Grateful dead hat4/17/2023 Maybe it’s because the narrator is addressing a hometown crowd in the Mile High City. This one seems to fit nicely though and IMHO feels like far less of an “abrupt” start than the 11/17 UCLA show. It doesn’t really have anything to do with performance quality, but more likely that I’m so used to hearing it later in the first set. Set One opens with Me & My Uncle, which I find to be an awkward (albeit rare) opener. The first set is, IMHO slightly above average for a 73 show but the second set is incredible. What a thrill to experience this fantastic show on its 40th anniversary. I came immediately here in search of the full show. I caught the PITB>EL Paso>PITB> Wharf rat section of this show on the Grateful Dead XM radio channel on my way to work this morning and was absolutely blown away. The whole show is on Road Trips v4 #3, except for complete tunings and the complete versions of: Weather Report, Playing III, & GDtRFB. The miller_97468 remedies problems but does have the tunings cut. SOURCES: Most of the SBDs are pitched fast and have a few cuts. One More Saturday Night - a best-of-'73 candidate Playing in the Band - the sequence section into Wharf is unique Weather Report Suite - great, also rendered uptempo They Love Each Other - brisker companion to other show's shuffle Uncle John's is good enough for satiety (hopefully 4yrs worth). Not this a nice punctuation before the encore. Most '73 versions of One More Saturday are a notch below '72s & '74s. On the official release, 4:38>5:31 of GDtRFB comes from 11/9/73, excising one measure (4:39>5:15 on the miller SBD) for, oddly, a measure and a half. Phil has to tease it a bit before Jer picks up Goin' Down the Road. The jam part of Truckin' almost immediately heads toward Nobody's Fault. It's not 10/19 or 12/02, but still a hella kewl 'quence. The 1hr 3min (whew!) sequence finalizes with a Dew. You wouldn't expect this jam out of Wharf to be the longest jam of the three (or the set), plus one of the most out-there jams of late '73. The third Playin' has a 21sec AUD patch Oddly, the official release just plays across the cut (blending the two ends, which isn't too noticeable). The second Playin' morphs into a long, unique Wharf jam, into Wharf Rat proper. A good Playin' does a cool tranny into a very active El Paso. This hot Mississippi Half-Step is just the start of this great sequence. The Let it Grow jam has 24sec of AUD The official release patches this with a little more than one measure from the night before (29sec Set. It has the "Born to sail the tide" & "It's just a state of mind" lyrics. While not the whopper of the night before, Weather Report Suite is still great, and if you prefer it uptempo it's quite distinct from that one. Brokedown also ticks every box - and may surprise, if you are expecting yet another run-through. X Factor continues into Big River Jer's 2nd solo is one of the year's best. Somewhat similar to the great 11/17, the factor is arrantly X! Parts are more succinct and cohesive than usual, with original jamming - even if fairly mellow in tone. Here Comes Sunshine is a personal fave version. They Love Each Other is faster than the previous night's shuffle. There's also a Mexican Hat Dance going into it (that's not complete on Road Trips 4-3). The set is average '73 up to the unusually strong Mexicali. Me & My Uncle is a fun, change-up opener. Maybe it's not quite the monster show of 11/20, but that one has one of the year's best 1st Sets and this show has the better 2nd Set - known for it's long sequence: ½ Step>Playin'>El Paso>Playin'>Wharf Jam>Wharf Rat>back into Playin'>Dew.įirst Set. Seven songs in the 1st Set were played the night before, all of them slightly better (two more repeats are in the 2nd). After this 2nd Denver show there would be a gap of 4 yrs before the Dead returned to Colorado.
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