Welcome back to the Tapers’s Section, where this week we have tunes from 1969, 1979 and 1982.
Our first stop is on 8/30/69 at the Family Dog in San Francisco, where the Dead tended to play weird, interesting sets, and from this show we have Dark Star>St. Stephen>The Eleven>Drums>High Time. There’s a tape reel change in Drums.
Next up, from the Dead’s 1979 return to Madison Square Garden after playing there for the first time in January of that year, we have from 9/5/79 the show-opening sequence of Mississippi Half-Step>Franklin's Tower, Mama Tried>Mexicali, Peggy-O, Cassidy.
Our last chunk of primo Dead is the entire first set from 8/6/82 in St. Paul, from a very good tour. From this show, we have Bertha > New Minglewood Blues ; Candyman > Little Red Rooster ; Bird Song > El Paso ; Tennessee Jed ; It's All Over Now ; Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication ; Might As Well.
Be sure to stop by next week for more tunes from the vault.
David Lemieux
vault@dead.net