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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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Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie
Oct. 16, 1981
Melkweg

See it before you
Bird Song
Oct. 16, 1981
Melkweg

Best acoustic birdsong.
The Music Never Stopped
May 9, 1977
War Memorial

"Mesmeride" is the best new word I've come across in a while. I have been going back and forth between "midjam," "midsection" and "spacey section" for a long time and I hate all of them. (I'll probably still use them.) And you're right, this one (5/9/77) has no mesmeride – but it does have one of the great outros. The midsection starts to stretch in October '77 and 10/16/77 is a great early midsection and solid outro. 4/24 is good, particularly for its outro - but check out 7/3/78 which has the superior mesmeride.
Franklin's Tower
April 11, 1982
Nassau Coliseum

Lightning fast and pretty coherent.
Mississippi Halfstep Uptown Toodeloo
April 11, 1982
Nassau Coliseum

Yep, at one point he even sings lazy river instead of rio grandeo. Still, the song was getting rare by this point (there were only 4 more until '85) and it's nice to hear '82 Jerry play the rio grandeo parts. The outro is pretty strong actually.
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