headyversion

find the best versions of grateful dead songs

please login or register.

Carrion_Crow

Stealth Head

+49667


Submissions

9
Sugaree
Sept. 10, 1972
Hollywood Palladium

So perfect, it's hard to believe that people could improvise music like this together. This amazing show deserves a clean-up!
14
Big River
Dec. 6, 1973
Public Hall

Overlooked: Between one of this site's favorite HCSs and one of its favorite Dark Stars is a perfect, articulate, and virtuoso version of Big River.
3
Casey Jones
Oct. 28, 1972
Cleveland Public Hall

Just outrageous. Problematic show b/c of mix and cuts in the source. Not here: just a blizzard of jam.
4
Greatest Story Ever Told
Oct. 28, 1972
Cleveland Public Hall

Show is overlooked b/c mix problems, but they're absolutely on fire and this version shreds like all get-out. Call C. Miller for this one please!
6
Playin' In The Band
Oct. 28, 1972
Cleveland Public Hall

Could be massively heady, but Billy is so high in the mix that it's hard to follow others. Any cleaner versions out there? Has everything but the mix.
show more submissions

Comments

Cream Puff War
July 16, 1966
Fillmore Auditorium

Maybe the best one so far. They nail the changes in meter and syncopated transitions better than any time before it in rehearsal or live, and the jam just kicks ass, closing out a set that must have blistered the unsuspecting's eyeballs. I think they shelved parts of it, but mined it for juicy bits that you can pick up in the Anthem of the Sun era: It sounds to my rusty old ears that there are pieces of Cream Puff War that then informed Caution, and also parts of the CE>TOO suite.
Beat it on Down The Line
July 16, 1966
Fillmore Auditorium

Bobby's just a baby and he sounds like a demented carny. "Surf punk" doesn't even begin to describe it. I love this so much.
Dancin' in the Streets
July 3, 1966
Fillmore Auditorium

It's incorrectly listed as the first Stealin' track on this link. You can also get to it - and y'all really should - by clicking on the link, "check for other copies", then follow the white rabbit put there by the heroic Charlie Miller for a whole set of other beauties from this show.
New Minglewood Blues
May 19, 1966
Avalon Ballroom

Proof that Bobby didn't start shrieking in the '80s here. They sound so punk-rock, 10 years before that scene hit California. So cool to go all the way back to the beginning. Check out this whole show, for one of the first live recordings of a whole set out there. Thanks Archive!
Hurts Me Too
May 19, 1966
Avalon Ballroom

Pigpen was a fully formed and mature blues singer at this point. The rest of the band is still getting it together, still primal and not fully formed. But Pig... oh man. Pure Pig.
show more comments
headyversion loves the dead but is in no way affiliated with The Grateful Dead or affiliated enterprises. find out more >:) >:)