Dead Show/podcast for 7/11/14

The Deadpod

John Henrikson

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2014

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

While we are in high summer my thoughts turned to great summer tours and despite my reservations about some shows from this year, I couldn't help but realize that this year had to be represented - 1985. The band played an amazing summer tour with such a wide variety setlists filled with extraordinary breakouts that the year deserves to be honored despite the well-known problems with Garcia's voice and the all-too-obvious tendency to overindulge in certain stimulants..

This week's show is a great example.. this week we get to hear a stellar first set from July 13th at the Venura County Fairgrounds in Ventura CA. The show opens with a very unusual One More Saturday Night, which rolls into an exceptionally well-played 'Fire on the Mountain' .. as I've heard it told, there actually were fires on the hills behind the stage as controlled burns were being done during the show.. One of the best 'Walkin' Blues' follows, the the fun Dupree's, I imagine the Mama Tried->Big River got everyone dancin', but the Bird Song that follows is dope for sure. Love to hear the Music Never Stopped that follows, a great great Summertime tune!

Ventura County Fairgrounds, Ventura, CA (7/13/85)

One More Saturday Night
Fire on the Mountain
Walkin' Blues
Dupree's Diamond Blues
Mama Tried
Big River
Bird Song
Music Never Stopped

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:03.0	welcome the Deadpot for the week of July 11th 2014 this is a professor so glad you could pick us up this week
0:07.0	When I think of great summer tours one inevitably comes to mind that despite its problems and there were many problems during this tour,
0:15.0	it resulted in more than its share of unusual sets and fine playing. I'm going to bring you a show from that year. It's the summer of
0:25.8	1985. Not always my favorite year. The band played lots of renditions of songs really
0:31.7	quickly sometimes.
0:33.0	Jerry's voice was messed up a lot of times,
0:35.5	but this is a really fine inventive show
0:38.5	that I'm going to bring you this evening.
0:40.0	Comes from the July the 13th, 1985, the county fairgrounds at Ventura, California.
0:47.0	This is a really unusual first set we're going to hear this week.
0:50.0	We'll hear set two next week.
0:52.0	It starts out with one more Saturday night,
0:53.8	when an opener, into fire on the mountain. Really interesting, there was actually a fire going on in the
0:59.9	hills behind the boys at this concert. They were doing some controlled burns at night.
1:04.4	Then we got a Walking Blues, a really nice Dupree's Diamond Blues. Mama tried into Big River, a dreamy
1:10.3	bird song, quite a nice one. And then a rousing music never stop closes set one.
1:16.2	Hope you enjoy it.
1:17.0	Thanks so much for picking us up this week.
1:20.0	I really want to thank those who you were able to support the Dead Pod.
1:23.2	I appreciate your contributions so very much.
1:26.2	Thanks again and so glad to get pick us up this week.
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