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2
He's Gone
April 1, 1980
Capitol Theatre

A solid version with a passage about a minute long straight out of the heavens - directly following the a capella section. Must hear.
8
Stella Blue
July 1, 1979
Seattle Center Coliseum

Horrible video with STELLA sound on YouTube.
2
Black Peter
May 15, 1981
Rutgers Athletic Center

The first solo is sweet and beautiful. The outro is short, bluesy shredding.
7
Eyes Of The World
May 15, 1981
Rutgers Athletic Center

The well played end to a S>F>E>E combination. Jerry plays with a theme recognizable from the eyes on DP6.
8
Uncle John's Band
May 26, 1977
Baltimore Civic Center

The encore of the penultimate show of May 1977. It's short, but these people are practiced at this date.
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Not Fade Away
June 4, 1978
Campus Stadium - University Of California

Darkstar67 heard that Darkness Jam (a good get!) in the 11/2/79 NFA and that got me looking around for others with unique sections. This one quotes Nobody's Fault But Mine from 5:00-6:00 on the linked source. The whole version is short, but it smokes and Donna sounds lively too.
Not Fade Away
Nov. 2, 1979
Nassau Coliseum

Funky and played at full volume by everyone, albeit short. Brent and Phil are out front for much of the first half. Definitely unique.
Mississippi Halfstep Uptown Toodeloo
May 4, 1977
The Palladium

Typical May 77 precision and fluency before rio grandeo and then decidedly different afterwards: sweet, quiet, subtle - a little weird to be so understated at the end of a show opener, but I like it. The actual singing of rio grandeo is excellent, even if the SQ of this board doesn't stack up against the rest of the month.
The Music Never Stopped
Dec. 17, 1978
Fox Theatre

Here: https://archive.org/details/gd78-12-17.sbd.wiley.13408.sbeok.shnf
Mississippi Halfstep Uptown Toodeloo
Dec. 12, 1978
Jai-Alai Fronton

I had a copy of just this halfstep mislabeled as 1/10/78 that someone burned for me in the late 90s. It's nice to know the actual date now. The highlight of this version for me is the sequence of octaves that Keith hits at the end of Garcia's solo just before they sing rio grandeo. Otherwise, a decent but not elite version.
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