Category: E72
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E72 post 18 (final)
5/26/72 was quite good, but I don’t feel like I have that much to say. Maybe outta gas, like Poor Pig, after the whole tour. I noticed late in the tour that Weir was using more vibrato, sometimes so much as to sound like the Little Onion (the great John Cipollina) himself. I’ll just say…
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E72 post 17
The big jam of 5/24/72 didn’t slay me, but I have to apply the normal caveats. I may not have been paying a ton of attention. The Lovelight didn’t go anywhere or do anything. Pig is totally out of gas. He never even tells us ’bout his baby, how come she make him feel so…
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E72 post 16
Started 5/24/72 today, got through set I and into set II. Neat song selection – opening with oldies Cold Rain and Snow and BIODTL, a rare “Dire Wolf“, a very good China > Rider (not too adorned, but tight and successful), good Playin. Oh yeah, Bob strums the WRS Prelude before MAMU. Set II starts…
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E72 post 15
“Promised Land” is fitting for the home stretch. Most of the rest of the first set is a blur because I heard it two weeks ago, an eternity for these kinds of recollections. PITB clocks in at twelve and a half minutes, and I recall liking it very much. SOTOTW is exciting. I have some…
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E72 post 14
Should have been mentioning that there’s been some good Tigering in the recent PITBs. 5/18/72 bullets follow. Overall, a wonderful show up to Dark Star (where I left off yesterday). I confess that I managed to “miss” “It Hurts Me Too” and “You Win Again” while my headphones had to be removed. Whole (rest of)…
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E72 post 13
5/13/72 fin I know the Lille cancellation and then 5/13/72 has been discussed by LIA and probably Corry in his recent free gigs post. These E72 posts of mine just can’t do justice to what’s out there – feel free to post additional links in comments! I like this show, a lot. The first set…
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E72 post 12
5/11/72 Rotterdam Nothing really knocked me out. Nice to see some setlist variations (PITB and Truckin’ in unconventional placements, Dew and UJB making appearances). But Pigpen seems to be running out of steam – neither Good Lovin’ nor Caution really takes off for me, though I did enjoy learning that Pig keeps a bucket of…
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E72 post 11
5/10/72, con’t I have a million thoughts on these things while pedaling, but they spin away in the wind before I can commit them anywhere. I thought this show started off very slowly, with an especially bad China > Rider. But in Next Time You See Me (I think – could have been Big Boss…
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E72 post 10
Hm – Bickershaw left me a little cold. I had this Star > OO etc. as top-shelf material, but it didn’t do much of anything for me. Lovelight was kinda lackluster. IMO, YMMV, etc. On to 5/10/72, which is starting off pretty sleepy and clunky to these ears. China > Rider goes nowhere, at any…
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E72 post 09
5/7/72, Bickershaw, have just finished set I. Plenty of good stuff here. Birthday Boy Billy K drives a very intense PITB. Good Lovin is another good one, with Pig again fixin’ to do some greazin’.