Dead Show/podcast for 7/20/18
The Deadpod
John Henrikson
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2018
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
This week's Deadpod features the second set from the beautiful Greek Theater in Berkeley CA that was performed back on July 13th, 1984. While this show is most famous for the 'Dark Star' encore (preceded by a shooting star), the set itself is quite solid with some outstanding performances for the year. They begin with a 'Scarlet>Touch>Fire' that is high energy and punctuated by some great work by Brent on the keys and of course Jerry's dancing notes. A nice long segway leads into 'Touch' (albeit it does sound a bit 'off' to my ears); again a nice bouncy version.. again a somewhat odd transition into Fire, but once it gets rolling love the backbeat.. 'Man Smart, Woman Smarter' leads into a fine drums and space.
The post-drums setlist is highlighted by 'Stella Blue' and a very fine 'Sugar Magnolia'..
The Dark Star encore was the last time they played it until fall of 89..
Grateful Dead
Greek Theatre - University of California Berkeley, CA
7/13/84 - Friday
Two
Scarlet Begonias >
Touch Of Grey >
Fire On The Mountain >
Man Smart (Woman Smarter) >
Drums >
Space >
The Wheel >
I Need A Miracle >
Stella Blue >
Sugar Magnolia
Encore
Dark Star
You can listen to this week's Deadpod here:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod072018.mp3
There are times when it seems a burden to put the Deadpod out weekly, but then some kind soul reaches out and makes it worthwhile.. thank you my friends.
be well and at peace
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm welcome to the Dead Pot for the week of July the 20th, 2018. |
| 0:03.8 | This is a professor, so glad you could pick us up this week. |
| 0:07.2 | This week we get to hear the second set from bands performance at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, California. |
| 0:11.7 | July the 13th, 1984. |
| 0:14.0 | This was quite a remarkable show on its day. |
| 0:18.0 | It starts out with a great scarlet into touch of gray, into fire on the mountain, |
| 0:21.0 | one of the highlights of this set quite well played and |
| 0:25.0 | sort of a precursor of the pyrotechnics to come man smart woman smarter |
| 0:31.0 | follows into a great drums in space. |
| 0:33.6 | The wheel follows out of that, I need a miracle, a powerful Stella Blue goes into a great, |
| 0:37.4 | sugar magnolia. |
| 0:38.4 | Of course, the interesting thing about this show was the encore. They set out some great visuals beforehand. |
| 0:46.0 | They had planned this out. There was lots of rumors throughout the Deadhead community that they were going |
| 0:51.0 | to play Dark Stars at this show and turns out |
| 0:53.8 | the course that they did as the encore but what they couldn't possibly have arranged |
| 0:57.9 | was a shooting star that took place just before just as a band broke into the |
| 1:01.7 | Dark Star or just before. |
| 1:04.0 | A great show, a great Dark Star, the last Dark Star that would be played until 1989. |
| 1:09.0 | But hope you enjoy it I thought was appropriate so |
| 1:25.2 | Hope you have a great week. Thanks so much for your support of the dead pod I couldn't bring it to you without your support I really appreciate it take care folks we'll see you back here next Friday. This is a professor you're listening to the dead pod. I'm going to be here. So, The Oh, Oh, I was walking round over her square. |
| 2:45.0 | Gonna chills through the winter but a lip to the air. |
| 2:51.0 | The other dog... to the air |
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