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Jack A Roe
Sept. 29, 1989
Shoreline Amphitheatre

You know the crew is feeling spritely and in a cowboy mood when they play this, blessed frequently in '89 with it.
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Wang Dang Doodle
Sept. 29, 1989
Shoreline Amphitheatre

Poker-hot WDD
3
Lazy River Road
June 11, 1993
Buckeye Lake Music Center

Sweet, sweet, down-home and yokey Jerry.
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The Same Thing
June 11, 1993
Buckeye Lake Music Center

Pigpen cut revived for the 90's with the group in kind of a slow crawling king snake vibe. Vince knows how to lay down some organ. Top late form.
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Ship of Fools
Feb. 22, 1974
Winterland Arena

Premiere of this stately Jerry ballad.
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Playin' In The Band
Oct. 7, 1977
University of New Mexico

11-minute PITB jam starts with a nice phil feature and gets as good as any from this year!!!! Are you crazy, 3?!?!?!
Sugar Magnolia
Oct. 7, 1977
University of New Mexico

All-time version to close a surreal sequence, Jerry puts in 150%, just screaminggggg!!!!!!!!!!
Wharf Rat
Oct. 7, 1977
University of New Mexico

Critical consensus for 77 often points to this year as being a concise song-driven melee of easygoing funk-rock textures. The whole story is more complicated and on certain gigs you'll get a Terrapin->playin->drums->iko iko->the wheel->wharf rat->sugar mag that gets as out there as any jamming they did. Particularly wheel and wharf are crazy, though. This version is probed straight from another deranged cranium to ours, the accompaniment accentuating the freakish paranoia and backing it up all the way. Both wheel and wharf geniusly dissolve into frantic, roaming improvisation. Clean and rocket sharp 77, but also jazzy af.
The Music Never Stopped
May 9, 1977
War Memorial

dream-like
Around and Around
May 7, 1977
Boston Garden

heady round 'n' round closer after a navel-gazing, psychedelically expansive reading of "Wharf Rat" - prankster move to head to Chuck Berry. The "round 'n' round thing" that is in conversation with "The Wheel"!!!!!!
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