Dead of the Day: 04-28-1985

Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University

Palo Alto, California

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Minglewood starts to rev things up, offering up some sharp jams. But Bird Song really brings it all together. Brent delivers moody fills while Jerry offers up soaring riffs, creating a wonderful soundscape of pure beauty. The Tons of Steel up next is fun, but the set-closing China> Rider, where the rollicking China Cat transitions with impeccable dexterity into the sweeping runs of I Know You Rider, steps it up again. The pairing not only provides an intricately woven end to the short first half, but also presages the magnificent transitions waiting in the second.

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gd1985-04-28.sbd.sirmick.77406.flac16
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notes: # first 42 seconds patched & there is some static at 0:30 % skip at 0:14 * there is a cut at 3;09, the section after the cut has a patch of 3 seconds at the start – seamless join between discs 2 and 3 comments: $ Bob Weir says “broken drum, you can’t beat that” About one minute of crowd has been cut after this. Thanks to “S” Productions for this source. seeded to abgd edited, and mastered with iZotope Ozone SIRMick September 2006
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Set 1 Gimme Some Lovin’ Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo New Minglewood Blues Bird Song Tons Of Steel China Cat Sunflower -> I Know You Rider Set 2 Hell In A Bucket -> Crazy Fingers -> Playing In The Band -> China Doll -> Playing InThe Band -> Drums -> Space -> Playing In The Band -> Wharf Rat -> Throwing Stones -> Not Fade Away Encore U.S. Blues She Belongs To Me
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Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo >
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New Minglewood Blues
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Bird Song &
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Tons Of Steel
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I Know You Rider
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Playing In The Band >
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Playing In The Band Jam >
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Playing In The Band Reprise >
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Wharf Rat >
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Throwing//Stones > *
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Not Fade Away
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U.S. Blues
04:38
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She Belongs To Me
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A Hell in the Bucket opens that latter part of the show seguing into a Crazy Fingers. A keys-heavy jam at the end of Crazy Fingers serves as the beginning of a sparkling transition into Playin’. The Playin’ that follows is tight with sharp and focused jams, and the passage into China Doll is lovely and perfectly executed, providing a momentary lapse into what is almost another theme altogether before fully entering into the illustrious China Doll. Then we get another brilliant progression, this time the other way, from China Doll back into Playin’. Once into the song, the drummers slowly start to dictate more of the Playin’ jam while they are also moving from more snare-based to wood-block dominated drumming. Drums eventually takes over completely, proceeding down various paths before a single resonant note from Jerry provides the fulcrum into Space. Coming out of Space into Playin’ is another real transition treat with the boys suddenly rolling along in the reprise before you even know it. The Wharf Rat that follows is dark and misty with some serious Phil bombs. And then the set closes out with a fun Throwing Stones> NFA before US Blues rocks the encore. But the band returns again for a more subdued, though stunning She Belongs to Me, one of only ten times the Dead covered that particular Dylan tune.

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2 responses to “04-28-1985”

  1. joeseddit Avatar
    joeseddit

    Always did like the “China/Rider” here. Killer.

  2. Tony Avatar
    Tony

    The encores played after the first set?

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