03-31-1973

Memorial Auditorium

Buffalo, New York

The night is tremendous from top to bottom, including everything from a perfectly rendered Box to a raging Playin’. However, the boys turn it up a notch further still in the latter portion of the second set. The He’s Gone leads the way, as the boys strut through, throwing all their emotion and verve into the playing and vocal vamping, before heading right into a boundless Truckin’. A plucky little jam after the Truckin’ – with some hints of Nobody’s Fault – provides a little change of pace. But then Billy takes us in a different direction altogether, thundering forward and powering through a segue into a monster Other One. TOO blisters out of the gate and then finds some slower, less traveled territory, summoning the bullfighters, paisanos, and flamenco of a Spanish Jam that they meld with the Other One theme for a while. Finally, TOO is left behind completely and they strike out into an extraterrestrial space, exploring distant galaxies before gathering into a bluesy country ramble that leads right to, quite unexpectedly, Rider. The Rider surges and soars, but holds on to a real bluegrassy feel throughout. After a pause, the band fires away with a full-bore Sugar Mags to put a rocking cap on the set.

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Identifier:
gd1973-03-31.sbd.hamilton.2986.sbeok.shnf
Source:
Soundboard
Notes:
(The lineage given in the original etree copy’s original info file is incorrect.) Note: The show as I got it from the etree was spuriously tracked, with track boundaries often 30 seconds to a minute before the actual beginning of a song, and the bit of “Beer Barrel Polka” tuning split between the end of disc 2 and beginning of disc 3. I retracked the entire thing de novo, using Cool Edit and CDWav. The track timings below are for my retracked version; timings for the original etree copy are given at the end of this file. In retracking disc 3, I followed the tracking for the version of this portion previously released on GDH #320. — G.S. Hamilton
Description:
Set 1 Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo The Race Is On Sugaree Mexicali Blues Box Of Rain Tennessee Jed Jack Straw Big Railroad Blues El Paso Row Jimmy Looks Like Rain They Love Each Other Playing In The Band Set 2 The Promised Land -> Bertha -> Greatest Story Ever Told He’s Gone -> Truckin’ -> Drums -> The Other One -> Spanish Jam -> I Know You Rider Sugar Magnolia Encore Casey Jones
Lineage:
Reel master > cassette > DAT > CD > EAC > SHN
Transferrer:
EAC Morgan Evans, retracking by G.S. Hamilton
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Mississippi Half-Step
08:05
2
The Race Is On
03:04
3
Sugaree
07:55
4
Mexicali Blues
03:47
5
Box of Rain
05:24
6
Tennessee Jed
08:21
7
Jack Straw
04:41
8
Big Railroad Blues
03:20
9
El Paso
04:08
10
Row Jimmy
07:54
11
Looks Like Rain
07:26
12
They Love Each Other
05:40
13
Playing In The Band
17:01
14
Promised Land >
02:58
15
Bertha >
05:30
16
Greatest Story Ever Told
04:55
17
Tuning
01:12
18
He’s Gone >
12:17
19
Truckin’ >
06:59
20
Nobody’s Jam >
02:34
21
Drums >
01:32
22
The Other One >
07:40
23
Spanish Jam >
02:06
24
The Other One >
09:58
25
I Know You Rider
05:55
26
Sugar Magnolia
08:46
27
Casey Jones
06:42
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2 responses to “03-31-1973”

  1. mike house Avatar
    mike house

    This recording makes the AUD sound a lot more intimate that it really was. I was far too young to have seen this show, but knowing the venue helps me imagine what that night might have been like. Really solid Sugaree!

  2. August West Avatar
    August West

    Billy!

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