From: Charlie Dirksen
8/2/96 Wolf Mountain, Park City, Utah The sound on the lawn (towards the front) at this venue was the best lawn sound
I've ever heard. CD-quality (I'm not kidding). The double, full rainbow before the show was the highlight of the show for me
(but hearing the new arrangement of Caspian was otherwise the highlight..;-). Thanks, Phil N., for the tapes! This first set
Tweezer immediately begins upon Golgi's close. Typical Tweezer tempo. Opening segment fairly upbeat.. the pre-Ebeneezer
jam segment contains some nice clav-action from Page, and funking from Mike, but isn't especially engaging. It is also very
short. There is a little screaming on "Ebeneezer" from Fish I presume, but he stops fairly soon... Jam segment opens up early at
4:15. Trey kinda fades IN beautifully, and begins to solo melodiously (but cautiously.. no raging noodling). The first two minutes
are surprisingly not that repetitive (well, what Trey is soloing). Around 6 minutes, Trey gets into quite a nice groove for about 20
seconds or so, but he cuts out of it soloing melodiously. Which is too bad, because I think that groove had potentional to take
this version somewhere new. Around 7 minutes, Trey is still melodiously soloing, but he isn't as "cautious" (steady, reserved,
slow) as he was earlier. Nonetheless, he doesn't find any theme to dance around, and the jamming seems fairly aimless and
even, dare I say, self-indulgent. The accompaniment from Mike, Page and Fish is typical tweezer. Just nothing of unusual merit
at all. By 8 minutes, Trey has started to noodle more fiercely, but is still not going anywhere especially kind, imo (even though,
by 8:40ish, he's jamming accurately and passionately). Around 9:45 or so, there some nice conclusory jamming, but The Note
comes in at 9:54. Then a fairly typical dying out of the Tweezer-theme ending occurs (like the versions of Olde). This Tweezer
was below average very DAMN sure, especially for the last couple years. It is pretty dull, all things considered. Total time 11
minutes, and well, 4.0 rating. This version is strikingly akin to the Amsterdam version, as bereft of ingenuousness as that version
was.