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aud [2007-08-30]Soundfield has a nice hall ambiance, some crowd chatter but overall not bad. Supposedly the whole show. Here's a LMA comment which exaggerates a little my feelings of teh show but is more or less accurate. "let me start by saying that if there was a sbd of this show in existance, there would probably be about 30 reviews already, probably along the lines of "dude, this show rulez!!!", etc... well, it DOES fucking rule, aside from some obvious sonic limitations... but see, that the thing... it's a goddamn audience tape from 1970! of course it's gonna sound funky... if you can't wrap yr head around looking beyond some pops, crackles, some dudes screaming, clapping, bumped mics and so forth, there are tons o' boards on this here site to stream yr lil' wiener into a knot if you so desire.
oh, the show?... a very nice "black peter" eases you into the action nice and slow, but they kick up the pace big-time by "china > rider"... it's now one of my favorite versions from this year, with an exceptionally hot transition jam... the "high time" is certainly "epic", as an earlier reviewer stated, but it seems like such a tease now that i've listened to this show a bunch of times, because the jams that follow (i'm excluding the virtually non-existant snippet of "dire"...) are definitely the meat of the show. and on this night, the dead came out swingin' some BIG fuckin' meat, if you dig... I really can't say enough about how heavy this all gets... you get dropped right in the middle of an absolutely BLISTERING "not fade away", jerry and phil combining into one vicious, jamming, freaked-out freakatoid. mickey and billy stomp into "drums" like a zulu tribe drunk on wild boar's blood... mr. lesh machine-guns' the intro into "good lovin'", and you can tell the crowd is fucking ELECTRIC... this is real shit. well, our favorite band is time-travelling by this point & they slam warp-speed into "the other one"... garcia's lines are mind-numbingly fast and pissed off sounding... just fucking crazy!... back into "not fade away" once more just because it HAS to happen this way (pre-ordained or something...), galloping like the 5 ton wild horse that they are, and then.... one of theee most ball-shredding "lovelight"'s that these ears have ever had the pleasure of hearing (keep in mind folks, i'm still listening to an AUD!!!(shocking but true...)... pigpen delivers like a MAN on this night, and the rest of the guys are playing like f'in studs.... a classic ending to what should be a classic show... take some time and enjoy this one. you deserve it."
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