Dead Show/podcast for 5/30/14

The Deadpod

John Henrikson

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2014

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

This week we have a show I find quite interesting, the band's first live performance after a 20 month hiatus back in 1975-76. You'll be struck by the fact that the tempo is slower than you'd expect. Some have attributed this to the band's breaking in both alot of new material and adjusting to having both drummers in the lineup. This show features a whole lot of firsts -- the first Might as Well, the First Lazy Lightnin'->Supplication, and the first Dancin' in over 200 shows.. I think its well played, and while the tempo is a little slower than one is used to hearing I really enjoyed the Lazy Lightnin'->Supplication, Candyman (well duh :)

and the rare first set Scarlet Begonias. I think its really fascinating to listen to the band as it evolves into the beast it will become by 1977...

Paramount Theatre, Portland, Ore. (6/3/76)

Might As Well
Cassidy
Row Jimmy
Looks Like Rain
They Love Each Other
Lazy Lightnin'
Supplication
Candyman
Music Never Stopped
Scarlet Begonias
Dancin' in the Streets

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome the Dead Pod for the week of May 30th, 2014.
0:03.8	This is a professor.
0:04.8	I'm so glad to get tune in this week.
0:06.8	This week I decided to bring you a show that was rather unique in that it represented
0:11.4	the Dead's return to live performance after a 20 month hiatus back in 1975-76.
0:19.0	This show takes place to Paramount Theater in Portland, Oregon, June the 3rd, 1976.
0:25.7	And what a great show it is.
0:28.6	It is a little slow in tempo, and some have attributed that to the fact that they're getting used to
0:34.4	having two drummers back in the lineup again. They're also dealing with a lot of
0:39.8	new songs. In this return to the stage, they do their very first lazy lightning, the very first might as well, the first
0:48.9	Samson and Delilah, the first supplication, the first live version of the wheel, and they break out
0:55.3	dancing for the first time in over 200 shows. So the band is exploring a lot of new
1:00.2	ground. They had just, of course, released Blues for Allah not too long ago.
1:04.3	While they don't do a lot of that here, nevertheless they are getting used to a new
1:08.8	sound and 76 marks a definite transition year in the band's development.
1:13.0	You'll hear it here and I think it's quite nice, a quite nice change of pace.
1:17.0	The first set starts out with a very nice might as well.
1:20.0	Cassidy played quite well, a little ragged in spots but very good
1:23.7	row Jimmy looks like rain they love each other then a great I probably the highlight
1:28.6	of this first set lazy lightning into supplication they really jammed this one out
1:32.1	very nicely much more than you expect in a first
1:34.8	set. Then comes Candyman, always a favorite of mine. Music never stops. A rare first
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