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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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Turn On Your Love Light
Oct. 22, 1967
Unknown

Can't overdo this date at all. This rocks. Pigpen just sounds so good.
Turn On Your Love Light
April 26, 1972
Jahrhunderthalle

Absolutely blisteringly hot, a rockin' cauldrin with Caution-like moments. Could be my favorite.
The Other One
April 26, 1972
Jahrhunderthalle

A long exploration transitioning from hard rock into spacejazz into dark-melting cozmik goo emitted from cybernautic giant praying mantises, back to rock and landing safe and sound in a lovely Comes a Time. One long strange trip indeed.
Playin' In The Band
April 26, 1972
Jahrhunderthalle

Maybe the single 'missing link' in the 71 - 72 evolution from an odd-metered but still recognizable "song" into an the inter-stellar vehicle for massive heady goodness that Playing' becomes. Right there at 3:00 Jerry flips a switch and suddenly we all go a wee but furthur.
Dark Star
June 23, 1974
Jai-Alai Fronton

The show as a whole is testament to the band's exploration and search for new direction, and this star doesn't disappoint. Abstract and full of conceptual complexity - not surprising after the first 'Phil and Ned', which incidentally could mark the origins of the 'Space' segment that I always loved loved loved. Dark Star >> Spanish Jam never showed so much of electric Miles Davis' influence to my ears.
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