This is the 4th show of a 6-day Boston run, and usually considered the tour's best. It's also a top 5 of '94. Playing with awareness of the moment, they stretch the second set to two hours.

First Set. You have to be warmed up to open with Help Slip>Franks. They certainly are. Slipknot! is especially beautiful, and Vince is great. Notice by Walkin' Blues that this is an uptempo set for the era. Althea is pat throughout, confident. Bobby plays acoustic for Me & My Uncle, though it's turned down/off in the mix [w/levels brought back a bit on the multitrack OFF]. The rest is average or less. Phil's still a Lovecraftian in Tom Thumb's ("my tentacles are twisted and my eyestalks they're all in a knot"). So Many Roads has many muffed verses but a nice enough climax. Better ones exist, and they are quite sloppy by Promised Land; ready for a break.

Second Set. This is perhaps the best end-period Scar>Fire. It's that good [the very beginning is cut on SBDs/OFF/Matrices. Try the 132503_nak300 for the clearest AUD]. The ephaptic coupling in the Scarlet jam sent me left at the lights. I feel like I could write 100 words on just this transition. Fire is one of the longest (longer than 10/21/83). This cake keeps layering more frosting. Hope you like frosting*. After getting through Way to Go Home, Saint is clunky but has an okay jam. Likewise with Terrapin, where I do dig the end jam. Drums has been mixed down differently on the OFF, so the SBD is more accurate/faithful to the actual show. After a long-ass Space, the rest is average, save the shaky, nearly trainwrecked Liberty.
*You like frosting don't you? Everybody likes frosting.

1st Set:  C+
2nd Set: C+
Overall = 3 stars

Highlights:
Slipknot! – Vince also great
Althea – pat, confident
Scarlet Begonias>Fire on the Mountain – an era highlight

SOURCES: The 150116_dsbd_miller is the polished & updated SBD. The seamons_95066 is a lively matrix. The 153204_senn-me88 is a recommended AUD. The whole show is in the 30 Trips box (the mixdown sounds great). Definitive Live has So Many Roads. The show is usually up on YouTube, in variable quality, and with a few mins cut from Drums>Space (and w/Vince nearly invisible).