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Here Comes Sunshine
March 26, 1973
Baltimore Civic Center

Captures all that's great about this song. Uplifting, joyful, smile-inducing. Can't believe this one's not here yet.
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El Paso
March 26, 1973
Baltimore Civic Center

Supreme version: Fast, precise and galloping. Great harmonies with Jer singing backup.
13
Brown Eyed Women
March 26, 1973
Baltimore Civic Center

Simply perfect and beautiful version in a great show.
20
Playin' In The Band
March 26, 1973
Baltimore Civic Center

Propulsive and moody. Melodic developments developed over 20 minutes of energetic jamming. Billy and Phil are driving throughout.
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Playin' In The Band
March 24, 1973
The Spectrum

Expansive, exploritory, and spaced out in places, a nice ride and another great from Spring '73.
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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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