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Playin' In The Band
Dec. 11, 1972
Winterland Arena

Expansive and spacious with brilliant flashes. Has a few bad AUD patches in need of a fix but well worth the ride.
7
Friend of the Devil
Dec. 11, 1972
Winterland Arena

Short and sweet. Not lickety-split quick pickin' à la 1970-71 and certainly not a slow-as-cold-molasses 80's style either, but nice and right. A gem.
6
Me and Bobby McGee
Dec. 11, 1972
Winterland Arena

Unique version. Great vocals with Jerry singing backup. Classic '72 sound.
4
Good Lovin'
Jan. 3, 1970
Fillmore East

Back from when this wasn't just a toss-off after Drums/Space. High voltage Pig.
3
Cosmic Charlie
Jan. 3, 1970
Fillmore East

Not mellow. Not spaced-out sweetness, but a burning hot re-entry after a rocketship TOO.
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Darkness Jam
Sept. 19, 1970
Fillmore East

One of the richest, densest jams in the heart of NFA. There's so much in this one, it may be up there as an emblematic epitome of '70 Dead.
Dark Star
Feb. 22, 1969
Dream Bowl

Endlessly inventive. Each listen seems deeper than the last, with interplay between everyone over constant variations of the melodic theme. Vaporous and etherial, though not a face-melter, just beautiful.
Dark Star
Nov. 2, 1969
Family Dog at the Great Highway

Something honest and straightforward about this one. Nice long exploration until the first chorus, then lookout y'all because it stretches way out and puts us into a deep and beautiful groove, just flirting around the chaos. Going through a big '69 phase now, and really digging the 'no bullshitness' of the period clearly in evidence here.
Playin' In The Band
Sept. 18, 1974
Parc des Expositions

Filled up with tasty exploratory jams, continuous musical churning and developments. Around 11:00 there's a cool rythmic jam that suggests the sound of '78 to me (maybe just imagined) and again around 18:00 there's some really innovative stuff. Even the long twisting path leading to the outro stretches to three minutes of hot jam. They had it all going on in Paris that night.
Crazy Fingers
June 9, 1976
Boston Music Hall

Sublime mysterious beauty. A river of dreamish memories. A sunrise. Edit: Listening again years later: It's sooooooooo good. "Cloud hands" and "strange fingers of light" always evoke those beautiful days when sunlight streams through clouds in columns of love, beams of beauty. R. Hunter and Jerry's genius combined so perfectly here.
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