Instead, next up is Cryptical and while there would be one more on 9/23/72 I've always considered this to be the final true Cryptical. They could have played out another string of shorter rockers and closed things out maybe a ballad, then NFA> GDTRFB> NFA, and that would have been enough to make this a wonderfully fun 71 show. It swings, it is dirty, and we get an early taste of that Pig tone that is usually associated with E'72. This is the last BB Man from BB Man's biggest year. Mexicali rocks hard for Mexicali and if you listen through the dead air following it before they kick off Big Boss man you'll hear, I think Bobby, play a quick Satisfaction lick. There is a nice hiccup at the end of Casey Jones which makes it a bit extra fun and wild.Ģnd Set: The beginning of Ramble on is cut but the remained is in tack. If memory serves there many be one or two first set versions from 72, and 1 a piece in 73-74 before finding its natural place near the conclusion of 2nd sets when they brought it back in 77. It is also one of the final times they'd play it in the first set. Black Peter is particularly transcendent and poetic. Smoking and funky Tenn Jed, As mentioned, a Big Railroad that is probably about as serious a fire breathing Jerry treatment as that song ever got. Not just that but they seem especially complimentary on the night and along with Billy help produce a show that seriously swings front to end.ġst Set: Every song played is at least above average stuff. Of the 3 versions on archive, this is by far the superior.Īmong several aspects that make this a special show being on the super rare list as a Pig & Keith show. I'll start by saying that the two reviews below suggesting that something may have gone wrong during the remixing/mastering of this version need to have their head's checked. That's why he is inaudible except for a little leakage on the 16 track official release One exception being 'the hundred year Hall' where Pigpen's organ track was either missing or unuseable, I forget which. The same holds true for ALL of the multi-tracks and most of the 2 tracks from Europe 72. If you listen to the multi-track from 4/29/71 He plays and is audible in almost every tune. Low but audible in NFA.The continuing question is why? Some of his low levels are Pigpens 'dialing down' but most of it I believe is by the person at the board, Mathews I believe or possibly Betty Cantor(the mix to tape) or both all three.Ive compared 71 audience tapes to the sbd tapes(mix to tape) and the organ mix is usually similar. He becomes audible but still low(to my preference) during the Other One. There were also a few otherīlemishes that I corrected using Sound Forge, but those were minimal.Įmail: organ playing starts off nicely 'in the mix' during truckin' but after that he is less audible/inaudible.īasically inaudible during Mr Charlie, not even those little fills he did that are heard all thru Europe 5/6 months later. I then normalize and retracked the show using CDWav to assure thatĪll track splits were done on correct sector boundries. This got rid of the annoying tape his that was prevalent I was able to combineĪll tracks and apply a noise reduction filter using the Sonic Foundry Noise Reduction With a bit of tape hiss that was apparent throughout the show. The SHN files were sent to me (SHN files generated on a Power Mac 7100 from WAV filesĮxtracted from a Plextor 4/12 PXR-412C using Toast Audio Extractor), but I was unhappy