A mighty a primal drum section reminiscent of the early acid test days. Follows after a rare Cryptical and breaks through into The Other One.

Shocked that this hasn't been listed! Great energy with some decimating lines from Jerry and Bobby is screaming his big ol heart out. Great version.

Jerry and Bobby create a beautiful space before TOO. A conversation in strings. Billy and Mickey create primal, carnivorous music. Hunting music.

What a crown jewel Pretty Peggy O can be. A truly tender version that washes away all my worries. These 74 versions are quite special.

The Dead take the Parisians through a cowboys surrealist day dream. Check out how both Keith and Jerry are utterly locked into the music.

This chrysalis brings forth a beautiful butterfly that flutters its beautiful multicolored wings with such grace. This LLR is a gem, and upon listening became my favorite version of this song. Endearing vocals from Bobby and Donna with Jerry’s playing being the definition of melodic. Stunning.

12 votes? Let’s get this boosted up folks. Bobby really is the McCoy Tyner to Jerry’s Coltrane. Especially from 70-72 I feel like is prime Bobby because his willingness to go out on a limb to showcase his keen ear and push his imagination to the absolute forefront of the music. That being said, This Playin’ absolutely showcases why this is. Around the 8:50 mark we enter a ritual summoning spirits of old to guide the band towards new planes of existence. Fall 72 is the Necronomicon of Playin’s with each version being a unique ritual, seance, or spell with different intentions. All of which have this distinct ghost like quality. What a great version from a great show.

Jerry cuts through like a crosscut saw on this one. Country chops put on full display as Bobby and the band give the performance of their lives. Killer version played with immense passion, I can see this story of a West Texas Cowboy play out so perfectly.

This whole show has this Sci-Fi futuristic energy to it I can’t quite put my finger on. This Eyes continues this theme of traveling on a highly advanced rocket ship that soars through galaxy’s and journeys into rips in the space time continuum. Love this early 73 sound for Eyes.

This is a mind melting journey of extraterrestrial proportions. The Phil solo is flowing with acidic energy. The music that follows with Billy and Phil is a tribal display of African percussion through melodies of old passed through generations and the beats that followed mankind since its inception. Out of nowhere we get thrown into a nebula of colors inconceivable to the naked eye, and geometric landscapes beyond our understanding. This all melts away quite quickly, I imagine a UFO on some far away martian planet, infested with skittering space bugs, which infests the spacemen inside of the ship and takes them through existential horrors beyond anyone’s imagination. The music at this point feels like a cosmic glob of melted colors. One hell of a weird ride, just like how I like them, also Jerry does this dominate/diminished arpeggio sequence near the end of the song that I hear quite frequently at the end of a DS or TOO in early 73, anyone have a name for that sequence of music or is it just a random lick that was common during its time?