Tech Notes: |
Download Series Vol. 7 came about while working on the new "Dead Ahead" DVD. We found
ourselves immersed in 1980, one of the Grateful Dead's most under-appreciated years.
Although some of the many great shows of the year are missing from the vault (including
the bookends of Download Vol. 7, 9/2/80 in Rochester and 9/6/80 in Lewiston), we were
thrilled to find the master soundboard tapes for the entirety of the 9/3 show from
Springfield and the second set of the Providence show from 9/4. Unfortunately, there�s no
sign of the missing first set from 9/4.
The music on Download Vol. 7 is typical of 1980: precise, inspired, energetic and downright
outrageous at times. From the opening "Mississippi Half-Step>Franklin's Tower" combo (finally
seeing its first live release) to the closing "U.S. Blues," these three CDs worth of music
contain everything you could ask for from 1980: tender Garcia ballads masterfully played
("Althea," "Candyman," High Time," "He's Gone," "Black Peter," "Brokedown Palace" and
"Wharf Rat,"), the new songs from Go To Heaven ("Easy To Love You," "Feel Like A Stranger"
and "Lost Sailor>Saint Of Circumstance") and a whole pile of classic-era Grateful Dead
songs, including "Let It Grow," Truckin'," "Eyes Of The World," "The Other One" and "Goin'
Down The Road Feeling Bad."
Grateful Dead
9/3/1980 � Springfield, MA
9/4/1980 � Providence, RI
Disc One
9/3/80 Springfield, MA
1 Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo> (Garcia, Hunter)
2 Franklin's Tower> (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hunter)
3 Mama Tried> (Haggard)
4 Mexicali Blues (Weir, Barlow)
5 Althea> (Garcia, Hunter)
6 Little Red Rooster (Dixon)
7 Candyman (Garcia, Hunter)
8 Easy To Love You (Mydland, Barlow)
9 Let It Grow> (Weir, Barlow)
10 Deal (Garcia, Hunter)
start set 2:
11 Feel Like A Stranger (Weir, Barlow)
Disc Two
1 High Time (Garcia, Hunter)
2 Lost Sailor> (Weir, Barlow)
3 Saint Of Circumstance > (Weir, Barlow)
4 Jam > (Grateful Dead)
5 Drums with Brent > (Hart, Kreutzmann, Mydland)
6 Rhythm Devils > (Hart, Kreutzmann)
7 Space > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir)
8 He's Gone > (Garcia, Hunter)
9 Truckin' > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter)
10 Black Peter > (Garcia, Hunter)
11 Around and Around > (Berry)
12 Johnny B. Goode (Berry)
13 Brokedown Palace (Garcia, Hunter)
Disc Three
9/4/80 Providence, RI (set 2)
1 Supplication Jam > (Weir, Barlow)
2 Estimated Prophet > (Weir, Barlow)
3 Eyes Of The World > (Garcia, Hunter)
4 Rhythm Devils > (Hart, Kreutzmann)
5 Space > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir)
6 The Other One > (Weir, Kreutzmann)
7 Wharf Rat > (Garcia, Hunter)
8 Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > (Trad. Arr. By Grateful Dead)
9 Good Lovin' (Resnick, Clark)
10 US Blues (Garcia, Hunter)
Grateful Dead:
Jerry Garcia: Lead Guitar, Vocals
Mickey Hart: Drums
Bill Kreutzmann: Drums
Phil Lesh: Electric Bass
Brent Mydland: Keyboards, Vocals
Bob Weir: Rhythm Guitar, Vocals
Recording by Dan Healy
Mastering by Jeffrey Norman |