Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have music from 1980, 1989, and 1994.
Our first stop this week is on 10/7/80 at the Warfield in San Francisco, where we have the entire first set, featuring acoustic music: Iko Iko ; Dark Hollow ; Rosalie McFall ; Monkey And The Engineer ; To Lay Me Down ; Heaven Help The Fool ; Deep Elem Blues ; El Paso > Ripple.
Next is the end of the first set of the first show at Hampton, VA, on 10/8/89, when the Dead were billed as Formerly The Warlocks: Stagger Lee; Queen Jane Approximately ; Bird Song; The Promised Land.
Lastly this week is the start of the second set from 10/14/94 at Madison Square Garden, during the Dead’s final run of shows at MSG: Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain; Looks Like Rain ; Samba In The Rain ; Corrina.
Be sure to join us here next week for more tunes from the vault.
David Lemieux
Email: vault@dead.net
Twitter: @lemieuxdavid