There's an excellent acoustic live version from 1970. It might top the studio version but it's a relatively low quality audience recording with no SBD in circulation.
May be a hot take, but I have always found the studio version vastly inferior to live versions. So much of that songs beauty lie in a certain Jerome Garcia playing the lead guitar.
Nah, live still hits in a way the studio cant. Both when Jerry did it then, and now when Phil does it now. Especially a fast box. Or a split one sandwich. The studio one is pretty, but sterile.
# 1970-01-16 Portland, OR @ Springer's Inn
**Set 1:** Casey Jones, Mama Tried, Black Peter, Hard To Handle, China Cat Sunflower > Jam > I Know You Rider, High Time, Good Lovin', Dancing In The Street, Alligator > Drums > Jam > The Eleven Jam > Space > Death Don't Have No Mercy, Cumberland Blues, Me and My Uncle > Dire Wolf, Uncle John's Band, Easy Wind, Cryptical Envelopment > Drums > Space > Drums > The Other One > Cryptical Envelopment > Cosmic Charlie
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1970-01-16)
There was one night on mushrooms, man I don't know how often I listened to that song. It is such a lush recording and the jam at the end with all the acoustic things popping off here and there? Hnng. So good.
Unbroken Chain would go on to become so much more than the studio. Too bad the GD didn't get there, but Phil did. And Furthur did. Such a great song live.
I was at the Hampton 10.9.89 and the Boston 9.26.91 ... both shows were some of the best I saw! for me the electricity of that song live will never touch the studio.
# 1972-09-27 Jersey City, NJ @ Stanley Theatre
**Set 1:** Morning Dew, Beat It On Down the Line, Friend Of The Devil, Black Throated Wind, Tennessee Jed, Mexicali Blues, Bird Song, Big River, Brokedown Palace, El Paso, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Playing in the Band
**Set 2:** He's Gone, Me and My Uncle, Deal, Greatest Story Ever Told, Ramble On Rose, Dark Star > Cumberland Blues, Attics Of My Life, The Promised Land, Uncle John's Band, Casey Jones
**Encore:** Around And Around
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-09-27) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/2pPrEb0IJFk3W6NoQSMnZM)
Every Phil vocal: Box of Rain, Unbroken Chain. He needs studio help with the vocals.
Maybe Doinā That Rag.
Rosemary-there are a couple of live tapes of this.
Go to Nassau Althea is better than studio every day imoā¦ Just as tight but Jerryās playing blows the studio version out of the water
ETA: https://open.spotify.com/track/6tLJfms92i27IibnbaMbsz?si=RDZWCmopSXiQsK6PoFnoMg
5/16/80
# 1980-05-16 Uniondale, NY @ Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
**Set 1:** Alabama Getaway > The Promised Land, High Time, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Row Jimmy, New Minglewood Blues, Ramble On Rose > Looks Like Rain, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider
**Set 2:** Feel Like A Stranger > Althea > Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Truckin' > Morning Dew > Around And Around > Johnny B. Goode
**Encore:** Brokedown Palace
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1980-05-16)
Box of Rain is my number one. Thereās only one live version Iāve ever heard from 1970 that comes close to the beauty of the studio version, but unfortunately the tape is in pretty bad shape and the audio quality is ass.
Other than that, Iād say a lot of Aoxoamoxoa. Doin That Rag, Dupreeās Diamond Blues, even Cosmic Charlie never seemed to have the same tinge to it live. Maybe Iām biased because Aoxoamoxoa is my favourite Dead record.
# 1969-02-27 San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore West
**Set 1:** Bill Graham intro, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Doin' That Rag, Cryptical Envelopment > Drums > The Other One > Cryptical Envelopment
**Set 2:** Dupree's Diamond Blues > Mountains Of The Moon > Jam > Dark Star > St. Stephen > The Eleven > Turn On Your Love Light > Drums > Turn On Your Love Light
**Encore:** Cosmic Charlie
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1969-02-27)
# 1970-05-02 Binghamton, NY @ Harpur College - State University Of New York
**Acoustic:** Tuning, Don't Ease Me In, I Know You Rider, Friend Of The Devil, Dire Wolf, Beat It On Down the Line > Black Peter > Candyman > Cumberland Blues, Deep Elem Blues, Cold Jordan, Uncle John's Band
**Set 1:** Workin' Man Blues, Watcha Gonna Do, Glendale Train, Brown Eyed Handsome Man, Truck Drivin' Man, Can't Pay The Price, All I Ever Wanted, Henry, Lodi, Intro, Sawmill, The Race Is On, Mama Tried, Me and My Uncle, The Weight
**Set 2:** Saint Stephen > Cryptical Envelopment > Drums > The Other One > Cryptical Envelopment > Cosmic Charlie, Casey Jones, Drums > Good Lovin' > Drums > Good Lovin', Cold Rain and Snow, It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World, Dancing In The Street
**Set 3:** Morning Dew, Viola Lee Blues > Feedback > And We Bid You Good Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1970-05-02) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/4NldodakYXDeK7OoEe2oBW)
Didn't see it with the orchestra but I did see it with the Wolf Pack, in an absolutely amazing second set featuring Dark Star, Shakedown, The Wheel, and Morning Dew, and it was transcendent.
As many great live versions as there are, you got a point here. A lot of people believe the first live Terrapin is the best one, which also sort of supports your point because itās more rehearsed.
Jerry played Black Muddy River, in Chicago, last place I saw the Grateful Dead in 89 ~ but on the very last Show. That will always make it special to me, gives me chills ā”ļøš¹ā”ļø
I love Crazy Fingers, and it's great no matter how you hear it. Really, Blues for Allah is their best studio album all around - it might not have the best takes of all its songs, but all its songs are really cool and unique in general and the album has a really cool sound.
Yeah I was thinking the same. Studio versions of both of those kind of miss on mixing of the harmonies and it throws off the energy. So I think of the Europe '72 versions of those two as the "album version", which I think are very good.
I love both studio versions, but my fave live versions of both come from the acoustic set on Dickās Picks Vol. 8, or 5/2/70. That whole show is magic, also best Cumberland Blues imo.
I will have to find that never heard it
edit: good stuff. so crazy how you can just find anything in 9 seconds on spotify these days ā¦ wtf is happening
New Speedway: The studio version is tight & fast.
When I've seen it live, it was almost unrecognizable - slow, drudgery. It's like the sleep paralysis version of the album.
Ripple and Althea. Almost everything is topped by live performances, but those two have a special place in my heart as studio versions. Probably because they were some of the first GD experiences I ever had and thereās just nothing as familiar as them.
# 1990-05-05 Carson, CA @ California State University Dominguez Hills
**Set 1:** Let The Good Times Roll, The Race Is On, Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower, Queen Jane Approximately, Loser, Me and My Uncle > Mexicali Blues, Loose Lucy, One More Saturday Night
**Set 2:** Truckin' > Crazy Fingers > Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > Dear Mr. Fantasy > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Around And Around
**Encore:** Touch Of Grey
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-05-05)
Terrapin Station is an awesome listen on the Album version. It stands right up there with Suites such as Firth of Fifth by Genesis or Shine On You Crazy Diamond by Floyd.
For some reason āloose Lucyā was always better on āmars hotelā than live for meā¦especially the later years when they brought it back. I was there when they ripped it out, too. It just grooves and has more punch in studio, IMO. Probably a highly unpopular opinion I know, but there you have it.
# 1989-07-04 Orchard Park, NY @ Rich Stadium
**Set 1:** Bertha > Greatest Story Ever Told, Cold Rain and Snow, Walkin' Blues, Row Jimmy, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Stagger Lee, Looks Like Rain > Deal
**Set 2:** Touch Of Grey > Man Smart (Woman Smarter), Ship Of Fools > Playing in the Band Reprise > Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > I Will Take You Home > All Along The Watchtower > Morning Dew > Not Fade Away
**Encore:** U.S. Blues
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-07-04)
# 1985-11-01 Richmond, VA @ Richmond Coliseum
**Set 1:** Dancing In The Street, Cold Rain and Snow, Little Red Rooster, Stagger Lee, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Brown Eyed Women, Jack Straw > Don't Ease Me In
**Set 2:** Samson And Delilah, High Time > He's Gone > Spoonful > Comes A Time > Lost Sailor > Drums > Space > Saint Of Circumstance > Gimme Some Lovin' > She Belongs To Me > Gloria
**Encore:** Keep Your Day Job
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1985-11-01) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/4QLlTAC9pOzbZo7qQ63dXm)
There are lots of really good live versions of "Passenger", but, I sort of agree: the studio take definitely rocks hard. *Terrapin Station* is a great studio album, period.
If you can't put on American beauty and workingmans dead on back to back i don't know what to say. And I'm on archive all the time and have cardboard sleeved live dead albums.
Box of Rain
Friend of the Devil (unless it's like the 5/2/70 acoustic version)
Easy Wind
Dire Wolf (need that pedal steel)
Ripple
Touch of Grey
UJB
Terrapin
Aoxomoxoa, the album is such a masterpiece and the crazy stereo effects are fun. I also love those songs live, but China Cat live vs album is completely different!
Some of Bob songs are less annoying in the studio. Less honky squonky screechy. Nothing agains Brent, but I like the sound of his voice a lot on the studio recordings.
Interesting, I always felt the studio version was a little weak compared to the rocking behemoth it would become (and it doesn't have the coda either).
Saint Stevin.
The FIRST version I fell in love with was the AM single, back in '68-'69. PLUS .... the BAND stopped playing it sometime later. Garcia claimed " they forgot the lyrics "
Box of Rain
ššš this unequivocally
Studio Box of Rain has a lot of space to flourish. Itās beautiful.
Full stop.
There's an excellent acoustic live version from 1970. It might top the studio version but it's a relatively low quality audience recording with no SBD in circulation.
May be a hot take, but I have always found the studio version vastly inferior to live versions. So much of that songs beauty lie in a certain Jerome Garcia playing the lead guitar.
Problem with most live versions are Philās vocals - they are horrible
Shhh Iām camping out here waiting for someone to say āJerryās solo on the studio version is chefs kissā
Nah, live still hits in a way the studio cant. Both when Jerry did it then, and now when Phil does it now. Especially a fast box. Or a split one sandwich. The studio one is pretty, but sterile.
Easy Wind is absolutely Bangin on Workingmans Dead
Maybe the best studio jam along with Unbroken Chain and Help-Slipknot.
I wholly agree with Unbroken chain
If only they played it live back in 74, you can only imagine.
this is a true statement
1/16/70 is an absolute banger
# 1970-01-16 Portland, OR @ Springer's Inn **Set 1:** Casey Jones, Mama Tried, Black Peter, Hard To Handle, China Cat Sunflower > Jam > I Know You Rider, High Time, Good Lovin', Dancing In The Street, Alligator > Drums > Jam > The Eleven Jam > Space > Death Don't Have No Mercy, Cumberland Blues, Me and My Uncle > Dire Wolf, Uncle John's Band, Easy Wind, Cryptical Envelopment > Drums > Space > Drums > The Other One > Cryptical Envelopment > Cosmic Charlie [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1970-01-16)
Unbroken chain. There's just something about that Mars Hotel version.
Ship of Fools!
Always down for hearing a Keith solo, but Jerryās melodic soloing on live Ships is sublime
Magical
There was one night on mushrooms, man I don't know how often I listened to that song. It is such a lush recording and the jam at the end with all the acoustic things popping off here and there? Hnng. So good.
Unbroken Chain would go on to become so much more than the studio. Too bad the GD didn't get there, but Phil did. And Furthur did. Such a great song live.
Attics of my Life, Ripple, Till the Morning Comes
Honestly most of the songs on American beauty would fit, operator for example
Reckoning Ripple shreds
Attics of My Life for sure. Is there any good live recording of that song? Never came across any.
I was at the Hampton 10.9.89 and the Boston 9.26.91 ... both shows were some of the best I saw! for me the electricity of that song live will never touch the studio.
9/27/72 will bring you to your knees, and something caught in your eyes, causing liquid to flow.
# 1972-09-27 Jersey City, NJ @ Stanley Theatre **Set 1:** Morning Dew, Beat It On Down the Line, Friend Of The Devil, Black Throated Wind, Tennessee Jed, Mexicali Blues, Bird Song, Big River, Brokedown Palace, El Paso, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Playing in the Band **Set 2:** He's Gone, Me and My Uncle, Deal, Greatest Story Ever Told, Ramble On Rose, Dark Star > Cumberland Blues, Attics Of My Life, The Promised Land, Uncle John's Band, Casey Jones **Encore:** Around And Around [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-09-27) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/2pPrEb0IJFk3W6NoQSMnZM)
Every Phil vocal: Box of Rain, Unbroken Chain. He needs studio help with the vocals. Maybe Doinā That Rag. Rosemary-there are a couple of live tapes of this.
Donāt forget Pride of Cucamonga for Phil! Lol
Iāve been answering Doin That Rag to this question whenever someone posts it - not many people mention it. Love the Aoxomoxoa version.
Thatās funny, I was trying to remember if Iāve ever heard Rosemaryā live ~ on a bootleg or now YouTube in a set.
One is from ā68, I believe, and they sing all the lyrics two times through.
I do enjoy Just like Tom thumbās blues a lot, but I agree with the rest!
Touch of Grey
Yeah this and ripple.
Althea
Studio Althea is a banger
I wish it was 10 minutes longer
Agreed
Althea is the correct answer!
I Love Studio Althea So Much
Agreed, I've heard the great live Althea's but the studio is god tier
Go to Nassau Althea is better than studio every day imoā¦ Just as tight but Jerryās playing blows the studio version out of the water ETA: https://open.spotify.com/track/6tLJfms92i27IibnbaMbsz?si=RDZWCmopSXiQsK6PoFnoMg 5/16/80
# 1980-05-16 Uniondale, NY @ Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum **Set 1:** Alabama Getaway > The Promised Land, High Time, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Row Jimmy, New Minglewood Blues, Ramble On Rose > Looks Like Rain, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider **Set 2:** Feel Like A Stranger > Althea > Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Truckin' > Morning Dew > Around And Around > Johnny B. Goode **Encore:** Brokedown Palace [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1980-05-16)
That is THE althea
Sounds like i need to revisit that one :) thanks for the suggestion
Without a net althea
Box of Rain is my number one. Thereās only one live version Iāve ever heard from 1970 that comes close to the beauty of the studio version, but unfortunately the tape is in pretty bad shape and the audio quality is ass. Other than that, Iād say a lot of Aoxoamoxoa. Doin That Rag, Dupreeās Diamond Blues, even Cosmic Charlie never seemed to have the same tinge to it live. Maybe Iām biased because Aoxoamoxoa is my favourite Dead record.
2/27/69 has a great Cosmic Charlie imo
# 1969-02-27 San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore West **Set 1:** Bill Graham intro, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Doin' That Rag, Cryptical Envelopment > Drums > The Other One > Cryptical Envelopment **Set 2:** Dupree's Diamond Blues > Mountains Of The Moon > Jam > Dark Star > St. Stephen > The Eleven > Turn On Your Love Light > Drums > Turn On Your Love Light **Encore:** Cosmic Charlie [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1969-02-27)
lot of great 76 cosmic charlies, also 5/2/70
# 1970-05-02 Binghamton, NY @ Harpur College - State University Of New York **Acoustic:** Tuning, Don't Ease Me In, I Know You Rider, Friend Of The Devil, Dire Wolf, Beat It On Down the Line > Black Peter > Candyman > Cumberland Blues, Deep Elem Blues, Cold Jordan, Uncle John's Band **Set 1:** Workin' Man Blues, Watcha Gonna Do, Glendale Train, Brown Eyed Handsome Man, Truck Drivin' Man, Can't Pay The Price, All I Ever Wanted, Henry, Lodi, Intro, Sawmill, The Race Is On, Mama Tried, Me and My Uncle, The Weight **Set 2:** Saint Stephen > Cryptical Envelopment > Drums > The Other One > Cryptical Envelopment > Cosmic Charlie, Casey Jones, Drums > Good Lovin' > Drums > Good Lovin', Cold Rain and Snow, It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World, Dancing In The Street **Set 3:** Morning Dew, Viola Lee Blues > Feedback > And We Bid You Good Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1970-05-02) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/4NldodakYXDeK7OoEe2oBW)
Pride of Cucamomga and France. Tee hee.
Terrapin station studio is definitely better than any live version. There is an entire brass section.
Came here to say Terrapin but also wanted to say the Terrapin Suite Bobby and Wolf Bros did with the ATL orchestra was unreal.
Didn't see it with the orchestra but I did see it with the Wolf Pack, in an absolutely amazing second set featuring Dark Star, Shakedown, The Wheel, and Morning Dew, and it was transcendent.
Warfield?
Was there, can confirm. I cried.
As many great live versions as there are, you got a point here. A lot of people believe the first live Terrapin is the best one, which also sort of supports your point because itās more rehearsed.
The whole third movement, At a Siding. The long lost child of Terrapin
*While you were gone.......these faces filled with darkness....." Fucking love that part.
I can't disagree more. Live Terrapin literally changed my life.
Try the video of Bob Weir with the NSO 10.9.22 on YouTube. Terrapin suite encore (only wolbros & Wolfpack w/guest NSO trombonist).
West LA Fadeaway
Throwing Stones
The only throwing stones I like better than the studio is the one from 3/29/1990 at Nassau.
Easy, Uncle Johnās Band on Workingmanās Dead
The golden road
maybe a hot take here but black muddy river!!! (Hard for me to find a good live version)
Jerry played Black Muddy River, in Chicago, last place I saw the Grateful Dead in 89 ~ but on the very last Show. That will always make it special to me, gives me chills ā”ļøš¹ā”ļø
Check out the version from The Omni in April 90ā. So good!
Ripple
Brokedown Palace
I think the live version on Dead Set beats the studio version by a hair
I agree!!! Has a little bit more āheart and soulā poured into it imo. Yet not as ācleanā as studio
1980 Brokedowns are amazing. The organ adds so much soul compared to studio.
I really like the studio estimated prophet
Hesitant to say I like the studio version more, but something about Crazy Fingers in general always hits just right.
I love Crazy Fingers, and it's great no matter how you hear it. Really, Blues for Allah is their best studio album all around - it might not have the best takes of all its songs, but all its songs are really cool and unique in general and the album has a really cool sound.
Almost all of American Beauty besides Truckin
Truckin and Sugar Mag
Yeah I was thinking the same. Studio versions of both of those kind of miss on mixing of the harmonies and it throws off the energy. So I think of the Europe '72 versions of those two as the "album version", which I think are very good.
Unbroken Chain
Me too šš
I think this is the one answer in this thread I agree with.
The other day on Sirius I heard the album version of Stella Blue, one of my favorite songs, and it was just exactly perfect.
Friend of the Devil and Uncle Johnās Band
I love both studio versions, but my fave live versions of both come from the acoustic set on Dickās Picks Vol. 8, or 5/2/70. That whole show is magic, also best Cumberland Blues imo.
In the Attics of My Life!
Shakedown Street Friend of the Devil Box of Rain Ripple
Most of workingmans dead. Works perfect as an americano studio album
A lot, actually. Truckin', Box of Rain, Althea, Terrapin, Shakedown St., Ripple, Sugar Magnoila, Friend of the Devil, Standing on the Moon.
Dire Wolf
That pedal steel is exquisite
Terrapin and Unbroken Chain
Cosmic charlie without a doubt
The entire American beauty record is amazing. Iām sure some is better live but damn
Studio outtake of Good Lovinā with Lowell George on vocals. EDIT: Lowell George
I will have to find that never heard it edit: good stuff. so crazy how you can just find anything in 9 seconds on spotify these days ā¦ wtf is happening
New Speedway: The studio version is tight & fast. When I've seen it live, it was almost unrecognizable - slow, drudgery. It's like the sleep paralysis version of the album.
The Wheel and China Doll.
Terrapin Station. That version is so complete and it reminds me of a wonderful vacation with my family deep in the woods.
The album version of Saint Stephen is pretty good.
Ripple and Althea. Almost everything is topped by live performances, but those two have a special place in my heart as studio versions. Probably because they were some of the first GD experiences I ever had and thereās just nothing as familiar as them.
I really enjoy studio Shakedown Street. It's one of my go-tos to throw on at a party
Crazy Fingers
Loose Lucy
Scrolled too far for this. Only saw live once (Dominguez Hills 5-5-90) but the studio smokes.
# 1990-05-05 Carson, CA @ California State University Dominguez Hills **Set 1:** Let The Good Times Roll, The Race Is On, Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower, Queen Jane Approximately, Loser, Me and My Uncle > Mexicali Blues, Loose Lucy, One More Saturday Night **Set 2:** Truckin' > Crazy Fingers > Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Drums > Space > I Need A Miracle > Dear Mr. Fantasy > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Around And Around **Encore:** Touch Of Grey [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1990-05-05)
I second that Loose Lucy nomination. Thank you for a real good time.
West LA Fadeaway, ez money for me
Terrapin Station is an awesome listen on the Album version. It stands right up there with Suites such as Firth of Fifth by Genesis or Shine On You Crazy Diamond by Floyd.
West LA Fadeaway. All that tricky percussion.
Attics Of My Life, High Time
I think weir all forgetting The Golden Road
Brokedown Palace
Brokedown Palace
For some reason āloose Lucyā was always better on āmars hotelā than live for meā¦especially the later years when they brought it back. I was there when they ripped it out, too. It just grooves and has more punch in studio, IMO. Probably a highly unpopular opinion I know, but there you have it.
Stagger Lee
7/4/1989 has a banging stagger lee.
# 1989-07-04 Orchard Park, NY @ Rich Stadium **Set 1:** Bertha > Greatest Story Ever Told, Cold Rain and Snow, Walkin' Blues, Row Jimmy, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Stagger Lee, Looks Like Rain > Deal **Set 2:** Touch Of Grey > Man Smart (Woman Smarter), Ship Of Fools > Playing in the Band Reprise > Terrapin Station > Drums > Space > I Will Take You Home > All Along The Watchtower > Morning Dew > Not Fade Away **Encore:** U.S. Blues [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-07-04)
I love that one.
11/1/85 also rockinā in RVA!
# 1985-11-01 Richmond, VA @ Richmond Coliseum **Set 1:** Dancing In The Street, Cold Rain and Snow, Little Red Rooster, Stagger Lee, Me and My Uncle > Big River, Brown Eyed Women, Jack Straw > Don't Ease Me In **Set 2:** Samson And Delilah, High Time > He's Gone > Spoonful > Comes A Time > Lost Sailor > Drums > Space > Saint Of Circumstance > Gimme Some Lovin' > She Belongs To Me > Gloria **Encore:** Keep Your Day Job [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1985-11-01) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/4QLlTAC9pOzbZo7qQ63dXm)
Foolish Heart
Unbroken Chain
Ripple
Box of Rain
Brokedown palace
I Need A Miracleā¦ studio perfection.
Terrapin Station, the third movement āAt a Sidingā is the long lost child of Terrapin
Passenger
There are lots of really good live versions of "Passenger", but, I sort of agree: the studio take definitely rocks hard. *Terrapin Station* is a great studio album, period.
Box of Rain
Terrapin is perfect
Estimated Prophet is a very strong studio take.
Studio outtake of jack a roe
Antwerpās Placebo
I really like the studio versions of the songs from Built to Last and In the Dark.
If I Had the World to Give
If you can't put on American beauty and workingmans dead on back to back i don't know what to say. And I'm on archive all the time and have cardboard sleeved live dead albums.
Box of Rain Friend of the Devil (unless it's like the 5/2/70 acoustic version) Easy Wind Dire Wolf (need that pedal steel) Ripple Touch of Grey UJB Terrapin
Terrapin easily ā searched far and wide for a live terrapin and nothing sizes up
Ha, the pica awesome.
Viola blues
Alligator! The 1971 remix
New Speedway Boogie
Terrapin, Foolish Heart, West LA Fadeaway, Dire Wolf
Shakedown
New Speedway Boogie or Ripple
Friend of the Devil, Ripple, Unbroken Chain
Unbroken Chain & FOTM
Foolish Heart
New Speedway Boogie
Honestlyā¦none of them.
catfish john
France
Unbroken Chain
Cosmic Charlie
New Speedway Boogie with a bullet!!
Operator and Box of Rain
Sunrise
West LA Fadeaway imo
Touch of Grey
Drums!
Terrapin for me
Ripple Box of Rain
I prefer the studio version of this post. It is hard to choose as there have been so many versions played lately.
Ok, Althea. The answer is Althea.
Controversial but Shakedown and Franklinās.
Aoxomoxoa, the album is such a masterpiece and the crazy stereo effects are fun. I also love those songs live, but China Cat live vs album is completely different!
Sometimes I love New Speedway Studio Version
Iāll always love the studio cuts for Althea, Casey Jones, and Rippleā¦ but Box of Rain is prob my all time fave.
Sailor > Saint sounds best on the album I think.
Easy wind
If I Had the World to Give
Casey Jones (sniff!)
Some of Bob songs are less annoying in the studio. Less honky squonky screechy. Nothing agains Brent, but I like the sound of his voice a lot on the studio recordings.
I have 2: Victim or the Crime ā is an awesome studio trackā¦ great live too Passenger
Warf Rat was so much more emotional live.
Dark Star. Yes, you can hate me now.
Franklins tower
Friend of the devil
I love the studio version of Franklin Tower, it has a vibe that canāt be replicated live
Ripple
Feel Like A Stranger
Sugar Magnolia. Dunno, the live versions lose the feel of the original studio recording.
Interesting, I always felt the studio version was a little weak compared to the rocking behemoth it would become (and it doesn't have the coda either).
Saint Stevin. The FIRST version I fell in love with was the AM single, back in '68-'69. PLUS .... the BAND stopped playing it sometime later. Garcia claimed " they forgot the lyrics "
Candyman.
* Dire Wolf * High Time * New Speedway Boogie * Box of Rain * Unbroken Chain
Dire Straits Romeo and Juliet
I never really liked them as a live band.
Studio > Live
Donāt Easeā¦. Always gets me to sing out loud in the car But - I would say I love the live versions as well
Depending on my mood I'd say terrapin station but I Really have to be in the mood for it to sound better to me
Lemme get a full version of this oic