Dead Show/podcast for 5/13/16
The Deadpod
John Henrikson
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2016
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Friday the 13th finds us featuring the second set from the band's performance 30 years ago at Cal Expo on May 3rd, 1986. A nice bouncy Scarlet starts us off, with some pleasing trills from Brent (if you enjoy his additions).. the transition into Fire is one of the highlights of the set.. quite unusual.. Jerry gives a great reading of 'Fire on the Mountain', his voice in relatively good condition, just a bit strained.. They follow with 'Man Smart, Women Smarter'.. which always got the crowd up on their feet then an unusually placed 'Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad' leads us into Drums.. Long and quite interesting I think you'll enjoy the energy here. they glide into 'The Other One' out of Space.. at times I wonder if they will find the 'one' but they do..and times I wonder where Garcia has gone.. . This leads into a slow and introspective 'Comes A Time'.. Jerry sounds quite nice here.. they follow with a set, and show closing, Sugar Magnolia.. it ends with some wierd Healy effects and an announcement about broken guitars and frozen fingers and no encore tonight.... given what happens to Jerry in a cou ple months (his diabetic coma) we have to wonder if this was a foreshadowing..
Nevertheless this is quite good for the time period and I sure hope you enjoy it!
Grateful Dead
Cal Expo Amphitheatre Sacramento, CA
5/3/86 - Saturday
Two
Scarlet Begonias [9:40] >
Fire On The Mountain [9:46] ;
Man Smart (Woman Smarter) [7:18] >
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad [6:17] >
Jam [0:57] >
Drums [4:48#] >
Space [7:14] >
The Other One [7:53] >
Comes A Time [7:52] >
Sugar Magnolia [9:44]
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My sincere thanks to the kind folks whose contributions keep the Deadpod in existence.
Have a wonderful week my friends!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Dead Pod for the week of Friday, May the 13th, 2016. |
| 0:05.0 | This is a professor, I'm so glad you could pick this up this week. |
| 0:08.0 | This week we're going to continue with the second set from the Grateful Dead's performance at Cal Expo, |
| 0:13.6 | made the third, 1986. |
| 0:15.7 | It's a kind of an unusual second set. |
| 0:17.6 | I think as you listen to it, you'll understand why. |
| 0:20.0 | Starts out with that quite interesting scarlet fire. |
| 0:23.0 | Really, the amazing thing about this particular sequence of songs, it's quite nicely done as usual. |
| 0:29.0 | But the transition between scarlet and fire is probably the highlight for me. |
| 0:34.0 | Listen to Brett on both of the, on that in particular, |
| 0:36.8 | of the way he plays off Garcia. |
| 0:38.8 | He and Garcia's interchange here, and throughout the set, quite interesting. |
| 0:42.4 | I think that's one of the highlights of this set. |
| 0:45.6 | From there they go into an unusual man smart women smarter, unusual placement for it, |
| 0:50.0 | then into an even more unusual going down the road feeling bad for that song to appear before drums is |
| 0:56.4 | Certainly unusual rather indicative of the fact that this was a short show all around |
| 1:01.6 | They have an interesting drums in space it may may be in one of the ways, one of the more interesting |
| 1:08.4 | sequences in this of drums in space during this period of time in the dead's history. I think I really enjoy the drums. I think you'll find it's quite interesting. |
| 1:16.5 | After that they come out in a rather abbreviated gentle transition into the other one. |
| 1:24.0 | The other one's not quite really very long, |
| 1:26.4 | but long enough that it's quite interesting. |
| 1:28.7 | But then they go into another mellow tune. |
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