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    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 https://ppi-pwf.texterity.com/ppi/literature2004/?pg=28 ).

    You can browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the show's home page, gdhour.com. Let us know if there's a particular show you'd like to hear, and feel free to post requests and comments here or by email to gdhour [at] dead.net

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    Moses610
    16 years 3 months ago
    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"
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    MikeP5877
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    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!
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    Golden West
    16 years 6 months ago
    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!
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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 https://ppi-pwf.texterity.com/ppi/literature2004/?pg=28 ).

You can browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the show's home page, gdhour.com. Let us know if there's a particular show you'd like to hear, and feel free to post requests and comments here or by email to gdhour [at] dead.net

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Submitted by Grateful_nirvanA on Wed, 09/19/2007 - 14:12

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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!
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Submitted by GRTUD on Wed, 09/19/2007 - 18:23

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...mine anyway. Thanks Mr. Gans. Oh and that was one of the best Black Peter's I've ever heard. The Dude Abides!
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Submitted by jvanderveen on Wed, 09/19/2007 - 19:20

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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."
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Submitted by Grateful_nirvanA on Thu, 09/20/2007 - 06:13

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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!
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Submitted by bitwisebob on Thu, 09/20/2007 - 19:14

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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
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Submitted by rangerjoe on Thu, 09/20/2007 - 19:17

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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!
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Submitted by Golden West on Sat, 09/22/2007 - 11:49

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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!
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Submitted by MikeP5877 on Thu, 09/27/2007 - 08:28

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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!
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Submitted by Moses610 on Sun, 12/23/2007 - 00:51

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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"