headyversion

find the best versions of grateful dead songs

please login or register.

Cucamonga007

PACOCAME

+38156


Submissions

9
Bird Song
Oct. 22, 1983
Carrier Dome, Syracuse U

So why this song? The journey? Well it's right here in spades. Aces!
14
Shakedown Street
Oct. 22, 1983
Carrier Dome, Syracuse U

Phildown St. opener in the ginormo dome at Syrabuse. Phil makes this one groovy.
10
China Doll
March 22, 1973
Utica Memorial Auditorium

Gold Here. SUBLIME - this is where all the soft touches come together. Bob is especially deft with the underlying patterns. Phil is perfect.
4
Johnny B. Goode
Feb. 21, 1973
Assembly Hall, University Of Illinois

Uptempo and ballsy version here.
18
China Doll
Feb. 19, 1973
International Amphitheatre

I'm a sucker for China Dolls - this one has Jerry delivering very dreamy vocals on this one.
show more submissions

Comments

Feel Like A Stranger
March 25, 1986
The Spectrum

Get your funky jams here - shit hot Stranger...don't mind the year it delivers. My first and only Scar>Touch and I was begging the gods for Fire and I got Rain instead - pranksters!
Cryptical Envelopment
April 5, 1969
Avalon Ballroom

Super freaky gooey jam here. +1 fo sho
Not Fade Away
April 28, 1971
Fillmore East

Needs more votes - rockin, raw, piercing and urgent THIS is the NFA. Plus Bobby survives an aneurysm on the reprise. DS>SS>NFA>GDTRFB>NFA - this string is mental.
New Minglewood Blues
Dec. 26, 1970
Legion Stadium

Super Chunky Crunchy Blues Jamness.
Bertha
April 27, 1971
Fillmore East

110 % agree with all of the above - this was the first one heard by my ears and it remains definitive.
show more comments
headyversion loves the dead but is in no way affiliated with The Grateful Dead or affiliated enterprises. find out more >:) >:)