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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.
3
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.
2
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

Truckin'
Jan. 6, 1978
Swing Auditorium

I concur. If you dig 11/2 or 11/6/77, this is some of that same vintage. Jerry couldn't sing second half of this show [and none the next night at all], so he went after it the only other way he could.
Playin' In The Band
Jan. 6, 1978
Swing Auditorium

The SBD linked from this page has the timings wrong. The following is also a SBD, but the tracks are split appropriately: https://archive.org/details/gd1978-01-06.sbd.wizard.24629.sbeok.shnf
Loser
July 22, 1984
Ventura County Fairgrounds

This is great. It helps that the SBD is of such a high quality.
Sugaree
April 12, 1982
Nassau Coliseum

Many Sugarees have a minimalist 3rd solo that's really more an interlude than a solo break. This one has a full 3rd solo where Jerry plays (for lack of a better phrase) understated hummingbird for the majority until he gets into a beautiful peak episode from 10:30-11:30. Three solos: good, better, then best.
Not Fade Away
Dec. 19, 1978
State Fairgrounds Coliseum

This was a nice rec, darkstar67. This has some nice thematic episodes - the kind of playing that was perhaps more planned earlier, but which emerges very naturally here and with subtlety. I think 6:45-8:00 is the highlight of this version. Jerry's playing is beautiful and the rhythm, while clearly intimately related to that of NFA, is still of its own sort.
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