Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead: Baltimore Civic Center, Baltimore, MD, 9/17/72 (Dick's Picks, Vol. 23)
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Artist: Grateful DeadBrand: GRATEFUL DEAD
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-08-31
Music Label: Grateful Dead / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Playing in the Band
- Casey Jones
- Truckin'
- Loser
- Jack Straw
- Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo
- Me & My Uncle
- He's Gone
- The Other One
- Sing Me Back Home
- Sugar Magnolia
- Uncle John's Band
Free Music Notes for Grateful Dead: Baltimore Civic Center, Baltimore, MD, 9/17/72 (Dick's Picks, Vol. 23)
Free Music Review: Disc Two is in the Zone!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is an excellent late-'72 Pick, from Baltimore in September, about 5 months after the European tour. The first disc is nothing special, a standard first-set. The band is energetic, but hasn't taken flight yet. The best song is "Bird Song," which flaps its eerie wings and takes a few leaps upward, and yet doesn't escape gravity. The worst moment comes on the segue from "China Cat" to "I Know You Rider," when Garcia and Weir get totally out of sync -- it's terrible, I don't know how anyone could consider this a high-quality performance. The "Rider" vocals are intense, which seems to me to indicate their frustration at having botched what is often a sublime moment.
All problems are left in the dust on Disc Two as the band achieves escape velocity with a 19-minute "Playing." Garcia uses his wah-wah pedal to great effect, and the soaring energy is not lost for the rest of the show, but this disc especially is superb Dead, just what people say you have to hear them live to experience. They're flying, riding the wave, in the Zone! "Casey Jones" features Keith on boogie-woogie piano at the end, the best version of the song I've heard. Likewise the rowdy 12-minute "Truckin'," with Bill bashing away on the drums, certainly one of the best available recordings of the AMERICAN BEAUTY counterculture classic. "Loser," which was a new song at the time, is modified from the studio recording on GARCIA with a nice guitar riff. "Mississippi Half-Step," which wouldn't be recorded for nearly a year, sounds great, especially the coda ("across the Rio Gran-dee-o, across the lazy river...").
On to Disc Three, an 11-minute "He's Gone" ends with a long, mellow jam, and then suddenly "The Other One" kicks in, leading to prime improvisation for 40 minutes. While not as intense as the great version on SKULLF**K, Garcia's soloing has a piercing, crystalline quality. In the spaciest section he uses the wah-wah again. Kreutzmann starts "Alligator" at one point with the cowbell, but it isn't pursued. That's the point the jam really ought to end, at about the 30-minute mark, but Kreutzmann starts a new rhythm and Garcia continues to solo introspectively for another 10 minutes. I'm not overly impressed with Merle Haggard's maudlin "Sing Me Back Home," but the band performs it slowly and with feeling -- Kreutzmann and Lesh deserve credit for maintaining forward momentum at such a slow pace. "Sugar Magnolia" is fine and strong, though Garcia blows a solo toward the end, perhaps discombobulated again as in the "China Cat/Rider" segue.
The closer "Uncle John's Band," one of my absolute favorite Dead songs, from WORKINGMAN'S DEAD, is fantastic, a great finish to a great show. When the a cappella chorus begins, after a pause, "Come hear Uncle John's band, playing to the tide...," it sends chills down the back of my neck. This is a fine addition to the Dick's Picks series, and strong evidence that THERE IS (STILL) NOTHING LIKE A GRATEFUL DEAD CONCERT!
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Release Date: 31-AUG-2004
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