Week of April 6-12, 2026
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we’ll check out some Grateful Dead music from 1972, 1983, and 1988.
Our first stop this week is on 8/24/72 in Berkeley, where we have this excellent sequence of Promised Land; Sugaree; Jack Straw; China Cat Sunflower> I Know You Rider; Me And My Uncle; Bird Song.
Week of March 30-April 5, 2026
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1969, 1983, and 1988.
Our first stop this week is on 8/29/69 at the Family Dog with a double dose of Pigpen plus and early Workingman’s Dead tune: Lovelight, Casey Jones, Midnight Hour.
Week of March 23-29, 2026
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1972, 1973, and 1987.
Our first stop this week is on 9/10/72 in Hollywood, where we have Bertha; Greatest Story Ever Told; Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo; Black Throated Wind; Bird Song.
Week of March 16-22, 2026
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1972, 1976, and 1981.
Our first stop this week is in Waterbury, CT, where we have this great sequence of Baby Blue; Cryptical Envelopment> Drums> The Other One > Wharf Rat ; Beat It On Down The Line; Ramble On Rose.
Week of March 9-15, 2026
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1972, 1980, and 1981.
Our first stop is the big jam in 10/2/72 in Springfield, MA, the last show of the first leg of the Fall Tour of 1972, featuring Truckin’> Nobody's Fault But Mine Jam > Drums > Jam> Morning Dew; Sugar Magnolia, Uncle John’s Band, Johnny B. Goode.
Week of March 2-8, 2026
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1977, 1980, and 1994.
Our first stop is on 10/7/77 in Albuquerque, where we have this unique second set sequence of Ramble On Rose ; Passenger ; Terrapin Station > Playing In The Band.
Week of February 22-28, 2026
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1968, 1977, and 1984.
Our first stop is at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco on 10/13/68, a few months before the Dead started recording Live/Dead, where we have this classic sequence from the era: Dark Star> Saint Stephen> The Eleven> Death Don't Have No Mercy.
Week of February 16-22, 2026
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1972, 1988, and 1994.
Week of February 9-15, 2026
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1971, 1972, and 1973, all within a couple of calendar dates of one another.
Our first stop is on 10/22/71 in Chicago on Keith’s first tour with the Grateful Dead, where we have Ramble On Rose ; Cumberland Blues ; Cryptical Envelopment > Drums > The Other One > Cryptical Envelopment.
Week of February 2-8, 2026
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1969, 1973, and 1984.
Our first stop this week is on 10/25/69 at Winterand, where we have the Live/Dead suite, along with Stephen Stills on the last song: Dark Star > St. Stephen> The Eleven> Turn On Your Love Light.
