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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
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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
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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
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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