Palate Cleanser: Scarlet-Fire From Winterland '78

Sweet and Donna didn't ruin it. New Years performance, excellent video and audio quality. Check out the flame war in the comments when some dude says Sublime would have been bigger than the Dead and another says more innovative:



Here's the Fire to round it out:



Update: Bonus JGB doing Bread Box from the Garden in '91.

Update: Double Secret Bonus: Visions of Johanna from the soon-to-be-demolished Spectrum in Philly 1995. Any hard core Head should feel bad about the Spectrum's demise.

Update: To give you a taste of just how good shows at the Spectrum were, check out this gem of a show with the best sound quality I've heard:

The Scarlet-Fire Coalition

You may notice that I have included a new, small group to the blogroll--the Scarlet-Fire Coalition. We are a group of Deadheads who have evolved in our thinking and have taken a different political path than our fellow heads.

Go ahead and out Knockin' on the Golden Door, Weir Freak and the Music Never Stopped for interesting daily reads.