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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

Stella Blue
Oct. 1, 1994
Boston Garden

fast, exploratory and plinky plonky this one is a knockout becoming of the twilight years. Goes to show that with tunes with many repeats like any of the deads standards they're chasing a universal ideal feeling, sort of like Plato and his boys feeding her grapes were pontificating on at the studio in the suburbs of yonkers. Crackling feeling which adds a bolstery jazzy sophistication to the wispy heartbroken absence of some of the dirgey stella highlights. this one just snaps and majestically soars through cresting valleys of dynamically drastically proportional emotion corresponding to the peaks and valleys within the lines of their infinitely symphonic notes. jerry and hunter live on...
So Many Roads
Oct. 1, 1994
Boston Garden

definitive. This one really is a joy!! Kickin dispatch from the gutters of the human psyche into gracious altruistic redemption. Flutterbird weavy texture and mickey bringin' it on home, libra season soul healing fanning!!!
Help On The Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower
Oct. 1, 1994
Boston Garden

comfy laser beam perfection, picture frame tornado help slip frank. confident and strutting slick delivery with keen shining soaring cresting jamming akimbo and moth bondages shattered into remnants of gooey honeysucked peaces. Franklins is invigorated, spiritual, cleansing and satisfyingly circular. the faster we go the rounder we get
Touch of Grey
March 23, 1987
Hampton Coliseum

wavy rendition, got a sparking dynamite feel, solo goes the distance and coda energy is mothership "the it" vibez
Black Peter
Feb. 8, 1986
Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center

bit of a sleeper tune for me that has earned my respect as one of the dead's best late set whoppers on par with Wheel, NFA, Dew and stella. jer's delivery is incomparably sickness