Hey Now! Played on Mardi Gras day with 10 minute drum percussion lead-in to start the 2nd set! You'll like what the Big Chief say.

Not Space, but since there's no category for "jam" this beautiful calypso improv out of WomenRsmarter will have to do (also has an "Eyes" tease)

From the show always overshadowed by the next night, which is a shame. Fantastic Jerry/Brent conversation mid-jam. Give a listen!

Liquid

3 versions on archive. Grab the SBD seeded by Brian Cole. Listen to the insane end jam. Listen to the whole thing. This is an A+++ version!

Hands down the best version of the '90s, and quite frankly, stands up to just about any version of any era and by any objective measure should be way higher on this list, top 5, even, no kidding. Why? Let's begin with the vocals. Jerry could not be more committed here. Check out the "nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile" line and the subsequent crowd reaction. Even more telling, in a much more subtle manner, is his reading of the "knife in the back, and more of the same" line, which can sometimes fall flat in other versions but here is given a twisty, bluesy delivery, and the full band nearly acapella coda of "nothing's gonna bring him back" makes you feel like you're hanging with the band in the back of some back country blues bar at the end of a long night swigging whiskey. If that wasn't enough, Jerry rips into a grungy, gritty solo following the round robin vocals, and takes us out on what really has to be considered one of the best renditions of this song ever performed live. If you search the lower rungs of this site for versions of your favorite tunes that you didn't know before and will knock your socks off you will be supremely rewarded here. This is a diamond buried far in the rough.

Everyone loves the Cape Cod shows, except for me. I think they're amazingly overrated, especially with so many better shows in '79 that fly under its radar. HOWEVER, my favorite tune from the 10/27 show is this NFA, which, like most in this year, is super funky, grungy slow and awesome. Skip the tinkly-keyed Franklin's that goes on for far too long and hardly goes anywhere interesting, ditto the hideous Dancin' that precedes it ('ll take any '77 over it any day) & go straight for the Other One (very good due to Phil) and then this NFA, which is A+ stuff.

^^^^ It's fantastic and it's actually one of the better choices they made in issuing 30 Trips Around...You could make a case for any number of great June/July shows in '76 but they'd already released some and this show is a dandy. Highly recommended (I was lucky enough to have a friend who purchased the whole shebang loan me a copy).

and a killer reprise as well. Time I added my vote to this one. Could do so w/virtually every song they played this night,

Hey Dude420 I'm gonna do the same with a lot of the DP chart toppers here. I used to just take it in face value that an official release would have to be best sounding but sometimes that's not the case at all and a good matrix recording delivers a better punch and puts certain songs in a much better light. I like almost all the choices for those DP releases but I think some sound a little flat at times esp. vol. 1 and even vol. 3 which are both great shows.