12/31/72: winterland ballroom, san francisco w/sons of champlin and the new riders of the purple sage.

one of the finer new year’s, a “regular” ’72 show with slight extra edge. the performance came on the tail end of a wonderful year that found the band, as always, in development. keith had moved in, pigpen was heading out, and a whole bunch of new songs had been added. in general, they were 'little' songs, so the big jams tended to revolve around dark star or the other one during the second set. for those of you who adore the more primal dead, check out the hour-long truckin > other one > morning dew suite from the second set. holy moly.

https://archive.org/details/gd72-12-31.prefm.vernon.20559.sbeok.shnf