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El Paso
Nov. 30, 1973
Boston Music Hall

Fast and fun, the crowd really digging it. Great show in spite of some sound quality issues.
15
Playin' In The Band
Oct. 27, 1973
Indianapolis State Fair Coliseum

Trippy explorations at lightning speed with cool MHUT>Big River sandwich.
6
Mississippi Halfstep Uptown Toodeloo
Feb. 22, 1974
Winterland Arena

Nice groovy outro. Great show, good vibes.
31
The Other One
Feb. 23, 1974
Winterland Arena

Gets real out fuurther and faster then into a Help-Slip preview in the jam. Great interplay between Phil and Jerry.
8
The Music Never Stopped
Feb. 28, 1975
Bob Weir's Studio

Rehearsal, no vocals, brilliant explorations of the song in development. Great insight into the boys' collective mind.

Comments

Greatest Story Ever Told
July 18, 1972
Rossevelt Stadium

Jerry digs in deep. Sixteenth note precision gives it a blazing, over-the-top finish.
Comes A Time
July 18, 1972
Rossevelt Stadium

Damn, but they knew how to put people back together after blowing them to pieces. This Truckin'>DS>Comes a Time does just that.
Dark Star
July 18, 1972
Rossevelt Stadium

Sixteen minutes of musical bliss kicks off this glorious trek in and out and around inter and inner-stellar space. It's creative and coherent, and exactly what you might need if your looking for a mellow Star. But you'd be wrong, as after the first verse it gets good and weird. Like fifteen thousand squirming lizard-rats shrieking you out of existence without warning-weird. Good old Grateful Dead, they don't leave you there, but instead pull all of your disassociated molecules out of the aether and reconstitute you back on earth with a lovely, loving Comes a Time.... How do they do it? Who knows, but they do, and it works this time.
Truckin'
July 18, 1972
Rossevelt Stadium

Truckin' is systematically overlooked. This one is pure diesel power, and it kicks off one of the best - and weirdly underappreciated on this site - Dark Stars of '72. I love how the Truckin' is steaming ahead full speed but then just smashes head-on into the trip-zone, and away we go....
Bird Song
March 16, 1990
Capital Centre

Not sure how I got here, as it's way out of my normal comfort zone ('66 - '78), but damn, that's some good Bird Song. This lifts off and soars. Folks got a treat this night, that's for sure.