Set 1



Scarlet Begonias

Me And My Uncle

Brown Eyed Women

Beat It On Down The Line

Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo ->

It Must Have Been The Roses

Mexicali Blues

Row Jimmy

Jack Straw

China Cat Sunflower ->

I Know You Rider

Around And Around



Set 2



Bertha

Big River

Eyes Of The World ->

China Doll

The Promised Land

Ship Of Fools

Weather Report Suite Prelude ->

Weather Report Suite Part ->

Let It Grow Set . Seastones



Set 3



El Paso

Ramble On Rose

Greatest Story Ever Told

To Lay Me Down

Truckin' ->

Mind Left Body Jam ->

Spanish Jam ->

Wharf Rat

U.S. Blues

One More Saturday Night



Encore

Uncle John's Band

Patch Info:



Reel flip in Row Jimmy and WRS Intro patched with Bill Degen's AUD



Unknown Mics -> Master Cassette -> Reel (7inch) -> Dat -> SHN







Notes:



-- This is shnid 1019 cleaned up and patched.



-- Beginning of Scarlet is cut.

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Reviewer: Dark Star 101 - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - August 1, 2020

Subject: Hartford Gotta say I have a love/hate relationship with Hartford. Lived there 2002-2004 and couldn’t stand it, couldn’t wait to leave and go to Boston. On the other had, there were so many top notch Dead shows there that redemption is at hand. My time seeing shows there was in college during the early 1980s (an hour away) and they were mostly scorching, 1983 comes to mind. But this show is truly amazing - I mean just over the top from stem to stern. Listening right now to Spanish jam, which followed an amazing Truckin‘ > Mind Left Body jam. Just dripping psychedelic music played at a relaxed pace, what a day this must have been. Go GD in Hartford! 7 Stars. - August 1, 2020Hartford

Reviewer: DougT57 - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - June 17, 2019

Subject: Goosebumps Recently purchased tickets to see the Dead & Co show in Bristow, VA. Got me to searching...



Nearly 45 years ago this was my very first Grateful Dead show. I'll have to admit I was seriously tripping and don't remember much of it, and I can't comment much about the "quality" of the show, but oh lord I remember the place just LIGHTING UP when Truckin started, continuing through the following jams and hitting nirvana on One More Saturday night. (It was a Wed, but what the hell.)



Listening to it all again and sharing it with all the guys that attended with me that night. This whole archive site is priceless. - June 17, 2019Goosebumps

Reviewer: billyd53@gmail.com - favorite favorite favorite favorite - May 9, 2017

Subject: lights missing the laser lights show - May 9, 2017lights

Reviewer: Mind Wondrin - favorite favorite favorite favorite - December 1, 2015

Subject: Stadiumless @ crazy middle set

On a small gridiron pitch with bleachers and room for a couple thousand (there's no actual stadium) at Colt Park. They'd played it in '72 but would switch to the Civic Center for 18 shows from '77 to '90 (they played in Colt Park itself, across the street from the bleachers, in '76). From the AUD it doesn't sound like there were more than a few hundred attending, pero quién sabe? This is the show before the Philly shows (with the great Playin' the first night and the hot show the second). The show before (Cap Centre - Columbia District) was also great and was the 2012 Dave's Picks bonus disc.



This show is notable for a near-perfect second set (of three - not counting Seastones); one of the top sets of '74. That makes it almost 5 hours with intermissions, and helps explain why (unusually for '74) they repeated half the songs from the show before. Fear not that the 1st Set is average. Stick with it and hear a local park pitch in Hartford lose its terra adhesion. It wasn't a much-traded show for whatever reason but has come into its own since it's release as Dave's #2. Overall it's a '74 Top Twenty - maybe Top Ten.



First Set. One of only 2 shows that start with a Scarlet (Ally Pally #3), I always enjoy the end-workout of the '74 arrangement. Keith is awesome on Me & My Uncle. There's an average Beat it On Down the Line-dozen (Baker's for Keith) but the vox drop from the SBDs (try the matrix). It's a little rough after that (though Roses has a nice, non-dirge tempo) until Jack Straw kicks asses. China>Rider is a little too loose to be a '74 classic but Around finishes the set strong. Bobby's off-tune shouting notwithstanding, it's a smoker with Jer getting some off-the-usual licks, first with a blues scale solo, then with Berry double-stop and rhythm figures using added sevenths.



Second Set. Bertha isn't the tightest ever but the solo is so sweet-spotted it cures diabetics, Bobby's laying great fills and Phil is walking all over the place (awesome or frustrating? You decide!). Big River = good gods. '74 is lousy with great Eyes (Louisville, Winterland, etc.), and this is one of them. Phil is having a hell of a show and this one is just hard to believe. The band ends and Jer just keeps doodling alone until Billy recognizes China Doll. It's amazing how a Berry 3-chorder can be so different each night, but on this Promised Land Jer whittles the whole way through. Tidewater 4-10-09! Jer is on tiptoes for Ship, reaching deep. And Keith - wow. Weather Report>LiG is better the show before but the last five minutes are incredible.



Third Set. The band's just coasting at first with Jer understated and Donnaskreech™ on Greatest Story. But then the set blows wide with a Truckin'>Wharf that includes both Mind left AND Spanish jams. It starts sloppy but then takes off on the back of Mssr. Garcia. From Truckin' through the jam takes 32 minutes until a Wharf where Billy's the king (even though Jer first teases Wharf @11:00!). Fatigue then sets in - as it often did on the long ones.



1st Set : B-

2nd Set : A+

3rd Set : C

Overall = 4 Stars



Highlights:

Me & My Uncle - check Keith here

Jack Straw - it all works

Around & Around - listen to Jer play it a little different

SET TWO - entire set is a must-hear

Truckin'>Wharf Rat - a Truckin' jam to a MLB jam to a Spanish jam to a Wharf separates a soccer pitch from the planet



SOURCES: Dave's Picks 2, like many of the SBDs, runs 1% fast - tolerable to most, I'm sure, and much less than we put up with in the blanx-n-postage days. The miller SBD is slightly better than DP2 but with the beginning of Scarlet cut (try the tobin matrix). - December 1, 2015Stadiumless @ crazy middle set

Reviewer: chris phillips - favorite favorite favorite favorite - June 26, 2014

Subject: Hartford 1974 TLMD through Wharf Rat is a nice segment of the show.

Scarlet, Eyes and WRS are pretty nice. - June 26, 2014Hartford 1974

Reviewer: Geoffsky - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - May 10, 2013

Subject: Sometimes i wonder I'd love to know when sundown occurred on this day. I had the experience of seeing the dead play a few sunsets and it was seldom just a coincidence that the mood of the music was right on with the stars coming out to play.



Great show here. I come back to it a few times a year. takes a whole day of work and just makes it difernt! - May 10, 2013Sometimes i wonder

Reviewer: GermanShepherd - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - April 11, 2013

Subject: Wharf Rat low note First time I have noticed Bob dropping the end note lower on the classic Wharf Rat intro. I don't know the notes, maybe from an A to and E or something. - April 11, 2013Wharf Rat low note

Reviewer: mickyrat - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - March 20, 2013

Subject: MLBjam So good! - March 20, 2013MLBjam

Reviewer: lp357 - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - January 12, 2013

Subject: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN THank You! - January 12, 2013TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

Reviewer: direwolf600 - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - February 1, 2012

Subject: Nice Once Here Charlie!!! I often find myself unsure of whether I prefer a CM remaster to a very crisp original MSR, assuming the MSR is clean as Charlie always goes the extra mile to provide a patch if it exists somewhere. Best I can guess is I probably come down around 50:50. Some of the best Betty Boards for example, CM remasters are good, and do offer at least a noticeable change, and depending on what you are looking for in the source you plan to keep, that change will often equal an upgrade. I've tried out every remaster, matrix, and whatever else has popped up over the years, and still find the unadulterated Betty reels of Cornell to be the absolute peak source of that show...and its not even close, but that is just me.



Why am I going on about all this, because CM's remaster of 7/31/74 is sublime, powerful, just right in virtually every way. The MSR that has been available on LMA forever is stellar. Really, one of the very very best(clean ^ crisp/pops) SBD recordings there is from the WOS era. It does not feature any of the flatness, or un-ignorable high hiss that malign so many other 73-74 sources. It's only flaws are a few random cuts, that really have zero impact on taking in the show. I wasn't expecting to prefer Charlie's, but I thought I'd better check it out since this stream will be a thing of the past within the month. If you get there in time, scoop this up before its too late. We should have a little time as 5/25/77 is slotted for release first.



Aside from the sound issues, this is one of those shows where you don't need to wonder if what you see on paper will deliver on its potential. This is a monster night that stands out near the highest peaks that the 73-74 GD ever reached. A must for all! - February 1, 2012Nice Once Here Charlie!!!

Reviewer: zzzboxofrainzzz - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - December 22, 2011

Subject: First show..... and still making me smile Not yet a mega fan, I knew a fair tunes from listening to my best friend's older bothers' copies of Workingman's, American Beauty, Live Dead and Europe '72 when he off took for a semester in Europe and left us 15 year olds behind to wallow through his music collection [as we'd done 5 years earlier as 10 year olds when he went up to Woodstock]. So when a friend that had moved to CT called to say he had an extra ticket for the Dead at Dillon Stadium, I figured "why the hell not". Best snap decision I ever made. Not only was this show a mind blowing affair for me, it started me on my own long,strange trip. One that I wouldn't trade for the world. So many shows, so many great tunes, so many life long friends, so many smiles, so much peace and love. All thanks to one phone call and a train ride from NJ to Hartford. Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile..... - December 22, 2011First show..... and still making me smile

Reviewer: Pangolin22 - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - July 26, 2011

Subject: Spectacular So excellent that I won't even bother picking favourites. Perfection from start to finish. Thanks again, Charlie Miller. - July 26, 2011Spectacular

Reviewer: rschwz28 - favorite favorite - February 9, 2011

Subject: Playing In The Band? I can't find Playing In The Band.



This concert reminds me of why I am not enamored of much live Dead after Ron's passing (early '73) - February 9, 2011Playing In The Band?

Reviewer: thebone - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - September 2, 2010

Subject: Beyond Impressive I am becomning a bigger fan of '74 all the time. Really like Keith's keys(both piano and MOOG) during the Wall of Sound period, and this show in particular.



Among the numerous highlights are China> Rider (incl. soaring, flawless transition jam), a big dreamy Eyes, and WRS. Of course, the pinnacle is the Truckin> Mind Left Body Jam> Spanish Jam. Really great improvisational stuff!! - September 2, 2010Beyond Impressive

Reviewer: kazzzz - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - August 29, 2010

Subject: Love it Jazzy, 3-set, classic '74 show. Miller recording is exceptional. One of the best! - August 29, 2010Love it

Reviewer: CosmicGeordie - favorite favorite favorite favorite - June 11, 2010

Subject: Great Mix Aside from the other great accolades for this show, the mix is particularly amazing -- especially Billy's drums.



The floor toms seem like they were mic'ed deep, a la Sgt. Pepper style. Regardless, the bottom-end of this show features joyous interplay between Billy and Phil. - June 11, 2010Great Mix

Reviewer: snoochieboochies - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - May 7, 2010

Subject: Twice Baked Eyes as wide open as they'll go, eyeballs bulging out to there, grinning from ear to ear, tongue wagging at the one side of my mouth, tears streaming down my face as i grip the edge of my seat, white-knuckled, frequently standing to spin round like a top... BOING!!! I love this show. - May 7, 2010Twice Baked

Reviewer: BIG_R - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - November 10, 2009

Subject: 7-31-74 Sweet! Nice job on the remaster by Charlie. There were some unfixable glitches but it still sounds great. - November 10, 20097-31-74

Reviewer: oh_uh_um_ah - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - July 31, 2009

Subject: The GRATEFUL DEAD "Live On Stage" July 31, 1974 at Dillion Stadium, Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America



~^|\_@|@_/|^~

~/\~



~This Day in GRATEFUL DEAD History~



The GRATEFUL DEAD were in Harford today, 35 years ago...if you weren't old enough to be at this show you probably don't have a clue what 1974 was like.



I couldn't be there in 1974, but I showed up today to listen to the show, where were you?



5 Stars for the mix, recording, performance, and transfer. It's a Charlie Miller transfer. If you haven't clicked on Charlie Miller's name and collected his GRATEFUL DEAD shows, you should...I did.



I recommend using your EQ during playback of most of the shows on the IA, this one included.



Windows Media Player has a 10 band EQ and SRS WOW effects that enhance the sound.



Here's one way to download this show:



The IA recommends users of Windows XP view this web-page with RealPlayer.



RealPlayer is a free media player you can download at



Using RealPlayer to view this webpage, click the VBR M3U link to open the songs in the Playlist. If your Playlist is not open, open it by clicking the Playlist icon at the lower right hand corner of RealPlayer.



Once the songs are in the Playlist, double click the song to play it, then click the record button at the lower left hand corner of Realplayer to record it.



When the red line reaches the other end click the stop button to download the song. Your song is in the RealPlayer Downloads folder.



Repeat these steps for each song.



Eat, Drink, Be Merry and Listen to the GRATEFUL DEAD.



Thanks for the LOVE from 1974. ~^|\_@|@_/|^~~/\~~This Day in GRATEFUL DEAD History~The GRATEFUL DEAD were in Harford today, 35 years ago...if you weren't old enough to be at this show you probably don't have a clue what 1974 was like.I couldn't be there in 1974, but I showed up today to listen to the show, where were you?5 Stars for the mix, recording, performance, and transfer. It's a Charlie Miller transfer. If you haven't clicked on Charlie Miller's name and collected his GRATEFUL DEAD shows, you should...I did.I recommend using your EQ during playback of most of the shows on the IA, this one included.Windows Media Player has a 10 band EQ and SRS WOW effects that enhance the sound.Here's one way to download this show:The IA recommends users of Windows XP view this web-page with RealPlayer.RealPlayer is a free media player you can download at www.realplayer.com Using RealPlayer to view this webpage, click the VBR M3U link to open the songs in the Playlist. If your Playlist is not open, open it by clicking the Playlist icon at the lower right hand corner of RealPlayer.Once the songs are in the Playlist, double click the song to play it, then click the record button at the lower left hand corner of Realplayer to record it.When the red line reaches the other end click the stop button to download the song. Your song is in the RealPlayer Downloads folder.Repeat these steps for each song.Eat, Drink, Be Merry and Listen to the GRATEFUL DEAD.Thanks for the LOVE from 1974. - July 31, 2009The GRATEFUL DEAD "Live On Stage" July 31, 1974 at Dillion Stadium, Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America

Reviewer: whirlwind dreamer 65-95 - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - July 31, 2009

Subject: 74 new england!! the groovy music is rightious!!! listen for yourself!! its far out!!~ - July 31, 200974 new england!!

Reviewer: gagas - favorite favorite favorite favorite - July 9, 2009

Subject: 74' Dead Nothing beats a good sounding Wall of Sound.



The show comes out with guns blazing and really gives you a full dose of prime GD music. Everyone seems to be into this show and 3 sets make this a must have for any deadhead. Highlights include a 18 minute Eyes and a great Truckin'-->Jam. The only flaw is in the recording but nothing over the top to take away for the great tunes. Overall 4 1/2 stars. If Dark star was played it would have been 5 but hey there is always tomorrow to find that hidden jewel of a show.



Peace,

Gagas - July 9, 200974' Dead

Reviewer: lchange46 - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - May 16, 2009

Subject: super show how can anyone judge this show .

take it for what it was phenomenal ..

the whole band was into they were backstage just lit up with laughter. everything was working on this sunny afternoon into the night ..

did anybody else see the guy in the red coat ? LOL ...this show was a grateful dead wrapped gift for the summer .if you never seen the wall it was a monster ,, anyway just listen and play it loud

5 stars

LCB - May 16, 2009super show

Reviewer: BVD - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - March 28, 2009

Subject: You Had to See It To Believe It This was the 2nd time I saw them at Dillon Stadium. First time was in July 72. But this time they were dwarfted by the WOS. What a fucking monster! When it worked right it was phenominal. It worked right this LSD drenched afternoon into night. Nostalgia pushes this show to a five star performance. Wrapping it up with UJB was the capper to a long day of Dead. - March 28, 2009You Had to See It To Believe It

Reviewer: Evan S. Hunt - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - March 28, 2009

Subject: One Of The Most Unusual Shows Ever In just under 4 hours, this is one of the most unusual shows they ever did. Jerry on the original Wolf shines on all three full sets plus a humor-drenched, Phil-dominated Seastones.



Each set was like a half of a normal first set and a half of a normal second set. All the songs are good minus a few slops and clams and the recording has various glitches and drop outs, but it really delivers on the important stuff. There is lots of innovative jamming throughout.



Highlights:

Set 1: China>Rider: Jerry flames toward the end of China Cat and carries it through to grand finale.

Set 2: Eyes> Stronger Than Dirt > China Doll > Ship >WRS > WRS2 > LIG. Relentless. One of the finest and most well-developed WRS' of all time.

Set 3: TLMD, Truckin'>Mind Left Jam and Spanish Jam. Astounding, mesmerizing, captivating.



One of my favorite shows of 1974. One of the unheralded great shows of all time. - March 28, 2009One Of The Most Unusual Shows Ever

Reviewer: SavannahDeadHead - favorite favorite favorite favorite - February 11, 2009

Subject: my first show I was 14 and loved the show. I was stunned at how long and graceful it was. A most amazing and fun experience! - February 11, 2009my first show

Reviewer: Winsome_Holstein_Nebuula - favorite favorite favorite favorite - August 1, 2008

Subject: Here Comes Sunshine From The Balcony Happy Birthday, Jerry! We miss you a lot and pray that you've found that limitless taproot of X Factor Jams out there in Light of The World.



There's a lot s cool stuff happening today in your honour and MG is gonna be in Baltimore to swank it up for a Dead Symphony.



Betty n' Bob both have cool new gigs and Dan is still playing and pushing the curve.



Bobby is still, and always will be, Bobby.



Phil is keeping the flame alive and dong yeoman's work to keep fun and weirdness in music.



Anyway, Buddha Man, just wanted to drop a line here to say thank you, so much. You gave us all you had, and all you had was so much. Thanks for leaving to door open for so many to travel the many roads you showed us.



Yeah, yeah, I know: You just wanna play. Well, we still just wanna listen.



God bless, take care, many hugs, Happy Birthday! Say Hi to Pig. - August 1, 2008Here Comes Sunshine From The Balcony