Almost beyond description. The last full jam leading into the GDTR chorus is a perfect storm example of what made the Dead magic

Gotta check out the "small" songs in legendary shows like this as well as the usual suspects! Check out Jerry's utterly perfect bridge jam & be in awe

If you don't know Saxophonist David Murray, here's a good way to find out how great he is. This is one stellar Birdsong that flew under the radar here

Is there anything prettier, sweeter or more sublimely lovely than Keith's piano in this version? You decide. This TLEO is incredible.

New #1 favorite. Slightly more compact than other amazing '77 versions & so a bit more focused. 2d Garcia solo has no equal.

The Fire is good, but the rest is nothing special, not to mention botched lyrics by Jerry in the Scarlet. No upvote here and no way do I get where its placement on the list is. Just because it's good for '95 doesn't mean it should be listed higher than so many dozens of other versions that are by any objective measure better.

Love the way Bobby seamlessly blends the Other One theme (which precedes this) in the first minute or so of the tune. This is a splendid reading overall as well.

Added the Let It Grow from this on best of Let It Grow section b/c it's just THAT good.

Forgot to mention that after it wraps up Jerry tacks on a classic "Shave & a Haircut, two Bits" kicker!

Growing on me. Upvoted only now after finding the Miller version someone kindly linked to (via the Tennessee Jed thread for this show). This version has always suffered from not having a good SBD source but the Miller AUD is as close as it comes to hearing this as it should be heard. Slower cadence to the Scarlet works here. Jerry is well in command on the bridge break to Wind in the Willows and does many interesting things in the transition jam. My nitpick with that critical moment is that the band could have followed Jerry's lead into fire, building off a crescendo that never really comes. This in fact may be Jerry's doing, but whatever the cause, the turn into fire never builds off the jam from Scarlet. Instead, Jerry lays up after his last solo and things just kind of sit in suspended animation while Mickey toys with a bit of percussion and then they begin gently to introduce the Fire theme, followed by a very nice, if not incendiary version, and there's nothing wrong with that. Not every great version needs to be "off the hook" and this one isn't. For me, it floats in between solid B+/A- territory, and I'd probably bump it up to A- if there was a great SBD available. Gets the upvote here, and it's a nice '78 for sure, but doesn't in my estimation unseat any of the versions from April of this year (4/8. 4/11, 4/16 & 4/24 are all better) but it's got a lot to recommend it, and you may be kinder to it than I have been if you've yet to check it out. Do wish they'd found a stronger path into Fire, though, after Jerry's very cool work setting it up.