Europe / Wall

Friday, July 27, 1973

Watkins Glen, NY · Grand Prix Racecourse

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Friday
Day 208 of 1973
Show #
32 of 74
Era
Europe / Wall
Keys
Keith
Recordings
13
Top rating
★ 5.00 (2)
Best source
SBD
Total dl
346,993
Songs played
11 · 2 sets
Show length
1h 33m
Longest track
Jam > Wharf Rat · 30:40

Curator Score

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Curator's Note

The day before Summer Jam, more than a hundred thousand fans had already poured into Watkins Glen. So when the Dead walked out to soundcheck, they were really playing for the largest crowd most of them had ever faced, and they stretched out to meet it. What survives is one of the most beloved soundchecks in the band's history: a loose, fearless run capped by a sixteen-minute Bird Song and a thirty-one-minute Jam into Wharf Rat that wanders further than most full sets dare. It looks compact on paper and plays enormous.

From the Curator's listening journal · 1 entry

From the tapers · archive.org · 3
  • ★★★★★ · one of a half million stories · smokestack lightnin' · 2009

    We burned out the clutch on my girlfriend's old Plymouth as we got to the top of the hill at the campsite on the other side from where the stage was set up. Strangers helped push us over as the car started going backward back down the hill. We were 19. Later we realized we forgot to pack about half of the tent when we left home, so we slept under the stars that night. But while we were figuring that out, we heard music over the P.A. Dead music.

  • ★★★★★ · Starting from space. · The TRUE Bucky · 2017

    Just a few thoughts folks, from one who was only 12 at the time but even I here in Ct. heard of the event, not sure if those 'evil' words "Grateful Dead" were included. I certainly recall that the Allman Bros were there.. Anyhow first point is starting a jam from nothing, a poster below gives a list. I'd like to add 10/2/80 opening the 2nd set with Space > Comes A Time from the Warfield.

  • ★★★★★ · Wow...What a Flashback! · GARY56 · 2007

    Summer Jam or bust! We drove Thursday afternoon from South Jersey to upstate New York for the time of our lives! Blew a head gasket on my 65 Chevy on the way, but pressed on anyway. Got to the outskirts of town and picked up a hitchhiker. He was a local and when we hit the traffic to get to speedway, he told us to turn around because he knew of a better way to go. We took the risk, and for sure, we entered on the back side of the speedway.

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Setlist

Set 1

  1. 1.Promised Land
  2. 2.Sugaree
  3. 3.Mexicali Blues
  4. 4.Bird Song
  5. 5.Big River
  6. 6.Tennessee Jed

Set 2

  1. 1.Mississippi Half-Step
  2. 2.Me and My Uncle
  3. 3.Jam
  4. 4.Wharf Rat
  5. 5.Around and Around

Setlist from CMU Dead archive (mleone/gdead)

Recordings on archive.org · 13

Best source

gd73-07-27.sbd.miller.27779.sbeok.flacf

Soundboard · ★ 4.73 (11 reviews) · 73,368 dl

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