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Days Between
May 21, 1995
Sam Boyd Silver Bowl

Jerry doesn’t miss a beat. Video shows him deeply into this version onstage and you can hear it in his vocals. This one can stand with the greatest.
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Eternity
Sept. 29, 1993
Boston Garden

Spacey and well played. Vince has some sick fills and Jerry plays very strongly. Better than 4/2/95
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Bertha
Sept. 28, 1994
Boston Garden

Very hot version, Jerry’s on fire in the solo and his vocals are perfect. This show is massively underrated vs much of the rest of this fall tour.
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Not Fade Away
May 25, 1992
Shoreline Amphitheatre

Great Vince version. Super hot. Follows the first west coast Attics. Jerry was really feeling it.
3
Turn On Your Love Light
July 7, 1984
Alpine Valley Music Theatre

Glorious return of lovelight to regular rotation. Phil leads with the riff out of NFA. Can’t imagine what this was like
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Comments

Supplication
June 27, 1985
SPAC

Legitimately upsetting to hear Jerry Phil and drummers ready to go into lazy lightning 5-10 times during this four minute jam. Sucks that Weir would do shit like this sometimes, IMO. Still enjoyable jam of course but would have been cool to get the LL.
Dire Wolf
Oct. 11, 1980
Warfield Theater

There’s nothing better than this one. First one I heard and there isn’t anything out there that’ll ever exceed it. Sweet little 5 seconds of crowd before the intro that’s burned into my brain.
Row Jimmy
March 26, 1987
Hartford Civic Center

Very sweet version. Jerry’s vocals aren’t too hot (honestly prefer 84 to 86-87 for his voice) but this one is kind enough that I don’t care.
Sugaree
Oct. 9, 1976
Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Stadium

Really fantastic dynamic version. 76 never fails to spark a little joy for me
Bird Song
June 13, 1994
Memorial Stadium

Probably better and definitely heavier than 6/19. Really underrated one.
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