This is a pretty good sample of what the mid-70’s Dead brought to the table. It picks up right at the end of the singing intro to a cover of Dancin’ in the Streets. The band is out of sync. But watch them work themselves into a rhythm and fall into a phat-ass jam. This video was shot at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco on July 12, 1976. Here is the full set list.
Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, CA (7/12/76)
Music Never Stopped
Brown Eyed Women
Cassidy
Tennessee Jed
New Minglewood Blues
Candyman
Looks Like Rain
Row Jimmy
Lazy Lightnin’
Supplication
Deal
Promised LandSugaree
Samson and Delilah
Help on the Way
Slipknot!
Franklin’s Tower
Dancin’ in the Streets
Wharf Rat
drums
The Wheel
Around and AroundU.S. Blues
Wow-this happened two days before I started working at the place I’ll retire from in two years! How time flies, gallops,sprints! Although I’ve never considered myself a deadhead I’ve seen them numerous times beginning in 1968 at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland OR. My brother was one though and often went to SF to help with the annual New Year’s parties.
Portland’s still a big Dead town: our community radio station earns vast sums of their pledges from 12-hour Dead marathons twice a year.
1977 and 1978. The famous Cornell Show. The Red Rocks in July 1978 (7/8?) and basically the whole week of the Cornell 1977 show.
Can’t say enough about the dead. Long live Jerry…..
Cornell 77 Great show!!!!!!!!!
the second set that night was the best set ever by a factor of 10.
What a great new Friday night addition! Thanks Booman!! And great clip…never knew it existed! (I myself am a proud deadhead…even 11 years after Jerry’s passing and the end of the Grateful Dead as we knew it…his music still lives!!)
Cool. I’ve been spending the evening listening to tunes on YouTube, a new discovery. It even works flawlessly over my laggy satellite connection! Lots of good Dead stuff.
I’ve been to about 30 Dead shows, from the 1970s to the 1990s, and my brother was a major taper who went to hundreds of shows. For what it’s worth, I preferred them in the early 80s with Brent Mydland on keyboards over the 70s with Keith Godchaux and the singing, such as it was, of Donna Godchaux.
One thing I thought came through clearly in this video was the central role of Phil Lesh on bass. If a jam was out of sync, it was usually due to Phil, and vice versa. When Phil hit a groove, things exploded.
And the ones before this as well. Great stuff to wake up to on Saturday Morn!