Dead Show/podcast for 9/28/18
The Deadpod
John Henrikson
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2018
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
This week's Deadpod is the result of a request from a longtime listener/supporter of the show. It comes to us from early in 1972, March 5th, 1972, only the second show of that legendary year, and the last time that Pigpen played with the band in San Francisco. This show was a benefit for the American Indains, and the Dead were the third band on the agenda. It turns out that they were pressed for time a bit by the 2 AM curfew, and so the second set was a bit abbreviated and rushed. I've only presented here the songs that survive in soundboard format, and while there are several patches and glitches here the exuberance and magic of the performance won me over and I think it will you as well.
The jamming, especially Garcia of course, comes at you in staccato bursts, in songs like Mexicali Blues and El Paso. The highlight of the show of course, is Pigpen's 'Good Lovin'. It is here, around the 6:40 mark, that some report the first occurance of the legendary 'mind left body' jam.
I find the entire performance to be uptempo.. it makes me smile.. I hope you do too.
Grateful Dead
Winterland Arena
San Francisco, CA 3/5/72 - Sunday
One
(first 6 songs missing)
Tennessee Jed [6:50]
Jack Straw [4:52]
China Cat Sunflower [#5:48] >
I Know You Rider [4:#55]
Mexicali Blues [3:32]
You Win Again [349]
El Paso [#4:18]
Casey Jones [#5:57]
Two
Good Lovin' [16:24]
Not Fade Away [3:20] >
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad [7:08] >
Not Fade Away [3:10]
Encore One More Saturday Night [#4:29]
You can listen to this week's Deadpod here:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod092818.mp3
keep the faith..
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to the Dead Pod for the week of September 28th, 2018. |
| 0:04.2 | This is a professor, so glad to pick us up this week. |
| 0:07.4 | This week I'm going to bring you something a bit unusual. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a request from one of our listeners and supporters of the deadpot who wanted to hear the very first |
| 0:14.4 | mind-left body jam. |
| 0:15.8 | And this is generally credited as occurring on this show, which was March the 5th, 1972. |
| 0:22.4 | At the Winterland Arena, this was an American Indian... the I'm not going to try to play the audience versions for you because the audio quality is just not quite good enough but I will play the rest of the show and it starts off with a very nice Tennessee Jed a great Jack Straw follows, China Rider, then Mexicali Blues with some great Garcia |
| 0:46.7 | get work on there. You win again, El Paso, Casey Jones, and then what's probably the highlight of this show pig pen and his last San Francisco performance doing good loving and it's in the middle of that good loving that you can hear that mind left body jam or what's attributed to the Mind Left Body Jam. |
| 1:03.0 | Then they close the set because they were running up against the curfew. |
| 1:06.0 | They started late after new riders in another Yogi Flem Band. |
| 1:10.0 | I don't know, I'm not familiar with them except that Bill Champlain was a member and |
| 1:15.2 | anyway it pushed him up against the curfew and they finished a set with a quick |
| 1:20.4 | not fade away going down the road feeling bad in to not fade away and one more Saturday night |
| 1:25.2 | encore but really nicely played early dead you're going to hear some of the transition into |
| 1:30.0 | what became from 71 into that 72 sound. |
| 1:34.0 | They're still developing it. |
| 1:36.1 | Pigpen is, like I said, it's his last San Francisco show |
| 1:39.1 | and the good loving is a great one. |
| 1:40.8 | So it's a nice memory of the pig. So hope you enjoy it. Thanks so much for your |
| 1:45.6 | support of the dead pod. We couldn't do it without you. Hope you enjoy this one. |
| 1:49.1 | This is a professor and you're listening to the Dead Pod. Hold on the shackles of the same, |
| 2:15.0 | and listen to the west of the evening train. |
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