Dead Show/podcast for 11/5/26

This week the Deadpod heads back to Ford Auditorium in Detroit for the second set of the Grateful Dead's October 30, 1972 show. Fall '72 is a great stretch for the band, and this Monday night set shows why. It's loose, confident, and mostly built on rock and roll.

It opens with the longest piece of the night, a Truckin' that runs past sixteen minutes. In 1972 they often stretched the song past its usual length, and here Garcia keeps finding new things to say. Ramble On Rose slows things down, and then the set moves quickly through Chuck Berry's Promised Land and Around And Around, a solid Candyman, and Weir's Greatest Story Ever Told, which was brand new that year from his solo album Ace. Mississippi Half-Step was also a new song in 1972, and it already sounds comfortable.

Don't skip Tomorrow Is Forever. It's the Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton duet that Bob and Donna sang for a short time in 1972, and you don't hear it often.

The real payoff comes at the end. Sugar Magnolia flows into Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad and then into Not Fade Away, about twenty-two minutes without a break. Listen for Weir at the close of Not Fade Away, where he sings like his life depends on it. Uncle John's Band sends everyone home on a gentler note.

Thanks for listening and for supporting the Deadpod. Enjoy the show.

- The Professor

Grateful Dead
Ford Auditorium
Detroit, MI
10/30/1972 - Monday

Two
Truckin' [16:41]
Ramble On Rose [7:39]
The Promised Land [4:00]
Tomorrow Is Forever [5:35]
Around And Around [4:18]
Candyman [7:54]
Greatest Story Ever Told [7:31]
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo [9:39]
Sugar Magnolia [7:44] >
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad [9:10] >
Not Fade Away [5:41]

Encore
Uncle John's Band [7:21]

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