04-18-1982

Hartford Civic Center

Hartford, Connecticut

The first set gets off to a blistering start with a Bertha into Promised Land. And while the Friend Of The Devil that comes next brings the pace down, it is rich and lustrous with its own scintillating jam on the back end. The CC Rider, like so many from the early eighties, is a beast. Then a first-rate Ramble On Rose gives Jerry a turn before a double-shot of cowboy Bobby with Me & My Uncle into Mexicali Blues, Brent’s keys, like a player piano in an Old West saloon, adding so much to the atmosphere. Jerry comes back to the fore for a solid Althea. Afterwards, a pregnant pause gives way to Looks Like Rain, building momentum as it goes, culminating in a feverish section mixing Bobby’s passionate vocals and Jerry’s equally fervid guitar work. From there, Big Railroad Blues – with the boys lighting off in the interstices – takes it to the set-closing Let It Grow, which gets pretty out there as the band creates a beautiful auditory landscape.

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Identifier:
gd1982-04-18.nak700.glassberg.78984.sbeok.flac16
Source:
FOB-Nak 700’s > Sony D5 > MAC
Notes:
^Very end of Let it Grow fades out
Description:
Set 1 Bertha -> The Promised Land Friend Of The Devil -> C C Rider Ramble On Rose Me And My Uncle -> Mexicali Blues Althea -> Looks Like Rain Big Railroad Blues Let It Grow Set 2 Cold Rain And Snow -> Samson And Delilah Ship Of Fools Playing In The Band -> Eyes Of The World -> Drums -> Space () -> The Other One -> Black Peter -> SugarMagnolia -> Playing In The Band -> Sunshine Daydream Encore Don’t Ease Me In
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MAC > DAT > CDR > EAC > Flac-level8
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00:00
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Crowd
02:16
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Bertha >
06:56
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Promised Land
04:58
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Friend Of The Devil >
08:58
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CC Rider
09:35
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Ramble On Rose
08:20
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Me & My Uncle >
03:01
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Mexicali Blues
05:58
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Althea >
08:03
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Looks Like Rain
09:17
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Big Railroad Blues
05:02
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Crowd
00:17
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Let It Grow
12:56
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Cold Rain & Snow >
06:33
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Samson & Delilah
08:41
16
Ship of Fools
07:51
17
Playing In The Band >
09:58
18
Eyes Of The World >
10:25
19
Drums…
03:58
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…Drums >
03:59
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Space >
02:48
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Phil’s Earthquake space >
07:55
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The Other One >
04:23
24
Black Peter >
08:43
25
Sugar Magnolia >
05:50
26
Playing In The Band >
03:12
27
Sunshine Daydream
04:15
28
Don’t Ease Me In
03:18
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The second set picks right up where they left off, beginning with a bold Cold Rain & Snow into a towering Samson. Then we get another stellar tune in a soaring Ship Of Fools. The band then turns to Playin’ In The Band, sending such a robust, multifaceted version that it is hard to believe it is only ten minutes before they stumble into Eyes Of The World. The Eyes is as breathtaking as any, sizzling along lusciously before the rest of the band cedes the stage to the Rhythm Devils. Coming back together for Space, things seem standard enough until Phil suddenly announces, “The Barbary Coast in 1906, the wickedest place in the world,” and the band, led by Phil’s deadly bass, provides a sonic tribute to – maybe “re-creation of” might be a better word – the 1906 San Francisco earthquake that had torn the city by the bay asunder 76 years earlier to the day. Phil’s Earthquake Space is a special listen, but apparently it was even more powerful in person as his bass shook the arena to its core on two separate occasions, freaking more than a few of the attendees out and leaving a lasting memory. The Other One gathers in fits and starts at the tail end of the jam before suddenly pouring forth fully formed. A standard, which is to say awesome, Black Peter comes out afterwards before the Dead put a rocking end to the set with Sugar Mags back into Playin’ before capping it all with a final Sunshine Daydream. A feisty Don’t Ease Me In encore finally closes out another great show in Hartford.

We have Barry Glassberg’s excellent front of the board recording cued up here. But there is also a Charlie Miller soundboard and Hunter Seamons matrix that mixes Mark Cohen’s FOB audience recording with the aforementioned soundboard.

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One response to “04-18-1982”

  1. Leo M Gallagher Avatar
    Leo M Gallagher

    1st show for me. Went with my buddy Anthony, we wore leather jackets didn’t know what tie-dyes were. Got chemically inebriated, got HOOKED, thought Phil spoke all the time, got LOST on way home form Hartford to New Haven….don’t ask me how i was shotgun. We pulled off highway way up near Bloomfield, some other heads from New Jersey was following us cause we had CT license plates, and it looked like we knew where South 91 was????They had a map and presto we were on our way back home. Next day in High School I learned from my English teacher Bill Gerosa, the ODD number highway and routes run North and South and EVEN ones run East and West.178 shows later nothing left to do but SMILE, SMILE, SMILE

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