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Row Jimmy
Sept. 20, 1974
Palais Des Sports

Billy's doing some interesting stuff on the drums here! And excellent solo from Jer! Vocals too!
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El Paso
Sept. 20, 1974
Palais Des Sports

74 versions really captured the western tone well. Short and sweet.
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Beat it on Down The Line
Sept. 20, 1974
Palais Des Sports

Rough start but gets real solid and fun
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Bertha
Aug. 5, 1979
Oakland Auditorium Arena

Jerry calls for Bertha then proceed to royally flub the lyrics LOL. Solid bouncy version though.
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Sugar Magnolia
Sept. 15, 1987
MSG

Phil and Brent really escalate the dance party factor of this tune in later years. Great performance this night. Just sheer fun. Comes to awk end.
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Comments

Throwing Stones
Oct. 9, 1989
Hampton Coliseum

They really can’t seem to find the groove here IMO. Takes away a lot of the draw for me
We Can Run
Sept. 29, 1989
Shoreline Amphitheatre

Yeah, I mean, not a great tune. Certainly different. Maybe a younger, less mature brother of Throwing Stones. Much more "on the nose" than we're used to with Dead tunes. I do love that Brent truly had his space to write and perform his own stuff with them though when there were some real artistic powerhouses in that crew. I understand Brent and Barlow wrote the lyrics. I wonder who put the music down? That's really the bigger issue with the song. The material could have improved if it danced around the music a bit more, but it was just too on the nose.
Tennessee Jed
Jan. 22, 1978
McArthur Court, U of Oregon

Garcia’s voice lends itself so perfectly here
Lazy Lightnin' -> Supplication
Nov. 2, 1977
Field House - Seneca College

WOO!
Caution
Nov. 8, 1969
Fillmore West

God I love Pigpen. Was also caught off guard by that PITB riff in here in 1969. Need to do more digging into how that tune formed.
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