[b]Pick Of The Week - 11/30/73[/b]

[ptchfork]

Reviewed this week by Zach (KingsOfLeon)

November 30, 1973
Boston Music Hall
Boston, MA

Set 1
Morning Dew (13: 33)
Mexicali Blues (3:15)
Dire Wolf (4: 31)
Beat It On Down The Line (3: 10)
Brown Eyed Women (4: 40)
Black Throated Wind (6: 43)
Don't Ease Me In (3: 22)
El Paso (4: 06)
They Love Each Other (5: 33)
Big River (4: 41)
Loser (6: 32)
Playing In The Band (23: 15)

Set 2
Bertha (6:07) >
The Promised Land (2:53)
Row Jimmy (9: 39)
Jack Straw (4: 50)
Here Comes Sunshine (11: 39)
Weather Report Suite Prelude (1: 18 ) >
Weather Report Suite Part 1 (4: 16) >
Let It Grow (9: 18 ) >
Dark Star Jam (9:25) >
Eyes Of The World (19:20)
Sugar Magnolia (10:01)

Not available for download on the Archive
Some songs on Dicks Picks Vol 14

Comments:

I was bored on a Saturday... So I went looking through my mom's CD collection. Nothing really interested me until I ran across The Grateful Dead-Workingman's Dead. I was big into classic rock at the time, so I gave them a shot. 15 seconds into "Uncle John's Band" I thought to myself: "This HAS to be Crosby Stills and Nash!" After ejecting the CD, I was shocked to find that it indeed was the Grateful Dead. After a few times listening to the album, "Uncle John's Band" and "Casey Jones" hooked me...but not to the jam side of the Dead.

My first purchase was Dick's Pick's 16...since it had most of the songs from Workingman's Dead. However, it bored me to tears. Now I think the second disc is amazing, then, I just wanted Dark Star to **shudder** end! However, I really liked studio Dead so I took one last shot... I bought Dick's Picks 14.

I read reviews on which 12/2/73 was raved upon again and again ...however, 11/30/73 was always stay with me as my favorite concert.

The show starts off BIG... with a blissful Morning Dew. I mean, the show starts off with Morning Dew for God sake! Black Throated Wind was another shocker for me. Bob Weir's soul overtook me, and he hoarsely yelled "Going back home, that's what I'm going to do" Bob hadn't sung much on Workingman's, so his ragged but strong vocal performance knocked me off my feet.

The rest of the set was average at best... I hated "Playing' in the Band". Of course I laugh at past self for this, but I was strangely in love with the music I was hearing, when I popped in the second set...

Is the 11-30-73 Here Comes Sunshine the one Grateful Dead song that hooked me for life? It just could be.

The song kept climaxing and climaxing in mellow forms,it could have been an hour long for all I cared. I was pounding my head with Keith's banging on the piano, Phil's HEAVY HEAVY bass fills, everything was just falling into shape. Looking back on it, the version on Dick's Picks 1 (12-18-73?) is probably slightly better, but this version will always be may favorite for purely emotional reasons.

If Here Comes Sunshine started off my transformation from "Get to Casey Jones already!" to "Get to the JAM already!" Dark Star Jam->Eyes of the World finished it. I liked the Weather Report Suite, but when Phil started the Dark Star jam, my body shivered all over. It was just
an incredible experience. The Eyes that followed is to date is still one of my favorites. (Probably tied with 10-18-74)And Sugar Magnolia was just the fitting conclusion, with once again Bobby yelling for all of his might. After the second disk drew to a close, my mouth was wide open. Was THIS the same band as the one who I heard on Workingman's Dead?

I was captivated, and drawn to the band, and I knew my adventures with this band called "The Grateful Dead" was just beginning...

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[ptchfork]

Is that amazing or what????? A HUGE thanks to Zach!! This kid's incredible, he's been her for like what?? Two weeks??? Already he's done a pick of the week!!!!! He emailed me about it the day after his first post!!!!

Actually his review and another review came in on the same day, about ten minutes apart!!!!

Next week he hear from Sean, another of our "younger" Deadhookers!!!

Isn't it time you picked out the best show in your collection & tell us why you love it so??? Write your thoughts down & email it to me.

[deadheadmama]

Great review Zach! I have the DP of part of that show and it's one of my favorites.

Also fun to read how you got into the Dead. Workingman's Dead was the first studio stuff I heard of the Dead too. But it paled in comparision to the real thing!

Thanks for doing the review!:ww

[Im Not Beethoven]

Nice Zach.
Gotta love that 73 GD.
I like any show with the full "Weather Report>Let It Grow".
That is Donna-less GD if I'm not mistaken.
She was pregnant.

[Poicephalus]

Good job, Zach! :9u

[ptchfork]

I don't own the DPs - can someone let me know how much of this show is on it? I know they like to combine two or three nights.

[Poicephalus]

Some DPs are partial shows and some are complete. Some have two shows combined.

For DP 14, two of the discs are 11/30/73 and two discs are 12/2/73. Both shows are the same venue (Boston Music Hall). The essential material for both shows is included.

11/30/73
Disc 1
Morning Dew
Mexicali
Dire Wolf
Black-Throated Wind
Don't Ease
Big River
TLEO
Playin'

Disc 2
Here Comes Sunshine
Weather Report Suite>
Dark Star Jam>
Eyes>
Sugar Magnolia

[ptchfork]

What I was hinting at, is even though the archive will not allow a download, can this show be traded? There are parts not released commercially.


I don't have this one, but if anyone out there does can they offer a BnP?

[Poicephalus]

Brian, I have the DP version and the whole thing on cassette. I bet you could find the complete show on disc with some looking.

You might want to download 12/1/73 (available in good sound on the archive, I think) from the same run of Boston shows. Those were great shows. I like the way the first show opens with Morning Dew and the last one has a Dew encore -- like bookends to a fine run.

BTW, I sent you a "pick of the week" a few minutes ago.

[Im Not Beethoven]

Hell yes it is a good run.
I just got 12/1 and 12/8/73 becuase of the 12/2/73 post I saw the other day.
They were playing sweet that month.

[kingsofleon88]

thanks everyone, I had fun writing it:a$

[Henri At Fall Without Jerry]

Zach,

Great job. Interesting how you thought Workingman's was going to be a CSN record. The Dead were coached on harmonies for Workingman and American beauty by... CSN.

Of course Pigpen probably didn'y give a ****. Oh how I love "Easy Wind."

:=

[The Flip Flop]

Also funny how two bands I often read/heard Jerry comment as two of his fovorites were CSN and the Eagles, both bands known for their tight harmonies (and casual stage presence).

I like that it was HC Sunshine that hooked you. I LOVE 73 and particularly 74 HC Sunshines.

[Poicephalus]

The only Here Comes Sunshine that I know of from '74 is 2/23/74 (good version). Do you know something I don't? Please share!

[The Flip Flop]

The only Here Comes Sunshine that I know of from '74 is 2/23/74 (good version). Do you know something I don't? Please share!

Nope, that's the one I was thinking of. I have an old worn out cassette that has some of this Winterland show (H. C. Sunshine, BIODTL, Ship Of Fools) as filler. I did not realize it was the only one from 74, but it remains the best version I've heard.

[Poicephalus]

Yep, that's a nice one. Do yourself a favor and check out the version from 2/17/73. There's a nice jam of Here Comes Sunshine>China Cat>Rider. The jam between Sunshine and China Cat is amazingly seamless and begs the question of why didn't they ever do it that way again.

[The Flip Flop]

If Phil says check it out, so I shall!

[terrapin flyer]

yes, check it out!! it's UNBELIEVABLE how good the transition is!!

[ptchfork]

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