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Save the Whales
Feb. 9, 1969
Monterey Bay Aquarium

Definitly the best one! The 1st 2 hours are a little plodding, but once the acid kicked in, it was smoooth sailing!
1
Tennessee Jed
April 16, 1983
Meadowlands Arena

Killer Solo, Amazing Jed in a Killer 83 show, Deadbase has it as the #2 show of 83'.
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Around and Around
April 15, 1978
William and Mary College Hall

Cliche, but how in the Holy Hell is this version not listed? This whole show smokes in that beautuful 78 way...
10
Bertha
Oct. 15, 1977
Moody Coliseum - Southern Methodist University

If a better board of this show had been circulating, this Bertha would be so much higher, and right into one of the best Good Lovins ever, Fall 77

Comments

St. Stephen
June 9, 1976
Boston Music Hall

For me this Stephen and 1/22/78 are tops of the 76/77 SSs...
The Other One
March 24, 1971
Winterland Arena

Love this OO! As a five piece unit I am just INFATUATED with 71 OOs and 71 period. I've been filling out my show collection in flac from etree since I found mistermojorising 's Grateful Dead projects which I highly recommend.
King Bee
March 24, 1971
Winterland Arena

Pig is just not good on this King Bee. I'm doing a whole listen of 3/24/71 and I mean his harmonica sounds out of tune??!! and HE is singing off so I gotta wonder is he's drunk which would totally explain this but there's a hard to handle in the 2nd so we'll see. OK folks it's literally playing as I'm typing and PIg is DEFINITELY slurring a bit and that confirms it for me he's drunk. Garcia tried to musically silence him when he comes back in with that out of tune harp and it ends with an off kilter vocal. This says a lot actually, like Jerry had to hate that Pig is 'affected' by alcohol and it then affects the music.
Good Lovin'
May 25, 1972
Strand Lyceum

This is fucking amazing! This is in my humble opinion the best jamtastic GL ever!
Bertha
March 29, 1987
The Spectrum

Yep Dude was Right this was a killer fucking Bertha!
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