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Row Jimmy
Aug. 1, 1973
Roosevelt Stadium

Not too fast, and not too slow.
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Not Fade Away
Oct. 23, 1971
Easttown Theatre

Swirling, roiling waves of rock and roll - Phil and Keith play off each other beautifully
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One More Saturday Night
Oct. 23, 1971
Easttown Theatre

Great early version - the line between 'Hey, did Bob fudge the lyrics?' or 'Hey, is Bob freestyling?" is an awfully thin one, tho
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Turn On Your Love Light
April 17, 1971
Dillon Gym

Pig continues his quest to get everyone on the planet laid, goes 2 for 2 in the Grateful Dead Dating Game.
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Sugaree
Aug. 23, 1971
Auditorium Theatre

Short, sweet, and soulful. This is sock-hop slow song happiness. Also 3 other words that start with S. (RT vol1, no3)
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Turn On Your Love Light
April 27, 1971
Fillmore East

Another episode of the Grateful Dead Dating Game with your host, Pigpen McKernan - CHRIS AND MARTHA HAVE JUST MADE IT. This one is a 22 minute long smile, from start to finish. Also, Pigpen said it was OK! (released on 'Ladies and Gentlemen', not on archive)
Dark Star
April 28, 1971
Fillmore East

Constanten's familiar tones give the beginning of this one a real flashback feel, but after a noodling space that would have fit in just fine in a 1969 Darkstar, the band plows into pure 1971 white knuckle precision jamming before finding the 2nd verse.
Hard to Handle
Aug. 14, 1971
Berkeley Community Theater

Nice and bouncy - Pig's raps set the band off on a much mellower tangent than other 1971 versions. This is also the last listenable Hard to Handle of the Pig era (unless a better version of 8-26 has surfaced - it sounds like there is an angry chimp turning knobs on what I've heard) - This isn't the one that burns the house down, this is the one you kick back and relax with.
The Other One
Aug. 14, 1971
Berkeley Community Theater

Great high energy (it's August 1971, what else could you expect) performance. Lyrics at about 4 minutes, followed by spacey weirdness....then something amazing happens. For the impatient, ffwd to about 4 minutes into the 'Jam' (as it's tracked on archive.org). I don't know what you would call this little beasty, but it's a strutting medley of jam - there are china cat riffs, sorta-tighten-up segues and a proto-mlb-jam stirring around in there, along with an exchange I can only compare to the 2-18-71 'Beautiful Jam'. Again, I don't know what the hell you'd call this, but it struts.
Dark Star
March 1, 1969
Fillmore West

From Darkstar thru to Lovelight, this is like the alternate universe Live/Dead. Very obviously not the same, yet so close it grabs your attention - the next free hour you have scheduled with your headphones, give this one a whirl.
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