Indeed about quality. Re: the Hunter critique, true enough all too often but I suppose I was and remain more fascinated by whatever he was doing. Later shows prove that it was worth the wait as he returned to his pure form, its a shame he never recorded more that way.

Awful. I love Cipollina, but it's hard to find him in a band where the other hairy assholes give his sound any support at all.

Can I talk about Robert Hunter for a while? Splendid lyricist, atrocious performer. I find his personal style quite offensive, actually. His act is to portray someone who's not acting, portraying, performing, pretending... It's this hyper-masculine thing of being "natural", spontaneous. Romanticism. The ironic reality is that it IS all an act, and if he just allowed himself to perform (instead of doing a kind of performance of non-performing, which is much more complicated and stupid), he might actually sound good. He has amazing depth; why can't he perform in a way that doesn't make him seem so bottomlessly shallow, so fascistically American? At least he comes off as literate, but I fell asleep when I went to see him in concert.

Are you sure that this is a SBD recording? It sounds like a poor audience recording. Great show with a lot of energy. But the sound is awful.

Good show/good to fair recording...check out the the easy wind, a rollocking festival of sounds, unlike anyway I've ever heard this song played by ANYONE OR ANY BAND.