Esoteric Jeff  (6/10/2026 2:46:48 PM)

Quite simply, one of the best nights of the early Dead's career. The night before was equally raucous, but this show strings together one of the band's most exciting primal medleys in Alligator > China Cat > Eleven > Alligator > Caution. One of the first genuinely beautiful moments of the band's career emerges in Alligator - the first-ever playing of the "And We Bid You Goodnight" theme, instrumentally. Wild psychedlic Dead, a lot of muffled vocals and chaos, but absolutely essential.