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Big Boss Man
April 17, 1971
Dillon Gym

Great harp work from Pigpen, who's voice was still strong and full of blues: Great crunchy jamming from the band.
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Alligator
Nov. 11, 1967
Shrine Auditorium

With the power to blast you out of your chair. Watch your dose, it's that strong.
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Cryptical Envelopment
Nov. 11, 1967
Shrine Auditorium

Any question's about primal Dead? Answer's right here in the outro of this psychedelic monster. A really hard core brainmelter, this.
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Black Throated Wind
Sept. 10, 1972
Hollywood Palladium

Has it all. Builds and builds up to a great peak with Jer and Keith playing all out behind a great Bobby performance.
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Me and Bobby McGee
Feb. 18, 1971
Capitol Theater

Maybe I'm the only Head out there who digs this song, but damn if this isn't a beauty. Tight harmonies and a good-times feeling.
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Darkness Jam
Sept. 19, 1970
Fillmore East

One of the richest, densest jams in the heart of NFA. There's so much in this one, it may be up there as an emblematic epitome of '70 Dead.
Dark Star
Feb. 22, 1969
Dream Bowl

Endlessly inventive. Each listen seems deeper than the last, with interplay between everyone over constant variations of the melodic theme. Vaporous and etherial, though not a face-melter, just beautiful.
Dark Star
Nov. 2, 1969
Family Dog at the Great Highway

Something honest and straightforward about this one. Nice long exploration until the first chorus, then lookout y'all because it stretches way out and puts us into a deep and beautiful groove, just flirting around the chaos. Going through a big '69 phase now, and really digging the 'no bullshitness' of the period clearly in evidence here.
Playin' In The Band
Sept. 18, 1974
Parc des Expositions

Filled up with tasty exploratory jams, continuous musical churning and developments. Around 11:00 there's a cool rythmic jam that suggests the sound of '78 to me (maybe just imagined) and again around 18:00 there's some really innovative stuff. Even the long twisting path leading to the outro stretches to three minutes of hot jam. They had it all going on in Paris that night.
Crazy Fingers
June 9, 1976
Boston Music Hall

Sublime mysterious beauty. A river of dreamish memories. A sunrise. Edit: Listening again years later: It's sooooooooo good. "Cloud hands" and "strange fingers of light" always evoke those beautiful days when sunlight streams through clouds in columns of love, beams of beauty. R. Hunter and Jerry's genius combined so perfectly here.
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