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Richard Gehr | February 07, 2007

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The Grateful Dead celebrated the bicentennial New Year's Eve 1976 with an especially long, fine evening at the Cow Palace—located right outside San Francisco, naturally. 'Round midnight, the band followed the celebratory love thrash "Sugar Magnolia" with a brilliant half-hour, mostly improvised, study in gorgeous musical contrasts: a lilting and extra-jazzy "Eyes of the World" that morphed into the group's cosmic losers lament, "Wharf Rat." If you've never gotten into the Dead, the combo makes a fine introduction. Fans will love it to death, of course, and you can hear it right about here.

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