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Deal
Oct. 10, 1981
Stadt Halle

Incendiary second solo becomes delicate and beautiful before they build the final refrain.
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Deal
Oct. 4, 1981
Rainbow Theater

You can't compare 70s Deals w/ late 1980 onward. There's a four minute shredded 2nd solo on this one that wasn't a part of Deal in its 1st decade.
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Deal
Sept. 25, 1980
Warfield Theater

This is the first one with the second solo, revamped for the 15th anniversary.
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Mississippi Halfstep Uptown Toodeloo
Jan. 8, 1979
Madison Square Garden

Pre rio grandeo is good, but there are two peaks post rio grandeo, one built off the other and the latter crashes into Franklin's Tower.
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Stella Blue
May 13, 1981
Civic Center

A fluttery and lyrical solo after the bridge and then an autobiography of an outro. There is a video on YouTube.
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Comments

Deal
Sept. 25, 1980
Warfield Theater

Up to this point, Deal had one solo over the chords to the verse. This was the first one with a second solo over the refrain chords. A whole lot of shredding follows.
Deal
July 7, 1981
Kansas City Municipal Auditorium Arena

Shortish but great. The first notes of solo 2 are weirdly spacey - I liked this.
Mississippi Halfstep Uptown Toodeloo
Aug. 3, 1982
Starlight Theatre

Pre rio grandeo is pretty disappointing, but Garcia more than makes up for it after the singing of rio grandeo. That section is loud and confident and it slams into franklins tower at 60 mph.
Franklin's Tower
Aug. 3, 1982
Starlight Theatre

This is fiery.
Scarlet Begonias -> Fire On The Mountain
Jan. 8, 1979
Madison Square Garden

I agree about Donna and the transition. But what stuck with me was the end of fire when I heard this earlier today. If you made it to the end of fire, you probably voted for this version.
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