Hello and welcome to Dead Pod for the week of August 3rd 2012. This is a professor I'm so glad you could pick us up this week.

Well here we are in the period of time affectionately known as a days between and had a wonderful suggestion from a listener of mine that I'm going to

bring to you this week. This show comes to us from March the 21st, 1994 in

Richfield, Ohio from the Richfield Coliseum, a place the dead always played wonderful shows at.

A late era show, yes, and I think that's fitting with the anniversary time.

This show happens to be, have been called one of the last great, grateful dead shows.

Whether that's true or not, I'm not sure. What I am sure is that it's well played. I'm going to play this the second set this week, and primarily because of one song, and that's Stella Blue.

Jerry was always able to express through his singing and his playing himself on this song

in a way that's unlike any other singer, any other performer I've ever had the pleasure of watching.

This is not Jerry Garcia in 1974.

I happen to sit and watch the Grateful Dead movie this week.

This Stella Blue is a different Stella Blue.

This is a Jerry Garcia that's 20 years older

with 20 years more experiences, weariness, tragedy on his head, whatever, you'll listen to it and you know.

This is peak Jerry and I think it's stunning in its power and in his expression as he always is. But the

rest of the snow slouch either. It starts out with Picasso Moon. New Speedway

boogie victim or the crime goes into He's Gone,

then a jam into drums in space.

Love Light goes into Stella Blue.

After that Stella Blue, they go back into Love Light

to Enset 2.

The Encore is a frontal board source of liberty, but still worth hearing.

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