• Springfield Civic Center Arena - March 28, 1973

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  • Promised Land
    Mississippi Half-Step
    The Race Is On
    Wave That Flag
    Jack Straw
    Sugaree
    Mexicali Blues
    Box of Rain
    Row Jimmy
    Beat it on Down the Line
    Brown Eyed Women
    El Paso
    China Cat Sunflower
    I Know You Rider
    Looks Like Rain
    Don't Ease Me In
    Playing in the Band

    Ramble On Rose
    Big River
    Here Comes Sunshine
    Greatest Story Ever Told
    Candyman
    Me and My Uncle
    He's Gone
    Truckin'
    WRS Prelude
    Wharf Rat
    Me and Bobby McGee
    Eyes of the World
    Morning Dew
    One More Saturday Night

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    blake wood
    13 years 9 months ago
    3/28/73
    Of course it's Donna. I was at this show & I remember it was the day Garcia & Hunter got pulled over on their way to the show in a VW bug & Jerry got popped for "every controlled substance known to man" (according to Rolling Stone). They pulled up late and ran inside, they finally opened the doors & got a late start. Great show though! Garcia got sentenced to see a shrink & the shrinks' kid happened to go to the prep school I was at in NH that fall... I ended up w/backstage passes (my first!) that Jerry gave the shrink for the Boston Music Hall gigs the end of November that year!
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    Golden West
    15 years 4 months ago
    Weird! I wasn't there too!
    Faith Hill sang this ditty on network TV a week or two ago on some country music show!I pulled this one up and gave it a listen and while I can kinda hear how someone might wonder, it sounds like Donna to me. This tune was new to the band in '73 and while this was not the first performance it sounds to me like they were still getting their legs under them on this one. (The versions later on in the spring and summer are more polished).
  • marye
    15 years 4 months ago
    well, I wasn't there
    but there are certainly documented instances where Donna sang this fine Loretta Lynn classic, so I would lean to thinking she's singing unless someone more clued tells me otherwise.
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setlist
Promised Land
Mississippi Half-Step
The Race Is On
Wave That Flag
Jack Straw
Sugaree
Mexicali Blues
Box of Rain
Row Jimmy
Beat it on Down the Line
Brown Eyed Women
El Paso
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Looks Like Rain
Don't Ease Me In
Playing in the Band

Ramble On Rose
Big River
Here Comes Sunshine
Greatest Story Ever Told
Candyman
Me and My Uncle
He's Gone
Truckin'
WRS Prelude
Wharf Rat
Me and Bobby McGee
Eyes of the World
Morning Dew
One More Saturday Night
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The Matrix version of the show. Great Dark Star The audience adds to the show Bob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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The Matrix version of the show. Great Dark Star The audience adds to the show Bob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spanish Jam
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Anybody have any idea who the female vocalist is on "You Ain't Woman Enough" in the first set? (Note the set list given above is incorrect.) I'm pretty sure she's not Donna. Great show by the way. Be sure to catch They Love Each Other in the 1st set.
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but there are certainly documented instances where Donna sang this fine Loretta Lynn classic, so I would lean to thinking she's singing unless someone more clued tells me otherwise.
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Faith Hill sang this ditty on network TV a week or two ago on some country music show!I pulled this one up and gave it a listen and while I can kinda hear how someone might wonder, it sounds like Donna to me. This tune was new to the band in '73 and while this was not the first performance it sounds to me like they were still getting their legs under them on this one. (The versions later on in the spring and summer are more polished).
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Of course it's Donna. I was at this show & I remember it was the day Garcia & Hunter got pulled over on their way to the show in a VW bug & Jerry got popped for "every controlled substance known to man" (according to Rolling Stone). They pulled up late and ran inside, they finally opened the doors & got a late start. Great show though! Garcia got sentenced to see a shrink & the shrinks' kid happened to go to the prep school I was at in NH that fall... I ended up w/backstage passes (my first!) that Jerry gave the shrink for the Boston Music Hall gigs the end of November that year!
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On May 12, 2012 I was listening to just a great soundboard recording playback on GD Radio. I thought Cumberland was an unusual opener with Phil as the front man. Then when I read "Blake Wood's" story about Jerry n Bob Hunter getting delayed by the PO-Po it all made sense. This is the correct list from that GD Radio playback: Grateful Dead @ Springfield Civic Center Arena March 28, 1973 Set 1 Cumberland Blues Here Comes Sunshine Mexicali Blues Wave That Flag Beat It On Down The Line Loser Jack Straw Box Of Rain They Love Each Other El Paso Row Jimmy Around and Around Brown Eyed Women You Ain't Woman Enough Looks Like Rain China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider Set 2 Promised Land Loose Lucy Me & My Uncle Don't Ease Me In The Race is On Stella Blue Big River Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo Weather Report Suite Prelude > Dark Star > Eyes Of The World > Playing In The Band - encore - Johnny B. Goode
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Donna indeed sang. Might have been the rowdiest Dead show I ever went to. The cops looked fierce. The audience was spirited to say the least. My last east coast Dead show. Next was Kezar, perhaps the least rowdy crowd I'd ever been in at a Dead show. "The West is the best".