Dead Show/podcast for 1/9/26
The Deadpod
John Henrikson
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
This week we have some 'Good Ol'Grateful Dead' for your listening pleasure.. This comes to us from Springer's Inn in Portland Oregon on January 16, 1970.
The opening 'Casey Jones' has a number of sound problems, but bear with it the rest of the set is quite good - especially when you consider it is 55 years old.. There are a number of highlights here - the 'Black Peter' is exceptionally soulful, and Pig gives a great rap and jam in 'Hard To Handle'. I love the 'China Cat' as well - listen for Garcia before his second solo.. 'Good Lovin' and 'Dancin' are each awesome as well. Nothing needs be said for a 'Death Don't Have No Mercy' set closer... if indeed this was the end of set 1 - we don't know for sure it could have been one long set..
Grateful Dead
Springer's Inn
Portland, OR 1/16/1970 - Friday
--Set 1--
Stage Announcements
Casey Jones*
Mama Tried
Black Peter
Hard to Handle
China Cat Sunflower ->**
I Know You Rider
High Time
// Good Lovin'***
Stage Announcements
Dancin' in the Streets
Alligator ->****
Drums ->
The Eleven Jam ->
Death Don't Have No Mercy
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thank you for your kind support.
peace.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome the Deadpod for January 9th, 2006. |
| 0:03.6 | This is a professor, I'm so glad you could pick us up this week. |
| 0:06.5 | This week I'm going to bring you one of my favorite good old Grateful Dead sets. |
| 0:11.7 | This comes to us from Springers Inn in Portland, Oregon, January 16th, 1970. |
| 0:18.9 | I think it's pretty nice recording, although the first song, which is Casey Jones, |
| 0:23.1 | is all kind of screwed up, but bear with it. It gets better after that, and quite a fun set. |
| 0:30.7 | So we start out with Casey Jones, and we get Mautau tried a really soulful Black Peter. |
| 0:35.7 | Pigpen does a wonderful hard to handle. |
| 0:39.1 | We have China 8 Rider, High Time, Good Love and follows a little cut there. |
| 0:44.8 | Some announcements, dancing in the streets, which is also done very nicely. |
| 0:48.5 | And then Alligator into drums, into the 11 jam, and they close what we're going to call set one with death don't have no mercy |
| 0:56.2 | there's some some i guess confusion as to whether this was one long show or if there was actually |
| 1:06.0 | a set break here we're going to treat it as if there's a set break and we'll play the rest of this |
| 1:11.3 | show next week. So hope you enjoy it. I hope you're in the mood for some good old Grateful |
| 1:16.1 | Dead because that's what we have here this week. So thanks so much for your support. I really |
| 1:21.8 | appreciate it. It couldn't do the Dead Pod without it. And I hope you enjoy this one. This is |
| 1:26.0 | a professor. You're listening to the dead pod. That's good. All righty. |
| 1:38.3 | Well are we all here now, gentlemen? |
| 1:40.3 | Whoop. |
| 1:41.3 | Microphone, please. |
| 1:45.0 | There's not much coming out of those monitors, |
| 1:49.0 | bear. |
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