re: Grateful Dead

If Donna would have only gone for a bathroom trip during Playing in the Band she wouldn't have near the reputation with Deadheads she has. She could actually sound really good on harmonies and when they had the sound mixed right. A lot of times she couldn't hear herself on the monitors which would result in Shriekfest. IMO the best versions of The Music Never Stopped, Comes a Time, Samson & Delilah, and He's Gone to name a few were all in the Donna era.

5/9/77 is my all time fave. That's not a typo. I'll take it over Cornell any day of the week.

Set 1
Help on the Way
Slipknot
Franklin's Tower
Cassidy
Brown-Eyed Women
Mexicali Blues
Tennessee Jed
Big River
Peggy-O
Sunrise
The Music Never Stopped

Set 2
Bertha
Good Lovin
Ship of Fools
Estimated Prophet
The Other One
Drums
Not Fade Away
Comes a Time
Sugar Magnolia

Encore
Uncle John's Band

Favorite ever versions of The Music Never Stopped, Ship of Fools, and Comes a Time(no other version even close on this one) Top five versions of Help/Slipknot/Franklin's, Brown Eyed Women, Tennessee Jed, Big River, Peggy-O, Sugar Magnolia, and Uncle John's Band. Only complaint I would have would be the outrageously long (even by Dead standards) gaps between songs in the first set for tunings but that's nit picky of me.