I've got each of these cued up to where the good stuff starts. This first one is the 40 minute finale to the 4/26/69 Electric Theater Chicago show. Basically, you're talking about an 18 minute Viola Lee Blues which segues into a 20 minute Feedback (with the tape of What's Become Of The Baby? tossed in, the only time I'm aware of that they did that), before ending with a short We Bid You Goodnight:
Here's the big Dark Star/Stella Blue/Eyes Of The World/Weather Report Suite suite from 10/30/73, Kiel Auditorium, St Louis. I love the way Stella Blue segues into Eyes Of The World. This has some of my favorite guitar tones from Jerry, who had just switched to playing Wolf, the first of the Doug Irwin guitars he would play regularly for the next 20 years:
And here's the infamous FM broadcast, from the SNACK benefit at Kezar Stadium, 3/23/75. What does the Dead do when faced with the possibility of playing before thousands of people who have maybe never heard them, via a live radio broadcast? Why, they get weird and drop a 32 minute, work in progress instrumental on the unsuspecting listeners, that's what! This is a pretty cool performance, with Merle Saunders and Ned Lagin sitting in:
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