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Terrapin Station
Dec. 11, 1979
Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall

Surges nicely into a hot Sailor with unique bridge to the Saint followed by cool Estimated Jam.
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Sugar Magnolia
Dec. 1, 1979
Stanley Theater

Gallops!
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Not Fade Away
Dec. 1, 1979
Stanley Theater

Rocks and Rips
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Gloria
Dec. 1, 1979
Stanley Theater

No words, just a glorious Gloria Jam, but it deserves some votes!
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Drums
May 2, 1970
Harpur College

All drums this night roll through sacred and sublime! Explodes into O1, later thunders into amazing Good Lovin' & for this, deserves to be here!

Comments

Box of Rain
Sept. 15, 1990
Madison Square Garden

Just noticing how underrated this show is. Wow. It even has an excellent Walking Blues!
Touch of Grey
Sept. 15, 1990
Madison Square Garden

This tune basically bookended Bruce's first five night run as a member of the gang. It's a great version to boot. Not too many dry eyes in the house. Jerry's voice at the end said a lot. Kinda shocked this show doesn't have more love. Great show.
Crazy Fingers
Sept. 15, 1990
Madison Square Garden

Gotta agree. After the pure perfection of 8/13/75 and the beauty of 6/14/76, this one is right there with the best of them. Amazing. Thanks in a big way to Bruce! When they pick up the pace and begin the surge into UJB, lilting and gorgeous.
Bird Song
Sept. 15, 1990
Madison Square Garden

Phenomenal. Jam builds intensely after about 8 minutes. Pretty insane. And everything leading up to it, too.
Throwing Stones
Sept. 22, 1993
Madison Square Garden

Grendel, always enjoy reading your posts. 9/18/90 is a real nice show. That entire Garden run was pretty much magnificent. All 6 shows could have made a great box. 19-20 were particularly epic in how they felt like one long journey (and I say this knowing it was all one long journey... but those 2 nights were something special..). Despite Road Trips and DP9, it still would be a great box, since a lot of fantastic stuff from those shows was still left on the cutting room floor (Help-Slip-Frank; GDTRFB-Stella; the entire 2nd set from the first night - 9/14/90 - a scorching Scarlet-Fire, a sublime Terrapin that won't quit, a weird, blistering O1 into a beautiful, haunting, and very underrated Wharf Rat - an awesome night with a straightforward but ridiculously fun first set....), really, everything from that run (and 9/15, Bruce's first night as an official member, was none to shabby either... Even the Women Smarter from 9/20 was just exactly perfect). Having said all that, the entire Fall Tour through Europe was pretty darn tight. Everyone came to play after the tragedy of the summer. And they played hard..... But I digress. Completely forgot that we're on a totally different Garden run here. This Fall of '93 Garden run was pretty darn good too, especially considering it was 1993!!!