Quick & spirited. DP11. Great show all around

Gonna go on a bit of a rant here-- I'm honestly quite sick of the contrarian "hot take" Cornell hate. I get it if this scarlet>fire isn't your favorite. It's not my favorite either. But to claim that this show "isn't good" or it's "dull" or that waaaah it's "overrated" is just plain ignorant, and extremely dismissive. It's not a secret in the slightest that this is the most well known show, so why do people act so surprised that it has so many votes? It carries this status because of the superb recording, fluid jamming, great vocals, and amazing setlist. It's a fairly good representation of what the Dead were all about. Look at the show for what it is. These aren't bots voting for it, these are deadheads who took the time to register and vote for it. Don't act like you're "deader than thou" as fellow heady poster darkstar67 likes to put it. Just because you shit on Cornell and your favorite version is some obscure '83 AUD tape doesn't make you any cooler. If this show doesn't have enough energy/psychedelia for you or doesn't have your favorite song on the setlist then that's your own gripe. Whether your opinion is that this is the greatest show ever or not these are some primo top shelf performances of classic dead songs. It's the dead at a cohesive and creative peak. Unless you're hating on '77 dead as a whole hating on just this show in specific carries no weight-- it's not that much of a departure from other '77 shows. But then again, are you really a deadhead if you take time out of your day to hate on the Grateful Dead? This show is legendary for a reason, and I feel that there is a certain amount of objectivity to that. Sure you can say that this version doesn't personally do it for you, but if you claim to like the Grateful Dead are you really going to sit here and hate on it or act like it's unlistenable? It's obviously due to the hype around the show, not its actual contents. If any of you haters were at this show would you really have left after hearing the scarlet>fire saying "wow, that wasn't that great?" The not fade, the scarlet>fire, and the dew are all objectively good versions, independent of whether they're your personal favorite or not. If this show only existed on a recently unearthed AUD tape then it would be the unsung greatest show ever to you people. Cornell 5/8/77 is still the Grateful Dead, and the Grateful Dead in strong form at that, regardless of how much "undue" hype there is surrounding it. This election was not stolen, lol. These 522 votes are 522 votes from people who cared enough to register here and vote. This is not some dogshit version that is propped up for no reason, it's an incredible performance that many people regard as their favorite. This is the truth regardless of whether it's *your* favorite or not, so treat it as such.

Huge rec for anybody that happens to like this guy "Jerry Garcia". His tone is smoldering here in that definitively idiosyncratic '69 way. Extremely psychedelic and played on my birthday too-- the Steph>Eleven that follows this is also equally incredible.

The fact that this one goes into El Paso has always been hilarious yet a little frustrating to me. The cacophonous malevolence they get into at the end has always evoked to me a vision of nuclear holocaust, and what better song is there to follow up nuclear holocaust with than morning dew? Jerry felt the same way as you can hear him bringing the band into the dew, but Bobby decides he'd rather play El Paso. Oh well. Fun to imagine what the dew would've sounded like-- I'm sure it exists in some other world.

Obviously nothing new to say about the beautiful jam. 50 yrs later today and this is still very hard to argue against as a top 5 dead moment-- some of Jerry's most emotive playing ever.

Thx for the rec ds67-- this one's got a tinge of darkness and lots of nice little snare fills supplementing Garcia's erratic guitar playing. I feel a little weird about '77/'78 playins-- there's something about this song in this particular era that's a little off to me but this one is definitely reminiscent of '73. The whole sequence incl. the wharf rat is buttery.