With the Phil Lesh & Friends / RatDog two-night Bay-area New Year’s run barely a week away and the leak of a mini-doc about The Dead’s Penn State reunion show, it’s a good time to be a fan of the music of the Grateful Dead. With that in mind we thought we’d once again offer up a full week of Pullin’ ‘Tubes dedicated to all things Dead.
Last time around, we hit on every decade of the band’s storied 30 year career, and while there wasn’t a heck of a lot of standout shows from their last few tours, there were some diamonds in the rough that showcased the magic that they had on stage. To kick things off this week I thought we’d head back to one of those later day runs to a show at the Sam Boyd Silver Bowl in June of ’94 for Jerry’s stunning and tender rendition of the traditional Scottish folk ballad Peggy-O – a song they first performed in 1973 and that consistently stayed in rotation every year until their very last tour…
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Peggy-O was good in ’78. The version from WV is sweet too. Great extended solos in this period.
Me thinks Cameron was also the site of the “switching places” move, where Phil and Garcia changed sides of the set-up for the last time (4/1/82?)
I know, a bit arcane and obsessive, but….
oops… I’m getting old and rusty… It was 4/2/82… My bad…