August 20 - August 26, 2007
As we move toward the symbolic end of summer (Labour Day, of course), we have some great music to play spanning about 21 years of Grateful Dead music, from 1968 to 1989, two fine years with which to bookend this week’s offerings.
Our first entry this week is the encore from 8/21/68 at the Fillmore West in San Francisco, a nice, juicy Midnight Hour. Although not quite as prevalent at shows in 1968 as it had been in 1966, the Grateful Dead continued to play monster versions of this Pigpen vehicle.
Next we’ll stop into 1972, to the opening night of the rightfully famous Europe 72 tour, to 4/7/72 in London. From the middle of that night’s first set is a typically hot 1972 rendition of China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider.
In 1976, at the end of their very successful summer of comeback shows, the Grateful Dead entered the studio and recorded a couple of the songs they’d been playing that summer. From one of those sessions on 8/29/76 is this bare-bones Dancing In The Street with only Donna on vocals. While we’re in mid-1970s mode, we also have this terrific Samson and Delilah from 5/12/77 in Chicago. Despite the frequency that song was played in 1976-1977, they never seem to get tired of it, always offering up an inspired rendition.
Finally from the 1970s, on 4/22/78 in Nashville to be precise, we are pleased to bring you a couple of tracks from the second set, starting with the second set opening Lazy Lightning>Supplication and the pre-Drums Estimated Prophet>Eyes of the World, both very nicely performed songs on this night.
Our last stop this week is in New Jersey on 7/10/89, a show that took place in and out of a massive thunderstorm. By request, we have the first set closer, The Music Never Stopped, and from the start of the second set, a great 1989 combination of Foolish Heart, Just a Little Light, Playing In The Band>Uncle John’s Band. What a great tour.
Be sure to check in next week, as we’ll be exploring some intriguing material from 1969 and 1980, and other material between those years, and likely after. We try to surprise even ourselves. Feel free to write with questions or comments.
David Lemieux
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Unhappy
Used to be able to play the tapers section and now I can't...
makes me wonder why you changed... it had been part of starting the work week on
happy feet but not today
Hey.
Hey Dave, j.Webb here from Elginstreet Ottawa, hope all is well. What happened today, I'm gonna miss Mondays.
All good things come to an end.
I'm just happy that I downloaded all the previous taper's sections. Still a lot of good stuff to enjoy in there.
And now we shall move on.
This is the problem...
Your company creates the problem by making it hard on fans by doing little things like this. I come here every Monday and dl the tunes and it makes my day. My computer won't even load the tunes now. I don't feel I am owed anything, but what is up with this corporate nonsense. You think people are burning all of the mp3's and making profit? Most everything in the vault is already out there anyways and Aud recordings--before you learn how to fuck those people--are still abundant. One of the previous comments said we will soon see 'Truckin' on a Ford commercial. I am sure it will get even worse than that. I don't see anything getting better in this organization anytime soon.
Damn.
Hey Dave, Webb here from Ottawa, I was really enjoying these Monday's . Say it ain't over!
New Format?
What does this mean? I was hoping that more of 4-7-72 would be delivered as promised, but I can't convert this "China>Rider" to wav format in order to burn CD's? Is this yet another ripple from the archive.org debacle? Say it ain't so, Dave!?
Way to go Rhino...
...continue to offer free stuff (albeit in a usless format) and STILL throw away all our goodwill - what a piece of business THAT was.
thanks alot
the new format SUCKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Because I Remember
Dear David,
I have so enjoyed your Tapers Section in the revamped Dead.net, the music, the choices and your enlightened commentary on them.
Thank you.
I am really hoping that the new appearance of no-downloading in Tapers Section is just a technical glitch and not a new policy.
If it turns out to be a policy, then I would feel violated by the bait and switch. And just when I was starting to feel that my passionate dead-headism lived over the years, miles, shows and endless changes might be able to have some meaningful connection with the commercial entity today associating themselves with the name "The Grateful Dead". After all "we all gotta eat" and you guys are performing services which are most valuable to us.
I have allowed myself to be a fan of your work. To some degree I got over the "no soundboard downloading" policy on the Live Music Archive, and allowed myself to purchase Downloads and Dick'sPicks and others. I have enjoyed the "gifts" but have also been a good customer for "The Grateful Dead". I downloaded Taper Section and then eagerly bought "3 From the Vault".
But because I remember the sharp, icy feeling of pavement on my cheek, waking on the sidewalk outside the Providence Civic Center, my sleeping bag sugared with fresh snow, sleeping in line to buy tickets for the Dead's next appearance in my town, because of the miles and hours and risks and breakdowns and near-misses and dollars and years of devotion and communion, because I took seriously when Jer said "after we're done with the notes they're yours", and felt that, despite the necessary exchange of dollars we all had a compact and a code, a trust that despite all other appearances it was ultimately about the music and the shared opening of hearts, I know that the music is, in large part, ours.
So don't abuse our trust by making this stuff - these loss leaders - free for 8 months and then, with no discussion or warning, take them away.
That would feel truly cold, and I personally would get out of line for good.
Nothing you do will change my feelings about the music, the experience, the joy I get from the recordings. But to me it is still an open and evolving question whether or not today's "Grateful Dead, Inc." has anything at all to do with the band I knew and loved. We'll see.
Peace,
Dr. Funky