-09-81    3.5 Nice show overall, and quite long. GDTRFB and Terrapin jam before Never Trust a Woman were the standouts.
25-09-81    3.5 Nice Bird Song. Possibly worst digi-noise of any soundboard so far. Strange split Sugar Mag at end.
26-09-81    4.5 Crazy second set setlist. Cracking show, from start to finish. Best show of 1981 so far.
27-09-81    4   A good show, although slightly pales in comparison to the previous night. Nice Spanish jam out of space.
30-09-81    3.5 Edinburgh! Not bad for a tour opener in a strange place. Would have been a good show to go to.
02-10-81    3.5 No messing around with this 2nd set, Playin' > Shakedown to open. Just a bit sloppy on the transistions.
03-10-81    3.5 Another good set list. Great space as well, but seemed to lose some energy post drums. A bit standard.
04-10-81    4   Good overall show with a really great jam out of Scarlet that went into Playing territory.
06-10-81    4.5 Blues for Allah jam for Anwar Sadat? Really good Estimated jam. Stella Blue ending is also magnificent.
08-10-81    4   Messy soundboard. Playing > Terrapin, 26 mins of excellence. Really great space as well.
10-10-81    3   Jerry low in the mix for half the first set. Post drums was decent, but that was it. Super fast Eyes as well.
11-10-81    3   Jerry + Bob at the Melkweg. Aud is a little rough and the set is short. Great occasion, so-so as a show.
12-10-81    3   It has a very strange pre-drums setlist, but lacks any exciting moments. First set probably the best.
13-10-81    3.5 Guitars die in Sugar Mag. Jam > Drums > Space > Spanish jam is best part, rest far more standard.
15-10-81    3.5 Oops concert in Amsterdam. An actual bass solo! Sloppy in places but something of interest in there.
16-10-81    3.5 It's a very strange setlist, but pretty short and not as impressive as I thought it should be.
17-10-81    3   Bit weak, except maybe for the end. Band hangover? Jerry seems to sing "US Booze" in the encore.
19-10-81    4   Barcelona. Very unusual solo Jerry before drums. Let It Grow is well worth a listen. Best Sugar Mag?
29-11-81    3   Nice jam after He's Gone but the post drums selection had little no no energy. 1st set is better.
30-11-81    2.5 Mack the knife get stopped after 1 verse. A bit so-so, and most unusual to see a stopped song.
02-12-81    3   Chunk of the 2nd set missing. Better than the last show, but nothing particularly standout.
03-12-81    3.5 Very fast end to Black Peter. Drums was listed but was more like space. Great Baby Blue at the end.
05-12-81    4   A WTF? CC Rider. Short but excellent space. One of the better 81 shows, even if the end lacks a little fire.
06-12-81    4   Nothing wrong with this show, with a really good space, maybe the best of the year. Also good Sugaree.
07-12-81    3.5 Again space was the best part, although nothing wrong with the Truckin' > Nobody's Fault afterwards.
09-12-81    3.5 Excellent China > Rider slightly ruined with Bob cheese. Second set was standard for the time.
12-12-81    3.5 Benefit with Joan Baez. GD only is a single set. Baez part was OK. GD set was "efficient".
26-12-81    4   Day at the dentist space with Eleven jam. Overall a good solid start to the new year run.
27-12-81    4   Bobby's singing extends into the jam in Playin' - which is a good version. Weak end to the show though.
28-12-81    3.5 Great sound quality but slipped a bit from the previous 2 nights. Space was quite structured for a change.
30-12-81    3.5 Solid but unspectacular, and like other years you feel they are holding back a bit for the next night.
31-12-81    4.5 Sheese this is a long show with a crazy setlist. Possibly the best show of the year though. Excellent!

16-02-82    3.5 Rough aud for the time. Sounds decent but hard to get through the murk. Set list was good though.
17-02-82    4   Straight out of the gate, and great quality as well! Good high energy - would reccomend.
19-02-82    3.5 Pretty rocky, and the second set pre-drums was not so exiting. But overall not a bad show.
20-02-82    4   Unique keyboard jam from a long Playin' into drums, also the jamming continued well into the space.
21-02-82    3.5 Pretty rocking through most of the show, but pedestrian in the jams. Best song was the opening Shakedown.  
13-03-82    3   Aside from a slight Dear Prudence jam out of the Other One, nothing much to report on this one.
02-04-82    4   Better than the previous night. Truckin' onwards was really well done and at times unique.
03-04-82    3.5 This Eyes is almost wrong in a strange way. This is also the first NFA chant I heard the audience do.
05-04-82    3.5 Nice jam with the Playin at the start of the 2nd set, but otherwise fairly normal fare for the time.
06-04-82    4   Call-response in Shakedown. Any show of this era with a Dew is normally good, despite a Truckin' whistle.
08-04-82    3.5 Fairly good pre-drums and space. Not a bad little show but it didn't have any real standouts.
09-04-82    3   No jamming to speak of and the tunes are fairly short. At least the Miller board sounds good.
11-04-82    3   First croaky Jerry? Decent Let It Grow, but the rest of the show felt a little phoned in.
12-04-82    3.5 Unusual Iko opener and 2nd set Sugaree. Experimental Estimated Prophet ending. Tiny space tiger. Solid.
14-04-82    3   Set list looked good but Jerry was off the stage less than 25 minutes into the 2nd set. Unspectacular.
15-04-82    3   Bob screw-up in Estimated. Again Jerry slopes off early pre-drums. Hint of MLB! Not the best Dew to end.
17-04-82    3   Jerry is off stage ASAP pre-drums. Band turn around to sing the encore, which is a great version of Baby Blue.
18-04-82    3.5 Phil's Earthquake space show. Nice, Playin', although short. Average, apart from the space and the Playing.
19-04-82    4   Weir "8 bars". Hart: "Don't plan it, you'll forget!". Another Estimated loop-back. "More Nitrous!".
21-05-82    3.5 Short 2nd set. Jerry is off stage after 24 minutes! Nice set list but it lacked surprises.
22-05-82    3   Continuing the trend of not very exciting shows so far this year. The pace needs to change more often.
23-05-82    3   Jerry runs off stage again. Motorbike in space with Mickey directing. The unknown is dissapearing.
28-05-82    3.5 Benefit gig. Pretty bad SBD. Mad drumming. Amusing, but only for the guests. Is Jerry totally out of it?
17-07-82    3.5 Best Truckin' for a while, as it ends the 1st set. Jerry off stage quick again. Annoying Bobby singing.
18-07-82    3.5 Longest song is in first set. Comeback for Crazy Fingers and decent Wharf Rat make this not so bad.
25-07-82    3.5 Above average first set. Slow, groovy Samson. Long Estimated jam, although again pre-drums jam misses Jerry.
27-07-82    4   Really good pre-drums, just Playin' > Terrapin for 30 mins. Decent first set as well. Good show.
28-07-82    4   Agonising St Stephen hint after drums. Decent Phil-led Other One as well. Not quite as good as last night.
29-07-82    3.5 3rd night at Red Rocks. A decent show but I didn't recall any obvious highlights. First set was the best.
31-07-82    3.5 Mellow show. Jerry practically flies off stage pre-drums, so we get another Brent/Bobby jam again.
01-08-82    3   Jerrys 40th. Not bad in places, but the band sound a bit tired. No encore on my version, either.
03-08-82    3.5 He's Gone post drums? Best tunes were Jerry ones, but he has a bad voice for this. Shakedown was good.
04-08-82    3   Shows now have Bob + Brent > Drums > Space when Jerry quits early, as here. No suprises in this show.
06-08-82    3.5 Bob calls out an audience member for first aid notice. Great space. Too furious at the end - 3 rockers!
07-08-82    4.5 Who is Phil Ruth? Grabs from the start. Mad drums. Proper space. Excellent all-round show.
08-08-82    3.5 Estimated screwup. Cippolina as guest adds little. Show couldn't hold up to the previous nights.
10-08-82    3   Stranger was a reasonable start but other than drums space nothing lit me up really. Average.     
28-08-82    2.5 Joke of a start for set 2 after Ken Babbs intro. Largely insipid and the "jam" seem dialled in.
29-08-82    3.5 No space in this short (2h 15) show, maybe tired after the previous night? Let It Grow was good.
05-09-82    4   US festival, start at 9:30. Good for such an early start and a short show. Start was one of the best.
09-09-82    3.5 Massive difference between AUD patch and SBD! Bob bales early in set 1. A bit all over the place.
11-09-82    3   Badly out of tune in TLEO. Another good LIG. Still annoyed about Around & Around changes. No surprises.
12-09-82    3.5 Professional sounding, Phil really low in the mix. PITB not too shabby. Still, lacked that special spark.
14-09-82    3   First sets running for an hour are not uncommon now, as in this show. Not inoffensive, which was the problem.
15-09-82    4.5 SQ sucks a little, but: weirdest first set since 1970? First Touch Of Grey. You can hear Phil. PITB everywhere. 
17-09-82    3.5 Weird singing on first Throwing Stones. Audience "Phil" chant. Too many songs, not enough jams.
18-09-82    3.5 Apparently a Watchtower jam but I missed that. First set seemed cut short. Bobby repeats the birthday gag.
20-09-82    3   A tinkle of colour in the Spanish Jam and a starting Shakedown is usually a good thing, but no excitement here.
21-09-82    3.5 First Stones>NFA. PITB opener. Nice Estimated. Like a lot the period, doesn't flow so well.
23-09-82    3   Is Throwing Stones on every show since in this run? Good on the energy front, but no real flow between songs.
24-09-82    3   Tour ender to a strange tour. I can hear Phil. Weird jam in Throwing Stones. Bob's 5th wedding anniversary!
09-10-82    3.5 "Had her head re-arranged", new lyric in the last 2 Truckin's. Good Eyes, and the Dew was better than the last.
10-10-82    3   Disjointed pre-drums. Certainly no big jams at all. "Vote yes on 12" (freeze Nuclear Weapons). So-so.
17-10-82    3   Aud. Setlist a bit better than recently. Song to song with no jams though. Throwing Stones is still wrong.
26-11-82    3.5 Only show in Jamaica, Sound issues at start. Messy but cool first set. Not bad but a bit short for me.
26-12-82    4   First show with 6 string bass. Great bass sound! Hot China > Rider. Great Eyes. All round good show.
27-12-82    3.5 Scarlet > Fire / Playin pre drums was nice but the set seemed to tail off a lot after that. Average.
28-12-82    3.5 Bass sound has improved since the 6 string. Jerry screws up Shakedown and Terrapin lyrics. Nice encore.
30-12-82    3.5 Unusual 1st set setlist. "Say your piece and piss off?". Nice Stella Blue. Another "not bad" from this run.
31-12-82    3   Tired first set. Deal at end of 2nd set? "Holy fuck, look at all those balloons". Not a good new year show.

25-03-83    3.5 First set messy except for a decent LIG. 2nd set was decent pre-drums. Overall slighty anonymous.
26-03-83    2.5 Can't say any of this really made me appreciate the show. No real jamming and the SQ wasn't great either.
27-03-83    2.5 Messy. Haven't heard any decent Jerry for 2 whole shows. He sounds not with it at all this night.
29-03-83    2.5 3 shows without a SBD, and none of the auds sound decent. Help > Slipknot is nice enough, but can't carry a show.
30-03-83    3   Better quality but still a lack of energy. Really good drums/space. Rare China Doll. Low energy at end.
31-03-83    2.5 Stranger screw-up at end. Not a good setlist pre-drums. Super slow back Throwing Stones. Messy and lazy.
09-04-83    3.5 Jerry's voice has not been good this year. Still, a SBD at last. Nice Help / Slip. Not too shabby a show.
10-04-83    3   Pre-drums was decent enough. Jerry seems a little off tonight though; the mistakes are minor but noticable.
12-04-83    3.5 Decent 1st set with great set-list. Mellow throughout, with excellent sound quality. First NFA end -> encore.
13-04-83    3.5 Long and decent Scarlet Fire. Jerry's voice very croaky. Maybe You Know really cheesy. Post drums was ok.
15-04-83    3.5 Maybe You Know is the worst GD song to date. First Bob Star. Great space. Decent, but room for improvement.
16-04-83    4   With Stephen Stills, who is a good add for the most part. Nice pre-drums jam as well. Decent second set.
17-04-83    4.5 Good Let It Grow and first set. One of the best Playings for a long time. Awesome space. Love the one you're with!
19-04-83    3.5 Long ass Sugaree that failed to stand out. Spanish jam after drums could have gone somewhere.
20-04-83    3.5 Some SBD static. China Rider and the space are decent. Throwing Stones is slowly getting there. Acceptable. 
22-04-83    3.5 This was nearly a 4, since most everything from drums was pretty sublime, missing that 80's "rush".
23-04-83    4   Funny Saint Of Circumstance mess-up. Best Other One for a long long time. Some weird stereo artifacts on the SBD.
25-04-83    3.5 Pretty good feel in the 1st set and nice little pre-drums Playin > Terrapin. Solid but unspectacular.
26-04-83    3.5 NFA chants at the end of shows are becoming the norm. This was a decent show but not a stormer. Good Slipknot.
13-05-83    3.5 First Hell In A Bucket. Shows recently have been very solid but lacking a little; even this, despite a 20 min Eyes
14-05-83    3.5 What a great second set setlist! Short but decent Playin'. Good Morning Dew as well. Just needed a bit more energy.
15-05-83    4   Great first set. Airto, Flora, Cippolina guest. Modern NFA chant. Space, drums, guests and setlist are all good.
18-06-83    4   Setlists recently are great. Hell In A Bucket still has issues. This would be an awesome SBD release.
20-06-83    3.5 This is a wonderful show, but not really for the music. Phil's antics after lightning strikes are fun though.
21-06-83    3.5 Decent Looks Like Rain after last night. Probably the best part of the show. Second set lacks in jams somewhat.
22-06-83    3   Short and not very good first set. Lacked any major sparkle. Playing jam before drums was the highlight.
24-06-83    3.5 § cocaine line is back. Pleasant enough Truckin > Dew post drums but nothing with a lot of meat.
25-06-83    3.5 Jerry seems out of it. Throwing Stones is still slowly getting there. Punchy end to the second set. Average.
27-06-83    3   Lots of auds at the moment. Nothing wrong, but nothing exciting. Setlists have improved over a year or so ago.
28-06-83    4   Another fairly short 1st set, although it wasn't bad. Second set though, not bad at all. Another NFA chant.
30-07-83    2.5 Very swirly aud. China Doll has all the tempos at once. Rushed throughout, no particular highlights.
31-07-83    3.5 Finally a great sounding SBD. Almost a jam out of HIAB. 50 mins post drums! However, it's a bit pedestrian.
20-08-83    3   Shakedown Street set 2 opener and Deal set 1 closer were the best - the rest was average for the time.
21-08-83    3   Second set had a good set-list but overall not a stand-out show. Weird start with a Cassidy opener though.      
26-08-83    3   Distant sounding audience does not inspire. First Wang Dang Doodle out of space? Strange placement.
27-08-83    3.5 Jack Start open and pre-drums was quite nice, the rest a little ho-hum. Although the aud tape was pretty decent.
29-08-83    3   Funky HIAB, and nice seperation on the Shakedown starter. These shows are definitly worse than the spring tour.
30-08-83    4   Intro with Kesey is quite fun. Smoothest ever Terrapin breakdown and re-intro. Throwing Stones good as well.
31-08-83    3.5 Nice Stella Blue (regularly good) and the Playing jam had some decent wah going on, but nothing else stood out.
02-09-83    3.5 What the heck is Weir playing during the Throwing Stones jam? Victim? Messed up Sugar Mag end. Solid show.
04-09-83    4   Great quality soundboard. More botched than normal '83 Around & Around. Generally decent, especially post drums.
06-09-83    4   Red Rocks 83. Help > Slip > Franklins into a Playin sandwich? Yes please! Throwing Stones jams are great recently.
07-09-83    3.5 Eyes hint in a long space. Not a bad show but lacked the highlights and decent setlist of the previous night.
08-09-83    3.5 3rd night at Red Rocks failed to top the first one. Had maybe the best first set though of the run though.
10-09-83    3   Another show where Jerry stage exits pretty fast pre-drums. Cold Rain & Snow encore. A bit subdued in the 2nd set.
11-09-83    3.5 Setlist was pretty good, with a long LiG in the 2nd set AND a Dew as well, but it did not spark for me.
13-09-83    3   Holy 31 min Scarlet > Fire! No Jery ballad post drums either. Maybe unusual, but musically nothing special.
18-09-83    4   Polarising views on archive! Great Terrapin > D/S > Wharf Rat combo. A pretty decent show overall.
24-09-83    3   UJB was fun but overall this was a slightly wimpy show, nothing really punching out and grabbing my attention,
08-10-83    3   A pretty short show (2h 15m in total). Most strange Sugar Mag > Good Lovin intro mix. Quite rushed throughout.
09-10-83    3   Quite the speedy intro into Eyes. All pre drums is rushed. Another short show, 68 mins for the second set.
11-10-83    3   Digital aud. Day Job goes funny. Another short 2nd set, the comeback of St Stephen, although patchy, was the best part.
12-10-83    3.5 First Revolution. Slightly modern-ish drums/space. There is a lack of excitement, except maybe in the H>S>F.
14-10-83    3.5 Trey's first show. Slightly anonymous but decent first set. Epic Scarlet > Fire. No big contrasts in songs though.
15-10-83    3.5 Quality 2nd set setlist. This St. Stephen better than the last one. Decent playing but still missing that something.
17-10-83    3.5 Great first set, average song length > 10 mins! Second set is fairly normal. Jerry sounds out of it - no emotion.
18-10-83    3.5 Energetic start. Great LL > Supplication. China Rider full of energy. Rushed in parts though, especially post drums.
20-10-83    4   Another energy-filled first set. Jerry screws up Samson and the start of Stella Blue, but rest of set is decent.
21-10-83    4   Great pre-drums continues into unique Bob + Jerry mellow guitar-off in space. First chorus for Bob? Decent.
22-10-83    3.5 First set was decent and space was worth it, but the rest was subdued par-for-the-course 1983. A bit short as well.
30-10-83    3   Setlist was nice but the board was flat and lifeless, a little bit like the show. Spoonful jam was ok.
31-10-83    4   Last St Stephen. Drums with Airto - the best guest? It's a decent show, but has no proper jams outside space.
27-12-83    3.5 Jerry seems pretty out of it. Another heck of a 30 min Scarlet > Fire, common in this period. Solid but no more.
28-12-83    3.5 Great first set and opening, the 2nd set is a little lackluster. Good set list though, and high energy to start.
30-12-83    3.5 A MLB jam! Was a bit of a tease though. Another marathon Shakedown. Not as quiet as the usual pre new year shows.
31-12-83    3   Not the best new years. Normal show with an added, messed up third set with unusual guests. Jerry really gone.

28-03-84    3   So-so audience, in a small venue. Weir misses first song of second set. Bad, first, Don't Need Love pre drums. Rushed.
29-03-84    3.5 Glorious 2nd set setlist. Bobby with a ring mod in Rooster? Hard to hear Jerry sometimes. Long space. Solid.
31-03-84    4   Gratuitous echo and reverb on vocal jam out of He's Gone. New effects in space. All the new effects are great.
01-04-84    3.5 Jerry in good voice for a change. Another good space. Tape sounds nice, but overall not as much fun as last night.
06-04-84    3   Black Peter for the death of a fan. Seconds set runs low on energy near the end. Weird Eyes out of Space.
07-04-84    3   Sloppy and lacking in energy pre-drums. Keyboard really out of tune - with ring mod? Spanish jam saves the day.
13-04-84    3   Good SBD, with nice Bird Song in first set. Estimated was actually jammed decently at the outro. Nice bass sound.
14-04-84    3.5 Short show (2h 10m). Good Stranger to start. Brent songs pre-drums don't do it for me. No real screw-ups though.
16-04-84    3   Nice Shakedown to start then the 1st set went to normal. Second set nothing stand-out. Also no howler though.
17-04-84    3   Niagara falls, literally right next to Canada. "Step back" with digital delay. These shows lack any bite.
19-04-84    3.5 Slightly epic Bird Song in first set. Jerry sounds out of it in Terrapin. Great end to Wharf Rat. Overall not bad.
20-04-84    3.5 Good long Let It Grow to end first set. Samson > Drums? Feels like a by-the-numbers show though. Is it an 84 thing?
21-04-84    4   Very decent HSF that goes straight into Playin', ruined by Don't Need Love. Very good Wharf Rat > Stones > NFA
23-04-84    3.5 Bob loses his vioice during HIAB; Jerry sounds doped up. 45 min first set! Only a Fool is truly dreadful.
24-04-84    3   Moderate. Shows are less surprising than 83. They miss "flow". Bob's fight with his voice is still present.
26-04-84    3.5 Another long Scarlet Fire. Almost 60 mins pre-drums, but then another Brent song. Meaty Morning Dew.
27-04-84    2.5 Nice Playin' jam for 10 minutes but nothing else about the show stands out. Bit of yawn, with low energy.
29-04-84    3   Why does Brent insist on doing a number pre-drums? Terrapin has a jam. Nothing stand out in all of 84 so far.
30-04-84    3.5 Excellent Drums > Space. Lacks energy post drums (or is pretty mellow). Throwing Stones had a bit of a crash.
06-05-84    3.5 Low speed first set; 84 so far seems low energy. Touch is all over the place. Decent space. Second set had variety.
07-05-84    3.5 Another good space. In some ways, nearly a 4, but infected with that lack of energy. China Rider is a weird one.
08-05-84    3.5 Nearly fell asleep at the start. Jerry out of it. Space > Other One is decent. Jerry's voice for Dew is very froggy.
09-06-84    4   Brent has a ring modulator. Short first set. Ragged as usual now. From Playin' onwards is pretty decent.
10-06-84    3.5 More energy than recent shows. Unfortunate Don't Need Love after nice He's Gone jam. Good space, as is usual now.
12-06-84    3   Slightly more energy. Scarlet > Touch second time still didn't work. Rest of set was pretty ho-hum.
13-06-84    3.5 Summer 84 is definitly better than spring. Let It Grow into drums is the highlight, but still lacks excitement.
14-06-84    3   Awesome 2nd set setlist. Horrible mess going into first Fantasy. Seemed to be a lot of wasted potential.
21-06-84    3   Encore with Rick Danko. Long, decent Scarlet Fire at the start of the second set failed to carry over.
23-06-84    2.5 84 just seems to lack surprise. Junkie Jerry mostly fails to show. Weird clapping out of space from audience.
24-06-84    4   Jerry hints Dancin' about 15 times. Excellent Minglewood. Playin' > China is great, and post drums retains energy.
26-06-84    4   Casey Jones opener! He's Gone is best jam of the year so far. Even keeps the action going post drums. Best of '84.
27-06-84    4   Good from the start. Long LiG to finish first set. Help > Slip! WDWDIITR a mess. Space > Dew! Solid show.
29-06-84    3   Rough aud for first set. Scarlet > Touch not a hit. Rest of show was normal 84, lacked some of the recent highs.
30-06-84    4   On a tennis court. Excellent pre-drums Shakdown > Playing > Terrapin. Post drums tails a bit. Another 'best 84'!
01-07-84    3   Interesting He's Gone jam for the last few minutes. Rest of the show is "nothing bad", but nothing special either.
03-07-84    3.5 Scarlet > Touch > Fire best so far, before Don't Need Love appears pre-drums. Post drums is less exciting.
04-07-84    3.5 Weird humming in FOTD. Help > Slip and He's Gone had stuff to offer. The latter was for the death of a fan.
06-07-84    3.5 2 songs take up last 28 mins of first set. Best Mr Fantasy so far. Around & Around is a total train wreck.
07-07-84    3   Pre-drums had an interesting Playing > China Doll. First real Lovelight for ages. But generally pretty average.
13-07-84    4   Dark star encore! Rest of show is middling (though good SQ) quality. Dark Star though is good and worth a listen.
14-07-84    3   Some great Phil here. Pretty mellow throughout, although it meanders into forgettable territory sometimes.
15-07-84    4   First set is ok, but second is pretty decent. Jerry stays for Don't Need Love; Double encore. Phil speaks!
21-07-84    3.5 Finally the Brent song is not pre-drums. Competent throughout, sounded nice but really lacked excitement.
22-07-84    3.5 Dancin' is the new opener. Jerry's voice a little better recently. Nice transition from space to Dew. Solid.
05-10-84    3.5 Long China > Rider (14 mins). Double intro of Sugar Mag. This is better than spring. Jerry says a word!
06-10-84    3   Aside from a jammy China Doll, this show has no stand-outs, and the sound quality is only so-so. Missable.
09-10-84    3.5 Jack Straw in the 2nd set? Really nice LiG. Unusual set-list. Post drums loses the excitement a little.
11-10-84    3.5 15 min Shakedown to start! Spaciest Playin' for years, with feedback before drums. Dodgy post drums though.
12-10-84    4   Jack-A-Roe for Phil? Gets serious after Don't Need Love. Great Uncle John's. Sound quality dips in second set.
14-10-84    3.5 First set Miracle. 20 minute Eyes! Vocal effects OTT in Throwing Stones (which has first (?) standard chords in jam).
15-10-84    3.5 Slighty perkier first set than usual. Second set Scarlet > Fire > Playin' is 50 minutes long! Samey jamming.
17-10-84    3   Another "quite good" first set. Long Terrapin. Slightly rushed post drums. Whistle for Truckin is awful loud.
18-10-84    3.5 Good Stranger opener. Actually has a nice set-list but lacks unusual elements. Nice digital effects in space.
20-10-84    3.5 Nice Smokestack into a short jam and a very short drums. Post drums is by the numbers. Lovelight back in the mix.
27-10-84    3   Wang Dang Doogle in 2nd set. Don't Need Love pre-drums. Brent's Truckin' intro kills me. GDTRFB intro train wreck.
28-10-84    3.5 Short but sweet first set. Mixed dipped in second set but not bad. Crowd try NFA chant but get it wrong.
30-10-84    3   Another short first set. Slips to slightly ropey aud for much of the second set. Too much delay in the space(!).
31-10-84    3   Matt Kelly and "Ain't Superstitous" are nice. Great bird noises in space. Definitly needs some more excitement.
02-11-84    2.5 Short, iffy first set. H>S>F is messy. Wharf Rat pre-drums? Good Lovin very messy. Chaotic everywhere, underwhelming.
03-11-84    2   Worst first set for a long long time. Not 1 normal song pre-drums! Embarrassing, slighty better post drums.
28-12-84    3   Mercifully better than the previous show. First Tons Of Steel and (bad) Day Tripper. Nothing stands out.
29-12-84    3.5 Playin' > Drums > Space is 45 minutes long! Easily the best Playin' of 1984. Rest is quite pedestrian though.
31-12-84    4   Crazy Shakedown opener. Throwing Stones jam is now complete. Show is out the door like a rocket, eases off later on.

18-02-85    3   Mixed up setlist. Up and down all over the place. GDTRFB into drums? Needed more stability (and more jams, of course).
19-02-85    3   Flanger on some vocals. Split Women / Aiko / Women, but it lacks any fizz. Not wrong, but little to salvage that shines.
20-02-85    2.5 Bob's voice is shot. Day Tripper is terrible. Start of second set is ok, but the fizzle dies early. Bob speaks Chinese.
09-03-85    3.5 Voices much better. Features a really good space / Twilight Zone exploration. Very little jaming outside this though.
10-03-85    3   Not a great aud. Minor MLB jam out of Smokestack pre-drums, but everything else a little lazy and lacking in bite.
12-03-85    2.5 Really short show. Playin' was long but didn't go anywhere interesting. No real direction after the second song.
13-03-85    3.5 Hot Deal to close enjoyable first set. Estimated solo was rocking. Second set was enjoyable, lacked killer touch.
21-03-85    4   Arrives in a hot swirl of dolby and warble. Best first set for a long time. Nice Playin', and a decent show.
22-03-85    3.5 Great tape for audience reactions. Another Scarlet > Hell. Decent space. Not bad, previous night was better though.
24-03-85    3   Another up-tempo first set. Second set was solid but rather flat throughout. Nice, but really needed more nasty.
25-03-85    3   Pre drums had a decent setlist that was well executed, but it lacked an edge, or some fizz. Post drums getting shorter.
27-03-85    3   First Phil song since 1974 (?). Half Step is back. Most of the show is pretty rushed. Total car crash Touch encore.
28-03-85    3.5 Truckin' opener! Good first set. Wierd LLR jam into drums. Better than last year, but not consistent over the whole show.
29-03-85    3   Solitary Supplication jam in first set. Weird second set setlist pre-drums. Quite good energy but low on jamming.
31-03-85    3   Seems stuck in the same groove. First set was anonymous. Unexpected post-drums playing saves the day a little. Not great.
01-04-85    3   Similar to the previous night - consistency in areas you want inconsistency. Phil sings again. Weird end to NFA.
03-04-85    3   Second set Terrapin open has promise but then it devolves to strict 10 minute songs; common in this era. So-So.
04-04-85    3   Crazy Fingers started in double time! Pretty rocking GDTRFB into drums. 85 is messing with setlists, doesn't always work.
06-04-85    3.5 Jerry's voice is pretty bad tonight. 4 songs before drums not too bad tonight, but lack gusto. Energy better after drums.
07-04-85    3.5 Short but decent first set, with good Bird Song. Second set setlists weirder, but not always better. Post drums not bad.
08-04-85    3.5 Jerry's voice is getting worse! Strange but not bad first set. Nothing in second set runs over time, except maybe Lovelight.
13-04-85    3.5 Decent but short Playin' jam. A bit better than previous shows (even the Truckin' was decent). Weird start to Sat Night.
14-04-85    3.5 Definitly getting better but not getting there yet. Decent space, but lacked intensity outside this. Not bad though.
27-04-85    3.5 Stunning board. Very tight and enjoyable first set. Second set is pleasent and lacks adventure. Seques are nice though.
28-04-85    3.5 Another good first set. Triple Playin' jam in second set, which has a great flow. Nearly a 4, but lacks something.
14-06-85    3   20th anniversary shows. Nice to see Stagger Lee back. Unusual Dew to start second set but lacked much of musical interest.
15-06-85    3.5 Jerry's voice better than the spring. These 84 shows have some strange songs but lack flow in between them. Awesome encore.
16-06-85    3.5 Solid but unsurprising first set. First Cryptical for ages doesn't do anyhting special. First MIDI space is interesting.
21-06-85    3.5 The score is for the decent Estimated > Eyes pre drums; although the transition ionto GDTRFB was also decent.
22-06-85    3   Nothing special in this show. New Half-Step is too fast and there is no jamming in the second set. Anonymous.
24-06-85    3   Bob: "The raffle winner gets to hold the rhythm section hostage". This show has too many short songs in both sets.
25-06-85    3.5 Pretty decent attempt at a Playin' jam, though it failed to really space out. Too many short songs all over again.
27-06-85    3.5 Weird but decent first set. Great Stranger > Eyes transition. Unfortunatly, This seems the year of the ripcord. Good end.
28-06-85    3.5 Finally, a second set with some lengthy songs. Great MNS. Bit less bitty than the last few shows but still a bit average.
30-06-85    3.5 First MIDI from Brent in CC Rider? Decent Shakedown, but not the best. New effects in space, decent Stella Blue. Nearly a 4.
01-07-85    3.5 Decent setlist could not hide the lack of exploration. 1985 seems more professional but less on the ragged edge.
02-07-85    3   Quite short for both sets. Terrapin before drums is the highlight at 13 minutes long. Lovely car crash in Brokedown Palace.
13-07-85    3   Bizarre Sat. Night > Fire opener. Again in 1985 the changes are more in the setlist than in the music. Nasty static on SBD.
14-07-85    3   Eyes managed to sneak over the 10 minute line. End of drums and into space was good (although drums cut). Short on improv.
24-08-85    3   Infamous Boreal Ridge show. PA has many issues. Car crash HIAB is great. Not entirely dreadful, but not a great show.
30-08-85    3.5 Much less issues than the previous show. Quite "clean"; practically no adventure at all. Nice Good Lovin and Dew though.
31-08-85    3.5 The best audio is a pretty windy aud unfortunatly. Highlights were the LiG, Estimated and the encore. Nothing exceptional.
02-09-85    3.5 Decent energy opener. Killer bass in Uncle (!). Great Playin' and an averted Don't Need Love. Show could not sustain itself.
03-09-85    3   Cryptical > Other One > Cryptical in 11 minutes; sad. Both songs have slipped over the years. No particular highlights.
05-09-85    3.5 Unusually un-modern (for '85) setlist. Car crash Brokedown Palace encore. Mostly nicely done, except for no surprises at all.
06-09-85    3   Only 2 hours of music - including Healy's burp! Are they saving themselves for the next night? Nothing unusual, tired in places.
07-09-85    3.5 Opens with Bob madness. Very unusual Sat night to close 1st set. Decent overall second set. Still can't climb to a 4 though.
10-09-85    3   Awful car-crash Brent tune before drums. Almost got jammed, it went so haywire. Rest is normal 85, and speedy after drums.
11-09-85    3   Promised land in middle of first set? Second set is transparently without jamming. Space was not bad. Lacks adventure.
12-09-85    3.5 Above average setlist. Last H>S>F for a few years. About as good as 85 goes; nothing particularly standout, but well played.
15-09-85    4   Around > D/S > US Blues? A very strange show with regard to setlists, and decent for it. Super short post drums.
25-10-85    4   Deal opener? Dew opener? Not bad up until the car crash Sugar Mag. Better than others of this era, but had more potential.
26-10-85    3   Gimme Some Lovin' opener. Brent song pre drums kills the mood. Post drums was decent, overall lacks in excitement.
28-10-85    3   Scarlet > Touch again. This one really floated over me, although none of it was especially bad; a normal 1985 complaint.
29-10-85    3.5 Lost Sailor > Saint eats up jam time from second set. Good Crazy Fingers into long 9 minutes jam. Rest as expected.
31-10-85    4   Opens with Space > Werewolves! Short, but probably the best second set of 1985 so far. 2nd set has a great setlist.
01-11-85    3.5 Decent first set leads to 3 Jerry ballads pre drums. Sailor Saint split over drums. Unusual song choice to set 2 as well.
02-11-85    4   Pretty decent first set with nice Let It Grow. Second set has a great setlist. Best Dew for a long time. Decent show.
04-11-85    3.5 It's not a bad show, but the setlist looks so 1977 it can't help but fail by comparison. Bob spits out Cocaine.
05-11-85    3.5 Are the setlists the best thing about 1985? Bird Song with birds. Nice show overall, but needed just that little something.
07-11-85    3.5 12 songs in the first set! Rare Let It Grow into drums. Throwing Stones > NFA is now well established. Average for the time.
08-11-85    4   Nobody has a birthday! Really good space with weird sounds morphs into Other One with flanged voices. Great end to the show.
10-11-85    4   Excellent Stranger to end the first set. High energy pre-drums. Short on adventure but put together well as a whole.
11-11-85    3.5 Another early Deal. Decent ending trio for the first set. One of those shows that was nice but not at all naughty.
16-11-85    3   Muddy SBD. Strange pre-drums setlist. 2nd set starts with Tennessee Jed? Unfortunatly, a bit phoned in. Longest song in 1st set.
17-11-85    3   Brent slips another song in pre-drums. Why oh why? Rest of the show has no particular highlights, although encore is nice.
20-11-85    4   High Time in 1st set. Rare Sailor > Saint. Terrapin has jam of the year but Brent rams in "Don't Need Love" after 18 minutes.
21-11-85    4   Setlist of the year? Great Playing in the 2nd set. Second set is pretty good except last few songs. Is this encore unique?
22-11-85    3.5 Really short show - 2h 11m total. Excellent SBD. First set is pretty nice, second set is also not bad, just lacks invention.
30-12-85    3   Unusual opener but par for the course 1st set. Second set has that 'night before new year' trope of taking it easy.
31-12-85    3   Audience kick things off in the first set, but that is all of note in this most restrained new years show. Disappointing.

08-02-86    3   First Chinese new year show? Only 2hr 5m long. Slow first set. Playin' tries something of interest but otherwise so-so.
09-02-86    3   These shows keep getting shorter! Tired first set. Other One in set 2 is semi-decent for a change.Still no stand-outs though.
11-02-86    3   Second set largly with the Nevilles. Iko with key change? Nevilles add energy, but also too many drummers. Saved by the encore.
12-02-86    4   Post drums also with the Nevilles. Spacey Estimated jam. Crikey, a real bass player on stage. Hand Jive is great.
14-02-86    3   Jerry tries Lost Sailor > Terrapin but the band doesn't follow. Had no real meat to hang anything onto. Lovelight was ok.
19-03-86    3.5 First Visions of Johanna. Unfortunatly, even the board is shitty. Long and decent Playing. Weird middle to Truckin'.
20-03-86    3   Box Of Rain! Kudos to Brent who has a keys/drums jam instead of a song. Nothing much else to get fired up about.
21-03-86    3   A WTF? Let It Grow intro. Super-speedy Terrapin. Playin reprise into drums? Contains surprises, just not alays good ones.
23-03-86    3   Hand Jive much worse without the Nevilles. Wolf howling in Other One. Will the Other One ever go large again? Clean but mild.
24-03-86    3.5 Last Sailor Saint (!). Only one song out of space? Short show again. Phew, what a DEW! Likely best ending since 74.
25-03-86    2.5 Jeez the second set is full of short songs. First Desolation Row, it's already too long. Not really bad, more boring.
27-03-86    3   Supplication jam in first set. Only Hamstring Blues. Bob horrifically out of tune on Eyes. A bit better post drums.
28-03-86    3.5 Short but fairly sweet jam before drums. Get it for the flow, even though songs now are generally always 10 mins max.
30-03-86    3   Meant to be full of energy but I didn't find that. Gimme Some Lovin tease after drums was only thing of note.
31-03-86    3   Cut short because a thrown bottle went through Billys kick drum. Decent Comes A Time. Some silly songs spoil this.
01-04-86    3   Nice fat set on paper, but played a bit too fast and with little conviction. Shows recently are more and more samey.
03-04-86    2.5 Bobby just as loud as Jerry for a change! First set has longish songs but no jams. Boring Playing jam, Brent before drums.
04-04-86    2.5 Worst Jack Straw to start? Jerry seems to have no energy. Rough first set. Foolish Heart riff pre-drums? Is this the future?
12-04-86    2.5 Sounds like Brent has some new MIDI sounds. Sounds like Jerry is almost not there. He has no spark at all in these shows.
13-04-86    3   Desolation Row is too long. Jerry bales halfway through Terrapin, letting Brent in with Don't Need Love. Encore was ok.
18-04-86    2.5 Super rare That's Alright Mama (which is truly dreadful) in 10 song first set. Nothing at all stood out in the 2nd set.
19-04-86    4   2 songs pre-drums; 1 is a 15 min Playing. Long, but doesn't seem to go anywhere. Very mellow space. Clearly best of '86.
21-04-86    2.5 Brent has a skinful or three in the set break. Crazy breakdown, with Jerry rescuing things. Truly a unique dead show!
22-04-86    3   Good start to the first set and decent Bird Song. WTF is Brent playing in China Cat? Mellow half-jam out of Terrapin.
03-05-86    3.5 Short but sweet. Shows this year are way more up and down, and Jerry is often mixed low. Jerry's amp dies on the last note!
04-05-86    4   Seems to start with last nights encore. Really good Playin' jam - 15 minutes long. Faltered a bit towards the end.
10-05-86    3   Didn't have the lows of some recent shows but missed the minor highs as well. Let It Grow was probably the best moment.
11-05-86    3.5 Phil and Jerry speak at the start! Best 80's Dancin' in first set? Low energy in the second set. Strange double encore.
20-06-86    2.5 Bob introduces the band at the end in a cheesy way, the best thing about this show. Space was boring and Quinn is getting old.
21-06-86    3   Clifford Stoll was here. Almost ambient drums > space. Saint with no Sailor. Like a lot of 86, Jerry seems lethargic.
22-06-86    3   Second set opens with Fire On The Mountain! Quite a lot of songs and not short but it seems the band are done by the 2nd set.
26-06-86    2.5 One long set, which is nearly 2 hours long. Worst aud for a long, long time. Really, nothing at all stood out here.
28-06-86    3.5 Second set looks good on paper, and pre-drums is definitly quite nice. Unfortunatly rest of the show is more normal '86.
29-06-86    3   Less than 2 hours total for this show! Something is not right when Jerry goes for the big solos. Eyes is both fast AND short.
30-06-86    3   All the energy is at the start of these shows. This wasn't terrible, except maybe for song choice. No surprises.
02-07-86    3   Dylan joins for part of set 1 (not great). Jerry misses 10 minutes of set 2 (not bad). Overall though, nothing exciting.
04-07-86    3   Farm Aid show. Pretty much all short songs. Stand-alone Fire was pretty good. Fast paced and ragged throughout.
06-07-86    2.5 Too fast and too messy, although Let It Grow had a try at decency. Sloppy, bad audience tape and lacking in energy.
07-07-86    3   Again with Dylan for 2 songs, who plays the worst guitar ever at a Dead show. Jerry doesn't sound too bad on Wharf Rat.
15-12-86    3   Comeback show. It was a bit tighter than recently and had 2 new songs, but I wouldn't call it a classic show. So-so.
16-12-86    3   Slightly better than last night, still had that more professional feel, but nothing really stood out except Sugaree.
17-12-86    3.5 A decent length 2nd set at long last. This definitly has a better flow about it. Best show of the 3, decent throughout.
27-12-86    3.5 Sounding much better than the summer. A better band, even if the jams are not there. Playing sandwich for the whole show!
28-12-86    3.5 Slightly shorter, as if the band are getting ready for the new year shows again. Nothing outstanding, but overall decent.
30-12-86    3   Has 3 drums listed + Olin Arrageed! Ballads have got better on the comeback. Band cohesion is noticably better this tour.
31-12-86    3.5 Short 3rd set mixes things up a little. Jerry's voice a lot better than the summer. Still waiting for the jams though.

28-01-87    2   Bobby struggles to sing Get Back. Second set is a real clunker, possibly worst Eyes ever. Jerry forgets words everywhere.
29-01-87    2.5 Bobby struggles all evening since Otis just died. Jerry is better than last night, but that's not saying much.
30-01-87    3   Bob horrifically out of tune at points. 87 is slowly getting better but this was worst start to a year I remember.
01-03-87    3   Good Let It Grow in first set. Songs are starting to get longer again, and there are more, but it still lacks overall.
02-03-87    3.5 Shaky start to Jack Straw. SBD's recently are fantastic. Decent Stranger and Estimated, rest a bit muted. Not too bad.
03-03-87    3   Iko with horns, initially very messy. Nothing really else stood out in this show, to be honest - it was quite pedestrian.
22-03-87    3   First east coast show since the coma. Awful SBD. Unusual Sugar Mag sandwich for second set, but no real highlights.
23-03-87    3.5 Another board that sounds like an aud. Big River has an excellent Mydland solo. Good energy. Strong Eyes hint in space.
24-03-87    4   Energy from the off. Not a fan of these Healy ultra-mixes. High energy Terrapin. Great intro to Fantasy. A good show!
26-03-87    4   Either the mix or the sound system has changed since Summer 86 - for the better. Great first set, and decent energy all over.
27-03-87    3.5 What gives with these SBDs? Post drums short but sweet, UJB > Dew. Not a bad show, except for a screwup in Dew by Jerry.
29-03-87    3.5 This spring tour has loads of energy - it's off the charts here. Playing' was the best, setlist was like 86 but higher energy.
30-03-87    3.5 Really excellent first set. He's Gone dragged a bit, but one of the best Throwing Stones and a decent post-drums.
31-03-87    4   Jerry really tries to twist the jam out of Estimated. Best Aroundx2 since the 70s? Like a steamroller to the head.
02-04-87    3.5 These shows are great in the energy department but they could do with a touch more jamming. Eyes is too short here.
03-04-87    3   Samson into drums is weird. Short Drums / Space. Other One starts with a semi-Spanish jam. Not as good as recent shows.
04-04-87    3   Energy a bit lower in this show. Still suffering from the "songs too short in second set" syndrome. Not a good Dew.
06-04-87    4   Holy shit what a Jack Straw solo! Terrapin out of space? Not a bad one though. Even other One got a little funky.
07-04-87    3.5 Great HIAB technical screw-up. Little Slipknot riff in space. Little bit less exciting than recent shows, but not bad.
09-04-87    3.5 Second set has a great playlist but's more of a tease, especially the 30 second Playing reprise. Overall, not so bad.
10-04-87    3   Energy from start of tour seems weakened by now, or perhaps it was just last night. First set better than the second.
11-04-87    3   Almost like 2 first sets; the curse of 1985 still extends it's hand. Space and the encore were the best parts of the show.
17-04-87    3   87 so far has islands of high energy shows but this is not one. Truckin falls flat, Jerry's voice falters and no jams.
18-04-87    3   Longish tuning melody in first set. Let It Grow not bad. Promoter warning after first set. Unfinished Dew!?! Not good.
19-04-87    3   Strange second set list (Muddy > Miracle > Cumberland > Drums ?). Nearly an Other One sandwich post drums. Recently lackluster.
02-05-87    3.5 Unusual Sat Night to end set 1. Good outro from space which was almost correct. Yet another Dew - and a decent one.
03-05-87    4   Bobby high in the mix. It's a killer sound and I enjoyed almost all of it. Fun tuning in the first set as well.
09-05-87    3   Rare Sugar Mag sandwich for show. Great Mexicali - Bob very clear. Brent: "I hope my bass player can give me some slack".
10-05-87    3.5 Bobby "way too fucking slow" in Man Smart. Decent Stranger in first setlist. Playin' post drums. Had potential. 
12-06-87    3.5 One of the better late China Riders. Brent has new violin sound. Overall nothing outstanding but it was a decent show.
13-06-87    3.5 Decent setlist. Pity The Other One is now a 5 minute post drums filler. Show was good but could have brought more fire.
14-06-87    3.5 Good, if predictable, post drums. Monkees in space. Throwing Stones always has the usual format now. Solid, unspectacular.
19-06-87    4   LSD warning at start of show. Great first set. Decent space as well. Not a great setlist but all the energy was there.
20-06-87    3   Weird second set start and pre-drums list. Deal > Drums? More song based than jam based. First Watchtower was ok enough.
21-06-87    4   Rare (now) Alabama opener. Brent's voice is gone. Unusual setlist, but done well. Masterpiece WTF. Best NFA for a long time.
26-06-87    3.5 No SBD for a change. Whale song pre-drums out of Eyes. High energy almost all of post-drums. Needed more exploration though.
27-06-87    3.5 Good Let It Grow. Setlist for set 2 is fantastic. Good drums. Good show overall, but lacked a special moment somewhere.
28-06-87    3.5 Very weird non-sung ending to what could have been a good Dew. Everything seems good again, just lacks the adventure.
30-06-87    3.5 Crowd very lively for Good Lovin' sing along. Energy is great again. The curse of 87 seems unwillingness to explore.
02-07-87    3.5 These shows have far more energy than recent years but lack inventivness. Enjoying the Muddy River encores though.
04-07-87    3   First Dylan + Dead show. Jerry on pedal steel! It's more Dylan than Dead though. Kinda glad there's only 6 at this point.
06-07-87    3   Pre-drums with the Nevilles (who always do the same songs). Sounded like more fun on stage - a strange Dead show.
07-07-87    3.5 Great Morning Dew was a welcome return to "normal Dead". 2 shows away and I'd already missed them! Still no real jamming.
08-07-87    3.5 Roanoke. Remember this one being well liked when it came out. Fullt of energy, happy sounding, no big jams - all 87.
10-07-87    3.5 1st and 2nd sets condensed. 3rd set with Dylan again. Better set than the last one, despite the Queen Jane car crash.
12-07-87    3   Dew to open short 2nd set. Third show with Dylan. Suffers from the band holding back because of the third set.
19-07-87    3   Again the GD seem to lack a bit of sparkle because of having to do 3 sets. Dylan sets starting to sound the same.
24-07-87    4   5th Dylan show! Longest Funinculi? Rare Scarlet > Playing. Dead ripping with energy. Possibly best Dylan set so far.
26-07-87    3   A semi-decent Other One. Longest Dylan set so far. This had different songs from the others, but previous night was better.
11-08-87    4   Great Crazy > Samson. Pre-drums is really well done. Slightly unusual setlist, and all the better for it; a decent show.
12-08-87    3.5 Nice end to set 2. Not as good as the previous night though. Energy good but more subdued than the spring. Standard 87.
13-08-87    3.5 All 3 of this run have been solid. He's Gone for a dead fan was heartfelt. Lacked in energy but made up in majesty.
15-08-87    4   Solid show and a good run post-drums. Another good Dew, seems common in this period. Another good set-list as well.
16-08-87    3.5 There's just a sense of fun in these shows that recent years have lacked. Good space here, and best ever encore screw up.
18-08-87    3   Promising setlist but the PITB was a bit lazy and nothing really gelled that strongly. Didn't do it for me.
20-08-87    3   Decent tunings, a long first set and a hit list of songs post drums are the ingredients, but this didn't no anything for me.
22-08-87    3.5 End of first set with Santana - laid back but not bad. Great HIAB, but after that died a bit. Still, Santana made it unique.
23-08-87    3.5 Again with Santana in the 1st set. Good looking setlist. Double encore. On paper looks great, but it could have been more.
07-09-87    3.5 First La Bamba since forever. Typical 87 show: energy is decent, playing is there but simply no real jams at all.
08-09-87    3   Unusual Fire on it's own. Show is mainly ok, suffers from a dip in energy after drums. Promised more that it delivered.
09-09-87    3   Brent opens with Hey Pocky Way. Devil with a blue dress? Nice mellow Playin'. Second set is really short, only an hour!
11-09-87    3.5 Shows seem to be getting a little shorter again. Mickey's birthday has a great setlist but falls over on the jams again.
12-09-87    4   Great first set. Second set was no slouch either. Another good Morning Dew, and a double encore to follow.
13-09-87    3.5 Super-rare cover of Fever. Good setlist for second set, but lacked energy until the end. Another version of La Bamba.
15-09-87    4   First set has equipment problems. Great Eyes in 2nd set - best for a long time. These shows are pretty decent.
16-09-87    4   Scarlet 2nd song in first set? Jerry goes wild in Wharf Rat. Excepting the "Blue Dress", another good 87 show.
18-09-87    4   Good Watchtower, Masterpiece and another GL > La Bamba > GL. More aggressive than usual Bird Song. Great Dew, solid.
19-09-87    4   Excellent pre-drums, but drums is better! Best drums that I ever recall. Really really badly cut into Maggies Farm.
20-09-87    3.5 Starts with 2 tuning riffs! High energy pre-drums but it lacks a bit post drums. Not at the heights of recent shows.
22-09-87    3   Spencer Davis guests for Good Lovin', adds little except for vocals. Pleasant enough but generally a weak show.
23-09-87    3.5 Had a good setlist but the shows seem to have calmed down a bit since the start of the month. High energy end to the show.
24-09-87    3.5 Jerry's voice is not so good. For a change Other One goes over 6 mins. Slight strange setlist but no major highlights.
02-10-87    3.5 Is LiG the best song for jamming in the first set? Maybe. Great Watchtower. Weird last song. Decent drums/space.
03-10-87    3.5 Really good Bird Song but the second set was more anonymous than recent shows. Lots of Adams Family tune-ups recently.
04-10-87    3   Pretty short, and largely anonymous. A mere 6 minutes for pre drums Eyes? Also, Good Golly Miss Molly is terrible.
06-11-87    3.5 Standards have slipped since earlier this year. This show is not bad, just lacks the unusual. Interesting Scarlet > Hell.
07-11-87    3.5 Overall a slighty better show than a few recent ones. Setlist was really good, could have had a bit more fire.
08-11-87    3   Another 9 minutes Other One, but this show mainly relies on too many short songs in the second set. A common 1987 trait.
14-11-87    3.5 Opens with a 13 minute Shakedown. Show is pretty short again compared to spring summer. Great Lovelight false ending.
15-11-87    3   November shows are patchy compared with earlier this year. So-so setlist and no real highlights, even with a Dew.
27-12-87    4   Awesome pre drums selection. Drops off a bit post drums but it's still worth a listen. Decent Quinn encore as well.
28-12-87    3   Has to the worst pre-drums selection for a time. First set and post drums saves it somewhat but not the best show.
30-12-87    3.5 Not a bad show for a pre new years. The Dew could have been better and the jams were short. Best was the first set LiG.
31-12-87    3   3rd set with the Nevilles. Rest sounds like a fairly normal show for the period, albeit with no major highlights.

13-02-88    3   First set ends with Loser? Seemed to be a bit of a warm-up for the start of the year. Short, strange post Good Lovin jam.
14-02-88    3   Fairly normal show. Space was quite nice. Recently setlists have become more predictable; also there is still a lack of jamming.
16-02-88    3   Competent but as usual for the era lacking in any form of jamming. Also really short, second set is only ~75 minutes.
17-02-88    3   Bog standard show showing the more mundane parts of 1987. Songs decent enough, but missing big energy and jamming.
16-03-88    4   Really solid first set. Decent Playing for the period. Pre-drums has jamming! Big improvement from the February shows.
17-03-88    3.5 First Fantasy > Hey Jude. Not as good as the previous night, but overall not bad and the Hey Jude was definitly a plus.
18-03-88    3.5 Fairly normal show for the period. The NFA at the end was probably the best for a while though, Jerry went off a little bit.
24-03-88    3   End of first set is nice, and a decent Half-Step to start the second. Rest of second set couldn't match it though.
26-03-88    3.5 Weird Stir It up in first set. Decent, very active, space. Pre-drums was mellow but not bad. Post drums more predictable.
27-03-88    4   Most bizarre start to a second set for a long long time. Eyes needs to move away from pre-drums. Nice surprises in this show.
28-03-88    3.5 Messy Stranger end. End of first set is much better (BS > Music). Second set is less surprising. NFA with no chant!
30-03-88    3.5 Second set setlist looks awesome on paper. Shakedown has lost an edge over the years. Decent Dew but skimped on jamming.
31-03-88    3.5 Consistent LiG quality recently. Strange exit from space. Post drums, longest song was 4:24! Major car crash in Watchtower.
03-04-88    4   Tunings are off the hook. Great To Lay Me Down. Nicely jammed Estimated. Best Other One for a while. Patchy in places.
04-04-88    3.5 Jerry's voice is bad due to a cold. Vocal jams out of LLR are getting boring. Good Stella Blue and high energy end.
05-04-88    4   Louie Louie from Brent. Best Smokestack Lightning ever, bar none. Decent from that point on, with a lot of energy.
07-04-88    3   Best Around x 2 - at end of first set - for years was still only average. Setlist looks good on paper kind of show.
08-04-88    3   Another decent setlist but Jerry has sounded out of sorts for the last few shows. Passable, space was pretty OK.
09-04-88    3   Unusual Big Boss Man opener. Hey Jude seems in place now. Another LLR pre-drums second set. Fairly ho-hum, like last night.
11-04-88    3.5 To Lay Me Down song of the tour. Decent first set. Jerry's voice better, and overall improvement from the previous week.
13-04-88    4   Interesting Sugar Mag / Playing duel sandwich show. Show definitly peaks in the white-hot Morning Dew. Reccomended.
14-04-88    3   Nice Bird Song at the end of the first set but nothing else about this show stood out. A bit by the numbers for my taste.
15-04-88    3   Scarlet > Fire to open the first set? Apart from that opener, there was nothing special. Post-drums was all short songs.
22-04-88    3.5 Like a lot of this run it is acceptable with no errors, but it needs something more - mainly in the jamming department.
23-04-88    3.5 There's some good setlists on this tour and it seems free of errors but the jam level seriously needs to up a notch.
24-04-88    3.5 Quality Bird Song at end of 1st set. Yet another LLR > Terrapin pre drums. Must say post-drums recently has got samey.
30-04-88    3.5 First LTGTR. Better pre-drums than recently. China > Rider and 3 song encore was a nice surprise. Again, almost no jamming.
01-05-88    3.5 Nice relaxed first set. Post-drums is yet another O1 > Wharf > TS > NFA. Needs some more variety in this spot.
17-06-88    3.5 Unusually, no SBD for this show. Decent space and pretty high energy post drums. Pity about the sound quality though.
19-06-88    3   These shows are getting really short on the jamming front. This rips through the songs with the exception of Bird Song.
20-06-88    3   First Blow Away? Shows are reminding me a bit of 1986, but with less setlist variation. Tiny tiny DS hint at end of Other One.
22-06-88    3.5 Unusually, no SBD. Sounds like Jerry doesn't know the new Brent song. Stella Blue major car crash; crushes the solo though.
23-06-88    3.5 Alpine SBD's this year have a slight chorus effect. Mellow first set. He's Gone > DS not a bad combo. Encore is funny.
25-06-88    3   First show with Hornsby. New songs and chatting are probably the highlight again. Tapes for this show are a little rough.
26-06-88    3   Again, no soundboard. Seems a bit low on energy, although Playing actually tries a jam. Post drums seems to be best nowadays.
28-06-88    3.5 Bit more open than recent shows. Estimated lacked bite. Almost a jam pre-drums. Good Stella Blue. Does summer 88 have any jams?
30-06-88    3   Believe It Or Not is not a great song. Kills a the mood a bit pre drums. Overall, nothing really bad but nothing exciting.
02-07-88    3.5 Super solid set-list for set 2. Short on jamming but pre-drums was fun. Too many gated drums this year. Not bad.
03-07-88    3.5 Short first set but ends with a killer Bird Song. IWTYH pre-drums, oh dear. Very weird second set ending, and NFA encore.
15-07-88    3   Another good Morning Dew to end the set but nothing much else stood out. Lovelight as stand-alone encore was unusual.
16-07-88    2.5 "I Will Take You Home" - post space! Very short, perfunctory Other One. Didn't really hang well together as a show.
17-07-88    3.5 Laid back first set. Pre-drums is the best part, although suffering from no jamming. Blackbird encore might be the highlight.
29-07-88    4   Decent first set ends with hot Deal. Unusual China > CF > Rider. Contender for best Playin' of the 80's. Post drums lacks though.
30-07-88    3   No decent SBD. Decent start to first set. Nothing hot, although the Smokestack out of space was rare for the period and decent.
31-07-88    4   Decent Bird Song ends ineresting first set. IWTYH - awful. Very unusual, good, mellow drums section. Post drums is excellent.
26-08-88    3   Didn't bring a lot to the table. A lot of these shows are very similar to each other, differentation seems to be in the energy.
28-08-88    3   First time in years there was a tiny hint of jam after Truckin'. Other than that, this show seems a bit tired and lackluster.
02-09-88    3   Let It Grow is again the start of set 1. Nice contrasts in drums / space. Some early MIDI? Lacks any real energy.
03-09-88    3.5 MIDI and a meltdown in the Bird Song! Electric Ripple as the second encore, unfortunatly the bits inbetween lacked.
05-09-88    3   Only aud for second set. No highlights, although setlist suggests one. Another Playin' reprise, no longer rare. So-So.
06-09-88    3.5 Nice choice of songs for the first set, but there was nothing really inventive in this show. Post drumrs is very regular.
08-09-88    3   Let It Grow threatens a breakdown. Rest was however a lot more standard, with nothing in particular standing out.
09-09-88    3   Both sets quite short (second set especially so). IWTYH out of space again. Very average, except for the Believe It Or Not.
11-09-88    3   Slightly unusual pre drums combination of Scarlet > Fire, apart from that nothing special. Lacking unpredictability, these shows.
12-09-88    3   These shows are really just washing over me a bit too much. They are not bad as much as lacking in variety. Hoping for better.
14-09-88    3   Lot's of minor errors in this show. Sounds like the band are unsure of themselves. Saved by the Dew and the encore at the end. 
15-09-88    3.5 Almost typical 1988 setlist, sublime to ridiculous (Playing paired with UJB seems common). Normal show, but pre drums was decent.
16-09-88    3.5 Not a bad show at all; energy from the start and throughout. Estimated > Terrapin > DS were the highlights, sans Bobby screams.
18-09-88    3.5 Good first set, and mainly decent up to drums. NFA chant to start second set. Post drums was OO > WR > TS > NFA again.
19-09-88    3.5 Another Playing reprise pre-drums - seems to be getting quite common. Could have with a pinch more energy but not too bad.
20-09-88    3   Another Morning Dew to end the show but not as epic as recent versions. Rare (now) JB Goode to end, but this show needed more.
22-09-88    3.5 Only 1980's song was Fantasy. Opens with a long Shakedown. Excellent TLMD. Post drums had some unsually placed mellow moments.
23-09-88    3   This MSG run goes on forever. Foolish into drums + keys jam. How many IWTYH must be endured? Fairly decent Other One though.
24-09-88    2.5 Suzanne Vega, Mick Taylor... Hall & Oates? Suzanne is probably the best. Jerry's voice is shot and this is cringeworthy at times.
30-09-88    3   Nothing really stands out in this short show. Setlist not too bad and Jerry's voice is better, but this is to "by the numbers".
01-10-88    3   Late 88 is worse than either the previous year of indeed the spring. Here post drums is the best of an overally average show.
02-10-88    3.5 Unusual spaces cropping up pre-drums make this a nice change but otherwise a fairly standard show. Messy Stones and a cut NFA.
14-10-88    3   Rare (by now) Saint Of Circumstance. Good setlist other than this, but again no real jamming. Another Hey Jude slow down finish.
15-10-88    2.5 Unusual openers - Music Never Stopped start for 1st set, Sat Night for 2nd. Otherwise, this seemed a pretty low energy show.
16-10-88    2.5 Bit of a clunker of a show. Ended with the least climatic Dew I've ever heard. Jerry himself didn't rate the band this tour.
18-10-88    3   Better than the last 2 shows. Encore with the Bangles (?). Was Bobby banging a bangle? Space was decent until IWTYH arrived.
20-10-88    3.5 Roughest tape I've heard for some time. First Built To Last. Nice Hey Jude outro with the crowd but the source was terrible.
21-10-88    3.5 Nice Jack Straw to end set one. Overall quite a "happy" show with Happy Birthday for Brent and a great Stella Blue.
09-12-88    3   Starts off OK then fades off on the energy level. Nice to have Jack-A-Row back but could have done with more energy.
10-12-88    3   Very average show with no real spark or energy, except maybe a little pick-up post drums. I think Jerry needs more energy.
11-12-88    3   Either the mix or something else is up in these shows - Jerry lacks bite. A bit more interesting post drums with the setlist.
28-12-88    4   Good out the gate. Is that just the high quality though? Great Bird Song. Great space and setlist. Where did this come from?
29-12-88    3.5 Brent playing well. Samson > Playing jam? Mostly par for the course but not a bad show for the regular show before new year.
31-12-88    3.5 First show with Clarence? Adds a lot but is a bit too busy. Very long drums. Dew winds to a standstill. Weird triple encore.

05-02-89    3.5 Drums > He's Gone > Miracle > Dew!? First SOTM and We Can Run (latter a bit messy). Nice Playin'. Nice show overall, nearly a 4.
06-02-89    3.5 Strange NFA > Sugaree start. Set 1 ends with Tennessee Jed! Quite a long Terrapin jam. Killer Stella Blue. Not bad.
07-02-89    3.5 Brent songs not too bad here. Victim has a car crash at the start. Space arrives with a bang. Nice setlists recently.
10-02-89    3.5 Tunings are ever more playful. Great LIG to finish first set. Fine Playin' jam. Another pretty decent show overall.
11-02-89    3.5 Seems like Jerry has a little less energy this evening. First set has a great Bird Song though. Long Estimated as well.
12-02-89    3.5 With Spencer Davis and Dylan for the 2nd set. Best Gimme Some Loving. Bizarre setlist, overall a pretty strange show.
27-03-89    3.5 Killer Half-Step opener. Fire is full of energy near the end. Maybe needs some more energy near the peaks. 1989 sounds good.
28-03-89    3.5 Started off hot. Second set could have more ups and downs - it was a bit too smooth - but hard to argue with. Decent.
30-03-89    4   Excellent Bird Song and great first set. He's Gone nearly 16 mins long. Even a decent Other One post drums. 89 has started well.
31-03-89    4   Brent offered weed to play. Terrapin at over 16.5 minutes! Really good Morning Dew to finish the set. Even IWTYH was acceptable.
02-04-89    3.5 First set is nice, but the Shakedown that opens set 2 is better! High energy needs some better direction towards the end.
03-04-89    3.5 Very nice mixed up first set setlist. Blow Away was decent at start of second set. Not brilliant but still a decent show.
05-04-89    3.5 The "Blues" show! Unusual US Blues to end the first set. Nice comeback for China Doll. Well played in the main, lacking jams.
06-04-89    4   Jerry is a little low in the mix. Really decent Playin' jam in set 2. Stunning intro into Built To Last. Pretty good again.
08-04-89    3.5 Little Slipknot riff in space. Nothing really stands out in this show but the quality is all there. Good Blow Away as well.
09-04-89    3.5 This is the best tour of the 1980's so far. Even "average" shows like this have great little jams (here Estimated > UJB).
11-04-89    3   Lacked a bit of the class of recent shows, although not terrible as such. Crazy Fingers > Playin > Terrapin was not bad.
12-04-89    3.5 LiG at end of first set and a nice bluesy jam out of Truckin' were the highlight. Rest was a lot more average. Not bad.
13-04-89    3   This set, whilst not particularly bad in any obvious way, also didn't feature anything exciting. New songs need more jams.
15-04-89    3.5 Really slow Blow Away. Playing went fairly dissonant. Dew is nice as well, but the rest of show lacks a bit of spark.
16-04-89    3   Rare (now) Saint of Circumstance (not played well). Scarlet Fire was decent but otherwise this show fails to inspire.
17-04-89    3   First show with MIDI guitars (in space). This section was quite fun, unlike the rest of the gig which was too average for me.
28-04-89    3.5 Unusual Crazy Fingers to start set 2 (which has a great setlist). Short but killer Playin'. Sugar Mag > Touch to end?
29-04-89    3.5 Really wish IWTYH didn't come out of space. Lots of MIDI in space. Best Other One for a while. Even the Lovelight was decent.
30-04-89    3.5 Quite a mellow show with some longish jams (Estimated > Eyes 25 minutes!) but could have been a bit more out there overall.
06-05-89    3.5 Car crash Miracle. Show was pretty nice and had surprises (the end of Around was a WTF though), although needed more jams.
07-05-89    3   First set a bit stiff. Quite a long section pre-drums but was a bit too much up and down for my liking. A bit phoned in.
27-05-89    3.5 Benefit for Aids (Jerry + Bob + fogerty opened). First time in years, a minor Truckin jam. Great drums / space. Happy show.
18-06-89    3.5 Great Hey Pocky Way > Iko transition. Car crash "Saint". Is Brent drunk? Cipollina He's Gone with decent jam. Very up and down.
19-06-89    3.5 Kick-ass Rider riffs from Jerry. Smooth Playin' jam into Crazy Fingers. Overall very decent, almost a 4 but not quite.
21-06-89    3.5 Major Bobby amp issues at start. Particularly long space. With Clarence Clemons, who adds little. Could have been hotter.
02-07-89    4   Playin' > Crazy Fingers to open. Faster than usual FOTD. Decent He's Gone > Eyes. Epic ending of Fantasy > Jude > Sugar Mag.
04-07-89    4.5 Good first set with everything decent. Great pre drums with meaty Terrapin. Great space, killer Watchtower. Great show.
07-07-89    4   Hot from the start. Killer MIDI in the Other One. No particular highlight as such, just a well played show overall.
09-07-89    4   Opens with high energy. Awesome Bird Song to end first set. Best Truckin' jam of the 80's so far. Energy level off the charts!
10-07-89    4   Needs a longer jam in there somewhere (although UJB was 12 mins+) but hard to argue against the overall quality of this.
12-07-89    3.5 Second set starts with Sugaree. Good Black Peter was the highlight, but overall this show couldn't keep up with recent ones.
13-07-89    3.5 Jerry flute and lots of MIDI in space. 2nd set He's Gone opener. All the songs were solid but none of them really stood out.
15-07-89    4   Very long Bird song but not as good as the last one. Truly excellent Truckin' > Smokestack. Close Encounters in space.
17-07-89    4   The main treat in this show is the pre-drums China > Rider / Playin > UJB. Even the NFA was pretty meaty. Band on fire this era!
18-07-89    4   High energy first set. Crazy smooth Sugar Mag > Scarlet transition. Tour is screaming for a major jam. Fiery post drums.
19-07-89    4   Rocking Deal and great first set. This run is a bit of tease with no major jams. Pretty glorious run overall though.
04-08-89    3.5 Another killer Deal in an 11 song first set. Solo Jerry in space. A bit rushed through the songs and not as good as recent shows.
05-08-89    3.5 Had some good points at the end of set 1 and pre-drums (Playing > Rider !?) but lost some energy on the back straight. 
06-08-89    3.5 There was a cool jam in Bird Song but most of the second set felt a little flat. Decent encore (JB Goode > WBYGN) though.
17-08-89    3.5 Excellent MIDIfied Space is the highlight of this show. Some length in the songs (13 min Estimated) but they lack depth.
18-08-89    3.5 Tough to characterise. All the songs are played reasonably well but there are no real highlights. 2 Jerry ballads post drums.
19-08-89    4   Seems like drums is getting shorter and space longer. Nice mellow pre-drums Playing jam. Excellent Other One post drums.
29-09-89    4   Mellow and decent first set ends in excellent Bird Song. Lots of MIDI in Terrapin. Minimilistic space. Death Don't. Cracking.
30-09-89    3.5 Went pretty well up the drums (Estimated > Trucking was decent enough) but the energy died after, despite a bunch of rockers.
01-10-89    3.5 Scarlet > Man Smart? The latter was quite decent. Long space. Lacks a decent jam and not that energetic. Lovelight gets weird.
08-10-89    4   Good show, patchy in some minor areas. But the HOTW, pre-drums and especially the Morning Dew added enough to make a good show.
09-10-89    5   This Dark Star is almost certainly the best, and possibly, the longest jam of the 80's to date. Fantastic DDHNM post drums.
11-10-89    3   Overall very hit and miss. China Cat is decent but there are too many mistakes. Worst Wheel ever? Band are out of steam.
12-10-89    3.5 All Bird Songs are easily over the 12 min mark now. Nothing obvious stood out, except maybe less errors than the previous night.
14-10-89    3.5 Short show (only 2 songs post drums). Great H>S>F to end 1st set. Contains the longest (but not the best) Truckin' jam since 74.
15-10-89    3.5 Many 2nd set songs have gained a minute or more. This was a bit like a return to the August shows. Needed more jamming.
16-10-89    4.5 Hell of a 2nd set setlist. Long jam is interesting at start and end of pre-drums. Brent and Bob try to ruin post drums. Solid.
18-10-89    3.5 A bit minimal, but an actual Terrapin jam. Post drums was a bit ho-hum, although I wouldn't say it was a bad show.
19-10-89    3.5 Decent first set and nice second set setlist. Nice jam out of Estimated. Overall not a bad show, although it lacked a big moment.
20-10-89    4.5 Long show with first California Earthquake. An actual Truckin' / OO jam with meltdown? What a hidden gem, despite IWTYH post drums.
22-10-89    4   Great first set contains killer Bird Song and ends with JB Goode! Space jam after Franklins pre drums. Close encounters in space.
23-10-89    4   Starts great - the Stranger is excellent. Pre drums a little so-so but post drums is great. Best Lovelight since 72? Killer encore.
25-10-89    4   Another Playin > UJB to start set 2. Best UJB jam since 74 at least. Truckin' has a jam again! Rocked out ending as well.
26-10-89    4.5 Best Victim so far. 26 minutes of Dark Star, although not as good as 10/9. Whole show is pretty decent, although I've heard weirder.
06-12-89    3.5 Another excellent Victim. Wierd clipped Sugra Mag out of Scarlet. Pretty good but lacking some of the spark of recent shows.
08-12-89    3.5 Not as good as recent shows but the base quality was still there and Help > Slip > Franklins carried the day to a large degree.
09-12-89    3.5 First set contains decent Bird Song with MIDI. Pretty robust Playing. Nice, but lacked anything particularly special post drums.
10-12-89    4   Car crash rescue in HIAB! Monster Victim. CC Rider with Spencer Davis. China-Rider and space both good. Best Stella Blue for a while.
27-12-89    4   Nice first set but starts to go really deep in the Playin' jam. Garcias guitar cuts out in Dew, but still a killer version.
30-12-89    3.5 Great Stranger with a major Jerry error - "Whoops!". "Sleepy summer home" in Eyes? More traditional drums. Bit laid back but not bad.
31-12-89    4   High energy first set - best of the year? Dark Star goes crazy 10 minutes in. Runs slighty out of steam post drums. Good fun.

25-02-90    4   Good "Last Time" - first for 25 years? No big jams, but very high quality post drums. Best Wharf Rat for a long time. Rocking.
26-02-90    4   Good banter in the first set. Really long 30min Scarlet > Fire and long versions of all songs pre-drums. Laid back and decent.
27-02-90    3.5 Victim drops a space section in the first set. First set, opening set 2 weirdness and the Dew are good but maybe a bit more needed.
14-03-90    4   Great first set with first Loose Lucy since 74. Pre-drums has an interesting Playin' jam. Decent start to Spring 90 tour.
15-03-90    4   Phils 50th bday. Very mellow, long jam out of Terrapin. Wharf Rat reminded me of the 70s. Great encore, best Revolution I heard.
16-03-90    3.5 Killer Bird Song after BT Wind. Almost an Eyes jam out of Man Smart. Pre-drum jams seem to be the new norm. Could have had more.
18-03-90    3.5 First set opens with a nice Shakedown but lacks surprises. Nice Truckin > Spoonful jam pre-drums. Great Morning Dew to finish.
19-03-90    3.5 Picasso Moon can't seem to end! Very good Playin' is too short. Dropped off post drums to be honest, and needed a bit more energy.
21-03-90    3.5 Victim > SOTM > Promised in first set? Probably the best part, along with the second set Crazy Fingers. Tour needs more jams.
22-03-90    4   Good Scarlet > Fire. Jam after Truckin is a highlight, although short; same could be said for the Other One. Full Hey Jude.
24-03-90    4   Great 2nd set pre-drums comes complete with a full Mind Left Body jam which along, with the rest of pre-drums, is the highlight. 
25-03-90    3.5 Probably the longest Eyes since 77 or so to start set 2. Spoonful jam takes a short left turn. Ran out of steam post-drums.
26-03-90    3.5 Don't like the new lyrics in BT Wind. Nothing of major note in this show, although nothing bad. Dew saves the day at end of set 2.
28-03-90    3.5 First "The Weight". But that into Hey Pocky Way > Drums sums up this slight ho-hum show. Decent drums and Wharf Rat save the show.
29-03-90    4.5 The Branford show. Eyes is great. Amazingly, once in Star, he holds them back if anything. A very, very good one trick pony.
30-03-90    4   Best first set for a while. Pre drums jam is pretty decent - a good Playin' - although post drums is a little more rote. Enjoyable.
01-04-90    4   Even better first set than last night, killer ending. This time post drums is better than pre, with a great Stella Blue.
02-04-90    3.5 Average for the tour, even with a DDHNM (the weakest of the modern ones so far). Strange to have Last Time into drums, for sure.
03-04-90    4.5 Excellent Row Jimmy (!). Brent is killing on the keys. Very jammy run into drums, culminates in an awesome Playin'. Killer.
05-05-90    4   Great opening sequence and a very good first set. Quality continues into set 2, although post drums is less so. Decent show overall.
06-05-90    4   Another great first set. Second set a bit up and down, with the Weight still in a pre-drums roll. Set 1 earns the makes here.
08-06-90    4   Great Foolish Heart jam goes into killer Drums > Sapce. Post drums slacks a bit energy wise but overall this is a good show.
09-06-90    3.5 Overall a very decent show but lacking a solid highlight. The opener of both sets was probably the best; another good Victim.
10-06-90    4   Really good into drums with a cracking Eyes and good Playing jam. Best SOTM so far post-drums, and even the set 1 starter was good.
15-06-90    4   Great Help > Slipknot to open. Really long show for the era. Around & Around doesn't want to end. Come for the energy, not the jams.
16-06-90    4   Really, REALLY long jam out of Terrapin, which is mainly a Jerry space. This is a very weird second set, and that's a good thing.
17-06-90    3.5 Sounds like the after-party to the night before, a bit up and down in places. Playing > Eyes and Shakedown are the highlights.
23-06-90    4   Another robust pre-drums jam fest. Great Drums and space, also full of energy. I'm getting used to regularly having good shows.
24-06-90    3.5 Starts decent but overall a bit more anonymous than recent shows. Sugar Mag goes off-key in the middle. Below average for the tour.
04-07-90    3   Slighty anonymous start. Jerry and Phil in shorts. Unusual Scarlet > Fire after after 3 songs in second set. A bit so-so.
06-07-90    4   Long and energetic He's Gone jam, beats most early 80's efforts. Rest of show is more normal. Around & Around still disappoints.
08-07-90    3.5 Nice jam out of Terrapin and a laid back Eyes again. Not sure what Wang Dang Doodle after space was doing though. Not bad.
10-07-90    4   Great Loser and killer Bird Song. Power cut in Promised Land! Great (and jammy) 2nd set. Space > Other One was particularly good.
12-07-90    4.5 Long Star but it lacks a freakout session. Drums / space is excellent and the end is rocking. Definitly worth a listen.
14-07-90    3.5 Really tight first set with good start and end. Killer "Step Back" to open set 2. Set 2 looks good on paper but is more pedestrian.
16-07-90    4   Decent High Time in average first set. Another Sugar Mag > Scarlet. Great Truckin' jam pre-drums. Around x2 is back to short again.
18-07-90    4   Awesome setlist. Laughing jam in drums / space. Pretty decent Other One > Dew combo at end of second set make this one stand out.
19-07-90    3.5 Really good Victim > Foolish Heart to open the second set but the rest, despite a good set-list, was a lot more pedestrian.
21-07-90    4   Killer, spacey Bird Song to end set 1. Solid show. 3 Playing in the bands! The end of set 2 was a decent treat and held energy.
22-07-90    3.5 Good Stranger. Nice Estimated > Eyes pre drums. Backwards looping in space. The whole is nice but nothing of particular note.
23-07-90    3.5 Brent's last show. Nice Truckin + jam to end first set. Another killer Victim. Terrapin jam could have been better. Was alright.
07-09-90    3.5 Keys sound different right away. Long first set had extra verse in Masterpiece. Second set has long Playing jam. Average.
08-09-90    4   Really good first set. Very meaty Eyes > Estimated > Terrapin pre drums. Good Stella Blue after drums. Solid, decent show.
10-09-90    3.5 Slight unusual second set list spoiled this a little. Jamming blew a little hot and cold. Another decent Other One post drums.
11-09-90    4.5 Killer HIAB to finish the first set. Stunning He's Gone > Spoonful jam - best ever? Rest of show can't match this monster.
12-09-90    4   UJB > Space > Drums > Dew is 52 mins. Crikey! Rest of show is no slouch either, although not to the heights of the last night.
14-09-90    4   Another crazy jam-fest in set 2, and the first set wasn't too bad either. Vince's high singing is a bit too high for my tastes.
15-09-90    4   2 keyboards? Not sure if it works for me. This is a fairly high energy show, the setlist was decent and the jamming was alright.
16-09-90    4.5 Really long Deal to end set 1. Intense, twisted He's Gone > Drums. Almost double-dips after SOTM. Crazy, even the Dew was good!
18-09-90    4   Ripping opening. Best Picasso Moon to date. Jerry and Bruce led jam out of Foolish nearly hits Other One. Pretty good.
19-09-90    4   Excellent jam out of Let It Grow into drums. Long second sets on this mini tour. Overall a very good show. Even Aroundx2 was decent.
20-09-90    5   A 30-minute monster Dark Star after drums? What a difference a year makes. Jammiest post drums since '74? Absolutly epic show. 
13-10-90    3   Really messy first set. Second set recovers a bit but is still a bit flat. Worst show of the year, but band seem to be enjoying it.
17-10-90    3.5 Lacks anything really stand out but the band is good enough to carry it. Nice High Time in first set. First dodgy Vince sound.
19-10-90    3.5 These shows are a lot more normal than the MSG shows. All of this show is nice and well done, with a rocking end, but lacks jams.
20-10-90    4   Bruce solo joining LiG to Box Of Rain. Unusual Eyes > Samson join. Mellow, short Star into drums. Lacks a bit in energy levels.
22-10-90    3.5 My first show. First Valley Road. First set is not that badly done. Pre-drums is decent but lacks compared to previous tour.
24-10-90    3   Edge has definitly come off a little since summer. They're even a bit sloppy post drums. Doesn't help the energy is not here.
27-10-90    3.5 Again this is not a bad show but all the fun of summer seems to have gone away. Space is nice enough, and gets better at the end.
28-10-90    3.5 Decent first set up until Stander On The Mountain. Second set was decent (good Victim) but lacked a jam. Heavens Door encore good.
30-10-90    3.5 Good first set - best of the tour so far. Bruce solo solos are way too self-indulgent. Wierd phone call in drums. Not bad.
31-10-90    3.5 Decent and long first set opens with Help > Slip. Second set is also long but lacks major highlights excepting maybe the Watchtower.
01-11-90    3.5 Last night of Europe tour. Jerry has a terrible voice. Jam is long but lacks excitement. Weird start to Wharf Rat. Worst US Blues?
03-12-90    3.5 Estimated good until Jerry (!) cuts it short. Terrapin mild car crash. Nice ending but lacking anything of real excitement.
04-12-90    3.5 These shows seem all so similar. Eyes was decent but no major jams again and certainly no surprises. Long Other One post drums.
08-12-90    3   First set lacks some spark, which unfortunatly extends out to the second set as well. Setlist is good but the execution fails.
09-12-90    3   Bird Song the best in an average first set. There's some length in the second set but it lacks excitement. Space was decent.
12-12-90    4   Decent uptempo first set. Short Dark Star is not the best but nothing bad. Lacks some excitement but overall a nice show.
13-12-90    3.5 An up and down show. Saint of Circumstance doesn't sit well but the start and end is good, with a weird end to Morning Dew.
14-12-90    4   Another good uptempo first set. No Bruce. Nice jam out of He's Gone. Dark Star out of drums extends the space. Great Wharf Rat.
27-12-90    4   Only an aud for the first set. Long Scarlet Fire. Stunning Estimated end jam. Hamza in drums. Messy last 2 songs though.
28-12-90    4   Good first set, and 2nd opens with best China Rider for a long long time. Delightful jam out of He's Gone. End a little flat.
30-12-90    4.5 Holy Moly what a setlist! Funny Vince vocal slip-up. Serious, dense Playin' jam. Terrapin post drums and a rocking end.
31-12-90    4.5 Set list screams awesome. Decent first set with expected jammy Bird Song. Second set is one long party. Best New Years for a while.

19-02-91    4   Great version of New Speedway Boogie. Most jammed Crazy Fingers? Killer Black Peter. Whole show is pretty good as a year opener.
20-02-91    4   28 minute Scarlet Fire? Drums > Jam > Space in 2nd set? Jam is unique (good) rapping jam. Very long 2nd set. End a little flat.
21-02-91    4   These setlists recently are crazy. 15m Eyes after drums? One of the best year opening runs. Just a little more variety needed.
17-03-91    4   Good space. Truckin' > New Speedway Boogie was pretty decent. First ever Rueben & Cherise. Killer Watchtower and Black Peter.
18-03-91    4   First set average but pre-drums - especially the Terrapin - jams out pretty well. Baby blue encore was nice except for accordion.
20-03-91    4   Really long and decent Eyes to open set 2. Whole is pretty decent, yet another one to add to the run of good 1991 starters.
21-03-91    4.5 Best Victim so far - totally killer. Great jam into Stir It Up. I'm really struggling to critque this show, 1991 is really strong.
23-03-91    4   A lot less cheese recently. This is (yet another) great Spring 91 show. Decent Playin' jam and a nice Dew > Saturday Night.
24-03-91    3   Laid back or lack of energy in the first set. This extended into the second set and there were no real highlights. Band sound tired.
25-03-91    3.5 Unusual jam where Jerry pushes Russian Lullaby after Spoonful but this lacked a bit of energy again. Rare Stones > PITB reprise.
27-03-91    3.5 Vince very annoying on Reuben - just repeating the riff. Long Scarlet Fire but nothing really acheived lift-off. Good Space.
28-03-91    3.5 Very short show, apparently Bobby was pissed off. Jerrys voice lacking power. Very good Terrapin encore improves the score.
29-03-91    3.5 Sound dies in Masterpiece, ending first set early. Second set was decent but workmanlike. Touch Of Grey mini car-crash from Jerry.
31-03-91    4.5 Bruce returns with decent keys. Killer Samson. 23 min Eyes into blistering Playing, even a Star tease there. Great space.
01-04-91    4.5 Proper Dark Star is the real highlight, possibly the second best one of the modern era so far. Rest is decent, with good setlist.
03-04-91    3.5 Average first set. Bit of a comedown from previous shows, even if there was nothing bad. Great Foolish Heart but not much else.
04-04-91    4.5 Killer first set with great setlist. Smoking Help > Slip to start set 2. High energy raver from start to finish. Great show.
05-04-91    3.5 First set starts lively but then eases. Interesting Stir It Up jam post Terrapin. Space is good but post drums lacks excitement.
07-04-91    3.5 Nice end to first set. Short, but decent 2nd Playing jam in second set pre-drums. Space > Box Of Rain? Slightly subdued show.
08-04-91    4   Good show from start to finish where the whole is more than the sum of the parts. Good Eyes and Morning Dew in second set.
09-04-91    3   End of tour has a relaxed, almost mundane feel to it. Even the 20 min Foolish Heart sailed past me somewhat. Post drums best part.
27-04-91    4   First set a bit so-so. Action picks up for second set with a great Playing > Uncle Johns. Great drums. Killer Black Peter again.
28-04-91    3.5 Nice Bird Song with Santana in first set. Deal into drums? Weird space with fruit machines. Nice touches but no standout.
03-05-91    3.5 Fairly decent from the Let It Grow. One of those shows with mellow jamming but no high-energy parts. Enjoyable but measured.
04-05-91    4   Very mellow spacy jam out of Victim. Very nice Playin > UJB > Drums. Rock solid set from start to finish, encore was high energy.
05-05-91    3.5 Jamming is decent enough in the second set - almost a Truckin' > Spanish, however Jerry is low in the mix or down on energy.
10-05-91    3.5 Jerry is turned down for sections of set 1. Short but surpisingly powerful Truckin into New Speedway. Rest of show too mellow.
11-05-91    3.5 Nothing too exciting in first set or pre-drums, but space is an ambient thriller. Jerry sounds slighty down in the energy dept.
12-05-91    3.5 Super-long Deal to finish the first set. Another long jam in Terrapin didn't seem to go anywhere. Help > Slip decent. Mixed bag.
01-06-91    3.5 Another really long Deal to end set one. Loving them. Set lists recently have looked jammy on paper but are lacking a bit of meat.
06-06-91    3   I'd bet that Jerry is back on the H. Recent shows have become a lot more standard. Best part of this was, yet again, the space.
07-06-91    3.5 Best first set for a while, with a great Stagger Lee. Raging FOTM. Rest of the show not quite as good, apart from SOTM ending.
09-06-91    3   Jerry turned down too low. Drums / Space is really weird, more like S/D/S with Jerry missing the start. Nothing stood out.
11-06-91    3.5 Best Victim? Short jam but still very good. Unusual Space > Playin' Reprise. This is a bit like last night and could be better.
12-06-91    3   Summer is slipping badly compared to the years start. Jerry is turning down. Morning Dew to end is some reasonable compensation.
14-06-91    4   First Dark Star for a while, although this one is far too short. Space and encore are great, but could have been a lot more.
16-06-91    3.5 Jack Straw to open the 2nd set! Post drums lacks any real jam, but both the long space and Black Peter post drums jam out.
17-06-91    4.5 First set starts with a 15m Eyes. Dark Star teases everywhere. Uncle John's meltdown excellent. Pretty good show, missing flow.
19-06-91    4   Everything pre-drums is normal for the period: saved by the killer Stella Blue > Other One > JBG post drums. Other One is awesome.
20-06-91    3.5 Decent Bird Song. Unusual split Throwing Stones in second set. I enjoyed the messy set list although musically only average.
22-06-91    4   Not a bad show. Get this for the fairly decent Playing > Terrapin > D > S > Dark Star > Playing sandwich. Rest is average.
24-06-91    4   Also not a bad show. Help > SLip to open set one and the Estimated > Jam > UJB was pretty decent. Also a nice Dew in the 2nd set.
25-06-91    3.5 32 min Scarlet > Fire! That's mainly the highlight of the show, although Comes A Time out of drums was quite sweet. Average.
28-06-91    3.5 First set not bad, even with Iko Iko in the middle. Have to enjoy the 1 min Star jam in Wharf Rat. Overall, a bit hit and miss.
12-08-91    3   Very regular second set setlist. A middling show, but Jerry's singing on Terrapin was unusually enunciated. Otherwise so-so.
13-08-91    3.5 First set was quite alright but the second set felt a bit by the numbers. Not very memorable, even if it wasn't actually bad.
14-08-91    3   Short slightly boring first set. Trio of rain songs to start set 2. Crazy Fingers jam is reasonable, rest lacked adventure.
16-08-91    3.5 First set Star! Scarlet > Victim > Fire! This should be a monster show but the Star is lazy and second set under delivers.
17-08-91    3.5 Started well but then the first set got a little messy. Pre-drums so so, but space > Dew > Sat Night was a clear highlight.
18-08-91    3   Unusual JGB to end first set. Deal to open 3nd set? Stranger > Drums? Weird pre-drums. Stripped back drums and a bit up and down.
04-09-91    3.5 Killer Promised Land to end a decent first set. Long and decent Scarlet > Fire. Loses it's fire and energy after drums.
05-09-91    3   A bit too normal for me. Like the mid 80s, filled with 8/9 minutes tracks that never go anywhere. 1991 can be very up and down.
06-09-91    3.5 Setlist looks great on paper. More or less average except for the Terrapin. Not a fan of the short Dark Star jams. Not bad.
08-09-91    3.5 Jam into drums was interesting, even if it was just another 8/9 minute Dark Star tease. Rest of show was more or less average.
09-09-91    4   No real stand-outs but the vibe is excellent; the trio pre-drums and the Morning Dew are worth checking. Very solid 1991 show.
10-09-91    4   Branford on sax for the whole show. Get for the Help > Slip. Rest is decent but isn't an instant classic. Good not great.
12-09-91    3.5 Well constructed show, the playing was decent but really lacked a bit of fire. Pre drums have good songs but all too short.
13-09-91    3.5 Best parts are the end of set 1 Bird Song and start of set 2 Victim. Long Scarlet Fire. Nothing wrong, needed more excitement.
14-09-91    3   Great Promised Land and Jack Straw, with Bruce giving his all, but the show lacks spark the more further into the show you go.
16-09-91    3.5 Uncle John's into drums and the resulting space were the highlights of a more average than normal 1991 show. Rare Attics as well.
17-09-91    3   Rare unusual synth led drums ending (a bit like Vangelis) but this show lacks spark and excitement. Proficient but a bit dull.
18-09-91    4   Good first set, and a really good run into drums, especially with the Terrapin. Morning Dew ending is not grade A but a good add.
20-09-91    3.5 Another decent first set. Unique Help > Slip > Fire but nothing interesting in the transition. So What tease in another good space.
21-09-91    3.5 Compentent but lacking excitement. A lot of the randomness of earlier in the year has gone. Eyes are still long versions though.
22-09-91    3.5 Had a decent He's Gone post jam but it sure feels like some of the adventure of earlier in the year has gone. Needs more excitement.
24-09-91    4   First Dark Star for a while. Short, and laid back but fairly decent, and leads into a good drums. 2 long Jerry songs after drums?
25-09-91    4   Good Terrapin jam, despite missing Jerry. Mind Left Body tease out of space. Great setlist and generally a decent show overall.
26-09-91    4.5 Very mellow and very decent Star to open set 2. There is a lot about this show to like about, especially maybe the flow.
27-10-91    4   First show after Bill Grahams death. Absolutly killer first set. Good pre drums jam where Jerry is not the main guitar. Decent.
28-10-91    3.5 Highlight of this show is the reasonably meaty Playin jam into drums. Rest of show is a lot more regular for the period.
30-10-91    4   Pretty decent Eyes > Estimated > Terrapin  before drums. The rest of the show is not bad, just not as good as pre-drums.
31-10-91    4   Short but laid back first set. Kesey rap in Dark Star is raw and chilling. Rest of show is decent but lacks energy near the end.
03-11-91    3   Bill Graham Memorial. Popper is good, Fogerty is horribly out of tune, as is Bob in Wharf Rat. Huge show but not that good.
27-12-91    4   First set ends nicely. Terrapin jam pre-drums was decent. Best drums of the 90s? They really stand out. Pity about Around x 2.
28-12-91    5   Show is wrapped around a split Saturday Night. Really killer first set. Unique Playin > Same thing jam. Best 1991 show by far.
30-12-91    4   Great first set with a top quality Bird Song to end. Second set standout Drums / Space with Airto. Vince is great this run.
31-12-91    4   Final new years show. Subdued countdown. Nice Estimated > Drums. Nothing really stood out as especially good but a decent show.

22-02-92    3.5 Debut of So May Roads (good) and Wave To The Wind (wtf?). Good (long) drums. Killer Black Peter. Just a little too up and down.
23-02-92    4   First versions of Way To Go Home (needs more pep) and Corrina. Great Playin > Terrapin leads to jungle drums. Mix was a bit so-so.
24-02-92    4   Second set has all 4 new songs. Jam from starting from rare Other One pre drums is good. Hot drums. Oh shit, Wave to the Wind!
01-03-92    3.5 Less adventurous show, only 34 or so minutes before drums. Nothing particulary bad, just lacked some energy and no decent jams.
02-03-92    3   Pretty decent first set. Energy seemed to tail off significantly in the second set. Terrapin had half a jam. Around still sucks.
03-03-92    3   Second set Playin' is decent. Best Wave To The Wind so far. Rest of show is pretty average and lacks a lot of energy.
05-03-92    3.5 Unusual Help > Slip > Frank / Same Thing to start set 1. Vocal jam in He's Gone. A lot of energy gone since the new year shows.
06-03-92    3.5 Bob references a computer virus. Keys are too loud but work well on Bird Song. Show is competent but certainly not spectacular.
08-03-92    3   New songs are played frequently. Wave To The Wind has a weird potential but falls flat. Best So Many Roads so far. So-so.
09-03-92    3.5 Corrina alomst stops before being jammed into a pretty anonymous Dark Star. Morning Dew mild car crash but Jerry makes up for it.
11-03-92    3.5 It's All Over has strange new start and end. Suprisinglg energetic from end of set 1 with good Terrapin, Last Time and Black Peter.
12-03-92    3.5 Great Sugar Mag ending. Show had some smooth grooves and decent energy, but nothing killer. Playing reprise into drums was unusual.
13-03-92    3   Strangly disjointed pre-drum setlist ends with Wave To The Wind. Lacking energy throught the whole show, or is it simply relaxed?
16-03-92    3   Great BT Wind ending in first set. A jam comes out of Watchtower because the energy level is low. A pretty weak low energy show.
17-03-92    3   Very short 6 song first set. Lacking in any energy pre drums. No immediate highlights, although not particularly terrible.
18-03-92    3   "Say your piece and piss off". Vince is way too loud in places. Terrible quality board. Nice set list fails to ignite anywhere.
20-03-92    4   Reasonable first set. Decent Shakedown and the Star not too bad. It's pretty good compared to the rest of the Spring tour.
21-03-92    3.5 Good Help > Slip to start the show. Best Terrapin jam for some time. Short show, only 76 minutes for the second set. Not bad.
23-03-92    3.5 Monster Jack Straw to open first set. With the exception of Wave To The Wind, pre drums is good. Best version of Gloria?
19-05-92    3.5 Reasonable Terrapin (which nowadays always seems to have a mini-jam out of). Drums stops midday and insults are exchanged. Not bad.
20-05-92    3   Decent first set had good energy. Promised Land car crash. Jams are slipping out of the second set now. A little lackluster. 
21-05-92    3   Bob starts horribly out of tune. 2nd set full of 10 minute songs. Energy there in parts but nothing major. Gloria was decent.
23-05-92    3   Reminding me of 88 with the lack of any jams. Vince too loud in places, and lacking Jerry. This is competent but lacks excitement.
24-05-92    3   Jerry's guitar is consistently too low and the keys are too high. 3 new 92 shows into drums. Eyes was best of the bunch.
25-05-92    3   Why is Vince so loud and Jerry turned down? It kills the shows. Songs also seem too short in second set. Decent Attics though.
29-05-92    3   Another low energy show. Phil stays on for the start of drums. Can't help but feel Jerry is using again. Bit of energy at the end.
30-05-92    3.5 Nice trumpet in Spanish jam. Not a stellar show - jams don't gel again - but it is at least a mild step up from the rest of the month.
31-05-92    2.5 Vince too loud and busy. Second set is again full of shortish songs. Jerry turns off when Steve Miller arrives. Pretty rough.
06-06-92    3.5 Holy smokes I can hear Jerry! Best first set of 1992 so far. Second set keeps most of the energy but fails to dive deep.
08-06-92    4   Again Jerry seems up for it. Decent but short first set. Nice Corrina jam and short Star after drums. Best show for a while.    
09-06-92    3.5 Vince's solos are crazy loud. Very harsh stereo in drums. Eyes is quite decent, and it's not a bad show, just lacking excitement.
11-06-92    3.5 Jerry has definitly turned his volume down for the last few shows. Nice Playin' > Uncle Johns. A little flat post drums space.
12-06-92    3   Far too many short songs in the second set, although at least we can still hear Jerry. A bit meh, which is true of too much 92.
14-06-92    3.5 Same post drums as 31/5, also with Steve Miller, but better Jerry. Picasso Moon is 50% Vince. Drums has some sort of drum machine.
15-06-92    3.5 Very good versions of Bird Song and So Many Roads. Drums with drum machine again? Once again with Steve Miller for parts.
17-06-92    3.5 Very long Deal to end first set. Suprisingly jammy Estimated pre drums. Rest of the show is more average, although not anonymous.
18-06-92    3.5 Nice relaxed Eyes in the second set. 6 min Dark Star after drums, a slightly weak Morning Dew + Satisfaction makes for unusual show.
20-06-92    3.5 Good for the era pre-drums selection - jammy and mellow. Steve Miller again (!) but only on the last song. Post drums not as good.
22-06-92    3   4 minute Dark Star into drums kinda sums up the whole of this tour. A splash of Spanish Jam post drums isn't enough to raise the bar.
23-06-92    3   Jerry shits the bed in Help > Slipknot. Collection of 6 minute songs pre drums. Largely a mixed bag of dissapointment.
25-06-92    3   Steve Miller again! Lacks any decent jamming despite some decent guests. Also lacking some energy. So Many Roads was the highlight.
26-06-92    4   Reasonable first set for a change (and 8 songs!). Decent, albeit short jam in the Playin'. Killer Wharf Rat end. Very decent for 92.
28-06-92    3   Help Slip better than the previous time. But songs were quite short and it never broke out to anything major. Mainly underwhelming.
29-06-92    3.5 Reasonable first set with decent So Many Roads. Good drums after fairly anonymous pre-drums. Stella > Sugar Mags is decent ending.
01-07-92    3   Vince ruins Picasso Moon. First set a little low on energy but Bird Song good. Fuck me, Steve Miller again. Underwhelming.
02-12-92    3   Mickey on congos? Quite like the sound. Makes it sound even less energetic though. Really struggles to gain traction. Bit boring.
03-12-92    3.5 No full soundboard, very unusual this late. Great setlist for set 2. Bob has terrible voice. Reasonable, but had more potential.
05-12-92    3   First set aud only. Short pre-drums. Nothing particularly wrong, but like a lot of 92 it really struggles with energy.
06-12-92    4   Here Comes Sunshine opener. Actually a decent first set for a change. Messy Samson. Good Playin' Reprise. Loud Weir but decent.
11-12-92    3.5 First set is reasonable, better than earlier in the year but still needs sharpness. Bob out of tune at the end is pretty nasty.
12-12-92    4   Garcia nearly loses it in the first set but rallies for great Bird Song. Great jam out of drums starts in Dark Star. Decent.
13-12-92    3.5 Nice set-list but fails to really catch fire. Post drums pretty short and the Dew failed to really light up. But a decent effort.
16-12-92    4   Nice show in the main. Another Dark Star post drums, but this cuts just as it gets good. Bob overrules Jerry at Stella Blue end!
17-12-92    3.5 This is a long show - like a new year! First set was ok. Long show but lacks any lengthy songs. Could do with more HC Sunshine.

24-01-93    3.5 Bird Songs have all been pretty long recently. Very decent Black Peter. Best parts were end of set 1 and start of set 2.
25-01-93    3   Shakedown is the most jammy opening to a show in a long while. Rest is not as good. Bobby out of tune pre-drums. Ends with a whimper.
26-01-93    3.5 With Carlos Santana post drums. Setlist looks like there is some major jamming but it turned not to be. Some fun, but not a classic.
21-02-93    3   3 new songs, all a bit slow and lacking energy. This continues throughout the show. Samson > Drums? Subdued for the whole show.
22-02-93    3   SBD mix is all over the place, with voices low and Bob high. Improved Wave To The Wind. Days Between was best part of show.
23-02-93    3.5 Last show with Wolf. Best PITB jam for some time. Space onwards with Ornette Coleman. He's good, but a bit wasted on the songs.
09-03-93    3.5 Another good Playing jam. Old school 2nd set setlist. Good Black Peter in the second half. Good show, missing a bit of spark.
10-03-93    4   Good versions of 3 new songs into drums. Decent Mind Left Body into drums. Drums onward is relaxed but totally in control.
11-03-93    4   Always good to open with Help > Slip! Drums and Space with Ken Nordine. Days Between is a great song. Quite enjoyable.
14-03-93    3.5 First "I fought the law". Jerry forgets Touch Of Grey vocals. These shows are better than 92 but need some more jamming in them.
16-03-93    3.5 Good pre-drums but a short and underwhelming post-drums ruins the mood. Strangly, Morning Dew runs out of steam at the end.
17-03-93    4   Only 10 minutes, the Dark Star here actually cut short the excellent Playin' jam. Days Between again very good. LSD encore.
18-03-93    3.5 With Bruce and a little too much accordian at times. Longish Terrapin Jam but nowadays longevity does not always mean much.
20-03-93    3.5 Another long Bird Song. Decent enough, but takes far too long to get to the best parts, which is mainly the high energy end.
21-03-93    3.5 End of space is really good, almost a mini-tiger. Whole show is very decent but lacks some jams, with too many shortish songs.
22-03-93    3.5 Decent Help Slip as the first set starts well and is compentently played, but set 2 does not continue where the first left off.
24-03-93    4.5 Good jam from Crazy Fingers into drums via an almost Playing reprise. Everything after drums is golden, and with a Spanish jam!
25-03-93    4   Cracking Dew tops a pretty decent second set. Maybe too many new numbers (Way to go Home after space)? but a decent show overall.
27-03-93    3.5 Final Casey Jones. Whole show is pretty reasonable but lacks any killer moments, although the rare Comes a Time was a highlight.
28-03-93    3.5 Fairly normal show eclipsed by the best version of Attics post drums. Rest is fairly reasonable but Heavens Door encore is good.
29-03-93    3   Fairly ho-hum show. 1993 so far ebbs and flows. Sometimes great but more often a little so-so. This is one of the latter.
31-03-93    3.5 Playing > Uncle Johns pre-drums was nice, but too short. Long jamming has really gone now. Short post drums but Sugar Mag decent.
01-04-93    3   Suffers from bad setlist syndrome, what with Wave to the Wind pre drums and Way To Go Home after. Also lacks a bit of energy. 
02-04-93    3   Jerry's voice a little shot. Another ho hum show, with no obvious standouts. The band can shine in 93, they just don't do it often.
04-04-93    3   Midnight Hour opener! Reasonable first set with decent Bird Song closer. Second set was like recent ones, no real surprises.
05-04-93    2.5 Good set list with great Music > Deal ending. Second set list is pretty ropey, and SQ dips terribly. Worst 2nd set for some time.
14-05-93    3   A Way To Go Home > Corrina seems to kill the second set pre-drums. Rest is as you'd expect from '93. Less new songs would be good.
15-05-93    3.5 First set has really spacy Bird Song to close with. Argument off stage in drums: "You call that music?!". Actually has jamming.
16-05-93    4   The setlist is great, and the playing is fairly decent for 93. Not a bad attempt even though Bobby's voice seems to die at the end.
21-05-93    3   Typical 93 gets more typical as the year goes on. Not particularly special bad, but it has many mistakes (Estimated, He's Gone, Dew)
22-05-93    3.5 Like the previous night, the first set is better than the 2nd. Corrina has a reasonable jam. Enjoyable drums and decent Stella Blue.
23-05-93    3.5 Very decent Bird Song. Another very different drums, a bit Vangelis again. Run from Terrapin onwards is decent for the period.
25-05-93    3   First set maybe better then the second. Pretty long Eyes opens up the second set but the rest of the set is far less exciting.
26-05-93    4   Solid opener. Finally a long meaty jam - likely the best Playing since 1988 or so, and almost on a par with 73 versions.
27-05-93    3.5 Setlist is pretty unusual. Picasso > Fire? Split Cassidy pre drums? Wave to the Wind is actually listenable. Not bad in parts.
05-06-93    3.5 First set not bad, even with Easy answers. Estimated > Drums > Space is all good stuff. Stella Blue is a minor car crash.
08-06-93    4   Spectacular car crash in Playin', of all songs. They make up for it in the jam after. Corrina post drums though. Not bad.
09-06-93    3.5 Bobby's voice getting more raspy as the tour continues. Another decent first set. Short but good Terrapin jam. Good Wharf Rat.
11-06-93    3   5 song first set, although has a pretty long 2nd set. Second set starts well but a long Corrina jam sucks the energy out.
13-06-93    3   Killer Deal to end first set. Rest of 2nd set was a set of 9 minute songs with minimal jams. Acoustic guitar from Bob for LLR.
15-06-93    3.5 All round not a bad show but no real killer highlights. However, there were no new songs and everything was pleasant enough.
16-06-93    3   Don't Ease to end set 1 for 2 shows? Stella Blue and post drums was not too bad but there was a lack of excitement getting there. 
18-06-93    3.5 Quite a few radio glitches through the PA. These shows recently feel like "Dead Lite". A decent setlist but lacks the unknown.
19-06-93    3.5 Bob: "Less click please". Really good version of Standing On The Moon. Deal was also decent, rest of show a more usual 1993.
21-06-93    3   Best So Many Roads to date. Second sets now are more like first sets with extended drums > space. Around x 2 end is not good.
22-06-93    3.5 Setlist was decent, and that helps a lot this year. Retained some energy up to the encore. Limited exploration spoils things.
23-06-93    4.5 Stunning, aggressive Terrapin jam into drums. Dark Star after drums is more like an appertif. Hunter's birthday, apparently.
25-06-93    3   Entire show is with Bruce's accordian?! Bit lacking in jams but made up for in energy. Tails off in the second set. So-so.
26-06-93    4   Nothing special until the Playin' jam, which is another decent one. Jam keeps going in Terrapin! Less exciting post drums.
21-08-93    3.5 First show with Lightning bolt. Unusual (for the era) bluesy pre-drums second set. Nice but no real suprises or excitement.
22-08-93    3   Bit by the numbers, despite that second set Help > Slip opening. Drums / space is getting very long. Could have been more dynamic.
25-08-93    3.5 Terrapin is a little shaky to start but Jerry has great tone and energy for the outro jam. Hard to escape from that 93 vibe though.
26-08-93    3   It's a bit mellow and not very jammy but this show had a nice relaxed vibe to it. Around x 2 at the end sucks all the energy.
27-08-93    3.5 Another good Summer 93 Playin'. That and Terrapin are the songs of the year. Bob out of tune for the whole of post-drums.
09-09-93    3.5 Not really very exciting, but it does have a killer Morning Dew to close set 2, and that's always a good thing in my book.
10-09-93    3   Decent first set. Second set is again the normal 10 minute songs. Corrina again removes energy. Nice Attics post drums.
12-09-93    3   First set was ok but there little of substance here. Seems the band can turn up for a couple of songs but not a whole set.
13-09-93    3.5 Playin' > Dark Star is only 14 minutes? Terrapin jam that follows is much more substantial, and the post isn't too bad either.
14-09-93    3   Jerry is missing lyrics more often. It's still the Grateful Dead, minus any real surprises and / or jamming of any significance.
16-09-93    3   Rain opener. Not terrible but no real fire. The new songs are not that bad but it seems the band can't lean into them enough.
17-09-93    3.5 Another show that is more a collection of songs. Run into drums not too bad. Unusual "That Would Be Something". Very good SOTM.
18-09-93    3   Corrina > Drums yet again, feels like a missed oppurtunity. First set was ok but nothing grabbed. At least not many new songs.
20-09-93    3.5 High energy opener starts a decent first set. Good space with singer Edie Brickell. Dew was decent, but no stand-outs.
21-09-93    3.5 Decent first set. Another PITB > Terrapin in the second set, a fairly decent jam. Lacks fire after D/S though. Needs energy.
22-09-93    4.5 Dave Murray is the best sax player to guest. The jams are short but they sure are spacey. Has to be the show of the year.
24-09-93    3   Days Between was decent but the rest of this show was way more middling. Scarlet > Fire was long but really lacking energy.
25-09-93    3   Foolish Heart and Corrina have some length but don't really go anywhere. Another I Fought The Law: encores in 93 are bad.
26-09-93    3   Jerry plays a different tune in Maggies Farm. He's out of most of the first set. And then he raises the roof with SOTM to close!
28-09-93    3.5 Stumbling over some words is starting to get common for Jerry. Show is normal except for another very beefy Playin pre-drums.
29-09-93    3   T. Jed to close first set? Eyes 17 mins? Terrapin 26? Unfortunatly length does not mean excitement, and the jams are just space.
30-09-93    3   Post drums Other One had some energy and fizz, rest of show bit more of a doozy. Certainly a consistent show seems beyond them.
08-12-93    3   Decent set 2 setlist, although encore terrible as normal. Decent space and an unusual jam into Last Time (which is messed up).
09-12-93    3   Drums with Airto and Flora; post drums with Ornette Coleman. They are the best bits, otherwise this show is pretty sub-par.
10-12-93    3   Yawn-a-thon show despite the presence of Branford. Nothing is terrible, but there is also zero interaction with the sax player.
12-12-93    3.5 First set was so-so, but second set was overall decent. No real jams but there was a nice flow. Even Truckin' was decent.  
13-12-93    3.5 Best LSD so far to start 2nd set. Decent Eyes and Days Between. It's not spectacular, but this is a pretty enjoyable show.
17-12-93    3   Jerry mumbles a song every show. Jerry has new pitchshifter. Screw up in Help leads to decent Slipknot. Struggles for energy.
18-12-93    4   Possible longest ever UJB at 23 mins, however the lengthy outro jam lacks fire. Maybe not a classic but very decent for 93.
19-12-93    3   Another very long show for the last one of the year. Not a bad show but lacks highlights and Jerry is a bit all over the place.

25-02-94    3.5 No SBD - very rare nowadays. Slow burning gig gets slowly better as it goes. Surprisingly energetic at the end of the show.
26-02-94    3.5 Another AUD. Eyes > Estimated > Terrapin is 49 minutes long! Estimated is decent. Bob does the SOTM solo. Not so bad.
27-02-94    3.5 Infamous 40 second Cosmic Charlie tease. So very cruel. Very good UJB jam. Sombre, MIDI filled space. Rest was solid enough.
04-03-94    3   First electric show with Bob playing acoustic? Musically ok but energetically very flat, especially the Throwing Stones end.
06-03-94    3   Apparently the last show with soundman Dan Healy. Slightly new up-tempo Stella Blue ending. Rest of show was quite flat though.
16-03-94    3.5 Opens real hot. Good set all the way to Easy Answers. Penultimate - and fast - Dark Star. Nice moments, needed a real highlight.
17-03-94    3.5 Early 94 sounds like 93 and possibly better than 92. Decent Playin > Uncle Johns. Surprisingly good Dew to finish the 2nd set.
18-03-94    3.5 Good first set sets up potential decent show but is nullified by lack of energy on the backend. Around x 2 always kills me now.
20-03-94    3   Yet another AUD, and not great either. Had some energy in the second set but largely anonymous and the AUD did not help out.
21-03-94    4   Car crash at end of Greatest Story. For the era, a killer set list. Monster of a Stella Blue, and best Lovelight since 1972.
23-03-94    3.5 Another decent set list. Show is not as good as the previous night but the Jerry ballads hold up well and energy stays to the end.
24-03-94    3   Another AUD, and it's not even a particularly good one. Show lacks cohesion and energy, and no Jerry ballad post drums. Boring.
25-03-94    3   And still the AUD's continue, and this pretty bad as well. Hornsby all show, but annoyingly on accordian. Lacklustre show.
27-03-94    3.5 Finally a SBD. Show starts well, dips in the middle but ends with a totally killer Morning Dew. Still, needed cohesion.
28-03-94    3   Mainly an AUD again. Unusual GDTRFB into drums. Pretty tame thorughout, although not played badly. Lacks spark and energy.
30-03-94    3.5 Final Dark Star. Classic setlist for the whole second set. Vince lazily does the Pigpen riff. Jams lack any depth or imagination.
31-03-94    3.5 20 mins for both Eyes and space. 2nd set ends on SOTM. The usual lack of dynamics and jamming for the period, but longer.
01-04-94    3   Picasso Moon almost falls apart. Songs now can be long but lacking in adventure. Drums / Space is too long - 31 minutes here!
04-04-94    3.5 Opening Slipknot is a mess. What follows is mainly pretty decent. For 94, this is a good show. Terrapin jam is pretty good.
06-04-94    2.5 Another AUD - not this many since 1979 or so. Also another SOTM 2nd set closer. Rest of show features almost no jamming.
07-04-94    3   A 6 song second set - seems the norm. Eyes > Playing > Terrapin either too slow or butchered. Saved partly by the jam into drums.
08-04-94    2.5 The flood of AUDs continue - and this is rough quality. Setlist is a turn off. Even has Around and then IFTL to exit. Not good.
08-06-94    2.5 Another AUD. Many shouts of "Turn it up!". Pretty ropey, Samba In The Rain first time played as well. Jerry wakes up for SOTM.
09-06-94    3   AUD seems to be the standard now. Deal is awful. Minor reggae jam after He's Gone. Jerry is sometimes there, sometimes not.
10-06-94    2.5 Of course an AUD. Jerry is sometimes in the uncanny valley. Sugar Mag > Touch interesting. Clunky in places, and uneven throughout.
13-06-94    3   This AUD is probably the worst of them all so far, and the show fails to exit. Morning Dew the only saving grace at the very end.
14-06-94    3   Finally a SBD. So many modern songs. Not sure what to make of Samba In The Rain. 30 minutes of space! Average for Summer 94.
17-06-94    3   First set Jerry is pretty absent. Samba isn't too bad but Jerry does not attack it at all. NFA has a proper stopped ending.
18-06-94    3   Not particularly bad but it doesn't inspire in any way. Second set lacks energy throught. Drums and space are getting too long.
19-06-94    3.5 Another 30min+ Scarlet Fire, but it doesn't go anywhere. for the period though, this is the first decent show for quite a while.
24-06-94    2.5 Fairly rough aud considering the time period. Really nothing of excitement here, fluffed lyrics and low energy are everywhere.
25-06-94    3   Not a bad show for 94 but tough to really say any of it was of quality. Lack of fire. If The Shoe Fits isn't too bad here.
26-06-94    3.5 Second set is 117 minutes long! It actully has some jamming as well, unfortunatly Jerry doesn't add much and too many mistakes.
01-07-94    3   "I Want To Tell You" new cover was fun. Playing jam was semi-decent, leading to a nice drums. On the whole not too bad for 94.
02-07-94    3   Has some positives (mainly the setlist and the 2nd set opening Help > Slipknot) but again falls down due to a lack of energy.
03-07-94    3.5 Very short but the first set was ok. Second set has some energy. Drums was killer! Have to say Corrina post drums doesn't work.
13-07-94    3   First set one of the best for some time. Show really dies after decent Truckin > New Speedway Boogie. Car crash in US Blues encore.
16-07-94    2.5 Another AUD only. It's like the Grateful Dead, but on mogadon. Really no energy or attack. Drums still ok. Uninspiring.
17-07-94    2.5 Sloppy, uninspired and lacking energy. Also, the audience tape wasn't that great. It's like a really lazy Jerry showing up here.
19-07-94    4   Decent first set with some energy. PITB is quite clearly the jam of the year so far. Lacks energy after drums, but decent enough.
20-07-94    3.5 First Childhoods End. Wtf? First Matilda was also a strange one. Great sounding tape. Good post drums including a rocking JB Goode.
21-07-94    3   Help > Slip > Franklins into drums was the highlight of this faiely average 94 show. Low energy is again the mood killer.
23-07-94    3   The Playin' > Terrapin jam was pretty reasonable but there's a lack of energy around it. Also, 25 minute space is definitly too long.
24-07-94    2.5 Yet another AUD. Strange set-list, it's like none of the songs have a real flow in set 2. Lot of length, but lacking in fireworks.
26-07-94    4   Second set starts with a decent China > Rider. Longest Estimated ever (20 mins). Very decent pre-drums. Really a decent show!
27-07-94    2.5 Some length: Corrina 20m, Days Between 15m, Let It Grow 15m. Nothing much of interest in those sections though. Pretty boring.
29-07-94    2.5 Bobby asks "Eternity?", crowd on AUD says no! First set is largely terrible. Second set is just plain boring mediocrity.
31-07-94    3.5 First set doesn't start well but energy picks up later. For 1994, this was surprisingly high energy, just lacked Jerry solos.
01-08-94    3.5 Jerry's last birthday show. Childhoods End is a bad song. The space is one of the best for a long long time. Good post-drums.
03-08-94    2.5 Gets slated on archive but maybe for the setlist. It's not great and Jerry mainly fails to show. Foolish Heart was decent enough.
04-08-94    2.5 Yet another AUD. 94 is the worst for this since 78. SQ ain't great and Jerry is mainly MIA. Arguing in the audience as well.
16-09-94    3   Another rough aud for the first set. Gets better for the 2nd set. No ballad post drums, but 3 rockers deliver surprising energy.
17-09-94    3.5 Jerry has shown up! A reasonable first set and a good Playin' to open set 2. Stella Blue and Baby Blue encore are pretty good.
18-09-94    3   Most of this show is pretty average, but the So Many Roads is excellent, although very foreboding. You can sense the end here.
24-09-94    3.5 Phil & Friends show. Reminds of that acoustic show in 78, although the song choices here are a less surprising. Worth a listen.
27-09-94    3   Seems to be an uptick from Jerry recently, at least I can hear him here. Better than summer, best song is the closing SOTM.
28-09-94    2.5 Whilst these shows are better than Summer 94, that does not say a lot. Even when Jerry shows up, little of excitement happens.
29-09-94    3   Not a fan of the pitch bender. Long LiG to finish set one and some jams into drums. Spanish jam was ok but nothing else hit me.
01-10-94    3   Long 2nd set - nearly 2 hours! A lot of songs tried something but no real spark was formed, although the Terrapin wasn't bad.
02-10-94    3   These current shows are better than summer but all lack some spark. Best of the bunch here is the Truckin' jam and outro.
03-10-94    3.5 First set is not bad and has a good Bird Song. Second set had unusual setlist and managed to be pretty decent for a change.
05-10-94    4   This show contains a decent first set, a wide awake Jerry, a serious jam in UJB and drums with Jerry. What a great show for 94!
06-10-94    3   Another AUD. Starts similar to previous night, although setlist is worse. High energy at start of 2nd set. Nice pre-drums.
07-10-94    2.5 Yet another AUD. First 2 songs are ok, then it just dies on it's feet. Dew at end of second set helps out just a little.
09-10-94    2.5 Jerry goes too early in Saint. Vince is doing more and more solos. Last Comes A Time might be the highlight of a rough show.
10-10-94    2.5 Worst Loose Lucy? It's a shambles. Jerry teeters on screwups quite a few times. Post drums better, except IFTL clunker encore.
11-10-94    3   Even these Miller boards aren't great quality. Jerry stays out for drums. Less mistakes than the last few shows at least.
13-10-94    3.5 First set starts well, although Weir's sound is more effect than guitar. Overall this is a decent show, helped by the setlist.
14-10-94    3.5 Very long and pretty decent Scarlet > Fire. Afterwards, dodgy setlist. Jerry is using the pitch shifter too much nowadays.
15-10-94    3   These MSG shows are decent for the era. This is like the last few, decent but slight unexciting. Almost no jamming here though.
17-10-94    4   A bit up and down but more up than down and the ups are great for 94. Encore with Dylan, "Everyone must get stoned!". Great!
18-10-94    3   Good start and first except for mood killer Childhood's End. Rest of show has a reasonable setlist but is devoid of excitement.
19-10-94    3.5 Last ever MSG show. Nice and relaxed first set. Setlist is pretty decent with a long Terrapin. Decent end to the show as well.
29-11-94    2.5 Rough aud. Decent if unusual setlist (Baba O'Riley > TNK > Drums!?). Show was very short. Playing jam was the best part. So-so.
30-11-94    2.5 Another aud. Ticked along in the typical 'bad '94' fashion, almmost no jamming and Jerry low in the mix. Estimated wasn't too bad.
01-12-94    2   Aud. Most aud tapes since 1971 or so. Bird Song has some length. Ropey quality, no jamming and Jerry is out of it. Boring.
08-12-94    2.5 Of course another aud, sounding a little distance. Jerry is half there. Largely anonymous, except for the LSD out of Other One.
09-12-94    3   A SBD, but Jerry sounds ill and forgets words. Horrible out-of-tune keys at Fire start. 64 mins pre-drums! Not totally shabby.
11-12-94    3   Jerry can't play Slipknot but otherwise first set not too bad. Overall not that bad a show for the period, Days Between was good.
12-12-94    3   Of course an aud. I would say this was "standard 94" - not a good thing. The Bird Song was decent, rest average. Long 2nd set.
15-12-94    2.5 Oh god, another AUD! More new songs = worse show. Show is also quite short. Bobby on acoustic in space. Not very exciting.
16-12-94    4   Last show with Branford. Only first set is aud, thank god. A proper "out there" jam in Estimated. Even post drums is decent.
18-12-94    2.5 A matrix aud, although the quality is iffy. First set is unremarkable. Seems to be a show where the band go through the motions.
19-12-94    3   Finally a SBD. 27 minutes of space is far too much! Other than the show is servicable, the highlight being the Days Between.

19-02-95    3.5 First Alabama for a while, although a little slow. Largely upbeat despite that. Quite high energy, this show surprised me a bit.
20-02-95    3.5 Decent first set. Whole show is remarkably decent, even Jerry shows up. Setlist was decent as well. Not a bad start to the year.
21-02-95    3.5 Salt Lake City is fun opener. In fact, best first set for a while. This is most awake Jerry I've heard for some time. Not bad!
25-02-95    3   Terrible, boomy audience from 1995. Great. There was a part in SBD and it didn't too bad. But the rest was hard to listen to.
26-02-95    3   With Dave Murray. Sounds decent, except that Jerry is largely MIA for most of the show. SBD mix wasn't great. Not terrible.
17-03-95    3.5 Start of 95 seems better than the end of 94. This is average, but that's good for these times. The LSD encore is the best yet.
18-03-95    3.5 Continues decent 95. New cover "All Too Much" is a bit messy, but Playin' jam is best for a while. Excellent visions. Nearly a 4.
19-03-95    3.5 First Unbroken Chain. It's not great but it hangs together just fine. Rest of show lacks risk taking but everyone seems on board.
22-03-95    3   Cracking Straw to open with. Energy dies down a bit afterward. Not really a bad show, but a better source would be an improvement.
23-03-95    3.5 Another Unbroken Chain sends the crowd wild, and is also a highlight here. Setlist isn't great, but overall mellow and decent.
24-03-95    3.5 Last High Time. Decent sound board with a hot start. I keep expecting the worst but these shows are all reasonably listenable.
26-03-95    3.5 Another reasonable first set. It's All Too Much is a bit hit and miss. Best Other One for some time. Best 95 show so far.
27-03-95    4   Short setlists, long songs. Jerry sounds like he is crying in So Many Roads. Insane Playin > UJB jam. A true 1995 scorcher!
30-03-95    3   This spring is perfectly reasonable, and better than all of 94. Weirdly fast Schoolgirl. So-so, although Visions was decent.
01-04-95    3   Wind in drums may be the highlight of this show which is far too laid back and lacks excitement. It's not bad, just unexitciting.
02-04-95    3.5 Short but enjoyable first set. Jerry is mainly with us. Overall a reasonable show. Best saved for the Unbroken Chain encore.
04-04-95    2.5 Unfortunatly an audience. Hard to get past that distant sound. A 17min Iko?? This is not a fun listen, largely due to the tape.
05-04-95    3   Another Matilda. Not helped by having out of tune Vince. Unexiting, but Jerry is still mostly there and the Dew wasn't too bad.
07-04-95    2.5 Final spring tour show. Long pre-drums. Well played but lacking any energy or creativity. Best, again, was the Unbroken Chain.
19-05-95    2.5 Aud to start the last tour. No dynamics from the tape. Jerry's guitar is just about there for the fills. PITB was not too bad.
20-05-95    2.5 Another aud. Hope to get some SBDs on this tour. Generally poor, low energy and Jerry is missing, expect for the Dew at the end.
21-05-95    3   First SBD of the summer tour. The quality certainly helps. Not a terrible show, the Spanish Jam > Other One is the highlight.
24-05-95    3.5 Decent and long Bird Song. Same could be said of the Estimated in the second set. Good show, much better if it was all SBD.
25-05-95    2.5 Unexciting and lacking in energy. The end of drums into start of space was the best, with a slight techno feel. Last Wheel.
26-05-95    3   Eternity is not a fun song. Rated by some as show of the year. I don't think so, but it isn't bad for 1995. PITB short but sweet.
28-05-95    3   Decent opener, and overall first set is decent. Star hint out of space. As recent shows, largely unexciting but not terrible.
29-05-95    3   Everybody's favourite - a summer 95 aud. Actually reasonable quality though, and energy retains itself to the end. Not too bad.
02-06-95    4   With the Guyoto Monks. Atonal Bird Song, proper GD. He's Gone jam tries something. Monks are great. The highs are unique and good.
03-06-95    3   Another (decent) aud. Please, no more Eternity. Servicable, with no surprises. Setlist is pretty decent, except for the Samba.
04-06-95    3   Setlist is pretty decent but nothing is played with any attack. Total train wreck Victim. Thankfully improves a bit after that.
15-06-95    2.5 All the tapes of this show are pretty rough. New cover Rumblin' & Tumblin' is a car crash. Largely lifeless and forgetfull.
18-06-95    3   Energy is kinda there for this one; Stagger Lee and China Rider are decent. Jerry messes up Wharf Rat. It's all over the place.
19-06-95    2   Never have I ever heard Jerry so low in the mix as this second set. He's literally inaudible. The band battle on somehow. Dreadful.
21-06-95    2.5 Keys out of tune for rough Scarlet > Fire. Saving grace is the final Morning Dew: "I guess it does matter, anyway". Heavy shit.
22-06-95    2   Last Help > Slip. Another aud. Horrible MSN as Jerry gives up. Jerry can't play Samba. Long and messy Terrapin. Out of tune in places.
24-06-95    3   With Hornsby. He might be the most upbeat player. Jerry sounding sad in So Many Roads. Not that hot. Black Muddy River sums things up.
25-06-95    3   Again with Hornsby. Rollin & Tumblin' - either a screw up or a jam. Drums is pretty decent. Not a terrible show. Post drums was fine.
27-06-95    3.5 AUD a little ropey. Long, decent Victim > Foolish jam (30 mins!). More average afterwards. This show really needs a SQ upgrade.
28-06-95    3   Another AUD. Whilst the setlist isn't actually too bad, there really is no sparkle at all. Also space at 21 minutes does nothing.
30-06-95    3.5 More AUD recordings. 4 rain songs in a row. Best first set for a while. Second set is average, except the excellent SOTM set closer.
02-07-95    2.5 Gatecrashers suck. Yet another AUD. First set is unexciting. Last Scarlet > Fire. More or less terrible for ost of the 2nd set.
05-07-95    3.5 Stranger wasn't too bad, rest of the set so-so. Garcia is there. Playin Reprise pre drums, and post not too shabby. Not a bad show. 
06-07-95    2.5 Uncle car crash. Rest is largly anonymous and retains a fairly low energy throughout. Best was probably the last half step in set 1.
08-07-95    3   Nice SBD. Jerry's voice sounds strained. Musically not unprofessional but lacks spark and energy throughout. Boring, if anything.
09-07-95    3   So Many Roads and longish Corrina are the highlights of a fairly low energy show. Shit Jerry sings "Last Muddy River". Did he know?