Dead Show/podcast for 7/14/17
The Deadpod
John Henrikson
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2017
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
This week's Deadpod is a request from Steve, a great friend of the Deadpod's, who wanted to hear this phenomenal show from March 24th, 1973 at the Philadelphia Spectrum. The first set clocks in at over 90 minutes and is an excellent example of the early 1973 sound, where the band is moving from towards a more jazzy fluid style and its reflected even here int he first set numbers although perhaps more so in next week's set 2. Too many highlights to list here, but of course there is 'The Race Is On', always a great fvoirte, a nice version of Cumberland Blues. They do the precurssor to 'U.S. Blues', the 'Wave That Flag' here, and a great version of 'Here Comes Sunshine'. Billy is prominent throughout this mix and really drives the band. The band is playing with swagger and I am sure you'll enjoy this classic show from 1973.
The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA (3/24/73) Bertha Beat it on Down the Line Don't Ease Me In The Race Is On Cumberland Blues Box of Rain Row Jimmy Jack Straw They Love Each Other Mexicali Blues Tennessee Jed Looks Like Rain Wave That Flag El Paso Here Comes Sunshine Me and Bobby McGee Loser Playing in the Band Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Dead Pod for the week of July the 14th 2017. This is a professor so glad you could pick us up this week. |
| 0:07.0 | This week I'm going to step out of the usual pattern a bit and bring you a show that was a request from the birthday boy, great support of the dead pod, my friend Steve, and he asked to hear a show from the Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| 0:21.0 | It took place on March 24th, 1973. |
| 0:24.0 | So you know it's a good one. |
| 0:25.6 | And this is a great show. |
| 0:26.7 | It starts out with Bertha, beat it on down the line, |
| 0:29.2 | don't ease me in. |
| 0:31.0 | The race is on, always a favorite. Cumberland Blues. |
| 0:34.0 | A real nice Box Rain, and I can't always say that for Box Rain, but they do a great job on this one. |
| 0:39.0 | Row Jimmy follows nicely done. |
| 0:41.0 | Jack Straw, they love each other, Mexicali Blues, Tennessee Jed, looks |
| 0:44.8 | like Wren. A lovely version, Wave That Flag, the song that developed into U.S. Blues El Paso here comes sunshine. This is one of the best versions of that |
| 0:57.2 | Me and Bobby McGee follows loser and then playing in the band rounds out a super long first set. We'll hear set two next week but I know |
| 1:05.9 | you're going to enjoy this one folks. It's got lots of great geriatric the band's playing |
| 1:09.7 | things at just the right tempo and it sounds just about exactly perfect. So hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:15.8 | Thanks for picking us up and for your support of the Dead Pod. I really appreciate it. |
| 1:19.1 | Hope you have a great week. This is a professor and you're listening to the Dead Pod. I had a hard blood. I was on that money. |
| 1:55.0 | A lot of money if you did. |
| 1:58.0 | Lord I'm wonder if you did. Yeah. I had a friend. |
| 2:05.0 | Put around. |
| 2:07.0 | Put around in and |
| 2:10.0 | put around in the front now. |
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