ry Mishkin discusses a review of various experiences and performances, starting with a cannabis event called "Miracle in Mundelein," which took place over the past weekend. The main focus of the review is a discussion of a Grateful Dead show from September 9, 1987, at the Providence Civic Center in Rhode Island. The show was notable for being the second night of a three-show run, marking the opening of the Grateful Dead's 1987 East Coast fall tour.
"From Steel Pulse to Wu-Tang: A Festival of Musical Diversity"
Larry Mishkin discusses a review of various experiences and performances, starting with a cannabis event called "Miracle in Mundelein," which took place over the past weekend. The main focus of the review is a discussion of a Grateful Dead show from September 9, 1987, at the Providence Civic Center in Rhode Island. The show was notable for being the second night of a three-show run, marking the opening of the Grateful Dead's 1987 East Coast fall tour.
Key highlights include:
"Hey Pocky Way" Performance: This was the first time the Grateful Dead performed the song "Hey Pocky Way," which is originally by the Meters, a New Orleans funk band. The song became a fan favorite, primarily due to the influence of Brent Mydland, the band's keyboardist. However, the song fell out of rotation after Brent's death in 1990.
"Jack Straw" Performance: Another song featured was "Jack Straw," a Grateful Dead classic written by Bob Weir and Robert Hunter. It was originally performed in 1971 and became a staple in the band's setlists. The song was performed in the second spot of the setlist during the 1987 show, indicating the band's tendency to feature it early in their concerts.
Music News Segment: The transcript also includes a segment on music news, which starts with a brief history of the band Cheap Trick, particularly their song "I Want You to Want Me."
Review of the Miracle in Mundelein Festival: The review shifts to discussing the recent "Miracle in Mundelein" festival, where several acts performed:
Overall, the review captures the blend of nostalgia with the Grateful Dead's classic performances and the fresh, dynamic energy of the Miracle in Mundelein festival, highlighting both the music and the culture of cannabis.
Grateful Dead
September 9, 1987 (37 years ago)
Providence Civic Center
Providence, Rhode Island
Second night of a three show run, the opening shows of 1987 East Cost fall tour.
INTRO: Hey Pocky Way
Track #1
:35 – 2:03
First time ever played
Hey Pocky Way was written by George Porter Jr., Leo Nocentelli, Art Neville & Joseph Modeliste, founding members of The Meters, an American funk band formed in 1965 in New Orleans by Modeliste (drums), Porter Jr. (bass), Nocentelli (guitar) and Neville (keyboards). The band performed and recorded their own music from the late 1960s until 1977 and played an influential role as backing musicians for other artists, including Lee Dorsey, Robert Palmer, Dr. John, and Allen Toussaint.
Song was released on Rejuvenation the band’s fifth studio album in 1974. In 2003, the album was ranked number 138 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time,[6] and 139 in a 2012 revised list.
Beginning with this show, the Dead began to feature Hey Pocky Way, usually as a show opener. Sung by Brent who really got into it with both his keyboard playing and strong singing, it became a fan favorite. But as a Brent influenced tune, it died when he did.
Played: 25 times
First: September 9, 1987 at Providence Civic Center, Providence, RI, USA
Last: July 22, 1990 at World Music Theatre, Tinley Park, IL, USA (Brent’s second to last show)
SHOW No. 1: Jack Straw
Track #2
4:00 – 5:50
"Jack Straw" written by Bob Weir and Robert Hunter. The track first appeared on the album Europe '72.
The song was first performed in concert on October 19, 1971, in Minneapolis, Minnesota at new keyboardist Keith Godchaux's first appearance with the band. In the song's earliest performances (c. 1971–72), Weir sang all of the vocals. By the time the 'Europe 72' version was recorded, (at the Olympia Theater in Paris on 5-03-72), Weir and Jerry Garcia were switching up the vocals - as they had on April 26th when 'Hundred Year Hall' was recorded. The song appeared in both the first and second sets until the band's short hiatus in 1974-1975. After re-forming, the song almost exclusively appeared in the first set. After Brent Mydland joined the band in 1979, the song almost exclusively opened the band's first set. The band also often extended the jam after the second verse after Mydland's joining, often extending the song to over six minutes. Dead and Company have also further extended the song, often adding an abstract opening jam prior to the song's first verse.[1]
Bob Weir stated in a 2004 interview that the song's lyrics were partly based on John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men.[2] The song's themes include riding the rails, the Great Depression, and hobo (homeless) camps of the era. Jack Straw is also—perhaps coincidentally—the name of the original plantation owner, who lived controversially with his gay lover, Peter Ochello, in Tennessee Williams's play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.[3]
Always a great song to hear in concert, the fans loved it and it was always an omen of good things to come in the show.
Played: 477 times
First: October 19, 1971 at Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Last: July 8, 1995 at Soldier Field in Chicago
MUSIC NEWS
Acts:
They were initially refused live dates in Caribbean venues in Birmingham due to their Rastafarian beliefs. During the popularization of punk rock in the mid-1970's, Steel Pulse began to play punk venues such as the Hope and Anchor in London and The Electric Circus in Manchester in 1976.[1]
Aligning themselves closely with the Rock Against Racism organization and featuring in its first music festival in early 1978, they chose to tour with sympathetic elements of the punk movement,[1] including the Stranglers and XTC. Eventually they found a more natural home in support slots for Burning Spear, which brought them to the attention of Island Records.
Fun set that was in progress when we arrived, great sound and lots of energy that kept the crowd moving.
And many more
The band has built its career around an eclectic live show that harnesses the power of horns and percussion in a funky party-like atmosphere. The band routinely plays over 250 shows a year. They have been described by the Village Voice as "the missing link between Public Enemy and Louis Armstrong.
The Soul Rebels consist of percussionists and founding members Lumar LeBlanc and Derrick Moss, trumpet players Julian Gosin and Marcus Hubbard, trombonists Corey Peyton and Paul Robertson, saxophonist Erion Williams, and sousaphonist Manuel Perkins Jr.
On Saturday, they featured Raekwon and GZA from Wu Tang Clan.
RAEKWON - Corey Woods[2] (born January 12, 1970),[3][4] better known by his stage name Raekwon (/reɪˈkwɒn/, ray-KWON), is an American rapper. He rose to prominence as a founding member of the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan, which achieved mainstream success following the release of their debut album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), in 1993. Raekwon would subsequently pursue a solo career, releasing his first solo album, entitled Only Built 4 Cuban Linx..., in 1995. The album received critical acclaim, and is regarded by many critics as one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time, as well as a staple of 1990s rap.
Raekwon attributes the name Raekwon to the Five-Percent Nation, an offshoot of the Nation of Islam, when he was a "young kid."[11] He converted to Islam in 2009.
Growing up, he witnessed his mother being hit and abused by different men, an experience which he said "affected [him] a lot."[10] As a young man, his mother kicked him out of their Park Hill home when Raekwon got into an argument with her boyfriend and his mother sided with the boyfriend. During this time, he spiraled into a pattern of hopelessness and violent behavior.[8] He became addicted to cocaine and crack cocaine until he became aware of how the crack epidemic was affecting those around him, at which point "it was an automatic stop."[10]
Raekwon and rap partner Ghostface Killah attended junior high school together on Staten Island.[14] Raekwon attended New Dorp High School, where he befriended rappers Remedy, Method Man and Inspectah Deck.[15]
Woods first rapped as Sha Raider. In 1992, he joined the Wu-Tang Clan, an originally nine-member rap group drawing mainly from the Staten Island but also from the Brooklyn boroughs of New York City. He rapped as Raekwon The Chef, and also used the aliases Lex Diamonds, Shallah Raekwon, and Louis Rich.
After being caught in a crossfire and accidentally shot four times, Raekwon began rapping in earnest. He later described being shot as an "important eye opener."
In September 2009, MTV ranked Raekwon tenth among "hottest" rappers. In December, HipHopDx's 2009 awards named Only Built For Cuban Linx... Pt. II album of the year, calling it "the Hip Hop equivalent to The Godfather 2, with Rae as revitalized as Marlon was". Raekwon won Emcee of the Year—the prior year, Nas won—while HipHopDX staff explained,
Raekwon brought it back to lyrical, dope rap. He released an album that spoke to teens, twenty-somethings, thirty-somethings, and beyond. Without compromising, the Chef made an edgy Hip Hop record that refused to bastardize the catalog he laid down 15 years ago. On top of that, Rae (along with Ghostface) was a go-to for numerous rappers making albums, ranging from the Playaz Circle to Jadakiss to BK One. That's beyond real, as was a year filled with performing in arenas, clubs and even churches. When it came to mastering the ceremony, Rae had 'em all following the leader.[28]
— HipHopDX
GZA - Gary Eldridge Grice[2] (born August 22, 1966), better known by his stage names GZA (/ˈdʒɪzə/JIZ-ə) and The Genius,[3] is an American rapper. A founding member of the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan, GZA is the group's "spiritual head", being both the first member in the group to receive a record deal and being the oldest member.[4] He has appeared on his fellow Wu-Tang members' solo projects, and has maintained a successful solo career starting with his second album Liquid Swords (1995).
His lyrical style often dismisses typical rap story lines in favor of science and wide-ranging philosophies and has been characterized as "armed with sharp metaphors and a smooth flow".[5][6][7][8] An analysis of GZA's lyrics found that he has the second largest vocabulary in popular hip hop music.[9][10] He teamed up with an education group to promote science education in New York City through hip hop.
In 1992, GZA joined the Wu-Tang Clan, a group of nine, formed by his cousin RZA. GZA had some high-profile appearances on the group's debut album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993), including a solo track, "Clan in da Front".[22] This, combined with appearances on other Clan members' albums such as Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (1995) and Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... (1995) brought him much recognition. According to Method Man, "we form like Voltron and GZA happens to be the head".
The combination of the Soul Rebels beat and Raekwon’s and GZA’s rapping made for an exceptional set of music that caught me off guard but was worth the price of admission. With lots of cannabis references scattered throughout their lyrics and stage talk, they were a perfect match for this festival.
Outside of music, Thomaz has delved into acting with television roles in Dickinson and The Eric Andre Show, the lead role alongside Snoop Dogg in the 2012 stoner comedy film Mac & Devin Go to High School, and voice roles in the animated series American Dad!, Duncanville, and Big City Greens. Thomaz founded the record label Taylor Gang Entertainment in 2008, through which he has signed artists including Juicy J, Ty Dolla Sign, and Berner. Known for his abundant usage of cannabis, Thomaz launched his own cannabis brand, Khalifa Kush, in 2016, which expanded for release in nationwide dispensaries in 2022.
His stage name is derived from Khalifa, an Arabic word meaning "successor", and wisdom, which was shortened to Wiz when Khalifa was a young boy.[10] Khalifa stated to Spinner.com that the name also came from being called "young Wiz 'cause I was good at everything I did, and my granddad is Muslim, so he gave me that name; he felt like that's what I was doing with my music." He got a tattoo of his stage name on his 17th birthday.[11][12]
By the age of 15, he was regularly recording his music at a local studio called I.D. Labs.[13] Impressed by the young teen's talent, E. Dan, the owner of the studio offered Khalifa an intern job at the studio in exchange for free recording time. Dan, being a veteran of the Pittsburgh hip-hop scene, would help develop and mentor the young artist early on in his career.
He was the headliner and lived up to the billing. Great tunes, great stage presence, great spokesperson for cannabis. My first experience with his music and it was very positive.
A great musical education for me with my tutors, Daniel and AJ.
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SHOW No. 2: Greatest Story Ever Told
Track #9
3:25 – end
INTO
Devil With a Blue Dress
Track #10
0:00 – 1:33
Greatest Story – written by Hunter/Bobby/Mickey, originally called “The Pump Song” on Mickey Hart’s 1972 album Rolling Thunder. As the opening tune of Ace, it is called Greatest Story Ever Told. But this isn’t about that song. Here, it is the lead-in to a first set couple of “extras” thrown in for some fun.
"Devil with a Blue Dress On" (also known as "Devil with the Blue Dress") is a song written by Shorty Long and William "Mickey" Stevenson, first performed by Long and released as a single in 1964. A later version recorded by Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels in 1966 peaked at No. 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
"Devil with the Blue Dress" was originally released as Shorty Long's debut single on Motown in 1964, but the single failed to chart. The song describes a femme fatale in a blue dress and not an actual devil.[2]
Two years later, Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels recorded the song at Bell Sound Studios in New York City[3] as a medley with an original arrangement of Little Richard's "Good Golly, Miss Molly". Their version, released on their album, “Breakout . . . . !”, was notably more up-tempo than Long's more blues-influenced rendition.[2] Reaching No. 4 on the Hot 100, their version of the track would end up becoming their most well-known and highest charting hit in the United States. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked it No. 428 on their list of Top 500 Songs of All Time.
Basically, another great cover to showcase Brent’s singing and keyboard skills. This was the first of 3 times the Dead covered the song. Another fun diversion by the band that kept the Deadheads guessing and not wanting to ever miss a show.
The transition out of Greatest Story is seamless and makes it so you can’t hear the end of Greatest Story without hearing the signature beat of Devil making it a “natural” fit.
Played – 3 times
First: September 9, 1987 at Providence Civic Center, Providence, RI, USA
Last: October 4, 1987 at Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, USA
SHOW No. 3: Good Golly Miss Molly
Track #11
0:00 – end
INTO
Devil With a Blue Dress
Track #12
0:00 – 0:51
"Good Golly, Miss Molly" is a rock 'n' roll song first recorded in 1956 by American musician Little Richard and released in January 1958 as single on the Specialty label, and later on the album, Little Richard in July 1958.[1] The song, a jump blues, was written by John Marascalco and producer Robert "Bumps" Blackwell. Although it was first recorded by Little Richard, Blackwell produced another version by the Valiants, who imitated the fast first version recorded by Little Richard, not released at that time. Although the Valiants' version was released first (in 1957), Little Richard had the hit, reaching No. 4.[2] Like all his early hits, it quickly became a rock 'n' roll standard and has subsequently been recorded by hundreds of artists. The song is ranked No. 92 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Little Richard first heard the phrase "Good golly, Miss Molly" from a Southern DJ named Jimmy Pennick.[4] He modified the lyrics into the more suggestive "Good golly, Miss Molly/You sure like to ball." Little Richard himself later claimed that he took Ike Turner's piano intro from his influential 1951 rock and roll song "Rocket 88", and used it for "Good Golly, Miss Molly".[5] "I always liked that record," Richard recalled, "and I used to use the riff in my act, so when we were looking for a lead-in to 'Good Golly, Miss Molly', I did that and it fit."
In 1966, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels incorporated "Good Golly Miss Molly" into their version of "Devil with a Blue Dress On". Their version scored a major hit, not only in Ryder's native Detroit, but nationwide, placing at No. 4 on the Billboard Top 100.
As with Devil, a Brent thing. Unfortunately, it was only around for a month. Then vanished from the Dead’s playlist thereafter.
Played: 3 times, makes sense
First: September 9, 1987 at Providence Civic Center, Providence, RI, USA
Last: October 4, 1987 at Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, USA
MJ NEWS:
Miracle in Mudelein – a great event sponsored by Rise Dispensaries and Rhythm cultivators. Second year, featuring great music, excellent food and drink and too many booths for dabbing from various types of rigs including a Studenglass Gravity Bong – my first time using one and it is not your father’s four foot Graffix bong! Daniel and AJ were all over it and as it turned out, the wait in line was well worth the experience. Rather than try to explain it to you, just Google Gravity Bong and see for yourself! Great high.
Miracle is that Lake County, a more conservative leaning county, and Mundelein permitted the event. Attendees can bring in their own flower or extracts (supposedly only if purchased at an Illinois dispensary), smoking accessories, etc. Rise also was selling products at the show.
A wonderful thing to attend an event and not have to hide and smuggle in your cannabis. People lighting up everywhere, offering to share, talking strains, etc. Police were there to keep order and otherwise let it all go on. Very professional.
Excellent mellow crowd (what else would you expect?). Well run. Shot joints out of a canon. A wonderful day and experience for those who enjoy cannabis, especially not having to hide it or pretend you don’t have any when everyone knows attendees are smuggling it in anyway.
A great way to promote cannabis and help normalize it within the community. And a fun event to be able to share with my boys, Bella and AJ. Fun had by all.
SHOW No. 4: Not Fade Away
Track #24 (NOTE – this song is listed as Track #23 AND #24, be sure to use #24)
0:00 – end
"Not Fade Away" is a song credited to Buddy Holly (originally under his first and middle names, Charles Hardin) and Norman Petty (although Petty's co-writing credit is likely to have been a formality[3]) and first recorded by Holly and his band, the Crickets.
Holly and the Crickets recorded the song in Clovis, New Mexico, on May 27, 1957, the same day the song "Everyday" was recorded.[1] The rhythmic pattern of "Not Fade Away" is a variant of the Bo Diddley beat,
"Not Fade Away" was originally released as the B-side of the hit single "Oh, Boy!" on 10.27.1957 and was included on the album The "Chirping" Crickets (1957). The Crickets' recording never charted as a single. In 2004, this song was ranked number 107 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
The song is closely associated with the Grateful Dead as one of their signature tunes—one which the band transformed from Holly's 1950s boy/girl romanticism to one reflecting the 1960s’ more spiritual universal love. Their 1971 recording of the song is included on their second live album, Skull and Roses, paired with Going Down The Road Feeling Bad, a regular happening in the early ‘70’s.
Primarily a second set tune that used to show up in the second half of the second set after Drums-Space. Beginning in 1983, the Dead began to play it as the second set closer, trailing off with “Love is real will not fade away” as they exited the stage. A few years later, the Deadheads starting chanting the line as the Dead left the stage and in some cases, kept it up until the band reappeared for their encore, when the band would pick back up on the beat and play it for another minute or so before their encore tune, such as with this show.
Great example of the Deadheads making their mark on the show and the band being tuned in enough to play along with it. Although sometimes if the Dead took too long to come out for the encore, the chanting would start to fade off. And sometimes even when the chant made it all the way to the band’s return on stage, the band would ignore it and just dive straight into their encore. Fun when it all came together like this show.
Played: 561 times
First: February 19, 1969 at Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, USA
Last: July 5, 1995 at Riverport Amphitheatre in Maryland Heights, MO (St. Louis)
OUTRO: The Mighty Quinn
Track #25
2:11 – 3:48
Bob Dylan wrote and first recorded the song in 1967 during the Basement Tapes sessions, but did not release a version for another three years. The song's first release was in January 1968 as "Mighty Quinn" in a version by the British band Manfred Mann, from their album Mighty Garvey, and became a great success.
A demo of 14 of the 1967 Basement Tapes recordings, including the first of two takes of "Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)", was produced in 1968, but was not intended for release. Recordings taken from the demos began appearing on bootlegs, starting with Great White Wonder,[7] a double-album bootleg that came out in July 1969. The first official release of the song was in 1970 on Dylan's Self Portrait album,[14] a live recording from 1969's Isle of Wight Festival. The live version (titled "The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)") was also selected in 1971 for the second compilation of Dylan's career, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II.
Covered by: the Hollies, Leon Russell and Phish, among others.
Although they never played the song with Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead started playing "The Mighty Quinn" in concert in 1985. It became a favorite encore among the Grateful Dead's fans, and remained so to the end of their career.
Last verses, end with, “when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody’s gonna want to doze” but the Deadheads heard it as “dose” and always gave it a big cheer.
Played: 59 times
First: December 30, 1985 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA, USA
Last: July 2, 1995 at Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN, USA
Shoutouts:
Larry (00:31.598)
Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of the Deadhead Cannabis Show. I'm Larry Mishkin of Mishkin Law in Chicago. You got a great episode lined up here today, so thank you for tuning in. We have a wonderful, grateful Dead Show with some really fun tunes that we're going to be focusing on. We have some very, very interesting marijuana news, which of course falls right along the lines we always do, all the medical benefits and then all the people who slam it. We'll get to that in a few minutes.
I'm going to have a review of my experience this past weekend at the Miracle in Mundelein, which was a cannabis event with wonderful music and on -site smoking permitted. Really just lot of great things. But let's dive in right away because we're going to be focusing today on The Grateful Dead, a show they played on September 9th, 1987, 37 years ago today, at the Providence Civic Center in Providence, Rhode Island.
This was a second night of a three show run that was open at the opening shows of the 1987 East Coast fall tour and this is the way it started
Larry (01:52.11)
Hey Pocky way This is first time the boys ever played it and it sounded really good. Hey Pocky way was written by George Porter jr. Leo Nuss No centelle art Neville and Joseph Ziggy model esti the founding members of the meters an American funk band formed in 1965 in New Orleans by Modal esteem on drums Porter jr. On bass no centelle on guitar and Neville on the keyboards
the band performed and recorded their own music from the late nineteen sixties until nineteen seventy seven and played an influential role as backing musicians for other artists including lee dorsi robert palmer junior doctor john and alan tucson i first heard of the meters when my cool cousin brent took me to see him in new orleans many many years ago nineteen eighty nine or nineteen ninety we saw him at the maple leaf he picked us up at one o 'clock in the morning and said this is when all the good stuff starts
and in fact he was absolutely right another big fan of the meters who has influenced me in that regard is good buddy alex who is a huge meters fan a huge new orleans music fan and so you know it's just great to be introduced to that music we were just a couple of years ago we got to see the original meters to a late night show and it's it's really well worth it they're getting older now but they get behind their instruments
and they just they just really jam so hey pocky way was released on the band's fifth studio album rejuvenation dropped in nineteen seventy four in two thousand three the album was ranked a hundred thirty eight on rolling stone magazines list of the five hundred greatest albums of all time and one hundred and thirty ninth in a twenty twelve revised list beginning with this show the dead the dead began to feature hey pocky way usually as a show opener was sung by Brent who really got into it with both his keyboards
and his strong singing. became a fan favorite. But as Brent influenced tune, unfortunately, it died when he did. The band wound up playing the song 25 times. The first was, as we say at this show, September 9, 1987, Providence Civic Center. And the last time they played it was July 22, 1990, at the World Music Theater in Tinley Park, Illinois, which was Brent's second to last show. The next night, the 23rd, was Brent's last show. That was the end of the 1990 Midwest Summer Tour.
Larry (04:07.466)
and about a month later Brent unfortunately died of an overdose and he has been missed ever since and songs like Hey Pocky Way just dropped out of the repertoire at that point unfortunately because it really was a lot of fun we had a great time with it good buddy Leaby always loved it and it was just one of those songs that you know you'd get there and you'd hear and just be very excited about Brent played it with a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of energy and the band really picked it up behind him
but hey pocky way a wonderful song a great way to start a show and Unfortunately, it is no more Now this was a strong night for the dead and As you'll see it was this real stepping out party for Brent if you will He's got a couple of other tunes featured in here that we're gonna get to in a few minutes but it was also just a great all -around grateful dead show and
as if to kind of cement that point. They moved right out of Hey Pocky Way into one of our favorites, Jack Straw. Listen to this clip and you're gonna note that there's not a lot of lyrics to it and we'll talk about that on the back end. Dan?
Larry (05:26.638)
So Jack Straw was written by Bob Weir and Robert Hunter. The track first appeared on the album Europe 72. The song was first performed in concert on October 19th, 1971 in Minneapolis, Minnesota as new keyboardist Keith Gouchow made his first appearance with the band. There's a whole bunch of songs that dropped that night and maybe this fall we'll actually feature that show, we'll have to see. In the song's earliest performances back in 1971 and 72, sang all of the vocals. By the time the Europe 72 version was recorded,
at the Olympia Theater in Paris on May 3rd, 1972. Bobby and Jerry were switching up the vocals as they had on April 26th when Hundred Year Hall was recorded. Hundred Year Hall was a show also from the Europe 72 tour. It was released a number of years ago by the band as a standalone release. And now you can have it again, of course, if you have the Europe 72 box set, because they have that show in there as well.
The songs appeared in both the first set and second sets until the band's short hiatus in 7475. After reforming, the song almost exclusively appeared in the first set. After Brent Midland joined the band in 1979, the song almost exclusively opened the band's first set. The band also often extended the jam after the second verse after Midland's joining, often extending the song to over six minutes. Denning Company have further extended the song with additional
musical interludes along the way. Bob stated in a 2004 interview that the song's lyrics were partly based on John Steinbeck's novel of Mice and Men. The song's themes include Riding the Rails, The Great Depression, and Hobo Camps of the Era. JXDRAW is also, perhaps coincidentally, the name of the original plantation owner who lived controversially with his gay lover, Peter Ocello, in Tennessee Williams' play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
was always a great song to hear in a concert. The fans loved it, and it was always an omen of good things to come. Now you'll notice in this show, it was actually the second tune, and that would happen sometimes when they were featuring a different tune to start that wasn't always part of the regular rotation, and then Jack Strout would slip in right after that. But whether it's the first tune or the second tune, it was fun. We all loved it, and it really got everybody up and moving. And obviously, the dead loved it because they played it 477 times.
Larry (07:51.15)
The first time they played was on October 19th, 1971, we sat at the Northrop Auditorium in Minneapolis. And the last time they played was on July 8th, 1995, at Soldier Field in Chicago, the penultimate Grateful Dead show, the next night being the last one they played. But that was the last time we got to hear it with Jerry. At the 2015 Fair the Well, it was played a really strong version there as well, and it was fun to hear it again. Dead and Company play it, we've heard Phil and friends play it.
It's just a great tune and no matter who plays it it really I think just Is one of those tunes that really symbolizes the Grateful Dead? as much as any other and for that reason We always enjoy it. It's a great tune to feature whenever we're Featuring a dead show and it just happens to be in there. So we got that going for us, We're gonna leave the dead show for a minute here
And what we're going to do is dive into our music news. And we have a lot of music news, as always. And Dan, what do you got for us in the way of introductory music for our music news?
Larry (09:19.502)
Surrender is a cheap trick tune the band from Rockford, Illinois formed back in 1973 by guitarist Rick Nielsen bassist Tom Peterson vocalist Robin Xander and drummer bunny e Carlos that's bun e period Carlos there were bridged elements of 1960s guitar pop 70s hard rock and the emerging punk rock sound that would help set the template for subsequent power pop artists cheap trick released their self -titled debut album in 1977 and
and later that year found success in Japan with the release of their second album, In Color. 1978's Heaven Tonight included the Power Pop classic, Surrender. The band achieved mainstream popularity in the United States in 1979 with the triple live album, At Budokan, also live that was in Japan, and a top ten single, a live recording of I Want You to Want Me. They followed with Dream Police, in 1979 their most commercially successful studio album,
Reaching number six on the Billboard 200 chart. After struggling with declining popularity and lineup changes in the 1980s, Cheap Trick experienced a major resurgence toward the end of the decade when they topped the US charts with the power ballad, The Flame. The band has continued releasing new music into the 21st century and maintains a constant touring schedule, having performed live more than 5 ,000 times since their formation. Cheap Trick has sold more than 20 million tickets and built a dedicated cult following. Their influence has been cited
by a diverse range of rock artists, both the mainstream and underground, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016. The current lineup of the band consists of Xander, Nielsen, and Peterson.
So.
Larry (11:02.636)
take your time out.
Larry (11:07.374)
I made a mistake because I think I introduced the rock song is surrender and that's wrong. The rock song is I want you to want me So we have to strike the part a little bit earlier about the song being surrender and now I will get into I'll just go from my introduction on cheap trick directly into the song
Larry (11:40.396)
so having updated you all on cheap trick that song was obviously i want you to want me one of their really classic numbers and it was as we said from their second album in color was the first single release from the album but it did not chart in the united states in its original studio version which was influenced by musical styles eleven months later a more rock oriented live version of the band successful cheap trick it would account album was released as a single and became one of their biggest hits peaking at number seven in the u .s. number two in canada
and number one in Japan it has since become Cheap Trick's signature song. So with that we're now going to dive into our music news. Thank you Dan who just happened to see Cheap Trick last week out in Colorado and was raving about how good they sound after all these years of playing. So I'm sure that influenced some of these selections and good selections they are. So
On the music news, past weekend I had an opportunity to go to the Miracle in Mundelein. That's Mundelein, Illinois. It was the second year of the festival in Mundelein, a suburb northwest of Chicago. I missed last year's with JRad as the lead performer, but made it this year on Saturday with my sons Jonathan and Daniel, Jonathan's fiance Bella, and Daniel's good buddy AJ. It was a different theme to this year's music, focusing on hip -hop and rap, not part of my regular rotation in music, but certainly a key genre for Daniel and AJ.
who filled me in on all the details during the show. So there were three musical acts that I'm gonna talk about in this section, and we'll talk about the marijuana part of it during the marijuana news. The opening act who we saw was Steel Pulse. Now they are a roots reggae band from Handsworth area of Birmingham, England. They originally formed at Handsworth Wood Boy School and were composed of David Hines, who's the lead vocals and guitar, Basil Gabadon, lead guitar and vocals, and Ronald McQueen, bass, along with Basil's brother, Colin, briefly on drums,
and Michaela Riley vocals percussion, Steel Pulse were the first non -Jamaican act to win the Grammy Award for best reggae album. were initially refused live dates in Caribbean venues in Birmingham due to their Rastafarian beliefs. the popularization of punk music in the mid 1970s, Steel Pulse began to play punk venues such as Hope and Anchor in London and the Electric Circus in Manchester in 1976, aligning themselves closely
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with Rock Against Racism organization and featuring in its first musical festival in early 1978, they chose to tour with sympathetic elements of the punk movement, including the Stranglers and XTC. Eventually, they found a more natural home in support, Glass for Burning Spear, which brought them to the attention of island records. It was a very fun set that was in progress when we arrived. Great sounds and lots of energy that got the crowd moving on a very sunny day, not too hot, a little bit warm.
But everybody was up and bopping to steel pulse and they were really a lot of fun After steel pulse there was a brief intermission with tunes being spun by a DJ who kept things real and we got a reggae version of Franklin's tower mixed in there. So that was fun And then out came the soul rebels also known as the soul rebels brass band They're an eight -piece New Orleans band bass brass ensemble that incorporates elements of soul jazz funk hip -hop rock and
and pop music within a contemporary bass excuse me a contemporary brass band framework starting out as a local New Orleans favorite the soul rebels have evolved into collaborating live with major artists in all worlds of music including just to name a few Katy Perry, Nas, Metallica, Green Day, Trombone Shorty, Prodigy, the string cheese incident, Bumpfrees McGee, Galactic, Suzanne Vega, the Eurythmics, Lettuce, Government Mule and more the band has built its career
around an electric live show that harnesses the power of horns and percussion in a funky party -like atmosphere. The band routinely plays over 250 shows a year. They have been described by Village Voice as the missing link between Public Enemy and Louis Armstrong. I like that characterization. The Soul Rebels consist of percussionist and founding member Lumar LeBlanc and Derek Moss, trumpet player Julian Gossin and Marcus Hubbard, trombonist Corey Payton and Paul Robertson, saxophonist Arianne Williams,
and sousaphoneist, Manuel Perkins Jr. And to say that I was just overwhelmed by them would be an understatement. Musically, they were as tight as anybody, and given the activities we had been participating in throughout the afternoon, they were a perfect band to step on at that time. Now, Saturday night, what made it a really special show was that when they came out, they also featured Raekwon and Jizza from the Wu -Tang Clan.
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Raekwon, born as Corey Woods back in January of 1970, is an American rapper. rose to prominence as a founding member of the hip hop group Wu -Tang, which achieved mainstream success following the release of their debut album, Enter the Wu -Tang Clan 36 Chambers, in 1993. Raekwon would subsequently pursue a solo career, releasing his first solo album entitled Only Built Four Cuban Links in 1995. The album received critical acclaim and is regarded by many critics
as one of the greatest hip -hop albums of all time, as well as a staple of 1990s rap. Raekwon attributes the name Raekwon to the 5 % nation, an offshoot of the nation of Islam, when he was a young kid. He converted to Islam in 2009. Growing up, he witnessed his mother being hit and abused by different men, an experience which he said affected him a lot. As a young man, his mother kicked him out of their park hill home when Raekwon got into an argument with her boyfriend, and the mother sided with the boyfriend. During this time, he spiraled into a pattern of hopelessness and violent behavior,
He became addicted to cocaine and crack cocaine until he became aware of how the crack epidemic was affecting those around him, at which point he said it was an automatic stop. Rayquan and rap partner Ghostface Killah attended junior high school together on Staten Island. Rayquan attended New Dorp High School, where he befriended rappers Remedy, Method Man, and Inspect the Deck. Word first wrapped as Shaw Raider. In 1992, he joined the Wu -Tang Clan, but also,
who had their members who we said from Staten Island in Brooklyn. He wrapped his Rayquan the Chef and also uses the alias Lex Diamonds, Shala Rayquan, and Louis Rich. After being caught in a crossfire and accidentally shot four times, Rayquan began rapping in earnest. He later described being shot as an important eye -opener. In September 2009, MTV ranked Rayquan 10th among hottest rappers. In December, Hip Hop DX's 2009 awards
Named only built for Cuban links part 2 album of the year calling it the hip -hop equivalent of the godfather part 2 with ray as Revitalized as marlon brando was rayquan one MC in the year The prior year nas one while hip -hop's DXS staff explained
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Rayquan brought it back to lyrical dope rap. He released an album that spoke to teens, 20 -somethings, 30 -somethings, and beyond. Without compromising, the chef made an edgy hip -hop record that refused to bastardize the catalog he laid down 15 years ago. On top of that, Ray, along with Ghostface, was a go -to for numerous rappers making albums ranging from Play A Circle to Jotakiss to BK1. That's beyond real, as was a year filled with performing in arenas, clubs, and even churches. When it came to mastering the ceremony,
Ray had them all following the leader. And then we had GZA, Gary Eldridge -Grice, born in August of 1966, also known as GZA and the Genius, an American rapper. He was also a founding member of Wu -Tang Clan and is the group's spiritual head, being both the first member of the group to receive a record deal and the oldest member. He has appeared on his fellow Wu -Tang member solo projects and has maintained a successful solo career starting with his second album,
liquid swords which dropped in nineteen ninety five his lyrical style often dismisses typical rap story lines in favor of science and wide -ranging philosophies has been characterized as armed with sharp metaphors and a smooth flow an analysis of jesus lyrics found that he has the second largest vocabulary in popular hip -hop music he teamed up with an education group to promote science education in new york city through hip -hop in nineteen ninety two jesus joined the wu -tang clan and
This combined with appearances on other clan members' albums, such as Return to the 36 Chambers, The Dirty Version, and Only Built for Cube and Lynx, brought him much recognition. According to Method Man, we form like Voltron, and Jizza happens to be the head. The combination of the Soul Rebels and Rayquans and Jizza's rapping made for an exceptional set of music that really caught me off guard, but was worth the price of admission. With lots of cannabis references scattered throughout their lyrics and stage talk,
they were perfect match for this festival real o .g.' coming in and really telling everybody like it was like it was daniel and a j who have a real fascination for rapid hip -hop really loved it and it was great to see them be able to sing along to a lot of it cuz i didn't know any of it but i'm gonna start listening to it now and just was very very very impressed by the whole experience finally the
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the lead of the night was Wiz Khalifa, born as Cameron Jibril Thomas in September of 1987, and better known by his stage name, Wiz Khalifa, an American rapper from Pittsburgh. He signed with the local independent label Rostrum Records to release his debut studio album, Show and Prove, in 2006. His contract entered a short -lived venture with Warner Brothers Records the following year. His Eurodance -influenced 2000 singles, Say Yeah, received urban radio airplay
Airplay and entered both the Rizmic Top 40 and the Hop Rap Songs charts becoming his first minor hit. Outside of music, Thomas has delved into acting with television roles in Dickinson and the Eric Andre Show, the lead role along Snoop Dogg in the 2012 Stoner comedy film Mack and Devin Go to High School, and voice roles in the animated series American Dad, Duncanville, and Big City Greens. Thomas founded the record label Taylor Gang Entertainment in 2008.
through which he has signed artists including Juicy J, Ty Dolla Sign, and Burner. Known for his abundant use of cannabis, Tom has launched his own cannabis brand, Khalifa Kush, in 2016, which expanded for release in nationwide dispensaries in 2022. His stage name is derived from Khalifa, an Arabic word meaning successor, and wisdom, which was shortened to wiz when Khalifa was a young boy. Khalifa started, stated to spinner .com,
that the name also came from being called Young Wiz because I was good at everything I did and my granddad is Muslim so he gave me that name. He felt like that's the name I was doing with my music. He felt like that's what I was doing with my music. He got a tattoo of his stage name on his 17th birthday which by the way was the day after his performance and he made a few references to it and got some nice applause from the crowd. By the age of 15 he was regularly recording his music at a local studio called I .D. Impressed by the young teen's talent,
Dan, the owner of the studio, offered Khalifa an intern job at the studio in exchange for free recording time. Dan, being a veteran of the Pittsburgh hip hop scene, would help develop and mentor the young artist early on in his career. He was the headliner at this event, and he lived up to the billing. Great tunes, great stage presence, a great spokesperson for cannabis. My first experience with his music, and it was very, very positive. It was a great education, musically for me, with my tutors of the night, Daniel and AJ.
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and it was just a great experiences i say we'll get more into it when we get into the marijuana news on the local music scene here in chicago goose is coming back to the salt said this weekend playing two shows one on thursday and one on friday i will hopefully be at both and i'm looking forward to seeing goose and their great jamming abilities they've really crashed onto the scene and kind of taken it by storm in the jam band world
they're still playing smaller venues and by god we're see the most smaller venues because if they ever get big and popular we will look back on the days when we could see them in a place like the salt shed and just really having a good time so looking forward to seeing goose will talk about it a little bit on next week's and i imagine it will be as jamming as always and i will be happy to pass that on in addition in our music news today unfortunately
We've lost a couple of music legends and I want to give them their props and shout outs. The first one is British bassist Herbie Flowers, a veteran musician who performed with David Bowie, Elton John, T. Rex, and Paul McCartney, and whose bass line for Lou Reed's iconic 1973 hit, Walk on the Wild Side, has been sampled countless times. He died on Saturday, according to social media posts from his family. No cause of death was announced. He was 86.
A veteran session musician, Flower, who was a member of the groups T -Rex and Blue Mink, was estimated to have played on more than 500 hit albums by the end of 1970s. Born in 1938, Flowers became a musician in the Royal Air Force during the 1950s, playing tuba and taking up double bass as a secondary instrument. After completing his military service, he began working in jazz bands, performing as a bandsman on the Queen Elizabeth Ocean Liner and later picking up electric bass.
He soon began working as a session musician for such hit producers as Shell, Tommy, Mickey Most, Gus Dudgeon, and Tony Visconti. The latter two led to his work with Elton John and David Bowie, whose early material he played on, including Bowie's 1969 hit, Space Oddity. During that year, he also got his first taste of pop stardom as a founding member of the group, Blue Ming, playing on their song, Melting Pot, which reached number 34.
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in the UK. However, he worked primarily as a session musician appearing on dozens of hit songs each year. He famously said many times that the indelible bass line on Walk on the Wild Side, which was produced by Bowie, came about because he would be paid double for overdubbing a second pace over his original line. Accounts vary, but most commonly it seems he was paid 26 pounds for his work, which has generated untold thousands of dollars in licensing for Reed, the credited songwriter in the years since. Flowers created iconic bass line
presumably for a session fee in 1973 with David Essex's classic, Rock On. In the late 1970s, Flowerd found the instrumental band, Sky, recording and performing with the band until 1995. He continued playing jazz and working sessions until recent years. Over the course of his career, he contributed recordings by three Beatles, Paul McCartney's Give My Regards to Broad Street, Ringo Starr's Stop and Smell the Roses, and three George Harrison albums,
as well as Nilsson, including Jump into the Fire, Brian Ferry, Cat Stevens, and countless others. And he will absolutely be missed.
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And I'm going to take a break right now to take my telephone call. And I will put this on pause.
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Mark is at about the 46 minute mark. So I will let you know about that. My microphone is back on. And what I'm going to do is jump right into the next part of the music news. I'll give you a 10 second countdown. And then I will dive in. OK.
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So we lost Herbie Flowers, very, sad. But we're also today recognizing and honoring Jerry Miller, the guitar legend of the San Francisco psychedelic band Moby Grape. A revered guitarist, best known for his work with Moby Grape in the 1960s, passed away on July 20 in Tacoma, Washington. He was 81 years old. While the cause of death has not been disclosed, his passing was confirmed through a Facebook post on the Moby Grape fan page.
and journalist Eric Brenner. The message shared by Miller's family requested privacy during the difficult time, Joe and the family are asking for everyone to please give them some privacy and respect. And Joe asked that people cease phone calls for the time being. Thank you. Miller was a celebrated musician who earned a spot among rock's most respected guitarists. His talent demonstrated with his guitar named Bula caught the attention of many, including famed guitarist Eric Clapton.
who called Miller the greatest guitar player in the world. High praise coming from a guy who may have very well been the greatest guitar player in the world. Although Rolling Stone Magazine did not rank him quite as highly, it did list him among the top 100 guitarists of all time, recognizing his significant contribution to rock music. Born in 1941, Miller's career began in the late 1950s, playing with popular Northwest dance rock bands. His early work included contributing guitar parts to an early version of
I Fought the Law, hit by the Bobby Fuller Four. The collaboration led to him touring with Bobby Fuller, further establishing his reputation as a talented, in -demand guitarist. In 1966, Miller co -founded Moby Grape in San Francisco, a band that quickly gained attention for its unique blend of rock, blues, and country. Moby Grape's distinctive sound was driven by its three -guitar setup, with Miller taking the lead. The band's self -titled album, Moby Grape, released in 1967,
is considered a classic of the era, blending tight harmonies and impressive guitar work. The album featured tracks like Omaha, which became one of their most well -known songs, and showcased Miller's skills. Despite initial success, internal conflicts, and legal battles with their record label, Columbia hampered the band's long -term success. After his time with Moby Great, Miller continued to make an impact in the music world. He co -founded the Rhythm Dukes, a band that further explored blues and rock influences.
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Additionally, pursued a solo career recording albums and performing live well into his later years. His influence can still be felt in the music world, particularly among guitarists who admire his ability to merge technical skill with emotional depth. For some, Miller's passing marks the end of an era for fans of classic rock and roll and San Francisco music scene of the 1960s. His contributions to music, especially through Moby Grape, remain a vital part of rock music history and his talent continues to inspire new generations of musicians.
So I think that we can certainly give a shout out to Mr. Miller's family, to his wife Jo, and to others. Moby Grape is not a band that we've necessarily talked about or featured, but maybe we will one day because as the notice points out, they were very influential in the San Francisco scene at that time, often sharing a bill with the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and any one of a number of other
bands from that era who made up the whole psychedelic scene out in San Francisco in the late 1960s. So, two major losses in music, but we're gonna go back to our music, The Grateful Dead from 37 years ago today at the Providence Civic Center, and now we're gonna get into a little extra music tacked onto the end of the first set and see what the boys did to have some fun here. So, Dan?
What do you got for us?
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So we start off with that, because that's one song into another, this clip. Greatest Story Ever Told was written by Hunter, Bobby, and Mickey. It was originally called The Pump Song. On Mickey Hart's 1972 album Rolling Thunder, as the opening tune of Ace, is called Greatest Story Ever Told. But this isn't really about that song. In this instance here, Greatest Story is merely serving as the lead -in to a first set couple of extras that really made the show a lot of fun.
The first one that we heard there we go straight from greatest story into devil with a blue dress on Is a song written by shorty long and William Mickey Stevenson It was first performed by long and released as a single in 1964 a later version recorded by Mitch writer in the Detroit wheels in 1966 peaked at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 Devil with a blue dress was originally released as shorty longs debut on Motown in 1964, but the single failed to chart
The song describes a femme fatale in a blue dress, not an actual devil. Or the Duke fans really like it because of the devil with a blue dress and they are the blue devils. Two years later, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Reels recorded the song at Bell Sound Studios in New York City as a medley with an original arrangement of Little Richard's Good Golly Miss Molly. Their version released on their album Breakout was notably more up -tempo than Long's more blues -influenced rendition, reaching number four on the Hot 100.
Their version of the track would end up becoming their most well -known and highest -charting hit in the United States. Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number 428 on their list of the top 500 songs of all time. Basically, it was another great cover to showcase Brent's singing and keyboard skills. This was the first of three times The Dead covered this song, another fun diversion by the band that kept the Deadheads guessing and not wanting to ever miss a show. The transition out of Greatest Story is seamless and makes it so you can't hear the end of Greatest Story
without hearing the signature beat of Devil making it a really natural fit. As I said, they played Devil with a blue dress three times. The first was on September 9th at this show we're talking about today. The last one was on October 4th, 1987 at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. Now, rolling right from that, because as we heard what Mitch Ryder did with it, and of course, the Grateful Dead are right there with it, so let's dive right into the follow -up.
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And we'll come back and talk about that in a second. Here we go, Dan.
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Good Golly Miss Molly is a rock song first recorded in 1956 by American musician Little Richard and released in January 1958 as a single on the specialty label and later on his album Little Richard, which dropped in July 1958. The song, A Jump Blues, was written by John Marascaccio. Marascaccio, sorry, I'm not gonna get that one right no matter how many times I try it. Mariscalco and producer Robert Bumps Blackwell.
Although it was first recorded by Little Richard, Blackwell produced another version by the Valiants, who imitated the first version and was released in 1957. Little Richard had the hit reaching number four. Like all his early hits, it quickly became a rock and roll standard and has subsequently been recorded by hundreds of artists. The song is ranked number 82 on the Rolling Stone Magazine list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
The story is that Little Richard first heard the phrase Good Golly Miss Molly from a southern DJ named Jimmy Penick. He modified the lyrics into the more suggestive Good Golly Miss Molly You Sure Like Da Ball. Little Richard himself later claimed that he took Ike Turner's piano intro from his influential 1951 rock and roll song Rocket 88 and used it for Good Golly Miss Molly. I always liked that record, Richard recalled, and I used to use it the riff in my act. So when we were looking for a lead into Good Golly Miss Molly,
I did that and it just fit. 1966, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Reels incorporated Good Golly Miss Molly into their version of Devil with a Blue Dress On. Their version scored a major hit, not only in Ryder's native Detroit, but nationwide, placing it number four on the Billboard Top 100. As with Devil, this was a bread thing, and unfortunately, it was only around for one month. That had vanished from the dead's playlist thereafter. Another example, you can go to as many shows as you want,
But if you miss one, you could be missing a lot. This was also played three times. That makes sense. And similarly, first, this show on September 9th the last on October 4th, 1987 at the Shoreline Amphitheater. And that wasn't unusual for the dad to pull out a cover and maybe just played a couple of times on one tour or over a brief period of time. And then it would kind of slip away, unless somewhere much later down the road, Jerry thought of it or something.
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with good golly miss molly and double with a blue dress this was it for them they never made it back september october nineteen eighty seven features and it's just a lot of fun and thank goodness we have archived all these other services that let us go back and listen to the shows so we can actually hear it is one thing to have somebody tell you yeah i was at the show when they played devil in a good going this molly but they were just trying to imagine what it might sound like if the dead played but here
We got it. You got Brent singing his keyboard Jerry's guitar It's just a great fit all the way around and really made I think for a fun diversion During this show 37 years ago today Now we are going to slide over into our marijuana news Which of course is another regular feature that we do on this show and as we slide into the marijuana news Dan go ahead and tell us what you got for this
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Yes, it is a Cheap Trick Day here on the Deadhead Cannabis Show, and Dan has astutely picked Cheap Trick not just to do I Want You to Want Me, which we featured before, but now for the marijuana tune, song Surrender, a single by Cheap Trick released in June 1978 from the album Heaven Tonight. It was the first Cheap Trick single to enter the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 62. Its success in Japan, as well as the success on its preceding singles, Clack, Strikes, 10,
and I want you to want me paved the way for Cheap Tricks concerts at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo in April 1978, which were recorded for Cheap Trick at Budokan, the group's most popular album. Storender is a late 1970s teen anthem describing the relationship between the baby boomer narrator and his GI generation parents. His mother frequently warns him about the girls he will meet, as he will never know what diseases he will catch from them, as exemplified by a rumor about a soldier's
penis falling off as a result of some Indonesian junk that's going round. The mother's expertise on such matters is endorsed by the father, who states that mom served with the WACs in the Philippines, a claim which amazes the narrator, who had been under the impression the WACs only recruited old mates, and mom isn't one of those. The narrator then describes how his parents are weirder and hipper than many teens would believe. For example, the narrator describes how he discovered his mom and dad are rolling on the couch and listening to his kids' records late at night.
Rolling numbers rock and rolling got my kiss records out This mention was a thank you by cheap trick who got a career boost by opening concerts for kiss during the 1970 love gun tour and of course rolling numbers is slang for rolling joints so it looks like Rick Nielsen and the boys were thinking about that when they laid down surrender back in the late 1970s and astute Producer Dan was right on top of that. He got to hear the tune at his
show last week when he saw cheap trick and you know, like to sometimes switch up the bands for the different portions of the show but in this instance, I think Dan did just fine with two of the most popular cheap trick tunes of all time which fit very nicely into what we're doing today. So we now have our
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marijuana section of the show and the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna dive back in to the miracle in Mundelein and this time instead of the music we're going to address the cannabis side of it was a great event it was sponsored by rise dispensaries and rhythm cultivators this was the second year it featured great music excellent food and drink and too many booths for dabbing from various types of rigs including a student glass gravity bong
my first time using one and i can assure you it's not your father's four foot graphics bond did you know they do you roll over it and as it turned out the wait line was well worth the experience rather than try to explain it to you just google gravity bond and see for yourself it's a great high we were able to bring along our own extract and they were more than happy to to load up the gravity bond for us and it was a great way to get going right when you first got there are really give you a good kick in the butt
and got the day off to a great start and as I said when we walked in we were being entertained by the music of steel pulse and it really set the mood for the entire day. I think the real miracle here is that Lake County, a more conservative leading county in Illinois and the city of Mundelein permitted the event. Attendees can bring in their own flour or extracts, supposedly only if purchased at an Illinois dispensary but I think other stuff was brought in. You could purchase, you could bring in your own smoking accessories and everything
Rise one of the dispensary owners in Illinois also was selling their products at the show at a separate booth It was a wonderful thing to attend an event and not have to hide and smuggle in your cannabis people were lighting up everywhere Offering to share talking strains, etc Police were there and very visible to keep order, but otherwise they let it all go on They were very polite very professional throughout the day and they deserve a tip of the cap as well because too often they're portrayed as the enemy and
to this lifestyle but on this occasion i thought they handled it all very well and hats off to them it was an excellent mellow crowd what else would you expect for this type of festival which was well -run they shot joints out of a cannon off the stage just did all sorts of other fun things like that booths was great food booths with all sorts of merch that you could buy
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And it was just a wonderful day, an experience for those who enjoy cannabis, especially not having to hide it or pretend you don't have it when everyone knows the attendees are smuggling it in anyway. Really kind of removed that stress of, I going to, somebody going to see me and get mad at me and possibly throw me out? But it was encouraged during the day. All the performers on the stage kept giving shout outs to who's the highest and let's all take another hit and now let's get into this next song. And it was just really, really excellent. A lot of fun for marijuana people.
a real step towards normalization and a great way to promote cannabis within a community. For me, it was particularly fun to be able to share it with my boys, Jonathan and Daniel, with Bella and with AJ. Fun was had by all, and it's certainly an event we're going to be talking about for some time. And we will all look forward to next year and being able to go back out there and do it again. So that's where we're starting off with cannabis news, some fun stuff that went down. And now let's get into some more of it.
Thanks again to Marijuana Moment, who have an article that tells us financial analysts say they expect the expansion of marijuana legalization movement will continue to post a significant threat to the alcohol industry, citing survey data that suggests more people are using cannabis as a substitute for alcoholic beverages such as beer and wine. A report from Bloomberg Intelligence projects that slumping sales of wine and spirits may extend indefinitely, which will stem largely from the increased consumer access to legal cannabis.
as well as rising popularity of made -to -go drinks, for example. They estimated that the combined influence of cannabis access and shifts in consumer demand for certain alcoholic product types accounts for a 16 % share valuation discount offered by the beverage company Constellation Brands, which owns major brands, including Corona, Modela, Pacifico, and Casa Nobel Tequila. The use of cannabis among consumers is on the rise, and we believe it's being substituted for alcoholic beverages
based on an August 21st survey from BI involving 1 ,000 adults, said. We also anticipate that increasing US consumer access to recreational marijuana will be a significant threat to all alcoholic drinks, particularly wine and beer, given their lower price points relative to liquor. According to the survey, nearly half of the respondents reported using cannabis as an alcohol substitute at least once per week. Additionally, 22 % said they use marijuana more often than alcohol. Meanwhile,
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A multinational investment bank solely said in a report last week that marijuana has become a formidable competitor to alcohol, projecting that nearly 20 million more people will regularly consume cannabis over the next five years as booze loses a couple of million drinkers. It also says marijuana sales are estimated to reach $37 billion in 2027 in the US as more state markets come online. So this is not surprising.
The analysis can port with other recent survey data that more broadly looked at American views on marijuana versus alcohol. For example, a Gallup survey from last month found that respondents view cannabis as less harmful than alcohol, tobacco, and nicotine vapes. And more adults now smoke cannabis than smoke cigarettes. Now, this is very significant for a number of different reasons, not the least of which it shows that the American public is, by and large, accepting marijuana and embracing it. This is also significant.
because we're seeing people turn away from alcohol to marijuana. Why is this significant? Alcohol kills people. Alcohol is dangerous. Alcohol hurts the human body. It hurts your liver. It hurts your organs. When done in more than just one or two drinks a day, and maybe even that's enough, it's still not entirely certain, marijuana causes harm to the human body. Excuse me.
Alcohol causes harm to the human body. Marijuana doesn't. So we as a society should prefer people smoking marijuana as opposed to drinking alcohol. And we'll get into some other controversial numbers here. And this is the one that always comes up, and that's driving. Driving a car. Nobody endorses driving under the influence, regardless of what influence it is. But as a society, since we know that people drink and get in their cars and drive,
drink to one level or another, not always so that they're blind drunk, but certainly enough that if they were pulled over, they might very well blow positive on a breathalyzer, indicating that they are over the legal limit in Illinois, at least, of 0 .8.
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And so if we're gonna have people driving around intoxicated, all studies show that in a driver who is intoxicated on marijuana is a safer driver than a driver who is intoxicated on alcohol. So if there are going to be people out and about partying, having fun, and then driving home, naturally it would seem we would prefer those people to have used marijuana rather than alcohol. Although again, just to be clear,
It's obviously much safer to drive when you're not under the influence of anything. But in a direct comparison between marijuana and alcohol, marijuana is clearly safer. And this just shows that the industry is moving right along. And we'll have to see what the alcohol industry does in response to this and whether they decide to get actively involved in marijuana, whether they decide to play around with their products, drop their prices. We will have to wait and see.
But I view this as a very, very positive development and a very significant and positive report because in a head -to -head comparison, we should all prefer marijuana over alcohol in terms of a subject that we can come and get intoxicated on. This isn't to say that alcohol has no place in our society. It clearly does. People like to drink beer at baseball games. People like to go to a bar and have a drink with their friends.
It comes up obviously in all sorts of circumstances because the alcohol industry has done a great job of normalizing their product into American society. But overall, I think that society is much better off with people consuming marijuana than consuming alcohol. So we will sit back and see where that goes over the next few years and what happens. Here's another great story from marijuana moment and another one that really
I think supports the whole idea of marijuana being good for us. A new scientific review of research on the impacts of marijuana on inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, finds that cannabinoid therapy helped reduce disease activity and improve quality of life in patients with the chronic diseases. This meta -analysis of clinical trials suggests that cannabinoids are associated with improved quality of life
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in both Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, wrote the four -doctor University of Pennsylvania team behind the new research. Notably, however, no reduction in inflammation was observed in patients who took cannabinoids, nor were any differences observed when analyzing patients' endoscopies. The research published by the journal, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, evaluated eight total studies, including four into Crohn's, three into ulcerative colitis, and one study of both diseases. Among five studies of Crohn's disease, a statistically significant
decrease in clinical disease activity following intervention was observed. An abstract of the new review says, clinical disease activity in UC was not significantly lower in the pooled analysis. Improvement in quality of life was observed in both Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis combined as well as individually. So this is a very, important study. In March of this year, a separate study in the Journal of Health Research and Medical Science found
that cannabinoids show potential in improving disease activity and quality of life in patients with ulcerative colitis. Meanwhile, a study out of Australia last year found that patients with chronic health conditions saw significant improvements in overall quality of life and reduction in fatigue during the first three months of medical marijuana use. Now, I could speak from personal experience on this, because as somebody with various
gastric illnesses, including
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I can speak about this because as a person who has gastric diseases, including diverticulitis and inflammatory bowel disease, cannabis has long been my go -to for relief from the symptoms that come from those conditions. I was self -medicating years ago before I probably even knew I was able to understand it exactly, other than smoking marijuana made my stomach feel better.
And so I can see how this study works. I can understand the results that they're getting. And I think that it's important for people with Crohn's or ulcerative colitis or any other bowel diseases to be able to have access to cannabis to treat themselves to whatever extent they find that it works best in their particular circumstances. And so more of these studies as they come out only further strengthen the connection between medical marijuana
and actual patient relief. And therefore, once again, leading us to scoff and turn up our nose at the whole idea of marijuana being a schedule one controlled substance because it has no known recognized medical value. And we just went through two instances here of medical value, even though we're, then there's so many more. And we've talked about so many of them.
So it's just wrong all of the opposition we get to that. We need to be looking at these situations, looking at these results, fully embracing it and making it available for those who want it. However, we have a little bit of a problem here because our good friend, former Attorney General Bill Barr, says that the Biden administration is ignoring legal standards and scientific evidence to justify its proposal to federally reschedule marijuana. Even his former president, Donald Trump, who appointed him, has recently embraced state -level legalization.
In an op -ed for Fox News that was published last week, took aim at the Biden -Harris administration for pushing to move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act. He said the modest reform is an attempt to score political points ahead of the November election. Pandering to progressive voters, the administration is pushing hard to reschedule marijuana by bypassing the DEA. Barr, whose current law firm represents the prohibitionist group's smart approach to marijuana in submitting a public comment opposing the rescheduling move, said.
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He accused the US Department of Health and Human Services of sidestepping the established standards for scheduling drugs and conjuring up a new set of criteria designed to deliver the administration's desired results to reschedule marijuana. Politics, not science, is driving the Biden -Harris administration's push to reschedule marijuana. Barr, who opposed Trump during the most recent primary election but is now backing the Republican ticket heading to November, wrote, had it not jettisoned established standards and lessened the rigor of scientific process, the administration could not validate
rescheduling bars out that does not make mention of trucks recent comments supporting cannabis legalization initiative for florida's november ballot which we talked about last week the top former law enforcement officials in marijuana does meet the criteria for schedule one classification in part because he feels the increased t h c levels in commercially available products in state markets demonstrates its high abuse potential he also said cannabis carries wide -ranging negative effects on mental and public that mental and physical health
He added, in order to circumvent the inconvenient reality that marijuana has no approved medical use, the Biden -Harris administration argued that the fact has, that the fact, some states have passed laws allowing medical use of marijuana is sufficient to establish that it has a legitimate use. And this story just goes on and on. And this guy just needs to jump in a lake. He's just a bad guy, Bill Barr. was a bad guy as the attorney general. He was a bad guy.
on all the investigations into what Trump did and tried to reverse the findings by downplaying them. He's a guy who says that what Trump did on January 6 was a horrible, terrible thing, but then immediately turns around and says, but I'm going to support Trump anyway. So it's kind of hard to take this guy at his word. And when he says that this is just for political points,
that there is still no marijuana there is no proof medical use i guess bill doesn't have a computer and i guess he doesn't have the ability to google these things and i guess he's probably never read marijuana moment or mj biz or any of the other marijuana content providers out there and instead he's gonna sit on his little throne he's gonna tell us what he thinks about marijuana which is based on absolutely nothing other than the fact that he probably never used it didn't like people who did
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and wants to be a spoil sports for everybody else for god's sake he's going against trump on this when even trump supports state bar state -level legal marijuana so this isn't pandering to progressive voters is this is not progressive voters were talking about state after state after state red states blue states california kansas all of these states when they go and they take a a poll of the public overwhelmingly in every state they've taken these polls in legalization of marijuana
comes out on top and people are tired of people being arrested and their lives being upended simply because they choose to use a substance that's safer than alcohol, that's safer than cigarettes, that's safer than coffee, but for reasons that we have to go way, back in time, and we've gone through those reasons and maybe we will again sometime, leads people like Bill Barr to just sit there with his head in the sand and say, this is no good, they're trying to score political points.
other dirt site stepping the established standards for schedule drugs and country got the new set of criteria it's all bullshit he's just talking bullshit isn't a what he's saying he doesn't know why he's saying it he's saying it because that fits in with his frame of reference and with the way he views the world and what should be going on he's a stodgy old guy nobody asked for his opinion on this and the opinion that he gives is dead wrong on so many issues that it's laughable
and things it's things like this that should disqualify this man from ever having to do anything with public office or anything to do with being a public official again in this country because he just does not have what it takes he's a liar he's a propagandist he's a prohibitionist and he has no compunction whatsoever with coming up and talking shit about something and making up statements as he moved along as he goes along in an effort to try and tell us
Why rescheduling is bad forget that this isn't rescheduling this is rescheduling this should be rescheduled This should be taken off all of them all the schedules and the studies behind marijuana definitely support that Absolutely support that he talks about how it's a gateway drug at a time when a hundred thousand Americans are dying of drug overdose each year There's no evidence that it's a gateway drug bill if you're play that game then your mother's breast milk or the formula whichever you got
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That's a gateway drug, that's the first thing you ever put in your mouth and swallowed.
And now everything after that, by definition, that must make it a gateway. That's what you're saying when you're saying marijuana is a gateway drug and leads to use of harder drugs. It didn't lead to my use of harder drugs. It didn't lead to most people I know use of harder drugs. I know people who used harder drugs, and they smoked marijuana too. But I don't think that has anything to do with marijuana taking them there. I think that has to do with people and their own decisions and their own interests and experimentation levels. And people will try all sorts of things if they go in that direction.
marijuana is the easiest to obtain it's there's more of it than anything else the penalties for it are very very low so it's not surprising that when people first dabble in the drug marketer first want to try and see what's going on behind that lifestyle that marijuana is the first thing that falls in their lap you know you don't have a lot of junior high school students getting their hands on cocaine or heroin or anything else like that but they can easily find marijuana usually
it's it's something that people experiment there's no evidence to support it is a gateway drug there's no evidence to support that the hundred thousand americans dying of drug overdoses each year is a result of them starting out smoking marijuana and working themselves into that position it's just wrong he says would be subsidizing the marijuana industry
because states license companies would finally be able to avoid the impact of two eighty well of course they would that's not subsidizing the marijuana industry that's letting the marijuana industry play in the same level ground as every other business out there the same as alcohol is the same as coffee it's the same as tobacco it's the same as everything are we not subsidizing those industries because they don't have to
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because they can take full tax deductions and aren't covered by 280e? In other words, when this statement is taken and applied to society as a whole, it's mind -numbingly stupid. It just disqualifies this man from having any credibility, certainly on this issue, and really on just about any other issue, because after any other issue, if he's going to be this willfully blind and just dishonest about this, how can he be believed
really on anything else that he says. This is just spinning in the face of all of these studies. Listeners to this show know that week after week after week after week we have stories about all of the medical benefits of cannabis that all of the new studies are uncovering and reaffirming and validating what people had long known, just like myself, that I get a benefit, a physical benefit, from smoking marijuana. I don't need Bill Barr telling me that I don't know what I'm talking about.
when clearly he's the one who has no clue whatsoever. And just to demonstrate one last time, we're going to have one final story here from Marijuana Moment. And this is a story that certainly many of our listeners will be interested in hearing about. And once again, shows another medical health benefit for cannabinoids, whether it's CBD or marijuana. A newly published study of the use of cannabis to treat uncomfortable menstrual symptoms
finds that administration of a broad spectrum, high CBD vaginal suppository was associated with significantly reduced frequency and severity of menstrual -related symptoms, as well as their negative impacts on daily life. Participants who use the CBD suppository generally reported less period pain, better mood, and lower use of pain medications compared to subjects who underwent conventional treatment. This is the first study to assess the impact of a real -world, commercially available, high CBD suppository
on menstrual -related pain and discomfort, says the report published in the journal NPJ Women's Health. The research extends prior work suggesting medical cannabis has promising potential for alleviating menstrual -related symptoms. Researchers at McLean Hospital Imaging Center and Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts recruited 307 people assigned female at birth, 77 of whom were given the vaginal suppository, foria, which contains 100 milligrams
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of cannabidiol. Participants were asked about various symptoms at baseline and also completed follow -up after one month and two months. Notably, it was up to the participants in the quasi -experimental study whether to request the CBD suppositories or continue treatment as usual. Most CBD participants reported at least moderate improvement of symptoms, the authors wrote, with 72 .9 % reporting at least moderate improvements after one month and 81 .1 % reporting at least moderate improvements after two months.
Participants also reported more relief when using the suppositories more often. Increased suppository use was significantly associated with great reduction of symptoms, the report says, suggesting a potential dose -dependent response. This finding comes on the heels of separate research published in March that concluded that CBD taken orally helped alleviate menstrual -related symptoms, such as irritability, anxiety, stress, and other measures, when compared to participants' baseline measures.
I don't know how to respond to Bill Barr when we see something like this. We just had three stories that all talk about medical benefits of cannabis, whether it be marijuana or CBD, three positive medical studies that are out there in addition to all the others we've talked about. And this man puts out public statements saying,
that there is no evidence of medical health, there is no evidence that it's good. They're doing this merely to support the industry. We're fooling people, we're this, we're that. It's a gateway drug, it leads to harder drugs, it's a terrible thing, we should get rid of it. When you hear that, turn him off. Just turn it off and tune it out. Or listen to him and laugh sarcastically at all of the stupid stuff that comes out of this gentleman's mouth. He was our Justice Department leader under the Trump administration for the second half of that Trump's term.
and now he's just embarrassing himself it was bad enough the the steps he took to try to cover -up donald trump's wrong doings and you know tried to try to whitewash everything is this doesn't prove anything that doesn't prove anything nothing proves anything and all of that and then immediately turned around and said well january six was a terrible thing but i'm gonna vote for the guy so that's bill bar he needs to go jump in a lake as we said
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there's just so many stories out there so many experiences so many studies so many everything which conclusively establishes the medical value of marijuana and in and of itself should be enough to take it off schedule one and this bullshit about doing it only to avoid 280e is bullshit because again every other industry out there doesn't have to comply with 280e and nobody says it as result the government is is supporting them so it's it's a mindset that we need to get rid of here and i hope that
As we go along that bill Barr will just slink back into whatever hole he came out of and we won't have to listen to his nonsense anymore so Moving from marijuana back into our Grateful Dead show from 37 years ago September 9th 1987 at the Providence Civic Center and now the next one we're gonna play for you here Is an interesting one because it's a song that's well known to everybody but it kind of pops up in a in an interesting place here, so hit it Dan
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Now, Fade Away is a song credited to Buddy Holly, originally under his first and middle names, Charles Harden and Norman Petty, although Petty's co -writing credit is likely to have been a formality, and first recorded by Holly and his band, The Crickets. Holly and The Crickets recorded the song in Clovis, New Mexico on May 27, 1957, the same day the song Every Day was recorded. The rhythmic pattern of Not Fade Away is a variant of the Bo Diddley beat. Not Fade Away was originally released as a B -side on the hit single, Boy,
October 27th 1957 and was included on the album the chirping crickets released in 1957 the crickets recording never charted as a single in 2004 the song was ranked number 107 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time The song is closely associated with the Grateful Dead is one of their signature tunes one which the bands transformed from Halle's 1950s boy -girl romanticism into one reflect reflecting the 1960s more spiritual universal love
Their 1971 recording of the song is included on their second live album, Skull and Roses, paired with Going Down the Road Feeling Bad, which was a regular match -up for them in the early 1970s. Primarily a second set tune that used to show up in the second half of the second set after Drums in Space. Beginning in 1983, The Dead began playing it as the second set closer, trailing off with Love is Real Will Not Fade Away as they exited the stage.
They would go from throwing stones into not fade away and we knew that this was this was going to wrap it up and as they had left the stage the love is love will not fade away beat kept going over and over. Within a few years the deadhead started chanting the line as the dead left the stage and in some cases kept it up until the band reappeared for their encore. Sometimes then the band would pick up on the beat and play it for another minute or two before heading into their encore tune such as we saw with this show.
It's a great example of the head deadheads making their mark on the show and the band being tuned in enough to play along with it Although sometimes if the dead took too long to come out for the encore the chanting would start to fade off and Sometimes even when the chant made it all the way to the band's return to stage The band would ignore and just dive straight into their encore But when it all came together like in this show it could really be a lot of fun not fade away was played 561 times was first played February 19th 1969 at the Fillmore West in San Francisco
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It was last played on July 5th, 1995 at the Riverport Amphitheater in Maryland Heights, Missouri. So a fun opportunity to catch a little bit of Not Fade Away and see the Deadheads doing their thing or hear the Deadheads doing their thing. And so that was a lot of fun too. Now we're getting to the end of our show here today. I wanna thank everybody for listening and tuning in. We got one more song to go here for our outro. Just a couple of quick shout outs for me. The first one is to our good buddy, One Arm Larry.
out in california who celebrate his birthday one armed larry was the biggest deadhead i knew back when i was first going to see the dead and felt like i'd really made it into the whole dead circle when i could sit down in a group including him and speak on the subject and people would actually listen to me and not dismiss me as you know some new guy who didn't know what they were talking about one arm larry is a good friend he still loves the music and whenever we get on the phone we talk about old shows and
and great stuff like that and his birthday today so give him a shout out and coming up this saturday my daughter -in -law lana it's her birthday so lana my daughter -in -law is also known as my son matthew's wife but much much more importantly than any of that she is my beautiful granddaughter rubies mother and so lana gets all the joy and happiness in the world and all the shout outs for producing such an absolutely marvelous wonderful little child
They're coming to visit us here in Chicago next week. We are all very excited. We can't wait. Ruby likes some fish. She likes a little bit of Grateful Dead. She bops her head to it. And her parents are doing an excellent job in ingraining that whole musical style into her at a very, very early age. So happy birthday to Elena as well. As we leave you here, we're going to leave you with The Mighty Quinn, which was the encore.
for this show and after this little not fade away continuation, stopped for a minute and then went into the Mighty Quinn. Bob Dylan wrote and first recorded the song in 67 during the basement tape sessions but did not release a version for another three years. The song's first release was in January 1968 as Mighty Quinn in a version by the British band Manford Man from their album Mighty Garvey and became a great success. A demo of 14 of the 1967 basement tapes recordings includes the first
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of two takes of Quinn the Eskimo and was produced in 1968 but was not intended for release. Recordings taken from the demos began appearing on bootlegs with Great White Wonder, a double album bootleg that came out in July 1969. The first official release of the song was in 1970 on Dylan's self -portrait album, a live recording from 1969's Isle of Wight Festival. The live version, titled The Mighty Quinn, or Quinn the Eskimo, was also selected in 1971 for the second compilation
of Dylan's career, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, volume 2 has been covered by the likes of the Hollies, Leon Russell and Fish, among others. Although they never played the song with Dylan, the Grateful Dead started playing The Mighty Quinn in concert in 1985. It became a favorite encore among the Grateful Dead fans and remained so to the end of their career. Of note, that always used to crack me up in the last verse of the song, it ends with, when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's going to want to doze, D -O -Z -E. But the deadheads always heard it as,
Dose g o se and always gave it a big cheer and sometimes you'd even get a little smile from Jerry As he as he played through it. It was played 59 times in concert by the dead first was on December 30th 1985 at Oakland Alameda County Coliseum and the last was on July 2nd 1995 at Deer Creek Music Center, but on this night September 9th 1987 they played it and so we're gonna leave you with that Thank you very much for listening today
Please join us again next week when we will have another great Dead Show to feature, more wonderful music and marijuana news, and all sorts of great stuff. We appreciate all of our listeners. Have a great week. And as always, enjoy your cannabis responsibly. Thank you, everyone.