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Grateful Novice

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Submissions

2
Sugar Magnolia
Dec. 4, 1973
Cincinnati Gardens

Bumpin little intro to this beauty.
6
Let It Grow
March 31, 1988
Meadowlands Arena

Great version from Road Trips Vol. 4 No. 2
15
Drums -> Space
Sept. 10, 1991
Madison Square Garden

Heavy (and long) drums, short space, > Dark Star, but it sounds like they stay in Space for the monster post-verse 2 jam.
8
Me and My Uncle
Dec. 6, 1973
Public Hall

Great version. Nice Jerry, nice Keith, emotive Bobby. Sip your bourbon in the desert.
3
Not Fade Away
Aug. 4, 1976
Roosevelt Stadium

Funkiest playing of the intro material?

Comments

Drums -> Space
April 19, 1982
Baltimore Civic Center

I can't imagine how much cooler/unbelievably freaky this would have been live/if I didn't know what was coming. . . . Holy [i]shit[/i] that was weirder than I thought it was going to be! It sounded like some dissociative nightmare hurdling towards you at 1,000 miles per hour—images, sounds, concepts fragment, break down, coalesce in unfamiliar forms, haunted voices taunt your memories. Egads. That was a lot. There was very little to stand on during that. But AH that > in The Wheel.
Deal
June 30, 1984
Indianapolis Sports and Music Center

Ceaseless energy.
Scarlet Begonias -> Fire On The Mountain
Dec. 13, 1980
Long Beach Arena

This is a great version. Top-notch Scarlet with a great transition and then killer Fire. Watch your face during that middle solo, Jerry might melt it clean off.
Scarlet Begonias -> Fire On The Mountain
Sept. 2, 1978
Giants Stadium

I'm embarrassed by my early comment and publicly retract it. This is 30 minutes of The Best Stuff.
He's Gone
Oct. 28, 1977
Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Hall

Hands down the greatest version of this I have ever heard. The band hits a groove and rides the wave forever. Great vocal coda, everyone's cooking. Jerry hits the good stuff and mines deep. A must-hear, top-shelf performance.