50 Years Ago Today | Atlanta 12/12/1973 (full show)

Celebrating my favorite era of live Dead, fall '73! #gratefuldead Special thanks to ‪@WallofSound65‬ for this excellent soundboard!
"This was my first Grateful Dead show and the set list included some of my all time favorites! The Omni acoustics were outstanding and I can still hear the crisp licks from Garcia's "Eyes of the World" solo. Jerry's vocals were especially pure and sweet during this period and it is hard to imagine a finer version of "Peggy-O" along with a superb China Cat/Rider. I would love to find this recording...truly unforgettable!"
-Big Willy, dead.net
"The Show was great. Skipped high school with a dozen friends and drove to Atlanta from Birmingham and stayed in Atlanta for the night after show. The show was on Thusday night. A fellow deadhead in the audiance firedoff a bottle rocket inside the Omni and the police got him!!! ! was seventeen years old."
-jmcbee, dead.net
Lineage: nearly complete, with soundcheck; MR - C - DAT - CDR; via Trei Hobbs
Soundcheck:
Sleigh Ride
Rip It Up
Blue Suede Shoes
Peggy-O
Jack Straw
Cumberland Blues
Thirty Days
Set 1:
Tuning
Promised Land
Sugaree
Mexicali Blues
Tennessee Jed
Jack Straw
Don't Ease Me In
Looks Like Rain
They Love Each Other
El Paso
Peggy-O
Beat It On Down The Line
Brown Eyed Women
Big River
Deal
Playing In The Band
Set 2:
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo ...
Me And Bobby McGee
China Cat Sunflower ...
I Know You Rider
Tico Tico
Greatest Story Ever Told
Row Jimmy
Weather Report Suite
Wharf Rat ...
Me And My Uncle
Eyes Of The World ...
Morning Dew
Happy Birthday Dicky Betts
Sugar Magnolia

[@xanzpatrie]

Loved the soundcheck. Thanks for posting :)

[@danielmoore7332]

'Thirty Days'? YOW! I need to listen to the recorded sound checks more! The boys did a lot of Chuck Berry but I've never heard them cover that Thank's again to the Cat from DC!

[@stephenfischer7398]

Just another comment here about how good this soundcheck is!

[@SanFranciscoFatboy]

yeah dc cat !!!!!!!! love the sound check tape u got here :)

[@J0hnC0ltrane]

After fifty years I'm beginning to like Mexicali Blues. I saw them a few months later in Oklahoma City, for the second time.

[@Terrapinskydive]

This sound check is ❤❤❤❤

[@WeirsBeard]

Keep it up El Gato!😂 Your streamz are just the best. ‘73 all the way!💀🌹💜💚💛🧡

[@njnature]

This ain't no funky reggae party, $5 at the door. It gets so real sometimes. Who wrote my rhymes? I got the microwave i got the VCR. Look at all the ❤ that we've found

[@stateworker]

You're doing Dog's work, my friend.