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Me and Bobby McGee
April 18, 1971
Lusk Field House - State University Of New York

Confident Soulful Sonically Strong
10
Don't Ease Me In
April 2, 1973
Boston Garden

Crisp and right
5
Casey Jones
May 23, 1972
Strand Lyceum

Not Flashy, Just Exactly Perfect Though

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Good Lovin'
April 12, 1978
Cameron Indoor Stadium

Power!
Pretty Peggy O
April 12, 1978
Cameron Indoor Stadium

Heady - Jerry gets lost and found a couple of times vocally and on guitar. Phil off on his own. Just the Grateful Dead doing their thing. The keep going and draw you in. Lovely, just lovely.
Don't Ease Me In
Nov. 9, 1973
Winterland Arena

Rousing version. Never liked the Dead's arrangement of this song, once I got to the point of thinking about it, but this version changed my mind a bit. Used to like it live, because it's a great old song, with all of the sweet melody, rural street hustle, mystery, pathos and humor that so captured Jerry's imagination. By the way "Don't Ease Me In" actually should be "don't leave me here". The Henry Thomas version just was hard to hear or he said it that way because he liked it that way.
They Love Each Other
Nov. 9, 1973
Winterland Arena

so cool - insistent, relentless. keith just so good, jerry so light fingered, bobby so in his soul mode, rhythm all over funky, snapping the snare, bass so deep. delicioso!
Bertha
Feb. 5, 1978
Uni Dome, U of Northern Iowa

A killer solo no doubt. A controlled but speeded up reggae/soul feeling, a more sinuous version of which is Buffalo 5/9/77 (my favorite version), but here with absolutely searing guitar solo. Seemed like they were in a hurry to get somewhere, and man they got there.
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