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The Music Never Stopped
March 23, 1992
The Palace

Truly proves there was some magic on every tour. The outro jam is unreal hot, with Jerry, Vince, and Bruce battling it out. Crazy stuff here!
3
Playin' In The Band
Oct. 6, 1984
Richmond Coliseum

Awesome focused jam and beautiful meltdown outro
2
Aiko Aiko
June 6, 1992
Rich Stadium

Jerry gets really into it in the second half. Not lifechanging, but fun
2
Truckin'
July 8, 1987
Roanoke Civic Center

Excellent, hard-charging version from arguably the best show of 87. Bobby stuttering all over the verses
1
Throwing Stones
April 4, 1994
Sports Arena

Very solid version. Video shows Jerry present and very into it.
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Comments

West L.A. Fadeaway
April 18, 1986
Berkeley Community Theater

Love Brent's synth and Jerry's vocals here. Heavy version. No post-coma version can match the mid-80s ones IMO. Jerry and really the whole band just sound so damn GREASY
Terrapin Station
Sept. 6, 1979
Madison Square Garden

Damn, it really seems to be the case that every single Fall 79 Terrapin is absolutely great. Lots of that beautiful ethereal feeling in this one.
Playin' In The Band
April 19, 1986
Berkeley Community Theater

Fantastic version. The band had a truly heady playin every once a while in the 80s. This one might be the best, along with 7/29/88
Comes A Time
June 20, 1986
Greek Theatre, U. Of California

Truly great version. All of the 86 ones are fantastic. Awesome mid solo here with a nice fast run from Jerry to cap it off
The Music Never Stopped
March 18, 1994
Rosemont Horizon

That review is a nice example of why archive.org is still far superior to relisten IMO. comments like that are fantastic. There's a great comment from some guy who had an out of body experience on the 6/20/92 show that I can't recommend highly enough https://archive.org/details/gd92-06-20.dsbd.gardner.2207.sbefail.shnf
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