Dead Show/podcast for 12/31/21

Happy New Year! 

To celebrate the New Year (hopefully a better one for everyone) and the fact that today is New Years' Eve, I decided to bring you an entire New Year's Eve performance.. this one from New Years' 1977... 

While the New Year's shows were often not as magical as some of the prior performances of the run, I do think this one stands up and hope you enjoy it as well.. 

Over two and half-hours of Live Dead... 

Grateful Dead
Winterland Arena
San Francisco, CA 12/31/77 - Saturday     

One     

The Music Never Stopped [7:36]  
Tennessee Jed [8:47]  
Funiculi Funicula [1:44]  
Me And My Uncle [3:04]  
Loser [8:12]  
Jack Straw [5:32]  
Friend Of The Devil [6:17#]  
Lazy Lightnin' [3:33] >
Supplication [5:11]

Two     

Sugar Magnolia [11:19] >
Scarlet Begonias [9:09] >
Fire On The Mountain [7:14]  
Truckin' [18:25] >
Wharf Rat [9:57] >
Drums [6:12] >
Not Fade Away [16:#43] >
Around And Around [7:49]
Encore     One More Saturday Night [5:02] >
Casey Jones [7:24] 

 Sugar Mag at midnight

 

You can listen to this week's Deadpod here: 

http://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod123121.mp3 

My thanks for another wonderful year bringing you this magical music. 

Peace and Love to everyone.

Dead Show/podcast for 12/24/21

Merry Christmas! 

On this Christmas Eve edition of the Deadpod we get to listen to the second set of this fine performance from December 27, 1970 in El Monte California. 

The tape begins with an abbreviated 'Good Lovin' - while I wish we had all of this song, what we have is really good. Pigpen follows with 'In the Midnight Hour' and boy its clear in these two songs what he means to the band. Fine versions of 'Attics' and 'Bobby McGee' follows, then the Chuck Berry 'Around and Around'. The jamming in the following 'St. Stephen>Not Fade Away>Goin' Down the Road>Lovelight' show us the power of this young band. We hear the start of 'Uncle John's Band' but the jig is up and the show has to end...

Grateful Dead
Legion Stadium
El Monte, CA
12/27/70 - Sunday

Two - 1:13:48    

Good Lovin' [#9:20] [0:18]  
In The Midnight Hour [7:55] [0:26]  
Attics Of My Life [6:47] [1:00]  
Me And Bobby McGee [6:14] [0:50]  
Around And Around [4:12] [1:08]  
Saint Stephen [6:50] >
Drums [0:10] >
Not Fade Away [4:49] >
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad [10:23] >
Turn On Your Love Light [8:16] [0:20]  
Uncle John's Band Tease [0:06] [0:44] 

 

 You can listen to this week's Deadpod here: 

http://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod122421.mp3

May Christmas find you and yours healthy and happy. 

Peace. 

 

 

thanks for everything. 

 

Dead Show/podcast for 12/17/21

This week we go back to some good ol' Grateful Dead from December 1970. The boys are young and full of spunk on this one as they run through some of their early numbers. Pigpen is in fine form here and the 'Hard to Handle' is classic. The 'Deep Elem' has a unique and very pleasant arrangement to my ears. 'Cumberland Blues' showcases Phil's talents as always and a great China>Rider could be the highlight of the set.

For a tape from 1970 this one sounds really good, I hope you enjoy it! 

Grateful Dead
Legion Stadium
El Monte, CA 12/27/70 - Sunday    

One - 1:15:14

Tuning [0:24]
Truckin' [8:30][0:24]
Mama Tried [2:44][0:59]
Hard To Handle [8:44][0:28]
Deep Elem Blues [7:21][0:24]
Sugar Magnolia [5:21][0:27]
Brokedown Palace [6:04][0:33]
Cumberland Blues [5:10][0:07]%[0:07]
It Hurts Me Too [5:10#][0:06]
Me And My Uncle [3:11][0:51]
China Cat Sunflower [3:20] >
Jam [3:28] >
I Know You Rider [3:28][0:18]%[0:40]
Casey Jones [5:20][0:11] 

You can listen to this week's Deadpod here: 

http://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod121721.mp3 

I hope everyone is healthy and doing well as we head into Christmas week! 

thank you so much for your kind support! 

Dead Show/podcast for 12/10/21

This week we continue with the second set from the band's performance at the Long Beach Arena in Long Beach California on December 13th 1980. 

The set starts with a wonderful Scarlet>Fire. In particular I love the transition here, unique and rhythmic to a high degree, flows into a an excellent Fire, nice Brent highlights.  Jerry has some wonderful solos in the coda here which results in prolonged applause following the conclusion. The pre-drums portion continues with an uptempo 'Playin' In The Band'. This slows into a nice dreamy jam leading into a most excellent Drums and Space made special with the addition of Airto Moriera and Flora Purim during the long drum segment. Space leads into a notable and unique 'Not Fade Away' - I dig it. 

In the ballad slot Jerry gives us a soulful 'Black Peter', before the band takes us out with 'Sugar Magnolia' and of course, given the day, a 'One More Saturday Night' encore. 

Grateful Dead
Long Beach Arena
Long Beach, CA      12/13/80 - Saturday

Two    

Scarlet Begonias [11:14] >
Fire On The Mountain [10:05] ;
Playing In The Band [11:24] >
Drums (1) [13:25] >
Space [3:50] >
Not Fade Away [6:35] >
Black Peter [9:05] >
Sugar Magnolia [8:13]

Encore    
One More Saturday Night [4:26]
(1) with Airto Moriera and Flora Purim

You can listen to this week's Deadpod here: 

http://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod121021.mp3 

 

I wish for you all love, laughter, health and peace.. my thanks for your kind support of the Deadpod. 

Dead Show/podcast for 12/3/21

This week we welcome December with a great show from December 13, 1980 at the Long Beach Arena in Long Beach California, just a couple months after last week's acoustic set.

This first set is quite good all the way through but starts with an excellent trifecta -' Feel Like a Stranger' into a wonderful 'Sugaree'  then into 'C C Rider' with some great Garcia slide work. Then Jerry slows things down a bit with a soulful 'To Lay Me Down'. A fine version of 'Minglewood' follows with some unusual and impressive guitar work as well as Brent really going off on the B3. 

'Ramble on Rose' is always a favorite, then a nice 'Sailor> Saint'. They close the set with a rockin' 'Deal'. 

Grateful Dead
Long Beach Arena
Long Beach, CA 12/13/80 - Saturday

    
One    

Feel Like A Stranger [7:06] >
Sugaree [11:28] >
C C Rider [8:14] ;
To Lay Me Down [9:42] ;
New Minglewood Blues [6:39#] ;
Ramble On Rose [7:04] ;
Lost Sailor [6:06] >
Saint Of Circumstance [6:41] >
Deal [6:50] 

You can listen to this week's Deadpod here: 

http://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod120321.mp3 

 

I hope this finds you healthy and in the holiday spirit. 

Happy Hanukkah !

thank you for your support of the Deadpod.