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List Price: $99.98 | | Label: Rhino Records
Salesrank: 6127
Released: April 7, 2009 |
| Our Price: $79.65 |
| Used Price: $72.49 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings Track Listing:
Disc 1:
1. Promised Land
2. Brown-Eyed Woman
3. Me & Bobby McGee
4. They Love Each Other
5. Black-Throated Wind
6. Don't Ease Me In
7. Mexicali Blues
8. Row Jimmy
9. Race Is On
10. China Cat Sunflower
11. I Know You Rider
Disc 2:
1. Playing in the Band
2. Here Comes Sunshine
3. Me and My Uncle
4. To Lay Me Down
5. Big River
6. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
7. Greates Story Ever Told
8. Bertha
Disc 3:
1. Weather Report Suite: Prelude/Part I/Part II (Let It Grow)
2. Eyes of the World
3. China Doll
4. Around and Around
5. Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad
6. Johnny B. Goode
Disc 4:
1. Bertha
2. Jack Straw
3. Loser
4. Looks Like Rain
5. Deal
6. Mexicali Blues
7. Tennessee Jed
8. Paso
9. Brokedown Palace
10. Beat It on Down the Line
11. Row Jimmy
Disc 5:
1. Weather Report Suite: Prelude/Part I/Part II (Let It Grow)
2. Playin in the Band
3. Uncle John's Band
4. Morning Dew
5. Uncle John's Band
6. Playing in the Band
Disc 6:
1. Big River
2. Stella Blue
3. Truckin'
4. Wharf Rat
5. Sugar Magnolia
6. One More Saturday Night
7. Casey Jones
Disc 7:
1. Promised Land
2. Bertha
3. Greatest Story Ever Told
4. Sugaree
5. Black-Throated Wind
6. To Lay Me Down
7. Paso
8. Ramble on Rose
9. Me & Bobby McGee
Disc 8:
1. China Cat Sunflower
2. I Know You Rider
3. Me and My Uncle
4. Loose Lucy
5. Weather Report Suite: Prelude/Part I/Part II (Let It Grow)
6. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
7. Big River
Editorial Review:
When the Grateful Dead played San Francisco's Winterland Arena for three straight nights in November 1973, they triumphed with home court advantage during one of their most celebrated eras. Recorded November 9, 10, and 11, the trio of epic shows captured on WINTERLAND 1973 are among the finest and most legendary in the band's vast tape vaults, according to Dead archivist David Lemieux. Housed in a deluxe archival box and presented in HDCD, the set contains a portfolio of 72 tracks mastered from the original two-track Master Tapes using an innovative process that delivers unprecedented sound quality. WINTERLAND 73 will be issued in a one time only limited edition run.
Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings Reviews:
old and happy of it 
2009-11-20 - It,s cds like this that make me proud of my age (61). The poor younger folks will never be able to experience the Dead in this type surrounding, except in great recordings like this Dead show
PIGPEN 
2009-11-16 - The "Bogus" Dead were a noodling hoax without Pigpen.
If you are a GD "snob" (only listen to the PP version of the band), avoid this.
Long, slow wonderment
2009-09-07 - This is simply the best of the best. My favorite Grateful Dead has always been the '72-'74 period, with the Soundtrack generally being my all around favorite live release. This has finally succeeded in topping it. Like a big, thick Victorian novel, this box set sprawls delightfully. Spread over three nights, these shows create an intensely effective swell. Each show builds to the third disc, where the crescendos and explosions always take place (late in the second set, where the Dead are almost alwasy on fire). The general build-up over the nine discs is a long, slow wonderment. I listen to the Dead on my daily commute, and I used this box set for several weeks as a way of grooving to a soundtrack. It's terrific to hear the whole thing, beginning to end. I think I made it through three consecutive listens before I switched to something else -- only to come back to the Winterland set again and again. Disc nine is a monster. The "Dark Star" here is among my favorites, along with the version on Dick's Picks # 11 and of course the shorter more intense version on "Live/Dead." For the price, you are not going to find a better buy. I consider the Dead the closest thing to all out free jazz that rock'n'roll ever gets -- it's beyond jazz, really, and certainly way beyond the roots music that gave birth to this most American of rock bands. The sound quality here is terrific, although it takes a little while to get used to it. You settle into a groove pretty quickly, though, and pretty soon you're not even aware you're hearing a two track recording. Like almost all of the live Dead releases, the sound quality is top notch.
This one is for the Deadheads
2009-07-28 - A lot has been made of the older technology used to record these concerts. If you're a new listener to the dead, maybe this isn't the cd set for you.
But old Deadheads will love this.
The remastering is excellent. The music incredible.
I'm giving this a 5 for the old Deadheads that will love this cd collection, despite the technology used back in '73.
Now's The Time
2009-07-06 - Not since the death of Jerry Garcia has there been a better time to be a fan of the Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks has grown beyond all expectation; the internet has connected fans like never before; and the band itself is back on tour and has made every effort to flood the market with studio quality recordings of pivotal shows from its storied past.
Which way to turn? Which shows to jump on? Our plates are so full deciding is nearly a torment, but these legendary recordings are a good starting point for any fan who wants to know what all the fuss was about.
On the whole, Winterland is a fascinating document, a three-day run portraying a band in an ever evolving state of transition. The sound is so good you'll have a hard time believeing it was recorded on 2-track, but that's a testament to David Lemieux (and Rhino Records) whose talent and meticulous care of the vaults are fully realized on this release.
Last but not least, the packaging. Normally I don't comment on the superficial aesthetic of any release, but the presentation is sumptuous and the linear notes, along with old-time playbills, give these Winterland recordings a sense of a specific time and place, taking our tickets and ushering us through the door just minutes before the band takes the stage.
I wish all box sets were like this.
