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Playin' In The Band
Aug. 26, 1971
Gaelic Park

At risk of putting all '71 up here. Tell me to stop if too much! I just love the twangy country versions, knowing the evolution in store for it.
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Wharf Rat
Aug. 23, 1971
Auditorium Theatre

Extremely powerful. Strong vocals, massive sound, tremendous jam, great mix. Coming off 30 minutes of TOO like a parachute from the ionosphere.
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Bird Song
Aug. 23, 1971
Auditorium Theatre

Intricate zigzagging solo work from Jerry, tight ensemble playing. Doesn't ever "soar" like some of them, but more exploratory and compelling.
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Casey Jones
Aug. 23, 1971
Auditorium Theatre

They announce the set-break, then decide to blow out the tubes on this one, capping one of the best 1st sets of 1971.
4
Loser
Aug. 23, 1971
Auditorium Theatre

Snarling guitar solo and great organ sound in an excellently mixed (Bobby audible always a plus) SBD. The whole first set is sweet heady goodness.
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Playin' In The Band
Sept. 21, 1972
The Spectrum

A version I could just put on repeat and listen to all day. Keith is exquisite, and the jam is hot and intense, then gentle and subtle, then hot again, all in 17 minutes, which feels short considering how much they cover. I love the re-entry around 11:50, when Jerry emits swirling borealis sound-beams around the magnetic poles.
Cumberland Blues
Sept. 21, 1972
The Spectrum

Has a loose sparks-flying feel like a coal car with no breaks speeding down the tracks deep into the mine, like the best ones do, but with a biting hard electric feel that is just exactly perfect.
Ramble On Rose
Sept. 21, 1972
The Spectrum

This song always works better for me when it has that bite-down-hard electricity to it. This one does, driving up the hot-wire tension throughout, and never dragging (as some lesser versions do, "this song, it ain't never goina' end" indeed...). This whole show is peak dead in any case. No toss-aways anywhere.
Loser
Sept. 21, 1972
The Spectrum

This show gets a lot of deserving love, but to me this Loser stands out as a particularly strong part of the first set.
Greatest Story Ever Told
Sept. 19, 1972
Roosevelt Stadium

Probably the worst AUD without an alternative source in the whole of 1972. Pity, because they're just absolutely blazing right out of the gate with Bertha, GSET and then that massive Bird Song. With August-September '72 is up there with the most consistent highest quality shredding Dead of any two-month period in their whole history we should hope hope hope for a cleaner set of reels out there - even if supposedly incomplete. (Please and thank you.) I'm no AUD-phobe, but this one will test the patience of even the most hardcore completists.
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