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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

The Music Never Stopped
Jan. 22, 1978
McArthur Court, U of Oregon

Sweet one on this day, it has that inimitable 78 drop of a dime energy, like everything could collapse before u in a second
Cassidy
Oct. 14, 1980
Warfield Theater

Splendid chops, mydland brings a seasonsed and refined sense of Laurel Canyon wistful. Garcia hits a heroic lick at 2:40 on reckoning version. this cassidy goes hard af!
Dark Star
April 17, 1972
Tivolis Koncertsal

great one.... stays quiet for long, gorgeus jam. Godchaux comes alive and sends the whole thing into a globed igloo spherick. Seems to make soft puppy pileons and goldie rainbows through instrumental perfection. Billy catches everything and the invigorating coolness of a lite space into more jazz-rock with pig and soaring jer.
The Other One
April 11, 1972
Newcastle City Hall

Good ole grate, autobahn E72 TOO, wavyness and caves. Playfully painting each other's sentences like fawns, drifting askew, chronically in the other's blood streams from the same cauldron. Siamese twins bringing their own young to life. This to1 has that dark star searching for your keys side of the story cinematically offset by wondrously cheery lights. Interludes
Morning Dew
Dec. 31, 1972
Winterland Arena

Swampy and charged up