9 comments
sort by
Recent
Reset
Items displayed
  • olddeadhead_NFA
    9 years 2 months ago
    Uptown Theatre Chicago
    17 Grateful Dead shows all legendary. The largest in Chicago, it boasts 4,381 seats and its interior volume is said to be larger than any other movie palace in the United States, including Radio City Music Hall in New York. It occupies over 46,000 square feet (4,300 m2) of land at the corner of Lawrence Avenue and Broadway in Chicago's Uptown Entertainment District. The mammoth theater has an ornate five story entrance lobby with an eight story façade. Notable performers The Allman Brothers Band Count Basie Boston Alice Cooper Elvis Costello Bing Crosby Cheap Trick Charlie Daniels Band Dire Straits Electric Light Orchestra Duke Ellington Ruth Etting Foreigner Peter Gabriel Jerry Garcia Band Genesis Gentle Giant Benny Goodman The Grateful Dead Hall & Oates J. Geils Band Rick James Kansas The Kinks The Knack Bob Marley & The Wailers Graham Parker Prince The Ramones Lou Reed Renaissance Roxy Music Todd Rundgren Leon Russell Santana Sister Sledge Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Rod Stewart Squeeze Supertramp Thin Lizzy The Tubes The Marshall Tucker Band Paul Whiteman Frank Zappa
  • Default Avatar
    Travis Loscher
    9 years 2 months ago
    Greek Box
    Would love a 5 show box from the Greek.Take the best show from each run 81-85;there is at least 1 great show from each.This would also hopefully get us back in the $200 box range.I know the masters are cassettes but I have(or had) many many great sounding shows from this era.Come on Dave...do up the Greek!!
  • marye
    9 years 2 months ago
    from 5/23/82
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

17 years 6 months

Welcome back to the Tapers' Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music spanning 12 years, from 1970, 1978 and 1982.

Our first selection this week is from the second night of a four night run in San Francisco at the Fillmore West, on 2/6/70, where we have this nice batch of Dead from the era: Cumberland Blues, Cold Rain And Snow, Dire Wolf , Me And My Uncle, Hard To Handle, Dancing In The Street, Casey Jones.

Next is the post-Rhythm Devils part of the show from 5/17/78 in Chicago, the final night of the Dead's Spring Tour of 1978, where they played this very cool sequence: Terrapin Station>Not Fade Away>Around And Around.

Lastly this week is music from the Greek Theater in Berkeley on 5/23/82, where we have the end of the first set featuring this batch of solid music: Loser > Little Red Rooster ; Ramble On Rose ; Let It Grow.

Be sure to join us here next week for more music at the Tapers' Section.

David Lemieux
vault@dead.net

Display on homepage featured list
On
Homepage Feature blurb
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music spanning 12 years, from 1970, 1978 and 1982.
Homepage Feature title
August 10 - August 16, 2015
Feature type

dead comment

user picture

Member for

11 years 2 months
Permalink

Feb 70 - two thumbs upMay 78 Uptown - Not Fade Away - funky jam. I always hear a West L.A. Fadeaway tease ? Greek - 5.23.82 - bring on the release ,, Drums with Motorcycle is classic
user picture

Member for

17 years 4 months
Permalink

This run should be the next box. Love this particular show and it's all time greatest Shakedown!
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

11 years 4 months
Permalink

Loved this show! Venue, Crowd, Setlist, Playing, Weather - Everything came together that day - my 5th show, never got off the bus after that... Would love a Greek release
user picture

Member for

17 years 5 months
Permalink

one of my favorite weekends too.
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

17 years
Permalink

....into Terrapin. But to my ears the rest of this set sounds like they were tired, and ready for the tour to end.
user picture
Default Avatar

Member for

10 years 3 months
Permalink

Would love a 5 show box from the Greek.Take the best show from each run 81-85;there is at least 1 great show from each.This would also hopefully get us back in the $200 box range.I know the masters are cassettes but I have(or had) many many great sounding shows from this era.Come on Dave...do up the Greek!!
user picture

Member for

13 years 7 months
Permalink

17 Grateful Dead shows all legendary. The largest in Chicago, it boasts 4,381 seats and its interior volume is said to be larger than any other movie palace in the United States, including Radio City Music Hall in New York. It occupies over 46,000 square feet (4,300 m2) of land at the corner of Lawrence Avenue and Broadway in Chicago's Uptown Entertainment District. The mammoth theater has an ornate five story entrance lobby with an eight story façade. Notable performers The Allman Brothers Band Count Basie Boston Alice Cooper Elvis Costello Bing Crosby Cheap Trick Charlie Daniels Band Dire Straits Electric Light Orchestra Duke Ellington Ruth Etting Foreigner Peter Gabriel Jerry Garcia Band Genesis Gentle Giant Benny Goodman The Grateful Dead Hall & Oates J. Geils Band Rick James Kansas The Kinks The Knack Bob Marley & The Wailers Graham Parker Prince The Ramones Lou Reed Renaissance Roxy Music Todd Rundgren Leon Russell Santana Sister Sledge Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Rod Stewart Squeeze Supertramp Thin Lizzy The Tubes The Marshall Tucker Band Paul Whiteman Frank Zappa