From: Charlie Dirksen
4/22/92 Eugene Oregon

Thanks for the tape, Fitz!  I can't believe how loose/sloppy this set
is.. there are many sloppy mistakes, but there's a lot of very fun
stuff to make up for it!  It reminded a lot of 2/20/93-2, actually, in
this sense.  The Glide is weird, the Wilson has a huuuuge opening with
Trombone and signal language, Antelope has a Stash tease, etc.  Plus
there's a Harpua...

YEM opens up kinda sketchy-like.  Trey isn't terribly solid.  Nirvana
occurs around 2:19 or so, after some nice fooling around before it
(crescendo/descendo fun with the preceding Nirvana licks..).  Nirvana
section is fine.  Mike's solo-section is soulfull and long.. Mike
doesn't really quit and is quite active.  (it is wonderful to hear him
so prominently in the mix of this SBD, of course... but he doesn't
sound all that grand in the pre-charge section, unfortunately!)
Trey's jamming around the first shot at the Note is quite active and
solid... the second shot at the Note at 5:18 isn't sustained well, but
he jams reasonably well around it.  Still not that great of an opening
segment, in all honesty.

"Boy" at about 5:53 after a good scream from Trey.  BMGS/WUDMTF
segment is standard, although Page noodles a bit in it, and again, it
is great to hear Mike so prominent in the mix!  Tramps jam around 8:10
or something, and Page noodles away while Mike and Trey bounce (Mike
is giving the signals).  Page doesn't really get down, prefering just
to noodle here and there, for the most part... Page plays pretty well
to close out the segment, but it isn't quite as amazing a climax as it
could be (and has often been).

Jam segment begins at 10:30 with Trey sustaining a note.. and then
quickly breaking into jamming-mode.  He's not noodling in here at all
at first, but just jamming in Rock Star Trey fashion.  The
accompaniment from the others is standard '92 YEM fare.. Trey starts
jamming well around 12:10 or so, somewhat repetitively, but it is
nice.  At 12:30 or so there's a Simpsons signal.. nice segue into it
out of the jam.. nice segue out of it, too.  Trey climbs the 'doc and
starts rippin around 13 minutes, but, again, in typical rock star
old-YEM fashion...

At 13:21 or so it is bass and drums, and damn, is it niiiiice to hear
Mike so well in this segment.  Fishman is accompanying well, too.
Mike isn't all that smokin', though.. until about 14 minutes, when he
starts getting more into it (and Fish starts letting loose a little).
Nevertheless, not a terribly impressive bass&drums segment.  Mike is
funking rather lightly.. he doesn't funk too phaaaatly.

Closing WUDMTF segment at 14:57ish, and the vocal jam readily ensues
(Mike and Fish play a little in here before the vocal jam begins).
The vocal jam doesn't begin at all normally.  "Salad is coming down"
from Trey, spoken clearly.  "Solid K" vocal jamming.. some echo
effects are employed. Extremely bizzarre vocal jam, even for vocal
jams.  Harmonizing around "Solid K" and forms thereof for awhile.
Wicked weird.  "Folding chairs" into "dark chairs" into "dog
chairs"... Lots of "dog chairs" harmonizing, too.  Bwahahaaa.
CH-ch-chair.. then "salads" returns.  More dog chairs.  Queer
harmonizing at the end with some echo effects thrown in.. Total time
18:58.

Well, vocal jam definitely makes this version special.  I thought the
rest of the version was easily typically standard old YEM material,
and not even especially good.  C+ rating, but only for the vocal jam.
Otherwise a "C" easily.  "C" meaning

C       Reasonably good, straightforward version.
        Not terribly interesting, or long, in light
        of many other versions, but still contains
        some meritorious jams.  Solid.
 

two cents
charlie