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

Crackling. Hits the itch
2
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 Music Never Stopped
Jan. 22, 1978
McArthur Court, U of Oregon

Sweet one on this day, it has that inimitable 78 drop of a dime energy, like everything could collapse before u in a second
Cassidy
Oct. 14, 1980
Warfield Theater

Splendid chops, mydland brings a seasonsed and refined sense of Laurel Canyon wistful. Garcia hits a heroic lick at 2:40 on reckoning version. this cassidy goes hard af!
Dark Star
April 17, 1972
Tivolis Koncertsal

great one.... stays quiet for long, gorgeus jam. Godchaux comes alive and sends the whole thing into a globed igloo spherick. Seems to make soft puppy pileons and goldie rainbows through instrumental perfection. Billy catches everything and the invigorating coolness of a lite space into more jazz-rock with pig and soaring jer.
The Other One
April 11, 1972
Newcastle City Hall

Good ole grate, autobahn E72 TOO, wavyness and caves. Playfully painting each other's sentences like fawns, drifting askew, chronically in the other's blood streams from the same cauldron. Siamese twins bringing their own young to life. This to1 has that dark star searching for your keys side of the story cinematically offset by wondrously cheery lights. Interludes
Morning Dew
Dec. 31, 1972
Winterland Arena

Swampy and charged up