Dead Show/podcast for 9/11/15
The Deadpod
John Henrikson
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2015
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
A request from one of my supporters, as well as the fact that this past week marked Pigpen's 70th birthday inspired this week's Deadpod selection from the Berkeley Community Theater on August 14th, 1971. This is a great tape that showcases the early versions of many classics like 'Sugaree' and 'Playin' In the Band' as well as some outstanding Pigpen performances. Highlights include the opening 'Bertha', 'El Paso' played nice and slowly, 'Big Railroad Blues' (a personal favorite), and of course Pigpen on 'Big Boss Man' and 'Hard To Handle'. I'm always a fan of this period of the Dead's history and of course it helps that there are such great sounding tapes that we are lucky enough to be able to enjoy.
Grateful Dead
Berkeley Community Theatre Berkeley, CA
8/14/71 - Saturday
One
Bertha [5:43] ;
Me And My Uncle [3:09] ;
Mr. Charlie [3:13] ;
Sugaree [6:08] ;
El Paso [5:03] ;
Big Railroad Blues [3:26] ;
Big Boss Man [4:58] ;
Brokedown Palace [5:20] ;
Playing In The Band [4:28] ;
Hard To Handle [7:16] ;
Cumberland Blues [5:29] ;
Loser [6:31] ;
The Promised Land [2:53]
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Dead Pod for the week of September the 11th 2015. |
| 0:03.8 | This is a professor so glad you could pick us up this week. |
| 0:06.8 | This week I'm going to bring you a show in honor of the fact that this week marked |
| 0:11.6 | what would have been pigpen's 70th birthday. |
| 0:15.0 | This is a great show as a result of a listening request. |
| 0:19.6 | Grateful that at the Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley California, |
| 0:22.3 | August 14th, 1971. |
| 0:25.8 | Nice tape. |
| 0:26.5 | This one thus has an excellent first set. |
| 0:28.8 | We're going to hear this week starts out with a great birth of this is really well done. |
| 0:32.4 | Me and my uncle quite nicely done too. |
| 0:35.0 | Mr. Charlie, and we get a sugary El Paso, nice and slow the way it should be done I think. |
| 0:41.0 | Big Railroad Blues fellows, very nicely done to a tune of favorite of mine. it should be done I think big railroad blues fellows very nice |
| 0:42.9 | done tune a tune a favorite of mine big boss band pig pen again an excellent version of |
| 0:48.0 | broke down palace fellows then playing in the band not jammed out the way it |
| 0:51.9 | would be but interesting first set song here. |
| 0:55.0 | Hard to handle, Pigpen does a great job on this. |
| 0:59.0 | Cumberland Blues, Loser, and they close the set with Promised Land. |
| 1:02.0 | I think this is all pretty well played, |
| 1:04.0 | perhaps not as exploratory as some of these songs would later become, |
| 1:08.0 | but still interesting to hear there. Some of them are relatively new, |
| 1:11.0 | sugary for example. |
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