Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings is a 9 CD live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...

. It contains three complete concerts, missing only the encore of the first concert. It was recorded on November 9, 10, and 11, 1973, at the Winterland Ballroom

Winterland Ballroom

The Winterland Ballroom, often referred to as Winterland Arena or simply Winterland, was an old ice skating rink and 5,400-seat music venue in San Francisco, California...

 in San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

. The album was released on April 1, 2008.

A tenth, "bonus" disc was included with early shipments of the album. The bonus disc contains material from the December 4, 1973 concert at the Cincinnati Gardens

Cincinnati Gardens

The Cincinnati Gardens is an indoor sports and entertainment arena located in Cincinnati, Ohio, that opened in 1949. The 25,000 square foot brick and limestone building, whose entrance is decorated with six three-dimensional carved athletic figures, was modeled after Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto,...

 in Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Cincinnati is the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located to north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits is 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's...

.

Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings was the second Grateful Dead album to contain an entire "run" of concerts. The first was Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings

The Complete Fillmore West 1969

Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings is a limited edition box set , released in November 2005, featuring four complete concerts by the Grateful Dead on 10 CDs...

, which was released in 2005.

Recording and mastering

The Winterland 1973 concerts were recorded on two-channel

Stereophonic sound

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 analog tapes, using a Nagra IV

Nagra

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 reel-to-reel tape recorder

Reel-to-reel audio tape recording

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. As part of mastering

Audio mastering

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 the recordings for CD, the analog recordings were transferred to a digital format. They were then edited using a digital signal processing

Digital signal processing

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 system called Clarity, developed by Plangent Processes, which fixes sonic problems created by minor variations in the tape speed of the original tape recorder. The resulting recording has been corrected for pitch

Pitch (music)

Pitch is an auditory perceptual property that allows the ordering of sounds on a frequency-related scale.Pitches are compared as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies,...

 and tempo

Tempo

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, and wow and flutter

Wow (recording)

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 have been eliminated.

The album was released in HDCD format. This provides enhanced sound quality when played on CD players with HDCD capability, and is fully compatible with regular CD players.

Disc 1

November 9, 1973 — First set:

1. "Promised Land
   Promised Land (song)
   "Promised Land" is a song lyric written by Chuck Berry to the melody of "Wabash Cannonball", an American folk song. The song was first recorded in this version by Chuck Berry in 1964 for his album St. Louis to Liverpool. Released in 1965, it was Berry's first single issued following his prison term...
   
   " (Chuck Berry
   Chuck Berry
   Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...
   
   ) – 3:21
2. "Brown-Eyed Woman" (Jerry Garcia
   Jerry Garcia
   Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
   
   , Robert Hunter
   Robert Hunter (lyricist)
   Robert C. Hunter is an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator, and poet, best known for his association with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead.-Biography:He was born Robert Burns in San Luis Obispo, California...
   
   ) – 5:08
3. "Me and Bobby McGee
   Me and Bobby McGee
   "Me and Bobby McGee" is a song written by Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, originally performed by Roger Miller. Others performed the song later, including Kristofferson himself, and Janis Joplin who topped the U.S. singles chart with the song in 1971 after her death, making the song the second...
   
   " (Kris Kristofferson
   Kris Kristofferson
   Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson is an American musician, actor, and writer. He is known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"...
   
   , Fred Foster
   Fred Foster
   Fred Foster is an American songwriter, record producer, and founder of Monument Records.-Biography:...
   
   ) – 5:59
4. "They Love Each Other" (Garcia, Hunter) - 5:42
5. "Black-Throated Wind
   Black-Throated Wind
   "Black-Throated Wind" is the second track from Bob Weir's solo debut Ace. The song was written by Weir and lyricist John Perry Barlow about the experiences Barlow had on a road trip from New York to San Francisco in 1971...
   
   " (Bob Weir
   Bob Weir
   Bob Weir is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead...
   
   , John Perry Barlow
   John Perry Barlow
   John Perry Barlow is an American poet and essayist, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian political activist who has been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He is also a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic...
   
   ) – 7:08
6. "Don’t Ease Me In" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 4:37
7. "Mexicali Blues
   Mexicali Blues (song)
   "Mexicali Blues" is a song from Bob Weir's 1972 Ace solo album that, like the rest of the material on that record, was de facto by the Grateful Dead. Indeed it appears on the 1974 Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead compilation....
   
   " (Weir, Barlow) – 3:44
8. "Row Jimmy" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:03
9. "The Race Is On" (Don Rollins) – 3:57
10. "China Cat Sunflower
    China Cat Sunflower
    "China Cat Sunflower" is a song performed by the Grateful Dead which was first recorded for their third studio album Aoxomoxoa. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and the music composed by Jerry Garcia. The song is typically sung by Jerry Garcia. The first live recording of this song...
    
    " (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:35
11. "I Know You Rider
    I Know You Rider
    "I Know You Rider" is a traditional woman's blues song that has been adapted by numerous artists. Modern versions can be traced back to the song's appearance in the 1934 book, American Ballads and Folk Songs, by the noted father and son musicologists and folklorists, John Lomax and Alan Lomax...
    
    " (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 5:27

Disc 2

1. "Playing in the Band
   Playing in the Band
   "Playing in the Band" is a Grateful Dead song. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir composed it. The song first emerged in embryonic form on the self-titled 1971 live album Grateful Dead...
   
   " (Weir, Mickey Hart
   Mickey Hart
   Mickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971, and from October 1974 to August 1995...
   
   , Hunter) – 20:53

November 9, 1973 — Second set:

2. "Here Comes Sunshine" (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:52
3. "Me and My Uncle
   Me and My Uncle
   "Me and My Uncle", often also written "Me & My Uncle," is a song composed by John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, and popularized by the Grateful Dead and Judy Collins...
   
   " (John Phillips
   John Phillips (musician)
   John Edmund Andrew Phillips , was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter and promoter . Known as Papa John, Phillips was a member and leader of the singing group The Mamas & the Papas...
   
   ) – 3:44
4. "To Lay Me Down" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:11
5. "Big River" (Johnny Cash
   Johnny Cash
   John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
   
   ) – 5:29
6. "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:30
7. "Greatest Story Ever Told" > (Weir, Hunter) – 5:10
8. "Bertha" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:12

Disc 3

1. "Weather Report Suite" (Weir, Eric Andersen
   Eric Andersen
   Eric Andersen is an American singer-songwriter.-Biography:In the early 1960s, Eric Andersen was part of the Greenwich Village folk scene in New York...
   
   , Barlow) – 15:38 >
2. "Eyes of the World" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 16:43
3. "China Doll" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:57
4. "Around and Around
   Around and Around
   "Around and Around" is a 1958 rock song written and first recorded by Chuck Berry. It originally appeared under the name "Around & Around" as the B-side to the single "Johnny B. Goode".- The Rolling Stones :...
   
   " > (Berry) – 5:05
5. "Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad" > (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 8:01
6. "Johnny B. Goode
   Johnny B. Goode
   "Johnny B. Goode" is a 1958 rock and roll song written and originally performed by American musician Chuck Berry. The song was a major hit among both black and white audiences peaking at #2 on Billboard magazine's Hot R&B Sides chart and #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.The song is one of Chuck Berry's...
   
   " (Berry) – 4:25

Disc 4

November 10, 1973 — First set:

1. "Bertha" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:11
2. "Jack Straw" (Weir, Hunter) – 5:15
3. "Loser" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:40
4. "Looks Like Rain" (Weir, Barlow) – 7:50
5. "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:40
6. "Mexicali Blues" (Weir, Barlow) – 3:42
7. "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:39
8. "El Paso
   El Paso (song)
   "El Paso" is a country and western ballad written and originally recorded by Marty Robbins, and first released on Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs in September 1959. It was released as a single the following month, and became a major hit on both the country and pop music charts, reaching number...
   
   " (Marty Robbins
   Marty Robbins
   Martin David Robinson , known professionally as Marty Robbins, was an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist...
   
   ) – 4:54
9. "Brokedown Palace" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:12
10. "Beat It On Down the Line" (Jesse Fuller
    Jesse Fuller
    Jesse Fuller was an American one-man band musician, best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues".-Early life:...
    
    ) – 3:51
11. "Row Jimmy" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:51

Disc 5

1. "Weather Report Suite" (Weir, Andersen, Barlow) – 18:26

November 10, 1973 — Second set:

2. "Playing In The Band" > (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 11:59
3. "Uncle John's Band
   Uncle John's Band
   "Uncle John's Band" is a song by the Grateful Dead that first appeared in their concert setlists in late 1969. The band recorded it for their 1970 album Workingman's Dead...
   
   " > (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:39
4. "Morning Dew
   Morning Dew
   "Morning Dew", also known as " Morning Dew", is a post-apocalyptic folk-rock song written by Canadian singer Bonnie Dobson in 1962.According to Dobson in a 1993 interview, "Morning Dew" was inspired by the film On the Beach....
   
   " > (Bonnie Dobson
   Bonnie Dobson
   Bonnie Dobson is a Canadian folk music songwriter, singer, and guitarist, most known in the 1960s for composing the songs "I'm Your Woman" and "Morning Dew"...
   
   ) – 12:24
5. "Uncle John’s Band" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 1:50
6. "Playing In The Band" (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 7:38

Disc 6

1. "Big River" (Cash) – 5:12
2. "Stella Blue" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:19
3. "Truckin'
   Truckin'
   "Truckin'" is a song by the Grateful Dead, which first appeared on their 1970 album American Beauty. It was recognized by the United States Library of Congress in 1997 as a national treasure....
   
   " > (Garcia, Phil Lesh
   Phil Lesh
   Phillip Chapman Lesh is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career....
   
   , Weir, Hunter) – 12:18
4. "Wharf Rat" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:43
5. "Sugar Magnolia
   Sugar Magnolia
   "Sugar Magnolia" is a song by the Grateful Dead. Written by Robert Hunter and Bob Weir, it is one of the most well-known songs by the band, alongside such hits as "Truckin'," "Casey Jones," "Uncle John's Band," and "Touch of Grey."...
   
   " (Weir, Hunter) – 10:39

November 10, 1973 — Encore:

6. "One More Saturday Night
   One More Saturday Night (song)
   "One More Saturday Night" is a song written by Bob Weir and performed by the Grateful Dead. Weir is credited with writing "One More Saturday Night", although there is evidence that the song was originally written with Robert Hunter, with different lyrics...
   
   " (Weir) – 5:28
7. "Casey Jones
   Casey Jones (song)
   "Casey Jones" is a song by the American rock band the Grateful Dead. The music was written by Jerry Garcia, and the lyrics are by Robert Hunter. The song first appeared on the Dead's 1970 album Workingman's Dead. Subsequently it was included on a number of their live albums.The Grateful Dead...
   
   " (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:05

Disc 7

November 11, 1973 — First set:

1. "Promised Land" > (Berry) – 3:42
2. "Bertha" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:04
3. "Greatest Story Ever Told" (Weir, Hunter) – 6:07
4. "Sugaree
   Sugaree
   "Sugaree" is a song written by long-time Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter and composed by guitarist Jerry Garcia. It was written for Jerry Garcia's first solo album Garcia, which was released in January 1972...
   
   " (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:56
5. "Black-Throated Wind" (Weir, Barlow) – 7:47
6. "To Lay Me Down" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:28
7. "El Paso" (Robbins) – 4:45
8. "Ramble On Rose" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:04
9. "Me and Bobby McGee" (Kristofferson, Foster) – 5:56

Disc 8

1. "China Cat Sunflower" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:27
2. "I Know You Rider" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:04
3. "Me and My Uncle" (Phillips) – 3:34
4. "Loose Lucy" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:52
5. "Weather Report Suite" (Weir, Andersen, Barlow) – 15:07

November 11, 1973 — Second set:

6. "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:26
7. "Big River" (Cash) – 7:05

Disc 9

1. "Dark Star
   Dark Star (song)
   "Dark Star" is a song released as a single by the Grateful Dead. It was written by lyricist Robert Hunter and composed by lead guitarist Jerry Garcia; however, compositional credit is sometimes extended to include Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, the late Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, and Bob Weir...
   
   " > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Bill Kreutzmann
   Bill Kreutzmann
   Bill Kreutzmann is an American drummer who played with the rock band the Grateful Dead for their entire thirty-year career...
   
   , Keith Godchaux
   Keith Godchaux
   Keith Richard Godchaux was a musician best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead.-Biography:Keith Godchaux was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Concord, California...
   
   , Hunter) – 35:41
2. "Eyes Of The World" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 13:36
3. "China Doll" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:40
4. "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 10:19

November 11, 1973 — Encore:

5. "Uncle John’s Band" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:32
6. "Johnny B. Goode" > (Berry) – 3:56
7. "We Bid You Goodnight" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 3:11

Bonus Disc

December 4, 1973, Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati, Ohio:

1. "China Cat Sunflower" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:58 >
2. "I Know You Rider" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 5:57
3. "Truckin'" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 8:48 >
4. "Stella Blue" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:15
5. "Eyes Of The World" (Garcia, Hunter) – 13:38 >
6. "Space" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Kreutzmann, Godchaux) – 9:36 >
7. "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 6:17 >
8. "Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 9:45 >
9. "Casey Jones" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:17

Grateful Dead

• Jerry Garcia
  Jerry Garcia
  Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
  
   – lead guitar
  Lead guitar
  Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
  
  , vocals
• Donna Godchaux
  Donna Godchaux
  Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay is an American singer best known for having been a member of the Grateful Dead rock group.-Biography:...
  
   – vocals
• Keith Godchaux
  Keith Godchaux
  Keith Richard Godchaux was a musician best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead.-Biography:Keith Godchaux was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Concord, California...
  
   – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  
• Bill Kreutzmann
  Bill Kreutzmann
  Bill Kreutzmann is an American drummer who played with the rock band the Grateful Dead for their entire thirty-year career...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• Phil Lesh
  Phil Lesh
  Phillip Chapman Lesh is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career....
  
   – electric bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Bob Weir
  Bob Weir
  Bob Weir is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead...
  
   – rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
  
  , vocals

Production

• Produced by Grateful Dead
• Box set produced by David Lemieux and Jeffrey Norman
• Recording by Bill Candelario
• CD mastering by Jeffrey Norman at Garage Audio, Petaluma, California
• Restoration by Jamie Howarth, Plangent Processes
• Archival research by Eileen Law / Grateful Dead Archives
• Cover art by Emek
• Art direction and design by Steve Vance
• Photography by Bruce Polonsky, Mary Ann Mayer, and Gary Manasse
• Set lists by David Gans
• Special thanks to Hale Milgrim, Nancy Nichols, and Paul Nichols
• Dedicated to the memory of Don Pearson
• Liner notes by Dennis McNally

December 4, 1973 set list

The set list for the December 4, 1973 concert at the Cincinnati Gardens was:

• First set: "Johnny B. Goode", "Sugaree", "Me and My Uncle", "China Cat Sunflower"*, "I Know You Rider"*, "El Paso", "Deal", "Big River", "Tennessee Jed", "Truckin'"*, "Stella Blue"*, "Around and Around"
• Second set: "Eyes of the World"*, "Space"*, "Sugar Magnolia"*, "Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad"*, "Casey Jones"*
• Encore: "One More Saturday Night"

* Included in the Winterland '73 bonus disc