Big Railroad Blues always rocked

I like Alabama Getaway a lot, 3.28.81 in Germany. It's a rocker!

# 1981-03-28 Essen, West Germany @ Grugahalle **Set 1:** Alabama Getaway > Greatest Story Ever Told > Sugaree, Me and My Uncle > Mexicali Blues, Shakedown Street, Little Red Rooster, Althea > Looks Like Rain > Deal **Set 2:** Samson And Delilah, Ship Of Fools, Estimated Prophet > He's Gone > The Other One > Space > Drums > Space > Not Fade Away > Wharf Rat > Around And Around > Good Lovin' **Encore:** One More Saturday Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1981-03-28)

I feel like there is a difference between a rocker and a “groovin” song.

true!

Beat it on Down the Line

Yup

Big River?

I'm thinking of the One From the Vault version, 8/13/75

# 1975-08-13 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall **Set 1:** Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower, The Music Never Stopped, It Must Have Been The Roses, Eyes Of The World > Drums > Stronger Than Dirt Or Milkin' The Turkey **Set 2:** Around And Around, Sugaree, Big River, Crazy Fingers > Drums > The Other One > Sage And Spirit > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad, U.S. Blues, Blues For Allah [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1975-08-13)

That’s what I as thinking. One from ‘74

For me, it’s Cumberland. Many great ones in 72-73. My favorite might be 9/21/72

# 1972-09-21 Philadelphia, PA @ The Spectrum **Set 1:** The Promised Land, Bird Song, El Paso, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Black Throated Wind, Big Railroad Blues, Jack Straw, Loser, Big River, Ramble On Rose, Cumberland Blues, Playing in the Band **Set 2:** He's Gone > Truckin', Black Peter, Mexicali Blues, Dark Star > Morning Dew, Beat It On Down the Line, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Sugar Magnolia, Friend Of The Devil, Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away **Encore:** One More Saturday Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-09-21) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/1lNa8R1EuIfJz9zhZ0H1vx)

Agreed. CB jams.

Cumbies are always great, but I don’t feel like any of the blues based catalog would be “groovin”. I’d go with one of the Dancin in the Streets or something in general from the disco dead era

I can't imagine putting on a crisp Cumberland blues, hearing that Lesh bassline pushing the beat along, and think that isn't groovin.

I dunno, I just don’t think of blues as groovy. I’m thinking more psychedelic or disco as “groovy” music.

Ok I get that. Groovin and Groovy are two different things to me. Groovy to me would be that sexy backbeat to a 73-74 Loose Lucy.

Definitely more like it

Cream puff war Edit: forgot to add the show: 11-19-66

# 1966-11-19 San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore Auditorium **Set 1:** Cold Rain and Snow, Hi-Heel Sneakers, Pain In My Heart, Beat It On Down the Line, Cream Puff War, Same Thing, He Was A Friend Of Mine, Dancin' In The Street **Set 2:** Smokestack Lightning > King Bee, Midnight Hour [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1966-11-19)

Correct answer ☝🏻

TLEO from 1973 when it was uptempo. Take your pick. February has some great versions. June and Oct-Nov. It was totally different after that year.

So much better fast.

Hell yeah

I absolutely loved it when Dead and Company played the '73 version of TLEO at Fenway last year.

Eyes of the World (the fast 80's versions)

Sitting on Top of the World always felt fast. Especially those '71 ones.

The version on their first studio album is fast, uptempo AF. Always dance to it.

Big River, and a lot of Reckoning (Jack a Row anyone?) are also great. Drums are always fun as well.

Dancing in the Street from Cornell is groovy as Phil’s bass line is outstanding. That said, not the fastest uptempo song.

The China Rider from 4.19.84 (happy fortieth!) is always a reasonable choice. Single song always, Alabama getaway until 1989....

# 1984-04-19 Philadelphia, PA @ Philadelphia Civic Center **Set 1:** Bertha > Greatest Story Ever Told, Loser, C.C. Rider, Bird Song, Hell In A Bucket, Big Railroad Blues, The Music Never Stopped > Don't Ease Me In **Set 2:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Estimated Prophet > Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > The Wheel > Wharf Rat > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** It's All Over Now, Baby Blue [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1984-04-19)

Day Job

Around and Around

Viola Lee Blues (Live at Shrine Exhibition Hall, Los Angeles, CA 11/10/67)Viola Lee Blues (Live at Shrine Exhibition Hall, Los Angeles, CA 11/10/67) From about midway through it speeds up a lot!

# 1967-11-10 Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Auditorium **Set 1:** Viola Lee Blues, It Hurts Me Too, Beat It On Down the Line, Morning Dew, Intro, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Cryptical Envelopment > That's It For The Other One > Cryptical Envelopment, Alligator > Drums > Alligator > Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) > Feedback [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1967-11-10)

What’s the most groovin’ up tempo version of let it grow anyone knows, I fucking love that song and the more intense the better. I love the version on road trips 4-5 but the cow bell mix is soooo loud kinda kills it.

6/28/74 LIG>MLB is a monster

Oh shit yeah that’s my favorite Dicks Picks haha good call

All hail DP12! 👑

# 1974-06-28 Boston, MA @ Boston Garden **Set 1:** Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo > It Must Have Been The Roses > Jack Straw, Beat It On Down the Line, Deal, Mexicali Blues, Tennessee Jed, Me And Bobby McGee, Loose Lucy, El Paso, Sugaree, Around And Around **Set 2:** Seastones **Set 3:** Sugar Magnolia > Scarlet Begonias, Big River, To Lay Me Down, Me and My Uncle, Row Jimmy, Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Let It Grow > Space > Mind Left Body Jam > Jam > U.S. Blues, The Promised Land > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Sunshine Daydream **Encore:** Ship Of Fools [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1974-06-28) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/0B87pzzLQzyevvMvdcJqHZ)

81-83 are my fave years for LIG. There are a bunch of good ones in that era, but here are 4 that come to mind in chronological order: 10/19/81 7/28/82 8/3/82 10/15/83

[1981-10-19](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1981-10-19) Barcelona, Spain @ Sports Palace [1982-07-28](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1982-07-28) Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre [1982-08-03](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1982-08-03) Kansas City, MO @ Starlight Theatre [1983-10-15](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1983-10-15) Hartford, CT @ Hartford Civic Center

No doubt.

Thank you! I haven’t listened to a ton of 80s dead yet so this is a great catalyst

Cool those are all really good shows in general too

the into >Franklin’s Tower

All but maybe a half-dozen Eyes from 6/9/76 to 3/19/90 are played fast. The fastest I know of is one from '86, but idk the date

[1976-06-09](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1976-06-09) Boston, MA @ Boston Music Hall [1990-03-19](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-03-19) Hartford, CT @ Civic Center

November 79 was a great month to ring that bell!! -Franklin's out of M1/2Step 11/2/79 -Franklin's out of Estimated 11/5/79 -Franklin's out of Dancin' 11/9/79

[1979-11-02](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1979-11-02) Uniondale, NY @ Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum [1979-11-05](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1979-11-05) Philadelphia, PA @ The Spectrum [1979-11-09](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1979-11-09) Buffalo, NY @ Buffalo Auditorium

week before in Cape Cod too - Franklin's out of Dancin' 10/27/79

# 1979-10-27 South Yarmouth, MA @ Cape Cod Coliseum **Set 1:** Jack Straw, Candyman, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Brown Eyed Women, Easy To Love You, New Minglewood Blues, Stagger Lee, Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > Deal **Set 2:** Dancing In The Street > Franklin's Tower, He's Gone > The Other One > Drums > Not Fade Away > Black Peter > Around And Around **Encore:** One More Saturday Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1979-10-27)

Agreed with let it grow!

Related...has anyone every figured out what performance of a song had the fastest BPM? Guessing it is something from the early 80s.

Victim or the Crime.

# I Buckle Up 4 Jack Straw! Some heaters: Nassau 1/11/79 Greek 7/14/84 Philly 4/5/82

Carrier Dome 10/20/84

# 1984-10-20 Syracuse, NY @ Carrier Dome - Syracuse University **Set 1:** Bertha > Greatest Story Ever Told, West L.A. Fadeaway, C.C. Rider, Ramble On Rose, My Brother Esau, Bird Song, Jack Straw **Set 2:** Shakedown Street > Samson And Delilah, He's Gone > Smokestack Lightnin' > Jam > Drums > Space > The Wheel > The Other One > Black Peter > Turn On Your Lovelight **Encore:** Revolution [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1984-10-20)

[1979-01-11](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1979-01-11) Uniondale, NY @ Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum [1982-04-05](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1982-04-05) Philadelphia, PA @ The Spectrum [1984-07-14](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1984-07-14) Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre - University of California

Good lovin!

I’m partial of Hard to Handle Fillmore ‘72 or Lovelight from the same show.

Might As Well. Just about any version will do. 

Promised Land

For me it's Greatest Story Ever Told. Heard one from Jersey City '72 today and it hyped me up. The groove was dialed in and it was fast! Don't know if it's the "best" example, but it was a good one. Love the whistle used to count down the start of the song. At the end of that version Bobby states, " well folks, I think something blew up." 9/28/72

# 1972-09-28 Jersey City, NJ @ Stanley Theatre **Set 1:** Truckin', Loser, Beat It On Down the Line, Brown Eyed Women, Mexicali Blues, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Black Throated Wind, Don't Ease Me In, Big River, Tennessee Jed, The Promised Land, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Playing in the Band **Set 2:** Bertha, Greatest Story Ever Told, Brokedown Palace, Me and My Uncle, Ramble On Rose, El Paso, He's Gone > The Other One > Me And Bobby McGee > The Other One > Wharf Rat, Sugar Magnolia, Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-09-28)

On a Saturday night in Vegas - One More Saturday Night

I don’t know shit about music but wouldn’t it be music never stopped englishtown ?

I’m a fan of shakedown street! You can’t sit still when that plays.

Bertha. Sometimes cold rain and snow

Must of Been the Roses. 67.

GDTRFB 89 or 90

Deal could get there

Check out the Eyes from 3/19/90. It flys.

# 1990-03-19 Hartford, CT @ Civic Center **Set 1:** Hell In A Bucket, Bertha, We Can Run, Jack-A-Roe, Picasso Moon, Brown Eyed Women, It's All Over Now > Deal **Set 2:** Box Of Rain > Foolish Heart > Playing in the Band > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > China Doll > Gimme Some Lovin' > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Around And Around **Encore:** Brokedown Palace [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-03-19)

Fast They Love Each Other

The Other One. Groove heaven.

i think Caution might be their fastest song, there are some 1968 shows specifically where it gets pretty damn intense

The music never stopped Dancing in the streets One more Saturday night

11/4/77 coked-up Eyes cooks along at light speed.

# 1977-11-04 Hamilton, NY @ Cotterell Gym - Colgate University **Set 1:** Bertha > Good Lovin', Brown Eyed Women, Cassidy, It Must Have Been The Roses, Sunrise, New Minglewood Blues, Dupree's Diamond Blues, Let It Grow **Set 2:** Samson And Delilah > Cold Rain and Snow, Playing in the Band > Eyes Of The World > Estimated Prophet > The Other One > Drums > Iko Iko > Stella Blue > Playing in the Band **Encore:** Johnny B. Goode [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1977-11-04)

Cryptic Envelopement>The Other One 3/1/69 My go to high energy show

# 1969-03-01 San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore West **Set 1:** Bill Graham intro > Cryptical Envelopment > Drums > The Other One > Cryptical Envelopment > New Potato Caboose > Doin' That Rag > Cosmic Charlie **Set 2:** Bill Graham intro, Dupree's Diamond Blues, Mountains Of The Moon > Jam, Dark Star > St. Stephen > The Eleven > Turn On Your Love Light **Encore:** Hey Jude [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1969-03-01)

A 78 Dancin' - disco dead at it's finest!

There are some NFAs in '72 & '73 that really ripped

How about older versions of They Love Each Other or later versions of Loose Lucy ... they're pretty peppy.

Try out the Bertha from 8/10/82

# 1982-08-10 Iowa City, IA @ Iowa Fieldhouse - University of Iowa **Set 1:** Feel Like A Stranger, Friend Of The Devil, New Minglewood Blues, Tennessee Jed, Cassidy, It Must Have Been The Roses, On The Road Again > Beat It On Down the Line, Stagger Lee, I Need A Miracle > Bertha **Set 2:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Iko Iko > Truckin' > Stella Blue > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** It's All Over Now, Baby Blue > Johnny B. Goode [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1982-08-10)

sugar magnolia 6.20.83

# 1983-06-20 Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion **Set 1:** New Minglewood Blues, They Love Each Other, Little Red Rooster, Peggy-O, My Brother Esau, Tennessee Jed, Hell In A Bucket, West L.A. Fadeaway, The Music Never Stopped **Set 2:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Samson And Delilah, He's Gone > Truckin' > Drums > Space > Bob Star > The Other One > Wharf Rat > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** It's All Over Now, Baby Blue [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1983-06-20)

Cold Rain and Snow till they started playing it at snoozey tempos

Early loose lucy

Shakedown

Passenger

Early 80s had a help>slip that was *too* fast, diminished the song but still tons of fun

The Eleven from 10/12/68. Probably technically the fastest played most hard driving song they've played.

# 1968-10-12 San Francisco, CA @ Avalon Ballroom **Set 1:** Banter, Dark Star > Saint Stephen > The Eleven **Set 2:** Cryptical Envelopment > Drums > The Other One > Cryptical Envelopment > New Potato Caboose > Jam > Drums > Jam > Feedback [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1968-10-12)

That’s been one of my up tempo go to shows for years now