Portland, May 19, 1974

I saw this today:

http://www.deadforayear.com/day-247-guest-post-david-gans/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=evergreen_post_tweeter&utm_campaign=website&doing_wp_cron=1511832982.4886679649353027343750  reran this today.

and remembered what a great show it was.  Below, I saw that David Gans wrote this as a special to Dead For a Year, which is a site, deadforayear.com that you really show read and listen to. Every day.

You can hear this Wall of Sound show at here or click above for the Jam.

Mississippi Half-Step
Mexicali Blues
Big Railroad Blues
Black-Throated Wind
Scarlet Begonias
Beat it on Down the Line
Tennessee Jed
Me and Bobby McGee
Sugaree
Jack Straw
It Must Have Been the Roses
El Paso
Loose Lucy
Money Money
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider

Promised Land
Bertha
Greatest Story Ever Told
Ship of Fools
WRS Prelude
WRS Part 1
Let it Grow
Wharf Rat
Big River
Peggy-O
Truckin'
Heaven Help Jam
Not Fade Away
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
One More Saturday Night

Jam>Jack-A-Roe and Playin>Shakedown>If I Had the World to Give>Playin Highlight Weirdest Show of Year in Cleveland, November 20, 1978

This is a Hall of Fame Performance in Cleveland in November 20, 1978. Of course, I missed it by one show seeing them play more normal the next night in Rochester.  I ranked this only behind New Year's at Winterland as the show of the year in 1978.

Stop here, plain dealer, nothing more to say

 Apparently as legend tells it, Bobby was really sick, so this night is kind if a pay-back reverse of the San Diego shows earlier in the year in January, where Bobby sang all the tunes.  It's unclear just exactly what Bobby missed, but I expect he was playing on that incredible Playin in the Band>Shakedown Street>If I Had the World to Give>Playin in the Band sandwich which follows a truly innovative and once-only Jam>Jack-A-Roe that explodes over the audience at the beginning of set two.

As typical, the Akron Beacon reporter had NO IDEA what they were listening, and what a treat it was thankfully we have the vault for that. It was the last and best if the three If I Had The World to Give performances. I relistened to set two of the Charlie Miller version yesterday and it again just blow me away. I just know that the band was going to play this again on November 24 in New Haven but unfortunately, Jerry got sick and they never played it again.  Although Dead and Company's Oteil sang it last night in Ohio, in the middle of China Rider. As it should be. As it was in the beginning and as it is still now.

Corey Got It Right in the Taping Compendium

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Set 1

Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo ->
Franklin's Tower
Mama Tried ->
Mexicali Blues
It Must Have Been The Roses
Looks Like Rain
Stagger Lee
Passenger
Peggy-O
Lazy Lightnin' ->
Supplication

Set 2

Jam ->
Drums ->
Jam ->
Jack-A-Roe
Playing In The Band ->
Shakedown Street ->
If I Had The World To Give ->
Playing In The Band ->
Around And Around

Return of Big Boss Man, A Day At The Dentist and An Eleven Jam Highlight The Most Underrated Show of 1981: December 26, 1981

"You won't let Jerry stop". This post is less about the history in the papers and more about the music.

I told you New Year's shows were special. Of Course, this show has the return of Big Boss Man, sung by Jerry with the last version from the last night of the Europe '72 tour May 25, 1972 (during the longest first set ever) by Pig. But that my friends is the very tip of the iceberg of this beauty.

First show since surprise Grateful Dead show 12-12-1981 at Fiesta Hall

First Big Boss Man sung by Jerry (stayed at NYE shows until 1984, I saw the next two 12-31-81 and 12-31-83, benefit of living in Berkeley)

Soundcheck of Big Boss Man and Cumberland

Only A Day at the Dentist

Last Ever The Eleven Jam, previously played 9-28-75 and 1-16-70. Last The Eleven was 6-7-1970

I told you New Year's shows were special

1981 was an exceptional fine year for shows from Meg Welk to Oaklands
With 3 votes, this show ties for 34th place as best show of 1981, which shows you
(a) people don't know or can't remember or
(b) people are lucky there is another fantastic show to learn about or re-remember.

An every song was played well.

Set 1

Alabama Getaway ->
The Promised Land
Candyman
Little Red Rooster
Big Boss Man                               
Me And My Uncle ->
Big River
Bird Song
It's All Over Now
Big Railroad Blues

Let it Grow

Scarlet Begonias
Fire on the Mountain
Estimated Prophet
He's Gone
drums

A Day At the Dentist
The Eleven Jam
Truckin'
Black Peter
Around and Around
One More Saturday Night

Don't Ease Me In

Of course there is a gfreat Charlie Miller of this apparently recorded by Joani Walker.

I knew Joani a little in Berkeley in 1981 through my friend Rick Sullivan. I remember going to a party with a bunch of Dead Heads with really really long hair like Randy and many others.  Deadheads with really really long bhair tended to be the true real deal dead fans and/or from Santa Cruz (right Katie?). We had our own Day at the Dentist that day, and I wound up with my eyes crossed and laying on the floor.

I Was A Magnet for Second-Set Tennessee Jed, 1976-1995

Sometimes when you think Tennessee Jed is just another pleasant Europe '72 era first-set Jerry tune, you get it wrong. Very wrong.

Last night I was listening to Sirius and heard a really cool matrix of the Hartford tour-end on May 28, 1977, which I attended.  After Samson in the first set, I forgot about this Tennessee before the Estimated>Playin>Terrapin etc monster that follows.  But on this night, and actually any night that Jerry is on fire, Tennessee Jed is a monster.  Take a listen to a few of these and you will see that these were the crown jewels.

So I checked and saw that from 1971-1974, the Dead played TJ 140 times and 11 were in the second set where the band typically kicks it into a higher gear.

In the last 20 Years in Grateful Dead history, there were only 7 played in the second set and I saw 3. Wow. I was a magnet for second set Tennessee Jeds, which were only played in 7 shows out of 293 versions or 2.4% of the time.  Wish I could have been a Dark Star magnet too. or The Eleven.

06-12-76  I was there! Boston  leads directly into Let It Grow>Wharf Rat>Comes A Time
06-18-76  Passiac, NJ
02-26-77 San Bernardino, recent Betty Board return, likely to get official release
05-28-77 I was there!  Hartford
10-12-77 Manor Downs
05-03-79 I was there! Charlotte  2nd Brent show my first Brent
11-16-85 Long Beach, last one and only second ever second set opener.

All are here for your listening pleasure above and here 


1971-1974  11 of 140  almost 10% of the time

10-23-71  4th Keith show played right before Sugar Mag and Comes A Time
04-26-72  Frankfurt
05-11-72  Rotterdam
07-18-72 Roosevelt Stadium, 3 Set Show
11-12-72 Kansas City, still not uncommon to play in set two
02-26-73 Lincoln, Nb.
05-13-73 Des Moines, opens set two
10-27-73 Indianapolis
02-22-74 3 Set show at Winterland
05-25-74 Santa Barbara
06-18-74  Louisville, late set 2 before Sugar Magnolia and Encore of Morning Dew

Spunky Cowboy Band on Saturday Night In San Diego, January 10, 1970: Watch Out for the Water Garcia, Might Later Get Blood Poisoning

Pigpen saved the day according to the San Diego Union reporter on January 10, 1970.  First West Coast 1970 show after the Texas/Florida/Boston/Fillmore East shows extended until January 3

This show really starts to mark the difference between the fans of Dark Star>St Stephen>The 11 and the Workingman's/American Beauty era. Still there is a Lovelight "for the ages". This is a compact 90 minutes with almost a third taken up by Lovelight, but includes a short Hard to Handle, a very interesting Mason's into a beautiful Black Peter and a late set Cold Rain & Snow. In the Union review, he thinks the Lovelight lasts 45 minutes (hmmm, cool).

Apparently Jerry always get sick in San Diego, blood poisoning in Sept  1970, can't speak in 1979. Must be something in the air at Golden Hall.  Hear it here.  The San Diego Union review is fascinating, complaining of the Dead having shorter hair.  

There is also a long time mislabeled acoustic set that did not occur here (see my tape below) which is actually 8-6-1970 in the same building, a pretty amazing set you should seek out.

From Deadlists.com


[1:25:55] ; Tuning (1) [0:59] ; China Cat Sunflower [3:02] > Jam [3:10] > I Know You Rider [4:23] ; [2:10] ; Me And My Uncle [3:11] ; [0:18] ; Dire Wolf [4:16] ; [0:55] ; Hard To Handle [5:13] ; [0:12] % Casey Jones [4:20] ; [0:15] ; Mason's Children [4:25] > Black Peter [9:06] ; [0:06] % Good Lovin' [1:51] > Drums [3:26] > Good Lovin' [4:03] ; [0:13] ; Cold Rain And Snow [5:08] ; [0:34] ; Turn On Your Lovelight (2) [25:37] ; [1:09]
Comments (1) "Clear the fuckin aisles".
At one point during Lovelight Pigpen tells the crowd: "Dance on your seats, just keep the aisles clear cuz the man is gonna getcha if ya don't cool it" and then, a minute later, "I believe you can stand up just a little more. There ain't too many of 'em." There was no encore. This is either the complete show, or the last 86 minutes of the show; it is not clear that China Cat was the opener. Savoy Brown and Aum were also on the bill (DeadBase IX). (2) Upcoming shows announcement at the conclusion of the show

In 1970, some people still called Jerry "Captain Trips"

Later in 1970, the Dead had a show scheduled with Leon Russell and Bread, but alas Jerry "got blood poisoning

My personal copy of mislabeled acoustic set circa 1979.

1968 San Diego Dead