Dead Show/podcast for 6/18/21

The Deadpod

John Henrikson

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

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🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

This week we present the second set from the band's historic run at RFK Stadiuim in Washington D. C. the weekend of June 9, 1973.

This is a fine, long, wall-of-sound, show and it's no wonder that it ranked highly in Dick Latvala's estimation (https://gdsets.com/latvala/1973_06_09.jpg).

While there is some confusion over the exact start of this setlist, I'm choosing to include the Greatest Story Ever Told as the opener. The band then moves into an excellent China>Rider, although some have thought that Jerry was a bit too 'relaxed' in singing the 'wish I was a headlight' line. The 'He's Gone' that follows is slow and soulful, but the pace picks up in the 'Truckin' that follows. If you listen to the transition into the excellent 'Playin' In the Band' that follows you'll hear a nod to 'Here Comes Sunshine' .. while there is no drums/space in this set, the jam that happens in 'Playin' is an excellent substitute.

Of the rest of the set, 'Big River' is very hot, and the 'Eyes of the World' is just exactly perfect. The 'China Doll' that follows is soulful, to say the least. Sugar Magnolia follows, I'm not sure if that was an encore or whether they were simply exhausted on this hot, humid day in D.C.

Grateful Dead
RFK Stadium
Washington, DC 6/9/73 - Saturday

Two

Greatest Story Ever Told
China Cat Sunflower >
I Know You Rider ;
He's Gone [14:12] >
Truckin' [12:09] >
Playing In The Band [20:19#] ;
Loser [6:07] ;
Me And My Uncle [2:52] ;
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo [6:36] ;
Big River [4:15] ;
Eyes Of The World [11:21] >
China Doll [5:23] ;
Sugar Magnolia [7:01#]

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Have a fabulous week! and thanks for your kind support!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to DeadPod for the week of June 18th, 2021.
0:03.4	This is a professor so happy you could pick us up this week.
0:06.4	This week we're going to bring you the second set of the band's really historic performance
0:10.5	at RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C. June 9th, 1973.
0:15.2	They were opening for the Almond Brothers again on this date.
0:18.1	The second set is quite massive. I think you'll really enjoy it.
0:21.5	It starts out with the greatest story I ever told.
0:23.7	It doesn't appear in all set lists, but it does on some and it makes sense to me.
0:28.0	After that, a nice China rider. Quite an interesting rider.
0:33.8	It's a little, Jerry's a little more, I don't know, it's not as roaring as some riders.
0:38.4	Really nice so. That goes into a long, soulful he's gone.
0:42.8	Really nice version. Quite long drawn out.
0:48.0	Goes into trucking. Trucking picks it up quite a bit.
0:50.8	And in the transition from trucking into play in the band, which follows,
0:54.9	there's a here come sunshine jam, which you might notice around the 11 minute mark.
0:59.4	Loser follows me and my uncle.
1:01.3	This is a perhaps step. Big river, really hot version of that.
1:04.8	I think you'll like it quite a bit.
1:06.4	Then we get a nice, you got a tender to eyes of the world.
1:09.7	Into China, Dal, China, Dal, superb.
1:12.9	One of the better ones is here.
1:14.7	They close the set with a sugar magnolia.
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