Jerry and Bobby create a beautiful space before TOO. A conversation in strings. Billy and Mickey create primal, carnivorous music. Hunting music.

What a crown jewel Pretty Peggy O can be. A truly tender version that washes away all my worries. These 74 versions are quite special.

The Dead take the Parisians through a cowboys surrealist day dream. Check out how both Keith and Jerry are utterly locked into the music.

Blossoms and blooms like a shining red rose. I really love the energy for this show.

1974 and Ship of Fools go together like peanut butter and jelly. Full of emotion. They're really giving their all in this.

Brent really gives new life to the band and this performance is a perfect example of this. One of my personal non 77 performances of this tune. Stellar keyboard playing that’s something out of a sci fi sequence and then you have Jerry turning into a intergalactic cyborg with incredible dance chops. Great dancin!

This needs to be higher! For me personally the perfect Dancin Trifecta has to be 5/19/77 5/8/77 and then this beautiful show right here. Holy shit and pardon my profanity but this solo absolutely fucking rips, Jerry is RELENTLESS during this song and if I’m being totally honest he knows it and is capitalizing on it, pulling from his bag of tricks without even missing a beat or losing any energy whatsoever. I don’t know but this solo really does something to me and Jerry was clearly really digging and feeling out the space the band was laying down so he can explore with due diligence. What a stellar performance this really should be higher, incredible energy.

I enjoy this version a lot, frankly I love Jerry’s tone in this too it’s absolutely monster. However, as much as I love this show and this performance, I can’t help but to think that there are so many more performances that truly push the boundaries of the song. 2/13/70 100% did and look at any Europe 72 show, pure sonic exploration without losing the core structure of the song. Granted we wouldn’t have any sonic explorations if it weren’t for the blueprints such as performances like these. Greatest of all time? I don’t think so, yet, there is something so enduring about this one. Check out 11/8/69 for an epic DS transition into a TOO that I would consider a distant cousin of this one!

Love Jerry’s playing on this one, his joy is infectious! May not have the diminished jam but honestly still has a lot of character, my personal favorite eyes at the moment!

If you’re reading this, give this a relisten. It gets deep, cosmic ooze all over this version yet no matter how far they go into outer reaches of the cosmos, it truly never loses character and the boys really catch on to some energy here. Criminally underrated good lovin’ might be best of all time, for sure top 3 of all time. Great interplay with the band, check out pigpen and Phil later in the jam and Phil interpreting his words through his playing, brilliant stuff. Overall a fun, adventurous, and jazzy good lovin! VERY HEADY