Week of December 15-21, 2025
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1971, 1981, and 1989.
Our first stop this week is on 12/10/71 in St. Louis, where we have this excellent sequence of Truckin’> Drums> The Other One > Sitting On Top Of The World > The Other One > Not Fade Away> Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away, One More Saturday Night.
Next is the start of the second set from 12/6/81 in Rosemont, IL, where we have Samson And Delilah ; To Lay Me Down ; Estimated Prophet > Eyes Of The World.
Lastly this week is the end of the show from 12/8/89 at the Forum in Inglewood, CA, featuring I Will Take You Home>The Other One>Wharf Rat>Throwing Stones>Not Fade Away.
Be sure to join us here next week for more music from the vault.
David Lemieux
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That NFA > China Cat tease > Mountain Jam tease > GDTRFB is fun. Need to break out this release again.
Cheers
Listen to the River!
I like how Dave revisits the River Box for a tapers section, I need to pay more attention to these. Lately I've been immersed in music since the last Dave's release of the year plus the 30 Days of Dead and whatnot. Anyways I need to watch for some 1976 shows here on "taper's" and maybe get a sample of some of the 2020 1976 Box set I missed.