Grateful Dead - 1972-12-10 - San Francisco, CA (SBD)

Grateful Dead

1972-12-10

Winterland Arena 

San Francisco, CA

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

1st Set:

xx. Cold Rain And Snow (missing)

xx. Beat It On Down The Line (missing)

xx. Don't Ease Me In (missing)

xx. Black Throated Wind (missing)

xx. Bird Song (missing)

xx. El Paso (missing)

xx. Around And Around (missing)

xx. Tennessee Jed (missing)

xx. Big River (missing)

xx. Box Of Rain (missing)

xx. Candyman (missing)

12. Bertha     

13. Playing in the Band     

14. Casey Jones

    

2nd Set:

01. Promised Land    

02. Stella Blue    

03. Jack Straw

04- China Cat Sunflower >  

05. I Know You Rider     

06. Truckin' >     

07. Jam >     

08. Drums >    

09. The Other One       

10. Deal           

11. Sugar Magnalia      

12. Ramble on Rose       

13. Johnny B. Goode

Encore:     

01. Uncle John's Band 

Grateful Dead - 1972-12-10 - San Francisco, CA (SBD)

GD 1972 - Back To Back - #1: For the Grateful Dead, the year 1972 would be a transitional one, marked by some incredible high points but marred by sadness. The band would integrate new keyboardist Keith Godchaux (who joined in late 1971) and his wife, vocalist Donna Jean, into the band. The Dead would travel to Europe, a legendary venture originally marked by the triple album, Europe 72, and later commemorated by the official release of every show from that tour. On August 27, 1972, the band would play a show at Veneta, Oregon which Deadheads rank along with the May 8, 1977 Cornell show as one for the ages. Alcohol abuse finally caught up with founding member and organist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, who played his last show with the band on July 17, 1972, and eventually passed away in March 1973, another rocker whose lifestyle cost him his life at age 27. With Pigpen departing the band, the Dead lost some of their bluesy roots. The band began experimenting with some jazz influenced material, as evident on the album Wake of the Flood released the following year. As many of you know, 1973 and 1974 are often considered (along with 1977) as the Dead's peak, but 1972 set the stage. The soundboard recording captures the Dead near the end of that historic year, on their home turf in San Francisco at Winterland, on December 10, 1972, 51 years ago today. Download this one, then come back tomorrow and the next day for the 2nd and 3rd posts in this Back To Back entry.