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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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Mississippi Halfstep Uptown Toodeloo
Feb. 26, 1973
Pershing Municipal Auditorium

Five-alarm heady alert, DS->Eyes->Mississippi , this must be a scarce if not singular example of this combination. For any Jerry ballad freaks out there (especially those who hold Wakeoftheflood in highest esteem among their records) this is all just deeply pleasurable. Strongman at the circus version of this unreleased masterpiece. Everyone is so warmed up, obviously, idk when else they played mississippi deep into set 2. greasy and turbo-charged.
Greatest Story Ever Told
Feb. 26, 1973
Pershing Municipal Auditorium

No slouching on the heavy energy and powerful windmill, high-kicking rock god vibe of this greatest story, wailing!! A reprieve of classic spinning feel-good dead right in the thick of some meaty 73 jazz
Eyes Of The World
Feb. 26, 1973
Pershing Municipal Auditorium

What a divine treat. Especially for the early gestation period of spring 73, this version destroys and plows along confidently exalting this love-child hymn. feverishly trippy, excellent version with inventive comping from billy and keith as well as bird evocations. The meticulous blend of the song proper with outro craziness, fresh off of a revelatory Dark Star, just keeps going and going in that shaman's donkey up the skinny dirty mountain bend. phenomenal journey and not to be missed
Dark Star
Feb. 26, 1973
Pershing Municipal Auditorium

squishy bulbous Phd in deadology version. Best described as a fusion-y hurricane style shredfest, crunching smashingly back down to earth like the reason-tattering comet upon the core of our heart's moon, into full avant-garde space, into 18 mins of primal eyes
Playin' In The Band
Feb. 26, 1973
Pershing Municipal Auditorium

colorful, outrageous, bursting with life - Versions like this are why I keep scouring for more dead . The guys are flying as soon as the jam starts and it only gets more deconstructed and jazzy, cresting and arc-ing in delightfully digestible tidal waves, small foaming pools of liquid ecstasy. That groove at 7:35 is vicious. and another screaming outburst around the 11-minute mark perfect for face spacing
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