Dead Show/podcast for 5/1/26
The Deadpod
John Henrikson
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
This week's Deadpod takes us back to Pasadena, California, and the Rose Palace on May 10, 1969. This is a fierce, high-energy slice of early Dead, complete with a few rough edges from the road. "Hard To Handle" and "Morning Dew" both run into technical trouble, with the band's frustration coming through loud and clear, but the real centerpiece here is the long psychedelic run from "Dark Star" into "Saint Stephen," "The Eleven," and a nearly half-hour "Turn On Your Love Light."
It's primal Dead, unpredictable and powerful, with all the danger and electricity of 1969 still crackling through the tape.
Grateful Dead
Rose Palace
Pasadena, CA 5/10/1969 - Saturday
One
Hard To Handle [5:33];[1:05]
Me And My Uncle [3:31];[0:57]
Morning Dew [8:06]
Yellow Dog Story [1:51];[0:23]
Doin' That Rag [6:32];[0:31]
Dark Star [20:59] >
Saint Stephen [6:08] >
The Eleven [15:56] >
Turn On Your Love Light [29:31]
You can listen to this week's Deadpod here:
https://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod050126.mp3
This was originally recorded by Bear on an Ampex C90 cassette on a Concord F-400 Cassette Deck
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to Deadpod for the week of May 1st, 2006. |
| 0:03.5 | This is Professor. I'm so glad you could pick us up this week. |
| 0:06.2 | This week I decided we needed to go back a little bit in time and dabble in some good old Grateful Dead. |
| 0:13.2 | This one comes to us from May the 10th, 1969, the Rose Palace in Pasadena, California. It was a Saturday night. Very interesting show. The recording is not bad recording at all, but the show itself suffered several power failures throughout. So the first song, hard to handle. They're really cooking, and it has a power failure towards the end and stops unexpectedly. |
| 0:39.5 | Then we get a hot version of me and my uncle. |
| 0:42.6 | Morning Dew is really cooking and there's another little power failure right at the end of that. |
| 0:48.8 | Bobby goes into the Yellow Dog story. |
| 0:51.1 | Then we get a great doing that rag and really the highlight of this set is this |
| 0:54.6 | dark star that follows. It's really spacey. It's out there. It's why I wanted to play this tape. |
| 1:00.9 | I think you'll enjoy it. Following that, a nice St. Stephen into the 11. This 11 is drawn out and |
| 1:06.7 | really great. They really cook on this as well. And then we get pig pen with a |
| 1:11.7 | almost 30 minute love light. So technical flaws aside, a great representation of early |
| 1:21.0 | dead and lots of energy here. I hope you enjoy it. Thanks so much for picking us up this week. |
| 1:26.2 | This is a professor. And thanks for your support of the Deadpot. I couldn't do it. Thanks so much for picking us up this week. This is a professor. |
| 1:30.0 | And thanks for your support of the Deadpod. |
| 1:31.1 | I couldn't do it without you. |
| 1:32.8 | Hope to see you back here next week. |
| 1:34.0 | This is The Dead Pod. |
| 1:37.1 | Hooked up. |
| 1:39.0 | We've got to get everybody hooked up. |
| 1:43.8 | And so what you want to do is just grab all the hands you can around you. |
| 1:46.0 | So everybody get hooked up. You get all hooked up. |
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