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Playin' In The Band
Aug. 20, 1972
San Jose Civic Auditorium

A good cure for those 'No 'Cid Blues'. This one is a gem.
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Morning Dew
Oct. 18, 1972
Fox Theater

Part of the first Playin' sandwich. The transition back into Playin' is like the cops kicking your door in at 4 a.m. it is so sudden and surprising.
2
Turn On Your Love Light
April 5, 1971
Manhattan Center

An aural honeypot capping a dynamite show.
10
Dark Star
Nov. 7, 1969
Fillmore Auditorium

A breezy and pleasant intro gives way to a monstrous intra-verse portion that features some 'Uncle John's Band'-themed jamming.
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Dark Star
Oct. 28, 1972
Cleveland Public Hall

Serene, frenetic, diffuse, cluttered--in short, this one goes through more changes than David Bowie's hair. Pheatures a phleshed out 'Philo Stomp'.
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Comments

The Other One
May 2, 1970
Harpur College

Great stuff and should have more votes (guess TOO just somehow isn't in that ultra rarefied air like certain other tunes (cause it sure can't be explained by parity, can it?))--but it sure as hell ain't significantly better than many, many of the versions that follow it.
Viola Lee Blues
May 2, 1970
Harpur College

Just like Viola Lees are each composed of increasingly intense plateaus of crescendo, so too this version seems like all the versions leading up to it comprised pretty much a graded sweep of higher and higher steppes before this, the apotheosis.
Scarlet Begonias
July 19, 1974
Selland Arena

I enjoyed having a nice Miller SBD of this show prior to the Dave's release. I haven't had a chance to slice the cellophane off of my copy of Dave's yet, but I do remember finding the jam out of this little version left me feeling like I got fries from a Mickey D's that didn't do the fries as well as other Mickey D's that I know of that serve the best fries.
Scarlet Begonias
May 14, 1974
Adams Field House, U of Montana

Sometimes I get this one and sometimes I don't. Regardless, I find this show to probably be the deepest of May '74.
Morning Dew
May 2, 1970
Harpur College

Wow! The first comment on this one? Holy shit!
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