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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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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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