From: Charlie Dirksen
10/31/90  Armstrong Hall, Colorado Springs, CO

10/30-11/4/90 are all available on fully digital,
crispy-clean soundboard (not analog cass-> DAT, which is
what all publicly available copies of 12/30/93, 2/20/93,
etc. are on), so seek 'em..

First set YEM.. Textbook opening.  Nirvana at 1:45, no
vibration of life sortof preliminary build-up, as in all
these old versions.  Mike's solo section is extremely
mellow, and I'd swear he teases something in here that
might be out of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Don't ask me why I think this.. it is a quick tease.  And
I haven't seen Willy Wonka since I was but a
pre-adolescent tweezerd00d.  YES YES!!  It is the ending
of the Oompa-Loompa main chorus!!!  I just figured it
out.. I feel good now.  =^]

Charge at 4:54 or so (oh -- trey hit the Notes fine.. no
big deal).  "Boy" at 5:10 after a reasonably
straightfoward scream... (hey you Mike fans.. Mike kicks
ass in these 10/30-11/4/90 mixes.. he's UP THERE, and it
sounds GREAT..)

WUDMTF segment is just as straightfoward as the opening.
Nothing special at all.  Magnifiscently plebeian... but it
is awesome hearing Mike funk away so well. ;)

Tramps Jam segment at 7:21, and they be on the damn tramps
for  sho.  Mike is signaling (and the crowd screams are
coming through the board.. weakly).  Page's grooving in
here is pleasant.. nothing extremely fancy.

Jam segment at 8:50 something.. Trey came right in
noodling.  Mike is teasing Wilson in here, all over the
place (Page joins him for a wee bit).  Trey's soloing is
very melodious, as if he had a vision for this particular
jam.  Meticulous, with some tasteful sustain and gentle
trilling around the 10:45-55 region.. It is certainly one
of the better YEMs reviewed to date, and Trey gets
airborne around 11:30 to close it out.

Mike comes in (with Fish) for bass and drums around 11:47
or so groovily funking, but nothing terribly exciting
happens.  It is good to hear him so clearly, of course,
but outside of consistently jamming (no spacey hopping
around), he does nothing exceedingly impressive given what
he was capable of then.. relaxed.

WUDMTF closing segment at 12:20 something.  With a vocal
jam kicking in shortly.  This vocal jam is Nuts.  They
tease a YES tune, that I should know.  Long Distance
Runaround!!!   They tease this for awhile, but not for the
whole version.. but then they come back to it now and
then.    Total time 15:52. [Someone also posted about Dizzy
Gillespie's "A Night in Tunisia" being teased in here.]

Pretty straightfoward, solid, Great YEM, folks.  I mean, damn, if
this isn't average, I don't know what is. (C/C+ rating)