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Again, slightly dodgy video quality but a nifty glimpse into the past from the Grateful Dead's legendary appearance on Tom Snyder's Electic Kool-Aid Talk Show in 1981.
Remember when there weren't a gazillion official video releases and you thrilled for crappy audience captured footage of the boys in their element? Now this is a guitar riff that'd give Chuck Berry wood!
"Let It Grow" is one seriously sophisticated piece of music, playful as Louis Armstrong but full of mythological, vernal imagery. This fan assembled version has some shaky camera work but a swell soundboard-audience sound mix.
Sometimes John 'n' Bob hit a groove that gives ol' Merle Haggard a run for his money.
We wrap our salute to John Perry Barlow with one of the most stunning pairings in the Dead repertoire, "Lost Sailor" and "Saint of Circumstance," with "Sailor" coming from Radio City Music Hall in 1980 and "Saint" from Giants Stadium in 1991. All we can say is, "Thanks so, so, so much for what you've done for music, John."
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