Dead Show/podcast for 8/14/20

The Deadpod

John Henrikson

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

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🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Here's a long and strong first set from that great year in Dead history - 1972. This comes from Sacramento California from August 12, 1972. This is an especially long first set with some nice surprises therein. 'Sugaree' is tinged with some bluesy elements, and I find it quite enjoyable. There's some interesting chatter to the crowd before 'Uncle' :) and the 'Bird Song' that follows is nicely melodic. Another highlight of this set is the 'Playin' In the Band' which has some fine improvisational spaces in it. I do have to warn you that there is a brutal cut in 'El Paso' which then leads into an cut into 'Tennesse Jed'.. I decided to leave what exists here in the interests of completeness.

A beautiful 'Stella Blue' makes a first set appearance.

'Big Railroad Blues' and 'Cumberland Blues' are as rockin' as usual. The 'Casey Jones' that ends the set is quite nice as well.

Bobby introduces Keith and Donna, (although Keith had been with the band since the Fall of '71), and explains that Pigpen is home ill :(

Grateful Dead
Sacramento Memorial Auditorium
Sacramento, CA 8/12/72 - Saturday
One
The Promised Land [2:54] ;
Sugaree [7:16] ;
Me And My Uncle [2:57] ;
Bird Song [10:25] ;
Black Throated Wind [6:31] ;
Deal [5:14] ;
El Paso [2:51#] ;
Tennessee Jed [#2:33] ;
Playing In The Band [12:30] ;
Big Railroad Blues [4:05] ;
Cumberland Blues [6:42] ;
Stella Blue [7:26] ;
Jack Straw [#3:38] ;
Casey Jones [6:26]

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"A broken angel sings.... from a guitar"..

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm welcome to Dead Pod for the week of August 14th, 2020.
0:03.4	This is a professor.
0:04.4	I'm so glad you can pick us up this week.
0:06.6	As once again, we have another massive set for your enjoyment this week.
0:11.0	This one comes to us from that great year 1972 from August the 12th
0:15.6	1972 Sacramento Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento California. We'll hear
0:21.0	set one this week set one this week. Set two next week.
0:24.0	It starts out. This is a great show. Keith and Donna are introduced during this first set.
0:29.0	Pigpen's not with the band. He's sick. This is a period of time when he's very sick.
0:36.4	It starts out with a great promised land. You hear Keith right away on this one.
0:39.2	And then they go into a sugary. It's a little bit of a a almost a bluesy sugary quite nice nicely done.
0:46.4	Following that's some interesting
0:49.8	back and forth with the audience and Phil and Bobby.
0:52.4	Me and my uncle follows then a great
0:54.0	bird song. 72 bird songs are always very nice I think and this is no exception.
0:58.8	Blackthroated wind follows a nice deal and then El Paso but I gotta to warn you there's a cut in El Paso at the end towards the end it's
1:07.5	abrupt it goes into a it goes into a Tennessee Jed which is also cut. So those two songs I might have considered leaving them out
1:15.6	but I think it's best to be as complete as possible.
1:18.4	Following that, a nice playing in the band.
1:20.2	The band gets out there on this one,
1:22.0	and it's not ruined even though Donna does a little bit of her thing in that at the end.
1:28.0	But it's still very nicely done.
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