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The Unofficial 31 Days of Dead - 2012 Edition - Day Eleven
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Playin' In The Band -} Stronger Than Dirt or Milkin' The Turkey
7/16/76 Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, CA

I'll come clean and admit that I am a thematic jam junkie. I love them all -- Mind Left Body, Spanish, Feelin' Groovy, Tighten Up. If you share the love for these jams then be sure to check out a great essay about early thematic jams over at the Dead Essays blog.

This show from the Orpheum run in July 1976 has not just one, but two thematic jams in the second set: a stand-alone Spanish Jam and what would become the final Stronger Than Dirt or Milkin' The Turkey -- the latter jam being today's selection. The set opens with a languid version of Playin In The Band. At about the 8-minute mark Phil repeats a pattern on his bass which Jerry quickly picks up on. He starts to noodle over it with quickly darting licks while the drummers lay down a pocket of jazz. To be fair, this version of Stronger Than Dirt is very loosely referenced and is a far cry from the highly composed instrumental piece that appears on Blues For Allah. Nevertheless, it is still quite an exciting segment to be sure particularly between the 11:00 -- 13:30 minute mark where Jerry's signature butterfly licks of 1976 flutter about in a flight of happy notes that is similar to the transition between Lazy Lightning and Let It Grow two days later at the same venue (i.e., 7/18/76).

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LMA Link: http://archive.org/details/gd1976-07-16.sbeok.shnf

Ed Martin
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