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China Cat Sunflower -> I Know You Rider
May 23, 1972
Strand Lyceum

A more rocking version than others from the time, and oddly overlooked. Jumps off Cat right away into the long transition. Energetic stuff here.
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Black Throated Wind
May 23, 1972
Strand Lyceum

Is there a single one from '72 that doesn't end in triumph? This song just got better and better throughout Europe. Surprised this wasn't here yet.
11
Sugar Magnolia
May 13, 1972
Lille Fairgrounds

Perfect musical sunshine. This one even got my not-at-all-into-the-Dead wife to dance around like a trippin' hippy, so you know it's good.
15
Truckin'
May 13, 1972
Lille Fairgrounds

Unforgivable that you guys overlook Truckin'. There's a reason it's the one song non-heads know. This one is a forgotten colossus. Listen up.
8
Mister Charlie
May 13, 1972
Lille Fairgrounds

Distinctly slower, with a greasier funk vibe. Surprised it isn't here. Different from the others and lots of fun.
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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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