There are soundboard versions of this show floating around but this Charlie Miller audience remaster is incredible. This show is worth it for no other reason than the second set-opening "Feel Like A Stranger"...Damn.
"Who'd have thought that forty-six years after playing their first gig together, Bob Weir and Phil Lesh would still care so much about their music? It would have been forgivable if after so much time, their live show had ground down to a well-rehearsed routine or nothing more than a workmanlike celebration of their greatest hits; there are plenty of classic rock acts on the road that give their audiences just that and still manage to send them home happy.
But, simple crowd-pleasing has never been the forte of anyone associated with the Grateful Dead. From the very beginning, they've asked more than that from their audience. Being a Deadhead has always been more of a back and forth two-way conversation between the artists and fans. It's never been simply about consuming pre-digested entertainment that can be carelessly disposed of and forgotten as easily as a fast food wrapper. There's always been lots of gristle to ruminate over and chew on as the music Bob Weir and Phil Lesh are conjuring these days continues to demand so much of the listener. In the public imagination, The Grateful Dead may always remain as little more than a psychedelic band - a throwback to the summer of love who lull their soft-headed fans with utopian ballads about peace and contentment. Fortunately, that's only the tip of the iceberg as anyone who's followed the music's nearly fifty year history knows..."
Read the full article, by Dale Rangzen, at Cannabis Culture
The "Playin' in the Band" from this show ranks #3 on "The Best of the Grateful Dead Project's" list of the ultimate versions of the song. Check out their PITB list here and have a listen below.
Set I: Promised Land, Sugaree, Mexicali Blues, Loser, Black Throated Wind, Tennessee Jed, El Paso, Big Railroad Blues, Box Of Rain, China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider, Beat It On Down The Line, Brown Eyed Women, Around & Around, Casey Jones
Set II: Bertha-> Greatest Story Ever Told, He's Gone, Mississippi Half Step, Sugar Magnolia, One More Saturday Night
Encore: Uncle John's Band
Set I: Promised Land, Sugaree, Mexicali Blues, Loser, Black Throated Wind, Tennessee Jed, El Paso, Big Railroad Blues, Box Of Rain, China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider, Beat It On Down The Line, Brown Eyed Women, Around & Around, Casey Jones
Set II: Bertha-> Greatest Story Ever Told, He's Gone, Mississippi Half Step, Sugar Magnolia, One More Saturday Night
Encore: Uncle John's Band
Now this is interesting!
The New York Times website has an archive of all of its Grateful Dead-related content available to read. This includes items like Pigpen's death notice from 1973, an Academy of Music review from 1972, and interesting bits from 1976, 1978, and a whole bunch more.
Well worth some time rooting around.
The New York Times website has an archive of all of its Grateful Dead-related content available to read. This includes items like Pigpen's death notice from 1973, an Academy of Music review from 1972, and interesting bits from 1976, 1978, and a whole bunch more.
Well worth some time rooting around.
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From Dead.net: "
1976 was a pivotal year for the Grateful Dead. After an 18-month hiatus that saw just four Bay Area appearances by the band, but also a phenomenal studio album, Blues for Allah, and a slew of solo projects, the Dead returned to the road at the beginning of June ’76. Mickey Hart was officially back in the fold after a long absence, and the band came back with a batch of new songs and fresh approaches to playing their old ones. It was the summer of America’s much-ballyhooed bicentennial, the country was still going through Watergate withdrawal, and we needed our Grateful Dead back!
This latest edition of our Road Trips series, Vol. 4 No. 5, was drawn from two shows early on what was dubbed by many Heads at the time as the GD’s “comeback” tour. It contains the truly awe-inspiring complete June 9, 1976 Boston Music Hall show (just the third of the tour, but you’d never guess that), and also a handful of hot tracks from the June 12 show at the same venue. For a band that hadn’t played together in eons, the Dead sound remarkably self-assured and on-the-ball throughout.
This release does not contain a bonus disc.
Boston Music Hall concert from June 9, 1976
TRACKLIST
CD 1:
1. Cold Rain and Snow
2. Cassidy
3. Scarlet Begonias
4. The Music Never Stopped
5. Crazy Fingers
6. Big River
7. They Love Each Other
8. Looks Like Rain
9. Ship Of Fools
10. Promised Land
CD 2
1. St. Stephen>
2. Eyes of the World>
3. Let It Grow
4. Brown-Eyed Women
5. Lazy Lightning>
6. Supplication
7. High Time
8. Samson and Delilah
9. It Must Have Been The Roses
CD 3
1. Dancing In The Street>
2. Wharf Rat>
3. Around and Around
4. Franklin's Tower
Bonus tracks from 6/12/76
5. Mission In The Rain
6. The Wheel
7. Comes A Time
8. Sugar Magnolia>
9. U.S. Blues>
10. Sunshine Daydream"
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