Dead Show/podcast for 9/12/25

The Deadpod

John Henrikson

Performing Arts, Gratefuldead, Grateful, Dead, Arts, Music

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

We celebrate the 82nd birthday of Mickey Hart this week with a great show that took place back on his 38th birthday at the Greek Theater in Berkeley California.

The recording starts with Joan Baez regaling Mickey with a 'Happy Birthday' chorus.. once we put that behind us we are led into a hot 'Minglewood' and then a quite nice 'They Love Each Other'.

They amp it up a bit with a 'Mama Tried>Mexicali' then Jerry brings out 'Candyman', which leads into a 'Little Red Rooster'. A rocking 'Cumberland Blues' leads into a 'Beat It on Down the Line' and the audience tape lets us hear the crowd loving it.. 'Althea' that follows may be the highlight of the set, but the boys are not done here, with a 'Sailor>Saint' and 'Deal' to close out the first set....

Grateful Dead
Greek Theatre - University of California
Berkeley, CA 9/11/1981 - Friday

Set 1:

Banter (Happy Birthday Mickey!)
New New Minglewood Blues
They Love Each Other
Mama Tried >
Mexicali Blues
Candyman >
Little Red Rooster
Cumberland Blues >
Beat It On Down The Line
Althea
Lost Sailor >
Saint Of Circumstance >
Deal

You can listen to this week's Deadpod here:

http://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod091225.mp3

peace...

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to the Deadpod for the week of September the 12th, 2025.
0:03.9	This is a professor, I'm so glad you could pick us up this week.
0:07.4	This week, we're going back 44 years and featuring a show the band played at the Greek
0:12.5	theater in Berkeley, California, on September the 11th, 1981.
0:17.0	First time they played the Greek in about 13 years, and they do a fine job of it.
0:22.1	We have an excellent audience recording that we're going to be featuring the next two weeks of this show, and I think you'll enjoy it.
0:30.1	It starts out, I don't know, as a historical curiosity, it's nice to have.
0:34.6	This is a, starts out with Joan Baez singing Happy Birthday to to Mickey Hart because it's his birthday on September the 11th.
0:42.0	Personally, I could do without it, but I have to leave it in there for historical accuracy.
0:46.2	They then go into a really hot new minglewood blues. A great they love each other. Mama tried into
0:51.5	Mexicali. Candyman into Little Red Rooster. Smoking
0:56.3	hot Cumberland Blues into Beaton down the line. Althea follows probably the highlight of this
1:01.3	first set. Sailor Sinct and they closed a set into Diehl. So a nice first set. We got a great
1:07.5	second set coming next week and I hope you enjoy it. Thanks so much for
1:11.7	picking us up this week, and for your support of the Dead Pod. I couldn't do it without you. I hope
1:16.5	you're well, and hope to see you back here next time. This is the professor you're listening to the
1:21.5	dead pod. As many of you already know and have already celebrated each in his or her own fashion,
1:34.3	today is the 11th of September, a very special day.
1:40.3	It is the birthday of one of the Grateful Dead's fabulous hyperspace drummers.
1:52.0	It is the birthday of Mickey Hart. Would you stand for us, please, Mickey?
2:14.6	And now, Deadheads, you do join me in singing the very conventional happy birthday song to Mickey Hart.
2:21.3	Happy birthday to you.
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