Dead Show/podcast for 4/20/12
The Deadpod
John Henrikson
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2012
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
This week I reached back to find a show befitting the 4/20 occasion and decided that despite its flaws only April 20th, 1969 would do. This one has been on the request list for some time, but it is a gas. This is of course a great example of 'good ol' Grateful Dead' with Pigpen featured prominently on Good Morning Little Schoolgirl and Lovelight, but it also includes a mind-bending Dark Star, a wonderful St. Stephen and a pair of wonderful encores - Dupree's Diamond Blues and Mountains of the Moon... not to mention the always powerful 'Death Don't Have No Mercy'..
Granted the recording suffers from some hiss in spots and doesn't have quite the headroom I would like, but if you let yerself explore where this wild band of outlaws takes you on this evening 43 years ago I'm sure you'll smile.............
Grateful Dead
04/20/69
Clark University
Worcester. MA
Tuning 02:13
Morning Dew 09:38
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 10:43
Doin' That Rag 06:25
Dark Star > 21:16
St Stephen > 06:17
The Eleven > 06:44
Death Don't Have Mercy 10:00
Lovelight 22:38
E1:Dupree's Diamond Blues > 03:46
E2:Mountains Of The Moon 05:12
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Sending out light to Levon Helm this week....may his passage be a peaceful one.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm welcome to Deadpot for the week of April 20th, 2012. This is a professor, I'm so glad you could pick us up this week. |
| 0:07.0 | This show that I'm going to play tonight, I've had in the request list for quite some time, but I couldn't let the date pass me up by without |
| 0:16.1 | pulling it out and treating you to it. |
| 0:18.8 | This comes to us from a performance The Grateful Dead did on April 20th, 1969 at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. |
| 0:28.3 | This is quite a famous show. |
| 0:29.5 | The recording we have is not bad at all. |
| 0:32.0 | It starts out with morning do, then Pigpen does a great good |
| 0:36.8 | morning little schoolgirl. Then a wonderful doing that rag and then maybe the highlight |
| 0:40.9 | of the show depends on your point of view, a spectacular dark star into St Stephen into the 11 goes into Death Don't Have No Mercy. |
| 0:50.0 | They were then treated with a over 20 minute long lovelight. |
| 0:54.0 | Two encores round out what's recorded in the set Dupree's diamond blues into an acoustic |
| 0:59.3 | mountains of the moon. |
| 1:01.1 | Here this was quite a spectacular event. I think the band was in rare form and I think |
| 1:09.6 | you'll enjoy listening to this slice of Primal Dead. |
| 1:13.6 | Thanks so much for picking us up, folks. |
| 1:15.7 | I want to remind you, the DeadPods brought to you by Lister's support. |
| 1:18.2 | We couldn't put on the DeadPod without it, |
| 1:20.2 | and I'm very thankful to those of you |
| 1:22.1 | who have been able to support the dead pod and keep it on the air. |
| 1:26.0 | This is a professor and you're listening to the dead pod. The Oh, I'm going to be here. Go there. We've got the hammer. Go there. The The Bungo Strait, 1942. Oh, That is it working. |
| 2:59.0 | That is it working. |
| 3:00.0 | Oh, it seems to work you guys. Oohoo, uh... |
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