The Daily Nugs - January 3, 2025
From Grateful Dead of the Day
On a frigid, windy day in early January, the Dead opened the final night of their two-day run by easing into Morning Dew. The boys continue to feint and bluster through the next few tunes, flashing signs of brilliance - Pig on Hard To Handle, for instance - without weaving a seamless whole that amounted to much more than the sum of its parts. All that begins to change with the ineluctable splendor of the unfolding Alligator. By the time Billy and Mickey take over, with the raspy cabasa evoking the beast itself slinking through the swamp, the boys are conjuring some serious shit. The lengthy jam that follows peripatetically hints at one tune then roars into another theme, suddenly unleashing a stunning Alligator reprise before heading into a haunting, Hitchcock-esque Feedback Jam. And this is only part of the early show; listen to it and the later one at Grateful Dead of the Day.
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