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Tennessee Jed
April 5, 1993
Nassau Coliseum

feels good to get lost in a good fluid jed, the light at end of the tunnellin' jokester's mountain. Barrelhouse vince, weir and lesh and fire jer bear
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Deal
April 15, 1982
Providence Civic Center

Hot, glinting Deal. early Brent is evolutionary days for the party songs in the ouevre, great tiger smoker!
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Bird Song
Oct. 30, 1980
Radio City Music Hall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snz5k9PkXTk magisterial jamming
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Truckin'
March 22, 1985
Hampton Coliseum

bobby puts his hand over his forehead as if looking out on a bright day on "other times i can barely see"
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Mississippi Halfstep Uptown Toodeloo
June 25, 1994
Sam Boyd Silver Bowl, U.N.L.V.

jer bear sings this one beautifully

Comments

Walking Blues
July 13, 1985
Ventura County Fairgrounds

Baptizing shredfest of righteously pan seared riff wreckage and chug, second jerry solo is lucid and piercing, heroic stuff
Fire On The Mountain
July 13, 1985
Ventura County Fairgrounds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOpcK8b39VU Trouble ahead grand slam at ventura. Multi-armed vishnu
Black Peter
June 27, 1985
SPAC

this one always knocks it out of the park. Kafkaesque plea for release whose severity always sets up all manner of levity to follow in that classic GD pindrop style
Truckin'
June 27, 1985
SPAC

Blue-hot. Gem of a truckin>spoonful, gnarled and ravaged, miraculously glove tight
Drums -> Space
June 27, 1985
SPAC

guitarists work their tone, the boys send you to hell and back. Exemplary version