Lucky enough to be at this show. Candyman blew everyone away--best song played that night. Awesome trippy guitar jam &Jer belts out vocals

Gorgeous, incredible, up and down, carnival-like bridge jam by Jerry. Picture perfect version--no flaws

April '78 S>F's often mentioned are 4/16 and 4/24 (rightly so) but this one is every bit as good. Superior transition jam--, beautiful, & powerful

Starts out Jazzy, explorative, takes its time, 3 minute intro, then blasts off into the stratosphere with intense Garcia-led jamming

Totally agree with ^^^^ Great version here, lots of energy from Jerry and a real commitment to the vocals. Excellent box set and run of shows.

Very worthy, at a loss as to why it wasn't already listed. Nice flowing version from one of the great shows of a brilliant month/year.

A+ for emotion, B- for actual playing/singing/execution. Given the glowing comments here I had to check this out & I guess this is my too-critical stance on judging any post '90 version, but I just can't get past 1) Jerry's sad croaky vocals, 2) the sour notes hit during many of the quieter passages before we get to that ripping ending and 3) the fact that I never really warmed to this song, which just seems a bit silly to my ears, with clunky lyrics like "I can see El Salvador", which, I don't know, seems to diminish the actual experience one would have actually "standing on the moon" and viewing the whole of the Earth. Am I overthinking it? Most probably, yes, and I recognize how "you kids get off my lawn!" I must sound in my nitpickery, but this is why latter day Dead leaves me cold. (I still maintain that Built To Last isn't just a shitty Dead album, it's a shitty album period.) However (if anyone is still reading this and hasn't tuned me out yet), I must admit also that the shredding Jerry does near the end of this is really spectacular and stands up to anything he's done in any era, and bringing back the 'be with you" vocal at the tail end of it is a masterful touch. It's all emotion at that juncture, real and pure and no one but Jerry could pull that off in just that way. It's what I suspect gives this version its #1 ranking and I suppose to argue otherwise would be foolish, given that other versions would contain exactly the same flaws that annoyed me in this one, and wouldn't have necessarily that emotional pay off. No upvote here, but an admission that I'm probably missing something that the rest of you are getting loud and clear.

Yup. Don't let the AUD source (pretty good one btw) keep you from this show or this version. Double time at the end, as noted, very cool.

^^^^I do agree there are elements of all that in that particular NFA from that show. (If that's what you're referring to and not this OO)...Do wish there was a better source...I'm not crazy about the AUD sources available for 12/19/78, although they're not terrible either.