Week of June 16-22, 2025
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from the 1980s. Our first stop is on 6/27/84 at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD, where we have the end of the second set featuring Space > Morning Dew > Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away.
Week of June 9-15, 2025
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we’ll stick around in the Brent Mydland era, with Grateful Dead music from 1984, 1988, and 1990.
Our first stop this week is the end of the first set and the second set opening Scarlet, which cuts off on the master cassette, from 6/29/84 at Blossom Music Center: Hell In A Bucket ; West L.A. Fadeaway ; The Music Never Stopped > Don't Ease Me In, Scarlet Begonias.
Week of June 2-8, 2025
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1969, 1981, and 1985.
Week of May 26-June 1, 2025
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we’ll check out some Grateful Dead music spamming 20 years, 1969 to 1989.
Our first stop this week is in Colorado Springs in 7/3/69, where we have this trio of songs that show a couple of sides of the Grateful Dead, from hard charging rock and blues to a beautiful, dynamic He Was A Friend Of Mine: Hard To Handle ; He Was A Friend Of Mine ; Turn On Your Lovelight.
Week of May 19-25, 2025
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1969, 1981, and 1989.
Our first stop this week is in Piedmont Park in Atlanta on 7/7/69, where we have Morning Dew; Mama Tried > High Time > Casey Jones; Dark Star. I’ll schedule the continuation of this show on a future installment of the Tapers’ Section.
Week of May 12-18, 2025
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from the Brent era, with music from the early, mid, and late 1980s.
Our first selection is from 7/7/81 in Kansas City, and includes the first Disco version of Dancing In The Street in almost two years: New Minglewood Blues > Bertha > Dancing In The Street; Big Railroad Blues >El Paso ; To Lay Me Down.
Week of May 5-11, 2025
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1974, 1984m and 1988.
Our first stop this week is in Chicago on 7/25/74 with the Wall of Sound, and one of the few Dark Stars from 1974, which includes and early Slipknot! jam: Dark Star > Stella Blue.
Week of April 28-May 3, 2025
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from
1973, 1982, and 1988.
Our first stop is on Jerry’s birthday in 1973 at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, where we have
this Jerry-heavy sequence of Dark Star > El Paso > Eyes Of The World > Morning Dew.
Week of April 21-27, 2025
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from three years during the Brent era, 1982, 1987, and 1989.
Our first stop this week is week is on 8/8/82 at Alpine Valley for the start of the second set: Far From Me ; Scarlet Begonias> Fire On The Mountain.
Week of April 14-20, 2025
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1971, 1982, and 1987.
Our first stop this week is opening night of the Dead’s two night run at Berkeley Community Theatre on 8/14/71, where we have the second set: Truckin' > Drums > The Other One; Me And Bobby McGee; Sugar Magnolia; Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away, Johnny B Goode, Uncle John’s Band.
