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Grateful Dead Live at Warfield Theater on 1981-05-22

by Grateful Dead

Publication date: 1981-05-22 ( check for other copies)

Topics: Live concert

Collection: GratefulDead

Band/Artist: Grateful Dead

Resource: DeadLists Project

Deep Elem Blues, The Race is On, Friend Of The Devil, Cassidy, To Lay Me Down, Monkey & The Engineer, Ain't No Lie, On The Road Again, Bird Song, Ripple, Drums, Oh Boy

Notes

AUD>MC>DAT>CDR; Nuclear Disarmament Benefit; Garcia, Weir, Hart, Kreutzman, Mydland, Kahn; Acoustic; Note- There are numerous spots with digi-static, from 'minor' to 'annoying'; See info file for details; via Paul B; Seeded to etree by Willy

Addeddate: 2004-04-26 11:46:30

Discs: 0

Has_mp3: 1

Identifier: gd81-05-22.aud.munder.9829.sbeok.shnf

Lineage: AUD>MC>DAT>CDR

Location: San Francisco, CA

Shndiscs: 1

Source: Audience Recording

Type: sound

Venue: Warfield Theater

Year: 1981

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Reviewer: Pangolin22 - - April 24, 2011
Subject: Love acoustic Dead

For some reason this doesn't seem to have the 'oomph' of the 80 sets but still a joy to listen to.

Reviewer: L. Rosley - - April 9, 2007
Subject: Wavy Gravy

I'm pretty sure that's Wavy Gravy doing the no-nukes intro in this San Francisco acoustic set. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavy_Gravy)

I like these acoustic sets. This one isn't as good as those of the fall of 1980, and the recording isn't all that great, but this was still a delight to find here. One interesting aspect is that instead of Phil on electric bass, we have John Kahn on acoustic bass.

My favs here are Deep Elem, Cassidy (always nice acoustic), a pretty To Lay Me Down, and the jamming Bird Song.

(To hear the origin of the Dead's version of On the Road Again, check out the version from 2/25/66. It features a mid-60's Beatles guitar riff with Pigpen on harmonica.
http://www.archive.org/details/gd66-02-25.sbd.unknown.1593.sbefail.shnf )

Reviewer: laptaper - - June 23, 2006
Subject: Sweet spot

I'm normally not fond of audience recordings from the Warfield - a little too echoey for my taste - but this one really hits the "sweet spot". Kudos to the taper, and to the band for putting aside apoliticism for this one night (or not - nothing political about survival). Good show all around.

Reviewer: Mr. Meogi - - February 4, 2006
Subject: fat girls even do things on the sly...

A little bass heavy, but otherwise everything is very audible. I love a show with all the space between songs there. A good audience recording.

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