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CrackStraw

Bob's Guitar #1

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Its All Over Now
Oct. 25, 1985
The Fox theater

Killer!
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Estimated Prophet
Oct. 25, 1985
The Fox theater

A Dew rec brought me to this show - the Estimated made me want to talk about it
3
Jack Straw
Oct. 20, 1990
Internationales Congress Centrum

Probably my favorite versions with Bruce and that's saying a lot.
2
Shakedown Street
Feb. 21, 1982
Pauley Pavilion, UCLA

The bass and drums are practically absent on recording but Jerry/Brent/Bobby really sound great during jams. Any '82 Shakedowns are a B at worst
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Stagger Lee
Dec. 12, 1978
Jai-Alai Fronton

12/16/78 Lite. Typical tight late '78 version with whistling Bobby and all.
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Jack Straw
May 7, 1978
Field House - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

What are you waiting for? Listen to this.
Sugar Magnolia
Nov. 10, 1979
Chrisler Arena

^Someone in band gives positive reinforcement after a killer BTW from 6/14/91. For the contrary check out Garcia after LLR 12/30/78, paraphrasing: "Weir you started that thing off so fucking slow man, so slow'....'I'll start it even slower next time'
Big River
Nov. 10, 1979
Chrisler Arena

Jerry does go nuts around 3:37-4:51.Fact checked .Maybe Silver medal winner of first set. Brent being his usual fall '79 self. Gold goes to freaky CRS to start show. This is a really strong show wish Bobby's guitar wasn't buried in the mix.
Aiko Aiko
Aug. 30, 1978
Red Rocks Ampitheatre

Red Rocks '78 part two has some great gems. Love this Iko that is indeed out of easily the strongest IIHTWTG
Believe It Or Not
July 17, 1988
Greek Theater - University of California

Gomorrah's little brother. I love this version and the killer Throwin' that follows. Let me show how I love it, vote up or not? I got to see this song performed by DSO back in '09 in Ithaca for their 2000th show. I was in the ~10-20% of the audience who actually recognized the song, lost my shit during the opening riff and it almost brought me to tears - believe it or not.
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