Grateful Dead 1973-02-17 [Sat] St. Paul Civic Center Arena, St. Paul, MN

Set 1:

Promised Land , He's Gone , Looks Like Rain , Box Of Rain , Wave That Flag , Mexicali Blues , Bird Song , Beat It On Down The Line [1] , Loose Lucy , Me And Bobby McGee , Stella Blue , El Paso , They Love Each Other , Playing In The Band

Set 2:

Truckin' , Row Jimmy , Big River , You Ain't Woman Enough , Here Comes Sunshine > China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider , Around And Around , Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad > Not Fade Away , One More Saturday Night

Encore:

Casey Jones

[1] Beer Barrel Polka tuning before

f you can brave -5 degree weather on one more Saturday night in St Paul, MN, you might have seen the third show of the Wake of the Flood era. Happy 45th to you brave souls in the midwest who braved the elements for this night in 1973 (thanks mr charlie).

I would have started the 45th anniversary series with the Madison show on the 15th with the first Dark Star>Eyes>China Doll but alas the digital archive folks in Wisconsin are slow (fix this Madison heads and I can only get digital info through 1961). Not the case in Minnesota when you can always get at least two Twin Cities reviews of the band (see my 5-11-77 piece for two reviews as well).

In this show, we get a standalone Playin In The Band and a standalone Truckin to end set one and start two. No big The Other One or Dark Star, but we get the ultra rare and once-only Sunshine>China>Rider, about 1,243 grateful seconds of bliss.