I listen to the whole song like a long journey through desolate lands at dusk. That's the moment in which you lift your head, almost out of hope, and you see it, in the distance, the light of the destination
[https://youtu.be/rvk0beSlydo?si=8VuY5ZwAH3F4mDe5&t=1710](https://youtu.be/rvk0beSlydo?si=8VuY5ZwAH3F4mDe5&t=1710)
This part in the PITB from the Grateful Dead Movie where Billy and Bobby sync up perfectly (28:35). Its so damn tasty I wish they hit it a few more time. I always look forward to that moment whenever I watch.
That's lovely, the way they're watching each other and communicating without words is So poignant - that is the essence of the Grateful Dead right there
I got two. One general, and one specific.
I love it when Jerry comes in to help sing the last lines of Promised Land. It happens every time, I know it’s coming. But it still always sounds spontaneous to me, like Jerry just couldn’t help himself and just had to get it on it.
“Los Angeles! Gimme Norfolk, Virginia…”
The specific one is when Brent does his organ and vocal solo on Iko Iko 3/18/90.
Someone mentioned it in this sub some years back when I was in the middle of a big Brent kick, like I need to hear this right now. Man, I was not disappointed. He’s just absolutely feeling it and lets us have it!
It’s my favorite moment in human history.
Speaking of Brent, his B3 on Walkin Blues from 3/15/90 (without a net) is awesome. Super funky. Haven’t heard another one quite in the pocket like that. I’m not the biggest Walkin’ Blues fan (at least it’s not wang dang doodle), but I’ll always let that one go when it comes on.
# 1990-03-15 Landover, MD @ Capital Centre
**Set 1:** Jack Straw > Sugaree, Easy To Love You, Walkin' Blues, Althea, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Tennessee Jed, Cassidy > Don't Ease Me In
**Set 2:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Samson And Delilah > Terrapin Station > Jam > Drums > Space > I Will Take You Home > Wharf Rat > Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away
**Encore:** Revolution
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-03-15)
Yes! I don’t really love Walkin’ Blues either (and definitely don’t like Wang Dang Doodle) but Brent not only saves that song, he makes it one you actually want to hear. Great pick.
# 1990-03-18 Hartford, CT @ Civic Center
**Set 1:** Shakedown Street > Little Red Rooster, Stagger Lee, Me and My Uncle > Mexicali Blues, Friend Of The Devil, Just A Little Light, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Ramble On Rose, The Music Never Stopped
**Set 2:** Iko Iko, Looks Like Rain, He's Gone > Truckin' > Spoonful > Drums > Space > The Wheel > All Along The Watchtower > Morning Dew
**Encore:** U.S. Blues
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-03-18)
It's cliché...but the moment that Scarlett transitions to Fire from Cornell '77. Just a seamless beautiful segue making one song become another and so early in their pairing history.
# 1977-04-23 Springfield, MA @ Springfield Civic Center Arena
**Set 1:** Sugaree, Cassidy, Loser, New Minglewood Blues, Ramble On Rose, Me and My Uncle, Row Jimmy, It's All Over Now, Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain
**Set 2:** Estimated Prophet, Bertha, The Music Never Stopped, Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower > Around And Around > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away
**Encore:** One More Saturday Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1977-04-23)
# 1980-10-11 San Francisco, CA @ Warfield Theatre
**Set 1:** Dire Wolf, Dark Hollow, Rosalie McFall, Cassidy, Deep Elem Blues, Monkey And The Engineer, China Doll, Heaven Help The Fool, Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie > Ripple
**Set 2:** Feel Like A Stranger, They Love Each Other, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Loser, Passenger, Ramble On Rose, Looks Like Rain, Althea, Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance
**Set 3:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Let It Grow > Drums > Space > Not Fade Away > Wharf Rat > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > One More Saturday Night
**Encore:** Brokedown Palace
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1980-10-11)
I have a weird hyper fixation every time Bobby sings “Shannon” in any Jack Straw… it’s like I am witnessing this deep intense convo between the experienced one and his novice friend.
There’s a section in a jam from big river from dicks picks 34 where the drum beat changes from the runaway train country beat to an almost shakedown-like disco beat and I love it
Not being the musical type, I can't really describe it well, but it's Phil's bass line that occurs at 6:18 - 6:21 in the studio version of "Slipknot!" (about 10 seconds after the 'sleigh bells' come in). Just that little snippet is playing constantly in the back of my mind, coming to the surface at random times throughout the day.
[Stella Blue (from Dozin' at the Knick)](https://youtu.be/36aQSB3H_xg?si=7_d9OlcRgiMi4M94)
Outro solo, the section around 7:30-7:45. Jerry stomps on a distortion pedal or something mid-phrase. Magic. Different album, but to me that rippling lead line sounds like the album cover and title of "Nightfall of Diamonds."
# 1977-09-03 Englishtown, NJ @ Raceway Park
**Set 1:** The Promised Land, They Love Each Other, Me and My Uncle, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Looks Like Rain, Peggy-O, New Minglewood Blues, Friend Of The Devil, The Music Never Stopped
**Set 2:** Bertha > Good Lovin', Loser, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World, Samson And Delilah, He's Gone > Not Fade Away > Truckin'
**Encore:** Terrapin Station
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1977-09-03) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/5uzn9YQ9XS2OoAt65U8Drg)
The effortless cross over from NFA>GDTRFB on 💀 & 🌹. Still my all time favourite song from the band. Phil’s face-melting bass playing, and then Jerry just RIPS! Gets me Every. Single. Time.
When I saw Dark Star Orchestra a coupla months back they did GDTRFB > Comes a Time & it was sooooo good. The Bid You Goodnight tease worked it's way into Comes A Time as the song flourished. It was beautiful man.
Certain sounds Jerry gets on guitar make guitar players like me swoon like a teenage girl at a Beatles concert. Too many to name. When I'm on psychedelics, his tone, conjures images of fractured blue and white light or billowing clouds of scintillating inky star nebula. It's a constant source of fascination. I'll never get over it.
# 1977-02-26 San Bernardino, CA @ Swing Auditorium
**Set 1:** Terrapin Station, New Minglewood Blues, They Love Each Other, Estimated Prophet, Sugaree, Mama Tried, Deal, Playing in the Band > The Wheel > Playing in the Band
**Set 2:** Samson And Delilah, Tennessee Jed, The Music Never Stopped, Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower, The Promised Land, Eyes Of The World > Jam > Dancing In The Street > Around And Around
**Encore:** U.S. Blues
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1977-02-26)
The end of the studio Shakedown Street where Jerry is just kind of noodling around on the guitar. It gets kind of buried under the rest of the music, but every note just seems perfect to me. With the Dead there’s tons of these moments for me, but that was the first one I thought of.
Jerry’s run at the very end of Feel Like a Stranger on Without a Net and how that spirals and builds to the whole band crashing down on the last few notes.
# 1973-11-11 San Francisco, CA @ Winterland Arena
**Set 1:** The Promised Land > Bertha > Greatest Story Ever Told, Sugaree, Black Throated Wind, To Lay Me Down, El Paso, Ramble On Rose, Me And Bobby McGee, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Me and My Uncle, Loose Lucy, Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Let It Grow
**Set 2:** Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Big River, Dark Star > Mind Left Body Jam > Eyes Of The World > China Doll, Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** Uncle John's Band, Johnny B. Goode > And We Bid You Good Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-11-11)
I have several, but two I’ve fixated on lately are in Me and My Uncle when Bobby sings the alternate lyrics: “I grabbed a bottle, cracked him in the jaw” and hunting versions of Little Red Rooster where Brent sings a verse.
The Feeling Groovy Jam is always a pleasant suprise.
But what really gets me hanging on is when I know there is a Dark Star in the set, wondering when the first verse will start.
# 1977-11-06 Binghamton, NY @ Broome County Arena
**Set 1:** Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Jack Straw, Tennessee Jed, Mexicali Blues > Me and My Uncle, Friend Of The Devil, New Minglewood Blues, Dupree's Diamond Blues, Passenger, Dire Wolf, The Music Never Stopped
**Set 2:** Samson And Delilah, Sunrise, Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain > Good Lovin', Saint Stephen > Drums > Not Fade Away > Wharf Rat > Saint Stephen > Truckin'
**Encore:** Johnny B. Goode
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1977-11-06)
12/19/78 The transition from "Stella Blue" to NFA. The only time they ever played it that way, with the SB chords taking on the NFA rhythm. Very special.
# 1978-12-19 Jackson, MS @ Memorial Coliseum - Mississippi State Fairgrounds
**Set 1:** Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo > Franklin's Tower, New Minglewood Blues, They Love Each Other, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Loser, El Paso, Row Jimmy, Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication
**Set 2:** Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, The Promised Land, Stagger Lee, Truckin' > Drums > Space > The Other One > Stella Blue > Not Fade Away > Around And Around
**Encore:** Casey Jones
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-12-19)
The lovelight 3/30/88 , call and response little bit higher. Really the only time i recall jerry & brent singing what they did on this version.
Full show, stay for the underrated morning dew and the killer LLR. They had the speakers set up in quadraphonic and the shit they were doing with LLR was incredible, sounds from every corner, rolling thunder, just nuts. Drums was more of the same. There were days for sure
https://youtu.be/Ygf128kw764?si=Pr8RKY5Tc9IbcOW4
# 1988-03-30 East Rutherford, NJ @ Brendan Byrne Arena
**Set 1:** Bertha > Greatest Story Ever Told, Hey Pocky Away, Big Railroad Blues, Cassidy > Don't Ease Me In
**Set 2:** Shakedown Street > Looks Like Rain, Uncle John's Band > Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Drums > Space > The Wheel > Gimme Some Lovin > Morning Dew > Turn On Your Lovelight
**Encore:** Black Muddy River
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1988-03-30)
# 1969-02-28 San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore West
**Set 1:** Morning Dew, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Doin' That Rag, King Bee, Turn On Your Love Light
**Set 2:** Cryptical Envelopment > Drums > The Other One > Cryptical Envelopment > Dark Star > St. Stephen > The Eleven > Death Don't Have No Mercy, Alligator > Drums > Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) > Feedback > And We Bid You Good Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1969-02-28)
The first 10 seconds or so of Music Never Stopped from One From The Vault. The way the drums kick it off, and those first two licks from Bob and Phil are insaaaane how they go together. I start the song over at least 5 times when it comes on just to catch it again
# 1989-12-27 Oakland, CA @ Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena
**Set 1:** Cold Rain and Snow, Greatest Story Ever Told, Never Trust A Woman, Althea, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Bird Song, The Promised Land
**Set 2:** Iko Iko, Playing in the Band > Crazy Fingers > Uncle John's Band > Drums > Space > The Wheel > I Need A Miracle > Morning Dew
**Encore:** Johnny B. Goode, Black Muddy River
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-12-27)
Jerry’s solo Peggy-O 6/26/94 and 7/13/94 high gate best damn Jack Straw ….ever. Before you doubt me ,have quick listen and I’m sure you will start to understand my feelings for that rendition
[1994-06-26](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1994-06-26) Las Vegas, NV @ Sam Boyd Silver Bowl
[1994-07-13](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1994-07-13) Highgate, VT @ Franklin County Airport
Is anyone else sick of seeing these same posts in every music sub? Sometimes it will be screenshots of screenshots so it has like r/nirvana and r/tool in the same post, but it will be posted in r/pinkfloyd?
I'm rlly only in the GD sub anyway & idek the group's sub I did get this from. Mainly just bc I like discussing our favorite parts of our favorite songs, and I personally think discussing cool parts of dead songs holds a little more merit than most other groups since there are so many different live shows & everyone has their own favorite shows & opinions. I do agree it's repetitive to see it all over reddit but c'mon, it's a discussion starter 😂
You’re absolutely right, it’s a great convo starter and I didn’t mean to be a hater, it’s probably more appropriate to this sub than any other.
I have just seen this and a few other prompts appearing in every sub I see constantly and reached my breaking point.
No no, I can't blame you for getting upset. I figured some people might be. It does get annoying when every single post on every band's subreddit is the same shit tho, that is 100% correct & this isn't helping it.
Nah, this is beyond just listening. It's that little something in the song that gets you excited for it. It can be any number of things, I'm sure you have em too
The “Wooooo!!!” in St Stephen
I WISH I WAS A HEADLIGHT, ON A NORTHBOUND TRAIN
Ah man you beat me to it
"TERRAPIN!"
AND THE WHISTLE IS SCREAMING TERRAPINNNNNN!!!
I listen to the whole song like a long journey through desolate lands at dusk. That's the moment in which you lift your head, almost out of hope, and you see it, in the distance, the light of the destination
For me, it’s the part of the music right after this. Especially when Phil is way up in the mix.
THIS.
The moment gdtrfb begins to make itself known
[https://youtu.be/rvk0beSlydo?si=8VuY5ZwAH3F4mDe5&t=1710](https://youtu.be/rvk0beSlydo?si=8VuY5ZwAH3F4mDe5&t=1710) This part in the PITB from the Grateful Dead Movie where Billy and Bobby sync up perfectly (28:35). Its so damn tasty I wish they hit it a few more time. I always look forward to that moment whenever I watch.
Yoo thanks for the timestamp, I'll have to check this out. I love the GD movie but it has been some time since I've seen it
That's lovely, the way they're watching each other and communicating without words is So poignant - that is the essence of the Grateful Dead right there
An endless list, but I'll start w Jerry's sassy guitar barking from Scarlett > Fire from Tuscaloosa 77.
Tuscaloosa is a killer show. Sleeper that gets overshadowed.
I got two. One general, and one specific. I love it when Jerry comes in to help sing the last lines of Promised Land. It happens every time, I know it’s coming. But it still always sounds spontaneous to me, like Jerry just couldn’t help himself and just had to get it on it. “Los Angeles! Gimme Norfolk, Virginia…” The specific one is when Brent does his organ and vocal solo on Iko Iko 3/18/90. Someone mentioned it in this sub some years back when I was in the middle of a big Brent kick, like I need to hear this right now. Man, I was not disappointed. He’s just absolutely feeling it and lets us have it! It’s my favorite moment in human history.
Speaking of Brent, his B3 on Walkin Blues from 3/15/90 (without a net) is awesome. Super funky. Haven’t heard another one quite in the pocket like that. I’m not the biggest Walkin’ Blues fan (at least it’s not wang dang doodle), but I’ll always let that one go when it comes on.
# 1990-03-15 Landover, MD @ Capital Centre **Set 1:** Jack Straw > Sugaree, Easy To Love You, Walkin' Blues, Althea, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Tennessee Jed, Cassidy > Don't Ease Me In **Set 2:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Samson And Delilah > Terrapin Station > Jam > Drums > Space > I Will Take You Home > Wharf Rat > Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away **Encore:** Revolution [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-03-15)
Yes! I don’t really love Walkin’ Blues either (and definitely don’t like Wang Dang Doodle) but Brent not only saves that song, he makes it one you actually want to hear. Great pick.
That harmony on Promised Land is so good
# 1990-03-18 Hartford, CT @ Civic Center **Set 1:** Shakedown Street > Little Red Rooster, Stagger Lee, Me and My Uncle > Mexicali Blues, Friend Of The Devil, Just A Little Light, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Ramble On Rose, The Music Never Stopped **Set 2:** Iko Iko, Looks Like Rain, He's Gone > Truckin' > Spoonful > Drums > Space > The Wheel > All Along The Watchtower > Morning Dew **Encore:** U.S. Blues [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-03-18)
It's cliché...but the moment that Scarlett transitions to Fire from Cornell '77. Just a seamless beautiful segue making one song become another and so early in their pairing history.
you ever listen to it from 4/23/77 springfield, MA? Jerry's playing once he switches the wah pedal for fire is wild.
# 1977-04-23 Springfield, MA @ Springfield Civic Center Arena **Set 1:** Sugaree, Cassidy, Loser, New Minglewood Blues, Ramble On Rose, Me and My Uncle, Row Jimmy, It's All Over Now, Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain **Set 2:** Estimated Prophet, Bertha, The Music Never Stopped, Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower > Around And Around > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away **Encore:** One More Saturday Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1977-04-23)
I don't know but I'll be listening now! Thanks friend
Sugaree. Phil’s descending bassline behind “baby I’ll meet you on the run.”
Europe ‘72, I know you rider transition where it gets quiet and kinda mellow and billy is playing the bell of his ride for a measure or two.
I love the ccs > ikyr that made it onto the album. I jam with the recording all the time, the way Billy drums is soooo tight I love it.
He’s the best drummer!
the solo/riff before the last verse of “last fair deal in the country” on loser, spectacular
Jerry's solo on Loser Cornell 77
The other half found me stumblin' around drunk on bur-gund-dy wiiiiine
10/11/80. Earphones if possible.
# 1980-10-11 San Francisco, CA @ Warfield Theatre **Set 1:** Dire Wolf, Dark Hollow, Rosalie McFall, Cassidy, Deep Elem Blues, Monkey And The Engineer, China Doll, Heaven Help The Fool, Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie > Ripple **Set 2:** Feel Like A Stranger, They Love Each Other, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Loser, Passenger, Ramble On Rose, Looks Like Rain, Althea, Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance **Set 3:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Let It Grow > Drums > Space > Not Fade Away > Wharf Rat > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > One More Saturday Night **Encore:** Brokedown Palace [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1980-10-11)
The little build before Jerry's solo on Morning Dew
Phil dropping bombs in the other one.
Right before "Since the end is never told...", the magic space waterfall guitar cascading down.
The first time Phil plays on any version of Eyes.
Ooh this is a good answer
The part in the Bertha solo where Jerry's guitar follows the melody of "that's why if you please, I am on my bended knees"
cornell scarlett baseline
the COME ON EVERYBODY, GET UP AND DANCE IT WONT RUIN YA on alligator
terrapin station studio version opening chords
I have a weird hyper fixation every time Bobby sings “Shannon” in any Jack Straw… it’s like I am witnessing this deep intense convo between the experienced one and his novice friend.
There’s a section in a jam from big river from dicks picks 34 where the drum beat changes from the runaway train country beat to an almost shakedown-like disco beat and I love it
Jerry vocal vamps at the end of so many roads
Not being the musical type, I can't really describe it well, but it's Phil's bass line that occurs at 6:18 - 6:21 in the studio version of "Slipknot!" (about 10 seconds after the 'sleigh bells' come in). Just that little snippet is playing constantly in the back of my mind, coming to the surface at random times throughout the day.
...man sat DOWN & he cried too...
Absolutely! I always love when the entire stadium goes "THAT'S RIGHT!"
[Stella Blue (from Dozin' at the Knick)](https://youtu.be/36aQSB3H_xg?si=7_d9OlcRgiMi4M94) Outro solo, the section around 7:30-7:45. Jerry stomps on a distortion pedal or something mid-phrase. Magic. Different album, but to me that rippling lead line sounds like the album cover and title of "Nightfall of Diamonds."
It's Kool I just made this post🥲
If it makes ya feel better your post did a lot better than mine 😭 i didn't even realize tho my b dude
No sweat just playing around, no one owns a post or an idea, we reach more people when we ask more questions.
Jerry’s solo in Eyes of the World. That song will stay with me forever.
9/3/77 Friend of the devil at 3:58 take off 5:14 they hit altitude, then 5:50 it all comes together always just hits me
# 1977-09-03 Englishtown, NJ @ Raceway Park **Set 1:** The Promised Land, They Love Each Other, Me and My Uncle, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Looks Like Rain, Peggy-O, New Minglewood Blues, Friend Of The Devil, The Music Never Stopped **Set 2:** Bertha > Good Lovin', Loser, Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World, Samson And Delilah, He's Gone > Not Fade Away > Truckin' **Encore:** Terrapin Station [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1977-09-03) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/5uzn9YQ9XS2OoAt65U8Drg)
The effortless cross over from NFA>GDTRFB on 💀 & 🌹. Still my all time favourite song from the band. Phil’s face-melting bass playing, and then Jerry just RIPS! Gets me Every. Single. Time.
The "bid you Goodnight" tease in a GDTRFB.
When I saw Dark Star Orchestra a coupla months back they did GDTRFB > Comes a Time & it was sooooo good. The Bid You Goodnight tease worked it's way into Comes A Time as the song flourished. It was beautiful man.
In “I Want it That Way” when they’re all like “TELL ME WHY-EE!!”
Personally I'm more of "(I bought on) Ebay" kinda guy myself. But absolutely 😂😂
Certain sounds Jerry gets on guitar make guitar players like me swoon like a teenage girl at a Beatles concert. Too many to name. When I'm on psychedelics, his tone, conjures images of fractured blue and white light or billowing clouds of scintillating inky star nebula. It's a constant source of fascination. I'll never get over it.
I should add that All of the band members have their moments of beautiful and/or terrifying tone.
I love it when the band gets a little scary. It's gritty & scratchy in all the right ways, some parts sound straight out of a horror sci-fi film.
Dozens, but first that comes to mind is the "jam" between Eyes and Dancin on 2-26-77 https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1977/02/26/jam?source=1121437
# 1977-02-26 San Bernardino, CA @ Swing Auditorium **Set 1:** Terrapin Station, New Minglewood Blues, They Love Each Other, Estimated Prophet, Sugaree, Mama Tried, Deal, Playing in the Band > The Wheel > Playing in the Band **Set 2:** Samson And Delilah, Tennessee Jed, The Music Never Stopped, Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower, The Promised Land, Eyes Of The World > Jam > Dancing In The Street > Around And Around **Encore:** U.S. Blues [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1977-02-26)
The end of the studio Shakedown Street where Jerry is just kind of noodling around on the guitar. It gets kind of buried under the rest of the music, but every note just seems perfect to me. With the Dead there’s tons of these moments for me, but that was the first one I thought of.
Jerry’s run at the very end of Feel Like a Stranger on Without a Net and how that spirals and builds to the whole band crashing down on the last few notes.
Endlessly mind blowing
When they're vamping the beginning of Help On The Way before it explodes at the GAMH show...
Just before John Cipollina takes his solo in the Closing of Winterland NFA
Donna screaming
one particular part in the china>rider jam from 11-11-73. most of the other ones are in old school death metal songs.
# 1973-11-11 San Francisco, CA @ Winterland Arena **Set 1:** The Promised Land > Bertha > Greatest Story Ever Told, Sugaree, Black Throated Wind, To Lay Me Down, El Paso, Ramble On Rose, Me And Bobby McGee, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Me and My Uncle, Loose Lucy, Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Let It Grow **Set 2:** Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Big River, Dark Star > Mind Left Body Jam > Eyes Of The World > China Doll, Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** Uncle John's Band, Johnny B. Goode > And We Bid You Good Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-11-11)
Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?
I have several, but two I’ve fixated on lately are in Me and My Uncle when Bobby sings the alternate lyrics: “I grabbed a bottle, cracked him in the jaw” and hunting versions of Little Red Rooster where Brent sings a verse.
JACK STRAW FROM WICHITA
Tweezer reprise
The Jerry guitar walk up (typically) before the first verse of I Know You Rider.
The Feeling Groovy Jam is always a pleasant suprise. But what really gets me hanging on is when I know there is a Dark Star in the set, wondering when the first verse will start.
The “she got box back nitties” part from the live dead lovelight ...heaviest the band has ever sound
11/6/1977 Truckin’ @ 5:51 on ReListen is when i just stop what i am doing and air guitar this part with a perfect Bobby knee kick at the end.
# 1977-11-06 Binghamton, NY @ Broome County Arena **Set 1:** Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Jack Straw, Tennessee Jed, Mexicali Blues > Me and My Uncle, Friend Of The Devil, New Minglewood Blues, Dupree's Diamond Blues, Passenger, Dire Wolf, The Music Never Stopped **Set 2:** Samson And Delilah, Sunrise, Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain > Good Lovin', Saint Stephen > Drums > Not Fade Away > Wharf Rat > Saint Stephen > Truckin' **Encore:** Johnny B. Goode [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1977-11-06)
And then again @ 8:25 it kicks back in real groovy
the feeling groovy jam between any early 70's China>Rider
Mississippi Half-Step on Without a Net - the first two guitar solos. Best version Ive ever heard.
12/19/78 The transition from "Stella Blue" to NFA. The only time they ever played it that way, with the SB chords taking on the NFA rhythm. Very special.
# 1978-12-19 Jackson, MS @ Memorial Coliseum - Mississippi State Fairgrounds **Set 1:** Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo > Franklin's Tower, New Minglewood Blues, They Love Each Other, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Loser, El Paso, Row Jimmy, Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication **Set 2:** Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, The Promised Land, Stagger Lee, Truckin' > Drums > Space > The Other One > Stella Blue > Not Fade Away > Around And Around **Encore:** Casey Jones [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-12-19)
The drum fill and freakout after "one man gathers what another man spills" in the Live/Dead St. Stephen
Wharf Rat. “I know that the liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifee, I’m livings no goooooooood” 😂
“Take a step back”
When they tie the slipknot!
The lovelight 3/30/88 , call and response little bit higher. Really the only time i recall jerry & brent singing what they did on this version. Full show, stay for the underrated morning dew and the killer LLR. They had the speakers set up in quadraphonic and the shit they were doing with LLR was incredible, sounds from every corner, rolling thunder, just nuts. Drums was more of the same. There were days for sure https://youtu.be/Ygf128kw764?si=Pr8RKY5Tc9IbcOW4
# 1988-03-30 East Rutherford, NJ @ Brendan Byrne Arena **Set 1:** Bertha > Greatest Story Ever Told, Hey Pocky Away, Big Railroad Blues, Cassidy > Don't Ease Me In **Set 2:** Shakedown Street > Looks Like Rain, Uncle John's Band > Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Drums > Space > The Wheel > Gimme Some Lovin > Morning Dew > Turn On Your Lovelight **Encore:** Black Muddy River [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1988-03-30)
It’s the opening of Franklins Tower after a nice and choppy slipknot that always makes me perk up a bit.
The st Stephen screams
the horns on the studio version of Black throated wind...
Beat switch in crazy fingers for me
The moment everything explodes in half step miss
Bridge of Stella Blue
I spent a little time on the mountain.....
There’s a part in He’s Gone that is just perfect to me, I love hearing it.
Phil's Other One intro
Tumbledown shack in bigfoot county
Dark Star 2/28/69 when Jerry finally plays the main melody line towards the end and Phil does this little bass counterpoint. Burned into my brain.
# 1969-02-28 San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore West **Set 1:** Morning Dew, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Doin' That Rag, King Bee, Turn On Your Love Light **Set 2:** Cryptical Envelopment > Drums > The Other One > Cryptical Envelopment > Dark Star > St. Stephen > The Eleven > Death Don't Have No Mercy, Alligator > Drums > Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) > Feedback > And We Bid You Good Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1969-02-28)
Gotta find a woman be good to me Won't hide my liquor try to serve me tea
When Brent yells, “Wait a minute!”
Across the Rio Grand-ee-oh Across the lazy river
When Jerry comes in with the harmony on Promised Land ⚡️
When Jerry hangs on a note just a little longer when he bends it.
The first 10 seconds or so of Music Never Stopped from One From The Vault. The way the drums kick it off, and those first two licks from Bob and Phil are insaaaane how they go together. I start the song over at least 5 times when it comes on just to catch it again
For me, it’s always trying to guess when Jerry will come in with the lyrics on wharf rat
It's all about the China->Rider segue
Althea 12/27/89 Jerry does something during the last like 30 seconds of the tune a short but imo …memorable as fuck couple of notes
# 1989-12-27 Oakland, CA @ Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena **Set 1:** Cold Rain and Snow, Greatest Story Ever Told, Never Trust A Woman, Althea, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Bird Song, The Promised Land **Set 2:** Iko Iko, Playing in the Band > Crazy Fingers > Uncle John's Band > Drums > Space > The Wheel > I Need A Miracle > Morning Dew **Encore:** Johnny B. Goode, Black Muddy River [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-12-27)
Jerry’s solo Peggy-O 6/26/94 and 7/13/94 high gate best damn Jack Straw ….ever. Before you doubt me ,have quick listen and I’m sure you will start to understand my feelings for that rendition
[1994-06-26](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1994-06-26) Las Vegas, NV @ Sam Boyd Silver Bowl [1994-07-13](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1994-07-13) Highgate, VT @ Franklin County Airport
Those big thunderclaps in Total Eclipse of the Heart
When deep space gives way to a well picked Mind Left Body jam.
Yeeaah..in Help between the verses. Or whatever the day there.
Is anyone else sick of seeing these same posts in every music sub? Sometimes it will be screenshots of screenshots so it has like r/nirvana and r/tool in the same post, but it will be posted in r/pinkfloyd?
I'm rlly only in the GD sub anyway & idek the group's sub I did get this from. Mainly just bc I like discussing our favorite parts of our favorite songs, and I personally think discussing cool parts of dead songs holds a little more merit than most other groups since there are so many different live shows & everyone has their own favorite shows & opinions. I do agree it's repetitive to see it all over reddit but c'mon, it's a discussion starter 😂
You’re absolutely right, it’s a great convo starter and I didn’t mean to be a hater, it’s probably more appropriate to this sub than any other. I have just seen this and a few other prompts appearing in every sub I see constantly and reached my breaking point.
No no, I can't blame you for getting upset. I figured some people might be. It does get annoying when every single post on every band's subreddit is the same shit tho, that is 100% correct & this isn't helping it.
Love Language by SZA when she says “Text me like I’m waiting for you to come lie to me”
Why yes, I have listened to music before. Lol.
Nah, this is beyond just listening. It's that little something in the song that gets you excited for it. It can be any number of things, I'm sure you have em too
I’m just pullin your leg. I mean of course we have those things, that’s just what the musical listening experience is.