Jerry Garcia - electric guitar, vocals

Merl Saunders - keyboards

John Kahn - electric bass

Bill Kreutzmann - drums

Martin Fierro - saxophone, flute

Set 1:

Think , Finders Keepers , Are You Lonely For Me , I Second That Emotion , Wondering Why , The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Partial Set 2:

Harder They Come , (I'm A) Road Runner , La-La , Mystery Train

• Also Appearing
• Paul Pena

• Weather:
• High: 57.8 °F
• Low: 39.8 °F
• Feels Like High: 57.8 °F
• Feels Like Low: 39.8 °F
• Wind Speed: 6.9 mph
• Humidity: 78.6 %
• Moonphase: 0.59 
• Partly cloudy throughout the day.
• Time 8:30 PM
• Ticket Price $4.50
• Sellout No
• In Attendance 300
• Gross $1,350.00

•  Capacity 1000 Built and opened in June, 1957, the Rheem Theatre was originally one screen, but during its remodeling in the 1990's was split into four. The renovation did not ruin its original look. The architect was Cantin and Cantin. It was a 1000-seat house with a large stadium section. The auditorium walls featured extensive murals, and the house had what was then the largest installation of rocking chairs in the United States, being the only theater west of the Rockies that was entirely seated with them. The Rheem was also unusually spacious for its time, with row spacing of 42 to 44 inches, and the seats had extra-wide arm rests. Despite its late construction date the Rheem had the style of the luxurious Art Moderne theaters of the 1940s; but it also had the spaciousness which has only become standard in recent years, so it was both a throwback and well ahead of its time. The owner of the theater, Donald Rheem, could clearly afford the best of everything, and Cantin & Cantin certainly provided it.(3) 

Gold Rush Productions Presents. $1,500 guar plus 50% gross over $4,500. May have been changed after the fact to $1,350 flat. Crew got $200, Paul Pena got $20, beer was $10, regular band members got $250 each, Martin got $120. Source: ref: Sally Dryden's November 1973 to February 1974 Notebook, unnumbered pp. 27, 41, "Business: Meeting Minutes, 1973," Grateful Dead Archive, Special Collections, UC Santa Cruz, MS.332.ser. 2, box 137, folder 12. It seems like the promoters took a huge bath on this - maybe only 300 tickets sold?

set II probably incomplete, as Ed Perlstein's reel-to-reel deck got unplugged from the board during Mystery Train. He had been allowed to patch out on 11/4/73 (OAITW), and then 1/19/74, 2/5/74, and 2/9/74 with Garcia Saunders. So, endeth, with this pulling of the plug, this set of recordings. Thanks, as always, to Ed for sharing his tapes with the world. Now go check out his photographs!

ad: San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle Datebook, February 3, 1974, p. 7

preview: "Garcia and Saunders," San Francisco Examiner, February 7, 1974, p. 28

listings: Fremont Argus, February 8, 1974, p. 7 | San Francisco Examiner, February 9, 1974, p. 11

ref: "Show Files, Other: Contract – Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders, 2/9/74, Rheem Theater, Walnut Creek [sic], CA," Grateful Dead Archive, Special Collections, UC Santa Cruz, MS.332.ser. 3, box 167, folder 5.