Week of November 8-14, 2021
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we’ll hear some Grateful Dead music from 1970, 1981, and 1990.
Our first selection this week is some acoustic and electric Dead, from 2/28/70 at the Family Dog in San Francisco, including three of the songs that would appear on Workingman’s Dead. From this show we have Monkey And The Engineer, Little Sadie> Black Peter; China Cat Sunflower> I Know You Rider > High Time > Dire Wolf.
Next is the start of the second set from 3/3/81 in Cleveland on the excellent Winter Tour of 1981, featuring China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider> Samson And Delilah ; He's Gone.
Lastly this week s the first set from 2/27/90 in Oakland, where we have this great batch of late-Brent Dead, featuring Let The Good Times Roll ; Feel Like A Stranger ; Sugaree ; Victim Or The Crime ; Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo ; When I Paint My Masterpiece ; Bird Song.
Be sure to stop back in next week for more music from the vault.
David Lemieux