ive been iso morning dew for a long long time.
there is no other song in the entire grateful dead catalogue which introduces itself with a more powerful 1 note signature explosion than morning dew.
dark star? 4 notes and kinda mellow. help on the way? 4 chords. st stephen? 2 regular notes.
but morning dew-- just 1 hair-raising reverberating hello crescendo.
this is THE song.
saw the grateful dead melt me with this.
and saturday night in wilkes barre pa, the dark star orchestra layed down the law.
this was the finest morning dew, ive evah seen them do.
each musician was so in tune.
this song at its best is PRIAML>
and this was a knee buckling, hair-raising, eyes watering, head melting, goose bumps walk me out.
everyone was one.
skip was beating the sh*t outta his strings. robB was pounding and i mean pounding the keys.
robE was cranking up the volume. and dino and rob were builing building building the smashing backbone.
and jeff?
well jeff was simply in another zone. if he was ever truly jerry, it was at this moment.
pin drop soft, heart wrenching, nuclear--- it was everything.
this was so powerful, the band didnt even segue into another song when jeff belted out the last--
i guess it doesnt matter ANYWAYYYYYYYYYYYYY.
the band hit the last note and morning dew ended.
the climax of two nights in wilkes barre pa which began with jack straw early friday evening and came to a rousing conclusion past midnight saturday night/early sunday morning.
and then the band completely stopped. took a break. looked at each other,
motioned to one another. rob walked around a little.
and then with a few beats dso finished the night off with a rockin one mo saturday night, almost as a 2nd set encore (before returning for a true encore and an extra saturday night surprise ---lisa channeling mccartney on a rousing oh darling).
really truly amazing.