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5
Feel Like A Stranger
Nov. 10, 1985
Meadowlands Arena

Set closer. Excellent!
2
China Cat Sunflower -> I Know You Rider
Sept. 29, 1989
Shoreline Amphitheatre

March winds gonna blow.... Classic late 809s version. Followed by excellent Blow Away.
7
I Need A Miracle
Oct. 8, 1989
Hampton Coliseum

Very surprised this ain't here. Not just because it's THIS night, but the way it thunders out of deep space...The crowd loved it! Deserves to be here!
1
Blow Away
Oct. 22, 1989
Charlotte Coliseum

Entire show is under the radar!
4
Queen Jane Approximately
Oct. 22, 1989
Charlotte Coliseum

A beauty! Should be heard and listed!

Comments

Uncle John's Band
Nov. 10, 1973
Winterland Arena

EPIC. EPIC. EPIC. This sequence, done perfectly from time to time, is one of those things that makes the Good ‘Ol Grateful Dead the finest band in the land. When the gorgeous Dew segues seamlessly back into UJB, then finds its way back to that Playin’……it’s as epic as any piece of music ever recorded, as powerful as anything Mozart, Beethoven, whatever, whoever, ever composed! I kid you not at all! And…. Epic is not a word to be used lightly!!!
Scarlet Begonias -> Fire On The Mountain
April 8, 1978
Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Seriously! This is so amazingly just about exactly right! I totally forgot I wrote comment here already, came here to write about how we have a lot of versions way over 100 points, etc. Then realized I didn’t even vote for this one!! LOL!
Scarlet Begonias -> Fire On The Mountain
April 8, 1978
Veterans Memorial Coliseum

A tsunami from a ghostly symphony!!! It surges, ebbs and flows. The transition is phenomenal. The whole shebang is brilliant!!
Help On The Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower
Feb. 26, 1977
Swing Auditorium

PHIL BOMBS GALLORE!!! Heavy metal thunder SLIPKNOT!!!! Shocked I never voted for this, one of my favorite shows ever!!! Glad to make it 101!!!
The Other One
Feb. 28, 1969
Fillmore West

Both Crypticals (the intro and the outro) are total scorchers on this night!!!!! As Bill Graham calls them at the start of this brilliant piece of music, the Last of the Gay Desperadoes were capable of being the greatest hard rock band in the world. Or as Miles Davis said, they were just a brilliant jazz band who played rock…..