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Sugar Magnolia
May 24, 1972
Strand Lyceum

Man, they're having a blast. Totally firing on all cylinders, and clipping along at 90mph. Great stuff.
2
Tennessee Jed
June 17, 1972
Hollywood Bowl

Solid rockin' version with a cruisin' pulse and tight ensemble playing at high energy.
4
Black Throated Wind
June 17, 1972
Hollywood Bowl

Back from Europe with all the polish and power of a masterpiece: They've perfected the arc and emotional nuance. Miller cleanup is best (duh).
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Sugar Magnolia
May 23, 1972
Strand Lyceum

Gets pretty hard rock in places. This whole show, actually, has a high voltage rock vibe unlike all others on the tour. Underrated show all round.
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Big Railroad Blues
May 23, 1972
Strand Lyceum

Utterly gobsmacked that this ain't here yet: It's a furious barnburner. Full of get up and go.
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Playin' In The Band
March 27, 1972
Academy of Music

One of the first ones to recognizably showcase the off-the-rails trippiness of a mature Playin' jam. The transition is now complete, with Europe up next to polish it up: From The Main Ten (just a few hints of it left right after the verse) to an outre-rhythmed country diddy (à la Spring '71) and now the recast of it into one of the greatest long-distance spaceships ever owned.
Cumberland Blues
March 27, 1972
Academy of Music

The vitamins were strong with this one.
Brown Eyed Women
March 27, 1972
Academy of Music

+1 for Jerry's growl. The whole show is end-to-end top shelf stuff.
Two Souls in Communion
March 26, 1972
Academy of Music

The most convincing version I've ever heard. It's funny, though, because it starts a bit shaky and grows and grows into a raging inferno.
Me and My Uncle
March 26, 1972
Academy of Music

There's something ultra tight and crisp about this one, especially as it comes out of a 23 minute TOO. I know MAMU doesn't get a lot of love, though as the song they played more than any other it confuses me why heads don't listen closer to it. For me, it's both a song on its own and a litmus for where they were in a certain time and place. In March '72 they were transitioning from the country sound of '70-'71 into an odyssean psychedelic orchestra, and the MAMU here grounds us in both phases of their spacetime.
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