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Grateful DeadGrateful Dead Live at Roosevelt Stadium on 1973-07-31 (July 31, 1973)

Collection: : GratefulDead
Band/Artist: Grateful Dead
Date: July 31, 1973 (check for other copies)
Venue: Roosevelt Stadium
Location: Jersey City, NJ

Source: Audience Recording
Lineage: AudMC(AKG 1000 mic > Sony 110 deck, TDK C-120SD master cassettes) > DAT > CD > EAC > SHN
Taped by: Jerry Moore
Transferred by: Noah Weiner
Keywords: Live concert

Description

Ramble On Rose, Me & My Uncle, Don't Ease Me In, Beat It On Down The Line, Brown Eyed Women, Mexicali Blues, Loser, Jack Straw, They Love Each Other, Looks Like Rain, Tennessee Jed, El Paso, China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider, Playin' In The Band Promised Land-> Bertha-> Greatest Story Ever Told, Black Peter, Big River, Loose Lucy, Me And Bobby McGee, Truckin'-> The Other One-> Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad-> Johnny B. Goode

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Reviewer: thebone - - June 5, 2009
Subject: Jersey Gem
This is an excellent show from a great year in the band's history. The energy from the sick Playin' closer in the first set carries over and builds through the second with one great tune after another.

Also sad to hear about Jerry Moore, but this show and his other great recordings are part of his legacy and will be enjoyed by countless others in the years to come. Fare thee well Jerry!

Reviewer: podsix - - June 4, 2009
Subject: Cowboy Songs
Great Recording. I love cowboy songs! Sorry to here of Jerry Moore's passing. Thank you Jerry. RIP.

Reviewer: cb18201 - - January 11, 2009
Subject: great show
dave mason wrote and sings "shouldnt have took more than you gave" not steve winwood but this is a sick show too

Reviewer: jmm2112 - - July 31, 2008
Subject: Traffic??
Man, that sounds like Steve Winwood ("Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave") in the middle of the Greatest Story solo? Do you hear it?

All and all, an excellent show. 10-star Playin' (if you like 'em jazzy). One of those audiences where by the end of the show, you feel like you know the people who were standing nearby.

James (Ala.)

Reviewer: jglynn1.2 - - July 31, 2008
Subject: Thanks Jerry M & Jerry G
Thanks Jerry M for the FINE AUD & Thanks Jerry G for the kick-a$$ show. This is an outstanding AUD recording of an outstanding show. Lots of good tunes played really well. It is hard to believe this AUD is from '73 (35 years old today!!). Well Happy Birthday.

Reviewer: dead-head_Monte - - November 10, 2007
Subject: Birthday boys were blazing hot this night
I was there that night. My b'day was the 31st. Jerry's was at midnight. The band took a break after Playing in the Band. The crowd up front passed a birthday cake up on-stage. You can hear the crowd sing happy birthday. The energy was building. Roosevelt Stadium was buzzing. There was definitely something going "on," with all of us, including the band. No doubt about it.

It was incredibly electric when they came back out to play. We were all charged up and ready for the 2nd set. The Dead began with the hottest China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider that I've ever heard. A few moments later, they exploded into an electric medley of Promised Land > Bertha > Greatest Story Ever Told. Bertha and Greatest Story melted the house down. They were so hot. Never mind if you hear any "wailin'." We love them dearly, and cherish the precious moments like these. This is timeless music for us thrill-seekers. Black Peter is powerfully soulful. Big River cooks. Loose Lucy rocks and sizzles. Bobby McGee is beautiful. Truckin' is critically insane and amazing. Never mind somebody blows the lyrics in it. Check out Phil about 9:00 into it. He does a really cool solo for us. It was an amazing night. Great show right to the finish. Excellent '73 sound. The most exciting show out of the 25 I saw this year. It smoked! Wow! Get the downloads. Cherry pick the 2nd set, at least.

Fall '72 and all of '73 was a rebound time for the band. It was also very climactic for the Dead and their audiences with the sound system. The Dead had their pure sounding "wall of sound" perfected by now. This audience recording sounds great. The sound system was just a bit tinny that night, but good quality anyway. I taped this show that night on my Nakamichi 550. I was able to grab up a 10-foot pole from some scaffolding rubble outside the front gate of the stadium. Amazingly, I walked right in with it. I setup in the center fairly close to the stage, with my mic on top of the pole. Near the end of the last tune, a huge Hell's Angel security dude came up to me and asked me for my tape. He was 3 times my size. I gave it up, and almost cried. My friend, Jimmy Watson was there. He followed that security dude backstage. 5 or 10 minutes later, Jimmy was back with my tape. It was all grins, ear-to-ear. I've listened to this show for years, always hearing Johnny B Goode cutting off abruptly. Thanks to Jerry Moore's great taping, 34 years later I'm able to hear Bobby say goodnight, at the very end. The mp3s are great. I truly love the music, and what the Dead represented. Thanks everyone.

This show is way, way under the radar folks! I wanted to give you Dead-heads a heads-up. This is 5-star material all the way. Good xfer, Noah.

Reviewer: SaintStevo - - October 11, 2006
Subject: Happy Birthday Jerry!
The most smokin' Loose Lucy I've heard. And China-Rider is mindblowing also. Jerry was partying hard on his Bday.

Reviewer: Peacefrogboston - - August 26, 2006
Subject: What a great set on the Day I was Born
This is the day I was born and in the Beginning the whole crowd is singing Happy Birthday now that pretty cool for a Deadhead

Reviewer: wifter - - June 2, 2006
Subject: Great Crowd!!!
Thanks for posting this. I love hearing the crowd and the overall sound is good. It's a very LIVE performance.

Reviewer: psymon - - November 17, 2005
Subject: One of the best 1973 PITB's
They take the PITB to unusual places for 1973, including a righteous "tiger" peak. While the recording contains crowd noise, there's a presence and immediacy that's missing from a lot of the boards from this year.

Reviewer: iriedancer - - July 26, 2005
Subject: Hot Keys!!
Not bad sound quality, this show is worth checkin out if only for the Black Peter.

Notes

AudMC > DAT > CD > EAC > SHN
Recorded by Jerry Moore with AKG 1000 mic > Sony 110 deck. TDK C-120SD master cassettes
EAC & SHN transfer by Noah Weiner