Jerry’s tone at this show makes this perhaps the heaviest version ever played!!!

Spirited MAMU > Big River! (Criminally underrated show)…

Transcendent version + with Jerr going full-on spacey! (Weird, like the whole show!)

Perfect encapsulation of this show: not a lot of highlights, but absolutely rippin’, at the same time.

Nice version, out of an epic Bertha, both of which need more love!

Holy-fuckin’-smokes! Jerr is almost just exactly perfectly on it, which is good enough, and he’s rippin’ (along with everyone else) until the 4:30 “I had to move” breakdown (Miller mix), when they all lay down an absolutely all-time sequence that should go down in the annals as a hall-of-fame + mind-blowing 30 seconds. This is why we listen to this band. (3 votes, as of this writing = ugh. Where is everybody…?!)

The between-verse-fills have almost no equal from any time, before or after, as they didn’t exist 9-13 years earlier, and certainly not after the coma. Unbelievable level he was at, though it wasn’t nearly as coherent as it had been, from a cohesive band standpoint. Strange but good times.

A lot going on here: 1. MG says that these German shows were a pain the ass, relative to the rest of the tour, and I think you can hear that cathartic energy in this show. They’re getting it in/out. 2. There’s just no fuckin’ objective way to quantify any show, ever, sooo, it’s all a fools errand, though it’s at least a conversation. 3. This + Bickershaw are the best shows of the Europe ‘72 tour, but this shit still don’t hold a goddamn candle to a ‘77-‘84 Bertha, wherein, Jerr has elevated to mastering myxolidian, so the leads + fills are far more sophisticated.

This one alone proves that you can’t trust anybody who voted for anything more than about 5-10 versions above. You figure out what those are, but there 242 total (as far as we know), and there’s *no way* that this is any lower than 10th. Some bend minds, this one obliterates those minds. How cool would it be if the (extraordinary lame) people who operate the business opps actually opened up to officially releasing an AUD? This would be it (along with 12/16/78 + a few others). Don’t let them fool you! This. Is. Where. It’s. At.

This is the fuckin’ Walmart of shows, at this point, especially this version, which just doesn’t sing, at all. What does that mean? Well, there are 242 known versions of this combo, so how *on earth* could you possibly rate it, if you didn’t have even a modicum of working knowledge of at least a preponderance of them…? Listen to 100 or 200 - multiple times - then come back and say, “Yup!”. But until you’ve done that, you’re doing a disservice to everything this site is about. Listen to Springfield, LSU, Uptown(s), RPI, SPAC, Park City, etc. + actually educate yourself, then come back around, then we can have educated discussion. Until then? You’re just another dumb American enamored with shiny objects.