Week of June 3-9, 2024
Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this wee have Grateful Dead music from 1973, 1984, and 1988.
Our first stop this week is the Dead’s first visit to Portland’s Veterans Memorial Coliseum, then home to the Trail Blazers, on 6/24/73 where they played this magnificent sequence of Dark Star > Eyes Of The World> China Doll > Sugar Magnolia, One More Saturday Night.
Next is the end of the second set from 6/27/84 at Merriweather Post Pavilion, where the ended the set with Space> Morning Dew> Throwing Stones > Not Fade Away.
Lastly this week is the first set from 6/26/88 in Pittsburgh, where we have Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo> Little Red Rooster; When Push Comes To Shove; Mama Tried> Big River; Cumberland Blues ; Gentlemen Start Your Engines ; Big Railroad Blues; The Music Never Stopped, including the first of only two live performances of Brent’s Gentleman Start Your Engines.
Be sure to join us here next week for more tunes from the vault.
David Lemieux
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Dark*Star in PdXs
This is the real gem of the pNw Box of boxes! Dark Star to Eyes would've been a better choice for the mini album instead of PitB in my biased Portlandian opinion, but anyways. So glad {and lucky} I was able to get the big box nearly 2 & 1/2 years after its release, six months later it was gone. Ultimately this is the best box I ever bought from the Dead Store, and I've got many of them now! Thanks again Dave for holing out on the individual show releases, they made such a better bunch. A good combo too, June 1973 and May 1974.
This is the real gem of the pNw Box of boxes! Dark Star to Eyes would've been a better choice for the mini album instead of PitB in my biased Portlandian opinion, but anyways. So glad {and lucky} I was able to get the big box nearly 2 & 1/2 years after its release, six months later it was gone. Ultimately this is the best box I ever bought from the Dead Store, and I've got many of them now! Thanks again Dave for holing out on the individual show releases, they made such a better bunch. A good combo too, June 1973 and May 1974.