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SlowlyTooFades

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Stagger Lee
June 18, 1995
Giants Stadium

The jam at the end goes on for a good long time, and Garcia really builds up the feeling. Pity the rest of the show - my last - was pretty bad.
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Truckin'
Oct. 9, 1982
Frost Amphitheatre

Whereas most versions from this period depend on bombast, this is a fairly well-explored take. Classic sequence of Truckin>O1>Dew.
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Jack Straw
Sept. 26, 1991
Boston Garden

Awesome, eneretic version. The "big-7" ensemble really gets a chance to shine on this one. BH adds vocals.
9
Cumberland Blues
Oct. 21, 1983
Worcester Centrum

A nice long version: urgent as always, but there is a certain sense of relaxed pace to it.
5
One More Saturday Night
March 14, 1982
Recreation Hall - University of California

Great placement: first song of the set, since they'd forgotten to play it the night before.
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Dancin' in the Streets
Oct. 18, 1984
Meadowlands Arena

Later day version that manages to capture some of the old (pre-69) style of the song.
New Potato Caboose
June 8, 1969
Fillmore West

After an awkward transition from China Cat, this version really takes off, and the ending climax is one of the strongest.
Help On The Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower
Sept. 19, 1990
Madison Square Garden

Franklin's is strong enough: it sounds like it's taking this new configuration some time to work out what goes where, as it were. But the real meat of this is the Help> Slip, where JG quite literally tears it up: he's all over the place, using the whole of his guitar pallet and interacting with BH in the highest degree.
Not Fade Away
Sept. 3, 1977
Raceway Park

Very insistent version: the transition out of He's Gone is almost too slow (but not quite), and then this one just keeps coming.
Looks Like Rain
Feb. 3, 1978
Dane County Coliseum

Incredibly strong version, especially JG's guitar during the verses. Doesn't hurt that there's the great DP 18 version available.
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