Dead Show/podcast for 1/31/14
The Deadpod
John Henrikson
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2014
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
A truly special show for Super Bowl weekend ;) - the second set, aka the 'Close Encounters' show - from McArthur Court at the University of Oregon, January 22nd, 1978. I still remember when I first heard this show, it blew me away, and not only because of the weirdness of hearing Jerry quote that theme from the Spielburg movie - but the entire jam that builds up from the Drums and the Other One into that delicious St. Stephen! I completely enjoy this one, and hope that you do as well.. For me it marks a real turning point for the band, a different direction than they were in the prior year and onward.. Furthur you might say :)
McArthur Court (U of Oregon), Eugene, OR (1/22/78)
set 2:
Bertha Good Lovin' Ship of Fools Samson and Delilah Terrapin Station drums The Other One Close Encounters St. Stephen Not Fade Away Around and Around U.S. Blues
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm welcome the Dead Pod for the week of January 31st, 2014. |
| 0:04.4 | This is a professor I'm so glad to pick us up this week. |
| 0:07.2 | We're going to close out January with a really classic second set, a dead's performance at the |
| 0:11.6 | University of Oregon, MacArthur Court, Eugene, Oregon, |
| 0:14.8 | January 22, 1978. |
| 0:18.7 | Justifiably famous as a close encounter show, this second set features a lot of great music. |
| 0:25.0 | It starts out with really fine, Bertha and a good loving. |
| 0:27.6 | They really get rolling a nice ship of fools, always a favorite of mine to hear. |
| 0:31.6 | And then a Samson and Delight of it is quite strong. Then they go into a |
| 0:36.2 | very nice for the really the meat of the show that they're most famous for is this next segment. They do a nice long |
| 0:42.4 | terrapin station into a really strong drums. You can |
| 0:46.2 | tell during the drums that something is going on tonight because the drums is really |
| 0:50.4 | interesting and exciting. Then it goes into really the the highlight one of the highlights of the show they blast into a very long well jammed out other one |
| 0:59.3 | That goes into of course the famous |
| 1:06.7 | Jerry takes over and does some solo work on the guitar. You don't know what's going on and then he blasts into that close encounters theme. |
| 1:10.8 | Then the band goes into a near perfect St Stephen for this period. |
| 1:15.0 | One of the last few that they do, but it was perfectly timed and executed. |
| 1:19.0 | I think you'll enjoy it quite a bit. |
| 1:21.0 | They go out of that into a really nice dot fade away and |
| 1:24.9 | a great bouncy round and around. Band comes out and does a US Blues encore really as an |
| 1:29.8 | afterthought to what was a superb 45 minutes or so of jamming. I think you'll enjoy this |
| 1:36.2 | one if you're a fan of this period of the Grateful Dead in particular but any |
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