Hundred Year Hall

Parts of a show from 4/26/72.

Disc 1:Bertha, Me and My Uncle, Next Time You See Me, China Cat Sunflower->I Know You Rider, Jack Straw, Big Railroad Blues, Playing in the Band, Turn on Your Lovelight->GDTRFB->One More Saturday Night

Disc 2:Truckin'->The Other One->Comes a Time, Sugar Magnolia

Pros

-Terrific sound!

Lovelight->GDTRFB and Comes a Time are both incredible

Cons

Wish they would have included the whole show and gone in order.

Overall: 9/10

This show's sound is utterly perfect, I dare you to find a GD release with better sound. However, it's a bummer that the show is missing 15 songs, and the end of disc one is actually the conclusion of the concert. However, what you get ain't bad! The Bertha and MaMU to open are both impeccable, and both are very tight. The China->Rider is not one of my favorites of the era (hey, it was 1972!), but is still played well. The Playing in the Band is very good. I like Playin's from this time, they jam, unlike the versions from 1971, but don't get too spacey, like the versions from late 1972 until the hiatus, some of which were up to forty-five minutes long! The end of the disc, actually the end of the concert, is terrific. The Lovelight is standard, with less Pigpen rapping than usual, until a few minutes until the end, when Jerry starts playing GDTRFB and the band is teasing NFA behind him. This may sound messy but is in fact very thrilling. This gives way to GDTRFB which was played well, like most versions from 1972. The OMSN to close the set is (suprise!!!) very standard.

The second disc contains a lot of jamming, for better or for worse. The Truckin' to start the disc is very intense, with a return to the last verse ten minutes in, which I like very much. Billy gets an average drum solo in, leading into a monster The Other One, incorrectly labeled as Cryptical Envelopment. This version is 36 minutes long, which quite frankly, is a little too much of The Other One for me. It is nice in many moments, but just takes too much patience to listen to. However, the Comes a Time that follows is my favorite version of the song, that starts out very quiet before working it's way up to climax very well. The Sugar Magnolia that follows is terrific: Sugar Magnolia was its best in 1972, in my opinion.

The only complaints I are is that The Other One is too long and it's missing 15 songs.Other than that, it's perfect!

9/10