Week of July 21-27, 2025
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we’ll check out some Grateful Dead music from 1973, 1977, and 1978.
Our first stop is on 5/20/73 at UCSB Stadium in Santa Barbara, the second show of three big May 1973 shows, where we have Truckin' > Nobody's Fault But Mine Jam > Jam > The Other One > Eyes Of The World > Stella Blue.
Next is the a good portion of the first set from 5/18/77 in Atlanta, where we have this classic Spring ’77 sequence of New Minglewood Blues; It Must Have Been The Roses ; Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication; High Time; The Music Never Stopped.
Lastly this week is the excellent first set from 5/17/78 in Chicago, 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 join us here next week for more music from the vault.
David Lemieux
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5-18-77
And this is the one that isn't released in that killer run? I find myself lost in following where I think Jerry will go and being so happily surprised when I'm wrong, lol.
Cheers
Edit - 5-17-78 another unreleased gem from a hot era? Now I see Bluecrow's notes in JOTW comments just now. Great minds think alike!