The first half is above average and the second below, but don't shy away if you like the period.īertha - great version & thrown in the jailhouse But he does his best - I imagine this was in a fully day-lit room? This must have been a very weird gig. It stays jammy - even through more verses - but Pig is in a position where he can't do a rap about putting your arm around a lady or so forth. They are only one minute into Lovelight when the breakdown starts. The last three are on Road Trips v1n3 (odd picks since they don't really stand up against the era). Charlie is also the second one ever - and the first decent one Scare you up and shoot you. El Paso is downtempo and waltzy The foul evil deed I had done. The second one ever, it's a very straight read when they come to take you down/meet you on the run. Cumberland Blues is missing the intro and part of the first verse. There's a Big RxR tease, but its Casey Jones You'd be better off dead. Me & My Uncle is pretty solid but the SBD has accumulated distracting distortion at this point I shot him down. Pig, whom the crew was careful not to dose, has to try to keep it together for Next Time You See Me You lied, cheated for so long. Others look for fights/got no sin upon his hand. And whoosh, the tightness is gone that quickly, with a nearly trainwrecked Playin' heading a downward trend that is probably just an indicator of how damned strange things were getting (the usual standard is for the familiar to become unfamiliar). The beginning of Loser-SS is slightly cut If I had a gun. They had reeled them in, then they take 'em for a ride: this China Cat>Rider is ten pounds of dynamite in a five pound bag. Even if it's not even the week's best, Hard to Handle is awesome.

Bobby McGee was played nightly in this period busted flat/freedom's just another word. This is a great version of Bertha just fun. Bobby tells the Yellow Dog story to chiack from Pig.

Watch how a string of Dead lyrics take on extra weight: The top is better - they never quite recapture the first half, as others have noted. The SBD is very Phil-heavy and somehow there are no AUDs! Playing one 2hr set, the setting precluded long jams, but it's still jammy in places. This show was added on their way from Connecticut to play the Hollywood Palladium, across town. Pedro is a district of the City of Los Angeles, but Terminal Island is technically part of the Port of Los Angeles, and not considered part of that district. Imagining the scene is essentially existentially impossible.

It was fashionable, after Cash, to play Cal prisons but this took on a different attitude: the legend is that the crew saw to it that many prisoners and employees got dosed. We are so lucky that this was captured and that it is accessible. This is the gig they played in a low security prison library for Owsley while he was incarcerated.

Lyrics me and bobby mcgee