December 29, 2008 - January 4, 2009
Welcome back to our continuing holiday editions of the Tapers’ Section. This week we have some New Year’s themed music, although not all from New Year’s Eve, but from the time around then.
Our first stop will be the magnificent concert on 12/29/77, a life-changing night for a lot of Dead Heads with whom we’ve spoken. This, of course, featured the return of China>Rider after a three-plus year absence. From that magical night, we have the centerpiece of the night, Playing In The Band>China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider>China Doll>Jam. The rest of this concert is certainly worth seeking out, so do find yourself a copy of Dick’s Picks Vol. 10 and enjoy it.
Next up, from 10 years plus a day later on 12/30/89, we have the post-Drums sequence of I Will Take You Home>The Other One>Standing On The Moon>One More Saturday Night, Baby Blue, which is every bit the equal of the post-Drums sequences from 12/27&28/89 that we played for you last week here at the Tapers’ Section. Dynamite stuff indeed.
Finally this week, to get you all in the mood for the big New Year’s Eve festivities, we have my all time favourite midnight piece of music from a New Year’s Eve concert, Sugar Magnolia>Scarlet Begonias>Fire On The Mountain from 12/31/78, the famous Closing of Winterland concert. This was the concert that went on and on and on, filled with surprises throughout.
Happy New Year everyone!
Be sure to stop back next week when we’ll properly ring in 2009 with some excellent material from 1968, 1972 and 1977. See you then.
David Lemieux
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Bob
no worries mate. you second coment, while completely inappropriate, made my laugh my socks off
Terrapin Tommy
I appreciate your comment & understand, this goes back to an old comment I had made about way tooo many PITB's on the tapers section & Ted and some other folks got upset about it.......i laugh at the comments made by the same pepple every week, they say the same thing, every song that is played here can be heard complete in internet archive , unless it has been on Dick's Pick's....so all smoke a joint & relax ..we have alot more important things going on now to worry about. So let me speak my mind with out some idiot always knocking MY opinion....I think it's called free speech!!!!!!!!
lesh74lush
LOL...............
Wow, you caught on pretty quick!
Thanks, Bob, for the dishonorable mention. I don't agree with your style, but I do agree with your freedom of speech, as crude and rude as it is. This weeks musical selections may look familiar to many of us: I still appreciate David offering them up for our listening pleasure.
Lighten-up pal.
Time for a change
gratefulbob couldn't be more correct. One after another Dick's Picks revisited. One after another Playin In The Band. Twenty eight of them in one year.
In this year of change it's time for a new Host. I nominate myself, I promise that you all would be happy, real happy.
Put lipstick on David and kiss him goodbye.
lullabye
Jerry just sang my baby to sleep. Standing on the moon. Sweet. THANK YOU JERRY!
Happy and Prosperous New Year 2009 to you all. <3 There is a local band, 'Monkey and the Crowbar' playing New Year's Eve. I think it's a good sign.
round and round
Oh yeah, gratefulbob
Yeah, I remember you saying that abouty PITB! I understand and thought that the diplomatic thing for our host to do would perhaps be to play some vintage Jerry Band for every PITB! What do you think?
round and round
wake up to find out that You are the eyes of the world!!!!!!!!!
wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.
you guys that are always complaining sound like my 16 year old son who seems to be never satisfied with what hes got. Just be thankful that you might acually like a weeks worth of music every now and then. To many of us deadheads - Playing in the Band is one of the songs that gave the band leaping off room which they usually took to some other dimension which is the reason many of us love this band!!!!!!!!!! Its like fishing, you never know what is going to be offered, maybe you come home broke or maybe you come hold holding a prize, how bad is that really in the face of the world situation today!!!!!!!!!
Hullaballoo
Too much of it honestly.
I've been reading, and of course listening, since the site came back up and it is kind of tiresome to have the level of backbiting and disrespect that some posters choose to put up here ... Free speech is great and all, but it presumes a level of respect for those who disagree. Name calling or swearing at people doesn't seem to fit that ethic very well to me.
Moving on, I just want to say "thanks David" for putting so many interesting selections up here every Monday. They are a welcome link back to so many thrilling moments, either attended or wishfully so.
In the interest of peace, all the way around, can we settle on having a just a small number fewer of the PITBs (which I do love & appreciate) and perhaps fewer DP selections (as I have almost all of them). Maybe that would calm the critics a bit and open up better lines of discussion/relation.
New Years Run '89
This entire run NEEDS to be released. There's plenty of '70s stuff and before embarking further into the '90s, a late '80s Brent era box should be the next release.