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Let It Grow
June 4, 1976
Paramount Theatre

Fires off like a rocket. Souped up and accelerated. Is this the first LiG without the WRS to introduce it? It's a speed demon top notch version.
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Playin' In The Band
June 4, 1976
Paramount Theatre

This is a weird one. At times it seems like they forgot it was PiTB and went back to the HSF jam. Fun, but waaaaaaaaay loose.
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Lazy Lightnin' -> Supplication
June 4, 1976
Paramount Theatre

Short, sweet, brand new, and flawless.
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Friend of the Devil
June 4, 1976
Paramount Theatre

Brilliant early "slow version". I always prefered the desperado fast-paced ones, but this turns into a brilliant exploration and improv vehicle.
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Uncle John's Band
Dec. 31, 1972
Winterland Arena

Uptempo, powerful, strong vocals. This is top shelf UJB. With David Crosby for that extra oomph, and with a tigh outro, it's strangely not here yet.
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On The Road Again
Feb. 25, 1966
Ivar Theater

Pre-proto-Dead, and so so very cool. There's some debate around the date, but it's on the archive as the Ivar Theater, so what difference does it make! Jerry's voice is soooooo young.
Caution
Jan. 8, 1966
Fillmore Auditorium

Rippin' and trippin'. It's messy, wild and reckless.... with an edge-of-chaos intensity that can still blow your mind almost 54 years later. ^^Very cool note there about a possible influence on Tom Waits. No doubt about it, he surely heard the Dead in California in their early years. Cool association.
Can't Come Down
Nov. 3, 1965
Golden State Studios

Bob Dylan's influence on the Dead is evident from the lyrics and delivery of this oldest of the old demos. Harmonica, snarling vocals, proto-punk social commentary of the Highway 61-era. Anyone out there think they started listening to Dylan in the 90s???
Uncle John's Band
Dec. 31, 1976
Cow Palace

The first one in over two years, covering both the hiatus and all of '76. They sound just a wee bit tuckered out in the first moments (this being at leat 4 full hours of music into the night) but they rock the ever-lovin' shit out of it by the end in a 'here comes '77' way that jut slays me.
Help on the Way
Dec. 31, 1976
Cow Palace

Best Help>Slip without Frank out there. Prove me wrong!
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