The last MWP show, a cranking, heavy-duty Satisfaction as the first song of a double encore

By far far far, the best version. This should have been a keeper -- a nice hard rocking version would have been great for In the Dark.

My first show!!!! Love at first sight. And my second show was Mud Bowl!!!!! How could I NOT love this band the way I do????

First solo Phil Lesh lead vocal since 1973.

Maybe it was partly due to the intensifying thunder and lightning and pouring, blinding sheets of rain, but this Other One radiated an almost fearsome air of menace, coming hot on the heels of the third and final Bob Star. That show, particularly from Space onward, was an UNBELIEVABLE experience -- in today's world, the show would have been halted by venue management in a storm that intense. You could feel Phil's bass-bombs up and down your spine throughout the song. Folks who were tripping this night might NEVER have come down.

The infamous Mud Bowl show. The hardest, longest-lasting downpour I've ever seen had already washed away much of the sloping lawn and carried away the bridge leading from the parking lot to the venue. Lightning and thunder that began towards the end of space intensified during Bob Star and spiraled into insanity during this intense version of the Other One, culminating in an epic showdown between the weather gods and the Grateful Dead during the following Wharf Rat, where the stage appeared to be engulfed in a lightning strike as the band poured it all into the music. Madness of the purest ray serene -- if there were any experience at any Dead show I would love to relive it would be the second half of this second set.