Week of July 28-August 3, 2025
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1978, 1979, and 1991.
Our first stop is the opening of the second set from 5/16/78 at the Uptown in Chicago, with this extended sequence of Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain; El Paso ; Ship Of Fools; Estimated Prophet > He's Gone.
Next is first set music from 5/7/79 in Easton, PA, on Brent’s first tour where we have Me And My Uncle > Big River; Candyman; Looks Like Rain; New Minglewood Blues; Peggy-O; Passenger.
Lastly this week is the end of the second set from 5/5/91 at Cal Expo, where we have Space > 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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Cool!
Nice to see the surprise reappearance of last week's JOTW - 5/16/78 Uptown Set II pre-drumz. Again, of note, the first 4 songs here - Scarlet > Fire, El Paso, Ship of Fools - do not circulate as a soundboard so great to be able to hear that! Also, the Comes A Time out of Space (not presented here) is absolutely gorgeous!! And, as a set list geek, to my surprise it was the only Comes A Time played in '78. Previous 5/21/77 Lakeland and next 2/9/79 Kansas City (which had a Shakedown encore to boot.)
I was a the '91 Cal Expo show - it was a good un!