Dead Show/podcast for 1/8/16
The Deadpod
John Henrikson
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2016
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
This week with the start of a new year, I decided to take a look back to a truly fecund period for the band - early 1969. We have an exceptional sounding recording of a show that took place back on January 17th, 1969 in Santa Barbara, California. This recording shows how the band is ready to take off during this seminal year that saw the release of both Aoxomoxoa and Live Dead. The tape starts with a typically rousing 'Lovelight' (some have claimed to be able to tell that Pigpen was even more lit than usual here :) and then goes into a wonderful Dark Star. Saint Stephen and the Eleven follow, and you'll especially enjoy the jamming in the latter. The 'Death Don't Have No Mercy' that follows is for me one of the highlights of this performance.. slow and spooky.. just perfect. The band that rages into a 'That's It For the Other One', followed by their 3rd performance of a sloppy 'Cosmic Charlie' .. all in all a great 90 minutes of primal Dead..
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm one from the Dead Pod for the week of January 8, 2016. |
| 0:04.0 | This is a professor, so glad you could pick us up this week. |
| 0:07.0 | Decided to begin the new year with some old dead, some really primal dead, I guess. |
| 0:13.2 | Comes to us from January the 17th, 1969, Civic Auditorium, |
| 0:18.0 | Santa Barbara, California. |
| 0:19.9 | Of course, probably not a complete show, |
| 0:21.4 | but this is a great tape. It starts out with a great pig pen lovelight, |
| 0:26.0 | followed by a beautiful dark star. |
| 0:28.0 | This is, of course, the live dead period of time, |
| 0:31.0 | and this dark star ranks up with one of the finest live |
| 0:34.8 | early live dark stars I think you'll really enjoy it. St Stephen follows very nicely |
| 0:39.7 | done the 11th some great jam in there and a wonderful death don't have no mercy follows that. |
| 0:46.4 | Almost 10, a little over 10 minutes. Jerry's great in this one. |
| 0:50.8 | Following that, a beautiful that's it for the other one. |
| 0:54.0 | And this set closes with kind of a train wreck, but it's Cosmic Charlie. |
| 0:58.8 | I guess it's always that way. |
| 1:01.6 | Anyway, still fun to hear, and I think it's the first time they play at this one, so perhaps |
| 1:07.0 | that's excusable for a little bit of some of the fumbling on this one, but still a wonderful |
| 1:12.2 | tape. It's great to hear some old dead |
| 1:14.0 | some good old grateful dead this week I thought would be a good way to start out |
| 1:18.0 | this year and thanks again for your support of the dead pod I couldn't bring it to you |
| 1:22.4 | without it I really appreciate it. |
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