Week of November 10-16, 2025
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1970, and a double of 1973.
Our first stop this week is in Hawaii, the Dead’s first show there, on 1/23/70, where we have this great 1970 sequence of China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider> Black Peter, Yellow Dog Story; Hard To Handle; Mama Tried> Dire Wolf, Good Lovin’.
Next is first set music from 6/30/73, from the Dead’s middle night of a three night run at Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, where we have Bird Song ; Cumberland Blues ; Row Jimmy ; Jack Straw ; Deal ; Beat It On Down The Line ; Black Peter ; Playing In The Band.
Lastly this week is music from 9/24/73 in Pittsburgh, where we have Promised Land ; Sugaree ; Jack Straw ; They Love Each Other ; Mexicali Blues ; Loose Lucy; Looks Like Rain.
Be sure to join us here next week for more music from the vault.
David Lemieux
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6/30/73
oh my goodness - this slice has some pure dreamy sweetness. Bird Song is gorgeous! It has a tape flip late but fingers crossed that more than one reel-to-reel was running - like the HCS shows - when they release this Universal Amphitheatre run (haha hint hint). And that Playing to close out the selection is very much quite excellent and mighty fine. Some great Keith spacey keyboards (Fender Rhoades?) on various tunes here and I love it!
Love the Dead
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9/24/73
I had the good luck to be at this show. At this time, they were assembling The Wall Of Sound. It was mostly done and blew me away. Never seen ANYTHING like it. The sound was perfect, and so were The Dead ! One of my favorite shows ever. Listen and enjoy !!