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Wharf Rat
Feb. 20, 1971
Capitol Theater

3rd ever and it's a beauty. Show uneven at first, then comes together with Cryptical>TOO>Wharf for some righteous Dead, looking for their '71 sound.
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Cumberland Blues
Aug. 6, 1971
Hollywood Palladium

Along with every other bit of this concert, raging good time energy and virtuouso groupmind, aided of course by one of the most ultimate AUDs ever.
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Good Lovin'
April 8, 1972
Wembley Empire Pool

Stop everything you're doing and listen to this now. No really, do it. Now.
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Playin' In The Band
April 8, 1972
Wembley Empire Pool

Something happens to Playing' in Europe. Check 'em out, one by one and watch it grow. This one is the bomb. Outrageous shredding.
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Big River
Feb. 22, 1974
Winterland Arena

Listen to this, then listen again for Jerry's solo: Come back and tell me Big River is a "throw away" song, cause he damn-well tears it up here.
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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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