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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.
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Stella Blue
July 1, 1979
Seattle Center Coliseum

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

The first solo is sweet and beautiful. The outro is short, bluesy shredding.
10
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.
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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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Comments

Got My Mojo Working
Oct. 21, 1978
Winterland Arena

This song has never really made a dent in my ear the way that it did this afternoon. I will now be listening to the others, but, to be honest, this one is good enough for me. And I will second the notion that the sequence from here through Stella is required listening for people who know what good music smells like. Maybe top 1%.
Mind Left Body Jam
June 8, 1992
Richfield Coliseum

MLB and Dear Prudence share a trait. They both involve repeating chromatic sequences that consist of four descending notes.
Sugaree
Aug. 14, 1981
Seattle Center Coliseum

The third solo break is one of the best episodes in any Sugaree. (The first is ok, the second not bad). The 3rd break starts out spacey and delicate. Eventually it reaches the flight of the bumblebee. That 3rd break is worth a listen at volume.
Eyes Of The World
Nov. 5, 1979
The Spectrum

For me, the most ethereal Eyes. Sublime yet uptempo, but never screeching - that's the ethereal part. Just moving along apace, in the clouds. Rarely this soft again until the slowdown a decade later.
Dupree's Diamond Blues
Oct. 2, 1977
Paramount Theatre

The admittedly awesome bust out of Casey Jones (show opener, an obvious number 1) has 11 times the votes (on the day I write this).
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