Dead Show/podcast for 5/6/16
The Deadpod
John Henrikson
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2016
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
I do hope it is a beautiful day in May whereever you are! As we go back 30 years to a day that started out rainy but ended up beautiful out in California on the first weekend in May when a horse named 'Ferdinand' rode by the great Willie Shoemaker took the Kentucky Derby back in Louisville KY., but the Dead celebrated the day with a fine show at Cal Expo.
They chase away the raindrops with a fine 'Cold Rain and Snow' then bring out the 'Race is On'..
They follow with a lovely 'They Love Each Other' with exception work by both Jerry and Brent. C.C rider follows then a nice 'High Time', slow but sung exceptionally well by Garcia who is in fine voice for this date. Weir beats it down the line to the Promised Land and they close the (short) first set with a nice rockin' Deal.....
California Exposition Amphitheater, Sacramento, CA (5/3/86) Cold Rain and Snow The Race is On They Love Each Other C.C. Rider High Time Beat it on Down the Line Promised Land Deal We'll hear set 2 next week... You can listen to this week's Deadpod here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod050616.mp3
My thanks to all the wonderful folks whose contributions make the Deadpod possible! Peace ..
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm welcome to the Dead Pot for the week of May 6, 2016. |
| 0:03.6 | This is a professor, I'm so glad you could pick us up this week. |
| 0:07.1 | Seeing as it's the first weekend in May, it's also, of course, not only Mother's Day |
| 0:12.0 | weekend, but the Kentucky Derby weekend. |
| 0:14.4 | And so I'm going to play you a show that first took place back on |
| 0:16.7 | Kentucky Derby Day back in 1986 from Cal Expo Ab Theater, |
| 0:21.0 | Sacramento, California. |
| 0:22.1 | We'll hear a Grateful Dead's performance on that date. |
| 0:25.4 | It starts out with a fine cold rain and snow, |
| 0:28.3 | which chased away the rain that day into, |
| 0:31.0 | well not into, but followed by the race is on, always a tradition on Derby |
| 0:35.2 | Weekend. |
| 0:36.2 | They love each other. |
| 0:37.2 | This is really a fine version of this. |
| 0:38.2 | Listen to Brent and Jerry on this one. |
| 0:40.7 | Followed by C.C. Rider High Time, quite nicely played, beat it on down the line into Promisedland. |
| 0:45.7 | They close what's a rather short first set with a nice deal. |
| 0:49.1 | Jerry's in fine voice for this year, I think you'll really enjoy that and plays quite spiritedly. I think |
| 0:54.2 | it's a great first set. Well here's set two next week. So thanks for picking us up and |
| 0:59.2 | thanks for your support. We can bring you the Dead Pod without it. Hope you have a very fine weekend. This is a |
| 1:04.9 | professor you're listening to the Dead Pod. I'm going to do. Oh, I'm going to Oh, Well, I married me a while. |
| 2:15.0 | She's been trouble all my life. |
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