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Submissions

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Beat it on Down The Line
Dec. 6, 1973
Public Hall

Train rippin' down the hot coals of the 1973 track.
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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

Weather Report Suite
May 14, 1974
Adams Field House, U of Montana

Really really nice full WRS. In a nice contrast to some which really blow your face off, this has more of a beguiling and rippling effect on your imagination with less blunt force and more interplay.
Dark Star
July 12, 1990
Robert F. Kennedy Stadium

Tasty, sumptuous and symphonic '90 DS.
Victim Or The Crime
July 12, 1990
Robert F. Kennedy Stadium

menacing version of votc
Take A Step Back
July 12, 1990
Robert F. Kennedy Stadium

Let there be Box of Rain to ease the pain, love to see you through, and songs to Phil the air. Happy birthday to PL
Ripple
Oct. 31, 1980
Radio City Music Hall

This version of ripple i return to as an emotional salve, a balsam soak. Hunter's lyric for this one is a hymn, a guidebook to how to live a curious life. It's a song about magic, knowing that physical reality ain't the only area that the world has