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Brown Eyed Women
Oct. 2, 1977
Paramount Theatre

Perfection firing on all cylinders: Tight band, muscular beats, beautiful vocals (Donna's on!) and that applied greatness that is the '77 Dead.
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Doin' That Rag
March 2, 1969
Fillmore West

Blissful '69 chaos: Jer says, "Help! Help! Hey, we need some organized minds up here" and then they launch. Great fun and a wild ride.
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Comes A Time
Oct. 22, 1971
Auditorium Theatre

Pure. One of the first performances with beautiful, meaning-soaked delivery.
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Wharf Rat
Nov. 1, 1973
McGaw Memorial Hall - Northwestern University

Suffers a cutout in the middle, but reaches transcendant beauty and interplay. They end on a harmonics/tuning just delightfully right out of the song.
7
Mississippi Halfstep Uptown Toodeloo
Nov. 1, 1973
McGaw Memorial Hall - Northwestern University

Sweet and subtle, part of a mega-massive 2nd set jam. A beauty.
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Dark Star
June 7, 1969
Fillmore West

This is a real killer. About seven minutes in, right after the first chorus, Jerry flips a switch and warms us up with a repeating rhythmic figure for about a minute that then blisters your brain like a flying Warthog. This is a muscular, aggressive, heavy jam. Acid rock - not peace and love.
Mountains of the Moon
July 10, 1969
Playboy After Dark

This was the show's release date. The Jan. 18th date above was the recording, apparently.
Mountains of the Moon
June 7, 1969
Fillmore West

Slightly more muscular and driven than others, without the -> into Dark Star. It's the second-to-last time performed, too, as the date of the Playboy version is its release date rather than its recording. Why did they drop it? Such a beautiful sweet song, and interesting to me that they pulled it out for the '15 tour after all that time.
Eyes Of The World
Dec. 6, 1973
Public Hall

Slipknot teases sneak their way in perfectly just after nine minutes in this colossus of a jam.
Dark Star
Dec. 6, 1973
Public Hall

cgarces is right again. The jam at 35 minutes is a focused Phil-driven Miles-inspired and Seastoned-predicting enormity. This is advanced Grateful Dead. Do not try to convince your new girlfriend to listen to this band with this one unless she's a already an avant guard conceptual artist or jazz drummer....
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