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Good Lovin'
Aug. 26, 1971
Gaelic Park

Doesn't go into a cool rap, like some '71s, but pretty f-in tight jam and a great mix, with everyone sounding great.
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Hard to Handle
Aug. 26, 1971
Gaelic Park

Last one with Pig: A blasting sexy swagger with slow rising force like the Palladium one up top here. Listen past the tape problems and slow start.
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Big Railroad Blues
Aug. 26, 1971
Gaelic Park

As good an introduction to '71 as you'll ever hear. Someone else help me here or I'm going to list every song in this show!
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Sugaree
Aug. 26, 1971
Gaelic Park

Still brand new (7th ever) and it's got a lot of pump to it. This whole show is a forgotten treasure. C. Miller cleanup much improves the others.
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Bertha
Aug. 26, 1971
Gaelic Park

As sweet and solid as they come: Opens a wonderful summer outdoor show in NYC. Surprised it isn't here yet.
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China Cat Sunflower -> I Know You Rider
Oct. 20, 1974
Winterland Arena

Grendel is right. Imagine all the mad love the boys had for jamming out of China Cat condensed into the 'one last time' restatement of all its whys and wherefores. Imagine the music playing the band and the waves upon waves of good energy feeding them from the crowd. Imagine the meaning of singing "Goina miss me when I'm gone" at the farewell show. Imagine all of this on a few hundred micrograms of the clean and crisp. No don't imagine it, just plug in your time machine and listen.... Be there.
Dark Star
Feb. 13, 1970
Fillmore East

May just be the most beautiful thing I've ever heard in my life. The way deep down quiet spaces keep us suspended, waiting for the explosions to come. They come, but later in the set, in later songs, later versions of Dark Star. Jerry sez somewhere that there's only one version of DS, and they just performed it once over the course of 27 years.... This piece of it is like the skeleton key to a thousand more hours of all Dark Stars to come.
Morning Dew
Oct. 18, 1974
Winterland Arena

So many Dews, but this one just blows me away again and again and again. "Flawless" and "Powerful" don't even begin to do it justice. Just strap in, hold on and ride that skullfuck as far as it takes you.
Dark Star
Oct. 18, 1974
Winterland Arena

Got to hear it emerge from the Phil & Ned to grok its full arc - the completeness of this one grows on me with every listen. ReasonTatter: Yes. I think the possibility of it being the last ever informed a lot of the great performances at the whole Winterland run.
Viola Lee Blues
April 26, 1969
The Electric Theatre

The whole show is pretty wild and verging on chaos until this one, then they step over the edge and go completely nuts. The rest is just insanity.
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