11/15/71 - Austin, TX - RT Vol. 3, #2 **
A good Truckin starts the show before a ROCKING and PERFECT Bertha takes us into the stratosphere!!! Jerry's solo is AWESOME! PITB and Deal are both hot and Jack Straw is a slow-building steamroller. Lots of piano tonight! Loser and BIODTL rock too.
There's a GREAT and slightly odd sequence of Dark Star>El Paso>Dark Star. Yes, you read that right. And the weirdest part is that IT WORKS! Set two starts just fine but doesn't kick into high gear until a surprisingly ROCKING Bobby McGee and a FIERY Cumberland!!!
We get a rare You Win Again before a stupendous Not Fade Away. Serously, if I have to hear this song, it better be this version! It's about 15 minutes long with a ROCKING jam that just burns and burns and burns!!! This jam then segues BEAUTIFULLY into a gorgeous GDTRFB. WOW! It then rightfully explodes with Jerry's SEARING guitar just slicing through everything like a hot knife through butter!
Things cool down with the whole "We Bid You Goodnight" coda, but then they steamroll back into Not Fade Away. AWESOME. Overall, a great show and a phenomenal jam in set 2. :)
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