Grateful Dead

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’.

Week of November 3-9, 2025

Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1970, 1972, and 1993.

Our first stop this week is the Dead’s first trip to Hawaii, on 1/23/70, where we have the end of the featuring St. Stephen>Lovelight.

Week of October 27-November 2, 2025

Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1970, 1978, and 1989, three distinct and excellent periods in Dead history.

Week of October 20-26, 2025

Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1969, 1973, and 1990.

Week of October 13-19, 2025 

Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1970, 1981, and 1990. 

Our first stop this week is at the Family Dog in San Francisco, where we have this great sequence from 3/1/70: Me And My Uncle; That's It For The Other One> Black Peter. 

Week of October 6-12, 2025

Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1970, 1987, and 1988.

Our first stop this week is on 2/28/70 at the Family Dog in San Francisco, where we have Good Lovin'> Drums > Good Lovin', Big Boss Man, Casey Jones.

Week of September 29-October 5, 2025 

Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1982, 1990, and 1993. 

Our first stop this week is on 3/14/82 in Davis, CA, where we have this excellent start of the second set including a cool position for Scarlet>Fire: Samson And Delilah ; Ship Of Fools ; Playing In The Band > Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain > Drums. 

Week of September 22-28, 2025 

Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1977, 1990, and 1991. 

Our first stop this week is on 3/19/77 at Winterland, where we have this excellent and unique sequence from the second set of Eyes Of The World> Space > Dancing In The Street > Wharf Rat> Franklin's Tower> Sugar Magnolia. 

Week of September 15-21, 2025 

Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1974, 1990, and 1992. 

Our first stop is on 3/23/74 at the Cow Palace, the debut of the Wall Of Sound, where we have the third and final performance of this magnificent sequence: Playing In The Band>Uncle John’s Band>Morning Dew>Uncle John’s Band>Playing In The Band. 

Week of September 8-14, 2025

Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1969, 1981, and 1991.

From a month after the famous Fillmore West run that produced much of Live/Dead, we have this great sequence from 3/28/69 in Modesto, CA: Dark Star> St. Stephen > The Eleven> Death Don't Have No Mercy> Turn On Your Love Light.