Dead Show/podcast for 3/21/14

The Deadpod

John Henrikson

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2014

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

I often wait until later in the Spring to pull out a show from 1977, but the anniversary this week of this run of shows moved me to pull this beauty out of the archives and select it for our next couple of Deadpods..

This show took place back on March 18th, 1977 at Winterland in San Francisco. The band is already jelling into the tight unit they're going to become later that spring, and you can hear the excitement in their playing and singing as they bring out new arrangements and new tunes for the first time.. This is a show that Blair Jackson has written about on dead.net as one of his most memorable experiences.. The band was not at all perfect (check out the mistakes during the still-new Mississippi Half-Step) but still reached the sublime (as evidence listen to the Sugaree).. This set features the first live performance of Fire on the Mountain and the transition from Scarlet into Fire is wonderful..

Next week we'll get to hear the wonderful second set..

Winterland Arena, San Francisco, CA (3/18/77)

Promised Land
Mississippi Half-Step
It's All Over Now
Sugaree
New Minglewood Blues
Peggy-O
Cassidy
Scarlet Begonias
Fire on the Mountain

You can listen to this week's Deadpod here:

http://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod032114.mp3

Happy Spring!!

I do want to take the opportunity to encourage you to consider a donation to help keep the Deadpod rolling.. I really want to thank you for your invaluable support!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome Dead Pot for the week of March 21st 2014. This is a professor. I'm so glad to get picked this up this week.
0:06.0	This week I'm going to bring you a really wonderful show.
0:10.0	I often wait to feature these shows from the spring of 1977 to May because there's so many great shows took place in May.
0:18.0	Somehow I've overlooked playing this as far as I can tell on the Dead Pod.
0:22.0	I'm going to the Dead Pod.
0:22.8	I'm going to remedy that tonight.
0:24.0	This show comes to us from March 18th, 1977,
0:27.5	Winterland Arena, San Francisco, California.
0:30.3	A great run that took place in the early spring of 77 out at the winter land.
0:35.0	We'll hear set one this week and set two next week.
0:38.0	The first set's quite good.
0:40.0	Jerry's got a real sweet voice and he's got his youthful sound during this tape.
0:45.0	I think you'll really enjoy it.
0:47.0	It starts out with Promisedland.
0:48.0	A great long version of Mississippi Half Step.
0:51.0	It's all over now. A very fine version of sugary. I really enjoy
0:55.2	this one. New Minglewood Blues, Peggy O'Cassity, and then Scarlet Bagonius goes into the very first
1:01.4	live rendition of Fire on the mountain. Pay particular
1:04.2	attention to that transition from Scarlet to Fire. Donna does a wonderful job on
1:08.8	this one, as does the whole band in 77 and this is no different. I think you'll enjoy this one and if you're a
1:17.2	fan of 1977 sound next week very special as well and that second set is a historic one indeed. So the very first
1:26.0	fire on the mountain I think you'll enjoy this one. Thanks so much for picking us up
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