Welcome back to the Tapers' Section, where this week we have music from three fine years in Grateful Dead history, 1973, 1979 and 1984.
Our first selection is just one song, but it's a mine good version of an excellent song, played particularly well in this year: Playing In The Band from 5/20/73 in Santa Barbara. May of 1973 saw the Grateful Dead play only three shows, all of which were really large-scale shows: 5/13 in Des Moines, 5/20 at UCSB, and 5/26 at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco.
From Brent's first tour, we have the encore from 5/12/79 at UMass Amherst, featuring Shakedown Street>One More Saturday Night. By this show, less than 10 shows into Brent's career with the Grateful Dead, he had already integrated his sound into the band to a remarkably appropriate degree.
From five year's later, we have the end of the show on 4/27/84 in Providence, RI, featuring The Wheel>Wharf Rat>Around and Around>Johnny B. Goode, Touch Of Grey. As you've likely noticed here at the Tapers' Section the past little while, there was a lot of really good music played on the Spring Tour of 1984.
Be sure to stop by next week for more tunes from the vault.
David Lemieux
vault@dead.net
Welcome back to the Tapers' Section, where this week we have music from three fine years in Grateful Dead history, 1973, 1979 and 1984.