Man, this setlist tantalized us back in the day but the only available recording in the cassette era was a boomy and a little distorted audience recording. While the Neumann source is top notch, I wanted to give the soundboard a spin to finally hear the show in its glory. Here were my revelations: A very solid Half Step for the time stumbles a bit into a surprise Franklins that starts in the lower register of the strings. Dancin’ in the Streets is the real curveball though and it’s a very electric version. It is pushed along harder than usual by Phil and the drummers and Jerry contributes a unique solo that starts with a long sustained note. The wheels come off a little with Brown Eyed Women’s lyric flub; I always wondered what Jerry said off mic after missing two lines to open the song and the soundboard does not clear up the mystery. Tom Thumb Blues suffers from Phil’s silly lyric changes but the set recovers with a pretty good Stagger Lee and another surprise, an ultimately grounded Sampson and Delilah. Second set continues the very brisk motion through this show, as if the band seem determined to get through this Alpine run as quickly as possible. Maybe Jerry was too sick to loiter. Maybe the hotel was particularly cool. (I like hotels.). I’ve always liked this Estimated>Eyes and I don’t recall Jerry’s guitar being so distant in the crummy audience recording but here on the soundboard, it seems to not be mic’d correctly. Shit did happen. Four years later at RFK, a poorly placed mic would cause him to be inaudible until halfway through Bertha but that’s another show. Drums and space are sparse and underwater and The Other One is unhinged with Jerry coming in too early and Dan Healy overdoing it a bit on the Bobby-obscuring FX. The aforementioned rhythm guitarist steers it immediately into a quick, quick Wharf Rat and then right into the end of the show and thank you ma’am, enjoy the parking lot.