Hey C Freedom loving your review so far, what about 2nd set???? I love early March 73 shows, Philly,Baltimore, Springfield: wowed, some early versions of songs and placement all over the place, hey Utica and Nassau up there also ! On a side note Led Zep's Houses of the Holy was released on this day.

Well if I was doing a fantasy set
Cumberland
Here Comes Sunshine
is one fine way to start a set
but hey just like in the 80's
Mexicali comes to burst my set list bubble
But hey Mexicali in 73 is quite perky!
Wave the Flag
Trying to notice if Garcia uses same lyrics every time
The chorus is actually all set as we now know in hindsight.
So glad for a Miller Soundboard
.and then also finding this board as well.
Interesting factoid
Springfield- a popular name for a town.
Springfield ,Massachusetts
Springfield, Ohio
There are twenty five states with a Springfield.
The Springfield riffle is How the West was really won
and was used in both World Wars.
When other folks give up theirs
I'll give up mine"
Gil Scott Heron
"Peace sells but who is buying"
Megadeath
BIODTL-lots of good harmonies with Donna featured
LOSER-always felt a little gritty & grisly with this tune
Is the loser a fool or really just getting by like you and me?
The harmonies are super cool.
me thinks it is mainly Weir & Lesh
and the refrain
"I've got no chance of losing
this time" drips with irony.
actually that is what leads every hard core gambler
to place another bet or play one last hand or pull another lever
or double down.
Motorhead
If you like to gamble
I tell you, I'm your man
You win some, lose some
It's all the same to me
The pleasure is to play
Makes no difference what you say
I don't share your greed
The only card I need
Is the Ace of Spades
The Ace of Spades
Playing for the high one
Dancing with the devil
Going with the flow
It's all a game to me
Seven or eleven
Snake eyes watching you
Double up or quit
Double stake or split
The Ace of Spades
The Ace of Spades
You know I'm born to lose
And gambling's for fools
But that's the way I like it, baby
I don't want to live forever
And don't forget the joker
Pushing up the ante
I know you got to see me
Read 'em and weep
The dead man's hand again
I see it in your eyes
Take one look and die
The only thing you see
You know it's gonna be
The Ace of Spades
The Ace of Spades, uh
Jack Straw-naturally goes with Loser
I agree with whoever said that Jack Straw is actually a more jammed out tune later on down the road.
There were a few Jack Straws in the 80's with good placement
that really caused the entire night to blaze.
That said the harmonies between Weir, Garcia & Lesh in that order are something to behold in 1973
"You keep us on the run"
Box of Rain- just classic, the two most under valued singers in the band working their way thru Phil's song to his Father.
TLEO-already a classic after two months in the rotation.
Such a great dance tune
El Paso-Cowboy Weir & Old West Jerry
My step mom called me out on lyrics
when I first tried singing El Paso
she goes it is;
"I picked a good one
He looked like he could run"
Row Jimmy-"rock your baby, to and fro"
Wow-also only two months in rotation
Oh this is Donna at her best.
Around & Around-seems like this wasn't in regular rotation
but I really like this unexpected in the first set.
Weir animated on the vocals
and it sounds like Jerry has perfect tone for this Berry rocker.
BEW-play it at my funeral
You Ain't Woman enough-Might lead to a funeral
LLR-so sweet in 73 , Weir good vocally (great-3/16/73)
-Second Set buzz kill tune IMHO during 80's
China>Rider-kinda rare in early 73 in this set closer spot
since Playin' with extended jam usually a natural here.
but just wait there is a cool surprise coming this night!
The China Cat Sunflower is really hot!
Something a little extra special
before the 'Feeling Groovy' placement
leading into RIDER
"March winds going to blow all my troubles away"
News flash 16 song First Set-Gets me off!!!

Great set list, great playing. And to think that a treasure like this isn't even part of the "best show ever" conversation . . . . It just shows how blessed we all are to have this infinity of material to swim in.

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I'm running out of things to say about the dork who gives a show that everyone else gives five stars, just one star, just because it's got no labels.

Forget the labels, get a life ..........

the release of the complete europe '72 has roused me from my slumber. please allow me to ramble on here since this is my first posting and i'm filled with deep memories. and please feel free to correct me if i misremember. if you were there ratings are silly. hopefully you live long enough to realize how fortunate you are/were. this was my 21st birthday, nice of the dead to play in my comfort zone that night (i was going to providence college at the time), karmic reinforcement. remember hanging around the spfld civic center all afternoon on a beautiful early spring day. remember going on a beer run, perhaps my first experience with bass ale. general admission in those days, i remember being carried through the front doors with my feet off the ground - scary, and always linked in my mind with the who crush in cinci '79. also remember rushing into general admission boston garden during wall of sound days trying to get close. as far as set list/music is concerned, i must admit to a foggy memory. the EVENT was the thing! by the time the music started , the memory banks were compromised by outside agents. do remember this was my first dark star i believe( my 1st show being providence arena 4/21/71), and i remember being surprised that they would play it, at the time we believed it to be a song we would only hear on live dead. other than that i will only say how great it felt to be a part of the tribe that night. 5 stars for every show i saw until the 90's. so much for my critical credibility. i'd be more than happy to engage in a dialogue about my experiences with the boys at this site, rather than limit us all to solitary erudition. help me remember or just tell me to shut up. thanks y'all.

I'm so happy to have found this concert! I had a vinyl bootleg back in the day, white cover with (I think) an amateur version of Mr. Natural on it, and "They Love Each Other" from this show. I've always loved this up tempo version and was disappointed when they switched to the slower and more draggy version, which was the way I heard them do it when first saw shows in '76. No idea when or why they started doing it slower but I intend to find out! Now to listen to the rest of the show, which if as good as this number I'm sure deserves the full 5 stars.

Every Deadhead has a first time but, this was mine! Not Too shabby! I've been putting off listening because I feared being disappointed at my fauly memory or something. Not to worry, apparently. This night was truly memorable. I was 15 and familiar w/ Workingman's, American Beauty, Europe 72, and snippets from Live Dead. The music they played opened up new synaptic pathways in my brain.Thereafter whenever I was bored with stuff going on in school or whatever I would literally 'tune out' and start to hear random improvised music in my head. I could turn it on any time. I credit the Dead with so empowering me. Later I started to play actual music w/ friends and used the Dead as inspiration for much jamming. Saw many shows after that but this one stands as the one to which I compared the others. Never really surpassed I must say. I loved the way they used to get so weird using only rudimentary effect pedals. Jerry used a Crybaby Wah-Wad and Keith had a volume pedal for his piano. Even when they got all that MIDI stuff I don't think they were able to get any further out there than they did in those days. Kinda like the Apollo Space Program , ya know? I mean they throw all that money at NASA and we still ain't been back to the moon.

OK, why am I bothering to post when all I'm going to say is "I absolutely agree with what everyone else says"? I confess, I just like to see my name under a show like this one. WRS->Playin' is as beautiful and masterful as it gets. Listen to it a hundred times and you'll hear something different every time. A very special show!

Wide open Dark Star here, they are hitting all the bases. Phil plays some amazing notes!

Very good advice from the folks below. DS is masterful on - they miss the WRS entirely though. This playin is unreal....

It's a keeper....
This one caught me by surprise about 3/4 of the way through......check it out.
5 stars for the SBD.

Yes folks.....another gem slips by the wayside because of the "AUD" moniker. However WRS Prelude>Dark Star>Eyes>Playin>JBG is of SDBD quality and is the SHIT! The jazzy feel of this Dark Star is so real. They explore at least 5 or 6 completely different themes and when they finally finish 30minutes has passed. Dark Star morphs into Eyes and then comes mind-bender #2.......PLAYIN! Can someone explain how Jerry could have so much musical inspiration in a 1 hour peiod?! Beutiful notes are spewing out of his guitar in exponential fashion.

GET THE SDBD PORTION!!

In case you didn't see it below, the third disc (WRS Prelude through JB Goode) are from the soundboard and don't suffer from some of the quality issues of the audience recordings. This show is nice and tight, though the recording quality (of the audience section) has it's problems. The other seed is apparently an upgrade in the audience sections, but doesn't have the soundboard section. So some selective downloading is advised, in my opinion.