headyversion

find the best versions of grateful dead songs

please login or register.

BeggarsTomb48

better weather

+7005


Submissions

3
He's Gone
Sept. 22, 1991
Boston Garden

the feeling on this rich, blue-hot hornsby one is that of exquisite elegance in that puffed-up mindless sense
1
Pretty Peggy O
Sept. 3, 1988
Capital Centre

tight, gallopping, mournful, phil
1
Drums -> Space
July 6, 1990
Cardinal Stadium

bill and mick dip their toes into a dozen things, keeping their turntablism abreast of the breathing tree of life. Sensational stuff. Continued
1
Little Red Rooster
Sept. 3, 1988
Capital Centre

everyone impatient to bust out passionate stuff on this searing version
1
The Wheel
July 2, 1988
Oxford Plains Speedway

Strap on the goggles and microscopes to find traces of this in jerry's playing as soon as the intro dies down into a no nonsense sparkplug wheel

Comments

Scarlet Begonias -> Fire On The Mountain
Sept. 13, 1993
The Spectrum

lean and mean!! I love the lightning bolt years! this one has a bit of a snakey, enigmatic charm to it, not a fist pumper. One to kick back
Stagger Lee
Sept. 13, 1993
The Spectrum

real hot!! Flying fretboard
Let It Grow
Oct. 16, 1989
Meadowlands Arena

Wondrous pirate ship ride
Built to Last
Oct. 16, 1989
Meadowlands Arena

face stealer, explosively rouses a gentle ease
Drums -> Space
Sept. 10, 1991
Madison Square Garden

Menacing sampling section, gorgeous beam. Mickey always brought it and these passages has masterly narrative. If the dose hasn't kicked in, the space>DS>space will set the scene. Drenched in scary effects evoking bottomless seas of anarchic synth manic egos clawing at the walls of the mind. Everyone refracting each other's outbursts with tempered musical interior brilliance so as to pinwheel without being spun out. eventually the jazz cat boys start interpolating something and jerry responds with screaming virtuosic distorted runs which only makes weir intensify his anxious funk harder. First rate version. Final four minutes are tonal, resplendent, and suggest stella or china doll