Morning Dew

Beat It On Down The Line

Friend Of The Devil

Black Throated Wind

Tennessee Jed

Mexicali Blues

Bird Song

Big River

Brokedown Palace

El Paso

China Cat Sunflower

I Know You Rider

Playing In The Band

Deal

Greatest Story Ever Told

Ramble On Rose

Dark Star

Cumberland Blues

Attics Of My Life

Promised Land

Uncle John's Band

Casey Jones

Around And Around

Grateful Dead

Next time "Attics" was played was 721028 and then it was not played until 891009.Nice versions of FOTD and BIODTL

officially released On CD as Dick's Pick's Volume 11.

If you don't already own this show as Dick's Picks 11, go and buy it from the gdstore right now!  This really is an amazing performance.  Opening with Morning Dew is always an indication of an excellent show and this one does not let up until the end.  While your at it, you should pick up the next night from the Stanley on the archive.

Buy the Dick's Picks

This show indicates the high level of intensity the Dead brought to performing in the greater New York metropolitan area beginning 16June1968( first Fillmore East performance, see archive).  Unbelievable Dark Star, arguably their best ever.

While this show is unavailable here, I've had DP11 for some time now and must say it is in my top 5 from 1972.  Dew opens the show and it's gravy from there.....great Bird Song, great China>Rider, really great Playin' closes set I.  Too bad they began to mellow out in 1st sets later in their career.
Set II opens with a sweet He's Gone.....great harmonies and ensuing jam.  A few relaxing tunes and it's liftoff time with a CLASSIC Dark Star.  Jazzy jams, sweet noodling and all the chaos one would ever want from this song.  It only takes 24min to find the 1st verse.  You get the idea.  And to melt into Cumberland is simply amazing.  Also, the UJB is pretty unique in its presentation.....lots of reggae.  Worth buying!

Another great  show from '72

Went to this Three nite run back in 72. I was a senior in H.S. and I had to beg my parents to let me go because there was a school nite in that run. All three shows were fantastic. This one probably the best of the run. Would make a nice boxed set The DS>Cumberland is top notch

Box it

I've listened to this closely several times on DP11.  Dark Star starts a bit slow but they do a fast jazzy thing in the middle with which is outstanding (Keith was the keyboard player who understood jazz the best).  Friend of the Devil is great.  It is fast.  This was before they slowed it down in the Mid-70's.  I knocked off a point because the vocals are sloppy and because Jerry screwed up the Casey Jones solo.  But overall, it is a very good show.

Very good show

this is one of my favorite september '72 shows, along with 9/21,(also now a dick's pick). actually i'd go as far as to say its one of my favorite shows ever.

ok, so i've been pretty obsessed with bird song lately, and i just can't get enough of this one sometimes. besides veneta, (and possibly 6/22/73), this is the best one ever, imho. yah, i know, there's some great ones in the 80's and 3/29/90 w/ bradford marsalis is a lot of people's favorite, but i really favor these '72/'73 versions. garcia's phrases, especially the jam before the second verses, are prefectly chosen. it is one of my favorite fat-man jams ever. bobby and phil really throw in some jazzy rhythms too, making this one all the more beautiful. 

but one song dosen't make a show (usually haha). the rest of this is just as good. dark star is really fluid and jazzy in the first half, and then gets OUT THERE. no 9/21 or even 8/27, but very different. china>rider, deal, GSET, ramble on rose and tennesse jed are some of my favorite versions of the year. and this show also has the hands down best cumberland blues EVER. jerry's hands move like lightning. the uncle john's at the end has a sweet, almost playin'-like jam in the middle, it's my favoite version for '72.

do yourself a favor and go buy dick's picks vol. 11.

bird song delight

whenever I try to verify (and I have tried with multiple applications) it says that the actual files are missing in the .md5 files. any ideas?

Files Won't Work

the md5s arnt gonna work. the files were removed a while ago because this show is available for purchase at dead.net. its dicks picks 11 and well worth the dough.

Bird Song and Dark Star are highlights of an excellent year.

Jerry heaven

This was a stellar show.
some of my memories from the night:

My 2 friends and I had bought a bottle of tequila and downed it outside the venue. then just as we stepped into the theatre the band hit the first chord of Morning Dew. It felt like they were waiting for us to begin and were heralding our arrival.

There was a banner hanging from the balcony that said, "get well Pigpen". During the big rocking songs like Sugar Magnolia or Casey Jones you could see the balcony bouncing up and down at least six inches. The banner was waving wide and high. I had heard that they had to condemn the theatre after these shows because of structural damage.

Tear this old building down

A rare, solidly 5-star show during the 2nd of a 3-night run at the 4000-seat Stanley {historically the second largest American theater after Radio City}, just one week after playing the nearby baseball stadium in Jersey City - in the meantime they played the Palace Theater and a great Philly Spectrum show (Dick's 36). The following night is also a must-hear. Note the odd song list, that looks like the sets could be switched - very song-based with no Drums or big jammies, 'cept a Dawk Staw. The 1st set is 1½ hours; the 2nd set is slightly longer, making the songs relatively brief. 

Set descriptions>
unnecessary; both sets are excellent. All are B to A versions (sans Promised Land, in "merely" average version).

1st Set:  A+
2nd Set: A
Overall = 5 Stars

Highlights:
Entire Show, but stellar, A+ versions of:
Beat it on Down the Line-7 - perfect
Friend of the Devil - very tight in fall '72 in general
Brokedown palace - rare to get this one so right - and not in a closer/encore slot; may be better than 6/8/77
El Paso - letter- perfect
Me & Uncle - hard to pick from hundreds; let's go with this one
Deal - note weird set position - may be the best of the 41 in '72! Jer is serious about his delivery and you can tell he gets off, after his solo
Cumberland - weird dissolve-in from Dark Star>to ace version

The run:
9/26 C
9/27 A+
9/28 B+

SOURCES: The vernon SBD is fine. The whole show is on Dick's Picks #11, with a patch from 9/24 to fix the 25sec cut in Rider.

One of the top 50 shows - A+

after roosevelt stadium, i had to get 6 tickets for me and my friends. i decided to go to the theatre the friday before they were supposed to go on sale, which was to be that monday. when i got to the box office, the woman there asked me what i was doing. i said "i'm waiting on line for tickets to see the grateful dead." she didn't know what to do! she got her manager, who came to the box office window, and said to her, "sell him the tickets now." she said "which show do you want and where would like to sit?" on a hunch, i said the middle show and then first row center, but then i said no, i wanted us to have a better visual angle, make it the sixth row center, and that's where we went! i wasn't sure because of the windowpane, but when i turned around during the concert, i could swear i saw the balcony bouncing up and down in rhythm. what a night, what a concert!

one of the best

I have pretty specifics interests as a non-Deadhead. I mostly don't like the Dead, but I am a sucker for 72-74 performances of about six Dead songs. This show has a rousing China Cat->Rider, a dynamic Bird Song with a great first solo, a really worthwhile Brokedown Palace, and the jazziest Dark Star that I've ever heard. That's a great 45 minutes of music.

This is a great set for those 72 Jerry Strat tones and some choice playing by Keith G

Yes - the balcony was bouncing. After this run the Stanley was condemned due to the structural damage discovered when the Heads were rocking out.

No - it wan't a hallucination.

The Bouncing Balcony

Solid 1st set
Dark Star>Cumberland, 
Attics
Good reviews.

Trust in the LORD and do good
dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness
Delight yourself in the LORD
and HE will give you the desires of your heart...

Yet a little while and the wicked man will be no more...

But the humble will inherit the land 
and will delight themselves in abundant prosperity...

I have been young , and now am old,
yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,
or his descendents begging bread.

excerpts of psalm 37







And we never stopped rockin'

Monster. Of course there's the Dark Star->Cumberland, as described here by Arthur Dent (DeadBase XI): "A wonderful Dark Star, long as is the 1972 tradition... features solid tours through the theme, theme/jam, jam, spacey jam and space phases in a nice even progression. It is beautifully balanced with some blistering guitar work from Jerry during the Jam segment. And afterwards, the band follows Phil into a collector's-edition Cumberland." As he points out, this show opens with a Morning Dew and has an excellent Playin (to close out the first set). I would add, it also boast an all-time Brokedown Palace and a fantastic Bird Song. The whole show, really, is just great. After all, it is September of 1972. 

Attics last played 141 shows prior, on 12/27/70. Played again 13 shows later, on 10/28/72, then not until 10/9/89. 

Dick's Picks 11

with all the money the Dead spent on gear , the one thing noticeable is that no one bought a tuner.
the whole show is marred by being out of tune...as usual.
set list looks good on paper, but it is unlistenable.

get a tuner

Ever notice how some people are just assholes? My only problem is not being able to get enough VOLUME. Using my phone & a Bluetooth speaker it's just not loud enough.. Oh what am I saying it's totally out of tune & unlistenable. I guess that's why they chose it for Dicks Picks 11 is because it's unlistenable.Wow really? Who's pissing in your corn flakes. Even though I can't get this loud enough, the way I see it, Jerry was there so it was a five star show. No doubt!!!

At Jonny 73

and the AI nanny insists that I must fill in all fields... 

Grateful Dead Live at Stanley Theatre on 1972-09-27