"Reflecting on the Grateful Dead's Capitol Theatre Shows and Toby Keith smoking with Willie Nelson" Larry Michigan discusses the Grateful Dead's historic show at the Capitol Theatre on February 19, 1971. Larry reminisces about the atmosphere of the venue and the significance of the performance, highlighting the debut of several iconic Dead songs. The discussion delves into the band's evolving musical style, particularly the transition from psychedelic blues to Americana influences. He explores the historical context surrounding the show, including Mickey Hart's departure from the band and the impact of manager Lenny Hart's embezzlement. He also touches upon the significance of the show's release in the "From the Vault" series and discuss other notable releases in the Dead's catalog. Additionally, Larry provides updates on Bob Weir and Wolf Brothers' postponed performances with the National Symphony Orchestra and share news about upcoming music releases.
"Reflecting on the Grateful Dead's Capitol Theatre Shows and Toby Keith smoking with Willie Nelson"
Larry Michigan discusses the Grateful Dead's historic show at the Capitol Theatre on February 19, 1971. Larry reminisces about the atmosphere of the venue and the significance of the performance, highlighting the debut of several iconic Dead songs. The discussion delves into the band's evolving musical style, particularly the transition from psychedelic blues to Americana influences. He explores the historical context surrounding the show, including Mickey Hart's departure from the band and the impact of manager Lenny Hart's embezzlement. He also touches upon the significance of the show's release in the "From the Vault" series and discuss other notable releases in the Dead's catalog. Additionally, Larry provides updates on Bob Weir and Wolf Brothers' postponed performances with the National Symphony Orchestra and share news about upcoming music releases.
Grateful Dead
February 19, 1971 (53 years ago)
Capitol Theatre
Port Chester, NY
Grateful Dead Live at Capitol Theatre on 1971-02-19 : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive
The second of the legendary six night run at the Capitol Theatre in late February, 1971:
Feb. 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, and 24
INTRO: Loser
Track #3
2:55 – 4:24
Hunter/Garcia tune that was released on “Garcia”, Jerry’s first solo album, in January, 1972, the last song on side one of the album. It was a standard first set tune, part of a rotating number of Jerry first set ballads including Candyman, It Must Have Been The Roses, High Time, Row Jimmy, To Lay Me Down and others. A very sweet melodic tune that tells a great story by way of a beautiful piece of music.
SECOND time played
Played a total of 353 times
First time: “Last”night 2.18.71
Last: June 28, 1995, The Palace of Auburn Hills, outside Detroit
THIS SHOW:
Last year we covered the Feb. 18th show famous as the debut for Bertha, Greatest Story, Loser, Wharf Rat and Playin In The Band and the Beautiful Jam out of Wharf Rat and back into Dark Star. It was also Mickey’s last show before his almost three year hiatus before he returned for the final 1974 show before the band’s 1975 year off
February 19th show is just as historical: The band’s first show without Mickey since he joined the band in 1967. Many people theorize that this was Mickey’s response to his father, Lenny Hart who was the band’s manager stealing almost $155,000 of the band’s assets before disappearing. Although he was eventually located by a private detective hired by the band and arrested in San Diego on July 26, 1971, convicted and spent six months in jail, the money was never returned. The song, “He’s Gone” is based on Lenny Hart’s embezzlement and disappearance. Ashamed by his father’s actions, Mickey left the band after the 2.18.71 Capitol Theater show returning full time in 1975. Lenny died of natural causes on Feb. 2, 1975. According to Dennis McNally, "Mickey went to the funeral home, cleared the room, took out the snakewood sticks that had been his inheritance, played a traditional rudimental drum piece, "The Downfall of Paris" on Lenny's coffin, and split."
Starting with this show, the band became a very lean mean fighting machine with just five members (Jerry, Bobby, Phil, Bill and Pig) until Keith jointed the band seven months later in September. On this night, the band played the five songs debuted the night before and debuted Deal and Birdsong.
Pig also has a strong showing this night leading the band through four standouts:
Hurts Me Too
Smokestack Lightning: the third to last time it would be played with Pig in the band
Easy Wind: the second to last time it would be played without Pig in the band
Good Lovin
This really marked the beginning of the band’s hard shift away from psychedelic blues (Primal Dead) to the more Americana style music that began with Workingman’s and American Beauty. Within a year, Pig would be very ill with just enough energy left for the Europe ’72 tour. But this night, he was rocking the house like only he could do. Here is the first of his four featured songs:
SHOW No. 1: Hurts Me Too
Track # 5
2:08 – 3:42
Great showcase number for Pig featuring his singing and harp playing. We got just a bit of Jerry’s lead but all this great music is too long to fit into one clip – don’t want Dan getting mad at me!
"It Hurts Me Too" is a blues standard that is "one of the most interpreted blues [songs]".[1] First recorded in 1940 by Tampa Red in Chicago, the song is a mid-tempo eight-bar blues that features slide guitar. It borrows from earlier blues songs and has been recorded by many artists. Release on May 10th with Tired of Your Reckless Ways on the B-side.
In 1949, Tampa Red recorded a variation of "It Hurts Me Too", titled "When Things Go Wrong with You".[9] It was recast in the style of a Chicago blues, with electric guitar and a more up to date backing arrangement. The song was a hit and reached number nine on Billboard'sRhythm & Blues Records chart in 1949.[10] (The original "It Hurts Me Too" was released before Billboard or a similar reliable service began tracking such releases, so it is difficult to gauge which version was more popular, although the former's title won out over the latter's.) Although the song retained the refrain "When things go wrong, so wrong with you, it hurts me too", Tampa Red varied the rest of the lyrics somewhat. This would become the pattern for future versions, in which succeeding artists would interpret the song with some of their own lyrics.
Noted covers:
Elmore James
Junior Wells
Grateful Dead – with Pig singing the vocals. Was first released by the Dead on Europe ’72 album. After Pig left the band, the song was retired.
The Dead played the song a total of 59 times
First: May 19, 1966 at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco
Last: May 24, 1972 at the Lyceum Ballroom in London (last show of Europe ’72 tour
“FROM THE VAULT”:
This entire show was released by the Dead as “Three From The Vault” in 2007. The “From The Vault” series, launched by the Band in 1991 with One From The Vault – August 13, 1975 at The Great American Music Hall, with first live performance of the songs from Blues For Allah. In 1992 the Dead released “Two From The Vault” – August 23 and 24, 1968 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Then, along came Dick Latvala and his Dead scene changing Dick’s Picks series which was wildly popular, so much so that the In The Vault Series was put on hold. For 15 years. Until 2007 when they circled back to the original series of live releasees with Three From The Vault which features the same show we are talking about today from the Capitol Theatre. That was it for In The Vault releases. The Dead did have several other “Vault” like releases – multi-track recordings including Hundred Year Haul, Dozin’ At The Knick, Fallout From the Phil Zone, Terrapin Station, Live At the Fillmore East 2.11.69, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Grateful Dead, Nightfall of Diamonds, Trucking Up To Buffalo and so many more. They just stopped calling them “From The Vault”. Dick’s Picks, of course would go on to have a total of 36 releases, the last few releases coming after Dick’s death in 1999. Which led into the still wildly popular Dave’s Picks from David Lemieux who took over for Dick and now has 49 releases and still going strong. And “short” lived, but generally popular “Roadtrips” series. And all of the box sets that are all amazing but too numerous to name except for the Complete Recordings, the four-night run at the Fillmore West from Feb. 27 to March 2, 1969 – four shows with the band at the peak of Primal Dead, and Europe ’72 which consists of the live recordings for all of the shows on that tour. Another milestone for the Dead in terms of their ever expanding reputation for Jam Band, psychedelic, and amazing song catalogue, even at that “early” stage of the band’s existence.
SHOW No. 2: Playin In The Band
Track # 7
2:23 – 4:05
By: Weir and Hunter
"Playing in the Band" is a song by the Grateful Dead. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and rhythm guitaristBob Weir composed the music, with some assistance from percussionist Mickey Hart.[1] The song first emerged in embryonic form on the self-titled 1971 live albumGrateful Dead. It then appeared in a more polished form on Ace, Bob Weir's first solo album (which included every Grateful Dead member except Ron "Pigpen" McKernan).
The instrumental break of "Playing in the Band" was introduced as early as the February 19, 1969 "Celestial Synapse" show at the Fillmore West, in which it appears somewhat indistinct from the preceding and following jams.[5] The completed song was also included on Mickey Hart's 1972 solo album Rolling Thunder within "The Main Ten", making reference to the song's time signature of 10/4. "The Main Ten" appears on Dick's Picks Volume 16, from their performance at the Fillmore West on November 8, 1969. On that set, it appears in the middle of "Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)".
During a Bob Weir and Wolf Bros concert livestream on February 12, 2021, Weir credited David Crosby with the composition of the main riff. Weir stated, "David Crosby came up with the seminal lick... and then he left. We were out at Mickey's barn. So Mickey said, 'Make a song out of that'. Next day, I had it"
It has since become one of the best-known Grateful Dead numbers and a standard part of their repertoire, usually as a second set pre-drums jumping off point for jams to who knows where. According to Deadbase X, it ranks fourth on the list of songs played most often in concert by the band with over 600 performances.
If you download this show from Archive.org, and play this track, at the 3:20 mark during the mid-song jam, they get to the point where they would normally dive back in but instead, Bobby plays on for an almost additional 30 seconds and then just dives back in to the song. He is clearly still working it out. Over the course of the Europe ’72 tour, it was played almost every night as Bobby finally worked it out
This is all really good stuff.
SECOND time ever played
661 times (No. 1)
First – “last: night’s show, Feb. 18, 1971 Capitol Theatre
Last: July 5, 1995 at Riverport Amphitheater, Maryland Heights, MO outside of St. Louis.
SHOW No. 3: Greatest Story Ever Told (The Pump Song)
Track #13
Start – 1:41
By Weir, Hart and Robert Hunter (some give credit to Rev. Gary Davis)
Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis (born Gary D. Davis, April 30, 1896 – May 5, 1972),[1] was a blues and gospel singer who was also proficient on the banjo, guitar and harmonica. Born in Laurens, South Carolina and blind since infancy, Davis first performed professionally in the Piedmont blues scene of Durham, North Carolina in the 1930s, then converted to Christianity and became a minister. After moving to New York in the 1940s, Davis experienced a career rebirth as part of the American folk music revival that peaked during the 1960s. Davis' most notable recordings include "Samson and Delilah"[2] and "Death Don't Have No Mercy"
Per Hunter: "Also known as "Pumpman" and "Moses"--I wrote this to the rhythm of the pump in Mickey Hart's well."
Released on Ace on May 1, 1972
First song on the album with Bobby setting a rocking tone
Another tune that was played almost every night of and refined during the Europe ’72 tour
283 times
First: “last night” 2.18.71
Last: June 27, 1995 at the Palace at Auburn Hills outside Detroit
SHOW No. 4: Bird Song
Track #15
:42 – 2:15
By Garcia and Hunter
Second song on Garcia
Robert Hunter originally wrote the song as a tribute for Janis Joplin. Phil Lesh now sings "All I know is something like a bird within him sang", transfering it Jerry Garcia instead A regular for the Dead, and still played by Dead and Co., Bobby and Phil and Friends.
Beautiful song, even for the fist time you know it’s going to be special.
Played 301 tines
First: This is it!
Last: June 30, 1995 at Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, PA
OUTRO: Deal
Track #17
Start – 1:33
May 16, 2023 by Chris Huber of Chill
One of the Grateful Dead’s live staples, and many gambling songs is the Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia collaboration, “Deal”. First performed on February 19th, 1971, the song was in regular rotation until the end, both for the Dead and the Jerry Garcia Band.
“Deal” saw studio release as the opening track to Jerry Garcia’s 1972 debut solo album, Garcia, which also contained several other classic Grateful Dead live songs including “Sugaree”, “Bird Song”, “Loser”, and “The Wheel.
Although it would move around a bit in the set list early on, this debut version is consistent with the ultimate tradition of the song closing out the first set. Even in JGB sets it was a first set closer. And would always leave you waiting through the break to see how they were going to kick off the second set and keep the show moving along. For a first time played, this version stays true to the version we all know and love from a few years later.
Played 428 times
First: This is IT
Last: June 18, 1995, Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ
Thank you.
Larry (00:38.757)
hey everybody larry michigan back for another episode of the deadhead cannabis show hello to all you deadheads and marijuana aficionados always nice to have you along for the ride uh... another week more good stuff to talk about and uh... this is a good week to check in this is good week to be listening to the show you know it's just like if you go to a dead show some nights you get there you know this is ok show but other night she get there in like two minutes into the first time you realize you've got yourself into a good show that's tonight show because we have got
uh... just an absolutely fantastic show from them that were featuring uh... we've got some great news in the world of marijuana uh... we have some great marijuana intro music thanks once again to dan uh... my advice is sit back for an hour uh... find your favorite smoke uh... give it a toker too and listen to what we have to say because this is going to be a good one uh... today we are talking about the Grateful Dead uh... we're going back to the Capitol Theatre February 19th nineteen
today up in Port Chester, New York, which I now had a chance to see a few years ago with good buddy Mikey. It's always better once you've seen the place and actually seen a show there. You know, Rob Hunt, of course, our fearless and sometimes co-host grew up in that area. So for him, it was just like going to the arcade. But you know, for those of us who view it as some sort of a sacred site because of the dead playing shows like these, right? So in the past, we've talked about this. They had a six night run in February.
of 1971 the 18th 19th 20th 21st 23rd and 24th tonight we're featuring the 19th last year we feel I believe we featured February 18th and we'll be talking about that one in a few minutes because what they did
last night as i'll be saying the night before factors heavily into what they did tonight on the nineteenth uh... you know but this was just great for them if you were there to see the shows how lucky were you uh... it's a beautiful place is not very large
Larry (02:39.441)
It would be just absolutely ideal, I think, for any dad had to be able to get into a place like that to see the Grateful Dead for a night or two. And if you were lucky enough to have seen more than two or three of these shows, then you ought to be calling in so you can be a guest on the show because that just would be great stuff and we'd love to hear what you have to say. In fact, if you've been to any of those shows, just call in and we'd be happy to have you on a guest on the show and talk you all up to all your buddies so you can play it for them and do what I do, make everybody think you're important because you're on a podcast and isn't that fucking awesome?
But what kind of night was this? Well, the talk on the message boards for this show have the deadheads describing how one could hear the LSD dripping off of Bill Kreutzman's snare drum, which, of course, prompts this question. What kind was it? And the justice prompt response from the masses, the one and only brotherhood of external love, Orange Sunshine, or the more humorous response, when is it not dripping with Billy? Well, let's dive right into the second song of the first set,
ones.
Mediaboard_sounds (03:45.723)
Everybody's laughing and drinking that wine I can tell the queen of diamonds by the way she shouts
Mediaboard_sounds (04:02.966)
To dead in all of pure satin strain Well I got no chance of losing this time
Larry (05:16.785)
So of course, that's Loser. All the deadheads out there know that. It's a beautiful tune. And as we listen to that, not only is Jerry singing it good and strong, but he's playing it like he's played it 1,000 times, which is cool, because this is only the second time they've ever played it on stage. The night before, February 18, they broke it out. It debuted with a number of other songs, which we'll get to in a minute.
And so they were feeling it they brought it right back out again the second song on night two and said this is what we're Going with and as far as I'm concerned Jerry nails it and just you know really
really gets it they had opened with trucking which is fun i never saw them open a show with trucking but they were known to do it from time to time especially back in the early days and seventy one trucking was new because it was just coming out uh... american beauty so you know all of the stuff that they're playing at that time uh... is just uh...
knew. Loser was released on Jerry's first solo album Garcia in January 1972. It's the last song on side one of the album. A very standard first set tune. Part of a rotating number of Jerry first set ballads, the biggest of the others, which is Candyman. They're both very similar kind of telling the story about a guy washed up on his luck and trying to find a way back and reaching out to the people who...
Always supported him in the past to see if they can support him one more round.
Larry (06:43.305)
uh... but you know there was lots of other jerry ballots that would wind up in the first set typically it must have been the roses high time ro jimmy to lay me down so many more this is just a really sweet melodic tune that tells a great story by way of a really beautiful piece of music and one of the reasons why hunter and carsey are so well-matched because uh... the lyrics are great jerry uh... just i've tried it with it knows what to do uh...
The Grateful Dead played this song a total of 353 times. As I said, this is the second time I've ever performed. The first one was the night before, so February 18th, 1971 at the Capitol Theater. And the last one was on June 28th, 1995 at the Palace of Auburn Hills, just outside of Detroit. So just fell out right outside of when I joined that tour for the last four shows. And unfortunately, didn't get to hear it played for the last time.
or any on that last tour and then that was it. But it's a beautiful song and just so nice all the way around. Always a welcomed addition to the first set once Jerry would get going. And as you could hear in this clip that we played, Jerry is going really well. And like I always do, I can't recommend enough that you download the entire show. So you can listen to all of these clips that we feature from start to finish and then you'll understand just how difficult it is
between 60 and 90 seconds of, well, this is the best representative part of the song because it's also great. Now, I'll sit there and I'll be listening and I'll mark down a start point and an end point and then just keep listening and all of a sudden I'm like, no, wait, this is gonna be the point I wanna play and I'll start there and then take, no, wait, and I have to go all the way through and, you know, sometimes it could take a while. I'm not complaining, I love doing it.
But it's just not easy. That's all I'm saying. If you're a deadhead and you value it all, there's just too much to hear and too much to play. But that's great stuff. So let's talk about this show a little bit. February 19, 1971 at the Capitol Theater. As I said, last year we covered the February 18 show, which was famous for the debut of one night. One night with the Grateful Dead, and they debut Bertha.
Larry (09:01.149)
greatest story ever told, also known as the Pump Song, which we'll get to in a little while, Loser, which we just heard, Warfret, and playing in the band. It was also the night that The Grateful Dead gave us the beautiful jam towards the end of the first set out of a monster dark star into a beautiful Warfret that was the debut for that tune. And as they meandered out of Warfret and got ready to go back into dark star for the reprise and to kind of wrap it all up, they launched into one of these musical jams that was so wonderful
so moving that it became famous in its own right. It's just known as the Beautiful Jam. It was released on the So Many Roads box set, the five CD box set that came out right after Jerry died. Really probably one of the first box sets with Grateful Dead material on there. And I always remember how it would say on there, the Beautiful Jam from Port Chester, New York. And I was like.
I mean, these jams are all great, but I thought could a jam be that great? And I listened to it and it was, it's beautiful, but when you listen to it in context, when you pull down these shows, and the February 18th show was released either, I should know this and I don't, it was released with the 50th anniversary edition of either Working Man's or American Beauty.
I could run down to my living room and find it really fast, but I'm not gonna. Just trust me, it's not one of those. And then the other one is another show from this run, not the 19th, but a couple of nights later. And so that's just a good way to combine a lot of music if you're interested in reaching out. And...
grabbing any of it. So they played the beautiful jam last night on February 18. Everybody comes back the next night just absolutely amazed. Well, the night before, February 18, also just happened to be Mickey Hart's last show before his almost three-year hiatus before he returned for the final 1974 show, right before.
Larry (11:00.953)
the band's 1975 year off. He did play with them, I believe, during the few concerts. They played in 1975. And then going forward from there, right up through the end, through Ded and Co. and all, there's Mickey Hart providing the percussion sound that we all know and love. Now,
This night, I think February 19th, is just as historical as February 18th. Right, first of all, it's the first show without Mickey since he joined the band in 1967. Many people theorize that this was Mickey's response to his father, Lenny Hart, who was the band's manager at the time, stealing almost 155,000 of the band's assets and then disappearing into the night. Although he was eventually located by a private detective hired by the band, and he was arrested in San Diego not that long later, July 26th, 1970.
He was convicted and spent six months in jail. The money was never returned. The song, He's Gone, is actually based on Lenny Hart's embezzlement and disappearance. Many people have thought that perhaps it relates to Pig Pen, except that it was written before Pig Pen died. So it can't really be about Pig Pen. It would be kind of.
weird to write a song about Pigpen being gone when he's not yet gone. But it is about Lenny Hart taking off and being gone with all of their money. Lenny did eventually die of natural causes on February 2, 1975, according to Dennis McNally, one of the band's big biographers. Mickey went to the funeral home, cleared the room out, took out the snakewood drumsticks that had been his inheritance, played a traditional rudimental drum piece,
and split. Well there you go Mickey was never man for a lot of words he talked with his drumsticks and he did there again so starting with this show the February 19th we're looking at kind of a different Grateful Dead right this is a band that's becoming lean and mean a real fighting machine just five members Jerry Bobby Phil Bill and Pig eventually Keith would join the band
Larry (13:04.773)
later on during the year, in September. But on this night, the band played the five songs, debuted the night before, and they debuted Deal and Birdsong, both of which we'll get to in a few. Pig also has a strong showing this night, leading the band through four standouts, Hurts Me Too, Smoke Stack Lightning, which this would be the third to last time it would be played with Pig in the band, Easy Wind. The second to last time it would be played.
without picking the band and I say that because they did come back and bring easy win back a little bit later on and Then good loving which they also did Bring back so You know
Big night, and of course nobody knew that soon hereafter as the year progressed and moved worlds into 1972, that Pig was gonna get sick and all the things that were gonna happen to him. But on this night, certainly, he's out there doing his thing. The band's debuting these new songs, marking the end of the band's shift away, really from the psychedelic blues, primal dead, to the more Americana style that began with Working Man's American Beauty. Within a year, Pig would be ill,
enough energy left to do Europe 72, but this night he was rocking the house like only he could do, and here's the first of his four featured songs.
Mediaboard_sounds (14:35.118)
She love him darling And you stick to him just about like glue
Mediaboard_sounds (14:56.215)
It hurts me too
Larry (15:58.705)
So this is, hurts me too, it's just a great showcase number for Pig, featuring his singing and his heart playing. And right at the end, we got just a bit of Jerry's lead. You heard Pig kinda call out to him, okay, you know, you do it, or whatever he said. But otherwise, this clip is just too long to put the whole thing on. I don't want Dan getting mad at me. We've got limits. But again, download this, man, listen to this whole thing, because even at that point right there, Jerry just takes off into this beautiful, beautiful blues jam that's just,
It's great stuff. And I think there were some people who felt like, at this point, when American Beauty and Working Man's were getting ready to come out, that Pig felt like he really needed to find his ways to remain relevant. And it's really interesting to ponder over what direction the band would have ultimately gone had Pig not, unfortunately, drank himself to death.
and you had been able to stick around for a while with the band and would they have reached a point where they might have gone in different directions? Uh, might they have found a way to continue to incorporate his amazing blues skills into the music that they wanted to make?
You know, one of those things we just don't know, but everything happens for a reason, I'm sure, on one level or another. And so we lost Pig, but we wound up with Keith, who was a tremendous, tremendous piano player, who ultimately begat Brent, who was my piano keyboardist of note during the years that I was getting on board the bus and really riding it hard. And then eventually Vince, who I was still there. So got Vince as well and got to experience that. That.
Jim Marty effect of one day going to the show and it's Keith Gaucho and you go a few months later and the next thing you know it's Brent Midland but that's what we deadheads do we just keep showing up and rocking and rolling with them and doing our thing. It Hurts Me Too is a blues standard that is one of the most interpreted blues songs.
Larry (17:59.777)
on record. It was first recorded in 1940 by Tampa Red in Chicago. The song is a mid-tempo eight-bar blues that features slide guitar. It borrows from earlier blues songs and has been recorded by many artists. Released on May 10th with Tired of Your Reckless Ways on the B-side, May 10th, 1940. In 1949, Tampa Red recorded a variation of It Hurts Me Too entitled When Things Go Wrong With You. It was racist in the style of a Chicago blues with electric guitar and a more up-to-date backing arrangement.
song was a hit and reached number one on Billboard's Rhythm and Blues Records charge in 1949. The original It Hurts Me Too was released before Billboard or similar reliable services began tracking such releases so it's difficult to gauge which version was more popular although the former title won out over the latter. Although the song
shared the refrain, when things go wrong, wrong with you, it hurts me too. Tampa Red varied the rest of the lyrics somewhat. This would become the pattern for future versions in which succeeding artists would interpret the song with some of their own lyrics. Noted covers include Elmore James, Junior Wells, and of course, The Grateful Dead, with Pig singing the vocals. The first time The Dead released it at all was on their Europe 72 album, and after Pig left, the band, the song, was retired.
played on Europe 72 a few times. We're getting very close to that time of year. I'm sure we'll feature one or two of those Europe 72 tunes and when we do there's always great pig stuff on them because he was a feature performer every night of that tour coming out and playing songs. He looked like a different man and probably was a different man for those who knew him and loved him. Not necessarily in a bad way or anything like that but you know as you change in that type of a situation, not that I would know of course, but
Larry (19:53.795)
stage and he was belting out the blues, I listen and people I know we listen and it's like that's Pig, he's just sitting there singing and he was belting it out and making it great until he couldn't anymore. And I hope that he got the same satisfaction out of it, even being able to do it like that and remain relevant with the band for so long even as they changed their musical direction and he battled a...
a really difficult illness. It Hurts Me Too was first played by the band on May 16th, 1966 at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. It was played also on May 24th, 1972 at the Lyceum Ballroom in London, one of the final shows of the Europe 72 Tour. Now in addition, this show is so well known in the dead world.
uh... that it was a from the fault release and a lot of you younger deadheads out there uh... by younger i mean anybody who's under the age of thirty unless you have older parents or
parents who were deadheads or older siblings or friends or something, you might not be as familiar with From the Vault. This entire show that we're featuring today, February 19, 1971, from Port Chester, New York, at the Capitol Theater, was released by the dead as three From the Vault in 2007. The From the Vault series launched by the band in 1971 with one From the Vault. That's the August 13, 1975 show at the Great American Music Hall
with the first live performance of the songs from Blues for Allah, which would include Help on the Way, Slipknot, Franklin's of course, and a number of others. And that was the first time they, the first show coming towards the end of their hiatus. And they went over for a hometown show at the Great American Music Hall and played most of the songs from Blues for Allah. One from the vault is just great, great music. It's beautifully recorded. And if you can get your hands on the
Larry (22:04.583)
still out there, probably available at the Dead website. Or you can probably get it rather easily on eBay or Amazon or any of those places. In 1972, they released two from the Vault, which were the best picks from August 23 and August 24, 1968 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. And we said, wow, OK, well, now we've got one. Now we've got two. Maybe they're going to do this every year. Who knows? We'll see.
But even back then, when these were like the first ones being released, it was great to have them. But neither one of these was the full, complete recordings of the shows. It was the best parts of the features and the stuff everybody wanted to hear. And they're great, great discs, and I'm happy I have them.
Larry (22:57.149)
But everybody was waiting for them to just start release shows, release shows. This is what we want. So I released two from the vault. OK, that came out. And then along came Dick Lovat, Dick Lovat, Dick Lovala. Excuse me. That's.
L-A-T-V-A-L-A, Latvala. It's always hard for me to say. Along came Dick Latvala and his dead scene changing Dick's pick series, which was wildly popular. So much so that the Vault series was put on hold for 15 years. In 2007, when they circled back to the original series of live releases with three from the Vault, which featured the same show we're talking about today. This was it for the Vault releases. Now, The Dead did have several other Vault-like releases.
multi-track recordings, including 100 Year Hall from the Europe 72 Tour at the Nick, which was not actually a show, but was highlights from a three-night run at the Knickerbocker Auditorium in Albany, New York, I want to say in 1989. Fallout from the Villzone, which is a CD with a number of early live releases by the band. I guess that's not even true. There's some later releases by the band.
band probably right up until the very end. He definitely plays a lot of the earlier ones, but these are just ones that Phil picked out of the vault that he wanted released. And then there's the really cool Terrapin Station one with the die cut slip cover that shows the whole.
picture of what we all thought the Terrapin Station Museum was going to look like that they kept talking about building but they never did. It's a tremendous show from 1990 I want to say in Washington DC at the Cap Center. It's got a great revolution encore, a tremendous version of Terrapin Station, a great version of Phil getting involved of course as he always would at that point.
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laying down a little Bob Dylan for us. And it's just a show that's really, really good. And I just can't recommend it enough in terms of going and looking at it. But this was another show that was released and could have been released as a From the Vault if they had wanted to.
Later on, we had Nightfall of Diamonds, which is the October 16, 1989 Bob Weir birthday show, which has a tremendous dark star in it. Opens up with my favorite, Picasso Moon. They have a trucking up to Buffalo show, which is July 4. I want to also say 1989 or 1990. And that's a great one, too. I think it was also released on a Blu-ray when they released it.
they just stop calling him from the vault uh... dick's pics of course would go on to have a total of thirty six releases the last few coming actually after dick's death in nineteen ninety nine but once he had supposedly picked out in advance and was preparing to be released uh... but they just he died before they could be uh... and so from dick's rolled right over into without missing a beat dave's pics from dave lamu who took over for dick uh... as the uh... dead archivist for the fault in
comes up with all their box sets and all their releases. He now has 49 releases in his series, including the first release for 2024, and he's still going strong. And then, of course, he also had a very short-lived but generally popular road trip series. All of the box sets, they're all amazing but too numerous to name, except for my two favorites, the complete recordings, the four-night run from the Fillmore West from February 27th to March 2nd, 1969.
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Dead and then Europe 72 which consists of the live recordings for all of the shows on that tour which I think people like to talk about 73 and 77 but 72 is great they had great energy they had great enthusiasm they were you know acting like pranksters the whole Europe 72 scene was just wild for them taking acid every day and going all over the place and they had their masks that they would always wear and
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it just you know they were like kids turned loose in europe and relatively speaking they were uh... and i just love europe seventy two i love all of those shows uh... there are so many more box sets that they've come out with uh... that are just so good but uh...
I could spend a whole episode, maybe someday we will just start going in and talking about favorite live recordings and favorite box sets. But today is not that day. So it's the Fillmore West recordings from February and March 69, Europe 72. But nevertheless, things just all kind of spiraled. Eventually what they had was View from the Vaults, which wound up being four shows that they released. And they were more particularly released as DVDs, but you could also get the music.
and I was more interested in getting the music. On a few of them it's fun I guess to get the DVD, but I didn't really spend a lot of time watching the DVD. Gives you a pretty good perspective of them, but I'm in it for the music, and as long as I can hear the music well, my memory is more than sufficient to drum up what they looked like back in those days. So, this is just...
uh... another milestone for the dead in terms of their ever-expanding reputation for jam band psychedelic and amazing song catalog even at such an early stage of the band's existence right this is seventy one uh... that makes them six years old uh...
and by this point they were fairly well established band in their own right out there but they haven't really quite hit the big time yet uh... certainly not outside of the east coast excuse me the west coast certain parts of the east coast uh... speaking of places like the capital theater of course uh... but you know they uh...
Larry (29:22.641)
They just played it where and when they could. They did eventually expand and get larger, which is a great thing.
was a good thing for people around the country, but not such a good thing for people who enjoyed seeing them in cozy little places like the Capitol Theater, because it wasn't long before they were playing in much larger venues. Even by comparison, Winterland must have seemed like a huge cavern to deadheads who had been seeing them in the Fillmore and here at the Capitol Theater and some of these other really famous smaller venues where the dead were able to play in the late 60s and early 70s.
of a sudden, I'm sure it probably felt like it almost overnight, they just exploded and they would start playing the larger venues. They'd play the hockey arenas and even as early as 73, they were playing at JFK Stadium, or excuse me, RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. So they'd already expanded into the outdoor stadium event. And of course, they'd played at Woodstock and other stuff, so they had all that under their belt. But this is just such a...
slice of time from such a cool point going in everything that was going on with the dead at that point. Just really, really cool. I do want to just quickly get into some music news that we have here today that's always good to talk about. Not a lot, but a few things Bob Weir and Wolf Brothers unfortunately had to postpone their wolf trap dates.
the National Symphony Orchestra at Vienna Virginia's Wolf Trap.
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They were very highly anticipated shows originally scheduled for August 28th and 29th They were to mark we're his first performance with his band of Don was J Lane and Jeff Commenti Since the quartets three night New Year's Eve stand in Fort Lauderdale, Florida this past year of this past New Year's Though the cause for the postponement has not been made public Wolf traps encourages fans to stay tuned for rescheduled dates We're in Wolf Brothers August performances were to feature support from the Wolf Pack the string embrace bass quintet
brass quintet that debuted in 2021 and has occasionally supported Weir's band since, most recently for Weir and Wolf Brothers' Fall and Winter Tour last year, which included a five-night stand at the Capitol Theater. More ambitiously, Weir's ensembles were set to share the stage with the National Symphony Orchestra, busting out symphonic arrangements of classical Grateful Dead songs, solo Weir material, and time-honored covers. Weir has experimented with these arrangements since 2022, when the artist presented four nights
with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington. This year's reunion tapped Stanford professor and composer Dr. Giancarlo Aquilante for orchestration and Steve Reinke as the conductor. So unfortunately those shows are postponed. As soon as we hear anything more about them being rescheduled we will be sure to let you know. And here's some more good music.
everybody's over at Relics for putting out all this very good content information on what's going on in the world of the dead, and jam bands, and really cool music. The Talking Heads, now, all of a sudden, right, they hit milestones along the way. And as soon as they do, everybody wants to come out and.
and uh... and talk about the ticket what they announced other uh... their record store day release of a seminal life performance track for w c o z f m back in nineteen seventy seven it's due out on april twentieth twenty four this is for twenty uh... minutes also record store day when special uh...
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limited release vinyls are put out to help support all the local record stores in town. So if you're a fan of vinyl, I would say go unless you're where I am, and then don't go until after I've gone and got the records I want. Then feel free to go in and shop up and pick it all up.
But so it is going to be titled Live at WCOZ 77. The set expands upon some material first shared on the band's 1983 LP. The name of this band is Talking Heads. And it's subsequent 2004 reissue. The forthcoming collection.
represents the first time the entire 14-song concert will be available. The assemblage of live cuts was recorded at Northern Studios near Boston on November 17th, 1977, a mere two months after the band released its debut, Talking Heads 77. During the track performance, band members David Byrne, Chris Franz, Jerry Harrison, and Tina Weymouth delivered over half the songs off their initial set, in addition to a previous unreleased version of Uh-Oh Love Comes to Town featured on the upcoming collection.
The band said also included early renditions of Take Me to the River, The Good Thing, and Thank You for Sending Me an Angel. The numbers that would appear on their 1978 sophomore album, more songs about buildings and food. The impending set will present the fans of Talking Heads with seven previously unreleased live cuts. A limited number of 13,300 copies of Live at WCOZ 77 will be released worldwide. The set will be released as a double album exclusively at select independent music retailers,
Record Store Day or 420. So there's gonna be a lot of people out trying to get their hands on that one. But if you go out, you can go and get it. It's got a great set list, a lot of great talking heads tunes that everybody knows, some that you may not know as well, but it's just a great thing to get and just re-familiarize yourself with one of the legendary bands of our time. And of course, one of the legendary bands of our time is The Grateful Dead. So we're gonna dive right back into our show.
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show fifty-two, fifty-three years ago today from the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York.
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playing in the band a song by bobby weir uh... lyrics by robert hunter who's working a lot with bobby at that time
uh... bobby composed the music with some assistance from mickey heart the song first emerged in embryonic form on the self-titled nineteen seventy one live album grateful dead skull and roses it's that appeared in a more polished form on ace bob's first solo album uh... which is we've talked about before included every grateful dead member except for pig the instrumental break of playing in the band was introduced as early as february nineteenth nineteen sixty nine celestial synapse show at the film or west which it appears somewhat indistinct from the proceeding
following jams. The complete song was also included on Mickey Hart's 1972 solo album Rolling Thunder within the main ten. We've talked about that before as well. Making reference to the song's time signature of 10-4. The main ten appears on Dick's Picks volume 16 from their performance at the Fillmore West on November 8th 1969. On that set it appears in the middle of caution, do not stop on the track. So they were fiddling around with this stuff and it would kind
to pop up. During a Bob Weir and Wolf Brothers concert live stream on February 12, 2021, Weir credited David Crosby with the composition of the main riff of the song. Weir stated David Crosby came up with that Summa La Lica and then he left. We were out in Mickey's barn, Mickey said make a song out of it. Next day, I had it.
uh... nice bob weir story so is that simple and we love them for it has since become one of the best-known grateful dead numbers and the standard part of the repertoire usually is a second set pre drums jumping off point for jams to who knows where according to uh... dead base uh... ten it ranks fourth on the list of songs most often played by the in concert by the band uh... with just over six hundred performances if you download this show from archiving you listen to this track at the three twenty mark that down during the song jam
Larry (39:02.495)
You'll hear where they're do, and then instead of playing, instead of going right back in, they veer off. And they just go back and they keep playing the music. And then about 20 seconds later, they finally begin to veer back into it and jump in. So Bobby's just really feeling it out at this point. He's just clearly working everything out. And as we've talked about before and we'll hear again as we roll into the spring, over the course of the Europe 72 Tour,
every night as Bobby did finally work it out to a point where the song is much more familiar to all of us who saw it a few years beyond this and the format that we all know and love. But it's all really good stuff. It's just so much fun to listen to. Like Loser, second time ever played, the first time being last night, February 18th, 1971 at the Capitol Theater, 661 times approximately. Bobby loved it. He played it as often as he could. It
on July 5th 1995 at the report amphitheater Maryland Heights Missouri outside of st. Louis the show I saw with good buddy Mark cool cousin Brent and a host of thousands of st. Louis and other big deadheads who just like seeing the boys whenever they can
Now we're going to dive into the next song that I want to play from this night. It's another very familiar song, and it's also a bust out. So let's roll this next one.
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Hey
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Jiggling the do and the jive
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See that man who was born
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See ya later!
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Greatest story ever told. Also noticed a pump song, and in the next minute or two here we'll.
get around to why some people call it the pump song or at least used to call it the pump song. This version of this song was written primarily by Bobby, Mickey again joining in and Robert Hunter. Although some credit goes to the Reverend Gary Davis and some people say that this song is one of those traditional, more arranged by the Grateful Dead than actually written by the Grateful Dead. But since they're never exactly the same it's kind of hard to say. But we'll give the Reverend Gary Davis his due here. He was also known as Blind Gary Davis.
Gary G. Davis on April 30th, 1896, died on May 5th, 1972. Blues and gospel singer who was also proficient on the banjo, guitar, and harmonica. He was born in Lawrence, South Carolina and blind since infancy. He first performed professionally in the Piedmont Blues scene of Durham, North Carolina in the 1930s, then converted to Christianity and became a minister. After moving to New York in the 1940s, David experienced a career rebirth as part of the American Folk Music Revival
1960s. Davis's most notable recordings include Samson and Delilah and Death Don't Have No Mercy, two songs that also have been recorded and played quite a bit by the Grateful Dead Samson and Delilah by Bobby and Death Don't Have No Mercy by Jerry. This song was released originally on Weir's Ace album. It was released on Mickey Thunders, Mickey Hart's Rolling Thunder album as
released on Deadset. It's been released in various Dave's picks and Dick's picks. It's played in the Europe 72 box set.
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per Mickey, excuse me, per Robert Hunter, that he said the song was known as the Pump Song, also known as the Pump Man, and Moses. I wrote it this way because I wrote it to the rhythm of the pump in Mickey Hart's Well. So go take it for what it's worth. And you can hear the lyrics at the very beginning. Bobby, instead of Moses come riding up on a Quasar, Moses comes riding up on a boxcar, a guitar or something. Can't quite tell exactly what it is, but they would work it out along the line.
play a lot during the 72 Tour and all that. Now one of the other things you'll notice about how early this is, is that it doesn't have the Abraham and Isaac bridge, right? So Abraham and Isaac sitting on a fence, you get right to work and you have any sense. One thing you need is a left handed monkey wrench or Abraham and Isaac sitting on a well.
Water comes quick from the water which spell cool clear water when you can't with them. Those are just left out. They get to the point they play right up to where they should dive into that and then they just keep playing right over those points. So again, you know, it's new, it's getting worked out. They do eventually get there and you know for those of us that saw them play the number of times over the career was a great thing. It was played two hundred eighty three times. The first again was last night February eighteenth, nineteen seventy one
Larry (45:19.971)
The song in concert was June 27th, 1995, at the Palace at Auburn Hills, just outside of Detroit. It was always a fun song. I always enjoyed it. Bob often forgot the lyrics, as he was singing through it, but we would all just laugh and rock and roll with it. It had a really good tempo, up-tempo rock and roll beat to it, and just a lot of fun. So...
I'm gonna now, even though I hate to break away from this concert, but I want to get some marijuana stuff in today because we do have some interesting things to talk about. And we're gonna start off this section like we always do with our good buddy and engineer, producer Dan Humiston playing a little bit of some music that he found.
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I'll never smoke weed with Willie again My party's all over before it began Now you can pour me some old whiskey, river, my friend But I'll never smoke weed with Willie again Let's go down to Texas, guys
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the late great toby keith's uh... whose thirty five biggest itself just number one of the billboard two hundred last week for the second time putting alongside legends like michael jackson john lennon elvis pressley i cannot say that i'm a big country family effort of toby keith's and uh...
always anytime a musician goes and who's as well uh... beloved and such a strong base offenses still be keep that but uh... you know from a weed perspective you gotta love the sign in you know the country boys all like their weed they would all sing about it you know there's another lurking there were he sings now we learned a hard lesson in a small texas town he fired up a fat boy he passed it around last words i spoke before they talked me in i'll never smoke weed with willy again
Right? Here's Toby Keith telling stories about sharing a blunt with one of America's most notorious pod enthusiasts, Willie Nelson. The country legend stuff might be a little too powerful for Keith, who opts for the whiskey and declares, I'll never smoke weed with Willie again. But we would, right? Because Willie's fun, and that could be very cool. But we may have missed out on the opportunity, even for guys like me. But.
That's OK. We smoke in his memory and always think good things about him. So I'm going to run into a little bit of marijuana stuff here. We don't have a lot of time, but I want to touch on it today. Just a few things, because it is part of our show and it's only fitting. And the stories today are good. They're all upbeat. We first turn our attention to Ukraine, where President Zelenskyi.
has said he's going to sign a bill making medical marijuana uh... legal it's a step he says they can heal the pain of stress and the trauma of the war with russia he's officially signed that bill step that he and other officials uh... say can help soldiers address physical and mental wounds and occurred during the nation's war with russia about one month after the legislation was unblocked from advancing to the president's desk is an attempt to overturn the reform failed in the country's parliament
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The law will take effect within six months of being formally published with the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the Ministry of Health tasked with developing rules for the program during that time. Ukraine could start importing marijuana products sooner after cannabis is moved from strictly prohibited under list one to available for medical use with prescription under list two of the country's drug code. Lawmakers approved the medical cannabis legislation in December, but the opposition party used
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repealed the measure. That resolution failed in January, clearing this one's path to enactment. Eponists previously tried to derail the marijuana bill by filing hundreds of what critics called spam amendments, but that attempt similarly failed with the measure ultimately passing with 248 votes. The law that's set to take effect will legalize medical cannabis for patients with severe illness and post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD resulting from the nation's ongoing conflict with Russia, which launched an invasion of Ukraine two years ago.
uh... and this is really important thing this is not the first time that we've talked about salinski and his views on uh... marijuana it's uh... they recognize it over there they see what it is and none of us can really imagine uh... what people of ukraine have been going through for now going on two years uh... russia attacked in uh... they've kind of you know game we fought on
with all the craziness is going on over there with american politics will we won't we uh... help them support them in uh... i'm sure that if you are you crane if you served in the army or if you're you know on the home front but you've necessarily safer people on the home front but i guess if you could show that you've got ptsd because your country's been under constant bombardment and who the hex can say no to somebody like that uh... but it's a good thing and it's very important thing it also really establishes
a uh... a base for marijuana in that part of the world and i think it's great that there's something like that going on in ukraine uh... you know if latimer putin ever wants to swoop in and you know and really do whatever he has to do to take the country away it'll be fascinating to see what a guy like that does with these uh... medical marijuana uh... legislative acts that have already been put into motion it's already happening uh... whether a guy like him could support that or whether he'd come in and say uh... you know that
that weed, we don't smoke that. Stuff around here, I don't know, nobody's ever really written about his predilections for marijuana and which way they may run, but who knows, maybe in time.
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But back here in the good old US of A, marijuana moment tells us that multiple states across the country are seeing record breaking marijuana sales to close out 2023. More than half a dozen US states where marijuana is legal notched record breaking monthly sales in December with many relatively new adult use cannabis markets continuing to expand and American shoppers in general stepping up holiday spending. Most of the monthly sales records were seen in states that legalized marijuana more recently and as a result are still
early growth of markets in their emerging stages. Connecticut, for example, which started sales just a year ago, set the new monthly sales records every single month in 2023. And Maryland also set records during every single month of sales last year through retail, although their retail stores didn't open until mid-year in July. But even in Illinois, which has now seen three full years of adult use sales, December's adult use numbers were up sharply, rising nearly 15 million from a month earlier. Massachusetts retailers also hit high marks
in 2018, up 11.5 million from the month before. December trends show a strong sales month, even in more mature markets. And Michigan, which saw sales begin in 2019, saw a spike in sales to end a record-setting $3 billion year. Sales in New Mexico and Rhode Island, meanwhile, continue to grow steadily, while Missouri's less than a year old recreational marijuana market plateaued with figures increasing only slightly
retailers opened their doors in February, but I believe we showed that those numbers were $1.3 billion, which is not an insignificant number when you're comparing it to Illinois, which didn't finish that much farther ahead. In nearly all states, rising adult cannabis sales have coincided with falling sales of medical marijuana, as some patients turn to recreational retailers out of convenience due to product price or selection or to avoid state registration. Some states have seen sales numbers flatten or fall over time.
is expected to continue to grow to scale up as more states come online and younger systems continue to mature. The multinational investment firm T.D. Cowan said last month it projects legal cannabis sales will reach 37 billion in 2027, up from what it said was 29 billion in 2023, and at least some of that growth is expected to come from increased substitution of cannabis for alcohol, particularly among younger adults. So here really quickly, Connecticut.
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They began a year ago in January 2023 by May adult use purchases surpassed medical marijuana sales, which slowed slightly over the course of the year. Between both the recreational and medical market sales for all of 2023 came in at more than a quarter billion dollars, $274 million.
So for a small state, they went hard. Illinois, December has typically been a strong marijuana sales month in Illinois, and 23 was no exception. After the ups and downs in sales during the first part of the year and a plateau during the second half, adult use receipts claimed nearly 15 million from November to December. Last year, all told, between recreational and medical marijuana markets, Illinois legal cannabis sales set a new record in 2023, reaching just under $2 billion.
December's adult use sales not only set a record for the recreational system, it also contributed to combined sales records between adult and medical marijuana, even as medical sales have slowly decreased in recent years. Recreational marijuana sales generated 4.1, excuse me, 417.6 million in tax revenues for the state in 2023, according to the Illinois Department of Revenue. Maryland, after opening legal cannabis sales to adults on July 1st last year, Maryland
$330 million in 2023, contributing $790 million worth of total sales for the year between the state's medical and adult use markets. Massachusetts marijuana retailers sold a record $158.7 million worth of legal cannabis products in December, bringing the state's total record sales for 2023 to nearly $1.8 billion.
Most ever sales to adults at 140.1 million for the month were largely responsible for December's overall record. As the end of 2023, adult use retailers had seen more than 5.54 billion in total sales since their opening in late 2018. Michigan saw more than three billion in purchases during 2023, with the vast majority coming from adult use sales in December alone. Licensed businesses tallied a record 279.9 million in total sales.
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About 99% 276.7 million came from recreational sales. Michigan voters approved adult use marijuana legislation, excuse me, legalization in 2018 with retailers opening the next year. Missouri.
Missouri launched their adult use medical marijuana sales in February 23 and almost immediately began recording roughly $100 million in monthly sales. Overall, in 2023, medical and recreational sales are at a $1.5 million increase.
combined for more than $1.3 billion in sales of cannabis products. New Mexico, sales of legal marijuana in New Mexico jumped $50.5 million in December, with adult-use retailers selling about $37.5 million and medical dispensaries adding another $13 million to that. That marked records for both combined markets, as well as recreational sales.
alone. And then we go to Rhode Island. The East Coast really seeing a resurgence along the eastern seaboard. December 2023 in Rhode Island saw nearly 7.8 million in adult use marijuana purchases, not only a monthly record but almost more than double that of December 2022, the state's first month of legal sales. Over the course of the past year sales figures in the state's recreational system have grown steadily as medical sales have slipped somewhat. The strong growth in adult use
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coming out at 10.2 million, breaking a previous record, said in August. All total, 2023 saw more than $100 million in legal marijuana sales in the Ocean State, roughly 2 thirds of which were purchased by adult-use consumers. So this is just great news. Marijuana sales are just going strong everywhere. Smaller states, larger states, states out west, states out east.
uh... states rate the depth smack middle of the country and you know it just says so much i think about where we're at as a country in this society and uh...
all the great things that are going on with marijuana. But now we're going to rotate back and talk about a few more things that were going on with the Grateful Dead on December 19th, because now we get to the point where the dead actually break out some stuff. And it's not just, oh yeah, night two from the night before on February 18th. So let's dive into the first of those, a really, really excellent bird song.
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Will you hear that same sweet song again? Will you know why? The one who sings a tune so sweet is passing by Laugh in the sunshine, sing, cry in the dark Fly through the night
you
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Don't you cry, don't you cry anymore
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Sleep in the stars Don't you cry Dry your eyes on the wind La da
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Birdsong is such a beautiful song by Garcia and Hunter. It is the second song.
on jerry's first solo album uh... garcia so a lot of that album getting a lot of good playtime here ace getting some good playtime here uh... the new songs from american beauty and working men's getting uh... some good playtime here roger hunter originally wrote songs to tribute for janice joplin we've talked about that before so we won't get into all the details about that again but uh... it really was a tribute for janice and uh... a very beautiful one at that later on after jerry was gone and
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uh... further really get out there uh... when he would sing if you would sing all i know is something like a bird within him saying transferring it to uh... jerry garcia instead no i don't have a real problem with that i think that everybody knows how who revered hunter wrote it for and everybody knows how much uh... phil loves jerry and um...
this just another way of showing it so i say more power to omen it's all good we uh... just love it that anybody still singing it these days from the original group and uh... they are and it's great to listen to still one of my favorites in concert uh... so my first one when i saw my second show ever does your cues in the fall of uh...
1982 with good buddy Mikey and such a beautiful song was the first time I really noticed how they kind of like went into a song All I know is something like a bird within her saying and then you know came back to it at the end of the song kind of bookending the song but it's but it's great and so Played 301 times first folks. This is it. This is it. This is the debut version of bird song And you know, you know, it's a beautiful song even for the first time when you're hearing it here at the very beginning And you know, you could tell that this is gonna be a special
song and you could hear it in the crowd and the energy that they have. The last time this song was played by the Grateful Dead was June 30th 1995 at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Well...
Hard as it is to believe we've made our way through yet another episode of the Deadhead Cannabis show and We still have one more song which we will get to in one second I Thank everybody again for listening today. We do have some exciting stuff coming up We're working on a few guests who we think will be a lot of fun travel schedules get tricky For people who are connected to the dead community or connected to live music this time of year But these are folks who have had some experience with the band and
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to tell and interesting information for you to be able to learn about your favorite band or certainly one of your favorite bands or else why the hell would you be spending your time with me?
uh... so thank you uh... fun to talk about a little marijuana we're gonna have a show coming up shortly uh... where i think we're really just gonna focus a lot more of the time to marijuana and a little bit less grateful that because the shows start to run heavy on the grateful dead side which is great for me and i'm sure great for a lot of dead heads but uh... we really owe the existence of this podcast to it being presented as a uh... a cannabis podcast with you know with a flavor of the grateful dead in it and it's important that we uh... we don't give up on that
the mission and we stay true to that as well. But in that regard I will tell you that there's just so many new amazing strains and flavors that have been coming out.
uh... hitting the various markets and uh... you just to be able to check everything out to see what's out there and you go to different places and try different things and lately i'm highly recommending strutting and i think strutting is just uh... absolutely fantastic super booth is another great strain and uh... sour patch kids s p k uh... those are three of my favorite at the moment and uh... i would
like I say, I think if you can find them, and you can be reasonably certain that they are what they are, as reasonably certain as any of us are what it is, right? That's the beauty of this industry or not, depending on how you look at it. But I really like those strains a lot. The strong anise has a wonderful smell and a tremendous aftertaste to it. And the Sour Patch Kids is just a really explosive, great sativa that just gives you a ton of energy and really keeps you moving. And the Super Booth is like the ultimate.
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evening until late evening mellowing out with the crowd doesn't put you to sleep it's more of a sativa but it's a little more heavy-handed than some others and uh... it's just a great feeling if you're gonna sit around watching tv at night or listening to music or just kinda hanging out doing your thing uh... and we'll talk more about different strains too because there's so many out there so hard to keep track of all of them but keeping track of all of this is a good thing the more educated you are the more fun you have uh... on our way out the door we're going to play you the
Rateful Dead's debut of one of my favorite songs that they play, which is Deal. It's one of their live staples and another one of the gambling songs in the Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia collaboration. First performed on February 19, 1971. So today, this is it, folks. You're hearing it right here. It was in regular rotation until the end, both for the Dead and the Jerry Garcia band. Deal saw studio releases as the open. It was a studio releases. The opening track on Jerry Garcia's 1972 debut
album Garcia, which also contained some of the other classics we've talked about. Sugary, Birdsong, Loser, and The Wheel. Although it would move around a bit in the setlist early on, this debut version is consistent with the ultimate tradition of the song closing out the first set. And for those of you trying to keep track at home, this was a 15 song first set. Second set's only five songs. This first set is just a monster. They were having a good time and they didn't want to stop.
uh... even if it uh... jerry garcia sets was typically plays a first set closer it would always leave you waiting to waiting throughout the break to see how they were going to kick off the second set and keep the show moving along at that same vibe that they had to do well when jerry was on that he was just take this to and uh... it
just really rock the heck out of it. For a first time played, this version stays very true to the version that we all know and love from just a few years later. It's such a good song. They loved it so much. They played it 428 times. We know this is the first time. The last time was June 18th, 95 at Giants Stadium in Rutherford, New Jersey, which isn't really surprising because it's a tune they love playing on the East Coast too with such great energy. The East Coast deadheads loved it, but that's a long time for Dill
Larry (01:06:42.731)
of the repertoire between then and almost a month later when Jerry plays his last show. But he played what he played. So enjoy Deal on the Way Out. Thank you, everyone, for listening. Be safe. Enjoy your week. And enjoy your cannabis responsibly. Talk to you soon.
Mediaboard_sounds (01:07:15.422)
Since it cost a lot to win and even more to lose You and me bound to spill some time wondering what to choose It goes to show you don't never know Watch each car you play, play it slow Wait until your deal come round Don't you let that deal go down, oh no
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Cough.