With only one other extant show on this date, we head back to the four-show run at the Berkeley Community Theater in 1972 for our Dead of the Day. Cold Rain and Snow opens the show with a rich and commanding sound and near perfect delivery. Then Black Throated Wind bursts forth as Bobby begins with a couple twangy riffs and then continues to slay the song on both vocals and guitar. The He’s Gone that rolls out next is perfectly lovely, but does not contain any of the jamming that would characterize the song on so many other occasions. BIOTDL is immaculate and tasty, and then Loser comes out just as lusciously, with melancholy hopelessness just dripping from it. Next up is The Frozen Logger, a folk song that they played about ten times, mostly in ’70 and ’71 except for this time and a 1985 breakout at Red Rocks. The sound is significantly worse on this tune than the others, and someone on Archive suggests it might not belong to this ’72 show, which certainly seems like a possibility. The next four songs are all solid with the Black Peter as, arguably, the standout of the bunch. Coming off the energy of Promised Land, the Bird Song is magical as Jerry plays a spare, laid-back, all-knowing guitar, singlehandedly extending the mid-song jam out until Phil and the drummers take a turn. After a short pause, the boys then bust into Playin’, which is wickedly jammed out and brightly played. Bertha then takes it into setbreak in rousing fashion.