Halloween psychedelia

Jerry's chromatics liquified my face. Total acid-drenched mindmeld.

Gorgeously haunting.

So thoughtful. It's got that haunting swagger.

The amp tubes are glowing white-hot and the Boys are not letting up. Face-meltingly hot.

Jerry's perfectly timed use of feedback/effects in the first couple minutes of this melted my face off. Absolute genius.

This is why live Dead shows are the best sounds that will ever be produced by mankind. This is the soundtrack to Hendrix's ascent into heaven... you can hear it unmistakably in this version and this version alone. The story arc of this Star is harrowing... that first buzz of feedback after the delicate intro jam knocked any lingering voices in the packed concert hall into deafening silence. The jam after this is incredibly haunting, Jerry's tone somewhere between razor-sharp knives and the silky gooey protoplasm of space, riding it out with a timeless jam that nearly brought me to tears. Absolutely bone-chillingly heady version. Folks, this is damn close to the apex of human musical achievement.....

Absolutely nuts. The arpeggios after 7:30 floored me like a sack of bricks. Such a rowdy version.

So tight and psychedelic. Protoplasmic indeed. 19 year old Bobby absolutely kills it.

Raw and primal.... Such a clearly expressed and inspired taste of the years of Dead explorations to come. You can hear the heady Dark Star motif materialize as this jam progresses. Jerry's tone has that hollow electric horn effect to it, absolutely mind-roasting. Those story-like tremolo riffs had me picking my jaw up off the floor. You can just feel the white-hot, heavy, primal wattage moving through those amps. Legend has it Robert Hunter wrote Dark Star while tripping balls outside this show. Absolute must listen. Insanely underrated. This one will blow your socks off, folks