Dead Show/podcast for 10/20/17
The Deadpod
John Henrikson
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2017
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
This week's Deadpod features a rather historic show in the band's history - this was the very first show with Keith Godchaux, on October 19th, 1971 in Minneapolis Minnesota. Not only was this Keith's first show it features the premier of six songs that would all become staples in the band's repertoire, Tennessee Jed, Jack Straw, Mexicali Blues, Comes a Time, One More Saturday Night and Ramble On Rose. There's plenty of energy in this set, and the new tunes and the addition of Keith mark a turning point in the band's trajectory, as the sound begins its transition to the characteristic sound of 1972.
Its also a nice coincidence that I received an email this week from the author of a new blog, all about 'Comes A Time' .. it has a nice writeup about this show as well as other great versions. You can find it here: https://gotanemptycup.wordpress.com/, check it out!
Grateful Dead
Northrup Auditorium
Minneapolis, MN 10/19/71 - Tuesday
One
Bertha [5:46] ;
Me And My Uncle [3:01] ;
Sugaree [6:14] ;
Beat It On Down The Line [3:29] ;
Cumberland Blues [5:01] ;
Tennessee Jed [5:59] ;
Black Peter [8:43] ;
Jack Straw [5:02] ;
Big Railroad Blues [3:14] ;
Brown Eyed Women [4:15] ;
Mexicali Blues [3:22] ;
Comes A Time [7:01] ;
Playing In The Band [5:42] ;
One More Saturday Night [4:22] ;
Casey Jones [5:47]
You can listen to this week's Deadpod here:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod102017.mp3
for some reason the number of listeners seems to have gone down a bit lately..
if you have any suggestions please let me know!
have a great week and thank you for your support!!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Dead Pod for the week of October 20th, 2017. |
| 0:04.2 | This is a professor, so glad to pick us up this week. |
| 0:06.9 | This week I'm going to bring you a show that's quite, actually, of some historical |
| 0:10.5 | import in the Grateful Dead's history. |
| 0:12.0 | This was the first show Keith |
| 0:13.6 | Gotchock played with the band back on October 19th, 1971 up in Northrop |
| 0:20.2 | Auditorium, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Excellent show, I think. |
| 0:24.1 | Keith holds his own quite well. |
| 0:26.0 | This show features the breakout of six new songs. |
| 0:32.4 | It's the first time they've ever played Tennessee Jed, the very first |
| 0:38.1 | jackstraw, the very first Mexicali Blues, the very first comes a time, the very first Saturday night and in the second set the first Ramble on Rose |
| 0:46.5 | so it's quite interesting the band is transitioning the sound from the |
| 0:51.9 | 70 71 period to what will be quite recognizable |
| 0:55.7 | 1972 sound. You'll hear the throwback of that in the second set but all these new |
| 1:01.7 | songs point to the evolution of the band and it's very interesting |
| 1:05.0 | and quite well played. I think you're going to enjoy it. In particular, the comes of time is quite interesting. |
| 1:11.5 | It's the very first one as I said before |
| 1:12.9 | Jerry does a falsetto in this which he only does a few times and if you're |
| 1:16.8 | interested in comes a time let me point to a new blog that a does a nice write up on this show and you can check it out at got an empty cup all one word |
| 1:36.0 | dot wordpress.com so comes a time blog so check that out if you're interested |
| 1:40.8 | thanks so much for picking us up and for your support of the |
| 1:43.1 | dead pod. We couldn't do it without you. I hope you enjoy this great show. Have a |
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