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Cumberland Blues
Feb. 6, 1970
Fillmore West

With that fresh brilliance of its time. The show starts with country bluegrass, goes blue, then psychedelicore: A perfect '70 combi.
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Good Lovin'
Feb. 6, 1970
Fillmore West

Hot burner, with Pig's voice just perfect. He drives everyone to higher and higher vocal heights.
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Hard to Handle
Feb. 6, 1970
Fillmore West

I love the hard chargers, but this one is different: Almost mellow with a slow simmering groove. Cool, not hot. Check it out.
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The Race Is On
Feb. 5, 1970
Fillmore West

Some of Jerry's best pedal steel soloing work ever. Shitkickinly good.
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The Eleven
Feb. 5, 1970
Fillmore West

Incomplete, but fantastic tight jam with lovely China Cat riffs. A fantastic jam with Mason's>11>Caution>NFA

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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.