I'm partial to my first first show - Balto Civic Center - 9/17/72 (Dick's Picks 23)
Set 1: Promised Land, Sugaree, Black Throated Wind, Friend of the Devil, El Paso, Bird Song, Big River, Tennessee Jed, Mexicali Blues. China Cat Sunflower> I Kow You Rider Playing in the Band, Casey Jones
Set 2: Truckin', Loser, Jack Straw, Mississippi Half-Step, Me and My Uncle, He's Gone> The Other One> Sing Me Back Home, Sugar Magnolia, Uncle John's Band, e: One More Saturday Night
I've always been in love with the 9/27 Dark Star (DP 11). And the way it goes into Cumberland!!!! And the Attics that followed that. 9/27 is pretty fantastic. Great Bird Song in the first set and a very nice Dew opener.
love all of the Sept-Nov shows. 9/24/72 dark star really stands out to me, some reallt jazzy jamming in there unique to that period. Love the 9/28 show just as much a the Dick's Picks from the night before, but not as much as the Dick's Picks from 9/21. 10/2 comes to mind mainly bc of that transition into Dew...as does 10/18..that PITB sandwhich w dark star dew. used to listen to the 10-21 partial set in my car a lot, good stuff, fits nicely on one disc https://archive.org/details/gd1972-10-21.set2-partial.sbd.miller.94409.s...
Palace Theatre shows in , Ct in september...^featurin that 9/24 darkstar mentioned above
Not alot of bad shows thats fo sure...maybe, maybe a cpl off nights...if ya wanna get picky
I also love year for some of the songs that made their debuts
Box of Rain
Big River..(ok, mid set 2 on new years 71...but, it was 72 somewhere!!!)
Black Throated Wind
And the first Half Step at that outdoor show at Dillon Stadium in Htfd...show had ABB, Marshall Tucker and others...
China Doll, HC Sunshine, Loose Lucy, Eyes!!, TLEO, ROW JIMMY, all at same show...early in 73 cant be ignored , either( show also had a box, and big river)
2/9/73 maples pavilion, Stanford Univ. (First show of 73 , i blv)
I keep going back and forth as to whether the Gratefuls were best in 72 or 73. 72 had the energy, 73 had a bit more of the x-factor. 73 usually wins out, but not by much.
There are indeed a couple of blah shows from 72, but not many. 10/30 Detroit is nothing but a sleeper, no jams of note. Same with Pigpen's last show from 6/17 at the Hollywood Bowl. Not much there to look at, and Pig doesn't even sing anything. 12/12 Winterland is a yawner too. But not many bad nights that year. A couple of pre-Europe shows from March are also pretty blah. Nothing much to hear from 3/5 Winterland or 3/27 NYC. Pretty flat stuff. 11/24 Dallas and 9/19 Roosevelt Stadium, also very dull. But again, these are the few exceptions.
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I'm partial to my first first
I'm partial to my first first show - Balto Civic Center - 9/17/72 (Dick's Picks 23)
Set 1: Promised Land, Sugaree, Black Throated Wind, Friend of the Devil, El Paso, Bird Song, Big River, Tennessee Jed, Mexicali Blues. China Cat Sunflower> I Kow You Rider Playing in the Band, Casey Jones
Set 2: Truckin', Loser, Jack Straw, Mississippi Half-Step, Me and My Uncle, He's Gone> The Other One> Sing Me Back Home, Sugar Magnolia, Uncle John's Band, e: One More Saturday Night
https://archive.org/details/gd72-09-17.sbd.hamilton.154.sbeok.shnf
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Any one with a dark star
Any one with a dark star
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The Fall 72 "playing in the
The Fall 72 "playing in the band"s are very fine.
here's one with a dark star too:
gd72-11-19.17705.sbd.winters.sbeok.t-flac16 Hofheinz Pavillion Houston TX
https://archive.org/details/gd72-11-19.sbd.winters.17705.sbeok.shnf
the 30 minute 11-15 OKC "playing" is worthy:
https://archive.org/details/gd72-11-14.sbd.miller.22024.sbeok.shnf
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7/18
7/18
11/19
8/24
9/9
and of course 8/27
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9/16 Boston. I was there.
9/16 Boston. I was there. Nice DS.
It seemed like the band was playing underwater from Neptune through a quantum soup of green and purple jelly.
Or maybe that was the mescaline.
Perhaps I should've saved that second cap for another day.
No - two was just exactly perfect.
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Academy of Music, NYC shows
Academy of Music, NYC shows in March of 1972.
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8/21 was my favorite jam as a
8/21 was my favorite jam as a young acidhead, along with the Paris Other One (5/3?) and Houston 11/19.
I would add to that the later discoveries of 9/21, 9/24, 9/28, 10/28
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I've always been in love with
I've always been in love with the 9/27 Dark Star (DP 11). And the way it goes into Cumberland!!!! And the Attics that followed that. 9/27 is pretty fantastic. Great Bird Song in the first set and a very nice Dew opener.
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Stanley Theater 72 is in my
Stanley Theater 72 is in my opinion the greatest post-pigpen 3 night run in one venue that the band ever played
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All of it.
All of it.
Is there a bad show that year?
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love all of the Sept-Nov
love all of the Sept-Nov shows. 9/24/72 dark star really stands out to me, some reallt jazzy jamming in there unique to that period. Love the 9/28 show just as much a the Dick's Picks from the night before, but not as much as the Dick's Picks from 9/21. 10/2 comes to mind mainly bc of that transition into Dew...as does 10/18..that PITB sandwhich w dark star dew. used to listen to the 10-21 partial set in my car a lot, good stuff, fits nicely on one disc https://archive.org/details/gd1972-10-21.set2-partial.sbd.miller.94409.s...
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What A SICK Year in GD
What A SICK Year in GD History !
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Palace Theatre shows in , Ct
Palace Theatre shows in , Ct in september...^featurin that 9/24 darkstar mentioned above
Not alot of bad shows thats fo sure...maybe, maybe a cpl off nights...if ya wanna get picky
I also love year for some of the songs that made their debuts
Box of Rain
Big River..(ok, mid set 2 on new years 71...but, it was 72 somewhere!!!)
Black Throated Wind
And the first Half Step at that outdoor show at Dillon Stadium in Htfd...show had ABB, Marshall Tucker and others...
China Doll, HC Sunshine, Loose Lucy, Eyes!!, TLEO, ROW JIMMY, all at same show...early in 73 cant be ignored , either( show also had a box, and big river)
2/9/73 maples pavilion, Stanford Univ. (First show of 73 , i blv)
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I keep going back and forth
I keep going back and forth as to whether the Gratefuls were best in 72 or 73. 72 had the energy, 73 had a bit more of the x-factor. 73 usually wins out, but not by much.
Either way you win.
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Give me 1970 any day, you
Give me 1970 any day, you newbs!
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I'm not the biggest fan of 8
I'm not the biggest fan of 8/27 Veneta, I think the "event" overstepped the music itself.
8/24 BCT is my favorite show from August. Incredible Dark Star > Dew. 8/22 and 8/25 both have very tasty Other One jams.
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There are indeed a couple of
There are indeed a couple of blah shows from 72, but not many. 10/30 Detroit is nothing but a sleeper, no jams of note. Same with Pigpen's last show from 6/17 at the Hollywood Bowl. Not much there to look at, and Pig doesn't even sing anything. 12/12 Winterland is a yawner too. But not many bad nights that year. A couple of pre-Europe shows from March are also pretty blah. Nothing much to hear from 3/5 Winterland or 3/27 NYC. Pretty flat stuff. 11/24 Dallas and 9/19 Roosevelt Stadium, also very dull. But again, these are the few exceptions.
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Not nearly enough Bo Diddley
Not nearly enough Bo Diddley for me. At least in the Academy of Music shows, Bo was actually there.
I ike 1971 a lot.
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"whether the Gratefuls were
"whether the Gratefuls were best in 72 or 73."
For me the difference has always been about the tone. '72 had a more traditional R&R rough edge, '73 was entering the "clean" era.
"A couple of pre-Europe shows from March are also pretty blah."
Those would have been my pick.