This show was sometimes traded BITD on a rec for "you gotta check out this Sugaree". Grand indeed, but there are also a couple more highlights. It's an overlooked tour, in the era when Sugaree was peaking and often the best song in the first set.

First Set. Jack Straw starts sloppy and with tech problems but then goes overdrive as Jer intently tries to kick things up a notch. Now ready, he wastes not a nanosecond to launch Sugaree. Simply incredible; almost or as good as 9/6 & 11/10 [the SBD is marred by static and the MTX sounds better here]. After a fine Rooster, the second peak of the set is Bird Song. Note @9:55, when Brent starts a melody, how quickly Jer picks it up. The rest is average to below average. Roses is one of just three in '85.

Second Set. There are some bright spots in Help>Slip>Franks, along with some sloppiness, blown lyrics and off-beat sections. Either way, there was a high-pitched noise that made it a wash [not from a pedal – that solution would be easy, though it doesn't happen]. Now it can be attenuated with digital filtering, as on the MTX, but it must have been very annoying in person. The noise comes back again during Estimated, but here the MTX is more exciting anyway. Eyes of the World is way uptempo, and it's the back line that bumps it up to respectable. The next section is average '85, until Goin' Down the Road. This is a crisply-ironed, speedway version, and the peak of the set. Keep Your Day Job is in its Sunday clothes, about as good as it got – especially the MTX (though low on Phil).

1st Set:  C
2nd Set: C
Overall = 2½ stars

Highlights:
Sugaree – one of the year's peakers in top form
Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad – crisp speedway
Keep Your Day Job – if you are looking for a best version

SOURCES: Most AUDs run fast. The nak300_barbella-14497 is best. The 150966_sbd_latvala is the updated SBD. It can use some BAL & EQ. The 15403_tetzeli_84410 has a slightly fast second set. The brame_15403 runs at Mickey Mouse speed. The 132153_mtx is the Usborne matrix.

Loving this Sugaree.... Jerry soars at around the 4:25 mark.

This has always been a fav from 85' but wow, nice SBD!?