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Morning Dew
June 13, 1994
Memorial Stadium

Very strong outro jam. Jerry may have had shaky fingers but he really busted his ass to deliver here.
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Loser
March 24, 1994
Nassau Coleseum

Jerry is absolutely dialed in, hot solo. Basically unknown show due to only AUDs avail.
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It's All Over Now Baby Blue
March 31, 1984
Marin County Civic Center

Jerry in stunning voice. Tearjerker version
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Row Jimmy
March 29, 1995
The Omni

Really beautiful version, Jerry clearly emotionally invested in the delivery. Great playing too despite the year. Worth a listen.
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Uncle John's Band
March 17, 1994
Rosemont Horizon

Sick end jam, unbelievable distorted wah feedback jam from bob at the end
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Uncle John's Band
July 17, 1989
Alpine Valley Music Theatre

Fine version, but nothing special. The mid solo is uninspired and short, and the outro is well-played but not unique. Any 8 minute version of UJB is generally too short. This whole show is overrated, imo. Well played versions and Jerry's clearly having a lot of fun, but I think it gets too high of a ranking due to its availability, it being on video (and released decades ago), and of course the fact that it's from an era during which a lot of users on this site were touring. I'd love to hear some of yalls opinions about this because I know a lot of people are willing to call out other overrated shows, but never seen anyone say much about this one.
Cumberland Blues
July 17, 1989
Alpine Valley Music Theatre

Decent, no, good version. I don't put a lot of stock in the idea that Jerry never played the same after the coma (i.e. he "lost something"), but I will say Cumberland was never the same after the coma. Give me any version from summer 86 or earlier before this one.
Cassidy
Oct. 12, 1983
Madison Square Garden

Not sure if there's a Cassidy out there that can compete with this one. Certainly no 70s version stands up...possibly a super jammed version from the 90s like 5/16/93, or one of the really spacey long ones like 6/25/94 or 3/29/95, but those are almost a different thing entirely. This one is extremely powerful throughout.
Pretty Peggy O
March 27, 1993
Knickerbocker Arena

Only okay, IMO. nice competent soloing and definitely pretty vocals, but there's a lot of versions from the Vince era that are better and ranked much lower, such as 3/21/94, 6/26/94 (GOAT 90s version), 9/29/94, and 5/28/95.
Bertha
Oct. 19, 1994
Madison Square Garden

Super hot and long. Don’t know how they kept it together for the last night of a grueling and lengthy fall tour with shows nearly every night but this is fantastic
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