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Week of August 26-September 1, 2019

Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we’ll cover a five year span in the Grateful Dead’s recorded legacy, 1973-1978.

Our first selection this week is from 5/20/73 at UCSB Stadium in Santa Barbara, CA, the second of the three big weekend shows the Dead played in May 1973 (5/13 in Des Moines, and 5/26 in San Francisco). From the UCSB show, we have the big jam sequence of Truckin'> Nobody's Fault But Mine Jam > Jam > The Other One > Eyes Of The World > Stella Blue.

Next is the end of the first set from 5/18/77 at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA, the first night of a two night run at this beautiful theatre, where we have New Minglewood Blues ; It Must Have Been The Roses; Lazy Lightnin'> Supplication; High Time; The Music Never Stopped.

Lastly this week is the entire first set from the final show of the Spring Tour of 1978, from 5/17/78 at the Uptown in Chicago, IL, where we have Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo > Franklin's Tower ; Me And My Uncle > Big River; It Must Have Been The Roses; Looks Like Rain ; Tennessee Jed ; Funiculi Funicula ; Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication.

Be sure to stop by next week for more music from the vault.

David Lemieux

vault@dead.net

twitter: @lemieuxdavid