15. The Wheel -} Wharf Rat - Grateful Dead - 5/7/77 Boston Garden, Boston, MA - U31DoD 2012 Edition

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The Unofficial 31 Days of Dead - 2012 Edition - Day Fifteen
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5/7/77 Boston Garden, Boston, MA

Twas the night before Cornell in the city of Boston
Not a floor seat in sight, the show was wicked awesome
There was no Scarlet, no Stephen, not even a Dew
Instead there was an epic Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo  

Ok, I'll spare you the rest of my feeble attempt at hippie poetry. Today's selection is from late in the second set at the Boston Garden on the eve of the legendary show in Ithaca. We start with a simply gorgeous Wheel that gracefully blooms like flowers in the spring. A long space-like jam emerges that eventually leaves Jerry on stage playing a spacey solo. This leads to an album-perfect Wharf Rat. Jerry's vocals are well-crafted. I get goose bumps every time I hear the way he inflects the line, "Half of my liiiiiiiiiffffe..."  Keith & Phil's contributions are outstanding. Jerry enters the long jam at the end with fierce crashing guitar lines that complement the march-like drumming cadence. The band was already in the Cornell-zone well before they arrived in Ithaca.

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LMA Link: http://archive.org/details/gd1977-05-07.sbd.miller.88525.flac16

Ed Martin
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