33706 Just llistened to the second set of this show for the first time. It sounded about average for a summer 72 show, until about 13 minutes into The Other One. At that point the song morphed into 2 or 3 different melodic jams (I've never heard on any other shows), and an extended Phil solo. Michael Getz decsribed this more eloquently in the Taping Compendium. Four stars for the show, but five for The Other One. Unique Other One gratefulshrink 2005-03-03 20:45:49 2005-03-03 20:45:49 4 63304 I agree with this review. The rest of the show is OK, but not great. There's an odd little jam out of Truckin, and The Other One is very exploratory; perhaps they got lost in it. It's quite worth a listen. The sound is excellent barring a few minor dropouts. Representative summer 72 gphishmon 2006-02-26 15:23:35 2006-02-26 15:23:35 4 Promised Land has Mr Weir very prominently featured, above everyone else; I don't think I heard Keith @ all. It almost sounds like someone played a guitar OVER the original recording it's that loud---it's almost annoying. Sugaree has the same issue with Bob's part. Hearing it in head phones, Bob's part is the only one you hear in your right ear & everyone else is rather low in the left. Wait---the rest of the band is now heard @ about 1:50 into Sugaree & the sound is more balanced. The sound balance issue hasn't carried over to any of the other songs, so all's well I guess. Other than the balance issue in the beginning, the music is put together as well as is could have been in the summer of '72, which is to say it's really good. As good as in Europe or a month later in Veneta, OR? Not quite, but I have NOTHING even remotely bad to say about this performance. I think it's a couple notches above what was released as an official download from GDP last year, the whole of 7/22 & a few songs from 7/21---both at the same theatre as this show. Unforunately I've not gotten to The Other One yet which it's been said in the previous ratings & in the GD Forum is WAY out there---I can't wait. Solid 4 Stars (1972 Stars, so that's pretty F'n good) ***7/2/07 ammendment---this show was @ a different Paramount Theatre than the 21st & 22nd shows, and the official D/L release was the whole of the 21st & part of the 22nd. And about THE OTHER ONE---all I have to say is "WOW!!!" Another thing about the jam section of TOO---the "weird" little jams start @ about 6 min into it, not 13 min. Though they do continue clear through until Bob f's up the lyrics. Bob's high in the mix again tree-ap 2007-07-03 15:17:03 2007-06-29 20:02:36 4 7-25-72 is not a show that gets mentioned much....on the whole it's one of those shows from that summer West Coast run that's just too mellow & subdued to catch fire, so it will always hide in the shadow of the shows from the end of August. But....it has one of THOSE moments....hidden inside the second set. Truckin' is a standard '72 version, not as supercharged as it could be; Garcia's playing is wiry, but they don't take it out much, instead winding down to the Other One drums.... And yet, when the Other One starts, nobody really feels like playing it, they tease the riff a little and then wander off into a different zone. Garcia plays some mysterious repeating phrases, and you can feel them about to discover something.... There's a brief cut in the tape, and we come back to Garcia and Lesh playing stately contrapuntal lines like classical violinists. All of a sudden the waters calm and the universe opens.....it sounds a lot like the end of Lesh's bass solo in 2-15-73 when Garcia joins him....yes, it's that gorgeous. But here Weir joins them, and they start taking it somewhere else - chords materialize, a thematic jam that's something like a cross between the Spanish Jam and Goin' Down the Road.... It builds, they start playing harder, and then Garcia starts playing slide and whips out some Allman-like lines. It only lasts about six minutes, but as far as I know it's unique; I don't recall hearing this theme in other shows. Yet it's one of those things everyone should hear, like the "Beautiful Jam" from 2-18-71. All things end, though....they return to the Other One, and of course Weir instantly forgets the words! They hurry through the rest of it without much jamming, although there is one of the gnarly Lesh solos that he was doing in late '72. They recover themselves in Wharf Rat, a strong and well-sung version. Garcia's solo at the end is magnificent, climbing the desperate heights before softening down to end on notes of quiet resignation. Mysterious Other One Jam light into ashes 2009-01-04 02:31:58 2009-01-04 02:31:58 4 4 4.00