5/16/72 - Luxembourg, GER **
The legendary Radio Luxembourg show. Enough said! More Euro '72 perfection! :) In more detail though, after a soundcheck of Big River and Sugar Mag, the show begins proper with a perfect Bertha. Then we get one of the HOTTEST Mr. Charlie's out there. Jerry's strat solo is just killer! A shorter (7 minutes) Sugaree follows. Nice and chill and just stunningly lovely. Next Bobby gives us a hard hitting and explosive BT Wind.
After an awesome Chinatown Shuffle, we get a good-but-nothing-special China>Rider. After a fine and fun BIODTL, Pigpen bares his soul with an epic It Hurts Me Too. Jerry's slide playing is just ripping and spot on! An excellent and bouncy T Jed is next. What a good song this was in '72!
Now we finally move into the real meat of the show. PITB is 11 minutes of psychedelic PERFECTION! One of the most concise and perfect versions out there, surely! Set one ends with a RIPPING Promised Land. :) Set two smashes out of the gate with a 33-minute Truckin>TOO!!!! They fit SO perfectly together and everyone is so in sync you can't tell where one ends and the other starts!
Ten minutes into TOO and HOLY SHIT WE ARE IN OUTER SPACE :D :D :D :D Jerry is fucking RIPPING HIS STRAT TO SHREDS! Things calm back down and we get a wonderful, mid-tempo, Dark Star-esque series of passages. This has to be one of the absolute greatest TOO ever played! Unfortunately, just when you think it's gonna continue for another 20 minutes, it ends abruptly!
Damn you radio broadcasts! :(
Oh well, at least the 33 minutes we got was beyond amazing. :D We then get a cool bucket of water splashed over our head with a wonderful Sing Me Back Home that features some of the best singing I've heard out of Donna. She sounds like a black lady from south Georgia singing in a gospel choir!!!!
Sugar Mag then starts quietly before exploding towards the end and segueing into a roaring NFA>GDTRFN>OMSN closer. Fucking KILLER show!
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