A lost board tape containing half of the December 10 show had recently reentered the band’s archives, and Lemieux “was thrilled with how well complemented the 19 St. Louis shows.”Īmong the highlights across the box’s 180 tracks: a labyrinthine 13-minute rendition of “Bird Song,” featuring recently added pianist Keith Godchaux, and raucous versions of Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. When the label asked for more, the producer returned to the 1971 Fox recordings.
Lemieux pitched Rhino on a 15-disc set containing the ’72 and ’73 concerts.
Louis shows I was just having a hard time deciding which one to choose.” Not long before Latvala died, he also gave Lemieux tapes that included the two ’73 Kiel shows. In an essay accompanying the box, Lemieux explains, “I knew there’d be a release among these three St. Louis area between 19, the Fox held a special place in the Dead’s heart, and you can hear that reverence in the music. Although the band played more than 20 times at various venues in the St. Listen to the River was born after Dead archival producer David Lemieux fell in love with the trio of Fox Theatre sets from 1972 through a tip from legendary Dead archivist Dick Latvala, who died in 1999.
In addition to the ’71 Fox recordings, the box includes three nights at the 4,500-capacity theater in October 1972 and a pair of late-October 1973 shows to 9,000 fans at the Kiel Auditorium. Documenting seven full Grateful Dead concerts across a three-year period, the massive Dead-issued set presents the band during one of their numerous peaks. Noting the beauty of the Fox, Weir then made a request: “Don’t stand on the seats or kick out the walls or rip out the ornaments.” He called the venue “the only place we like to play around here.”įortunately, fans abided, and the evidence permeates the profoundly deep new 20-CD set Listen to the River: St. Guitarists Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, keyboardist Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, and bassist Phil Lesh playfully sound-checked their microphone levels. The humming power of the sound system was obvious from the first moments of that concert’s board recording. On December 9, 1971, the Grateful Dead walked onto the stage at the Fox Theatre for the first of two nights in St. The Grateful Dead play at the Kiel Auditorium in 1973.
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