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Grateful DeadGrateful Dead Live at The Spectrum on 1973-09-21 (September 21, 1973)

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Collection: : GratefulDead
Band/Artist: Grateful Dead
Date: September 21, 1973 (check for other copies)
Venue: The Spectrum
Location: Philadelphia, PA

Source: Soundboard
Lineage: SBD -> Rm -> Reel -> PCM -> DatTransfer Info: Dat (Sony R500) -> Samplitude v6.0 -> Cool Edit Pro v1.2 -> CD -> EAC -> SHN
Keywords: Live concert

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Big Railroad Blues, Me & My Uncle, Brown Eyed Women, Beat It On Down The Line, Sugaree, Big River, Here Comes Sunshine, El Paso, Loose Lucy, Jack Straw, Black Peter, Playin' In The Band Let Me Sing*, Weather Report Suite Prelude*-> Weather Report Suite Part 1*-> Let It Grow*, He's Gone-> Truckin'-> The Other One-> Wharf Rat-> Row Jimmy, Casey Jones*, E: One More Saturday Night

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Reviewer: oReOs - - October 11, 2009
Subject: 1973 Horns!
Crystal Clear Sound! Tight Set List! Tight Playing! And the Horns! Oh Yes! Give this a listen!

Reviewer: inthispersevere@hotmail.com - - April 26, 2009
Subject: Damn....
Awesome show.... If only for the LIG, you need to give it a listen. But awesome setlist besides. Dug the horn section, they only did this for a couple of shows, so def. worth checking out......

Reviewer: Whitelynx - - April 7, 2009
Subject: DEFINITIVELY A Keeper!
Wonderful show from start to finish... "Magic is what we do and music is how we do it." Great energy... rates among the very best of '73 ... and what a year it was !!

Reviewer: jglynn1.2 - - September 22, 2007
Subject: Smokin' show
Found this show yesterday and listened while working. I simply decided to search for a highly rated early show based on the date (9-21) and found this. Not the most scientific of methods but yeilded great results. As to below question of horns, this is what is listed in the notes: Let Me Sing through Let It Grow with Joe Ellis on trumpet and Martin Fierro on saxophone.

Really enjoyed listening to this - show starts good and just keeps building. Vocals a little off in spots but the instrumentally this show is awesome - second half smokes with a Morning Dew I found as top notch. Super Here Comes Sunshine . . . well words don't do it justice (like most GD shows) so just do yourself a favor and listen.

Reviewer: GratefulDavo - - September 22, 2007
Subject: Bill Kreutzman is awesome
Bill Kreutzman is awesome in this performance. You could hear him great in the mix. No mickey to drown him out. Love mickey and the duo, but during this period Bill steps up by himself, especially in this performance. Snare/kickdrum interaction is clean. They are so complimentary to each other. His timing was great. He's truly one of the great drummers of Rock and Roll. He grooves!
The bands performance was clean also. Horns a nice touch. Who was the horn section? All song were great One more Saturday night a little rough. Sound was good Bass and piano low in mix. Jerry was being beautiful Jerry as always.

Reviewer: Bird Creek, Alaska - - September 21, 2007
Subject: Great Show
Listen up. Very good energy throughout. Why haven't I listened to this before?

Reviewer: rollandfin - - December 11, 2006
Subject: good stuff
great Show, one year to the date of Dp36, This may be the sharpest horns show, if not the most dominant one, the LIG is the highligt but a number of other mentionables show up, black peter! He's gone seems average until they pick it up in the back half, leading to truckin>otherone>mindleftbody?>into wharf rat, keith is very up for this one, wRat was in a great place all year, this one rivals 3/26/73 and tben a rarer close into jimmy row, which moves as well as kezar, maybe better. Sugarmag, casey(AWOL) and OMSN follow in more familiar form.
this show is one of the reasons 73 is so sweet.

email me at fieldhouse11277@hotmail.com happy to share with some good listeners

Reviewer: mgags - - June 21, 2005
Subject: Different setlist....
The 2nd to last show of the 1973 fall tour is a keeper. Killer versions of Playin', China>Rider and Other1 as well as rare versions of Big Railroad Blues and Here Comes Sunshine........And as usual, the He's Gone>Truckin' is the shit. Please get this show!

Reviewer: ssj - - September 20, 2004
Subject: Quickie Review
I'm downloading this show for a friend (his first show!...sure wish I could have seen some from this golden era) and thought I'd get some quick comments on the board. I've only skimmed the show, but I'm hearing a lot of creative sparks and loose playfulness that should make this a worthy download. The Let it Grow with horns smokes and the He's Gone is particularly slinky and sweet. On the downside, the sound is a little hissier than some (still good though), and there are a few painful cuts (end of Playin'). I'm giving it four stars by '73 standards, but that shouldn't discourage anyone...check it out.

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SBD -> Rm -> Reel -> PCM -> Dat
Transfer Info: Dat (Sony R500) -> Samplitude v6.0 -> Cool Edit Pro v1.2 -> CD -> EAC -> SHN via Charlie Miller