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The Wheel
Oct. 2, 1977
Paramount Theatre

It's so apt that The Wheel would roll into Truckin' that the outro is short but the rest is very nice.
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Eyes Of The World
June 27, 1984
Merriweather Post Pavilion

Jerry really mines the changes on this one and pulls out plenty of little gold nuggets (like Coltrane). Good interplay, too. An inspired version.
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China Cat Sunflower -> I Know You Rider
May 12, 1981
Veterans' Memorial Coliseum

A cheesy video of this kickass version would have Garcia playing atop a steam locomotive as it barrels down the track.
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China Cat Sunflower -> I Know You Rider
Oct. 18, 1972
Fox Theater

Incomplete, but what remains is top-notch and essential.
10
Me and Bobby McGee
March 26, 1973
Baltimore Civic Center

I just gotta nominate this one, that's all.
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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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