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SlowlyTooFades

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Stagger Lee
June 18, 1995
Giants Stadium

The jam at the end goes on for a good long time, and Garcia really builds up the feeling. Pity the rest of the show - my last - was pretty bad.
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Truckin'
Oct. 9, 1982
Frost Amphitheatre

Whereas most versions from this period depend on bombast, this is a fairly well-explored take. Classic sequence of Truckin>O1>Dew.
12
Jack Straw
Sept. 26, 1991
Boston Garden

Awesome, eneretic version. The "big-7" ensemble really gets a chance to shine on this one. BH adds vocals.
9
Cumberland Blues
Oct. 21, 1983
Worcester Centrum

A nice long version: urgent as always, but there is a certain sense of relaxed pace to it.
5
One More Saturday Night
March 14, 1982
Recreation Hall - University of California

Great placement: first song of the set, since they'd forgotten to play it the night before.
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Comments

Mason's Children
Dec. 28, 1969
International Speedway

Surely the most "out-there" Mason's ever done: points in some interesting dimensions that the band went in 1970, and some that they sadly didn't get to explore.
China Doll
May 19, 1977
Fox Theatre

All of the elements which make a version strong are here in excess.
Bertha
Aug. 27, 1972
Old Renaissance Faire Grounds

Definitive.
Row Jimmy
May 16, 1993
Sam Boyd Silver Bowl

Good use of MIDI on this late-afternoon version.
You Don't Have To Ask
March 25, 1966
Trouper's Hall

This is one of our earliest examples of the band really stretching out on a song; you can see the steps they're taking toward the Cream Puffs of '66 (and of course Viola Lee).
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