10. Here Comes Sunshine -} China -} Rider - Grateful Dead - 2/17/73 St. Paul Aud - U31DoD 12 Edition

The Unofficial 31 Days of Dead - 2012 Edition - Day Ten http://www.glidemagazine.com/hiddentrack/unofficial-31-days-of-dead-2012-edition-day-ten/ ----- Here Comes Sunshine -} China Cat Sunflower -} I Know You Rider 2/17/73 St. Paul Auditorium, St. Paul, MN This triad of songs has been a long-time favorite of mine. A reviewer on LMA referred to it as "the Holy Trinity." That may be overstating it a bit, but the point is well-taken. On just their third performance of Here Comes Sunshine the band brilliantly segues into China Cat Sunflower. It's quite possibly one of the best transitions the band ever performed in their career. The transition is so natural and seamless that one must wonder whether it was rehearsed and more importantly why it was never played again! Some are quick to point out that the performance of each of the songs taken individually is only average for the time period -- which by the way is still amazing! However, I think most would agree that when taken together as a package it results in a powerful synergy that pushes this version into the realm of transcendence. It's magic like this that fuels our obsession with this band. Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?0tekvksa9wwd4l3 LMA Link: http://archive.org/details/gd1973-02-17.sbd.miller.32580.sbeok.flac16 Ed Martin Ed Martin is an amateur musician, an amateur mixtape creator and an amateur coach of his 9-year-old daughter's basketball team. http://soundcloud.com/bearschoice http://www.glidemagazine.com/hiddentrack/author/ed-martin/