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

I'm always on the search for great Aikos and this fits the bill. Thanks for pointing it out. Brent as mentioned is in full on Michael McDonald harmony mode (not in a bad way at all!) His ringing high backup is very much needed to counter-balance beautifully Jerry's growly 1984 lead vocal...but Jer is into this one and he nails his vocal parts w/gusto. The band is rolling in a half-fast/half slow rhythm that moves things along nicely. Great up n'down bop jam prior to the last verse--and that's when Jer really lets loose w/the growling. Perfect version for next Mardi Gras or any time you need a slice of the Crescent City.

This comes from a show that I would nominate for the greatest set list in GD history. You get in set 1 alone a Shakedown>GSET opener, a Birdsong>Cassidy (among other gems) closing w/a China>Rider. Then in set 2 a Scarlet>Fire opener, a CC Rider (!) 2nd set placement???really?, and an Estimated>Eyes. I truly cannot recall another show with that many marquee tunes all played under one roof on one night. (Did I mention the double encore of OMSN and Baby Blue?) One persnickety problem: all the available sources are AUDs and none of them are great. The CM source is predictably the best of the lot but even he couldn't save this from making you say "I wish there was a SBD of this show available." Still, it's a fine early 80's S>F....the jamming is exploratory and inventive and it's upvote worthy, but it's a little cruel listening to such an amazing show with so many golden nuggets sprinkled throughout and not having a very good sound to do it justice.

Final jam section starts with Keith, ends with Jerry, vocal rejoin just growled by Bobby. Gotta up it.

Back to give this one some more promo and a truly much-needed bump in the rankings (I hope). The jam into Fire is a preview of the kind of extended jamming that became common in the April of '78 versions (see 4/8/78, 4/24/78 for just 2) that feature building levels of Jerry-led leads with the band adding color and flourish in time, the layers all swirling together as they rise and spill out onto an open meadow where suddenly we hear Keith in the clear driving the main "Fire" theme on piano, while the rest of the band lays back and lets the beautiful keys establish the mood before joining in...the "Fire" that follows is shorter than many but also so much more focused than others that do tend to meander a bit...every note seems infused with meaning as Jerry rips confident solos and Phil et al keep the backbeat grooving along. Jerry's finale after the 2nd verse is just exactly perfect and we touch down into the reprised Scarlet theme like the smoothest of runway landings. This is a stellar '77 precision version of the combo with many hints of the broader, more daring explorations of 1978 thrown in for good measure. It's worth getting Dap12 just to hear this and I hope sincerely to see it get at least into double digits here. I now cede the soapbox. Thanks for listening ;-)

Great example of the band having fun, Bobby realizing he sang verse 2 b4 verse 1 and making sure he gets it right. But this version is good from the get-go and musically suffers not at all from bobby's brain freeze....rippin' good version from an underrated Nassau show.