Uncle John’s Band -> Space -> Wharf Rat -> Around And Around - Grateful Dead
5.11.77 - Civic Center Arena, St. Paul, Minnesota

I love these songs immensely, so when you put them all together it really does it for me.  I should note that often Space just doesn’t do much for me.  I can get way too lost in a 10 or 15 minute version of space to really keep sight of any theme or emotion the band is trying to hold. (Which is interesting consider my deep love for all things Dark Star… essentially space, right?)

Yet this version of Space clocks in just under five minutes and has this incredible two minute guitar solo - nothing else - from Jerry that simply melts face.  Ripe with feedback it segues perfectly into Wharf Rat, and is likely to send chills up your spine.  Around and Around closes things up hard and fast with a really blazing rendition. What a perfect way to end a show, and just another reason why 1977 is a tremendously positive year of Grateful Dead music.