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Grateful DeadGrateful Dead Live at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium on 1973-06-09 (June 9, 1973)

Collection: : GratefulDead
Band/Artist: Grateful Dead
Date: June 9, 1973 (check for other copies)
Venue: Robert F. Kennedy Stadium
Location: Washington, DC

Source: Audience Recording
Lineage: AUDMR(Electro-Voice RE-15 super cardioid dynamic microphone > Nagra III Reel to Reel deck at 7.5 ips) > DAT > SHN
Taped by: Adam Grow
Transferred by: Noah Weiner
Keywords: Live concert

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Promised Land, Deal, Looks Like Rain, They Love Each Other, Jack Straw, Loose Lucy, Mexicali Blues, Row Jimmy, El Paso, Box Of Rain, Sugaree, Beat It On Down The Line, Tennessee Jed, Greatest Story Ever Told, China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider He's Gone-> Truckin'-> Playin' In The Band, Loser, Me & My Uncle, Mississippi Half Step, Big River, Eyes Of The World-> China Doll, Sugar Magnolia

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Reviewer: Guesstimated Prophet - - January 6, 2008
Subject: st stepen tease?
possible St. Stephen tease toward the end of Greatest Story. during and right after ms Donna's wails at about 3:30. just thought i should throw that out there.

might just be my imagination... wishful thinking.

Reviewer: Earthcat - - April 21, 2007
Subject: RFK June "73
I have often referred back to this day at RFK. For me it was one of those points in my life I could call a milepost. A few of us drove the short distance up from Springfield, Va. in my '69 ford van and rolled into the parking lot into the sea of vans with plates from everywhere 'cept maybe Arcturus (although I'm sure some Arcturians were present). To quote ELP, "what a scene, what a scene." At the top of the upper deck, we split up the synthetic mesc (dealer's term for weak acid). Just as my buddy began the divvying, up pops a capital policeman in the next section over from a trap door in the stands. We were deers in the headlights, frozen. He says, "Did anybody see anyone fall off here". We shake our heads no and he continues on. I was 19, had a federal government job, which I didn't return to. Just never went back. Spent the summer expanding.

Here's a really cool footnote. Five years ago I met my wife. We were married in three months. Later, I find out that her and four friends packed themselves in a VW bug and made the trip to RFK from Birmingham, Alabama. We coulda passed each other on the mezzanine, barefoot, blackhole pupils, ragged jeans dragging the concrete.

This was my first Tucker, my first (as my buddy at work calls them) the Brothers, and my first Dead concert of many. I travelled a little, but never for a whole tour. Seen them all over Va.; DC, Md.; Upper Darby, Pa; NY upstae and Nasseau; Austin,Texas and Ventura, Cal.

This concert is special.
I rate it top because of that. can i get hold of the board tapes? Ha

Love and Light,
G

Reviewer: justoldalph - - November 22, 2005
Subject: He's Gone
Great show and now cannot download it any longer. Mark the date; November 22, 2005. JFK was assassinated 42 years ago. Today we feel another loss.

Reviewer: terpstation - - September 7, 2005
Subject: One of the most awesome days of my life
This show (June 9, 1973) was by far the most "out there" Grateful Dead show. I was there. This was my second (out of about 30) Dead concerts (my first was Baltimore Civic Center (9-72). This recording proves that listening to the Dead depends totally on your state of mind and mood. The first few times I heard it, I thought the sound quality sucked (was flat), then ... driving to the beach (about 3 hours) I listened to it with the background noise of wind through the windows (which in a strange way minimized the sound quality blemishes), and I was on a flashback to the state of mind while I was there that day in 1973. Garcia and Lesh are absolutely in a parallel universe (and universes parallel to each other as well) during the breaks on certain songs (They Love Each Other/Loose Lucy). These are songs I generally don't prefer. But it just proves that the Dead can inject a mindblast into the break of any songs they play (favorites or not). What is amazing about the Dead is after 30 years of listening to them, I have never tired of their music, and am always hearing something new I haven't heard in live performances that I have listened to a hundred times or more. As I said, Ithe music changes with your state of mind.

Reviewer: rick e. - - July 17, 2005
Subject: cool !
this recording isn't all that great ,but it does give us a different angle to listen to these shows from.this one has a distant sound like they were pretty far back from stage.back when i first started trading tapes one this good would've been welcome in my collection.we used to be happier with what we could get ,but now with all these high quality shows available we take for granit good tapes.

Notes

AUDMR > DAT > SHN - Recorded by Adam Grow with an Electro-Voice RE-15 super cardioid dynamic microphone > Nagra III Reel to Reel deck at 7.5 ips. Added to etree by Noah Weiner