Dead Show/podcast for 12/13/13
The Deadpod
John Henrikson
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2013
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
I've always been fond of how the band sounded in 1979, and this week's Deadpod shows some of the reasons why. Brett hadn't been in the band a year yet, but by now he is well integrated in the sound and you can really hear his contributions in this show from Kansas City. The rest of the band is quite tight as well, and in this first set the solid 'Jack Straw' and 'Loser' openers show us that we're in for a great night. Big River is rockin' as well, and the boys open up 'Althea' to some unusual spaces at the end. Phil has some excellent riffs throughout and especially in the closing China Cat->Rider..
All in all this is a solid first set, and I'm looking forward to sharing set two next week.. I hope you enjoy it!
Grateful Dead
Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Hall, Kansas City, KS (12/11/79)
Jack Straw
Loser
Me and My Uncle
Big River
Althea
Easy to Love You
New Minglewood Blues
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
You can listen to this week's Deadpod here:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod121313.mp3
My thanks to those friends who have contributed to keep the Deadpod on the air! I very much appreciate your support..
Only two more Deadpods this year!!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and Walk the Dead Pod for the week of December 13th 2013. This is a professor. I'm so glad you can pick us up this week |
| 0:06.5 | This week I'm going to bring a show from one of my favorite venues ever to see the band that |
| 0:10.5 | Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas. |
| 0:15.4 | Great show. |
| 0:16.4 | Brent, of course, is early on his tenure with the band and is really lively on this and |
| 0:20.4 | his keyboard work comes across very well on the tape. |
| 0:24.4 | I think you'll enjoy this one. |
| 0:25.7 | It starts out with a strong jackstraw and a loser, |
| 0:28.1 | both of those very strong well-played openers. |
| 0:31.4 | Me and my uncle and the big River is quite good. Then a wonderful |
| 0:34.4 | Althea follows a really nice ending to this. There's a nice jam at the end of |
| 0:39.0 | Althea that really opens it up as it is. Phil does a really nice job on this one. |
| 0:45.2 | Then we have Easy to Love You. |
| 0:47.6 | New Minglewood Blues, which is played quite well for that song. |
| 0:50.6 | And then China Cat Sunflower, |
| 0:52.8 | and I Know You Rider, closes one, very nicely played. |
| 0:56.3 | I think you'll enjoy this one. |
| 0:58.1 | The band has a lot of nice interplay, the vocals are crisp, and everything, I think it's quite a nice representation of the |
| 1:05.4 | band's sound back in 1979 so we'll play set to next week hope you enjoy it thanks |
| 1:11.4 | so much for those of you who are able to support the Dead Pod. |
| 1:13.8 | I really appreciate your support and I couldn't put the Shaw on the air without it. |
| 1:17.5 | So thanks so much for picking us up for listening and for being supporters of the Dead Pod. |
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