5/16/72 - Luxembourg, GER
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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!
