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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.
5
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.

Comments

El Paso
Dec. 6, 1973
Public Hall

Spicy jalapeno hot el paso. makes us desert riders if only for 4 minutes!
Loser
Dec. 6, 1973
Public Hall

Firey and insistent early Loser, rollicking and demanding
Bertha
Dec. 6, 1973
Public Hall

Explosive Phil as I sit down to roll a joint and begin this classic Grateful Dead set.
Playin' In The Band
Sept. 11, 1974
Alexandra Palace

Ummmm whoa whoa whoa aBIG 74 pitb from dick's picks vol. 7, london england. What everyone's already said x100. Some GD jams push our limits sonically and physically and others instead, make us curious and draw us further in and create a level placid plane for us to ponder over. This Playin' is more in the second category.
Dark Star
Aug. 27, 1972
Old Renaissance Faire Grounds

Haha, "scary"? nah i get it - The contents of our own minds can be scary and this inner reflection is what to me all the best Dark Stars start to investigate. A benchmark locked-in experience this DS is. Hot hot hot fusion chops fest - you can hear the classic coltrane quartet influence. Tornadoes and icicles, soft flowing streams of sheets of notes. intuitively logical. going into el paso after this must be a nod to Kesey and Babbs, in some way. it's as "heady" a move as u could possibly get