Dead Show/podcast for 5/17/13
The Deadpod
John Henrikson
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🗓️ 17 May 2013
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
During May of each year, I always try to pay recognition to the superlative run of shows the band played during May of 1977. This year as most of you probably know, the organization has finally decided to release a box set of some of these shows.. While I do not generally play shows that have been officially released, I've decided to feature one of these shows that is going to be released this week. For the true collector, this won't dissuade them from purchasing what looks like a beautiful collection. For those of us who can't afford the price tag, it gives you another opportunity to listen to what is clearly one of the high water marks in the history of the Grateful Dead.
This show comes from May 17th, 1977, and was performed in Tuscaloosa Alabama.. I think its a fine example of the virtuosity of the period. Certainly the band played a smooth, flowing style that nevertheless expressed the power of the genre flawlessly. It was certainly different than what came before and what came after.. but that what makes this process worthwhile.
Memorial Coliseum (U of Alabama), Tuscaloosa, AL (5/17/77) New Minglewood Blues Mississippi Half-Step El Paso They Love Each Other Jack Straw Jack-a-Roe Looks Like Rain Tennessee Jed Passenger High Time Big River Sunrise Scarlet Begonias Fire on the Mountain
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome the dead pod for the week of May the 17th 2013 this is a professor I'm so glad to pick us up this week |
| 0:07.0 | As you probably heard |
| 0:09.8 | Grateful dead merchandising or whatever they're called, now, has released Rhino Records, has decided to release a box set of May 1977. |
| 0:19.0 | A real fine looking compilation includes some very wonderful shows from that month. |
| 0:25.3 | There's not going to be a whole lot less left in the dead catalog that hasn't been released from that month or that tour when this box set gets released. |
| 0:36.1 | I decided however that because it's a tradition of sorts of mind to pay homage to that wonderful |
| 0:42.1 | month here on the Dead Pod that I was going to play one more of these shows before it got released. |
| 0:47.0 | And so for this week's Dead Pond, I'm going to play the first set of the Fine show that took place on May 17th, 1977 at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, we're going to hear. |
| 0:59.0 | First set this week, the second set next week, I'm sure the quality in the box set may be a little more |
| 1:04.6 | pristine but this will give you a good idea of what you're going to get if you've |
| 1:08.9 | decided to spring for that and if you haven't well it's another opportunity to hear a wonderful |
| 1:14.0 | show from a great tour starts out with new Mingwood Blues then a great Mississippi |
| 1:18.8 | half step into El Paso they love each other's quite well played. Jack Straw. |
| 1:24.0 | Jackaro with the early funky rhythm that I really like. |
| 1:28.0 | Looks like Rain, Tennessee Jed. Passenger has only played in spring of 77. |
| 1:34.0 | Then a wonderful high time, not something we heard a lot of, |
| 1:38.0 | but I always nevertheless really enjoy it. |
| 1:41.0 | Big River, sunrise, and then they close a set with |
| 1:44.7 | Scarlet Fire. What a great way to close set one that goes on about 25, 26 |
| 1:51.6 | minutes for those two. |
| 1:53.0 | A great first set, we'll hear the second set next week. |
| 1:56.0 | There's not so much to say about Spring of 77. |
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