Grateful Dead
Winterland Arena - October 9, 1972
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Winterland Arena
October 09, 1972
San Francisco, CA US
Notes:
first "Box Of Rain" - road crew benefit - also: NRPS
Set List:
Promised Land
Deal
Beat it on Down the Line
Friend of the Devil
Me and My Uncle
Tennessee Jed
Black Throated Wind
Loser
El Paso
Box of Rain
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Mexicali Blues
Sugaree
Playing in the Band
Jam
He's Gone
Big River
Mississippi Half-Step
Greatest Story Ever Told
Brokedown Palace
Truckin'
The Other One
Wharf Rat
Sugar Magnolia
Casey Jones
Johnny B. Goode
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"In the land of the night, the Ship of the Sun is drawn by The Grateful Dead".
I was still in high school. My 2nd show, but my first time to see the Dead in the wilds of Winterland. If I remember correctly, we arrived to see, "Grateful Dead, NRPS, Toilet Bowl" listed on the marquee. Turns out that after the show, Bill Graham had a touch football game (get it?) vs. the Dead's crew - but I missed all of that part.
As for the show, Grace Slick came onstage with the boys at the beginning of the second set. She seemed completely ripped. They played a short bluesy jam with Grace lending some off the cuff vocals for a minute or two before she began going from one mike stand to another, raising, lowering and generally screwing them up. Bill Graham came on and escorted her off to the side of the stage, where they could be seen dancing later during Truckin. Also, during the end of Sugar Mag, Graham slowly brought the house lights up until the room was as bright as day. The tape doesn't show anything too far out of the ordinary, but it was one of the greatest Sugar Mags I've ever seen - Sunshine Daydream!
Wow, musickatman has triggered some memories. I remember a lot about this one partly because of the football game and partly cause of grace slick. Right from the start things were weird cause they had winter land set up sideways. The stage was in the middle along what was usually the right-hand wall so the floor was wide instead of long. When grace slick came out at the beginning of the second set it was exactly like musickatman describes. She was really drunk. Jerry and Bob just kept their distance and eventually (probably about 2 minutes in) Bill Graham came out, put his arm around her, and dragged her off the stage. I remember the lights in sugar mag too.
We were lingering at the end of the show and were among the last left of the audience when the bouncers stopped saying "everybody out" and announced "anyone staying needs to clear the floor and get up on the stage out of the way". They didn't have to tell me twice but I did get separated from my friends except one (I think). By the time I made it to the front part of the stage the football game had already started. As I walked out on to the stage there was Phil Lesh, sitting on a cooler, drinking a beer and yuking it up like a typical football spectator. He looked over and asked if we wanted a beer and I said sure. I must have been with my brother cause I remember being the only one who accepted and he doesn't drink. Lesh handed me a Heineken and went back to bantering at the teams. I remember asking for and getting a second beer and staying there very late (it was Owsley’s era) but not much else about Phil and the stage. There really wasn't anybody else up there at least in front and I was pretty dumbfounded.
The football game was between the dead's crew and Bill Graham's crew with Bill Graham and Weir also playing on their respective teams. I think Kreutzman might have played too but not sure, I'm pretty sure that the dead's crew lost and had to finish cleanup of the hall at the end but I'm a little foggy on that part.
Thanks for the memories those who've posted before. I remember Grace being looped and goofing off, and watching the morning light in the east when we stumbled out. Day glow painted beasties were roaming the hall that night, Herb Caen commented in his column the next day. Remember having my bowl stuffed with some tastey Primo by one of those glowing elves. A good time was had by all. Warf Rat became my San Francisco theme song. I was only there for about two years, but boy I saw some great music.
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Hi, anybody knows more about that show? I'd been on the road quite often in the last 30 years and i never saw an artist or a band do a benefit for his crew.