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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

I Need A Miracle
Oct. 8, 1984
The Centrum

Excellent and different.
Wharf Rat
April 25, 1977
Capitol Theater

Wharf Rat ends about 10:30 and calling this a 16 or 17 minutes Wharf Rat is misleading. Carrion Crow has some good ideas about how to conceive of it, but the general sequence is pretty clear. They play playin, then drums, wharf rat, a jam, a meltdown and then the reprise. If the key center changes during the jam, it might go to E dorian, but I still hear the A mixolydian of Wharf Rat in the jam and the notes are identical in those two modes. Playin is in D Dorian and the meltdown is where the change occurs, as far as I see it, as he starts the reprise immediately thereafter.
The Music Never Stopped
Feb. 3, 1979
Market Square Arena

This one stands up against other MNS from the era, especially because the first set has a clear recording: https://archive.org/details/gd1979-02-03.set1.sbd.fixed-102851.miller.102876.flac16/gd79-02-03d1t12.flac The second set just has the circulating AUD, but has an all-time Scarlet Begonias.
China Cat Sunflower -> I Know You Rider
Feb. 3, 1979
Market Square Arena

This is the first one since 12/29/77, and the first of four that they played in February 1979. It's part of the farewell Godchaux era, like the three Dark Stars from the same period. It's pretty good, but I have to admit that those are some of my favorite Dark Stars, too.
Pretty Peggy O
April 16, 1978
Huntington Civic Center

This is it.
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