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Dupree's Diamond Blues
July 7, 1984
Alpine Valley Music Theatre

Cancer season kiss. Vaudevillian propulsion
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Space
July 7, 1984
Alpine Valley Music Theatre

clean, investigative, squelchy, cratering symphonic adjacent!! jerry, bobby, mickey. midwest plains poetry
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The Wheel
April 8, 1991
Orlando Arena

Spielberg hot air balloon landing, nice jazzy buoyant stuff. face stealing chugging wheel miracle.
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Truckin'
April 8, 1991
Orlando Arena

Boomin!!!! Long and awesome phil led post jam!!!!
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Man Smart, Woman Smarter
April 8, 1991
Orlando Arena

Great one. Clean

Comments

Sugar Magnolia
May 17, 1977
Memorial Coliseum

Yo. Ok ,26 is not enough for this high gas flame on a stove made before safety regulations were a thing version of Sugar mag. This song is one of their most iconic. Keith taking off!!!!!!!
Playin' In The Band
May 17, 1977
Memorial Coliseum

Triumphant 1977, re-entry after Wharf Rat!!!!!!!!!! Like a wave upon the sand, baby!!!!!
Wharf Rat
May 17, 1977
Memorial Coliseum

Jerry interrupts bill and mickey's drum solo at its peak with the slow, plaintive strumming of Wharf Rat, like we are doing a vaudeville or marx brothers bit. The version itself is amazing, nothing held back on the "i'll get up and fly away", and expansively vicious jamming. One of their best songs, period
Drums
May 17, 1977
Memorial Coliseum

Very nice 5-minute drum solo in between a mellow, ambient PITB and a wharf rat. The rubato, pulse-less feel throughout encourages both to be very sparse and experimental, building to awesome rolls and raucous stuff. Very musical, very thoughtful, very awesome Drums - another piece of this absolutely insane May 77 gig (all you have to say is May 77 and it's guaranteed to be dispensary, designer kush).
Terrapin Station
May 17, 1977
Memorial Coliseum

maybe the best of these? Idk, every single version from this year is so good. Using the dusborne Matrix for this by the way, very nice.