Dead Show/podcast for 1/1/16
The Deadpod
John Henrikson
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2016
⏱️ 211 minutes
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Summary
Happy New Year!
It just wouldn't be right if I didn't feature a NYE show on this date, and while many of the shows that the band played on New Years Eve were a bit of a letdown, I think I've chosen one that wasn't.. this comes to us from New Years Eve 1981. While the boys opened with an acoustic set with Joan Baez, I had to spare you that and omit it from this podcast. I did not however, omit anything else - over three and a half hours of great Dead awaits you in this special New Years' podcast. All three sets including a wonderful Shakedown Street opener, an unusual Iko,Iko to ring in the New Year, Terrapin Station, a fabulous Morning Dew which closes set 2, and an excellent Dark Star to open set 3. I hope you have plenty of time to savor this Deadpod over the holiday weekend, and I sure hope you enjoy it!
Grateful Dead
Oakland Auditorium
Oakland, CA
12/31/81 - Thursday
One
Shakedown Street [15:15] ;
Me And My Uncle [2:59] >
Mexicali Blues [4:41]; Cold Rain And Snow [6:20] ;
C C Rider (1) [8:32] ;
It Must Have Been The Roses (2) [6:27] ;
Beat It On Down The Line [3:33] ;
Big Boss Man (1) [6:01] >
New Minglewood Blues (1) [6:10] ;
Don't Ease Me In [3:12]
Two
Iko Iko [7:24] ;
Playing In The Band [14:49] >
Terrapin Station [12:24]> Playing In The Band [4:28] >
Drums [9:55] >
Space [7:40] >
The Other One [11:09] >
Not Fade Away [7:28] >
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad [7:21] >
Morning Dew [10:44]
Three
Dark Star [15:16] >
Bertha [6:32] >
Good Lovin' [10:03]
Encore It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (2) [7:07]
Comments An acoustic set with Joan Baez preceded the Dead only sets, set list was: Me & Bobby McGee ; Bye Bye Love ; Lucifer's Eyes ; Children of the 80's; Banks of the Ohio. Iko at midnight. (1) with Matthew Kelly (2) with Joan Baez
You can listen to this week's Deadpod here:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod010116.mp3
Thank you my friends for listening and for your support during 2015. Your kindness makes producing this podcast a labor of love.
May we all be blessed with health, peace and happiness this New Year!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Dead Pod for New Year's Day. |
| 0:03.0 | January the 1st, 2016, so glad you could pick us up this week. |
| 0:07.0 | Happy New Year. |
| 0:08.0 | I decided this week that I would bring a little bit early because I'm going to publish this New Year's Eve so we can publish the entire show. |
| 0:16.0 | One of the longer and better New Year's Eve shows of the ways ever put out. |
| 0:20.0 | This one took place back on New Year's Eve, 1981, Oakland, California. |
| 0:26.0 | We're going to listen to all three sets tonight. |
| 0:28.0 | It starts out with a thunderous shake down street, Uncle Mexicali, cold rain and snow, CC rider. |
| 0:34.4 | It must have been the roses, Joan Bayes sits in on that, but doesn't ruin it. |
| 0:41.8 | Beat it on down the line. Big Boss Man into Mingwood Blue, |
| 0:44.3 | sets got Matthew Kelly on it, don't ease me and closes set one. Set two starts out with a |
| 0:48.2 | great Ico, Jerry's just great on this one, and then they go into this |
| 0:51.8 | fabulous playing in the band into Terrapin Station, back into playing in the band, |
| 0:56.0 | really good. I think you really like that Terrapin, they go so deep in it. |
| 1:00.0 | Drums and space follows, then the other one into not fade away. |
| 1:04.0 | Wonderful going down the road feeling bad. |
| 1:06.5 | Leads into a great morning due to close the second set. |
| 1:09.5 | They come out and do a third set with a wonderful dark star. This one goes about 15 minutes, goes into Bertha. |
| 1:15.5 | They close set three with good loving, but come back with a beautiful, it's all over now, baby blue, |
| 1:20.7 | encore that closes the evening. |
| 1:24.7 | This time they played Ico at midnight instead of sugar magnolia, so I guess I hope that's |
| 1:29.0 | not a disappointment to you, but I think this is really a great New Year's Eve show. I looked at quite a few different ones to decide what to play and they were uneven on New Year's Eve. Sometimes they had great shows, sometimes not so great. And of course, like any dead show, they had had highs and lows but I think you'll enjoy this one. It's a good recording and I thought it would be a great way to thank you for another wonderful year of being able to produce a dead pod. |
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