Robert F. Kennedy Stadium
June 09, 1973
Washington, D.C., DC US
Set List:
Promised LandDeal
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
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
He's Gone
Truckin'
Playing in the Band
Loser
Me and My Uncle
Mississippi Half-Step
Big River
Eyes of the World
China Doll
Sugar Magnolia
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I had just graduated from high school and went with friends from Philly. Still have a picture. Would not have remembered the set list though!
the temperature, I mean! I just have snapshots in my mind of moments from that weekend. Like a fever-induced dream.
We drove down from the Bronx the night before, and slept under the shade of the Washington Monument.
I had never seen DC before.
All I remember of the concert is the HEAT...well, I DO remember Doug Sahm, I liked the song Mendocino...but I think I was asleep when the Dead came on.
Well, I do remember waking up at "Playing in the Band".
I know at the time I thought it was a GREAT "PITB".
But....damn it was HOT that weekend!
On the way back up to NYC, we ran out of gas money for the van, and had to panhandle at a rest stop in Maryland.
A nice couple on a motorcycle gave us FIVE DOLLARS, which seemed like a LOT of money at the time!
Drove to this concert with my brother Rick and 2 girls from Carteret,NJ. I got separated from them going in to the concert. They went on the field while I found a shady spot sitting behind the stage. Doug Sahm Band opened, then the Grateful Dead played, followed by the Allman Bros. It was a hot and sunny day in DC.
Stories I won't put in writing. Entirely too much fun. Life altering event. Good Times with Good Friends (who still talk about it today......2011 !!)
6-10-73 was the better show but not because this one didn't try hard. It pales to 6-10 and that's it. I seem to remember orange barrels, window pane and bottle rockets shot into the hot soupy over RFK. Second set highlight included Playing and Eye's. The 6-9 Eye's pales in comparison to 6-10 version. IMHO.
Location
Six or seven of us headed in a VW van to Washington, DC to see the Dead and Allman Brothers (from Rhode Island)...Junior year, college.. I was happy to be going on a trip anywhere, much less to a stadium named after Robert Kennedy, Jr. We camped in an open field nearby that seemed to "appear". I remember hearing Truckin and singing it all night long...I remember hearing Jessica and watching Dickie Betz (?) and needing water. I didn't think I would ever stop laughing/THE BEST entry!