Sunday, September 17, 1972

• ★★★★★ · Rich with memories · Da Red Rooster · 2012

  It's been a while since anyone commented on this one, so, as the guy who taped it, let me chime in. My then-girlfriend and I moved in together the day of this show. I had seen GD in SF in 1970 and this was a chance to drag along my friends who had never seen them but had heard me rave about them for a couple years. We were ably abetted by some of the nicest LSD I ever ate. I used my trusty Sony TC-124 with its "one-point stereo" mic.

• ★★★★★ · 4 for sound, 5 for show · themuscneverstops · 2008

  Let's see, this show has been released as Dick's Picks 23, and that was my very first Grateful Dead CD. Highlights for me are TN Jed, it's the best version they played. Playing In The Band, almost spacey, but still on planet earth, MS Half Step is real nice and pretty laid back, this is my favorite Sugar Magnolia, just listen to Jerry rip it up from 4.58 to 6.03 (DP23 timing). And, because it was left off DP23, I can finally hear the One More Saturday Night, it's pretty awesome.

• ★★★★★ · tone · fibber · 2012

  Cary Wolfson, you rule for putting this up. I love this recording. Yeah, the tambourine gets a bit unbearable, but Judy almost balances it out with some charming avant-garde playing here and there. Fabulous Bird Song (in a month of fabulous Bird Songs), furious, if frustratingly mostly muffled Truckin, and of course solid '72 playing throughout, but the centerpiece is no doubt He's Gone>monster Other One>Sing Me Back Home, which is capped by one of Garcia's absolute best cowboy solos.

Community reviews from archive.org, not the Curator.

• gd1972-09-17.aud-wolfson.minches.28165.shnfAudience (taper Cary Wolfson) > Cass > DAT > SHN · ★ 4.63 · 46,612 dl
• gd72-09-17.sbd.hamilton.154.sbeok.shnfSoundboard · ★ 5.00 · 41,555 dl