Dead Show/podcast for 3/30/12
The Deadpod
John Henrikson
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2012
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
There were quite a few outstanding shows that took place in early Spring throughout the history of the GD, so picking one for this week's show wasn't that easy. I think this is however a good show from an outstanding tour, Spring of 1987. The band roars out of the gate on Jack Straw, then goes into an outstanding Franklin's Tower, in honor of Philadelphia I presume.. The first set is full of sparkling playing and high energy. I'm personally fond of the Candyman, however, in the more soulful vein..
I'm even willing to give them a pass on the perfunctory 'Don't Ease' which closes the set... the second set next week is very good as well.. The sound quality is not pristine but quite listenable, I think. I hope you enjoy it, and that your Spring is busting out all over too.
3/31/87 - Grateful Dead
The Spectrum - Philadelphia, PA
Set One:
Jack Straw ->
Franklin's Tower
C C Rider
Ramble On Rose
Tons Of Steel
Mama Tried ->
Big River
Candyman
Desolation Row ->
Don't Ease Me In
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome the dead pod for the week of March the 30th 2012 this is a professor I'm so glad to pick this up this week |
| 0:07.1 | so many great shows took place in the end of March in grateful dead history it's hard to pick, you know, a particular one, but this week I decided to bring you something from a tour that was really quite wonderful and perhaps overlooked a little bit today, and that is a spring of 1987. |
| 0:24.2 | This week's show comes to us from the spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania took place on |
| 0:28.8 | March 31st, 1987, originally broadcast on FM. |
| 0:33.6 | Our recording is pretty decent sonically. |
| 0:37.7 | Maybe not the absolute best, but still quite enjoyable. |
| 0:40.6 | It's really a high energy performance that I know you're going to enjoy. |
| 0:44.0 | It starts out with a great opening set. Opening numbers. |
| 0:48.0 | Jack Straw really roars out of the box. |
| 0:51.0 | You're really going to like this one. |
| 0:52.0 | It goes into a Franklin's Tower of the box. You're really going to like this one. Goes into a |
| 0:53.1 | Franklin's Tower of all things. Really nice and quite enjoyable. The band |
| 0:58.0 | are real, you can tell right away the band's on this night. So a really nice |
| 1:01.7 | opening set. Goes into C. C. C. Rider. Ramble on Rose is always good. |
| 1:06.7 | Tons of steel mama tried into Big River. Jerry comes out with a really sweet and |
| 1:11.7 | perfect candyman. |
| 1:13.4 | Desolation Row goes into Don't Ease Me in to Close the First Set. |
| 1:17.2 | We'll hear that really nice second set next week, but I hope you enjoy the first set this |
| 1:21.1 | week, folks. |
| 1:21.8 | I'm sure you're going to. |
| 1:23.2 | Thanks so much for tuning into the dead pod. I want to remind you that we're brought to you by |
| 1:26.8 | listener's support and I want to thank those of you who can contribute to keep the |
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