Week of July 5-11, 2021
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1971, 1972, and 1979, three mighty fine years in Dead history.
Our first selection this week is the entire first set from 11/15/71 in Austin, TX, including a rare first set Dark Star: Truckin' ; Bertha; Playing In The Band ; Deal ; Jack Straw ; Loser ; Beat It On Down The Line ; Dark Star > El Paso > Space> Jam ; Casey Jones; One More Saturday Night.
We hope you don’t mind another Texas show, nor another Dark Star, from this terrific show from 11/19/72 in Houston, including an early Weather Report Suite Prelude tease: Dark Star > Weather Report Suite Prelude > Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo; Around And Around ; Big Railroad Blues ; Sugar Magnolia.
Lastly this week, from 11/10/79 in Ann Arbor, we have the first set minus the set-closing Deal: Cold Rain And Snow ; New Minglewood Blues; Peggy-O ; El Paso; High Time; Me And My Uncle> Big River; Ramble On Rose ; Looks Like Rain ; Dire Wolf; Passenger.
Be sure to join us here next week for more music from the vault.
David Lemieux