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Greatest Story Ever Told
March 27, 1972
Academy of Music

The new SBD's are crystal clear, with everyone audible. Whoever that Billy guy is could sure play some goddamned drums. He's solid gold on this one.
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Black Throated Wind
March 27, 1972
Academy of Music

Charged up and triumphant. The whole week of shows before Europe is killer. Thanks go to C. Miller for the great archive versions.
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Playin' In The Band
March 25, 1972
Academy of Music

Key moment in transforming PITB into a cosmic monster. 9.5 minutes of gooey goodness here. C.Miller's version is the best. Dig in boys.
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Not Fade Away
March 23, 1972
Academy of Music

The outro might be the three most intensely energetic minutes of GD music ever. The first part rocks too. Why not here yet? This show is a goldmine.
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Me and Bobby McGee
March 23, 1972
Academy of Music

Now I know a lot of you don't dig this song, but goddamn they pour it on for this one. Great Jerry filagree backing the passionate vox. Listen to the
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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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