Labor Day Vibes: Grateful Dead, George Thorogood, and More A special Labor Day edition featuring a recap of significant events in the music world, particularly focusing on the Grateful Dead's September 2, 1988, concert at the Capitol Center in Landover, Maryland. Larry Mishkin reminisces about the band's history, including the song "Hell in a Bucket," its significance, and its evolution in the Grateful Dead's lineup. There's a detailed discussion about the song "Dire Wolf," including its origins, inspirations, and its role in the band's performances.
Labor Day Vibes: Grateful Dead, George Thorogood, and More
A special Labor Day edition featuring a recap of significant events in the music world, particularly focusing on the Grateful Dead's September 2, 1988, concert at the Capitol Center in Landover, Maryland. Larry Mishkin reminisces about the band's history, including the song "Hell in a Bucket," its significance, and its evolution in the Grateful Dead's lineup. There's a detailed discussion about the song "Dire Wolf," including its origins, inspirations, and its role in the band's performances.
The episode also features a tribute to Steve Silverman, a renowned science writer and Grateful Dead enthusiast who recently passed away. Silverman was celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of autism and his deep connection to the Grateful Dead community. The tribute highlights his life, his work, and his impact on both the music and science communities.
Larry shares reviews of the recent George Thorogood and Journeyman Tribute the Eric Clapton
https://www.georgethorogood.com/
https://journeymantribute.com/
Grateful Dead
September 2, 1988 (36 years ago)
Capital Center
Landover, MD
Grateful Dead Live at Capital Centre on 1988-09-02 : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive
I hope everyone is having a great Labor Day weekend.
Night one of a four night run at the Cap Center to kick off 1988 East Coast Fall Tour (played Friday and Saturday, 2 and 3 and Monday and Tuesday 5 and 6). Took a night off for my wedding on Sunday 4th. Saturday night show was my rehearsal dinner and they played second encore, final electric Ripple and final Grateful Dead Ripple. Memorable weekend for all (except for my east coast deadhead buddies at the wedding who were bummed to have missed the Ripple.
INTRO: Hell in a Bucket
Track #2
0:00 – 1:34
David Dodd: The Bob Weir / John Barlow / Brent Mydland song “Hell in a Bucket” directly references the biker scene, and I’m sure that somehow Barlow just wanted to put that element into the band’s repertoire somehow. After all, there are plenty of outlaw elements sprinkled through the band’s songs.
In the case of this song, though, the singer/narrator seems to be wishing a sorry fate on his erstwhile main squeeze, with the argument being that once she has a biker charging up and down her halls on his chopper, she’ll realize that the narrator was really pretty good, at least by contrast.
“Hell in a Bucket” appeared on In the Dark, released in July 1987. The song frequently featured as the show opener over the course of the next two-plus decades, although it wasn’t used in that role until about a year after its first performance.
Played: 217 times
First: May 13, 1983 at William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA, USA
Last: June 30, 1995 at Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, PA
SHOW No. 1: Dire Wolf
Track #5
2:00 – 3:24
"Dire Wolf" is a ballad by the Grateful Dead, released as the third track on their 1970 album Workingman's Dead. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter after watching a film adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles. The music, containing elements of country and folk music, was composed by Jerry Garcia on the same day. The song tells the story of a man who plays cards with a "dire wolf" on a cold winter's night in "Fennario"; the lyrics have been variously interpreted. The piece became a staple of the Grateful Dead's performances, and was played more than two hundred times between 1969 and 1995.
A few months before the release of their album Aoxomoxoa in 1969, Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter and his then-partner Christie Bourne began sharing a house with the band's guitarist Jerry Garcia, his wife, and his step-daughter. Living in close proximity gave an impetus to their collaborative song-writing: Hunter and Garcia wrote every song on Aoxomoxoa.[2] Some time later, Hunter and Carolyn Garcia spent an evening watching a film adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles. According to Grateful Dead historian Dennis McNally, Carolyn later remarked that the hound was a "dire wolf".[3] However, according to Hunter himself, as quoted in the Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics, he and Garcia were speculating about the identity of the hound in the story, and came up with the idea that it may have been a dire wolf.[4] Hunter wrote the lyrics the next morning, based on images that the phrase conjured for him, and Garcia wrote the music to them later that day.[3][4]
The location named "Fennario" appears in the folk song "The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie", including in the Grateful Dead's version of that song. It refers to a fictional location; a friend of the band members commented in an interview that it was the perfect name for a generic place, because it was evocative, and had four syllables.[4] In contrast, music writer Buzz Poole speculated that the name may be derived from Fenrir, a mythical Nordic wolf who was chained up by the gods.[6] The phrase "don't murder me", repeated in the chorus, was a reference by Garcia to his experiences driving around the San Francisco Bay Area at the time that the Zodiac Killer was active.[4]
The song became a staple of the Grateful Dead's live performances; the electric version of the song was typically featured on the band's first set.[4][7] According to The Grateful Dead's 100 Essential Songs, "Dire Wolf" was played 226 times between 1969 and 1995, and was played every year, except for 1975. Sixty-three of these performances were in the first two years after the song was written. In later years, the acoustic version of the piece became more common.[7] The structure and pace of the song did not change much over the years. It was sung most often by Garcia, although an early version featured Bob Weir on vocals, with Garcia playing the pedal steel guitar instead.[7] An AllMusic review of this version praised Garcia's "sweet" guitar playing as a "great feature" of the song.[5] Its lyrics have led to it being described as an essential Grateful Dead song by commentators.[7]
Played: 229 times
First: June 7, 1969 at Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, USA
Last: June 7, 1969 at Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, USA
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SHOW No. 2: Althea
Track #7
3:10 – 4:53
When the Grateful Dead released “Althea” on their 1980 album Go to Heaven, it quickly became a favorite among fans. Robert Hunter, the Dead’s legendary lyricist, was known for embedding multiple layers of meaning in his lyrics. “Althea” is no exception. Jerry Garcia’s soulful voice brings Hunter’s words to life, but it’s the lyrics that leave listeners pondering.
The name “Althea” itself is rooted in Greek mythology. Althea was the Queen of Calydon, whose actions led to her son’s death, reflecting themes of fate and consequence. While the song doesn’t explicitly connect to this myth, the allusion to “your fire” might be a subtle nod to Althea’s tragic tale.
“Althea” was performed live by the Grateful Dead 273 times, making it a staple in their repertoire. Despite McNally’s belief that the band overplayed it in the early ’80s, fans cherished its live renditions. The song’s adaptability and depth allowed it to grow with the listeners, much like a trusted pair of pants with a sturdy elastic waistband.
Played: 273 times
First: August 4, 1979 at Oakland Civic Auditorium, Oakland, CA, USA
Last: July 8, 1995 at Soldier Field, Chicago
SHOW No. 3: Scarlet Begonias
Track #10
0:00 – 2:02
Garcia/Hunter
From The Mars Hotel (July 24, 1974)
The group first performed the song live on March 23, 1974, at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California.[1] When "Fire on the Mountain" was incorporated into the band's repertoire in 1977, "Scarlet Begonias" would often be paired with it when played live, resulting in what would be nicknamed "Scarlet > Fire" with the first iteration of this iconic pairing on Friday, March 18th, 1977 at Winterland in S.F. Interestingly, they played the combo to close the first set. Almost always a second set opener, once saw them open a show with it.
Had to play this because the opening is so special – sends a message to the Deadheads that good things lay ahead, best second set opener in their arsenal. Nothing like the reaction when you hear the first few notes. “Scarlet, into Fire, a great 25 minutes of grooving music and wonderful for “mind exercises” you may be experiencing at that time.
Played: 317 (Fire played 254 times)
First: March 23, 1974 at Cow Palace, Daly City, CA, USA
Last: June 2, 1995 at Deer Creek, Noblesville, IN
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SHOW No. 4: All Along The Watchtower
Track #17
1:50 – 3:53
Bob Dylan
John Wesley Harding
"All Along the Watchtower" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan from his eighth studio album, John Wesley Harding (1967). The song was written by Dylan and produced by Bob Johnston. The song's lyrics, which in its original version contain twelve lines, feature a conversation between a joker and a thief. The song has been subject to various interpretations; some reviewers have noted that it echoes lines in the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5–9. Dylan has released several different live performances, and versions of the song are included on some of his subsequent greatest hits compilations.
Covered by numerous artists, "All Along the Watchtower" is strongly identified with the interpretation Jimi Hendrix recorded with the Jimi Hendrix Experience for their third studio album, Electric Ladyland (1968). The Hendrix version, released six months after Dylan's original recording, became a Top 20 single in 1968, received a Grammy Hall of Fame award in 2001, and was ranked 48th in Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004 (40th in the 2021 version). Dylan first played the song live in concert on the Bob Dylan and the Band 1974 Tour, his first tour since 1966. His live performances have been influenced by Hendrix's cover, to the extent that they have been called covers of a cover. Dylan has performed the song live more than any of his other ones, with over 2,250 recitals.
Hendrix was a known Dylan fan. He even once cleared a dance floor by demanding that "Blowin in the Wind" be played in a New York club. In a 1967 interview, Hendrix described Dylan's influence on his own songwriting. "I could never write the kind of words he does," Hendrix said. "But he's helped me out in trying to write two or three words 'cause I've got a thousand songs that will never be finished. I just lie around and write about two or three words, but now I have a little more confidence in trying to finish one."
Hendrix acquired a copy of John Wesley Harding before the album's official release and instantly knew he had to cover one of the tracks. Initially, he was planning to record "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine," but after further consideration he chose "All Along the Watchtower." Hendrix claimed he had a natural gravitation toward the track. "The songs Dylan usually gave me are so close to me that I feel like I wrote them myself," he added. "With 'Along the Watchtower' I had that feeling." Less than two months after Dylan recorded the original, Hendrix was in the studio laying down his version.
John Wesley Harding was Dylan's return to his acoustic roots after his motorcycle accident. But rather than bring back the topical lyrics about civil rights and the Vietnam War, he continued the evocative, surreal images that made his previous three records -- Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde -- so groundbreaking, adding biblical imagery that foreshadowed his born-again phase more than a decade later.
Dead started playing it while touring with Dylan in the summer of 1987. Not necessarily their greatest tour, and Dylan was not sharp on a night by night basis, but when they got to this tune, the crowd really responded. So after the tour ended, the Dead just kept it in their repertoire and played it until their end.
Played: 118
First: June 20, 1987 at William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA, USA
Last: June 22, 1995 at Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, NY, USA
OUTRO: Black Muddy River
Track #20
4:15 – 6:34
Garcia/Hunter
From: In The Dark (1987)
Black Muddy River was a song that was a pretty decent “new” song for a while. Almost always played as an encore, it was a fan favorite in the Twin Cities, St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans, all situated on or near the Mississippi River. Sometimes they would play it in those cities and sometimes they would wait to play it until they were in the middle of nowhere with no river around for miles and miles. Towards the end, Jerry seemed to lose his enthusiasm for it so, for example, when he rose to the occasion at the last show on July 9, 1995 and belted out a So Many Roads for the ages, his Black Muddy River encore left a lot to be desired. So much so that, as the story goes, Phil decided they could not end the summer tour on such a low note so he pushed in a Box of Rain making that song the last one ever played in concert by the band and a much nicer farewell than that not very good Black Muddy River would have been.
This one is “young” and strong, Jerry’s voice rings true and you can hear the energy build up inside him as he belts out the final lines of the song. A song that sent all those at the Cap Center out into the night longing for more without even knowing what awaited them the very next night. Some were there, some weren’t. That’s the story of the Dead and touring (like Phish waiting to Dick’s to play Fee!).
Played: 66 times
First: December 15, 1986 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA, USA
Last: July 9, 1995 at Soldier Field, Chicago, IL, USA
Shout outs:
Wed – my anniversary, and H and Robbin
Thurs. – JW’s anniversary with the lovely Allie
Bella – birthday on Monday
Jackie G. in St. Louis on Sunday
Larry (00:29.066)
Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of the Deadhead Cannabis Show. I'm Larry Mishkin of Mishkin Law in Chicago. It's Labor Day weekend. It's Monday. Happy Labor Day to everyone. Hope you're all enjoying the weekend and making the most out of it. We've got a lot to go over today. We've got a great, wonderful dead show that we're going to share with you. Got some updates on things in the music world, some big updates on things in the cannabis world. So hopefully you'll share a little bit of your Labor Day weekend with us.
or whenever you happen to turn on this episode of our podcast and check out what we have to say. We're featuring today the Grateful Dead from September 2, 1988, 36 years ago today at the Capitol Center in Landover, Maryland. It was night one of a four -night run at the Cap Center to kick off the 1988 East Coast Fall Tour. And this is the way it all began.
Larry (02:58.418)
Here's what David Dodd had to say about Helena Bucket. The Bob Weir and John Barlow Brent Midlet song directly references the biker scene, and I'm sure that somehow Barlow just wanted to put that element into the band's repertoire somehow. After all, there are plenty of outlaw elements sprinkled throughout the dead songs. In the case of this song, though, the singer -narrator seems to be wishing a sorry fate on his erstwhile main squeeze, with the argument being that she once was a biker, charging up and down her halls on his chopper, she'll realize that the narrator was pretty good.
at least by contrast. Helena Bucket appeared on In the Dark was released in July 1987. The song frequently featured as a show opener over the course of the next two plus decades although it wasn't used in that role until about a year after its first performance. Played 217 times. First played on May 13th 1983 at the Greek Theater in Berkeley and last played on June 30th 1985 at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
when the dark came out we were now in the age of MTV music videos this there's a real fun music video for hell in a bucket that if you have time going to you to be check it out about where's a little bit over the top it is acting but my guess is that's exactly what they want out of them and it's just kind of a funny one to see with lots of motorcycles revenue engines and you know couple big mean looking guys walking around in jerry mixed in there and
It was really a lot of fun, so I would definitely check it out. But Helena Bucket was one of those quote unquote new songs that came around more or less the same time as Touch of Grey. And as they began to work themselves into the lineup on a regular basis, within a few years, they were no longer the new songs. They were just songs that were out there and we were all listening to and really just became part of the whole scene. And Helena Bucket was always a fun one. We've talked about the Mondagreen police on a joy ride for At Least I'm Enjoying the Ride.
but at the end of the day a really solid bobby tune that the deadheads i think it might be at least came to came to really appreciate now this show this was the first as we said of the four -night run at the cap center they played this shows a friday night and saturday night they took sunday night off and they came back monday and tuesday on the fifth and the sixth it turns out of course it's under the fourth day they took off with my wedding the saturday night show
Larry (05:21.552)
was my rehearsal dinner they played second on court was the first electric ripple excuse me the final electric ripple and the final grateful dead ripple a memorable weekend for all except for my east coast buddies of dead heads of who were at my wedding were bound to have missed the ripple but life goes on and the wedding was great still married thirty six years later very happily and unfortunately jerry's gone there's no more ripple opportunities but
just the way it is is we'll hear we get to fish today to write you go to a billion shows in this one show and boom that's what they bring the house down but we are still well for the moment at least focused on our grateful dead show from thirty six years ago and somewhere the middle of the first set a drop this one
Larry (07:31.494)
rockin' out cherry dire wolf is a ballot by the grateful dead released as the third track on their nineteen seventy album working man's dead lyrics were written by robert hunter after watching a film adaption of the hound of the basker fields now they should play the song sometimes on the xm god grateful dead station you did for songs from working man's and american beauty always have bobby given a quick little
a quote right before talking about the particular song they're about to play it always makes me laugh because whenever they talk about dire wolf bobby's little schnick is talking about how hunter most of you know woken up from a fever dream and sat down and scrolled out this this song in fact you know if he was watching the hound of the baskerville's before that might definitely feed right into that theory by bobby all the music containing elements of country and folk
was composed by Jerry on the same day the song tells the story of a man who plays with the cards with a dire wolf on a cold winter's night in Finario. The lyrics have been variously interpreted the piece became a staple of the Dead's performances and was played over 200 times between 69 and 1995. A few months before the release of their album Ox -O -Mox in 1969, Grateful Dead, well Hunter, lyricist Hunter, and his then partner Christy Bourne began sharing a house
with Garcia, his wife and his stepdaughter living in close proximity gave an impetus to their collaborative songwriting, Hunter and Garcia wound up writing every song on AXA MOXA. Sometime later, Hunter and Caroline Garcia spent an evening watching a film adaption of The Hound of the Baskervilles. According to Grateful Dead historian Dennis McNally, Caroline later remarked that the Hound was a dire wolf. However, according to Hunter himself, as quoted in the annotated Grateful Dead lyrics, he and Garcia were speculating about the identity of the Hound in the story.
and came up with the idea that it may have been a dire wolf. Hunter wrote the lyrics the next morning based on what the images that the phrase conjured for him and Garcia wrote the music to them later that same day. Now the location named Fenario appears in the folk song The Bonnie Lass of Fivy included in the Grateful Dead's version of that song. It refers to a fictional location. A friend of the band members commented in an interview that it was the perfect name for a generic place because it was evocative and had four syllables.
Larry (09:43.41)
In contrast, music writer Buzz Poole speculated the name may be derived from Fenrir, a mythical Nordic wolf who was chained up by the gods. The phrase, don't murder me, repeated in the chorus was referenced by Garcia to his experience driving around the San Francisco Bay area at the time that the zodiac killer was active. So you get your inspiration from everywhere. The song did become a staple of the Grateful Dead's live performances. The electric version of the song was typically featured in the first set.
According to the Grateful Dad's 100 Essential Songs, Dire Wolf was played 229 times between 1969 and 1995 and was played every year except for 1975 when they took the year off. 63 of those performances were in the first two years after the song was written. In later years, the acoustic version of the piece became more common. The structured pace of the song did not change much over the years. It was sung most often by Garcia, although early versions featured Bob Weir on vocals. With Garcia playing,
pedal steel guitar instead. Now that would have been a lot of fun to see but alas every time we saw him Garcia was singing which was fine but no pedal steel accompaniment. all music review of this version praised Garcia's sweet guitar playing as a great feature of the song. Its lyrics have led to being described as an essential grateful dead song by the commentators. 229 times played. It was first played on June 7th, 1969 at the Fillmore West and
Unfortunately, I don't have right in front of me the date that it was last played, which is, I'm usually pretty good about that, so I don't know why I don't have that. Let's just see here if we can't get that for you really quick, thanks to the magic of something called the internet. But let's see here.
Well, you know what? I'll get it for you, everybody, when we cut to a break and then during our next musical break, and then we'll talk about it in a little while. And now, in fact, we're going to jump off with our music news. And Dan, what do you got for us?
Larry (12:31.338)
George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers, one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer. A blues song written by Rudy Toombs recorded by Amos Milburn in 1953. It's one of the several drinking songs recorded by Milburn in the early 1950s that placed in the top 10 of the Billboard R &B chart. Other artists released popular recordings of the song, including John Lee Hooker in 1966 and George Thorogood, most famously.
in 1977. George Thorogood recorded one bourbon, one scotch, one beer for his 1977 debut album, George Thorogood and the Destroyers. His version is a medley in which Hooker's version of this song is preceded by another Hooker song, House Rent Boogie, which serves as a backstory to explain the singer's situation. According to Hooker, Thorogood told me he was going to do that and I said, okay, go ahead. Live recordings of the medley are included on live, which came out in 1986, and 30th anniversary tour live in 2004.
the song was featured in the soundtrack to the professional wrestling video game w w e two k eighteen now we're getting this because i did just saw george throw good on a colorado over the last week and you know dance we get to a lot of shows out there a lot of great rockers coming through on reunion tours and every now and then some good cover bands coming through but it's always a great throwback to some tunes that we were all listening to way back in the day
high school college it's always fun to hear that kind of mix it with jam band stuff that works otherwise so devoted to but this was certainly one of them the the the quick review on the show was if anything he showed at seventy four years of age that he can still put on an energetic ninety minutes set to deliver the goods as always the band throw a good has a toe or no slouchers
bassist Billy Blow and drummer Jeff Simon have been there since day one. Guitarist Jim Sular and saxophonist Buddy Leach joined in 99 and 2003 respectively. When a band has been together as long as these guys have it creates a strong stability and these cats don't miss a beat. evening began with Rock Party, a song called from his 2006 release The Hard Stuff. It appeared to be a celebration as he did not waste a minute during his brief, seem very brief 90 minute set.
Larry (14:48.586)
Crank got his usual band of rock and boogie. He played many staples, such as one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer, I Drink Alone, and the obligatory Bad to the Bone. A couple of tunes played that were welcome with open arms, get a haircut, and the Them cover of Gloria. After many years of not playing with the gem of his catalog, Born to be Bad, it has now been anointed to show closer. It closed out this show with a perfect ending. Written by Throgoode in 1988, the song became the album title and perfectly summed up who George Throgoode is.
he pointed out the fact that he's become a colorado ever since nineteen seventy eight as he explained how appreciative he was for his beaver creek fans all we had to do is look at the smile across his face to see how much he enjoys doing what he does relationship between through the distance is a special one the majority of the audience were dancing in the aisles you know sitting down we're still tap of their feeder bopping along to a groove making night such as this one now we saw george throw good a small barn and arbor
probably back in about 1982 maybe, 83. I was first introduced to George Thorogood, though in 1981 when we saw the Rolling Stones at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, the opening show of their Start Me Up tour, and the openers were George Thorogood and Journey. And very interesting because my experience, people who open for the Rolling Stones typically don't get great reaction because everybody's there to see the Rolling Stones.
of unless it's just another incredible bad with with the history and similar to the stones of that target to catch a one up at the moment you know sorts of bands we saw a pop we saw others the stone stands can be brutal and they can do you write off the stage they want their rolling stones that was around listen to other stuff george thurgood of the destroyers at that show played about thirty minutes that it just got a great reaction from the crowd unbelievable reaction everybody loved of the really
a great opening act to get everybody up on their feet moving around on a rather warm day with all sorts of stuff going on in our brains on that day I was there with good buddy Mikey who was always instrumental in bringing us there and he was the one who introduced me to George Thorogood so appropriate he was there good buddy Dan was there and H was there as well had some other Ann Arbor folks with us and we did a lot of a lot of fun things
Larry (17:13.726)
know that made the afternoon more enjoyable there's a story of each of the balloon that forty years later he's still sitting out there somewhere and we all just smile and play along with them because it was a it was a fun moment and we really enjoyed it so george throng it is the guy who we have today lead us into our music news and without much further ado let's get to that music news and see what we have to talk about because there is oops i'm sorry
there is lots of good stuff going on here our first story in music news is that steve silver steve silverman passed away excuse me there for a moment a little bit of trouble getting that out and
I'm sorry everybody, here we go. So Steve Silverman passed away. He was a writer. He was better known almost as a science writer who championed autism rights. He was an ever so passionate, grateful, dead fan and a beloved member of the San Francisco community. And he passed away last week. He was 66 at the time he passed. So excuse me.
He was raised by left -leaning teachers in New York. He was married to Keith Caraker, and Mr. Caraker is one who announced the passing of his partner, Mr. Silberman. The breadth of Silberman's knowledge and passions and the all -encompassing legacy he left behind is huge. Some may know him from NeuroTribes, a deeply researched and also fiercely opinionated work. Others may be familiar with him from his writing for Wired and his work
on the early days of the internet and its online gathering placed the well if you're a deadhead you recognize his name from the liner notes of dead albums is co -production credited on the box set of so many roads or skeleton key the grateful dead dictionary he co -wrote with david shank he was also a huge devotee and follower of david crosby and chronicled many of the aspects of crosby's life also the crosby of the dead were his kind of counterculture musical passions
Larry (19:25.588)
He also has been doing a lot of must -read and must -retweet social media posts about politics in the state of the country and the Republican Party with his awe so cute he wrote this summer, accompanying a photo of a less than full rally by GOP candidates he loathed so much. Trump's alien rashville tonight is like a miniature dollhouse version of one of Kamala's rallies. Don't worry, big guy. They'll love you in the prison chow line, he wrote. He also once wrote, I was a suburban kid, the son of agnostic parents.
who believed in the healing of the world by political rather than by spiritual means. What connected his many interests was his affinity for underdogs and the misrepresented, whether it was the neurodivergent community, the gay community to which he proudly belonged, and in a way deadheads. From the start, Silverman was, he once said, raised to be sensitive to the plight of the oppressed. And in one interview he said, I am not equating homosexuality and autism. Autism is inherently disabling in ways that homosexuality is not.
but I think that's why I was sensitive to the feelings of a group of people who are systemically bullied, tortured, and thrown into asylums. Silberman discovered the dead and Crosby, Sells, Nash, and Young during his teen years, and both rock institutions became a soundtrack to his life. He had, as said, unique bond with Crosby, which started when a young Silberman saw him in concert in 73 in New Jersey. From that point in hearing Laughing on If I Can Only Remember My Name album, Silberman became a true believer in Cosm...
Crosby's artistic aspirations and his overall weirdness. As it turns out, Silberman also did some of his best non -science writing on the dead, whether it was an exploration of their under -reported gay fan base, the importance of the drum section of their concerts, how it signified both breakdown and renewal, and the world itself. If deadheads were a tribe that sought collective experience,
We were also an aggregation of loners who had learned how not to bruise each other's solitude, that place where our souls and the music communed, he wrote in 1995. If you were tripping, the music would pour forth celestial architecture, quick silver glistening with mightbees, cities of light at the edge of a sea of chaos, monumental forms that could be partially recollected in tranquility and turned into designs in fabric or clay, golden sentences, streams of bits.
Larry (21:52.65)
and some nights the hair on the back of your neck would stand up and as a presence came into the room give a body the magnificent, give the body of the magnificent sound systems. His first show was on July 27th, 1973, the day before the official start of the summer jam in Watkins Glen, big festival with the Allman Brothers that we've talked about. was 14 years old, all on my own because my friend bailed on me at the last minute and relatively clueless.
I was mostly there to see the Allman Brothers and the Dead came out and played a wonderful set that included the legendary soundcheck jam that we ended up putting on the So Many Roads box set, a gorgeous suite of improvised music containing several themes they would never play before or after. I wish I could say I fully appreciated it at the time, but I would be lying. In truth, I was completely overwhelmed by being in the middle of a crowd of 600 ,000 people. I had been dosed multiple times by sipping from the Boda bags that everyone was passing around.
and I really, really had to pee, but the Portisans might as well have been in an island nation away from where I was standing. Still, the experience stuck with me because I went to see the Dead at Roosevelt Stadium in New Jersey the following year, which turned out to be another all -time highlight in the band's 30 -year career and can be found on Dick's Picks, Volume 31. During Phil's bass lead in Eyes of the World, this was still in the first set, mind you. I knew I had never heard music as beautiful, adventurous, and alive as this in my entire life.
That was the moment I became a deadhead and I never stopped. And then there's just more and more. He talks about getting to work with Dick Lovatla, who was the original keeper of the vault when they put together the So Many Roads box with David Gans and Blair Jackson. And just getting to know all these guys. He says he loved Dick. He was hilarious. When he found a new jam that melted his brain into a tie -dye puddle, he'd call me up raving, this is better than Beethoven. I miss the sound of that sweet, cranky man's voice.
Though David Lemieux and Jeffrey Norman are doing a great job of maintaining the tradition with Rhino releases of the Road Trips and Dave's Pick series and some of their Mammoth projects like the May 1977. When asked to point out his highlight from May 1977, Silverman said, there are so many, I'll just mention one. Check out the sugary from St. Paul on May 11th. In the middle of a fairly standard performance, Jerry gets excited and the whole band joins him. And suddenly, the Civic Center Arena lifts off the ground.
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and heads for the stratosphere that it's all about and lot of musical magic happens in saint paul with the grateful dead a good buddy did is really know about it that much because it's just a cry for help for him and he doesn't always make it out but those of us do love it the david lamu said he met silverman in nineteen ninety -nine said when i started working for the grateful dead steve silverman was around a lot working on the so many roads box set throughout the summer he was so kind warm and welcoming to be every time we saw each other he was genuinely respectful one of the brightest
lights I have ever met over the past 25 years. His intelligence and generosity were unmatched. Steve, you will be missed by so many. Everyone who met you or corresponded with you loves you. And here's Steve's final word. When I die, please don't say that I've crossed into the spirit realm, gone to the other side, moved on to a better place, rejoined my ancestors, or any of those comforting fables he posted recently. Just selfishly or selflessly use my own impermanence to wake up to your own.
steve was quite a man quite a big member of the grateful dead community and it's no doubt that this is truly a loss for everyone affiliated with the grateful dead and the community and those of us who were lucky enough to have had an opportunity to read steve this is one of the reasons why by all the cds that they offer even though you can go online and get it because i love getting those little booklets they put in there and reading all the different people
who writes synopsis and summaries of the show or the time or what was going on and and steve silverman's have always been among the finest and so but it was an amazing career for steve and we send our condolences to his family to his husband and to all of the people out there who were readers of steve regardless of the field or the area in which they were choosing to follow him in
so well once again we have a another vaunted member all the grateful dead family moving on to join jerry the great here after and was comforting to know that they're all getting together someplace fun and and and have a gas you know for the rest of us it's just we're aging ourselves and we can we see all of this happening in you know it's not just enough that jerry's carter that the debtor gone but one by one a lot of the people so closely associated with the whole scene
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are starting to go that's why guys like steve parish have to be cherished that's why i'd going out to see bobby and and the drummers whenever you can fill whatever he still put on a performance we just can't take it for granted because one day none of those guys are going to be around of course what they don't also be around but while we're around and they're not around is the time period that i'm worried about and so you know time marches on and it does march on because we went left about fish at monday green
They've now just concluded their four day annual Labor Day weekend fest at Dick's Sporting Goods in Cambridge City, Colorado, just outside of the Denver area. And pretty amazing shows all in all. A lot of standard stuff, but the Friday night show, August 30th, was one, especially the second set that particularly stood out. we'll run through that. Suffice it to say, cool cousin Susie was out there, even though she missed the festival.
and i saw her husband sky out there they flip -flopped on dick sky was home with the boys and suzie was out there partying and i have to tell you based on part of the first set the second set suzie may have got the better end of the deal the first set this is on friday august thirtieth they start out with back on the train wolfman's brother hay stranger i'm not gonna pronounce it right because i've never heard him play it gullia papyrus which is a song that they
According to the folks here, it was the first time played in over 105 shows. The last time it had been played was on July 22, 2022. So that certainly counts as a breakout. They played No Man in No Man's Land. Steam evolved strange design for the first time in over 100 shows, and then closed out the set with Run Like an Antelope. The second set.
It was a Larry Michigan set. came out and they opened up with Chalk Dust Torture, which I love. Then they played Sand, which is one of my absolute favorite fish tunes. Into Ruby Waves, we've talked about that in any song that's going to be mentioned in My Granddaughter is just awesome. And we love Ruby Waves. Into What's the Use, into Possum, another one of my currently, and it looks like will be for a long time, favorite fish tunes. Sand and Possum just rock. And I love it when they're up there jamming on that. And then they closed out the set with
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everything's right but then of course they came back and played fee and fee is a tune that i've been chasing forever one of the first fish tunes way way back that i were really locked in on it just never had it never been able to hear it the the second encore was you enjoy myself so you know to me that's overall about a strong of it official as you can find certainly one fitting for a such an event in an occurrence as big as dicks
you know those of us who are at the festival are obviously a little disappointed to have missed the the gulia papyrus to have missed out on but you know that's the way it is was like one of the grateful dead if you went to eleven shows the song you were trying to see they played on the twelfth and although there would always be initial frustration it just always you know made you even more determined to go out and see more shows because by god i'm gonna get that song someday and i'm sure that if i go to enough shows i'll get feed the other big one i'm chasing
is their amazing cover of the Velvet Underground song Rock and Roll. And always looking to grab that one too whenever I can. The Guglia Papyrus, I have to say, is a tune I'm familiar with from Listening to Fish and other shows and stuff like that. And certainly one I would like to catch someday as long as they're playing it. But like I say, Fee and Rock and Roll are two big ones. Fee, they played. Rock and Roll did not get played over the weekend, which I never celebrate that other people didn't get to hear it. But at least I say to myself,
well that was a one song that after i started songs at night shows this summer you know a few shows later they they start cranking it out but you know good for them a good for everybody who was there the saturday night show was was really fun as well as well
just very solid they broke out to start the second set love and cup which set feels like it had not been played all this tour at least any of the shows i was at and i don't think any in the interim because i was followed the set list pretty carefully and of course you know love and cup has become it's it's a great to for one of the greatest albums of all time right the rolling stones exile on main street it was never one of the best known to do that album but certainly a fun to know that i'll come in somewhere right in the middle of you know such an upbeat temple and everything always wanted to
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we would hear and and and enjoy but when i started hearing fish to it i thought that that was just very cool too and this is done it so often you know that the fish heads will say it's a song that fishes kind of made its own you know not unlike the grateful that it not fade away which they had no hand in writing at all but kept played so often by them that a lot of people might be mistaken for thinking that it was in fact a a grateful dead tune of a great love and cop and and the the cross -eyed painless again
I love it when they get to the talking heads. We did see that at Monda Green. I certainly can't complain about that one. It was wonderful. Always love talking heads. They do such a great job on it. Their encore was Bug, which I finally got to see after chasing it forever. And then First Tube, which is a great instrumental and a song that I definitely enjoy whenever it comes up. seems typically, at least in my experience, to be like
a set closer or a second encore, know, the closer of the encores or something like that. And then last night, out of nowhere, they come out and they just start cranking and doing some great breakouts. Again, they opened with Doglog, which was played for the first time since June 20, 2012. 464 shows. That's a pretty significant breakout, in my opinion.
we were all excited when they played st steven after a four -year layover but you know this one is twelve -year layover four hundred sixty four shows they cranked that out with a great runaway gym the moment dance my friend my friend tube fluff had always great stash the life -saving gun the second set prince caspian set your soul free tweezers light a life beyond the dream the howling more which i really like all these songs like characters zero slave to the traffic lights and then they come out
and they do their encore and you know when they do these encores it's just actually always fun to see what they're gonna do so having played tweezers tweezers re tweeper i was a given but that was the second encore the first encore was they pulled out sabotage a song by the american rap group by the beastie boys was released by grand royal records in january nineteen ninety four is the first single of their fourth studio album three communication
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The song features traditional rock instrumentation, turntable scratches, heavily distorted bass guitar riffs, and lead vocals by Ad Rock. A moderate commercial success, the song was notable for its video directed by Spike Jonze. It was also nominated in five categories at the 1994 MTV Music Video Awards. In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Sabotage number 475 on their list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. In 2010, it was dropped to number 480.
in a twenty twenty one update rolling stone we rate the song at number two hundred forty five in march two thousand five q magazine place it at number forty six on its list of the one hundred greatest guitar tracks it was written over eighteen on the age was one hundred greatest songs of the nineties list pitchfork media included the song at number thirty nine on their top two hundred tracks of the nineties so amazing to the great to you again to that might be at least
be a little bit dated for a lot of the dead heads today I just know my son and his crew were mostly all two or three years old when that song came out you know but here they're they're they're taking it on as their own why because this is playing it fishes brought it back and they've and I'm not gonna say that some of these folks were getting into the Beastie Boys on their own I don't mean to imply that but certainly for a lot of people when you go to a show and all of sudden here the song like wow whose song is that that's the Beastie who are the Beastie Boys and then boom now you've been turned on to the whole Beastie Boys catalog
that you know their great musical group and a really great genre and something to really help balance out you know your musical knowledge so again it would have been great to hear sorry we missed it at monday green congrats to all the people at commerce city at dix glad you guys got to see it and maybe we'll feature it next week it's just so recent happened last night that there wasn't really very much we could do about trying to track it down
So sorry about that. But that's it for Fishnow for a little while. This long summer tour where I picked out nine shows, three at Alpine, two in St. Louis, four at Mondagreen, finally comes to an end. And of course, all anybody can say is, when's the next tour? Are they going to do their traditional Halloween tour this year in Las Vegas?
Larry (36:00.404)
the run usually three or four nights including Halloween with either a musical costume one of the other an album that they've covered or new albums that they've written specifically for the occasion and if they play in Las Vegas is it going to be at the Sphere or is there somewhere else they're going to want to go and play this year so right now while sitting back and we're waiting to hear what's going to come next of course there'll be New Year's shows I would imagine in Madison Square Garden and then next year we start all over again Fish in Mexico
summer tour if there's gonna be any festivals there's always texas you know it's just i fight it started to come into my life to the point where i'm i'm looking at my schedules around it and you know recognizing that hey wait a second this is all fun and just as easily as i slipped into that whole dead mode i could just as easily slip in to this vote as well and that would always be a good thing
Dan, I'm taking a time out here because I'm trying to find something that I want to use for my next. Where did I put this?
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Okay, I've got it
Okay, I'm ready.
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but as you'd like to think we all know all of the musical world does not begin and end with fish so as much as i like to talk about that now we do have to go on and recognize other things are going on in the world music in this story that came out is kind of like what's about damn time i don't mean to sound angry or bitter about it but you know he's finally explained of the crazy horse tour cancellation and he says he's promising to return back to the road at some point so here's we find out and
for this story. you to Stereogum and Danielle Chalosky who wrote the article and created this content for us to pass along to you. In June Neil Young canceled the rest of the summer tour with Crazy Horse and was replaced by Sting for next month's Bourbon and Beyond and Ohana festivals. Today the rock legend offered an explanation in a zoom for Neil Young archive members. He says I was doing great we're moving all along. Everybody's loving the shows.
Then I just woke up one morning on the bus and I said, I can't do this. I got to stop. It was like I felt sick when I thought of going on stage. My body was telling me, you got to stop. So I listened to my body. So it gets into all the legal matters. You got this, you got that. People bought tickets. They did this, they did that. I understand that. What matters to me is the art of playing in the music. That's what matters. That's what people loved. That's what they come to see. But if that's not there, me going on is not happening.
My body told me not to do it. But now I'm starting to feel like I could do it again. And that's a great feeling," he continued. Not all of Crazy Horse. This happened to a couple of years ago. Not all the way back. Crazy Horse will be back, willing, and will play more. He will be performing at Farm Aid on September 21. And in the clip, he also said that he'll perform gigs with guitarist Micah Nelson and the promise of the real rhythm section drummer Anthony Logurfo and bassist Corey McCormick. We haven't announced it. He shows yet.
but they're mostly theaters that I played before, little theaters, and then I can play a little bit of acoustic, and then have the band come out and play. They'll probably be on the East Coast, and then going towards Michigan, and then Ohio, and then a few other They won't be marathons. They won't be two hours and 10 minutes of blasting rock and roll like it was with Crazy Horse. So here's what I would say. First of all, I'm very, happy that Neil Young is not ill with something more serious or potentially devastating.
Larry (39:57.65)
no bad diagnosis of anything here doesn't sound like he's and you know just on a personal level that's a good thing that's a wonderful thing certainly that was a concern of everyone over this period of time we were waiting to find out exact what happened with the old and why that show was canceled literally an hour or two hours before showtime at the
lakefront theater here in chicago david p out that maybe pure out by the the planetary northerly island that literally two hours while we were over good buddy ages folks in from out of town is from everywhere we all got the buzz on our phone show canceled due to illness now i will take issue with i don't really know that illness and i woke up one morning saying i can't do this i got a stop for the same thing that to me sounds like he was kind of mentally breaking down a little bit and it may be that he was feeling the effects of
two -hour plus shows that he had been doing up to that point. And yes, you got to listen to your body and all that. But when you've got a stadium full of fans basically sitting around waiting for you to come on stage, you have to understand whether it's right or wrong, folks are disappointed. Folks are wondering, hey, why did you go so hard earlier on the tour? Maybe you should have been pacing yourself all along.
cd you could have got to this point and quite honestly if you woke up one morning on the bus and said i can't do this i gotta stop you know that the big question of course for everyone is why did the announcement come until you know six o 'clock in their five thirty six o 'clock in the evening for show the was slated to start i think around seven thirty you know when it caused the most maximum inconvenience for everybody around you know and i'll get i i will give dot deal the benefit of the doubt
and say that you i'm sure if you started to feel that way he didn't want to immediately bail on this well there's a lot of people out there we're very excited about seeing the show and i'm sure he did want to disappoint fans you know that it's finally at some point it must have just gotten to where he knew he was to be able to play so really sorry about that all of his theater shows sound great and i would see neil anywhere but i'm gonna be very honest about this side talking to
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Alex and a number of the other guys we were going to show with Kerry and others. We weren't going to see small theater, Neil. We were going to see big stage, big concert, big sound, blasting it out, Neil and Crazy Horse. And all those songs that they were just jamming out on that we all wanted to hear so desperately, even if it was just going to be one last time with Neil playing his songs the way they're meant to be played and the way that we all love it.
And so whether or not he'll do more shows with Crazy Horse, whether or not they'll be that deep and electric and just making all that beautiful noise or not, I guess we still don't know the answer to that. But it didn't happen that night. And it's unfortunate that it didn't happen. And it's this balance of, hey, Neil, we love you. Thank god you're not sick. And hey, Neil, what the fuck?
you left us all hanging. But like I say, that is what it is. There's nothing any of us can do about it other than just be happy that Neil is OK and that he will be going out and he will be touring again. And then the rest of us will just have to privately grumble whenever we get together because we're bummed out that we missed it. But these things happen and we move on. And another musical story that we have today that I want to pass on is
that this coming weekend, just a few days here on Saturday and Sunday, is the Miracle in Mundelein 2024. This is the second Miracle in Mundelein. That's Mundelein, Illinois, just north and west of the city. It's an unprecedented cannabis and outdoor concert experience taking place at the RISE Recreational Dispensary in Mundelein, Illinois on September 7th and 8th. Presented by Rhythm Premium Cannabis, RISE Dispensaries, Dayglow, and Deepcut,
the second annual outdoor festival allows legal on -site cannabis consumption. I missed it last year, unfortunately. We had a very close family wedding that we were attending, which was also a bummer because JRad was the musical guest. And certainly seeing JRad would have been something that I would have loved to have been able to do. But we enjoyed being at our good friends' wedding of their son. And my son, Jonathan, was at the first Miracle in Mundelein and gave me great feedback on it, but such that I knew I had to go this year.
Larry (44:40.462)
and so i'm going with jonathan and his fiance bella and i'm going with my son daniel and his good buddy a .j. and we're gonna head up there see friends see clients plants for me of course listen to some fun music and enjoy open cannabis and it's quite a lineup we're gonna be seen on september seventh steel pulse is gonna be one of the earlier groups playing that day and you know they're they're a band from all the way back in the nineteen eighties that
i got turned onto a little bit college and more thereafter a good buddy alex is a big steel pulse fan he happened to notice you before we did that they were playing on the on the bill and you know really suggested that we we make a an opportunity to get out there to hear them which we're going to do also rick one edges off from wu -tang they're gonna be playing in you know wu -tang is one of those bands that i can't say that i'm a big aficionado of rapper hip -hop
but i followed a little bit and be a big fish you know i was vital in records because if you don't need in my world something that i'm very into it i'm very excited about that the people come to be as an expert on vinyl by any means but in fact there's many people out there who i go to get to see you got to experts on vinyl all like cousin eline's husband bill down in san diego who's got the most amazing vital collection i've ever seen but nonetheless by son
daniel's big wu -tang fan and so i've started listening to them a little bit more and it'll be exciting to see some of their members there and then the the highlight of the evening is wiz kalifa coming out to perform i've never seen wiz kalifa either so i'm also very very excited about that so the miracle in mundelein should be a great event it should be a lot of fun and something that'll be nice you know to like i said to be able to spend some time with my boys and the people in their lives are important to them
as well as just a crowd of pro -cannabis, let's have fun types of folks. And I will be reporting on this next week, how my experience at the Miracle in Mundelein goes. hopefully you'll all plan to tune in and listen as I lay that out for you. So always, always so much going on in the music world out there. And it's just nice to know and be able to catch up on it a little bit. But speaking of music and particularly great music, let's dive back in to our show here.
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from 36 years ago today from the Capitol Center in Landover, two nights before my wedding and They played this in the first set
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Althea, a beautiful song when they released it in 1980 on their album Go to Heaven. It quickly became a favorite among the fans. A Hunter Garcia tune, his legendary lyrics were known for embedding multiple layers of meanings in the lyrics, and this song is no exception. Garcia's soulful voice brings Hunter's words to life, but it's the lyrics that leave listeners pondering. The name Althea itself is rooted in the Greek mythology. Althea was the queen of Caledon whose actions led to her son's death.
reflecting themes of fate and consequence. While the song doesn't explicitly connect to this myth, the illusion to your fire might be a subtle nod to Althea's tragic tale. Althea was performed live by the Grateful Dead 273 times, making it a staple in their repertoire. Dennis McNally, one of the Dead's chroniclers, his belief is that the band overplayed it in the early 80s. Fans cherish its live rendition.
The song's adaptability and depth allowed it to grow with the listeners much like a trusted pair of pants with a sturdy elastic waistband. And now as we said, it was played 273 times. It was first played on August 4, 1979 at Oakland Civic Auditorium in Oakland, California. And it was last played on July 8, 1995 at Soldier Field. And as I promised, Dire Wolf was last played on July 2, 1995.
at your creek music theater in noblesville wisconsin althea great tune always reminds me of a good of my good buddy tommy who was loved althea we know that it was john mayors favorite tune and when he played he used to really like to rock it out it's just one of those tunes you never grew tired of hearing partly because when garcia was playing it was so special and after that anytime anybody else plays it is because it always reminds you of garcia
and how special it was when he was playing it. So a great version of Althea on that day. And everybody at this show, I think, just really rocking out and truly enjoying themselves out there in Maryland. And the folks that were at my wedding and missed it, again, sorry about that. But hope you had a good time at the wedding. So now that the dad closed out the first set, we make our way to the start of the second set.
Larry (51:13.598)
And the start of the second set in a dead show I think of as always being the most pivotal moment in a dead show. First set, depending on what they open with, can make a big difference in the show. Like we talked about them some time once coming out and opening with Scarlet Fire at a show I saw in Chicago or something else like that. But inevitably, it would then go back to becoming a first set. So you'd get Little Red Rooster and you'd get all those other tunes, again, which we talk about loving.
not necessarily falling into that special category that you thought was happening because they open the show with Scarlet Fire. But still it was always fun to see it there. But without a doubt, the start of the second set to me could always be what makes or breaks a Grateful Dead concert. Because no matter how good the first set is, whether it's absolutely rockin', whether it was flat, whether it was a bunch of tunes you just heard recently, whether there was a few breakouts,
It was always the second set. That's the time when whatever you took had finally kicked in and you were really ready to just let loose. During set break, everybody was really getting pumped up and in the spirit. And the lights would go out. They'd come out there and we'd all just be standing on our tiptoes waiting to see where are they going to take us with the second set. And whenever it opened like this, we knew we were in for a good night.
Larry (54:24.618)
So everybody knows Scarlett Begonia's the Garcia Hunter tune that was released on From the Mars Hotel on July 24th, 1974. The group first performed the song live on March 23rd, 1974 at the Cal Palace in Daly City, California. And from that moment on, I think it just became a fan favorite. Now it was always traditionally paired with Fire on the Mountain, but that didn't begin until 1977.
Once Fire on the Mountain came out, Scarlett Begonias would most often be paired with it when played live, resulting in what would be nicknamed a Scarlett Fire string of songs with the first iteration of the iconic pairing on February, March 18, 1977 at Winterland in San Francisco. Prior to that time, Scarlett would just be played without fire, and it could kind of show up anywhere, first set, second set. And I have to say, it's always strange listening to a concert when they play Scarlett without jumping into fire.
you know, that's just the way they would do it. So at that show on March 18, 77, the first time they matched the two songs together, what was interesting about it was that they played the combo to close the first set. It was almost always a second set opener, right? And so to do it the first time as a first set closer must have been very interesting. But I think that's the way the dad liked to feature breakouts from time to time and just drop things in there and then give you all something to think about during the set break instead of taking it out and
you know really cranking it out after that i had to play this because the opening is just so special it sends a message to the deadheads you see those open here those opening notes they're very distinctive there's no guessing at that point what they're playing everybody knows it and it just let you know the good things lay ahead i think it's a best second set opener in their arsenal there's few things i love more than a second set opener of scarlet fire and
you know there's just nothing I say like the reaction of the crowd when you hear those first few notes. It's a great, basically what it makes you think of is I'm about to get a great 25 minutes of grooving music and just wonderful for mind exercises you may be experiencing at the time. It's great for shaking out all of the muscle stiffness that may have set in during the set break when you're sitting down and you stand up and you've got to stretch a little bit and they just crank into scarlet begonias and it just gets you going.
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you know, the time they make their way into Fire on the Mountain and then make their way out of Fire on the Mountain, you didn't always know what the boys were going to do after that. But at that point, you felt like they could just do anything. And we are on for this ride. you know, wake me up in an hour and a half when the set finally ends. Not because I'm sleeping during it, but because I'm so deeply into it that, you know, when it would finally end, you'd kind of just almost be wandering around, you know, in a daze. What did we just hear? What just happened?
And that's the beauty of Scarlet Pagonias and to Fire on the Mountain. They played Scarlet 317 times, Fire they only played 254 times, but again, there was about a three year gap between the two tunes, so Scarlet was getting played quite a bit before Fire ever came along, and then there were times at Red Rocks in 1984 on the first night we saw them do Scarlet into At Least I'm Enjoying the Ride.
and you know hell in a bucket and that was very very strange and different we had heard that they were doing something like that but nevertheless when it happened you know it's still kind of caught us a little bit off guard why aren't you going into fire but it was great fun to do that there was other times when they would play scarlet and you know one of the new songs right so hell in a bucket or whatever else it might be and then into fire and then into wherever else they were going to go but a true traditional scarlet fire nothing like it
and it was just just great and something we all love to see we're now going to take a break from our concert here and we're gonna switch gears and go to talk about some marijuana news and dan what do you have for us to start this off
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So maybe not quite cannabis, but certainly a recreational drug, as that term is understood in American culture today. And it was written and recorded in 1976 by singer -songwriter J .J. Cal. The song was popularized by Eric Clapton after his version was released on the 1977 album, Slow Hand, which was the album of the summer for us after sophomore year of high school. J .J. Cal's version of Cocaine.
was the number one hit in New Zealand for a single week and became the seventh best -selling single of 1977. Now, we bring this song up today because another show that Dan just saw recently is a band called The Journeyman. When a tribute band is all in and gives it their all, it's almost as if you're seeing the actual artist live right in front of you. And that's exactly what Journeyman does. They are a tribute to Eric Clapton featuring Sean Haig.
Perhaps it's just my assumption, this is review of the show, perhaps it's just my assumption as to the era of Sean is replicating however considering his choice of tunage as well as his garb right down to his horn rim glasses, one would easily believe that he was stepping out of the 1990s and the running on faith tour. Starting us off with Laydown Sally, Sean and his band featuring Dina Bach provided backing vocals, Brandon Stevens on six string bass, Robert Monroe on keys,
Darius Peterson Peterson of the drums they burned through some of Eric's greatest hits including forever man and after midnight playing nearly an hour before Setting the guitar down and taking a 20 -minute break Excuse me I've seen Eric and concert twice And I missed journeyman the first time they toured the area So I told myself I'd make sure to be at their next performance as a tribute artist is concerned. Mr. Hague leaves it all on the stage
every note, tone, and little nuance that makes Eric Clapton, it's plain to see that Sean has more than replicated Clapton's style. He's cloned his personality. And that is what makes Journeyman the ultimate tribute artist. Well done, Sean. Well done. Now, I have not seen them. Dan saw this band and was raving about them. But you know, got to say, there's cover bands and artists you can cover, and there's artists you can cover. You have to be a brave man to go out there and cover Eric Clapton, truly one of the great guitar heroes of our time.
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five all that kind of stuff just an amazing talented amazing artist and really a unique style of playing guitar and something he was just always fun to hear so hats off to the journeyman and Sean for being able to pull that off when you're making Dan Humiston happy you know you're doing a good job and so that's our that's our lead into the the American marijuana news today now marijuana news today is very interesting because we're seeing some stuff
kind of go all over the place here. Let's start out, thank you to Marijuana Moment again for providing the content for today's marijuana stories. We find that Donald Trump is supporting the Florida Marijuana Legalization Ballot Measure. He just wants to make sure that they ban public smoking. So he said this past week that he believes voters in his home state of Florida will approve a marijuana legalization initiative on the November ballot, arguing that so much should not be a criminal in Florida when this is legal in so many other states. Now just stop right there.
This may be the first time that I actually absolutely agree with Donald Trump. And I always find that a little bit disquieting, because you never really know what his motivation is when he says something. But certainly, that's impressive. And he added that the current policy ruins lives, wastes taxpayers' dollars, and puts people at risk of dying from cannabis tainted with fentanyl. Again.
I agree with all that. I'm not so sure about the cannabis tainted with fentanyl that that's as big of an issue as he seems to think it is. But it's certainly an issue out there. And there's no doubt that when you have a legal marijuana market that's highly regulated and everything's expected and tested before it can be sold, that the fact that you're getting clean cannabis, whether it's tainted with fentanyl or PCP or anything else that might be out there, is a good thing.
the former president once lawmakers in florida follow up on legalization of voters approve it but he wants to pass a law banning public cannabis consumption in trump said florida like so many other states that have already given their approval personal amounts of marijuana will be legalized with amendment five excuse me amendment three whether people like it or not this will happen though the approval of through the approval of the voters solution be done correctly we need the state legislature in florida responsibly create laws
Larry (01:03:41.502)
that prohibits use of it in public spaces so that we do not smell marijuana everywhere we go like we do in many of the democratic -run cities. had it. Now, that's just a little dig at democratic -run cities, but I say you go into any big city in this country today, maybe even ones in states that don't have legalized marijuana, and you smell people smoking marijuana. So sorry, Donald, I'm with you right up to that point, but that's not the thing. But then he goes right back into the good stuff at the same time.
Someone should not be a criminal in Florida when this is legal in so many states. We do not need to ruin lives and taxpayers' dollars arresting adults with personal amounts of it on them. And no one should grieve a loved one because they died from fentanyl -laced marijuana." Well, again, the first part of that is right on. I haven't heard of very many people dying from fentanyl -laced marijuana. But certainly, I appreciate the sentiment that he's saying there, which is that,
We just have to be careful and the importance of legal markets is that we know that we are not getting marijuana tainted in a way that drugs might be back in the day. was PCP or angel dust that everybody was worried about smoking. that's just the way it is. course, Florida Senator Joe Gruters, who's a Republican and a former state Republican party chairman, was very excited about this.
he says he's incredibly proud to have president trump stand alongside us in our effort to end the lesser rest incarceration of adults for simple possession of marijuana and to give floridians the same individual freedoms to choose safe tested products the more than half the country already enjoy he says that he's promised to push legalization to ban public marijuana smoking if the voters approved so okay look this is just good stuff right we're talking about marijuana we're talking about donald trump
you know, certainly starting to look into some of these issues and quite frankly, doing it in a way that, least on the surface, indicates that maybe he does care about this a little bit, and those of us who also care about it, it's a pleasure to see. I'm not going to slam Trump on this or say that his thoughts are hypocritical or anything like that, because with Trump, most of the stuff that he says is self -centered and hypocritical. But nevertheless,
Larry (01:05:57.022)
you know at least his position right now. Now of course the problem with Trump is you never know. Is he saying this just to get elected and then as soon as he gets elected he's going to turn around and clamp it down? We all thought there was a chance that Trump would legalize it in his first term because it's a money -making thing which you know suits his needs as well as the fact that it seemed like a great way to make inroads on capturing the vote of younger voters in their early twenties.
and you know and around there people who for who it's a very big issue and they'd be great to see that it was finally legalized dot the trump did do that but you know at least he is now telling us that he dot is in favor of the florida initiative and quite frankly i think that that's a very good thing however this could only happen in the republican party because republican parties you know we've talked about the number of people in that party
who have been opposed to legalization who've been opposed to rescheduling usually giving us no reason to know what those people's are good friend run to say it is the republican governor of the state of florida and he has now doubled down on his opposition campaign against a marijuana legalization initiative that will appear on the november ballot a prominent conservative pollsters reminding his party that the issue enjoys sizable bipartisan support
and a fresh poll out of Florida shows the legalization measure passing by a comfortable margin. DeSantis earlier caught flak from cannabis advocates and industry stakeholders after calling the proposed marijuana reform that Floridians will get a chance to decide on bad policy and even worse constitutional law. He also accused the major cannabis company, Truelieve, of financially supporting the legalization campaign so that it gets a constitutionally protected monopoly on the market, arguing that Amendment 3 was written by the company's CEO.
This comes a week after DeSantis, Safers, and Rivers feuded over the state legalization initiative, drawing attention to the anti -cannabis governor's position on home cultivation, which would not be legalized under the current reform. But overall, polling, both nationally and at the state level, raised questions over the political thinking behind the governor's ongoing vocal opposition to cannabis reform. While not all surveys have shown the measure reaching the steep 60 % threshold,
Larry (01:08:13.278)
needed to enact a constitutional amendment at the ballot under Florida law. It has consistently proved popular among the majority of Floridians. And as you know, we have really given DeSantis a hard time on this, even though he has such popular support in his state. He's being a know -it -all. He's being an I'm going to intrude into your life. He's being a big government that's now going to step in, even though this is exactly what
conservatives fight against and he's gonna push against this and i can't quite frankly of a more fun day on election day they're watching what happens with this initiative we already know the trump and de santos just don't like each other trump was brutal on him all the senses was still trying to run for office in two cents is learned are these not the biggest bully on the block and i think was humbled a little bit by that all sorts of things are happening in florida right now or a lot of his
anti -woke positions and stuff on what teachers can and cannot teach in school are getting challenged in courts and he's losing all over the place because again this is you know the United States of America and we do have something called the Constitution and despite what folks like DeSantis and other hardcore Republicans like to think the Constitution provides a lot of things that are just not really up for debate you know even though DeSantis
likes to think they are. So a lot of his policies are just getting shot down right and left. But I love the fact that Donald Trump is taking a huge dig at him without bothering to call DeSantis out. But knowing that DeSantis, for whatever his reasons, is so opposed to something that the constituents of his state are so firmly in favor of, and maybe this is his hill he wants to die on now. I don't know. But it will be very interesting to see where this all comes out.
and this is the overall support for the mayor legalization it could be more even listen to this in florida by age eighteen to thirty four seventy nine percent approved thirty five to fifty four seventy one percent of approved fifty five and over even sixty four percent approved their by party democrats eighty percent approved republicans fifty five percent approved that's not bad that's still the majority
Larry (01:10:26.152)
and i think that there's many republicans there who were saying no just because they hear guys like the census and other people saying no it may really don't know what's going on with it i can't say for sure but that's the sense i have that independence or seventy percent favor so the bottom line is is that an overwhelming majority of citizens in this country across all age groups across all political identifiers across any categories you can think of support marijuana legalization and why not because they're smart enough to understand
that marijuana is no worse than alcohol, no worse than nicotine, no worse than caffeine. In fact, not as bad as any of them in terms of what it does to humans, what it does to lost work time, and what it does just across the board on any of the factors that we look at when trying to determine what substances are safe and what substances are not safe. And people who have smoked marijuana, for them it's all kind of a, well, duh, of course it doesn't hurt you. Of course it's not bad unless
you really sit around and smoke too much and get higher than your brain is capable of handling. even in that situation, you go find a bed or a couch, you lie down, you turn down the lights, and you put on some soft music, you put on a TV show or something that you're comfortable with. If you have a friend, they sit with you and kind of talk you down through it. And then an hour or two later, the primary buzz kicks off or ends, and you're on your way back.
like we said, is not for everybody, and that's true. But these aren't 100 % numbers that are coming out, but they are an overwhelming majority percent of numbers. And in a country where almost every political issue is razor thin, the difference between 51 .5 % and 49 .5 % that support it, it puts you in a position where when you see a spread this large and such an overwhelming majority of positive people, it really makes you sit up and take notice.
that this is happening and so you know guys like the status of guys other republicans who who've we've listened to especially folks from kansas and other states were so popular and again they would be so patronizing to us and tell us you don't really know what you're talking about you don't really know what this means if you did you would never support it don't worry folks we know where your caretakers and we're gonna make sure that this bad marijuana doesn't come to your neighborhood fuck all these guys seriously we don't need that we don't want them
Larry (01:12:46.966)
and they're very very stupid they don't have any understanding of the subject matter that they're talking about and they're taking a position that appeals to them because it's more of a moral position which has a much greater support of the republican party that it doesn't the democratic party in terms of being prohibitionists and you know things like that you know there may be democrats who don't smoke marijuana but they don't spend their lives running around telling everybody else who can or cannot smoke marijuana so we just need politicians particularly on the right to stop this
we need them to start listening to what they're saying and listen to the people who they represented quite frankly this case is odd as it may seem listen to president trump for god's sakes because at least on this issue at least for the moment he's on the right side of history so we'll give them credit for that and hope that all the rest of you will catch up with that and and join in as well now on the positive side of things we move back to illinois we find that all the officials announced
last week that they are awarding $35 million in grants to 88 local organizations using funds generated from taxes on adult use marijuana sales to support community reinvestment efforts. The funding is being offered through the state's Restore, Reinvest and Renew program that was established under Illinois' 2019 Legalization Law. It requires 25 % of cannabis tax revenue to support areas most harmed by the disproportionate damage caused by the war on drugs. The Illinois Criminal Justice Information
authority said. Illinois created the most equity -centric cannabis program in the nation and the R3 program is a fundamental component of our state's legalization framework. Governor J .B. Pritzker, Democrat, who signed marijuana legalization into law, said in a press release, by funding smaller community organizations in areas harmed by years of disinvestment and excessive incarceration, we are taking enormous strides towards justice and expanding opportunities for all.
since launching the r three program elinor has awarded over two hundred and forty four million dollars in marijuana revenue funded grants to that end for too many communities that have suffered from systemic injustice and a criminal legal system that unfairly targets marginalized groups lieutenant governor juliana strand said elinor equity focused cannabis elinor's equity focused cannabis reform is a step in addressing these issues the r three program not only provides funding
Larry (01:15:06.27)
but also empowers local organizations to create safer, stronger communities, giving every Illinoisian the chance to thrive. Among the grants recipients are the KKK County State Attorney's Office, Northern Illinois Recovery Community Organization, Boys and Girls Club of Lake County, Illinois Reliance for Reentry and Justice, the Salvation Army, and Volunteers of America of Illinois. And the group's also touting their initiative to innovate.
I2I, is meant to support smaller organizations in managing their grant funding. Capacity building is the key to equity, executive director Del Rhys Adams said. I2I is a game changer for grassroots organizations with little to no grant management experience. For many of these organizations, the limited capacity for grant management and the lack of organizational infrastructure became barriers to providing initiative services that address the needs to their communities.
So the importance of this, of course, is that with legal access and all this money being generated, it's just nice to see where this money is going and that some of it is actually being used for positive purposes. And quite frankly, this money that's going into these neighborhoods is light years ahead and above the idea of social equity with respect to ownership of licenses for cultivators or dispensary owners or manufacturers.
because again the overwhelming majority of those not withstanding the social equity program continue to go to the people who are not black who are not hispanic and that's just a fault on the part of the program the way that was set up the way that they kind of continue to push it in the wrong direction which almost guarantees that the number of licenses awarded to social equity people will never be anywhere near the percentage it should be
But if they're not going to help them that way, at least if they can turn around and pour money into their neighborhoods to help them and to help rebuild their neighborhoods and to help give everyone there a better chance, that would also be a very good thing and a very strong thing and something they would like to see. But hats off to Illinois. I do give them credit for this. This is a good thing overall. And it's moving things in the right direction too in terms of normalization and kind of extolling the benefits that a state can recognize.
Larry (01:17:31.368)
from legal cannabis so you know even if some of these groups are some of the people who are part of these groups are not cannabis people are never would have thought of cannabis they're gonna be getting huge financial reinvestment dollars and so that instance we do have cannabis to thank as well as illinois government for doing something positive like this and moving everything in the right direction finally on our marijuana news today
This is great, but maybe it shouldn't come as a surprise given what we're talking about. But the California State Senate has approved assembly passed bills allowing small marijuana growers to sell their products directly to consumers at state organized farmers markets and to legalize cannabis cafes in the state. Now this is huge. If you're a small grower and you're trying to compete in the current California market, it's very, very difficult. There's so many licensed growers.
there's so many unlicensed growers that it can be very, difficult to maintain it, to get it down, to get it shipped, find processors or dispensaries that will buy it from you. And the temptation, of course, is always to want to go to the black market. And now what the of California is doing is they're giving them an alternative to that. You can go to state sponsored, state organized farmers markets, and you can take your crop and you can just sell it legally.
it on tuesday the senators were twenty seven to five to advance the marijuana farmers markets measure from assembly members also approved the kids cafe proposal proposal from other democratic assembly members the former bill would also delight on will allow on site cannabis consumption and approved events if enacted however the law would not mean that small cultivators could freely market their products alongside other traditional vendors selling fruits and vegetables
unless there was local and state regulatory approval to sell marijuana at a specialized area. The bill cleared the assembly in late May with nearly unanimous support. Before moving to the Senate, where it passed through two committees, it will still need to go back to assembly for concurrence on Senate amendments. Under the proposal, the Department of Cannabis Control would be authorized to issue a state temporary event license to a licensee authorizing on -site cannabis sales.
Larry (01:19:47.306)
to and consumption by persons 21 years of age or older at certain venues expressly approved by local jurisdictions as specified in the bill. And that's just a big thing. hopefully that will all get passed. That will all get put into play. And I think it will be a really good thing if it does and something that certainly we would like to see in every state that has marijuana legalized now because it is a good thing. It's a good thing for the growers. It's a good thing.
for for community member you you just cut out everybody all the middleman all everybody other maybe questions about the safety of of that marijuana meaning in terms of has it been tested or for pesticides or anything else that that might show up the bike potentially damaging or detrimental to users and it was just a rather though the answer that question and i don't know what the state is going to do about that but nevertheless you know if these are legacy growers
you know, we would have to see, but I certainly would be willing, for one, I think, to try out their samples at the farmers markets. And I imagine that a lot of people will, too. And hopefully, this will lead to bigger and better things. Again, normalizing marijuana so that people who walk into a farmers market are ready to see something like this. It doesn't take them by surprise. It doesn't sour them on the experience or anything else.
overall marijuana news today not bad you know even right up to president trump throwing his support behind florida's cannabis measure of course we do have the ron de santos is of the world all the sour pusses who are always going to be just that but hopefully in a relatively short period of time their political people have come and passed and we will be back to politicians who may not agree on all the issues but duly screen of things like what is true and what is not true and what are the basic values under underlying this country
And things like that. But in the meantime, don't forget, everybody loves marijuana, even if they say they don't. OK, back to our show of September 2, 1988 at the Cap Center. And as we venture into the second set and kind of get past the space and drums, Bobby pulls out this Bob Dylan tune.
Larry (01:24:11.178)
all along the watchtower as a song written by American singer -songwriter Bob Dylan from his eighth studio album John Wesley Harding which was released in 1967. The song was written by Dylan and produced by Bob Johnston. Its lyrics which in its original version contain 12 lines feature a conversation between a joker and a thief. song has been subject to various interpretations. Some reviewers have noted that it echoes lines in the book of Isaiah chapters 21 verses 5 through 9.
Dylan has released several different live performances and versions of the song are included in some of his subsequent greatest hits compilations. Covered by numerous artists, the song is most strongly identified with the interpretation Jimi Hendrix recorded with the Jimi Hendrix Experience on their third studio album, Electric Ladyland, in 1968. The Hendrix version released six months after Dylan's original recording became a top 20 single in 1968.
received a Grammy Hall of Fame award in 2001 and was ranked 48th in Rolling Stone magazine's 500th greatest songs of all time in 2004, 40th in the 2021 version. first played the song live in concert on the Bob Dylan and the Band 1974 tour, his first tour since 1966. His live performances have been influenced by the Hedger covers to the extent that they've been called covers of a cover. Dylan has performed the song live more than any of his other ones with over
two thousand two hundred fifty recitals. Hendrix was a known Dylan fan, even once cleared a dance floor by demanding that Blowing in the Wind be played in the New York club in a 1967 interview. Hendrix described Dylan's influence on his own songwriting saying, I can never write the kind of words he does, Hendrix said, but he's helped me out in trying to write two or three words because I've got a thousand songs that will never be finished. I just lie around and write about two or three words, but now I have little more confidence in trying to finish one. Hendrix
acquired a copy of John Wesley Harding before the album's official release and instantly knew he had to cover one of the tracks. Initially he was planning to record I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine, but after further consideration chose All Along the Watchtower. He claimed he had a natural gravitation towards that track. The songs Dylan usually gave me are so close to me that I felt like I wrote them myself, he added. With All Along the Watchtower, I had that feeling. Less than two months after Dylan's recording the original Hendrix was in the studio laying down his version.
Larry (01:26:30.762)
So that's pretty crazy. The Grateful Dead started playing it while touring with Dylan in the summer of 1987. And while not necessarily one of their greatest tours, and Dylan not being as sharp as he might be on a night by night basis, or in other tours, when they got to this tune, the crowd really responded. So much so that after the tour ended, the Dead just kept it in their repertoire and played it until the end of that section we recorded. It's far and away.
you know one of my favorite parts where they just they'd they're just jamming in a jamming in a jamming it leading into the all along the watchtower line and coming out of it and such a great song jerry just really played it bobby was up his rhythm guitar and his vocals are really belted it out everybody else in the baby a couple of still bombs along the way and watchtower was just always a great great song to hear a real fan favorite they played a hundred eighteen times
was first played on june twentieth nineteen eighty seven at the greek theater out in berkeley it was last played on june twenty second nineteen ninety five the nickerbocker arena in albany new york fun tune loved by all we're getting to the end of our time today we have one more to do we're gonna play for you in a minute and i will get to that shortly just have a couple quick shout outs i want to give the first one as to my wife who i'm celebrating my thirty six anniversary with
in two days coming up here on wednesday and also to good friends herald and robin who also are september fourth wedding anniversaries the next day on september fifth my good buddy johnny down in atlanta having an anniversary with his lovely wife alley birthday coming up this week to my son's fiancee bella whose actually birthday is today so happy shout out birthday to bella
and my sister -in -law's sister down in st louis jackie g having a birthday so we gotta give her a shout out to so what's going on this time of year and the summer kids get ready to go back to school the concert scene dix is over so everybody's figured where my gonna go get my next jam from but it's a good point we stop we catch our breath we look around a little bit before we know it'll be the middle of the fall fall tours for bands all over the place will be kicking in we've got tickets to see goose in the not too distant future
Larry (01:28:47.46)
we've got tickets for jay redd coming up in a couple of months we're going up to the miracle in monday line and know anything else that happens show up along the way that might be fun if it's live music it's almost always guaranteed to be fun so very very excited about that thank you to dan for not only getting us some good transition tunes today but the stories behind them that's always a fun part of our show that as we leave we're gonna we're gonna leave today with black muddy river
which is a quote -unquote new song we always considered to be as for a new song pretty decent i was almost always played as an encore it was a fan favorite in the twin cities st louis memphis and new orleans they're all situated on or near the mississippi river sometimes they would play to those cities and sometimes they would wait and play it until they were in the middle of nowhere with no river around for miles or miles that's just the dead and you just kind of accepted that laughed at it and moved on
towards the edge jerry seemed to lose his enthusiasm for it so for example when he rose to the occasion at the last show on july ninth nineteen ninety five and belted out a version of so many roads for the ages his black money river encore left a lot to be desired and really the story goes that phil decided right at that moment as they were playing the last notes that they could not in the summer tour on such a low note so he pushed the band
back to go into box of rain making that song the last one ever played concert by the band rather than black money river and made for a much nicer you know farewell even though we didn't know it at the time that i'd very good version of black money river i could have ever been so you know props to fill because he he changed the whole dynamic of the very last song ever played live in concert by the grateful dad and it's too bad because a few years before black money river could have very been
very well -bidded candidate for that the way it was being played but you know at the end it wasn't so great on this version that we're gonna play you from thirty six years ago today as a young one it's very strong jerry's voice rings true you can hear the energy build up inside him as he belts out the final lines of the song a song that sent all of those at the cap center out into the night longing for more without even knowing yet what awaited them the very next night when they were going to get that ripple
Larry (01:31:03.144)
somewhere there the next night somewhere that's the storage that's the story of the dead and touring just like fish wait to play dicks wait to play fiat dicks after we saw them all over the place right sometimes you get it sometimes you don't but anytime you get black muddy river you know at least before ninety five i'd be needed the first second half of ninety four you know jerry just really seemed to love it as you'll hear in this version that that played at sixty six times
first played on December 15th, 1986 in Oakland, Alameda County Coliseum. And the final time was July 9th, 1995 at Soldier Field, the penultimate final song of the Grateful Dead. Not really performed well on that day, but this version is great. Enjoy it. Thank you for listening. We'll look forward to talking to you next week and bringing you up to speed on all sorts of stuff. And as always, please enjoy your cannabis responsibly. Happy Labor Day.