Dead Show/podcast for 8/31/18
The Deadpod
John Henrikson
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2018
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
For a long Labor Day weekend I think this week's Deadpod provides a perfect soundtrack - the second set from the band's smoking performance on August 24th, 1972 at the Berkeley Community Theater in Berkeley CA. Each of these standards are played most excellently. In addition we are treated to a true pinnacle of improvisational excellence with the 'Dark Star>Morning Dew'.
I would have thought they'd close out after that but rather than that they rev it back up with a hot 'Sugar Magnolia', 'Ramble on Rose' and 'Greatest Story'.
Sing Me Back Home is sweet as always. While they close the set with a 'One More Saturday Night' (on a Thursday) they return with a most excellent 'Uncle John's Band' encore - a song that should have seen that spot more often.
Grateful Dead
Berkeley Community Theatre Berkeley, CA
8/24/72 - Thursday
Two
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo [6:50]
Mexicali Blues [3:21]
Brown Eyed Women [4:43]
Truckin' [9:01]
Dark Star [27:14] >
Morning Dew [13:00]
Sugar Magnolia [7:52]
Ramble On Rose [6:19]
Greatest Story Ever Told [5:17]
Sing Me Back Home [9:55]
One More Saturday Night [4:30]
Encore
Uncle John's Band [7:11]
You can listen to this week's Deadpod here:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod083118.mp3
I hope you have a safe and fun Labor Day weekend..
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm looking at the Dead Pod for August 31st, 2018. |
| 0:04.0 | Last day of August. |
| 0:05.0 | Summer is flying by then. |
| 0:08.0 | This is a professor, so glad you could pick us up this week. |
| 0:10.0 | This week we're going to have a really smoking hot crackling show. |
| 0:14.0 | Grateful Dead live at the Berkeley community theater, Berkeley, California, August 24, 1972. |
| 0:19.6 | This week we get set to. |
| 0:21.8 | What a sparkling renditions we have here of these songs for you this week. |
| 0:25.6 | It starts out, Mississippi half-step uptown, Tootle-Doo. Next goes into Mexicali Blues, brown-eyed women fellows. |
| 0:34.6 | Then we get sort of the trucking, which is sort of the warm-up |
| 0:37.5 | to the real centerpiece of this show, which is a dark star morning do. |
| 0:41.0 | They really go out there in this dark star. It's it's a real pleasure to sit back and let them carry you away on this one. |
| 0:50.0 | Morning Do as always powerful. They come out of that into a great sugar magnolia. |
| 0:55.0 | Ramble on Rose Fowls and a great slot for it. |
| 0:59.0 | Then greatest story ever told. They ramp things up a little bit more rocking. |
| 1:02.0 | Then Jerry doesn't |
| 1:03.4 | sweet sing me back home they close with one more Saturday night but they come back |
| 1:07.8 | with a great encore Uncle John's band to close the night so what a spectacular |
| 1:12.2 | show I could only wish I had been there I'm sure |
| 1:14.4 | those of you who were remember it fondly and I hope those of you listening this |
| 1:18.3 | week enjoy it just as much so thanks for picking us up I hope you have a wonderful Labor Day weekend be safe |
| 1:25.5 | Thanks so much for your support of the deadpot. I really appreciate it and I couldn't do the show without it so thanks again |
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