headyversion

find the best versions of grateful dead songs

please login or register.

jack_a_straw

midnight sun

+7262


Submissions

8
Cumberland Blues
April 15, 1970
Winterland Arena

Killer show
16
Cryptical Envelopment
April 15, 1970
Winterland Arena

Killer version with a great latin jam after the drums, and the reprise goes into dire wolf.
3
And We Bid You Goodnight
Oct. 31, 1971
Ohio Theatre

No words, just the melody at the 6 minute mark of one of the best GDTRFB ever
9
Mama Tried
Dec. 31, 1976
Cow Palace

Great Show
8
Mexicali Blues
Nov. 17, 1973
Pauley Pavilion - University of California

Hot version
show more submissions

Comments

The Other One
June 22, 1973
Pacific Coliseum

An epic voyage through space and time. Everyone knows this show for the soaring Bird Song but the He's gone > Truckin' > NFBM jam > Bass Solo > The Other One > Wharf Rat > Sugar Mag is the real meat of this show. The whole show is insane and deserves way more love.
Playin' In The Band
June 22, 1973
Pacific Coliseum

The jamming is so tight its ridiculouss. They go through several themes, including something that sounds eerily like a proto Fire on the Mountain. Phil was must have been tripping hard during the whole show. Definitely one of my favourite '73 Playing in the Band, and thats not little coming from a year like '73...
China Cat Sunflower -> I Know You Rider
June 22, 1973
Pacific Coliseum

The whole band is on fire on the transition
Bird Song
June 22, 1973
Pacific Coliseum

I don't know how I feel with this sitting at number 3, I think it should be higher but the first and second versions are heady too. If we only had a better recording of this version....
The Other One
Aug. 14, 1971
Berkeley Community Theater

Sometimes the Dead would come up with these jams that sound so structered and composed it's hard to believe they only did them once (2-18-71 comes to mind). I've read somewhere on the web this jam named as "Almost-China Cat jam". Pretty accurate if you ask me. I'll start calling it that way. Definitely the highlight of the night and one of the best jams the band ever came up with, it's absolutely outrageous that this has so little up-votes.
show more comments
headyversion loves the dead but is in no way affiliated with The Grateful Dead or affiliated enterprises. find out more >:) >:)