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Submissions

3
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

Scarlet Begonias -> Fire On The Mountain
March 27, 1988
Hampton Coliseum

Plenty heady, yeah?
Sugaree
May 28, 1977
Hartford Civic Center

Loooooooove
Scarlet Begonias -> Fire On The Mountain
July 7, 1989
JFK Stadium

I love this blastoff of an innocent exciting wicked consonant version! Wow, hang on, pack an inhaler - deep.
Wharf Rat
Feb. 18, 1971
Capitol Theater

This kaleidoscopic lyrics by Robert Hunter can be inscrutable but you would never notice because of the Dead's bleary blasting of tight positivity. One of my favorite Dead tunes overall. what a premiere bust-out The debut of this powerfully abstract yet also breathtakingly simple song was, as the heads have noted as a little side journey stolen away from an epically meandering into the high auroras version of DS A magical reminder of the wonder
Playin' In The Band
Nov. 15, 1972
Oklahoma City Music Hall

Reminds me of maybe some minimalism or Coltrane threads. amazing all around really.