50 Years Ago Today | Durham 12/8/1973 (full show)

Celebrating my favorite era of live Dead, fall '73! #gratefuldead
Poster art by Ray Simone
"I was young but lucky, this was the show I met Jerry. He had Wolfe made in May and was still jacked about it in December. First guitar he had custom made, paid big bucks 1,500.00 and as I was a carpenter building the stage he was cool enough to take time and tell me about the rosewood on it. Later that night while setting up the Two Towers Owsley directed the men setting up the sound and the show was fabulous. Fun times,Great Memories, Music saturating us, spirits raised, minds expanded, trips galore, onward. What a wonderful building block for me, how does one explain how this positively influenced my life. We are the byproduct of our experiences. Like I said "lucky" The wall of sound did not debut until March 23,1974, there were different versions of big sound systems while developing and the sound engineers plus the guys building the speaker towers coined the "Two Towers" moniker, for the setup on Saturday December 8th 1973."
-peter@northside, dead.net
Set 1
Me and My Uncle
Sugaree
Mexicali Blues
Dire Wolf
Black Throated Wind
They Love Each Other
Me and Bobby McGee
Don't Ease Me In
The Race Is On
Brown Eyed Women
Big River
Candyman
WRS Prelude
WRS Part 1
Let It Grow
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Set 2
Around and Around
Ramble On Rose
El Paso
Row Jimmy
Greatest Story Ever Told
Bertha
He's Gone
Truckin'
Nobody's Fault But Mine
The Other One
Wharf Rat
Stella Blue
Johnny B. Goode
Uncle John's Band
One More Saturday Night

[@williamlegare8751]

❤73" This Concert is one of my favorite shows of December. THANK YOU KINDLY!😊

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

Love it but I’m going to go to another choice of mine in a few because my iPad is losing power so I don’t have enough time to listen to this although I’ll go back to this when I can power up ! Thank u very much !

[@crawlingwind]

Thanks DC Cat. As always…

[@miketrudelle1602]

Killer sound and what a 1st set! Thank you for the work you so lovingly share with everyone just like it's easy.😂❤

[@RicoSuave8]

DC CAT 🎉 Mucho gracias!!! 💚⚡️✨️✨️🎶🎶🎶🔥

[@ewfrank1]

same beautiful sound as the Boston shows...

[@msugd1]

RC Bradley