Dead Show/podcast for 1/15/21

The Deadpod

John Henrikson

Performing Arts, Gratefuldead, Grateful, Dead, Arts, Music

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week we wind up our 'holiday' series of Deadpods with the fabulous third set from the band's New Year's Eve performance in Oakland on December 31st, 1982. This third set features guest appearances with Etta James and the Tower of Power horns. The band clearly has a blast here, and despite it being the third set play with a great deal of passion and energy.. Phil opens with that familiar bass line from 'Lovelight' and Bobby leads them into it. After a couple of verses and a quite interesting solo from Garcia, Bobby introduces Etta James who takes command of the song, and indeed most of the set! This is a great blues set with 'Tell Mama' coming next. They slow things down with a funky 'Baby What You Want Me To Do' but then the spirit of Pigpen returns with a fine 'Hard to Handle' - Etta is really digging Garcia's work here as you'll hear. They close with a fine 'Midnight Hour' to wind down the set.

The boys come back, by themselves to deliver a sweet 'Brokedown Palace' encore. On the tape we get to hear Bill Graham send the crowd home as only he would...

Oakland Auditorium
Oakland, CA 12/31/82 - Friday
Three
Turn On Your Love Light >
Tell Mama ;
Baby What You Want Me To Do ;
Hard To Handle ;
In The Midnight Hour
Encore
Brokedown Palace
Comments Third set with Etta James and tower of Power

Now I decided since this was a shorter set, to include some music I've been wanting to play over the holidays that is just a hot little jam.. this comes from a set variously labeled 'Mickey and the Heartbeats' or 'Jerry Garcia and Friends'.. from Christmas eve, 1968 at the Matrix in San Francisco. I think the sound is out of sight for such an old tape..

The Matrix
San Francisco CA, 12/24/68 - Tuesday
Mickey & The Heartbeats
Jam

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Welcome to Deadpot for the week of January the 15th, 2021.
0:03.6	This is a professor, and I'm so glad to pick this up this week.
0:07.8	This week we're going to bring you the third set from the Grateful Dead's New Year's Eve performance,
0:11.9	December 31st, 1982 at the Oakland Auditorium in Oakland, California.
0:16.2	This of course is a very special evening.
0:18.1	This third set was probably the most fun of all because it included Eddie James and the horns from the Tower of Power.
0:25.0	Some people don't like those horns with the dead, but there's no question that the dead had a whole lot of fun during this third set.
0:32.0	They really enjoyed it
0:33.7	Jerry played his ass off and I think it was worth it's going to be worth hearing and I think you enjoy it and you'll be able to hear
0:40.9	their happiness through this music.
0:43.2	They start out with that incredible fill baseline on Love Light.
0:46.7	Everybody recognizes it.
0:48.0	And it does a, it's a powerful start.
0:51.2	And before Bobby starts into the song and then before too long Edd of James joins and really takes over during this third set.
0:59.0	It becomes a full-fledged blues set in a lot of ways they're channeling pig pen during this one and we get a great
1:04.9	love light then they edit moves into Tellmama what a great tune after that they move
1:11.3	into baby what you Want Me to Do,
1:13.0	Hard to Handle, another Pig Pen tune,
1:16.0	and Bobby closes a set within the midnight hour.
1:19.0	Great Blues set, the bands has so much fun during this this and I think it's quite well played.
1:24.4	You can listen to some great Jerry solos during this and I think you'll find that
1:29.1	midnight hour for example doesn't sound that version doesn't sound like any other they play. It's really good.
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