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You know the classic, familiar theme that the Grateful Dead kicked into at the end of Going Down the Road Feeling Bad? I would describe it as a flourish, a victory lap (not victory, but a lap of some sort) – and at the least it was the big wind down out of GDTRFB, usually into NFA or Good Lovin’. They included it all through the years, from early 70s onwards … classic element of a late second set GDTRFB during the 80s.

[Update: someone on Reddit pointed out the obvious, which I simply had never heard even though it’s right there. This is, of course, the “And we bid you goodnight” jam – albeit at a faster clip.]

Well, anyway, here’s an early example of that very jam. This one? From August 21, 1968. Right in the middle of an awesomely weird Alligator.

File under: esoteric notes on jam origins. GDTRFB ‘Goodnight’ theme first heard in Alligator? Cool.