Jerry’s solo is off the walls crazy. A train going top speed and I promise that train won’t slow down! Great energy here overall.

As Jerry shouts, “You know he had to die.” BANG! A massive gunshot right on rhythm. Great reprise with great drum work from Billy and Mickey.

Jerry takes off and soars. Gets really heavy, and out there FAST. Experimental passages and new themes explored. This is what the Dead do best.

Billy and Mickey flowing in and out of the main TOO rhythms. They’re both putting each other to the test as they really get deep in this one.

“At this risk of being repetitious we’re going to do another song in the key of G.”-Bob Weir. This version is quite sweet. Patchy audio, great version

Billy is dancing here. A flawless version that transitions into a cataclysmic The Other One. You can hear how the boys are really embodying each lyric in the song through their voice and instruments, as if their new memories of the European tour are parallels to that fateful night in New Orleans. Love this show. Check out Jerry's solo here, he's standing on some serious business.

I wanted to comment again on this marvelous version. I took one too many hits last night and this version surprised me even more. You can hear instantly within the first notes that there’s some kind of supernatural electricity going on. This is pure communication between musicians, music going in all directions but all end up in the same space. Jerry even tests the band in some exercises and sees how much Phil and Bobby can keep up. Hinting at key changes and allowing the music to go where it needs to go. It’s honestly incredible how free they allow themselves to be while letting the music flow out of them instead of pushing it. They truly treat the music as a living, breathing, thing. The elastic ping pong jam was the perfect springboard for the band to explore and cover new ground, they’re still allowing themselves to evolve. We get to the vocals and space section and with Jerry at the helm, I get these flashes of colors, specifically red, just plain red, then red and black, then orange, then brown, and even colors I can’t really describe. Phil is destructive, earth rendering, and shows a darker side to his playing. This is like a seance, that turns into extraterrestrial communication. Jerry made contact. He’s searching space and time and bending it to make contact with, god knows what. The whole suite of Dark Star>Eyes is dusk personified in sound. The dark clouds being lit up by the setting sun in the distance. Orange, black, red, yellow, the colors of the setting sun. What a truly mystifying version. Terrifying and beautiful.

Great recommendation^ I love how high Jerry is in the mix, especially for this version you can really hear how Jerry can really propel the band forward into uncharted territories. I like my transitions into Rider to feel like it can last forever, this certainly hits that mark tenfold. The Rider for me is the star of the show, that high and lonesome sound personified through electric folk tradition. The Phil bombs during the first solo is just perfect. This is just a tremendous suite. In my opinion, doesn’t get better than this.

Jerry is John Henry, the steel driving man. The audience reaction says it all. Just sublime.

HCS>Space>Me and Bobby McGee>WRS Preulude>Eyes>China Doll. Wow. This version is actually perfection. Marmalade skies and warm colors envelope me in this truly stunning version. After the second verse the jam starts of so serene and gentle, and the dynamics and interplay between the band are truly something to behold. Once we get to the Stronger than Dirt jam we hear a group of musicians conjuring sacred geometry through their music. Shapes and patterns, old as time, Keith taking his time as Jerry weaves his patterns with Phil filling in the blanks. You just gotta admire Billy’s tenacity throughout all of this. This is peak interplay. Utterly locked into the magic they’re creating. Back into the night we go as the band dances among the stars and even weaving the constellations in the sky. Celestial architecture built by the hands of musicians who are able to create such beautiful things through their manipulation of sound. Shines so bright.