Dead Show/podcast for 11/15/19

The Deadpod

John Henrikson

Performing Arts, Gratefuldead, Grateful, Dead, Arts, Music

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🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week I chose to bring you an unusual show from November 2, 1984 at the Berkeley Community Theater. This was the 4th show of a 5 show run at this small venue, close to home for the band and their fans and it has an intimate feel to it. The band is quite loose, too loose sometimes (listen to Bobby completely lose the lyrics to El Paso) but also interested in mixing things up as you can see from the setlist. A strong 'Jack Straw' starts things up. While Jerry's voice is not at its best this night a wonderful 'Peggy O ' follows then the aforesaid 'El Paso', saved as it were by a great Garcia solo. Jerry perhaps sticks it to Bobby a bit with the 'Loser' that follows, but that goes into what is probably the highlight of the set a nice 'Smokestack Lightning>Spoonful' combination. The set ends, quite early, with 'Iko, Iko' with a very unusual opening..

We'll hear a solid set 2 from this show next week..

Grateful Dead
Berkeley Community Theatre
Berkeley, CA
11/2/84 - Friday

One

Jack Straw [6:29] >
Peggy-O [7:06] ;
El Paso [6:09] ;
Loser [6:55] >
Smokestack Lightnin' [6:16] >
Spoonful [4:23] ;
Iko Iko [8:23]

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to Deadpot for the week of November 15th, 20,019.
0:05.6	This is a professor.
0:06.3	I'm so glad to pick us up this week.
0:08.6	This week I'm going to bring you an interesting show.
0:11.0	This took place back on November the 2nd, 1984 at the Berkeley
0:15.5	Community Theater in Berkeley, California. This was the fourth of five shows that the boys
0:21.4	put on at the Berkeley Community Theater, homecoming of sorts, a very small venue.
0:25.0	Of course, they're playing at home.
0:27.0	And they're, I think it's somewhat more looser, more experimental, more jamming than in some of the shows during that period.
0:35.0	Sort of look forward to how they mixed up the setlist in 85.
0:39.0	But they definitely, I think, playing with a good energy, and this is quite a nice show I think you'll enjoy it
0:45.3	The set list starts out with a real
0:48.8	Nice jackstrue into a nice long stretched out pegy.
0:51.8	El Paso follows quite nicely done loser.
0:55.2	Smokestack lightning into spoonful into smokestack really a nice first set jamming there and
1:02.4	they close with a unusual closer Iko Iko which
1:08.0	is quite nicely done I think you'll enjoy this first set it's very different
1:11.3	we'll play the second set next week, but it's a unique show, a unique
1:16.1	venue and hope you enjoy it. Thanks so much for picking us up this week and for your support of the
1:21.2	Dead Pod. I really appreciate it.
1:23.0	I hope you're all doing well and staying warm and see you back here next week.
1:27.0	This is a professor and you're listening to the Dead Pod. 1, 2.5, 2, 3, 4,
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