Dead Show/podcast for 8/18/23

The Deadpod

John Henrikson

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

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🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

We continue this week with the concluding set from the band's performance on July 25, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois.

Things start out with a standalone 'Scarlet Begonias', including some very nice guitar work from Jerry, then they go into a really rockin' 'Big River. A sweet Roses follows with Jerry in good voice. Following 'Jack Straw' they go into one of the few '74 Dark Stars - this one quite cosmic - that goes deep into space land. Towards the end you can hear the 'Slipknot' theme, before they break into a sweet 'Stella Blue'.

A rockin' 'Johnny B. Goode' comes out of Stella, which leads into 'Uncle John's Band'. While not really a jamming song, this one has some very nice riffs and leads into 'US Blues'. While the show took place on Thursday, they close the set with 'One More Saturday Night'.

'Ship of Fools' is an unusual encore choice, but ends a very interesting evening of music.

Grateful Dead
International Amphitheater
Chicago, IL 7/25/1974 - Thursday

Three

Scarlet Begonias
Big River
It Must Have Been The Roses
Jack Straw
Dark Star >
Jam >
Stella Blue
Johnny B. Goode
Uncle John's Band >
U.S. Blues
One More Saturday Night

Encore
Ship Of Fools

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to DeadPod for the week of August the 18th, 2023.
0:06.2	This is Professor Amser Glad could pick us up this week.
0:09.4	This week we're going to continue with actually what was the third set following a set of
0:13.7	Seastowns, which we don't have on this recording, from the International Amp Theater in
0:18.2	Chicago, Illinois on July 25th, 1974.
0:21.4	It was a Thursday.
0:23.5	This set starts out with a standalone scallop of gongus and a big river, a favorite of
0:29.6	mine.
0:30.6	It must have been the Rose as follows and a jack straw, which stops and they go into a dark
0:34.5	star.
0:35.5	It's one of the few dark stars of 74.
0:38.0	It has a lot of jamming in it, it goes on for almost 20 minutes.
0:43.3	At towards the end they go into the slipknot jam.
0:46.0	It's one of the first times that this has been played, Jerry Newell's around with it.
0:49.7	I don't believe they have any lyrics in this dark star, but it's certainly out there
0:55.0	and out there in space.
0:57.0	They then go into a beautiful scallop blue.
0:59.6	Then a standalone Johnny Be Good, it's not the Encore.
1:03.5	Uncle John Band follows into U.S. Blues.
1:07.0	They close the set with one more Saturday night, but come back with a rare ship of fools
1:11.6	Encore.
1:12.6	Hope you enjoy it.
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