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May 2, 1970
Harpur College

Gotta be grateful.
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Cold Rain and Snow
May 2, 1970
Harpur College

Out of tune and a bit of mess, but it's time this tune joins the list on the 50th anniversary of a masterpiece of a night!
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Sugar Magnolia
Sept. 11, 1974
Alexandra Palace

Another beauty with a nice long break before Sunshine...
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Me and Bobby McGee
Sept. 11, 1974
Alexandra Palace

A real beauty.
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Loser
Jan. 29, 1987
San Francisco Civic Auditorium

Rips nicely.

Comments

Dancin' in the Streets
April 10, 1978
Fox Theatre

The first half jam almost makes this a top tier version…. a wonderful jam. Keith’s piano glows. Really, really great! Then Bobby counts down the twisty coda jam and the bottom drops out a bit. The final jamming tumbles and falls, eventually landing in one the earliest semi-official Drumz….
The Other One
March 2, 1969
Fillmore West

Vicious, relentless, fantastic, fiery scorcher out the gate to the very last insane rips of the Cryptical Envelopment Coda… totally insane, right up there with 5/2/70, 2/13/70, etc…. And yes… this is the greatest introduction, and most accurate, in GD history, when Bill Graham calls them “The American version of the Japanese film the Magnificent Seven” (which is hilarious, since Kurasowa’s film was the Seven Samurai, which John Surges based his movie on, etc, etc, etc….) Not just one of the best Other One-Cryptical ever… one of the greatest musical works of art of all time, though the Dead are responsible for a lot of those, but…. Anyhow!!! Enjoy!!!
Sugaree
May 19, 1977
Fox Theatre

Shredfest! Swings on all cylinders as does the entire show!
Jack Straw
May 17, 1977
Memorial Coliseum

Rip roaring!! Everything on this night is stellar! Tight, quick, short, but pretty much a near perfect Jack Straw from a great top 50 show!! Maybe top 25….. could be top 10…. (for me!)
Help on the Way
Oct. 9, 1976
Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Stadium

A centerpiece for a fantastic second set! Almost a stand alone HELP since it takes a while for it to find its way to Franklins, so that's why the voting is here. And the SLIPKNOT is ridiculous. But really, the whole sequence of St.Steph-NFA-St.Steph-Help-Slip-Samson-Slip-Frank is phenomenal!!