If a SBD of this version and show existed we'd all be talking it up. But the AUD is pretty good, & this RJ has tasty Garcia licks. Don't overlook it!

For the love of Jerry you MUST listen to this immediately. Cease all other activities and prepare to have your jaw hit the floor!

Seguing out of a sick Franklin's Tower it gets fast, flawless rolling licks from Jerry and great timing from the rest +killer final Jam

Sweet end to a magical show. Perfect harmonies w/Brent. Only flaw is when Bob says "careful up there" to someone doin' somethin' werid in the rafters

Talk about slipping through the cracks: This is a classic long, jamming sick slick trip thru both tunes. Intro to FIRE one of the best ever performed

Nice pick...very good backing vocals on this one thanks to Brent and Garcia's way into it also. 5/22/77 is still my favorite and some of the other '77 jam sections are hard to beat but this one is maybe the best Brent-era I've heard.

DOES need to shoot up the list! This is a version where the post-lyrics jam has every bit as much inventiveness and crisp jazz improvising as the beginning portions do. Check out Jerry's lines around the 10 minute mark and his play-offs with Brent throughout. Bobby adds interesting counter-rhythms too and Phil is doing his rattle-your-bones bass thing. Really strong version that oughta be higher on the board.

A winner for sure. Can't find a clunker anywhere in this show.

Almost getting fried by a lightning strike is a pretty good excuse!

It's not that this isn't a good version...it is. Maybe you could make the argument it's even "great", and in a top 10-20 discussion. What mystifies me about this version (and I'm not alone judging by just a few of the comments here) is that it's so often taken for granted as the best of the best. And that's just mind-bogglingly not true. 97 votes at this counting. That's about 65 too many by my estimation unless people are just adding their votes for it being great and not necessarily #1, which is fine...but then you should seek out equally worthy or better versions and vote those as well. If you feel like an objective experiment, take just these versions from the SAME MONTH--i'm not even getting into the apples & oranges of Brent v. Keith eras here, and compare them back to back w/this version, and see if you would change your vote: 5/13/77, 5/17/77, 5/21/77, 5/25/77. If you really believe any or all of those are not superior to 5/8, and thus should be ranked higher on this list, then I give up trying to convince otherwise.