| 1980-05-11 | Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland, ME | Thunder Skull Award |
| Set 1: Alabama Getaway > Promised Land, They Love Each Other, Cassidy, Loser, It's All Over Now, Easy To Love You, Big Railroad Blues, Looks Like Rain, Don't Ease Me In > The Music Never Stopped | Alabama Getaway > Cassidy, Loser, It's All Over Now, Big Railroad Blues, Don't Ease Me In > |
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| Set 2: Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, Feel Like A Stranger > Terrapin Station > Playin' In The Band > Drums > Space > Black Peter > Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad > Around And Around > Johnny B. Goode, E: Brokedown Palace | Scarlet Begonias > Feel Like A Stranger > |
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| Received by Dick | 1980-05-23 | |
| Tape Source | Barry Glassberg | |
| Review Entry Date | 1980-06-25 | |
| Dick's Review | Superb quality tape. It being in my opinion the best of the whole east coast tour. The show gradually picks up steam and by It’s All Over Now things are blistering! We next get a rare surprise Big Railroad Blues which is performed more excitingly than any other recent version. Looks Like Rain is also pretty intense. Don’t Ease Me In is very thrilling as in The Music Never Stopped. The 2nd set opens with a pretty good version of this standard medley but nothing outrageous. | |
| 2nd Review Date | 1983-06-19 | |
| Dick's 2nd Review | Big Railroad Blues still is the best version! I Feel Like A Stranger has some excellent jamming at the end. Terrapin Station is pretty well done and Playin' In The Band brings things up a few notches with some fine jamming. The percussion jam, which is probably missing a few minutes, has what sounds like a bass playing with the drummers and the effect is very captivating. The jam section gets going in the right direction (ie intensity) but quits early and goes down to Black Peter. Although there are a lot of red stars, this 2nd set hasn’t matched the requirements necessary for Thunder Skull certification. Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad is really one of the most exciting versions ever! Easily the best moments of the show. Around And Around and Johnny B. Goode both are quite exciting and my mind has been changed. This show deserves a Thunder Skull Award since it really never does let up from start to finish. There weren’t any really overwhelming moments as in characteristic of many Thunder Skull Award winners but it was consistently on a high level. |