Grateful Dead

I listen to the whole cut once or twice to zero in on the year, but it's the details in the first 20 seconds that I use to compare the archive versions to the 30days version. this one I kept stumbling into commercial releases, so I had to glance at my shelf to make sure I wasn't wasting time listening to a for-sure no go. I keep my cds in chronological order, so the dicks and daves and road trips and other archival releases are all comingled. It looks sloppy, but I like the chronological order. How do y'all store yours?

The tonality was so different on the source on Archives I passed it by the first time but circled back around and made it through the piano part and I went, ding.

It took me 22 versions to find the answer. If this is work, I've never worked a day in my life. Play Dead, indeed.

It's cool how several of us are focusing in on different parts of the song, but because each band member varied they're playing every night, no single part of the song ever really repeats itself as you go through different versions. At the same time, there were certain licks in the part I was listening to that were very similar across the era. Truly amazing how they could mix it up like that show to show! Good to have a tough one every once in a while...thanks for the challenge DL!

Who is singing, who isn't, how does JG voice sound, how tight is the fingering, gives you a year range, but then it's grunt work. Amazing how the lead-ins change in 3 months. In the end the first 20 seconds is all you need....