Dead Show/podcast for 8/28/15

The Deadpod

John Henrikson

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2015

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

This week we feature yes another show from 1980.. this one was the last show of the summer tour that year, and took place up in Lewiston Maine, at a big outdoor festival there at the State Fairgrounds on September 6th, 1980. This is a wonderful show, and while this recording does suffer some issues (this is a soundboard/audience matrix) it still captures what is a superb performance and I'm certain you'll enjoy it.

The boys come out strong out of the gate, with a rocking 'Alabama Getaway' into 'Greatest Story Every Told'.. when Garcia starts out with 'Sugaree' you might think things are about to settle down, but hold on for one of the better versions of this number you are likely to hear.. this is fantastic! The band is not about to slow down however as the remainder of set one contains plenty to like, including a rare, mid-set 'Feel Like A Stranger' and a great China->Rider->Promised Land to close out set 1.

While we will hear set 2 next week, with its own spectacular jamming, I hope you find this set a great way to spend a late summer day...

State Fairgrounds, Lewiston, ME (9/6/80)

Alabama Getaway
Greatest Story Ever Told
Sugaree
Me and My Uncle
Mexicali Blues
Tennessee Jed
Feel Like a Stranger
Friend of the Devil
Far From Me
Little Red Rooster
China Cat Sunflower
I Know You Rider
Promised Land

You can listen to this week's Deadpod here:

http://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod082815.mp3

As I send off my two sons to college this weekend, I'm left with the feeling best expressed by the boys when they sang:

"Wo Oh, what I want to know, where does the time go?"

I wish all of you well, and thank you for giving me the opportunity to share this magic music with you...

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm welcome to Deadpot for the week of August 28th, 2015.
0:03.7	This is a professor, so glad you could pick us up this week.
0:06.7	I'm going to start a presentation of a great show that took place again in the year of 1980. This one happened to be the end of the summer tour of 1980 took place up in Lewiston, Maine at the main fairgrounds. This was at quite a wonderful concert from the looks of things.
0:24.9	Started out with the 11 Helm from the band opened up and the boys watched from the sidelines.
0:30.8	And then they tore into what was really a spectacular first and second set.
0:34.8	They really managed to play three sets of music in two sets, so it's a real treat
0:40.0	to listen to this one. This comes to us in a Matrix form. It's a soundboard an audience
0:46.4	combination because the soundboard cuts in a number of places and this is the best
0:51.7	recording we have of it. I think you'll enjoy it nevertheless.
0:55.0	It starts out with it. They come really streaming out of the gate with a great Alabama
0:58.7	getaway into greatest story ever told. Then they start, Jerry goes into sugary and you think, well, this is going to, they're going to settle down into a regular first set here, but this sugary will blow your head off. I mean, this is a great sugary. Jerry really goes off on this especially in that second solo spot.
1:16.0	You listen to this one because you'll really enjoy it.
1:19.0	Me and my uncle in New Mexico he follows, then a great Tennessee Jed.
1:22.6	Feel like a stranger has an unusual mid-set placement,
1:26.2	but it's well played, very different than usual.
1:30.9	Quite a great jam on this one, I think you'll really enjoy it. Then we go into Far From Me into
1:36.9	Little Red Rooster. The Red Rooster is much better than usual. They close the first set
1:42.2	with a China rider into Promised Land.
1:45.0	The Promised Land is quite fast and rocking and everybody in attendance must know that they're really in for a special set too.
1:51.6	So we'll listen to this set this week and set to next week. I want to thank
1:55.3	Rich Lowe for this suggestion and for his support of the Dead Pod and I want to thank those of you who can support the
2:01.2	dead pod. I very much appreciate it.
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