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Dupree's Diamond Blues
April 23, 1984
Veterans' Memorial Coliseum

A Stunner of a Dupree's Diamond Blues from a great 84 show ...
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Around and Around
Jan. 18, 1978
Stockton Civic Auditorium

Seriously 1of the best examples of the time shift section and an all around major heavy duty A&A!
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Bertha
Oct. 14, 1977
Hofheinz Pavilion

You Gotta be KIDDING ME!! I came here to vote for this totally awesome Bertha and it's not even listed yet? This Bertha Made Peace in the Middle East!
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Black Peter
Feb. 26, 1981
Uptown Theater

Crispy Kreme Black Peter! Super sweet...
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Shakedown Street
March 29, 1984
Marin County Veterans Auditorium

WTF! Cliche yes but this Shakedown should've been here already. The SBD has Jerry so buried it's a crime, AUD link in cmts you'll see what I mean.
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Althea
March 14, 1981
Hartford Civic Center

This is the version of Althea that changed my flawed thinking of, SBDs only! It really led me to seeking the best Aud tapes, here's a great site that list the best Dead Audience tapes http://gdluckynumbers.org/downloadables.htm ... Oh yeah and this is, the FUCKING BEST Althea, it's just drippy sweet Jerry Greatness...Jerry Garcia was an artist the likes of which are measured in centuries, not just the modern era, his musical genius is like that of Mozart...
The Other One
Jan. 22, 1978
McArthur Court, U of Oregon

For me, this version does and says everything that The Other One is all about, crazed powerful, exploratory, deep assed Grateful Dead Jamming, it has that unreal start, with Billy and Mickey holding the triplet build up, and BOOM, all at once they all just hit it and hit it HARD, it doesn't let up for nearly 20 min and then there's this epic solo Jerry, and by solo I mean everyone else stops completely, and Jerry just goes to town with the mutron and the legendary close encounters theme, and it leads into the most incredible psychedelic St. Stephen I've ever heard, the Other One>Stephen>NFA combo is one for the ages and one of the best shows they ever played...
Feel Like A Stranger
Oct. 9, 1989
Hampton Coliseum

Just flat out Badass! This performance of Stranger is one of the 'benchmark' performances of their career, it's just so unique, it goes beyond being the best single version of a specific song, it's a masterpiece!
U.S. Blues (Wave That Flag)
April 12, 1978
Cameron Indoor Stadium

Jerry was tripping on some kind of psychedelic for this show, it's so obvious when you watch the video of Bertha and watch his face as he's playing the solo, I KNOW THAT LOOK, because I've been there so many times, and I'm sure the coke was flowing as well, some of you might know that coke and psychedelics are uh...complementary....But hell it was 78, can you imagine the buffet of drugs available to The GRATEFUL DEAD?
Scarlet Begonias
Feb. 27, 1977
Robertson Gym, UC Santa Barbara

But YES, the people DO CARE! This 77 Scarlet is GOOD, and it is KIND, and it is HOLY! sure why not?
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