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Beat it on Down The Line
July 31, 1974
Dillon Stadium

Crackling. Hits the itch
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Sugaree
June 15, 1992
Giants Stadium

Thumpin' and soaring. Moves with astonishing fluidity of barroom barrelhouse logic. Killing
2
Stella Blue
April 9, 1989
Freedom Hall

Slow motion bounding across the craters of the moon on this mammoth knight on horseback Stella!!Assured poetry on razor's edge
2
Uncle John's Band
April 9, 1989
Freedom Hall

watery schizo Estimated into this classic twinkler
1
Ramble On Rose
April 9, 1989
Freedom Hall

kinetic aries version from a heavyweight year

Comments

The Other One
Sept. 3, 1972
Folsom Field, University of Colorado

kind of shocked i've never heard this, there are simply "TOO" many great 72 TOO's to wrap my head around the excellent improvisational music that the Dead were slingin' out night after night. Having been out in the Western US mountains this summer there is something kind of earth shatteringly insane about the vibes out there when you are an east coast kid. Its simultaneously enthralling and also menacing the endless expanses out there... Its uber psychedelic... I love dead shows from colorado they always just rule.
Bird Song
Sept. 21, 1972
The Spectrum

godchaux's solo is really something... probably his finest moment. Another one of those times when you just know the heads in attendance must have been freaking out, feeling everything dissolve into the oneness. It doesnt get much better than Bird song for me and the GD. for me it's the perfect combination of mournfulness and levity, structure and improv, meaning and mystery. Kreutzmann's touch on this is just crazy man, he really got in there and is perfectly straddling the fulcrum of pocket. Garcia is unbelievable, tidal surges of emotion in every freaking note the dude played, he was obviously one of those freaks who lived and breathed music. Stupendous bird song, i feel like you can't go wrong with this tune.
Black Throated Wind
Sept. 21, 1972
The Spectrum

hot keith and phil
Casey Jones
Oct. 2, 1977
Paramount Theatre

Wow! the group timbre they acheive on this is unreal... bright clear and rockin.. Godchaux is the mvp of the version. Light a doob to this fall 77 casey.
He's Gone
April 15, 1983
Community War Memorial Auditorium

i disagree.... heavy and wise