Have a nice day 😊
(HBD Phil)

Jeepers, with numerous dropouts, volume anomalies, and audience splices all over the place, this soundboard is a mess! Since I love ‘73 so much, it took me all of a Sunday to weed out and dump the chopped up AUD-spliced songs that weren’t salvageable and repair the ones I thought were worth keeping. Thankfully, PITB was salvageable taking out the AUD splice and fading the SBD portions out and in and blending each three second fade. Phew. I appreciate the effort of trying to complete the missing portions of what was there. But the board and the AUD are so totally different, the semi-repaired songs just aren’t worth listening to.

I was able to keep 1:16:36 of the first set, but the second was butchered. I started the second set file with Truckin’ and chopped out the AUD splice in Eyes to fade a quieter portion of the Eyes board at 13:27, then faded and mixed in what was left of the song. It actually works well. But you have to be very discriminating about where you fade out and fade back in to have it blend cleanly in music editing. I also decided to move Stella back to a fade in from Eyes since I’m not a China Doll fan. The blend had a very slight awkwardness to it since the songs are in a different key. But if you’re not paying too close attention, it works really well. Since the AUD is so bad, I also had to dump the last three songs to finish up with 46:49 of the second set.

With a moderate amount of reverb to soften the hot vocals, what’s left of the show is average good. But in saying that, Truckin’ > Other One > Eyes > Stella is the highlight of the show though Eyes still has a couple of little technical issues.

BTW, I hear thereabouts that this is a BBD? Doesn't sound like it. And it's always enjoyable listening to Uncle Bobo introduce the band. ;^ )

Pigpen went to the great beyond, but the band must carry on.... Indeed, this night's performance is slightly hampered by slightly subpar sound quality, but it shouldn't deter one from enjoying the show.
I've always felt this night was something of a warm up for the beast that the following night is. While the night of the 16th is among my top ten favorites of 1973, this night is still worthy. The highlight for me is the cathartic Playin' in the Band.