![]() ![]() The jam is tossed into a heavy syncopation after Bobby missteps a "silky silky silky crazy night" line. It's a healthy, long version, typical of the time period. The band is locked in with him, everyone adding fuel to the fire. Sugaree plays on and on, Garcia speeding and swirling effortlessly. Yet, there are several highlights that bear mentioning – so many, that I'm quite sure I will overlook a few. The entire show is worth all of your ear's time. Set Two: Shakedown Street > Lost Sailor > Saint of Circumstance, Althea, Playin' in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Drums > Space > Not Fade Away > The Wheel > Uncle John's Band > Playin' in the Band > Sugar Magnolia E: One More Saturday Night> Brokedown Palace Set One: Alabama Getaway > Greatest Story Ever Told, Sugaree, Me & My Uncle > Mexicali Blues, Tennessee Jed, Stranger, Fried of the Devil, Far From Me > Little Red Rooster, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider > Promised Land This is too coincidental a reason, I know, but the show is indeed packed with muse-infused moments. Played in 1980, it stands at the center of the Dead's 30 year career. Here's a show with the opportunity to echo as far forward as it could backward. More often, the muse simply sounded like the Grateful Dead, echoing backward and forward, un-tethered to "today." A telltale sign that the band was coaxing the muse out came with the strong impression that you were no longer hearing music being played right now. It didn't evolve so much as slowly turn, ever-present in the light. When they did it well, it was all about the evaporation of everything that grounded you to the here and now, yet allowed you to slip all the way into the here and now just the same. Erase the day of the week, the month, the year.
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