Grateful Dead

Week of December 30, 2024-January 5, 2025

Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where we roll into the Grateful Dead’s 60^th 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.

Week of December 23-29, 2024

Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1973, 1979, and 1980.

Our first stop this week is on 11/23/73 in El Paso, the Dead’s only show in this west Texas town, where we have Eyes Of The World ; Around And Around > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Casey Jones, Johnny B. Goode.

Week of December 16-22, 2024

Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1966, 1979, and 1980.

Our first stop this week is on 12/1/66 for some early Dead at the Matrix, where we have this unique and era-centric sequence of It Hurts Me Too; On The Road Again; Yonder's Wall; My Own Fault ; Down So Long; Cold Rain And Snow; Viola Lee Blues.

Week of December 9-15, 2024

Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1971, 1979, and 1981.

Our first stop this week is at the Felt Forum in New York City on 12/4/71, where we have Truckin'; Sugaree ; Mr. Charlie; Beat It On Down The Line; Tennessee Jed; Jack Straw; Run Rudolph Run.

Week of December 2-8, 2024

Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1979, 1980, and 1981 from the beginning of Brent’s years with the band.

Our first stop this year is the start of the second set from 12/11/79 in Kansas City, where we have Shakedown Street> Samson And Delilah; Ship Of Fools ; Terrapin Station  > Lost Sailor; Saint Of Circumstance> Jam.

Week of November 25-December 1, 2024

Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1969, 1973, and 1989.

Our first stop this week is at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco on 12/19/69, where we have Good Lovin'; Cryptical Envelopment> Drums> The Other One> Cryptical Envelopment> Uncle John's Band > Turn On Your Lovelight.

Week of November 18-24, 2024

Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1971, 1989, and 1990.

Our first stop this week is the first show of 1972, on 1/2/72 at Winterland, where we have this classic 1972 sequence of Truckin' ; Sugaree; Mr. Charlie; Beat It On Down The Line; Loser; Jack Straw.

Week of November 11-17, 2024

Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1972, 1981, and 1984.

Our first stop this week is the first show of 1972, on 1/2/72 at Winterland, where we have this classic 1972 sequence of Chinatown Shuffle; Tennessee Jed; El Paso; You Win Again; Big Railroad Blues; Mexicali Blues.

Week of November 4-10, 2024

Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from three distinct periods in the band’s history, from 1969, 1976, and 1982.

Our first stop this week is in Atlanta on 7/7/69, where we have this classic 1969 sequence to end the show: St. Stephen> The Eleven> Turn On Your Lovelight.

Week of October 28-November 3, 2024

Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1969, 1970, and 1984.

Our first stop this week is on 1/17/69 in Santa Barbara, CA, where we have this classic Primal Dead sequence of That’s It For The Other One>Cosmic Charlie.