Sunday afternoon in the summer of 1990

"Within these temporary autonomous zone include only the skill and attention to right now." So Karl Bruckmaier described a live CD of the JGB of the same year of the present record. And that makes it even. First: What a song selection! Van Morrison's "And It Stoned Me" next to the wonderful "Waiting For A Miracle" by Bruce Cockburn ("try to set the angel in us free"), Dylan's "Forever Young", and respiratory arrest time and everything. "Tears Of Rage" peels off so slowly from a chaotic rhythm to great America-parabola. In between, there are also times, yes, but, rock music ("Evangeline", "deal"). The guest Béla Fleck needs "Midnight Moonlight" to warm up, then he controls his banjo on "The Harder They Come" in, go Reggae Banjo and a Liaison one that a very psychedelic-dizzy. Before the end, the hymn is sung to the simple worker under the sun, "work like the devil for my pay." There are a two soul singers and let the sun rolling across the sky. But it's all just before the incident, brittle. A little hope, as Garcia's guitar reaches the higher spheres, oddly distorted, as if they would dare not even. And then Melvin Seals thinks now is's still good, and runs the whole of the billowing lowest registers in a gospel organ morning. "Wash all my troubles away." On August 5, 1990 is expected in the world hardly have been made more beautiful music than this. Cosmic American Music, indeed!