The first set kicks off with a sumptuous Cold Rain And Snow followed up by an always welcome Cassidy, especially so when Jerry’s playing and Donna’s vocals are so dialed in. As is clear in these first tunes, Keith is on fire throughout the night. But he really comes to the fore on a brilliant Big River a few tunes later. A bit further on, Keith continued his consummate play on a leisurely Friend Of The Devil, setting up Jerry’s solo with a masterly one of his own. Bobby and Donna’s vocals on the Looks Like Rain that follows would have made this rendition noteworthy on its own, but Keith and, especially, Jerry’s playing push this LL Rain into best ever territory.

A sublime Let It Grow opens the second set with a fantastic drum solo in the middle. Plumbing the depths of space at the end, the boys suddenly find Wharf Rat. At first precious and timid, the Wharf Rat gains strength as it goes, culminating in a powerful jam, which provides an apt prelude to the Samson And Delilah. And once the drummers pound the band into Samson, they are off and raging. A three minute break follows, and the tuning making it pretty clear they are headed to Help On The Way. And that is just where the Dead go, settling in and starting to groove together in mind-meld fashion. They stay connected into Slipknot!, and, before long, that tune blossoms, reaching epic territory on the back of Keith and Jerry’s incredible interplay. Franklin’s Tower billows out of the tail end of Slipknot!, and, at fifteen minutes, ranges through several different smoking and inventive passages. Sugar Magnolia picks up on the back end of the Franklin’s Tower, delivering a bright and lucid end to the set. A rocking US Blues encore then sees out the show.