Dead Show/podcast for 6/21/13
The Deadpod
John Henrikson
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2013
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
The second set from Giants Stadium, E. Rutherford NJ, on June 17th, 1991 was one of the best played sets of that year. I think you'll agree that the Saint of Circumstance through Drums the band is tightly wound and playing and listening well to each other. Hornsby continues to scatter the Dark Star theme throughout the set, culminating in a flatout Dark Star Jam after Ship of Fools, (the first since June of 1974!).. The Truckin' that follows is very uptempo and moving and goes into perhaps one of the best 'New Speedway Boogies' you'll find in any performance. This leads into a Uncle John's Band.. full and well played, but he band goes back for more exploration.. into a very nice jam with an Other One tease, then back into the Dark Star Theme again... here pay particular attention to the nuances of Garcia's playing.. the boys are definitely in a fabulous place as they move slowly into Drums and Space... The China Doll that follows is just about perfect.. The boys move into a nice Playin' In the Band and an always uptempo 'Sugar Magnolia' to close the set.. The encore of 'The Weight' brings it all back home and I can't imagine leaving this show unhappy....
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Dead Pod for the week of June 21st, 2013. |
| 0:03.4 | This is a professor. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm so glad you could pick us up this week. |
| 0:06.3 | Especially glad because you've got a really fine show coming your way this week. |
| 0:10.5 | This happens to be the second set from the Grateful Dead's performance at the Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, June the 17th, 1991. |
| 0:19.0 | This is really a fine second set, as fine a second set as you got in later years. There's a lot of ways to |
| 0:26.4 | describe this. It's best to just listen to it. It starts out with a jam unusual |
| 0:30.5 | for the grateful dad. Phil of course did that a lot in later years, but this one morphs into a wonderful scene of circumstance. |
| 0:38.0 | Out of that comes a really fine version of Ship of F fools that Jerry just shines on and then the band |
| 0:45.5 | amps up the Dark Star Jam again really nice. Hornsby of course has his finger as |
| 0:50.3 | all over this one so to speak goes Goes into a great trucking, then probably the best new Speedway Boogie of the year |
| 0:57.0 | into Uncle John's band, which is a fine version. |
| 1:00.0 | Then they go back again into a beautiful jam complimented all over with the Dark Star theme. |
| 1:05.2 | They never break out into Dark Star, but it's all under the surface throughout this whole second set. |
| 1:10.4 | Throughout this whole show, really, and it's quite good drums and space |
| 1:14.0 | follows very nicely done and then Garcia really amps it up I mean kind of blows everybody |
| 1:19.0 | way with a beautiful China Dahl is exquisitely sung Garcia. Garcia's voice is perfect on this one. |
| 1:28.4 | It goes into a beautiful playing in the band, then a |
| 1:31.3 | reprise, playing in the band reprised I mean and then we get a lovely sugar magnolia to end the |
| 1:40.0 | second set they come back and do a great version of the weight as the encore and |
| 1:45.3 | shows like this that those of us who appreciated Hornsby's presence really thought |
| 1:50.8 | he added a dimension, a great dimension to the band and I think you'll listen to this and if you're a fan of horns, but you'll agree. |
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