Grateful Dead

Welcome back to the Tapers' Section, and Merry Christmas to those celebrating the day. This week we have music spanning 12 years of Grateful Dead, filled with holiday cheer!

Our first selection is from 2/11/70 at the Fillmore East in New York, the first show of a three night run that featured two much more famous shows than this (2/13&14/70). But, 2/11/70 had some stellar playing as well, including this sequence of Dark Star>Spanish Jam>Lovelight filled with special guests.

Next up is music from a very rare appearance of an audience tape here at the Tapers' Section, with music from 1/31/78 in Chicago. The board tapes of this show do exist in the vault and sound excellent, but we also enjoy a good audience tape here, so here is a good first set ending sequence of Candyman, Minglewood, TLEO, Let It Grow.

Lastly this week is music from 2/19/82 in San Diego. If you missed it last week, go back to the Tapers' Section archive here on dead.net and check out the post-Drums sequence from this show. Here is the pre-Drums sequence (including the last song of the first set): Minglewood Blues, Alabama Getaway>Promised Land, Ship of Fools, Lost Sailor>Saint of Circumstance.

Be sure to check in next week for more great tunes from the vault here at the Tapers' Section as we roll into 2011.

David Lemieux
vault@dead.net