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Good Lovin'
Dec. 31, 1978
Winterland Arena

Blissful dancealong. As clear a statement of what the good times feeling of the later Donna era could sound like. Nice times.
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Drums
Dec. 31, 1978
Winterland Arena

19 minutes, man it gets weird: whistles, gamelans, melodica solo, bird calls, kazoos, explosions: was every one in on the jam? Anyone remember?
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Playin' In The Band
Oct. 23, 1971
Easttown Theatre

Adrenaline bursting hard driver. Exciting. Jerry at 3:00 solos in all 720 degrees, just propulsive. Give her a spin.
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Not Fade Away
May 3, 1972
Olympia Theater

Flawless trance-inducing NFA with a perfect transition into GDTRFB. Note for note perfect show.
10
Sing Me Back Home
Sept. 10, 1972
Hollywood Palladium

Perfect. May have the best vocal harmonies of all of them. Not here because of low-level boards? Try headphones, heads.
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Comments

What's Become of the Baby
April 26, 1969
The Electric Theatre

Hey GDTRFB Era E: this is exactly the heavy trip grow-hair-on-yer-eyeballs dark power Dead I thought it would be. Thanks again. There are probably a few freaked out hippies still recovering from this Bacchanalian masterpiece. Cut from DP, huh? I don't mean to criticize the team players but I call 'chickenshit'. This is 'the Dangerous Dead, enter at your own risk.
Playin' In The Band
May 17, 1977
Memorial Coliseum

Misfire or not, this also highlights Playin's role: here it sews together the second set in the deep jam place and sandwiches a wharf rat (!). What were they thinking? Playin's 10/4 meter and open structure allow for such deep jamming. Give this one a listen, it won't disappoint.
Mountains of the Moon
April 26, 1969
The Electric Theatre

Pure beauty and a great recording. Jams sweetly from acoustic into electric without ever jumping fully into Dark Star like they did at the time - maybe a tapecut and missing DS? Not sure why I love this song enough to name myself after it, but I do. Damn she's sweet.
Deal
July 19, 1989
Alpine Valley Music Theatre

I was an 80s head but don't listen to my years so much any more. Rare is the show from this time - after I left the tour in fact - that brings me back to what turned me on so much about the late-era Dead. God damn, this is a solid motherfucking jam showing what they could do when dialed all the way in. Down hill or not afterward, this is the bomb.
The Other One
Oct. 17, 1974
Winterland Arena

Superb. It's got it all, almost as if they didn't know whether they'd ever play it again and wanted the final word on it. Meltdown before first verse, high shredding, Spanish and MLB jams, rocket-fueled scary roller coasters through space... Take a deep breath and dive into the pudding folks.
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