The best Grateful Dead tune I've ever heard....so far

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1972, Europe, Germany.....I think their best Dead tune....became a different band months later...

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[Casady1]

1. No more Pig

Listening to Wharf Rat. I went to 7/8/78 at Red Rocks.

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2. No Pig, but Keith and Donna Jean....

Still.....this is Garcia / Weir / Lesh /Kreutzmann doing the heavy work. Sweet, concise, and emotional. Because it was live. Recorded by audio genius's;;;;;

[NBachers]

3. I was sitting for an hour in the Redwood Grove in Golden Gate Park today with my Chinatown friend.

The fog was blowing in from the Pacific and drifting through the trees. The sun was going down. We had the place to ourselves.

My oldest friend, living in Vegas, called. When I told him where we were, he wished we could've visited there in '66 or '67 to see a Dead Concert. He's a working musician.

I told him about the show put on by The Dead and all the San Francisco musical luminaries in Golden Gate Park after Bill Graham got killed in that horrible helicopter accident. The Otis Spunkmeyer (a local cookie entrepreneur) DC-3 came in from over the horizon, flying low, and buzzed the crowd repeatedly, dropping flowers on everyone while The Dead played. They'd cover the crowd, bank, and it seemed to just hang there in the air as it turned around for another flower drop. It was a moment to remember.

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4. Nice pic, but no reference to the OP?

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5. The Redwood Grove in Golden Gate Park is in the Botanical Garden.

I couldn’t post a picture of the Redwood Grove, because the scale of the redwoods just doesn’t translate into a photograph. Instead, I supplied another photograph of the Botanical Garden in the dwindling light with the fog going across, as an example of what things were like when I was there today.