Audience Devotional Tree
Round 11 - July, 2002

GRATEFUL DEAD
Friday & Saturday, July 27-28, 1973
Grand Prix Racecourse - Watkins Glen, NY
Audience Recording

AudMR > R > DAT > WAV > SHN

Uher mic > Uher 4000 Report L 5" reels > MacIntosh pre-amp >
TEAC 1230 7" reel.

Recording by Jeffrey Siniawsky and Joel Smith front row,
15' from stage, mic attached to top of lean-to tent.

A > D transfer by Noah Weiner ([email protected]) - April, 2002

07-27-73 "Soundcheck"
set one-end:
01 [ 0:19] //Big River*
02 [ 7:47] Tennessee Jed
03 [ 0:44] //Merry-Go-Round Broke Down tuning
set two:
04 [ 0:36] crowd
05 [ 7:30] Mississippi Half Step Uptown//Toodeloo
06 [ 3:02] Me And My Uncle
07 [15:25] Jam// >
08 [ 9:53] Wharf Rat
09 [ 4:34] Around And Around

*due to extreme indulgences in the party atmosphere this night,
the tapers did not get the gear working until the end of Big River

note: Jam is cut due to tape bust by roadie.
      tape cut cross faded in Half Step at 5:21

total time: [49:50]


07-28-73
DISC ONE:
set one-a:
01 [ 0:19] Bill Graham intro*
02 [ 6:07] Bertha
03 [ 3:14] Beat It On Dowm The Line
04 [ 5:28] Brown Eyed Women
05 [ 3:45] Mexicali Blues
06 [ 6:12] Box Of Rain
07 [ 9:26] Here Comes Sunshine
08 [ 6:37] Looks Like Rain
09 [ 7:45] Row//Jimmy
10 [ 4:55] Jack Straw
11 [ 6:18] Deal

* Bill Graham intro and first 5 seconds of Bertha
  from AudMC > ? > C > DAT > WAV > SHN

total time: [60:15]


DISC TWO:
set one-end:
01 [ 1:25] crowd
02 [24:07] Playin' In The Band*
set two-a:
03 [ 7:18] Loose Lucy
04 [ 4:31] Big River
05 [12:46] He's Gone >
06 [ 7:34] Truckin' >
07 [ 2:04] Nobody's Jam >
08 [ 2:08] Jam Space >
09 [ 4:25] El Paso

*cut on master (1:24 through 2:29) patched from
AudMC > ? > C > DAT > WAV > SHN

total time: [66:18]


DISC THREE:
set two-end:
01 [ 8:24] China Cat Sunflower >
02 [ 6:34] I Know You Rider
03 [ 7:35] Stella Blue
04 [20:22] Eyes Of The World >
05 [ 9:17] Sugar Magnolia
encore:
06 [ 9:17] Sing Me Back Home

note: very first notes of Eyes are cut

total time: [61:29]


notes:
Deadlists.com lists Around And Around to open set two.  However
not only was it not present on this aud master (Jeff Siniawsky feels
that if it were played, they would have recorded it), it is not on
the circulating SBDMR either.  A copy of the song does circulate
allegedly from this date, and I included it on the complete SBD
version (2000).  It came listed as an AUD source, and the only song
from this particular source (i.e. none of the rest of the show seems
to exist from this recording source), but upon more scrutiny it appears
to be a SBD, not an AUD.  Also, it oddly seems to show evidence of Dickey
Betts playing with the band, which has yet to be confirmed and makes
little sense in the scheme of the show.  A few other attendees have
also agreed that the song was not played on this date.

In the original version of the Watkins Glen 25th Anniversary Tree, the
main recording came from Bill Degen's master.  He was friends with
Jeff and Joel and they all taped shows and shared tapes during these
years.  On the tapes that Bill supplied for that first tree, Jeff and
Joel's recording of set one was included (Row Jimmy and Playin'
were used for the tree), while Bill's own tape supplied set two.  Now
we have the complete Uher recording direct from Jeff Siniawsky and Joel
Smith.  It provides a very nice upgrade to the first treed AUD back in 1998.