• Civic Convention Hall Auditorium - August 5, 1974

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  • Promised Land
    Brown Eyed Women
    Beat it on Down the Line
    Dire Wolf
    Me and Bobby McGee
    Tennessee Jed
    Jack Straw
    Deal
    El Paso
    China Cat Sunflower
    I Know You Rider
    Around and Around

    Mississippi Half-Step
    It Must Have Been the Roses
    Big River
    Ramble on Rose
    Me and My Uncle
    Scarlet Begonias
    He's Gone
    Truckin'
    Stella Blue
    One More Saturday Night

    U.S. Blues

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  • shkdwn-chevy-n…
    5 months 1 week ago
    Another Good 'Ol Grateful Dead Show!

    It was an absolutely fantastic show! I feel so fortunate that I was able to see the Grateful Dead in my youth! And now I can listen to the archive and recall those beautiful days! God Bless The Grateful Dead!

  • daberthold
    9 years 6 months ago
    8/5/74 Philly show
    Drove down w friend from Binghamton. Fantastic show! First time seeing the Dead where they did not do the fast/slow/fast song routine set list but just rocked out. In fact if my memory serves, Around & Around followed Jet to the Promised Land opener. Regardless, if anyone has a recording of this show I would definitely be interested.
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    petemx5
    9 years 7 months ago
    Should have been my first shows...
    The Dead were quite new to me at this time. I began listening to them in the fall of 1973 (Europe ’72 and Skeletons in the Closet mainly), this I remember because it was the year my older sister went off to college and fell in with a group of Deadheads. I would have gone with her to these shows in Philly but I had a fantastic opportunity to travel to Mexico with a group of fellow high school student in August and so I missed these shows. When they stopped touring in 1975 I remember thinking they had “broken up” and I missed my only chance (kind of funny in retrospect). My first shows ended up being two of the four nights at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby PA, outside Philly in April of '76. Just listened to Dick’s Picks Vol. 31 the other day, these were freakin’ fantastic shows.
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setlist
Promised Land
Brown Eyed Women
Beat it on Down the Line
Dire Wolf
Me and Bobby McGee
Tennessee Jed
Jack Straw
Deal
El Paso
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Around and Around

Mississippi Half-Step
It Must Have Been the Roses
Big River
Ramble on Rose
Me and My Uncle
Scarlet Begonias
He's Gone
Truckin'
Stella Blue
One More Saturday Night

U.S. Blues
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I remember cafeteria trays with paper nutcups being offered to the early rows, until they ran out.
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Saw the Dead several times in Philly throughout the 70's.The way I remember this show ending was during the closing bars of One More Saturday Night a long haired hippie chick jumped onstage and ran over and hugged Garcia. They both went down in a heap as the lights went dark and the crowd erupted. I don't remember the encore as I thought the show ended right there. Anyway, it was something I will always remember, not the typical ending to a Dead show. They had the big PA and from beginning to end it lasted about five hours, (including half time distortion). Also saw them during the summer a year or two later for three consecutive nights at the Tower Theatre. Small venue-great shows, Miickey Hart back in fold.
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Had a blast at these two shows...wall of sound was terrific.
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I agree. China/Rider was never better.
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The Dead were quite new to me at this time. I began listening to them in the fall of 1973 (Europe ’72 and Skeletons in the Closet mainly), this I remember because it was the year my older sister went off to college and fell in with a group of Deadheads. I would have gone with her to these shows in Philly but I had a fantastic opportunity to travel to Mexico with a group of fellow high school student in August and so I missed these shows. When they stopped touring in 1975 I remember thinking they had “broken up” and I missed my only chance (kind of funny in retrospect). My first shows ended up being two of the four nights at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby PA, outside Philly in April of '76. Just listened to Dick’s Picks Vol. 31 the other day, these were freakin’ fantastic shows.
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Drove down w friend from Binghamton. Fantastic show! First time seeing the Dead where they did not do the fast/slow/fast song routine set list but just rocked out. In fact if my memory serves, Around & Around followed Jet to the Promised Land opener. Regardless, if anyone has a recording of this show I would definitely be interested.
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It was an absolutely fantastic show! I feel so fortunate that I was able to see the Grateful Dead in my youth! And now I can listen to the archive and recall those beautiful days! God Bless The Grateful Dead!