The Band - 1973/07/27+28 Watkins Glen Festival [4CD]
Here is a brand new release that just surfaced recently [note: 2010]: A complete audience recording of THE BAND at Watkins Glen on July 27-28, 1973. This was the famous Summer Jam also featuring the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers Band. Over 600,000 attended this historic concert.
I won't get into the historical aspects of the concert, I just want to get into what's in the music you will be receiving. First of all, in 1995 Capitol Records released a BOGUS album called THE BAND AT WATKINS GLEN that included studio recordings and fake crowd noises. Avoid that at all costs!!!! Also in the 90s a rough audience recording surfaced but was missing some songs. In 2010, this complete audience recording of much better quality surfaced and is here now. Encore closer Johnny B. Goode is included, but is from a different source.
THE BAND
Watkins Glen Festival 1973 [4CD]
Live at the Raceway, Watkins Glen,
New York, July 27-28, 1973
New, previously uncirculated, very good audience recording.
Disc 1 - Friday, July 27, 1973
The Sound Check
Track 101. Instrumental
Track 102. audience
Track 103. Instrumental
Track 104. audience
Track 105. Don’t Do It
Track 106. audience
Track 107. The W. S. Walcott Medicine Show
Disc 2 - Saturday, July 28, 1973
The Concert - Part I
Track 201. audience/tuning
Track 202. Instrumental
Track 203. audience
Track 204. Introduction - Sam Cutler and Bill Graham
Track 205. Goin’ Back To Memphis
“We’ve got a visitor” (comments about parachutist who sadly would die)
Track 206. audience
Track 207. Lovin’ You Is Sweeter Than Ever
Track 208. The Shape I’m In
Track 209. The Weight
Track 210. Stage Fright
Track 211. I Shall Be Released
Track 212. Don’t Do It
Track 213. Endless Highway
Track 214. The Genetic Method
Track 215. Chest Fever
Disc 3 - Saturday, July 28, 1973
The Concert - Part II
Track 301. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Track 302. Across The Great Divide
Track 303. Instrumental
Track 304. Holy Cow
Track 305. audience
Track 306. Life Is A Carnival
Track 307. Saved
Track 308. Up On Cripple Creek
Track 309. audience
Track 310. Share Your Love
Track 311. This Wheels On Fire
Track 312. The W. S. Wolcott Medicine Show
Track 313. Slippin’ And Slidin’
Track 314. audience
Track 315. Rag Mama Rag
Disc 4 - Saturday, July 28, 1973
Encore/Summer Jam - various members of The Band, Allman Brothers and Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead
Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
Bob Weir - guitar, vocals
Keith Godchaux - piano, keyboards
Phil Lesh - bass
Bill Kreutzmann - drums
The Band
Rick Danko - guitar, vocals
Richard Manuel - piano, vocals
The Allman Brothers Band
Gregg Allman - organ
Dickey Betts - guitar
Track 401. A Change Is Gonna Come (first take)
Track 402. A Change Is Gonna Come
Track 403. Rick and crowd converse
Track 404. Raining In My Heart
Track 405. “It hasn’t been planned”
Track 406. Tuning and direction as various musicians converge and proceed to mill about and play
Track 407. Five Long Years (Richard Manuel vocal)
Track 408. “Go away Jerry”
Track 409. Da Di De Day (Rick vocal)
Track 410. Not Fade Away
Track 411. “Level Checking”
Track 412. Warm And Tender Love (Rick and Jerry vocals)
Track 413. Around and Around
Track 414. “We want our money back”
Track 415. Mountain Jam>
Track 416. Amazing Grace>
Track 417. Mountain Jam
Track 418. Johnny B. Goode
