Week of July 7-13, 2025
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1977, 1980, and 1993.
Our first stop this week is on 5/28/77 in Hartford, the final show of the Spring Tour of 1977, featuring this masterpiece sequence: Estimated Prophet > Playing In The Band > Terrapin Station > Not Fade Away > Wharf Rat > Playing In The Band.
Next is the unique and excellent start of the second set from 5/31/80 in Bloomington, MN, where we have Feel Like A Stranger ; Ship Of Fools; Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > Space > Wharf Rat > The Other One.
Lastly this week is the start of the first set from 5/27/93 at Cal Expo, where we have Shakedown Street ; The Same Thing ; Dire Wolf ; Beat It On Down The Line ; High Time ; When I Paint My Masterpiece.
Be sure to stop in next week for more music from the vault.
David Lemieux
