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Looks Like Rain
Oct. 13, 1981
Walter Koebel Halle

If it looks like rain and feels like rain, it's probably rain
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The Eleven
Oct. 8, 1968
The Matrix

Some wormholes just require a smaller spaceship. The Hartbeats phase isn't just true Dead, it's essential.
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Truckin'
April 5, 1971
Manhattan Center

The fuzz is turned up and the boys are ready to launch
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He Was A Friend of Mine
Dec. 7, 1968
Bellarmine College

great soloing, cut off short
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Bird Song
Sept. 30, 1980
Warfield Theatre

Incredible acoustic version. Jerry goes OFF in this jam
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The Other One
April 5, 1971
Manhattan Center

This thing is a monster. Jerry's first note is a guttural fuzz-scream that sets the tone for the rest of the song. The subtle volume changes within Jerry's opening solo are really something to behold. White-hot bolts of lightning piercing through rumbling thunder. Phil with a free-jazz solo that appears to forecast the liquid style of Jaco Pastorius. Face-meltingly primal electric Dead, and as usual for the real gems, ridiculously underrated.
Dancin' in the Streets
Jan. 24, 1970
Honolulu Civic Auditorium

The boys are on an absolute TEAR in this one. Jerry in full rip-the-roof-off-the-place mode with the fuzz tone maxed all the way out. The phrasing in the first main guitar solo is absolutely unreal. The way he thinks up a complex phrase and belts it out with extreme precision... unmatched. Phil machine gunning. Top shelf but criminally underrated '70 Dead that makes a '70 fan proud as hell to be one.
Spanish Jam
Oct. 19, 1981
Sports Palace

Barcelona: where the crowd claps along to Spanish Jam. Extremely legit version.
The Other One
Nov. 22, 1972
Austin Municipal Auditorium

Wow, this thing rips. Keith going full intergalactic during the soft jazz groove. Jerry's tone ranging from staccato buzzsaw to pure liquid. Listen to the segment starting around the 9:20 mark and tell me that's not Classic Dead. The way he machine-guns a phrase into your brain and then lets a long heavy distorted chord rip and just hang there for a second. Jaw-dropping stuff. Phil is slobbering all over it like a hungry pack of dogs. Sometimes the boys are just ON and this is one of those versions. Supremely underrated version easily in my top 5, so clean and yet so filthy at the same time.
Bertha
Sept. 24, 1972
Palace Theatre

Supremely underrated
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