Dead Show/podcast for 10/31/25

The Deadpod

John Henrikson

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

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🗓️ 1 November 2025

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Summary

Happy Halloween!!

In honor of the fact that this week's Deadpod falls on Halloween, I decided to go back and find an appropriate show that the band played on this date... I think this one from 1969 is certainly worthy of a listen..

The show starts out with a truly nasty recording of Casey Jones - I left it in for the sake of completeness, but I hope you will stick with it as the recording greatly improves after that. There is a fair bit of hiss throughout but nevertheless this is a wonderful artifact of the young Grateful Dead..

The Cryptical>Drums>OtherOne>Cryptical has a wild drum segment that is great fun, and the China>Rider has a very nice transition jam between them.

The second set highlights include a Pigpen taking over at the end here, with the last three songs showcasing his blues delivery. 'Easy Wind' was still relatively new - this is the 7th time played, and the tape ends with a massive 30+minute Lovelight ;)

Grateful Dead
10/31/69
San Jose State University San Jose, CA

One:
Casey Jones
Yellow Dog Story
Dire Wolf
It Hurts Me Too
Cryptical Envelopment>
Drums>
The Other One>
Cryptical Envelopment> 2
China Cat Sunflower> Jam>
I Know You Rider

Two:
High Time
Sittin' On Top Of The World
Next Time You See Me>
Easy Wind
Turn On Your Lovelight
COMMENTS Casey Jones cuts in just after the first notes of the tune.
Lovelight cuts off during the final flourishes. DeadBase IX lists a Mama Tried after I Know You Rider.

You can listen to this week's Deadpod here:

http://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod103125.mp3

Have a safe and fun Halloween !!!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Dead Pod for Halloween 2025.
0:03.8	This is a professor.
0:04.6	I'm so glad you could pick us up this week.
0:07.1	This week I decided in honor of the special occasion to go back in the archives and find a dead show that was played on Halloween.
0:17.0	This one that I picked out was played back on Halloween 1969 at San Jose State University, San Jose, California.
0:25.6	The tape has a fair amount of hiss. It's quite listenable, although I'm not real fond of the first song. So don't give up on it. The first song is Casey Jones. It doesn't sound particularly good, but the rest of it sounds pretty good, I think. So if you don't give up on that, I think you'll enjoy the rest of the tape. So it starts out, we'll play the whole show for you that exists on tape. It starts out with Casey Jones, and we have the Yellow Dog story. Dyer Wolf, it hurts me too. A great cryptical into drums,
0:55.7	into the other one. The drums are crazy wild. Kreutzman's going crazy there. It's really
1:00.9	nice. Back into cryptical. China Rider with a great jam in the middle. And then set two starts
1:07.0	out with a nice high time sitting on top of the world. Next time you see me into Easy Wind, I think,
1:12.9	Easy Wind, I think it was only the second or third time they played Easy Wind.
1:16.9	And then Pigpen goes off with almost a half-hour version of Turn On Your Love Lights.
1:21.3	So classic, Grateful Dead from the Archives.
1:27.6	I hope you enjoy it.
1:28.5	I hope you have a very safe
1:29.7	and happy Halloween.
1:31.9	I hope to see you back here next week.
1:33.4	Thanks so much for your support of the Deadpod.
1:35.0	I really appreciate it.
1:36.6	And hope to see you back here next week.
1:38.5	This is a professor.
1:39.2	You're listening to The Deadpod. that pod I'm driving watch Watch your speed. Trouble ahead. Trouble, baby.
2:02.6	And you know that you're just about that.
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