Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings


Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings is a 9 CD live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains three complete concerts, missing only the encore of the first concert. It was recorded on November 9, 10, and 11, 1973, at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California. The album was released on April 1, 2008.
A tenth, "bonus" disc was included with early shipments of the album. The bonus disc contains material from the December 4, 1973 concert at the Cincinnati Gardens in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings was the second Grateful Dead album to contain an entire "run" of concerts. The first was Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings, which was released in 2005.

Recording and mastering

The Winterland 1973 concerts were recorded on two-channel analog tapes, using a Nagra IV reel-to-reel tape recorder. As part of mastering the recordings for CD, the analog recordings were transferred to a digital format. They were then edited using a digital signal processing system called Clarity, developed by Plangent Processes, which fixes sonic problems created by minor variations in the tape speed of the original tape recorder. The resulting recording has been corrected for pitch and tempo, and wow and flutter have been eliminated.
The album was released in HDCD format, which provides enhanced sound quality when played on CD players with HDCD capability and CD quality sound when played on regular CD players.

Track listing

Disc 1

November 9, 1973 — First set:
  1. "Promised Land" – 3:21
  2. "Brown-Eyed Woman" – 5:08
  3. "Me and Bobby McGee" – 5:59
  4. "They Love Each Other" - 5:42
  5. "Black-Throated Wind" – 7:08
  6. "Don’t Ease Me In" – 4:37
  7. "Mexicali Blues" – 3:44
  8. "Row Jimmy" – 9:03
  9. "The Race Is On" – 3:57
  10. "China Cat Sunflower" > – 7:35
  11. "I Know You Rider" – 5:27

Disc 2

  1. "Playing in the Band" – 20:53
November 9, 1973 — Second set:
  2. "Here Comes Sunshine" – 11:52
  3. "Me and My Uncle" – 3:44
  4. "To Lay Me Down" – 8:11
  5. "Big River" – 5:29
  6. "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" – 8:30
  7. "Greatest Story Ever Told" > – 5:10
  8. "Bertha" – 6:12

Disc 3

  1. "Weather Report Suite" > – 15:38
  2. "Eyes of the World" > – 16:43
  3. "China Doll" – 5:57
  4. "Around and Around" > – 5:05
  5. "Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad" > – 8:01
  6. "Johnny B. Goode" – 4:25

Disc 4

November 10, 1973 — First set:
  1. "Bertha" – 7:11
  2. "Jack Straw" – 5:15
  3. "Loser" – 6:40
  4. "Looks Like Rain" – 7:50
  5. "Deal" – 4:40
  6. "Mexicali Blues" – 3:42
  7. "Tennessee Jed" – 8:39
  8. "El Paso" – 4:54
  9. "Brokedown Palace" – 6:12
  10. "Beat It On Down the Line" – 3:51
  11. "Row Jimmy" – 8:51

Disc 5

  1. "Weather Report Suite" – 18:26
November 10, 1973 — Second set:
  2. "Playing In The Band" > – 11:59
  3. "Uncle John's Band" > – 9:39
  4. "Morning Dew" > – 12:24
  5. "Uncle John’s Band" > – 1:50
  6. "Playing In The Band" – 7:38

Disc 6

  1. "Big River" – 5:12
  2. "Stella Blue" – 8:19
  3. "Truckin'" > – 12:18
  4. "Wharf Rat" > – 8:43
  5. "Sugar Magnolia" – 10:39
November 10, 1973 — Encore:
  2. "One More Saturday Night" – 5:28
  3. "Casey Jones" – 7:05

Disc 7

November 11, 1973 — First set:
  1. "Promised Land" > – 3:42
  2. "Bertha" > – 6:04
  3. "Greatest Story Ever Told" – 6:07
  4. "Sugaree" – 7:56
  5. "Black-Throated Wind" – 7:47
  6. "To Lay Me Down" – 8:28
  7. "El Paso" – 4:45
  8. "Ramble On Rose" – 7:04
  9. "Me and Bobby McGee" – 5:56

Disc 8

  1. "China Cat Sunflower" > – 9:27
  2. "I Know You Rider" – 6:04
  3. "Me and My Uncle" – 3:34
  4. "Loose Lucy" – 7:52
  5. "Weather Report Suite" – 15:07
November 11, 1973 — Second set:
  2. "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" – 8:26
  3. "Big River" – 7:05

Disc 9

  1. "Dark Star" > – 35:41
  2. "Eyes Of The World" > – 13:36
  3. "China Doll" – 5:40
  4. "Sugar Magnolia" – 10:19
November 11, 1973 — Encore:
  2. "Uncle John’s Band" – 7:32
  3. "Johnny B. Goode" > – 3:56
  4. "And We Bid You Goodnight" – 3:11

Bonus Disc

December 4, 1973, Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati, Ohio:
  1. "China Cat Sunflower" > – 7:58
  2. "I Know You Rider" – 5:57
  3. "Truckin' " > – 8:48
  4. "Stella Blue" – 8:15
  5. "Eyes Of The World" > – 13:38
  6. "Space" > – 9:36
  7. "Sugar Magnolia" > – 6:17
  8. "Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad" > – 9:45
  9. "Casey Jones" – 7:17

Personnel

Grateful Dead

Production

  • Produced by Grateful Dead
  • Box set produced by David Lemieux and Jeffrey Norman
  • Recording by Bill Candelario
  • CD mastering by Jeffrey Norman at Garage Audio, Petaluma, California
  • Restoration by Jamie Howarth, Plangent Processes
  • Archival research by Eileen Law / Grateful Dead Archives
  • Cover art by Emek
  • Art direction and design by Steve Vance
  • Photography by Bruce Polonsky, Mary Ann Mayer, and Gary Manasse
  • Set lists by David Gans
  • Special thanks to Hale Milgrim, Nancy Nichols, and Paul Nichols
  • Dedicated to the memory of Don Pearson
  • Liner notes by Dennis McNally

December 4, 1973 set list

The set list for the December 4, 1973 concert at the Cincinnati Gardens was:
  • First set: "Johnny B. Goode", "Sugaree", "Me and My Uncle", "China Cat Sunflower"*, "I Know You Rider"*, "El Paso", "Deal", "Big River", "Tennessee Jed", "Truckin'"*, "Stella Blue"*, "Around and Around"
  • Second set: "Eyes of the World"*, "Space"*, "Sugar Magnolia"*, "Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad"*, "Casey Jones"*
  • Encore: "One More Saturday Night"
* Included in the Winterland '73 bonus disc