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whoa !

according to one book, the dead weren't in the movie since they didn't want to sign their financial rights (for european distribution etc) over to the producer, whom they felt was LA scum.

brilliant

Excellent version of an opener at many shows I saw during this era... I don't know about the rest of you, but seeing this now makes my hair stand on end! They were the best band of the 80's for me--smarter than U2, more consistent than Sonic Youth, more expansive than the BH surfers. They cou...

Listening to the tapes, it sounds like the best thing about Cryptical in these shows is the novelty factor. That was really and truly exciting with the Dead, hoping for and maybe, eventually, getting these "bustouts." But they (Garcia particularly) had a lot of trouble getting through Cryptical...

The interviews are kind of dumb; you've heard it all before. Priceless footage though.

They never got this tune quite right after '72. The album version is as good as anything they ever did, but it's beyond them by the 80s. A lot of 80s stuff is fantastic (see the HSF from this night) but some tunes they could have left alone. Box of rain for example, never came off well live. ...

I always appreciated Bob's moves. Somebody had to do it.

beautiful, heartbreaking, crushingly sad

This tune "resonated" with JG a lot that year...can't say it was fun to watch then, or now either.

I was at this show... I remember somebody there watching it in TV, just like at a ball game, some big B&W crt. No iphones back then man. Overall it wasn't much "more" than a regular show, maybe three or four more tunes at the end. Best part was the Touch of Grey opener.

Kesey does the absolut...

This is one of my favorite tunes the Dead ever recorded. It's beautiful how they just fall in and do what they do, no rehearsal..

Nevertheless Garcia is a jerk when he responds to Weir; clearly no longer the lion in 1993 that he was in the 70's and there's no way he could remembered the song (...