Musings on the Most Ridiculous Band I Can't Stop Listening To

If, Then

If Garcia says “burn off both your ears,” then Deal may or may not be great.

If Garcia says “burn off both your little ears,” then Deal shall be great.

13 Comments

  1. maggiemay

    http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/languages/classical/latin/tchmat/grammar/whprax/w33con.html PUT A TRIGGER WARNING ON POSTS LIKE THIS NEXT TIME

  2. Don Grossinger

    I thought I was the only one to have noticed that subtlety. Tank TotD

  3. mrcompletely

    is there a Sweet Suzie corollary?

    • thoughtsonthedead

      No, but there is a Loose Lucy contrapositive

      • mrcompletely

        some nerd actually tracked the last time he ever sang the sweet susie line

        • thoughtsonthedead

          That is some high-level Dead SABRmetrics right there.

        • maggiemay

          you guys are all nerds

  4. Boogaloo

    JGB Deals > GD Deals

    • mrcompletely

      Even after they added the jammed out ending to the GD version?

      I basically agree, the best Deal solo I’ve ever heard is the grey live album one

      • Boogaloo

        Many 1980’s JGB Deals would SAW off your ears.
        Just the Keystone alone…..

        Saberheads can check, but I believe JGB was closing first sets w Deal before the Dead started doing it.

        • mrcompletely

          Whether or not they closed with it, Jerry started extending the end solo in GD versions of Deal at Radio City or Warfield ’80. I’ve been meaning to go back and figure out if it started in JGB versions before that. It was def referred to as “the JGB version of Deal” by my friend circles in the 80s but I don’t really knew which came first

  5. Badumbadum

    Nashville’s Crashville Charlie Brown!

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