This is The Dead at peak performance level. Cataclysmic version. Everyone is ON. Explorative and not a beat missed. Easily top 5 of 69.

Nice early electric version. Always preferred this key for Dire Wolf compared to when they changed it in the later years. Just right. Nice version.

Takes you right to Chicago. Jerry’s playing emulates the blues greats. Hard rocking version that reminds me of a Junior Wells cut. Highly recommend.

Haunting organ playing. Crystalline and psychedelic early version that feels very spacey. Great vocal delivery.

Very nice solo from Jerry. Phil is all over this as well, some great melodic bass playing that compliments the song very well.

This one shoots you right into space from the very beginning. A journey through hyperspace and celestial landscapes. Jerry subtly leads, and the organ sounds are incredible, very much like sirens. Phil makes the earth shake, and the band fades into a psychedelic mist. This tour will never get old. A version lost in time. Drifts without wondering too far, you really hear why this band is really in the transportation business. Also a brutal, brutal meltdown is in this one. Gets scary and dark fast.

Chills. A haunting performance that’s performed perfectly. Beautiful ending as well.

Radioactive and alchemical Truckin jam that’ll leave your mind melted. Not a caution jam but definitely take caution with this one, will turn your brain into a puddle with your DNA completely vaporized as well Surpised this doesn’t have that many votes, Truckin jams are some of the deepest and darkest jams one can find themselves in. A lysergic train ride that takes you to the center of the atom, which ends up splitting on impact:

Giddy up is right, one of the most powerful, jammed out, bluesy performances of this song I’ve ever heard. Saddle up and catch them if you can. Gallops along with some incredibly deep interplay that’ll leave you speechless. Fantastic bluesy expression from Jerry that adds so much to this version, he had something on his mind that only the transition jam could be a vehicle for. Taken to infinity and back again. Might be my favorite of 74. Phil purs like the Cheshire Cat with his warm fuzzy bass sound as well. Some of the most top of the line psychedelic bluesy cowboy jamming you’ll find around these parts. Will be listening over and over again. Could really go anywhere it wanted.

Had to come here again to praise this incredible piece of music. One of the most well played China->Riders I’ve ever heard. I adore Jerry’s playing on this one. There are some wailing licks during the transition into Rider that really make this one for me. The band is taking the song wherever it wants to go. Really great rendition.