Anniversary listen · 46 years
Thursday, February 22, 1973
Show stats
- Thursday
- Day 53 of 1973
- Show #
- 6 of 74
- Era
- Europe / Wall
- Keys
- Keith
- Recordings
- 4
- Top rating
- ★ 4.68 (20)
- Top-rated tape
- SBD
- Total dl
- 136,491
- Songs played
- 19 · 3 sets
- Show length
- 2h 18m
- Longest track
- Playin' In The Band · 17:32
Curator Score
How this is computed →From the Curator's listening journal · 1 entry
- Listened Friday, February 22, 2019 · Archive
Soundboard. Jerry's playing on Bird Song is especially far out. Awesome Dark Star (Seven and a half minutes in before Jerry's starts verse.) Out of Dark Star and into Eyes which is neat. Especially because it is a f****** killer Eyes to boot! Up tempo, Jerry murders it the entire tune, just stupendous. Definitely an Eyes for the books, it rivals that one from Louisville in 74 that I like so much.
From the tapers · archive.org · 3
- ★★★★★ · The GRATEUFL DEAD "Live" February 2, 1973 at the Assembly Hall, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana IL U.S.A. · oh_uh_um_ah · 2008
5<-------------(Overall rating) 4 3 2 1 I recommend adding this show to your 1973 Collection of the GRATEFUL DEAD. 5 Stars for the mix 5 Stars for the recording 5 Stars for the performance Produced, rehearsed and earning BIG MONEY the GRATEFUL DEAD perform 18 songs for the Champaign-Urbana audience (I don't count Beer Barrel Polka). Intricately designed jams to please the crowd. Different kind of magic than April 71 at the Fillmore E/W.
- ★★★★★ · Dr. Flashback gives this a 4/5, but I give this... · smgarcia · 2008
a 5/5. I've listened to 100+ different Playin' In The Bands multiple times and this one is one of the very best, in the top 10 in my opinion. It is so supple and gentle, jazzy yet a little freaky at times. But the playing and sound quality are superior to just about all others. I also love the Dark Star and I'm currently listening to Eyes Of The World. The Dark Star is short but why penalize based on that? Sometimes short and to the point is very rewarding.
- ★★★★★ · Playin · sheikyerbouti · 2004
This is a very hot show and one of the great finds since I have been scouring this for shows. Playin is one of the best ever (I think) Dark Star>Eyes>China Doll is off the charts... GDTRFB and an unbelievable Casey Jones. Dane County gets all the fanfare from this tour and rightfully so however this stand alone and is not a weak derivative by any means. One of the ways I define a good show is is Jerry can make the guitar 'sing'.
Community reviews from archive.org, not the Curator.
Setlist
Set 1
Set 2
Encore
Setlist from CMU Dead archive (mleone/gdead)
Recordings on archive.org · 4
Top-rated source
gd73-02-22.pset2-sbd.carman.12215.sbeok.shnf
Soundboard · ★ 4.68 (20 reviews) · 77,851 dl
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- gd1973-02-22.sbd.elliot.10963.sbeok.shnfSBD:MR>Cas>DAT>CD · ★ 4.40 · 19,615 dl
- gd1973-02-22.sbd.hamilton.166.shnfMR > DAT > 1 cassette gen. > DAT > CDR 3x · ★ 0.00 · 6,017 dl
- gd1973-02-22.sbd.miller.111169.flac16SBD -> Master Reel -> Dat · ★ 4.46 · 33,008 dl
- gd73-02-22.pset2-sbd.carman.12215.sbeok.shnfSoundboard · ★ 4.68 · 77,851 dl