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Playin' In The Band
Oct. 24, 1972
Performing Arts Center
hard to believe this big beast hasn't been tagged yet: Experimental, interesting, and at 23min, a nice long ride.
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Box of Rain
Oct. 24, 1972
Performing Arts Center
Only the 2nd one they played after it went into circulation, and it conveys all the emotion and poetry of this wonderful song. Sing something Phil!
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Brokedown Palace
Oct. 23, 1972
Milwaukee Performing Arts Center
For a song notoriously difficult to pull off live, this one is just beautiful. Succinct, harmonious, deliberate: All good, in spite of AUD quality.
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China Cat Sunflower -> I Know You Rider
Oct. 23, 1972
Milwaukee Performing Arts Center
Great transition into Rider here. Really strong '72 ensemble playing. Sound quality is only about a B though.
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Black Throated Wind
Oct. 23, 1972
Milwaukee Performing Arts Center
Solid heady version with a great build-up. Sound is only B quality though.
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China Cat Sunflower -> I Know You Rider
Dec. 6, 1971
Felt Forum, Madison Square Garden
The China Cat kind of 'chugs along' at a slower pace than others from the era, but they switch gears in the transition jam. They must have signaled each other to kick up the tempo and put some steam on it because it's night-and-day. Keeping with the highway metaphors: The IKYR has the inertia of an 18-wheeler cruising flat straight road in high gear and is just hella-good fun.
El Paso
Nov. 21, 1973
Denver Coliseum
Smoothest whiplash ever here: Musical magic in action coming in from a furious high-elevation Playin' with hardly a hint of the El Paso within it. Suddenly it hasn't just already started, but it has retroactively played itself into a forwardsback existence that was always there waiting too bloom outwards in its fractal filigree. Or maybe I'm just trippin' - hard to say.
Playin' In The Band
Oct. 25, 1973
Dane County Coliseum
Unique and beautiful piano-led motifs around 12:00 start with repeated notes high in the register that remind me of Keith Jarret's work with Charles Lloyd. It's undoubtable that they'd all been turned on to each other's music by this point and I know that Lloyd sat in once at the Family Dog on 03 August 1969.
Black Throated Wind
Oct. 25, 1973
Dane County Coliseum
BTW at its best. This accelerates in a perfect arc from its tentative and sheepish first lines of regret walking the blue highway towards its outraged manic triumphant 180° turn. Go back and get hurt again, Bobby, do it....
Big River
Oct. 25, 1973
Dane County Coliseum
Jerry's solo at 3:30 is a pristine three-chorus example of soloing over changes. Just killer, it is.
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