Dead Show/podcast for 4/22/22

The Deadpod

John Henrikson

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

43 years ago today Brent Mydland played his first show with the Grateful Dead.

This week we will listen to the first set of that show here on the Deadpod.

I think you'll immediately notice the increased energy on stage, especially when you compare to the early '79 shows. The boys have been rehearsing and I believe it shows in this first set. Highlights for me include the great 'Jack Straw' opener, a fabulous 'Tennessee Jed', the cowboy songs, where we first really hear Brent stepping out. I'm not a huge 'Stagger Lee' fan but this one isn't bad. 'Passenger' always sounded strange to my ears without Donna, they try it out here. Phil comes through quite strong throughout, and the drummers are ON it.

Next week we'll hear the second set with the premier of the Beast!

Grateful Dead
Spartan Stadium
San Jose, CA (4/22/79)

Set 1

Jack Straw
Tennessee Jed
Mama Tried
Mexicali Blues
Sugaree
Looks Like Rain
Brown Eyed Women
New Minglewood Blues
Stagger Lee
Passenger
Deal

Comments: Brent Mydland's First Show

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the Deb pod for the week of April 22nd, 2022, this is a professor, so glad you could pick us up this week.
0:08.0	This week we're going to bring you a show that's quite important historically and it's also quite well played.
0:13.0	It comes to us from Spartan Stadium, San Jose, California.
0:17.0	April 22nd, 1979.
0:20.0	Yes, this was the first show.
0:22.0	Brett Middleton played with a grateful head.
0:25.0	It's also important because it's the first time Mickey brings out the beast.
0:28.0	Both of these things are quite interesting and had a profound effect on the structure of the show, the sound of the band, and I think their energy throughout.
0:37.0	It starts out with a great jack straw.
0:40.0	You'll hear organ in places you're not used to it.
0:43.0	The band hadn't had organ for quite a while, and Jerry hadn't had a keyboardist that he really would play off of before this.
0:49.0	Brent is makes his first appearance a little bit later.
0:52.0	Follows jack after jack straw, we get Tennessee Jed, and then the mama try into mixed-calibre blues, and here you'll see Brent really step it up for the first time.
1:01.0	Nicely done.
1:03.0	Sugary follows, and a new minglewood blues, brown-eyed women, looks like rain.
1:09.0	The band teases weird a little bit here.
1:12.0	Then staggerly, and passenger without down it sounds different, but it's still rocking.
1:18.0	They close the set with a nice deal, and while this first set may be standard fair, it's quite well done, I think, and I think the band is infused with some energy that does a lot of practicing course, get Brent in the mix, and I think it shows.
1:32.0	Hope you enjoy as much as I do. Thanks so much for picking us up this week.
1:36.0	Hope you had a great 420, and thanks for your support. I couldn't do it without you.
1:42.0	This is a professor, you're listening to The DeadPod.
2:15.0	We gotta use, cause we're not shit all the time.
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