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The Other One
July 14, 1970
Euphoria Ballroom

ATOMIC! Garcia's subversive wah work only makes the area less safe for the public.
4
Beat it on Down The Line
Nov. 14, 1971
Texas Christian University

Searing version - groovy false start, then Garcia soars like an acrobat. Plug in!
2
The Other One
Feb. 6, 1969
Kiel Auditorium

CRUSH. Hard to believe they brought this intensity and dynamic precision all the time then, but they did! Ace!
7
Bertha
March 31, 1973
War Memorial

Unknown Genre - iTunes. Kreutzmann drives this hovercraft - as he seems to in all of the great Berthas of this time. Look out for the guitars.
1
China Cat Sunflower -> I Know You Rider
Sept. 29, 1971
Practice Studio

Have always loved the San Venetia tapes - almost like an x-ray of the GD. You can so hear the guitar architecture. So tempted to make that one word.

Comments

The Eleven
Oct. 13, 1968
Avalon Ballroom

Thoroughly enjoyed hvd sleuth's exegesis. I don't have an argument either way. Just enjoying the luxurious insanity here. Garcia's in high sleeve form - he's just recently realized he has super powers. What to do? Let me try this! One of these! Two of my favorite shows ever. Point blank, as Fred Smoot used to say.
Dark Star
Jan. 17, 1969
Civic Auditorium

What I said whenever that was. Fantastic Dark Star.
China Cat Sunflower -> I Know You Rider
Aug. 5, 1974
Philadelphia Civic Arena

Swings hard! They weave in and out comprehensible meter but never loose the stride. Taaasty Lesh bomb - he's pretty dominant throughout. Some exemplary electric bass playing all the way through. And with that heavy, hot lambswool shoulder pad! I don't how he could even fucking move. But move he does. Weir's break is break-neck. It comes as no shock what Garcia manages to do here. Mighty, top sleeve GD. On par with the best of '72, but it has the silly Feelin' Groovy jam that detracts just a smidge - thus not quite as ace frehley as 8/27/72, 9/23/72, 11/19/72 to me. But great anyway.
Dancin' in the Streets
Sept. 28, 1976
Onondaga County War Memorial

A big, quick-footed Dancin', but with some weirdness at the edges. Super friendly. It so wants to please - wants you to love it, but it is at no point distracted by its own feelings. Oh sure: looking like it doesn't really care. You can't fool us that easily 1976 Dancin'!
Truckin'
Feb. 28, 1973
Salt Palace

It just sounds sooooo easy for them here - a loose, conversational Truckin' through to its jam where Lesh makes himself quite at home, thank you.