A little something I put together with a little help from some friends.

As a special Christmas/holiday treat, here is the latest liberation from the Dogs of Doom: a brand new, never before heard audience source of the band's 2nd of six shows at Madison Square Garden during their 1977 North American tour! This audience recording is a significant upgrade over the two previously circulating ones, and is roughly on par with the better sounding tapes of the June 10th and June 13th shows. It's also mostly complete as well. Special thanks to Glyn for his transfer of these sources and to Ed for merging them! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everybody!

My guess is that the broken finger actually made him more focused and forced him to concentrate more on his playing. Most of the January and early February shows are very good from him. But as the tour wears on, he actually gets more inconsistent (starting with the next show in Landover which, in a cruel twist of irony, is where the soundboards all start popping up). I think after this show in Philly, he probably got overconfident and felt that he didn't need to concentrate as much. I think this is also where the Jack Daniels starts affecting his playing substantially.