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

Couldn't think of a reason not to have upvoted this already other than that I wasn't there and was jealous. Great post-70's version, bright improv throughout, and an encore at the Greek? Lucky SOBs that were there.

This simply needs more votes. No way can it be sitting anywhere under double digits. Just listen. The post 2nd verse jam alone vaults this into all-time territory and Jerry's "Delilah Jones" growl is too good for words. The AUD should not stop you-this is a GREAT version and an absolute sleeper at just 4 votes as of this comment.

The last I'll say about this for now is that the best hope for this site remaining as fun and useful as it's been is the comments section for songs already nominated. Rather than trying to wedge in a song that hasn't been put up yet (probably, but not always, I know) for good reason, why not listen to some of the versions that have that mid-range # of votes and could use some advocacy for being rated higher? That's what I gravitate more towards now anyway. And without the character limit on first-time nominated songs the comments area allows someone to explain in detail why they like or don't like that particular version. That's useful! In fact, I'm going to head over right now and add my comments again (in addition to ones I've already made) on why the Brown-Eyed Women from 8/24/80 should be rated way higher than it is now. When I see knowledgeable posters advocating passionately in the comments section for a certain version it's normally a good bet that it's worth a listen and an upvote. I've been turned on to some very good renditions of tunes I otherwise would have missed that way.

I'm also concerned about this site inevitably listing every version of every song as potentially "heady." I'm not blaming any one poster for that but can we not all agree that once every version or nearly every version of a tune is nominated the whole point of this site--featuring only the BEST versions--of a particular tune, becomes meaningless? The idea is to (i believe) be as objectively critical as you can when nominating a version--explain WHY it's especially good--so that the rest of us don't feel like we're wasting our time giving it a listen. And if you're putting up a version of "Scarlet" where Jerry forgets half the lyrics and mumbles thru the rest and his voice sounds like sandpaper cut up in a blender then you should at least have the decency to point that out in your review (yes even w/the 150 ch. limit.) I get how passionate we all are about this band, but they played over 2,000 concerts and hundreds of versions of many songs. Lots were heady and, guess what--many many many were not.

Freedom...based on your rec gave it a try and was pleasently surprised...'91 is about as far as I'll go these days (w/some cgarces recs for a very few '94 tunes sometimes making it to upvote territory) but Jer's voice actually holds up here and there's a nice flow to this one...it won't rival any of the stellar '76 versions but is better than many cringe worthy 80s versions and is on par w/some of the nice early spring '90 versions, which I was convinced til now was the cut off. Thanks for pointing this out.