Got the summertime blues? Go on a long, strange tour with me through time. Every day in the month of July, we’ll feature a vintage recording from the Dead. Tune in on YouTube and join the chat as we explore the wonders of summer tours past. We will get by, we will survive!

The next stop on the We Will Get By Streaming Tour comes from summer of 72. After the Dead’s historic European tour in 72, they would come back and play a single show out west at the Hollywood Bowl, which would also be Pigpen’s final. A month later, the boys ventured out east for a pair of gigs—one in Hartford and the second in Jersey City on July 18th, 1972.

The set is a smoker from start to finish. The first set busts out of the gates with a ton of energy and carries through the entire three sets. Fireworks were set off at the end of the first set during “Casey Jones” and through the first set break.

The main course of the evening came during the second set with meaty 27 minute “Dark Star” that crashed into a beautiful “Comes a Time.” This is early 70s Dead at it’s best.

Set 1:
d1t01 – Bertha
d1t02 – Me And My Uncle
d1t03 – Bird Song
d1t04 – The Promised Land
d1t05 – Sugaree
d1t06 – Black Throated Wind
d1t07 – China Cat Sunflower ->
d1t08 – I Know You Rider
d1t09 – Jack Straw
d1t10 – Loser
d2t01 – Beat It On Down The Line
d2t02 – Stella Blue
d2t03 – El Paso
d2t04 – Casey Jones

Set 2:
d2t05 – Playing In The Band
d2t06 – Brown Eyed Women
d2t07 – Tennessee Jed
d3t01 – Tuning
d3t02 – Truckin’ ->
d3t03 – Dark Star ->
d3t04 – Comes A Time
d3t05 – Sugar Magnolia

Set 3:
d4t01 – Tuning
d4t02 – Ramble On Rose
d4t03 – Greatest Story Ever Told
d4t04 – Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo ->
d4t05 – Sing Me Back Home
d4t06 – Not Fade Away ->
d4t07 – Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad ->
d4t08 – Not Fade Away

Encore
One More Saturday Night (missing)

Thanks to Charlie Miller for the awesome sounding board!