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Looks Like Rain
June 27, 1976
Auditorium Theatre

Jerry and Keith are just on fire behind the beautiful vocal duet. This show is underappreciated. Give it a spin....
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Friend of the Devil
June 27, 1976
Auditorium Theatre

Always preferred the fast ones, but listening to Jerry rip up the solos here and it makes sense. Killer version here (with a rude AUD patch though).
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Brown Eyed Women
June 27, 1976
Auditorium Theatre

Has a crisp and tight disco shuffle prefiguring the '77 sound. Jerry's solo fills are precise and brilliant. Donna's harmonies are as sweet as ever.
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The Wheel
June 26, 1976
Auditorium Theatre

Nice on its own, and brilliant as part of a great PITB-SS-Wheel-PITB sandwich. You can hear the fun their having. Short but sweet.
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Scarlet Begonias
June 26, 1976
Auditorium Theatre

From Phil's opening swoops to Jerry's passion-vox, and pristine soloing, this is a killer stand alone SB. Surprised it's not here yet.
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Not Fade Away
Oct. 11, 1970
Action House

Only the second GDTRFB ever - let that sink in for a moment - and you can hear them still ironing out its form. The crowd sure takes to it though and claps along from the start.
Dark Star
Oct. 11, 1970
Action House

Totally underrated. This has everything the best Dark Stars of the era have. The Multi-gen AUD source may be putting folks off, but it shouldn't. The sound is totally listenable if you're not expecting pristine soundboard quality. Don't miss this one. It has solid rhythmic pulses that push us off into the outer spheres before kicking into weird gear and tweaking space time into that eternal return of giant space bugs and koto-sounding melodic haikus followed by the jagged galactic pinball that the enormous Stars offer us. All DS lovers should give this one another deep listen.
Dark Star
Dec. 30, 1969
Boston Tea Party

A freaking time machine. I turn this on and in the space of a blink, it's 19 minutes and 23 seconds later, with a beeyootiful Feeling Groovy Jam too. It flows with the perfect logic of a river through spacetime. It's a cruel cut indeed though but we enjoy what we get, eh?
New Speedway Boogie
Dec. 30, 1969
Boston Tea Party

Kind of. They actually sound like they're having a ball with it. The lyrics are heavy, of course, but the 'Walkin' the Dog' strut rhythm to it, the experimental harmonies and the form are all still being tweaked, so I'd say this is remarkable for a rare glimpse into the development of the song - it's only the fourth or fifth time they performed it - more than any specific heavy presence linked to Altamont.
Deep Elem Blues
Oct. 10, 1970
Action House

Gritty down and dirty like sand-in-the-sandwich. This one has a little funk on it. The recording multi-gen AUD, and maybe not for everyone.
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