Hi are you still interested in having any advance readers for the book? I’ve been very excited about it for a while but mostly oblivious/inactive on social media so I missed the earlier call. Furthermore if this book launch needed any psychedelic light art, I am your man.

Jerry really making the absolute most of the last chance he’ll have to play with his friends in this configuration

yeah, looks like 2 versions of the same '72 broadcast. jerrybase.com/events/19720...
'73 studio broadcast was on 7/8 & has very different list. jerrybase.com/events/19730...

Save Mother Earth>Space>Imagine on the 72 tape also a crusher. I do wonder if these are the same show but the track listings are different enough that it makes me think these are tapes of two separate radio broadcasts of the same show potentially

god bless FM radio for making so many live shows sound so good 🫡🫡

73 show is all highlights in my opinion however the absolute stunner is the jam>Imagine. Imagine fucking sucks but as a landing pad for a thoroughly spun psychedelic soul jazz jam stripped of the bullshit ass lyrics it’s actually great

love what homeboy did with the layered red and blue marker for the track listing on the 72 show.

crowd is very much into the acoustic hams and are even clapping along in an approximation of time to Uncle John’s Band

Sadly this version is cut short and the tape’s filler starts with an acoustic up tempo Friend of the Devil with Bob claiming to play it as a request. Followed up with a nice lazy Candyman

Mason’s Children should have been on the Day of the Dead tribute album in place of countless things but the one that always reminds me the whole project had critical failings is someone covering Clementine Jam. Not Clementine. A studio jam from a CD reissue. Fake head shit

Drum break>jam transition into Mason’s Children fits with the kind of perfection that makes a man wish the Dead were more predictable

slight extension of the swell jam before dropping into the hotly anticipated if crowd reaction is anything to go by St. Stephen

After a brief visit to the isles of recognizably Dark Star jamming a return to the vast uncharted seas of full band improv finds our heroes continuing to slowly but surely raise intensity before cresting once again to the safe shores of the Dark Star riffs and the second verse

feelin groovy jam after the first full band crest out of the space zones bringing much needed resolution to the wizardous gumbo

Phil enters with big major key chords, subtly shifting things away from terror to light very briefly before giving way to high trilling organ and noodly Garcia soloing. Out of this ooze young Bobby Weir establishes the vaguest outlines of a groove and everyone joins in

Post verse jam almost immediately dissolves into scratchy abstractions and percussive washes fit for a particularly freaky Seastones

If you’re only going to have three tunes from a show, it’s hard to argue with Dark Star, St. Stephen, and Mason’s Children. Tape is lacking in low end and definition from the percussion so far but the jams are mystical and the tones unmatched