I will keep my urge to share Casey’s goodies with you to a minimum but I’d just like to give you a flavour of the thing.
The audio is the final 20 minutes of the first show, at Wembley on 7th April 1972. Bobby’s got a cold, it’s a huge, soulless arena only half full (due to a last-minute venue change), and they’ve only been playing for two hours, but this finale is a firm instruction to get up and dance. So wind the volume up high, follow Garcia’s twisting lead and twirl away!
Not Fade Away>Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad>Not Fade Away and an encore of One More Saturday Night. (Apologies for the small breaks between CD tracks: I can’t quite erase them.)
Who’s Casey? Not the raven. It’s what I’m calling my box set.
Thanks, Chris. Now to find twenty minutes…
Great name for the box, by the way!
Found twenty minutes. Amazing what you can do with the right incentive! Really enjoyed that. Looks like you’re in for one long, strange treat, Chris!
Terrific stuff – thanks, Chris!
I had that Jerry Garcia’s When I Paint My Masterpiece on the ‘Pod as I was coming home…excuse me, I need to nip off to eBay and assuage my lust for TP T shirts.
Glad you like. Jerry’s voice was so much better back in ’72, before heroin took its strength.
Do the T-shirts need TP’s face on before you lust over them?!
Oh no – the one I’ve just bought hasn’t
A flavour of the thing? Particle board with resiny accents & lots of herbal notes, I would imagine.
(Am just being jealous as the On-U celebrations seem to have stalled again).
Thanks KC, I really enjoyed this (I thought Casey should have his own special moniker)
Chris
I see on Dead.net that they’re now going to start shipping individual shows from the Europe ’72 tour (as well as the 3-disc Volume 2). Now for those of us who can’t quite win the argument with our loved ones about investing c,£400 and all those happy hours in the complete set, you could do a huge service and let us know which of the shows strike you as being particularly unmissable. Bickershaw – of course – if only to see if it can summon up and improve on my memories of that wonderful, sodden epic (though what I recall and what I think I recall may not be the same); but other shows also …. help, please!
… a great clip by the way; if it’s all as good as this, you’re in for a treat … but why, oh why did they ever take up with the appalling Donna Godchaux? Quite what her howling and screeching added has always been a mystery to me? What did she have over them?
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