Dead Show/podcast for 8/24/12

The Deadpod

John Henrikson

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2012

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of what some call the greatest single Grateful Dead show ever. While I might not go that far, it certainly was a remarkable occasion and one well worth reliving. While the band is firing on all cylinders as was often the case during this remarkable year, its clear that there is something special in the water this day. The 'Field Trip' as its been known is a very special afternoon and evening of remarkable improvisational psychedelic music. During this week's first set, listen as the band weaves its way from some wonderful but fairly standard versions of first set tunes until the upshift into a fantastic China Cat Sunflower.. the transition into I Know You Rider lets us know the band has stepped it up and is taking us on a special voyage. The frantic pace of the last two songs, Mexicalli and Bertha, ends set 1 and we're left wondering what will come next. I've included the first song from the remarkable second set, Playing In The Band. Truly a remarkable version, it sets the audience up for an extraordinary shared experience in set 2, which we'll hear next week.

Grateful Dead 8-27-1972

Old Renaissance Faire Grounds Veneta OR

(Benefit for Springfield Creamery)

Set1

Intro

Promised Land

Sugaree

Me & My Uncle

Deal

Black Throated Wind

China Cat Sunflower >>

I Know You Rider

Mexicali Blues

Bertha

From Set 2:

Playin' In The Band

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm welcome the Dead Pod for the week of August 24th, 2012.
0:04.3	This is a professor I'm so glad to pick us up this week.
0:07.5	Had a wonderful suggestion by one of our Facebook friends to break out this show on its
0:11.2	40th anniversary this week.
0:13.4	And I thought it's probably a perfect time to play it.
0:15.9	I often don't feature shows quite as well known
0:19.8	as this one, but by God, this is certainly worth playing and if you hadn't
0:23.8	haven't heard it it's time you did. We're gonna play the first set in just a
0:27.5	little bit of set to this week comes to us from this is of course the field trip show comes to us from the old Renaissance Fairgrounds of Anita Oregon August 27th 1972
0:39.0	Certainly one of the most famous Grateful Dead concerts many people argue it's one of the most famous Grateful Dead concerts. Many people argue it's one of the best.
0:45.0	Certainly it's very good and I will explore it this weekend next and I'm sure you're going to enjoy this one.
0:52.0	It starts out with..., starts out as a good to excellent 72 show, I would say.
1:00.0	Promised Land starts out the show, Sugar Me and my uncle, Die Old Black Throated Wind, all excellent
1:06.9	renditions, well played, quite nicely played, but not, certainly not extraordinary, I would say.
1:15.0	I'd say they're very well played.
1:17.1	The show really picks up with the China Cat Sunflower
1:19.6	and I Know You, Rider, which comes next.
1:22.0	If you get the feeling that the band is really
1:24.2	taken off here in more ways than one, listen especially to the wonderful
1:28.6	transition. Phil really does a beautiful job in this transition between China Cat and I know you rider and it really
1:35.7	takes off and you get the feeling that the band is really going to start flying now.
1:40.1	Mexicali Blues and Bertha closed Set 1.
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