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Mister Charlie
Aug. 7, 1971
Golden Hall

Jerry leans into it with a jaw-tighteningly crisp and high-voltage tone for a killer solo, though the group is a bit loose. Pigpen sounds amazing.
6
Rosalie McFall
Sept. 26, 1980
Warfield Theater

Absolute goodness. These shows are all so beautiful, the playing is all virtuoso, and the feeling is so positive. Brent here is especially perfect.
2
Dark Hollow
Sept. 26, 1980
Warfield Theater

Perfect. Bobby's silky voice, Gerry's understated but perfect picking, and Brent's barrelhouse honkytonk all on proud display.
1
The Other One
Sept. 23, 1976
Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke U

Poor sound quality midway through, but its the first '76 set since the hiatus that goes off-the-rails weird, evoking the Wall of Sound era. Hot stuff.
2
Samson and Delilah
Sept. 23, 1976
Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke U

Bobby tears it up, not just vocally, but through brilliant guitar work

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Greatest Story Ever Told
July 18, 1972
Rossevelt Stadium

Jerry digs in deep. Sixteenth note precision gives it a blazing, over-the-top finish.
Comes A Time
July 18, 1972
Rossevelt Stadium

Damn, but they knew how to put people back together after blowing them to pieces. This Truckin'>DS>Comes a Time does just that.
Dark Star
July 18, 1972
Rossevelt Stadium

Sixteen minutes of musical bliss kicks off this glorious trek in and out and around inter and inner-stellar space. It's creative and coherent, and exactly what you might need if your looking for a mellow Star. But you'd be wrong, as after the first verse it gets good and weird. Like fifteen thousand squirming lizard-rats shrieking you out of existence without warning-weird. Good old Grateful Dead, they don't leave you there, but instead pull all of your disassociated molecules out of the aether and reconstitute you back on earth with a lovely, loving Comes a Time.... How do they do it? Who knows, but they do, and it works this time.
Truckin'
July 18, 1972
Rossevelt Stadium

Truckin' is systematically overlooked. This one is pure diesel power, and it kicks off one of the best - and weirdly underappreciated on this site - Dark Stars of '72. I love how the Truckin' is steaming ahead full speed but then just smashes head-on into the trip-zone, and away we go....
Bird Song
March 16, 1990
Capital Centre

Not sure how I got here, as it's way out of my normal comfort zone ('66 - '78), but damn, that's some good Bird Song. This lifts off and soars. Folks got a treat this night, that's for sure.