Grateful Dead Hour #382
Week of January 15, 1996
Grateful Dead 12/3/81 Dane County Coliseum, Madison WI
BLACK PETER->
AROUND AND AROUND->
JOHNNY B. GOODE
IT'S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE
Robert Hunter, from Sentinel (Penguin Books, 1993)
AN AMERICAN ADVENTURE read by David Gans 12/27/95
I don't know what was in the water that night in Madison, but the jam out of Black Peter was just wild and then the band followed it with a Chuck Berry twofer - hot stuff! And capped the show with Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue."
Robert Hunter's poem "An American Adventure" is a wonderful account of the Grateful Dead's own history, published in his 1993 collection of poetry, Sentinel. I read it live on KPFA one night, with a montage of jammy GD music as a sonic bed. Hunter recorded a CD of readings from Sentinel, released by Rykodisc in 1993, but "An American Adventure" was not included. The full text of the poem is available, along with the rest of Sentinel, on Hunter's web site, hunterarchive.com. (Sentinel appears to be in print: see http://ppi-pwf.texterity.com/ppi/literature2004/?pg=28 ).
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Thanks for listening!
David Gans
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Wowza!
Another great choice this week DG! This is my personal favorite version of Black Peter. And the super sweet Baby Blue encore is just like icing on the cake. I used to add this little snippet as filler to my 7/9/95 first sets and people were blown away!
Hunter is a Hero...
...mine anyway. Thanks Mr. Gans. Oh and that was one of the best Black Peter's I've ever heard.
The Dude Abides!
Grateful nirvanA, I'm
Grateful nirvanA, I'm listening to the "Black Peter" now and it is a tasty morsel, but better than 5/2/70 at Harpur College? A bold statement, my friend! Just another example of how beauty is in the ear of the beholder.
Thanks, David!
Jeff VanderVeen
"May the 4 winds blow you safely home."
5/2/70 vs. 12/3/81
Jeff (jvanderveen),
I understand your point as well. But the Harpur College Peter is acoustic, where this one is electric. And Brent adds some very sweet and unusual fills that really put this one over the top IMHO. Acoustic GD has always been rare (past 1970), and the electric Peters were the norm, but this one is far, far, far from the norm!
grateful nirvana kind of sums it up
great black peter, jerry sounds great on it's all over now baby blue
Thanks David, excellent gdhour repost
still .... wish I could download and save it to play again later
maybe I can find this show somewhere
thanks again
Be grateful
Great show I have 12-3-81 on cassette tape but the ravages of time.. I too wish I had a nicer copy but way up here in the Last Frontier I got to tell you it was a major moment of joy when I discovered that the computer lines could handle playin' it for me. Thank You Thank You DG I loved your shows when the radio stations up here "used" to play it and now I get to enjoy your choices all over again. You Rock!
Don't forget the poem
Nobody has commented on the poem. I recorded this program when it first aired and I think over time I've hauled the tape out as often for the poem as for the fine snipet from Madison.
Loved the part w/ the "...inch-thick shamrock glass...." line in it.
How true, how true.
Great 'sonic bed' too!
Thanks!
This is the smokin-est "Black Peter" I've ever heard. It's so nice to hear that poem again. Thanks for bringing this one back!
Sounds Like Silence
I think I can hear crickets in the background. It's a shame that there's so much good music on this site, but they can't get the downloads to work.
"Got to try and see a little further"