The Daily Nugs - July 7, 2024
From Grateful Dead of the Day
Playing the last event at JFK Stadium back in 1989, the Dead torched the show. The first set closed with a brilliant Let It Grow and then a Blow Away for the ages from Brent. But all of that was just a precursor to the heady Scarlet> Fire - the latter at 18 minutes - and charging jam into The Other One in the second half. Give it all a listen at Grateful Dead of the Day. And take in the entire show on remastered video.
The Dead went into Ace's - Bob's new studio, built over his garage - nearly every day for three months during their hiatus, creating the Blues for Allah album from the ground up. Here we have 25 tracks from those sessions, including multiple versions of Crazy Fingers, TLEO, Slipknot, and Stronger Than Dirt. Jerry also discusses the finer points of being a galley slave in just some of the random banter on the tape. Listen to the Dead having fun and working through the new tunes.
Between a show at the Electric Theater in Chicago two nights prior and another the next night at the Rock Pile in Toronto, the Dead somehow hustled down to Atlanta to play a free festival in Piedmont Park on this day in 1969. Three other bands shared the bill, including Chicago, and rumors have Duane and Gregg Allman on the Lovelight. What there is for sure is a powerful Dew opener and a raging Dark Star> Stephen> Eleven> Lovelight clocking in at nearly an hour and a half. Don't sleep on this one; click on through.
The Dead played the last of the disco versions of Dancin' In The Streets at the show on this day in 1981, ending a run that began with the first nine shows after the hiatus. Dancin' stayed on the shelf until June 24, 1984, when they busted out a more laid-back rendition that harkened back to their early 1960s versions. Read more about Dancin' In The Streets and check out some of the cream of the Dead's Dancin' performances at Grateful Dead of the Day.
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