11-25-73: feyline field, tempe, AZ. here’s an overlooked show from the fall ’73 tour. note for note, this performance is almost flawless; the playing goes from average to downright brilliant, with strong and deliberate vocals all around. some first set highlights include a fine take on sugaree, a very hot china cat > know you rider with a nice bluesy jam, and a highly exploratory playing in the band, loaded with thick jazzy textures.

set 2 finds the band ready to jump back into where they left off. after a rollicking around and around dusts off the cobwebs of the intermission, they haul out a few chartbusters from the recently released wake of the flood LP. the 30-minute sequence—eyes of the world > stronger than dirt > weather report suite—is revelatory, including an absolute scorcher of a pre-coda jam from jerome on let it grow. listening to this portion of the show, it’s not hard to imagine how satisfying it must’ve been to have made the trip to tempe that day. the charlie miller transfer from kidd candelario’s master reel recording is a huge upgrade from the cassette transfer previously available on the archive. https://archive.org/details/gd1973-11-25.sbd.miller.113007.flac16/gd73-11-25d1t11.flac