Song placement deviations..

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Over the years, I came to favor Jackstraw as a first-set closer or second-set opener. Not that it wasn't a swell opener. 

Overall, I love both of these shows immensely.  They had to work at it these nights. That always draws out extra emotion. It shows. If you've never heard the full shows, you might check them out. Garcia made the string howl on 12/28/80 right out of the gate.

1st Set Closer - https://archive.org/details/gd1980-12-28.176450.mtx.tobin.flac1648/08+Jack+Straw.f

2nd Set Opener - https://archive.org/details/gd1989-12-30.158324.5-1.tobin.flac1648/10+Jack+Straw.flac

The oddest Jack Straw placement I caught was October 9, 1984, at the Centrum in Worcester. It followed the H>S>F second set opener.

https://archive.org/details/gd1984-10-09.168000.beyer.m160.vita.miller.c...

That is odd. Fast version from the start...

1991 at the gahden

personal favorite sneak attack 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bDE0jQz_SqU&ra=m