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You Win Again
March 23, 1972
Academy of Music

Sounds like it could have been a top 40 CW chart topper. Something clean and pure about it - maybe one drummer helps on this tune.
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China Cat Sunflower -> I Know You Rider
March 23, 1972
Academy of Music

Crystal clear sound and tight show opener in this hot hot pre-Europe run. The vocals are on and the transition rocks.
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Sugaree
March 22, 1972
Academy of Music

Super-strengthed version with a solid, driving pulse. They took their vitamins this day: The whole show's has that bursting-at-seams energy.
2
Casey Jones
March 22, 1972
Academy of Music

Insane explosive blowout for the set-closer. Caps an excellent first set with extraordinary energy.
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Jack Straw
March 22, 1972
Academy of Music

Perfect.
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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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