Welcome back to the Tapers' Section, where this week we'll cover 15 years of Grateful Dead music, 1969-1984.
Our first selection this week is from 7/3/69 in Colorado Spring, CO, during a very creative time for the Dead: Sitting On Top Of The World, Morning Dew, High Time, Me and My Uncle, Casey Jones. This is only the third version of Casey Jones, a song debuted a few days earlier, on 6/22/69, in New York.
From the comeback tour in June, 1976, we have music from the middle night of a three night run in Passaic, NJ, on 6/18/76: Looks Like Rain, Row Jimmy, Cassidy, Mission In The Rain, Promised Land.
Our final selection this week is from 6/14/84 at Red Rocks, the end of the show. Earlier this night the band had played Dear Mr. Fantasy for the first time, and they continued the show with more top notch music: Playing In The Band>Black Peter>Throwing Stones>Not Fade Away, US Blues.
Thanks for stopping by, and be sure to join us next week here for more great tunes from the vault.
David Lemieux
vault@dead.net