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Turn On Your Love Light
Dec. 15, 1971
Hill Auditorium

Lovelight > King Bee > Mannish Boy > Lovelight
18
Smokestack Lightnin'
Feb. 19, 1971
Capitol Theater

The all-howling, all-wailing, gritty loping groove laid down here is amazing. AhhhwooOOOOooOOOoooofareyouwell
11
Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad
Dec. 10, 1971
Fox Theatre

China Cat Jam > GDTRFB - pure breakneck beauty
32
Dark Star
April 28, 1971
Fillmore East

A Darkstar out of place and time - Constanten sits in for tones of 69 showing up in a 71 Darkstar>St. Stephen
17
The Other One
Aug. 14, 1971
Berkeley Community Theater

Crunchy Phil goodness with a chewy surprise inside
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Turn On Your Love Light
Feb. 1, 1970
The Warehouse

Compares surprisingly well with the version 10 days later, complete with a stage full of people.
Turn On Your Love Light
Jan. 23, 1970
Honolulu Civic Auditorium

30+ minute romp, Jerry gets the slide out somewhere in there. Not sure who ends up on stage babbling with Pigpen, nor am I sure just WTF is going on w/ the last cut - other than to say at 32 minutes, this song turns into Dark Star, and it sounds suspiciously like 2/11/70.
The Other One
Feb. 2, 1968
Crystal Ballroom

The Cryptical reprise is longer than the Other One, the lyrics are still sort of in flux, and it never really finds that fluidity under all of that agro that we've come to know and love, but..this is absolutely Anthem-tastic, all the same.
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
Feb. 2, 1968
Crystal Ballroom

Pig actually croons about box back nittys and great big and noble thighs here, gets distracted by being a King Bee and assorted stingers and brings some spirited harmonica/guitar exchanges w/ Jerry. Listen to the Clementine before it (I'd list it if I could - there are only 5, so I can see why it's not listed. If you haven't had the 'Hey, this is My Favorite Things on acid' epiphany yet, it's worth the trip) to have the tune fresh in mind...it manages to bleed into the pacing/feel of this Schoolgirl interestingly.
Good Lovin'
Sept. 18, 1970
Fillmore East

Holy hell. Phil bombs, Bob Weir having an out-of-body guitar experience, Jerry vamping like a madman....this thing is freaking amazing. Up to about 5 minutes, this is your standard 1970 Good Lovin'. At 5 minutes, somebody flipped the 'MAKE THINGS AWESOME' switches in a completely different configuration than I've ever heard. Jerry repeats this heavily hairy effect combo while Bob (For real. Is the world sure that is Bob? It's that good.) tears thru amazing lead after amazing lead. WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST LISTEN TO?
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