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Submissions

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Beat it on Down The Line
Dec. 6, 1973
Public Hall

Train rippin' down the hot coals of the 1973 track.
6
Drums
April 12, 1978
Cameron Indoor Stadium

Can't believe I'm submitting this. Long and fun drum circle that's notable because our Jer Bear whips out a steel pan and joins in.
2
It Must Have Been The Roses
Oct. 31, 1990
Wembley Arena

Jerry tearing the standards book asunder with this elegant poetic brilliance
2
Big River
Oct. 31, 1990
Wembley Arena

For a few minutes wembley in '90 becomes the fillmore in the summer of 1970, the way the Dead just slide into a no-nonsense Big River. Shivers
2
Loose Lucy
Oct. 31, 1990
Wembley Arena

Smokin' and refined version of this deep cut, on "All Hallow's Eve" as a chap might say

Comments

Brokedown Palace
March 19, 1990
Civic Center

sweet as a honey blossom... garcia was preternaturally layin' his burden down by the riverside pretty much from the get go and it led to 3 decades of craziness, makes you think of hendrix, coltrane, cobain who had a fraction as long. Phenomenally heavy columnic version, bluebird
Picasso Moon
March 19, 1990
Civic Center

Phat version - not for casual fans.. firehouse big band funk rave up
Deal
March 19, 1990
Civic Center

slingin rhymes
China Doll
March 19, 1990
Civic Center

sensationally cathartic, and gorgeously ripping china doll, gilded and slick. Crack spring 90 form
Playin' In The Band
March 19, 1990
Civic Center

needs some recognition, goes the distance and has minimalist intuitive glory in spades. nasty squishy phil