Shortlist: New Year’s Eve 1972 – San Francisco, CA

71 minute, 192kbps mp3 download

  • Johnny B. Goode
  • Truckin >
  • The Other One >
  • Drums >
  • Bass & Drums >
  • Jam >
  • Space >
  • Jam >
  • The Other One >
  • Jam >
  • Morning Dew

This is a rather fine specimen of this sort of second set sequence, notable for the three jams that aren't really related to anything else. The playing throughout the sequence tends to be fierce and engaging. The third jam is quite gentle and pretty. 

I found good places for all the track breaks, so anywhere you start is the start of something. The end of the third jam is a distinctive little piece of weird beauty, as David Crosby and the Dead are aligning themselves, and it drifts so seamlessly into “Morning Dew,” that I decided it belonged with "Morning Dew," rather than with the jam.