Word: garcias
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What a difference a year makes. 12 months ago the Grateful Dead's annual psycedelic lap around the nation was indefinitely stalled due to lead guitarist/holy person Jerry Garcia's exhaustion. The entire East Coast leg of the tour was cancelled and some raised doubts about whether Garcia and the Dead would ever rise again...
Sunday saw a "Jack Straw" opener, followed closely by "Althea" and the rare treat "High Time," which was fittingly dreamy. Dylan's "Maggie's Farm" was given a spin and would have been better had Garcia not had technical problems that forced him to switch guitars for a time...
...highlight of last weekend was appropriately the closer of Sunday night's show, "Standing On The Moon." Starting off slow and mellow, it incrementally blossomed into a exhibition of how strong and healthy Jerry is. As Garcia's vocal coda of "with you" rose and rose in volume, the exhausted capacity crowd of 15,700 came to its feet with a roar, causing Garcia to become even more exuberant and finish the normal set of the last show of the weekend with the most animated vocal solo this writer has ever seen...
...Everyone pulled together today," co-captain Jennifer Garcia said. "It was a good moral victory. In the past, we weren't able to put away teams at the end of the games. But today, when we got to 14, we finished them...
...more positive note, however, was the strong play of Garcia and freshman Heather Rypkema...