i'd love to hear whatever you have to say about barton hall if you get the chance. since i wrote that i've gotten into '72 dead but nothing beyond that! w/r/t halloween '78, there's an official release but it's only on dvd-audio (?!?) and cuts most of the best parts. you can listen to the four hour bootleg but you know, you've heard enough dead to know that you can't play solid gold four hours straight. for a deadhead? check out zappa jamming with shuggie otis on kppc radio 1970- it's on youtube- i don't know if i can link to yt videos here?, but search "zappa shuggie" and you can find it. official-like, "roxy and elsewhere" is super-solid- the '73-'74 mothers are regarded a lot like the '72 dead in terms of how much love they get, and "roxy and elsewhere" is like their "europe '72".
Well, one could make a case that the experience the Dead community had with that show made it a better show. Especially with live music recordings, you're dealing with something that originally existed in context and has been transported outside that context. Evaluating the Dead on their musical merits is the only way I can tolerate them, myself, but at the same time I don't want to deprecate the power of a recording in building community!
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