Morning Dew
May 8, 1977
Barton Hall - Cornell University
This is an unusual situation where this can logically be considered both the best of all time and overrated at the same time. If you look at GD "all time best" surveys (either from the old DeadBases or anywhere else, including the rankings on this site), it looks like 5/8/77 is the consensus undisputed best show ever and this Dew is the same for Morning Dew. That's not the case and the show is only so far ahead of every other one in those rankings because of availability in the sound quality it was available back in the cassette days, not because it is actually THAT much better than everything else. While "overrated" in the sense that it is not inarguably head and shoulders above everything else, it is still arguably the best version, although there are many fantastic Dews, and the rest of the field is much, much closer than one would think by examining the rankings.