Week of December 30, 2024-January 5, 2025
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where we roll into the Grateful Dead’s 60th year in 2025 with music from 1972, 1973, and 1980.
Our first stop this week is in Houston on 11/19/72 where we have this outstanding sequence to end the second set: Dark Star > Weather Report Suite Prelude > Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo ; Around And Around; Big Railroad Blues; Sugar Magnolia.
Next up is first set music from 11/23/73 in El Paso, where the Dead play El Paso, amongst lots of other great tunes: Jack Straw; China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider ; El Paso ; Tennessee Jed ; Big River ; Row Jimmy ; Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Let It Grow.
Our last stop this week is on 11/26/80 in Pembroke Pines, FL, where we have the start of the second set until the tape cuts: Cold Rain And Snow; Samson And Delilah; China Cat Sunflower> I Know You Rider> Estimated Prophet.
Be sure to stop by next week for more music from the vault.
David Lemieux
With a tasty Phil solo, then Phil & Bill, then a sweet jam. Wow!
Cheers
That Samson is the fastest I have ever heard, and no one misses a beat. Smokin'!
11/19/72 be given the full Norman?