Grateful Dead, "Hard to Handle" live '71
I think I've got it now -- my Dead "sweet spot" is when they still had Pigpen and didn't have Mickey Hart. They were still a bar band, basically, and not taking themselves all that seriously.
I have very mixed feelings about The Grateful Dead, but I did see them live at least twice. (Maybe a third time? I'm a walking cliche I guess but I don't remember.) There are rare moments when I can put on a Youtube video of something from the late 60's or 70's and quietly get some work or grading done. By the 80's and 90s though everything is off -- sonically, spiritually, (ahem) chemically.
So this is a roundabout way of saying Rest In Peace to Robert Hunter, and to the glory of long, strange trips wherever we may happen to find them.
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