Pre-verse one has Bobby us all over the place, battling with Phil for who can play the odder time signature. This Dark Star has an achingly beautiful, emotive quality to it. Now going on listen number 25 of the week, all I have to say is, Where the sam-hell have I been? I'm flummoxed that I have been missing out on this gem and I fear that some of you might be to!? So, here is a review, my first in a long time: Welcome home.Īnyhow, I was introduced to the 11-15-71 DS>El Paso>DS this week. It just creeps in and then you suddenly look around in bewilderment, as though someone has played a joke on you, because they're playing China Cat Sunflower! Out of Not Fade Away! Quickly, however, you realize that it was only a tease, a small tidbit for the masses, as they dissolve the theme into a gushing, warm, clear, rivery jam that chases you from the bottom of a grassy valley to the top of a majestic, rocky mountain, and back again! Before you know it, Jerry is bringing in the GDTRFB with those fingers of his and your mind, or what is left of it, anyway, is tossed gently from the eagle's wings into the flowing air. Anyway, he plays it for a measure or two, and before then nobody, even you, don't hear it. But specifically, I want to focus on one of my favorite moments of the jam, at 3:59, when Bobby finds, in the midst of his beautiful higher-register rhythm jamming, that classic riff from China Cat! You know the one that I'm talking about, don't you. I know many people have raved about the NFA that went down on this night in the "center of the world," and allow me to join this group. Set 2 - unusual - no real "bust-out" suites here - everything just builds very gradually, one on top of the other, until it lets itself totally loose in that first NFA Jam - wow, this is red-smokin' hot stuff! The only track that seems absolutely out of place here is Hank Williams' You Win Again deep, deep into the set - it just seems absolutely wrong - from that brilliant Sugar Magnolia you can one-up it by going right on over to NFA. Set 1 - everything's very solid, but of course everyone's abuzz about the Dark Star weirdness in the first set - they drift into El Paso not once but twice, finally latching onto the jam and abruptly returning into Space and then a full-on jam on varying themes. Fortunately, this show survived intact if you're into buying official releases - this is masterful '71. Keep the shows together or else leave what's left up for us to enjoy.
I'm kind of split on this Road Trips release - I've heard it and it sounds fantastic, but they sliced up 11/14/71 and bumped it off the archive.
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