Lucky enough to be at this show. Candyman blew everyone away--best song played that night. Awesome trippy guitar jam &Jer belts out vocals

Gorgeous, incredible, up and down, carnival-like bridge jam by Jerry. Picture perfect version--no flaws

April '78 S>F's often mentioned are 4/16 and 4/24 (rightly so) but this one is every bit as good. Superior transition jam--, beautiful, & powerful

Starts out Jazzy, explorative, takes its time, 3 minute intro, then blasts off into the stratosphere with intense Garcia-led jamming

To each his own, of course but to be clear, I'm not reviewing the whole show at all. There are always flaws in '83 shows, even the best of them, but I'm only raving here about the China>Rider, which I think is far better than just OK. I can't seem to find a better one in this year and the 80s weren't always kind to this combo anyway so this one is a standout that I think you're giving a bit short shrift due to the rest of the show being pretty sloppy. This is a hard kicking nailed t down version & Jerry's clearly into it as you can hear in his northboind train moment. You may be be right that this show as a whole is overrated but this combo is just the opposite.

You're all gonna hate me commenting over and over on this version until it gets at least out of the 3-vote zone it's in now. You've been warned. Just freaking listen already.

People. Please. For the love of Jerry, what is this masterpiece doing at less than a handful of votes? There is no doubt my mind this is THE best version of 1983 and you might as well launch it into the Top 10 of the whole damn decade while you're at it. You can't go & listen to this and hear Jerry stretch out the jams and just push each one higher in BOTH tunes and not come back and upvote this. Ya just can't. It even contains a belt it out "northbound train" shout from Garcia & the rest of the crew is right there at every step. Come on, this has gotta move up the board or we're just not paying enough attention.

I'm not a better writer than you but all I can say after spinning this one again is that it gets caught in that weird vortex of songs so plentiful (PITB was played more times in concert than any other Dead song) and with so many of those versions being excellent, that inevitably some will get overlooked and passed by. But logically, when you think about the time frame of this one, it begs to be heard because it's both a progression in scope from some of the Europe '72 versions and a precursor of the way out there let's explore psychedelia renditions to come in '74. Whatever the reason, I was guilty of not paying this one more attention, too, and it was an easy upvote when I did, thanks to your post! This three show run is extraordinary and as a microcosm example of the point I'm making here, 11/11 tends to overshadow the other two superb shows that preceded it and maybe this Playin' gets the short shrift again as a result. Gonna revisit the Eyes from this show next.

^^^^Sorry you feel that way. If it makes any difference I do think this version deserves an upvote regardless of where the Mosque version sits, even though I'd never say this is a #1 rendition. It's just very good and should be voted up. Oh, and it does blow 5-25-77 out of the water. Also, while I'm not accepting any campaign contributions at this time, I am forming an exploratory committee to test the waters for a possible run as new Heady Version tyrant in chief, a position I would use to smack down every undeserving #1 on this site and relegate it to a slot of my own choosing, beginning with the Swing Terrapin, the Hershey Park Shakedown, and just to spark true civil unrest, the Cornell Scarlet>Fire. If you ever feel like lightening up enough to join the administration, do let me know and I'll reserve a post for you to decide the best version of "Wave at the Wind".