Dead of the Day: 08-05-1974

Philadelphia Civic Center

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

With several good shows to choose from, we head out to the Philadelphia Civic Center in 1974. Promised Land takes the show out of the gate in blistering fashion with Jerry, Keith, and Bobby trading solos between – and sometimes straight through – the verses. Phil and Bobby then bring it into Brown Eyed Women, but it does not take long for Jerry to suddenly rush off on a run while Billy delivers a firm and lofty beat. Each and every song that follows is exceptional with the two cowboy tunes – Jack Straw and El Paso – actually serving as standouts with beautiful guitar work lacing through them both. After the latter of the two, a brilliant China Cat comes out, streaking off in the second half in a feverish romp that leads straight to I Know You Rider by way of a mesmerizing segue. At that point, the band slows it down for just a moment before picking up the pace again until the very end of Rider. But the quick tempo and rocking never slows in the Around And Around that completes the set.

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gd1974-08-05.108814.sbd.jfishman.flac16
Source:
Source: MSR>C>C>DAT Conversion : DAT @ 48k – > HT OMega 7.1 Soundcard (Optical Inputs)>WAV (48)> Syntillium Cool Edit Downsample to 44.1 WAV>CD WAV (Track Split)>FLAC
Notes:
a) Stella Blue and Deal were seeded from Daryl Sacks previous soundboard and soundboard/audience version that was removed from Etree b) The last half of Seastones and the last part of Stella Blue > end of show were patched with Jerry Moore’s MC>D>CD (AKG D1000s>Sony TC – 152) audience recording – c) The audience portion of Stella Blue was pitch corrected by 1% to match the small soundboard swatch – this makes Stella a more seamless experience as you go from sbd to audience patch d) OMSN and US Blues are from Jerry Moore’s audience Patch e) Traders Little Helper (bless its little heart) was used to correct SBE errors in the edited Stella Blue f) I would take the source information with a grain of salt. There might be an extra cassette gen in my original DAT seed. However, this is an excellent sounding tape and no longer available on the Archive for streaming. And this took hours of work to get this together – but well worth the effort : – )
Description:
Set 1 Promised Land, Brown Eyed Women, Beat It On Down The Line, Dire Wolf, Me And Bobby McGee, Tennessee Jed, Jack Straw, Deal, El Paso, China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider, Around & Around Set 2 Phil & Ned*, Mississippi Half Step-> It Must Have Been The Roses, Big River, Ramble On Rose, Me & My Uncle, Scarlet Begonias, He’s Gone-> Truckin’-> Jam-> The Other One Jam -> Space -> Jam -> Stella Blue-> One More Saturday Night, E: U.S. Blues *Phil & Ned Between sets.
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JR Fishman
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Promised Land
04:50
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Brown Eyed Women
06:33
3
Beat It On Down The Line
04:48
4
Dire Wolf
05:57
5
Me And Bobby McGee
06:43
6
Tennessee Jed
09:08
7
Jack Straw
05:50
8
Deal
05:28
9
Take A Step Back
01:39
10
El Paso
04:26
11
China Cat Sunflower ->
11:24
12
I Know You Rider
06:23
13
Around And Around
06:29
14
Seastones
17:18
15
Mississippi Half Step ->
08:10
16
It Must Have Been The Roses
06:45
17
Take A Step Back
00:24
18
Big River
05:42
19
Ramble On Rose
07:46
20
Me And My Uncle
04:48
21
Scarlet Begonias
12:31
22
He’s Gone ->
12:57
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Truckin’ ->
30:33
24
Stella Blue ->
12:08
25
One More Saturday Night
06:18
26
E: US Blues
06:24
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Out of the break comes a Mississippi Half Step, followed up with several wonderfully played tunes before a Scarlet Begonias crops up in the middle of the set. It heads off into some deep jamming territory, but you need to make it through some moaning by Donna before you can enjoy that music. After a momentary pause, Jerry plays the first notes of He’s Gone, eliciting a cheer from the crowd as the boys head into the tune. Building energy as it goes, the He’s Gone eventually turns into a steamy monster as the band and crowd combine on an extended round of clapping and vamping before coming back into a loose, noodling jam that leads to Truckin’. And this Truckin’ absolutely steals the show, working through some monstrous jams and spacey interludes, hinting at The Other One, and just barreling along. After over thirty minutes of music, Stella Blue emerges out of Truckin’s ashes, as reflective and melancholy as it ever is with Jerry’s haunting, resonant voice lording over it all. One More Saturday Night, which ends in pure chaos, then sees out the set with a U. S. Blues encore sending everyone on their way.

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    P_P_K

    Making it through Donna? Making it through Seastones ain’t a bowl of cherries, either. A 31min Truckin’ is awesome.

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