Dead Show/podcast for 5/9/14
The Deadpod
John Henrikson
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2014
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
We continue this week with an excellent, virtually unknown or heard of show from the summer of 1980, this took place just over from me in Grand Rapids Michigan on August 24th, 1980. I tend to think of this time as the salad days of Brett's tenure in the keyboard perch, as I think the entire band was firing on all cylinders and this show is a good example of that. It is a unique setlist, with one of the highlights of this second set being a smoking China-Rider. Another very nice NFA->Black Peter and quite a rare encore of Don't Ease Me In.. I think you can hear the enjoyment the boys were having in how they sound on this tape.. yes an audience with those inherent limitations, but nevertheless time well spent for us to give it a listen today.. I hope you agree.
Grateful Dead
August 24, 1980
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Center
Set 2:
Tuning
Samson And Delilah
Tuning
Ship Of Fools
Feel Like A Stranger
Tuning
China Cat Sunflower ->
I Know You Rider ->
Drums/ ->
/Space ->
Not Fade Away ->
Black Peter ->
Sugar Magnolia
encore
Tuning
Don't Ease Me In
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and of course to MOM.........
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Dead Pod for the week of May 9th, 2014. |
| 0:03.6 | This is a professor, so glad you could pick us up this week. |
| 0:06.6 | This week we get to continue with set two of this relatively unknown show that took place back |
| 0:11.3 | on August 24th, 1980, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Grand Center. |
| 0:15.0 | We'll hear set two tonight. |
| 0:17.0 | And it's, of course, an audience recording. If you caught the Dead Pod last week, you're aware of that. |
| 0:22.0 | Quality is quite good. It was apparently a very small. the dead pod last week you're aware of that. |
| 0:22.6 | Quality is quite good. |
| 0:23.6 | It was apparently a very small crowd that turned out, but the band put on a great performance. |
| 0:28.2 | Set two starts with a nice Samson. |
| 0:30.3 | Then ship of fools, always a favorite feel like a stranger. |
| 0:33.0 | Then the best China rider, I think the highlight of this set, |
| 0:37.0 | drums into space, not fade away into Black Peter, into Sugar Magnolia, |
| 0:42.0 | and then they do a nice encore, don't ease me in. |
| 0:45.2 | Quite unusual set list, but the band's in good form and I think you'll enjoy this audience |
| 0:49.4 | recording of the band in a great year of their career in 1980. |
| 0:53.4 | So glad to get pick us up this week. |
| 0:55.1 | Thanks so much for your support. |
| 0:56.4 | We couldn't put the dead pod on without it. |
| 0:58.3 | And I really appreciate those of you who are able to support the dead pod. Thanks so much and thanks for picking us up. Hope you have a wonderful Mother's Day weekend. |
| 1:07.5 | This is a professor you're listening to the Dead Pod. God. Oh, Oh, Oh, I'm going to |
| 2:33.0 | Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. |
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