6/26/74 - Providence, RI - DP#12 **
Superb setlist. Another perfect Pick. The show kicks off with a kickass Big River that shreds. BE Women is good as always, but it suffers from varying tempo issues – they can't decide how fast to play it! :) BIODTL is rather poor – it sounds like Jerry is having problems. Scarlet Begonias is extremely chill tonight – it sounds like a quasi-reggae version almost! WOAH!!!!! HEAR DONNA WAIL!!!! I thought it was Bruce Dickinson for a moment!!! The jam gets really cooking but unfortunately right when it seems like it's about to really take off, they pull the plug on the song. :(
BT Wind is pretty excellent, all passion as usual. Row Jimmy is excellent and Mexicali Blues is FANTASTIC tonight! After a fine Deal, a great The Race Is On follows. Why did this not become a staple?! Half-Step is wonderfully understated tonight. Jerry is soloing with a great deal of tasteful restrain and it fits it perfectly. Ship Of Fools is Ship of Fools.
Up next is an absolutely gorgeous-as-all-hell Weather Report Suite. Oh my goodness, listen to the playing on the Prelude. This whole 17 minute WRS is the first must-have highlight of the night. The LIG jamming is intense! This comes to an end in the form of a perfect It Must Have Been the Roses. Find me a better one – I dare you! :) US Blues has horrible mix issues.
Thankfully these are resolved by the time China Cat begins. It is TERRIFFIC!!!! It has a really, really, cool intro jam for 5 or 6 minutes before the song even begins!! Some of the coolest standalone jamming ever. Including the jam, this China>Rider is 21 minutes long! ONE OF THE BEST CHINA>RIDERS YOU WILL EVER HEAR. China>Rider is just the start of the fun, though.
Up next is an incredible 40-minute Truckin>TOO>Spanish Jam>Wharf Rat of epic proportions. Truckin is KILLER!!! The TOO isn't really TOO, just a short bass solo segue into a 15 minute Spanish Jam that sees Jerry breaking out the slide for some EPIC playing. In. Sane. The gorgeous Wharf Rat that follows this up is the sweet, sweet icing on this perfect cake. A picture perfect Sugar Mag that is on the chill side closes the main show. An excellent-but-short standalone Eyes is the encore.
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