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Althea
Aug. 23, 1980
Alpine Valley Music Theater

A 1980 Althea! Gorgeous and soaring and lilting!
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Lazy Lightnin' -> Supplication
Aug. 23, 1980
Alpine Valley Music Theater

Great jam into Supplication!
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Tennessee Jed
Aug. 23, 1980
Alpine Valley Music Theater

Packs a punch! Very groovy….
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Playin' In The Band
Feb. 24, 1971
Capitol Theater

Great for Toddler-Heads at under 5 minutes, with quirky urgency, one of the shortest ever…
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King Bee
Feb. 24, 1971
Capitol Theater

Blue Dead or Grateful Blues… either way, Jerry and Pigpen were master blues men.

Comments

Dancin' in the Streets
April 10, 1978
Fox Theatre

The first half jam almost makes this a top tier version…. a wonderful jam. Keith’s piano glows. Really, really great! Then Bobby counts down the twisty coda jam and the bottom drops out a bit. The final jamming tumbles and falls, eventually landing in one the earliest semi-official Drumz….
The Other One
March 2, 1969
Fillmore West

Vicious, relentless, fantastic, fiery scorcher out the gate to the very last insane rips of the Cryptical Envelopment Coda… totally insane, right up there with 5/2/70, 2/13/70, etc…. And yes… this is the greatest introduction, and most accurate, in GD history, when Bill Graham calls them “The American version of the Japanese film the Magnificent Seven” (which is hilarious, since Kurasowa’s film was the Seven Samurai, which John Surges based his movie on, etc, etc, etc….) Not just one of the best Other One-Cryptical ever… one of the greatest musical works of art of all time, though the Dead are responsible for a lot of those, but…. Anyhow!!! Enjoy!!!
Sugaree
May 19, 1977
Fox Theatre

Shredfest! Swings on all cylinders as does the entire show!
Jack Straw
May 17, 1977
Memorial Coliseum

Rip roaring!! Everything on this night is stellar! Tight, quick, short, but pretty much a near perfect Jack Straw from a great top 50 show!! Maybe top 25….. could be top 10…. (for me!)
Help on the Way
Oct. 9, 1976
Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Stadium

A centerpiece for a fantastic second set! Almost a stand alone HELP since it takes a while for it to find its way to Franklins, so that's why the voting is here. And the SLIPKNOT is ridiculous. But really, the whole sequence of St.Steph-NFA-St.Steph-Help-Slip-Samson-Slip-Frank is phenomenal!!