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1
Hell in a Bucket
Sept. 6, 1983
Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Punchy and ready!
7
New Minglewood Blues
May 11, 1978
Springfield Civic Center Arena

Bobby's the hypeman for lightning rod Minglewood jamming in Springfield Mass.
2
The Race Is On
Oct. 29, 1980
Radio City Music Hall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1cFy6NzS1k Heady acoustic Race is On, speedy as secretariat and so killin'! Barrelhouse Brent and gold Cali harmonies
1
Beat it on Down The Line
May 6, 1978
Patrick Gymnasium - University of Vermont

Speedy Beat it on this "five-six-seventy-eight" gig! Awesome!
4
Big River
May 1, 1981
Hampton Coliseum

Seguing from me and my uncle, crowd goes nuts. Smooth Rhodes playing and hot jer. Great version

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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