Dead Show/podcast for 5/15/20

The Deadpod

John Henrikson

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week's Deadpod will take us to May of 1978. This show took place in the Field House at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY on May the 7th, 1978, a place that was described as basically an aircraft hanger with terrible acoustics and hot as hell. Luckily the tape we have is pretty good overall because this was a show where you can tell that the band was in great spirits and having fun throughout. I think you'll find that Jerry and Donna, in particular are in great voice, and Keith and Phil are both having an exceptional evening.

There are plenty of highlights to be had here - as well as alot of noodling and playing around between songs.. some of my favorites are the 'Dire Wolf', the great 'It's All Over Now' featuring some very nice Garcia licks, and Passenger, with Donna in great voice.

The closing 'Music Never Stopped' reaches some very nice spots as well..

Grateful Dead
Field House - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY
5/7/78 - Sunday
One
Jack Straw [6:23] ;
Dire Wolf [4:03] ;
Mexicali Blues [3:42] >
Mama Tried [2:36] ;
Tennessee Jed [8:31] ;
It's All Over Now [8:10] ;
Friend Of The Devil [5:#43] ;
Passenger [5:08] ;
Brown Eyed Women [5:20] ;
The Music Never Stopped [8:17]

You can listen to this week's Deadpod here:

http://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod051520.mp3

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thanks so much for your kind support.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm welcome to the Dead Pod for the week of May the 15th, 2020.
0:04.3	This is a professor, I'm so glad I could pick this up this week.
0:07.3	This week I decided to bring you a really fun show, I think the band has has a great time at this one. It's from the Fieldhouse at Rensselar Polytechnic Institute in
0:16.1	Troy, New York who was played on May the 7th, 1978, a Sunday show. And it sounds to me like all the boys are having and the girl
0:23.8	is having a great time at this one. It starts out with a really nice jackstraw.
0:27.5	Phil leads away here really well done. Now all these songs are fresh sounding. Jerry's in a great voice.
0:34.7	Donna's in a great voice. And Direwolf follows really nicely. Again, really nice song.
0:40.7	Mexicali Blues and the Mama Tried, an old shoe of a combination, but I think it sounds quite
0:47.5	fresh.
0:48.5	Jerry does some nice work in the background here.
0:50.5	Tennessee Jed follows, Jerry does a good job on the vocals.
0:53.0	And then it's all over now, a song that you don't usually think of as being very jam-friendly,
0:59.0	but Jerry puts in some incredible licks here. They're really fun to listen to.
1:03.0	A friend of the devil follows that slows things down just a little bit.
1:07.0	Passenger, they kick it back up with Donna does a great job on this one.
1:10.0	Brown-eyed women and they end the set with the great the music never
1:14.1	stopped. Well here's set two next week. I hope you're all doing well and I want to
1:19.4	thank you for your kind support of the Dead Pot. I really appreciate it.
1:22.2	Take care. We'll see you back here next Friday. This is
1:27.0	the professor you're listening to the dead pod. Oh, We can share the women, we can share the wine.
1:58.0	We can share what we got to use because we don't share all of mine. I'm going to go.
2:09.0	Keep on rolling just a mile to go to go just a mile to go.
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