All posts by Woodstock Whisperer

Attended the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969, became an educator for 35 years after graduation from college, and am retired now and often volunteer at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts which is on the site of that 1969 festival.

February 2020 COVID 19

February 2020 COVID 19

It was February and we knew that “corona” was here in the United States, but we could still make fun of it.

February 2020 COVID 19

In China, it was a far different story.

February 2020 COVID 19

February 2020

February 1: Dr. Li Wenliang tested positive for coronavirus.

China, confirmed cases now total 14,380 and the death toll rose above 300.

February 2: the first 2019-nCoV death outside China is reported in the Philippines. The patient was a 44-year-old Chinese male, and known companion of the 38-year-old woman who tested positive for 2019-nCoV on Jan. 30 and the first case in the Philippines. It also imposes travel ban for travelers coming from China, Hong Kong, and Macao, and a 14-day quarantine period for Philippine residents.

February 2: Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity, “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”

February 3: China launched a clinical trial of Gilead’s antiviral drug remdesivir, previously tested in patients with Ebola, against the 2019-nCoV, just as China’s Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan starts operations. The hospital was built in 10 days and is dedicated to treating 2019-nCoV patients.

WHO

February 3: WHO released the international community’s Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan to help protect states with weaker health systems.

Italy

On February 4: Mayor of Florence Dario Nardella urged residents to hug Chinese people to encourage them in the fight against the novel coronavirus. Meanwhile, a member of Associazione Unione Giovani Italo Cinesi, a Chinese society in Italy aimed at promoting friendship between people in the two countries, called for respect for novel coronavirus patients during a street demonstration. “I’m not a virus. I’m a human. Eradicate the prejudice.”

Hong Kong reported its first death of a patient with 2019-nCoV. The 39-year-old man had travel history from Wuhan, the outbreak’s epicenter. This is the second death linked to the 2019-nCoV reported outside mainland China, after the Philippines. The total number of deaths from 2019-nCoV stands at 492, and confirmed cases globally over 24,000.

February 4: at a WHO briefing, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged that there be no travel bans. “We reiterate our call to all countries not to impose restrictions that unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade. Such restrictions can have the effect of increasing fear and stigma, with little public health benefit. … Where such measures have been implemented, we urge that they are short in duration, proportionate to the public health risks and are reconsidered regularly as the situation evolves.” [NPR timeline]

February  5: ten passengers from a cruise ship currently docked in Yokohama, Japan, test positive for 2019-nCoV, bringing the total cases in Japan to 35, now the highest among countries with confirmed cases outside mainland China. Global cases total over 28,000, with 565 deaths, and a majority of cases in China. China state media Xinhua also reports a newborn has been infected with the virus, but the route of transmission is still unknown.

February 6: Japan announces a $10 million contribution for WHO’s 2019-nCoV outbreak response fund to support countries with weak health systems as they prepare for the potential spread of the virus.

WHO unveils plans to host a global research and innovation forum from February 11-12 in Geneva to bring together leading scientists, public health agencies, ministries of health, and research funders. The forum is aimed at setting the research agenda for 2019-nCoV.

Total cases in China now at 31,161, and 636 deaths. Outside mainland China, cases at 310, with 2 deaths.

February 2020 COVID 19

February 7:  Dr. Li Wenliang died  after contracting the coronavirus. He was hailed as a hero by many for trying to ring early alarms that a cluster of infections could spin out of control.

The Asian Development Bank approved a $2 million to support response capacity efforts against the 2019-nCoV outbreak in the Asia-Pacific region. The fund would supplement the bank’s technical assistance work in several Southeast Asian countries as well as China. The bank worked with WHO to identify areas for further possible financial assistance.

February  8 — At a press conference, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus criticized the levels of misinformation spreading around the virus, saying “we’re not just battling the virus; we’re also battling the trolls and conspiracy theorists that push misinformation and undermine the outbreak response.”

He said WHO was engaging with Facebook, Google, Tencent, Baidu, Twitter, TikTok, Weibo, Pinterest, and others to promote accurate information about 2019-nCoV.

February 9: the death toll of victims of the 2019-nCoV was over 800, surpassing the death toll of the SARS epidemic in 2002 and 2003, which killed 773 people.

February 10: an advance team for the WHO-led 2019-nCoV international mission left for China.

WHO chief Tedros said instances of onward transmission from people with no travel history to China was concerning and that “the detection of this small number of cases could be the spark that becomes a bigger fire.”

February 2020 COVID 19

COVID-19

February 11: WHO names the new virus COVID-19.

A United Nations Crisis Management Team was activated, led by Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director at WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme.

February 12: the number of countries outside China reporting cases had not changed since February 4.

February 2020 COVID 19

Diamond Princess

February 2020 COVID 19

A total of 175 people had tested positive for COVID-19 on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which ass quarantined in Japan.

February 13: overnight, China reported a spike in cases, with 14,840 cases in Hubei province. This was due to the fact that the Chinese government changed its reporting to include both laboratory-confirmed cases and clinically diagnosed cases. This includes a medical professional classifying a confirmed case on the basis of chest imaging. “We understand that most of these cases relate to a period going back over days and weeks and are retrospectively reported as cases, since some time back to the beginning of the outbreak itself,” says Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of WHO Health Emergencies Programme, during a press conference.

February 14: China reports that 1,716 health workers have contracted COVID-19 and that six of them have died. “We’ve seen this before with MERS, we’ve seen this before with SARS, we’ve certainly seen this with hemorrhagic fevers,” says Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of WHO Health Emergencies Programme, during a press conference. “Our understanding is that the cases amongst health workers peaked in the third and fourth week of January and that there has been a rapid fall-off in the number of cases that have occurred in health workers in the last two weeks.”

Trump discussed the “very small” number of U.S. coronavirus cases with  Border Patrol Council members:

“We have a very small number of people in the country, right now, with it. It’s like around 12. Many of them are getting better. Some are fully recovered already. So we’re in very good shape.”

Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield had estimated that the “virus is probably with us beyond this season and beyond this year.” Despite that view, President Trump continued to push the idea that it would be gone in a matter of weeks.

There’s a theory that, in April, when it gets warm, historically, that has been able to kill the virus,” he said . “So we don’t know yet. We’re not sure yet. But that’s around the corner.”

February 15: France reported the first death from COVID-19 outside of Asia — an 80-year-old tourist from Hubei province.

February 16: an American woman who had been on a cruise ship that docked in Cambodia, tests positive for COVID-19 after flying to Malaysia. The ship originally set sail from Hong Kong on February 1, with 1,455 passengers and 802 members of its crew.

February 17: China published a paper with detailed information on more than 44,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The data appears to show that COVID-19 is not as deadly as other types of coronaviruses, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle East respiratory syndrome. The data showed that more than 80% of patients have mild disease; about 14% of cases lead to severe diseases, including pneumonia; about 5% of cases lead to critical diseases including respiratory failure, septic shock and multiorgan failure; and about 2% of reported cases lead to death. Mortality rates increase in older patients, with few cases among children.

February 2020 COVID 19

Dr. Liu Zhiming dies

February 18: there were currently 92 documented cases in 12 countries other than China in which human-to-human transmission of the virus has occurred.

Liu Zhiming, director of the Wuchang Hospital in Wuhan, died from COVID-19.

February 19: the death toll from COVID-19 surpassed 2,000.

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS reports that, in a survey, nearly one-third of respondents living with HIV in China say they are at risk of running out of their HIV treatment in the coming days due to lockdowns and restrictions on movement amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

After a two-week quarantine, 443 passengers began leaving the Diamond Princess cruise ship. It was the first day of a three-day operation to offload people who tested negative for the virus and did not have symptoms. Passengers who shared cabins with infected patients remained on the ship. A total of 621 people aboard the ship were infected.

February  20: Peng Yinhua, a 29-year-old respiratory doctor in Wuhan, died from COVID-19.

Iran reported five cases of COVID-19 in two days, two of which had resulted in death. These are the first deaths from COVID-19 in the Middle East.

South Korea saw a spike in cases, bringing its count to 104. The country now has the second-highest number of cases outside of mainland China. The new cases are concentrated in the city of Daegu and the surrounding North Gyeongsang province.

February 20: WHO reported nearly 77,000 cases worldwide in 27 countries.

February  21: WHO says it is concerned about the rapid spread of COVID-19 in Iran, which has 18 cases and has seen four deaths in the past two days. The country reported its first cases on February 19.

WHO appoints six special envoys on COVID-19 to “provide strategic advice and high-level political advocacy and engagement in different parts of the world.”

February  22: WHO conducted a survey of African countries to assess their overall readiness for COVID-19 and finds the regional readiness level is at about 66%. “We need urgently to prioritize strengthening the capacities for countries to investigate alerts, treat patients in isolation facilities and improve infection, prevention and control in health facilities and in communities,” says Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa, in a press release.

February  23: South Korean President Moon Jae-in announced the highest level of alert after the country surpasses 340 cases of COVID-19, the majority of which were discovered in the past few days. This empowers the government to take measures such as restricting public transportation and banning visitors from certain countries.

Europe faced its first major outbreak as the number of reported cases in Italy grew from fewer than five to more than 150. In the Lombardy region, officials locked down 10 towns after a cluster of cases suddenly emerged in Codogno, southeast of Milan. As a result, schools closed and sporting and cultural events were canceled.

Speaking to reporters on the White House lawn, President Trump stated that  “We have it very much under control in this country.

February 24: “We must focus on containment, while doing everything we can to prepare for a potential pandemic,” says WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a press conference.

The Asian Development Bank advised delegates planning to attend its annual meeting that it was monitoring the situation in South Korea, where the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases is now over 700, according to the latest situation report by WHO. The bank’s 53rd annual meeting is scheduled to take place from May 2-5 in Incheon, South Korea.

February 2020 COVID 19

Stock Market crashes

COVID 19 February 2020

February 24: stock market plummeted as Dow Jones Industrials fell more than 1,000 points.

The same day, Trump asks for $1.25 billion in emergency aid. It grows to $8.3 billion in Congress.

He tweeted that the virus “is very much under control” and the stock market “starting to look very good to me!”

February 2020 COVID 19

Africa’s first case

February 25: Algeria reports its first case of COVID-19 — an Italian adult, who arrived in the country on February 17. This is the second confirmed case on the African continent.

Switzerland, Croatia, and Austria reported their first cases.

Iran’s deputy health minister, Iraj Harirchi, who is leading the nation’s COVID-19 task force, has contracted the virus.

February 26: Brazil confirms its first case of COVID-19, marking the first case in South America. Cases of the virus have now been confirmed on every continent except Antarctica.

Greece, Georgia, North Macedonia, Norway, Romania and Pakistan report their first cases of COVID-19.

The first case emerged in California with no clear source, suggesting community spread of the virus.

In a news conference that day, Trump says the United States is “really prepared.” He put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of  the White House task force.

Trump also criticized the media accusing them of creating the crisis and that all was fine.

COVID 19 February 2020

He added during a brief press conference: “We’re going to be pretty soon at only five people,” he said. “And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time. So we’ve had very good luck.”

I think every aspect of our society should be prepared,” he added later. “I don’t think it’s going to come to that, especially with the fact that we’re going down, not up. We’re going very substantially down, not up.”

February 27: the number of infections globally continued to grow. There were 3,474 cases of COVID-19 — including 54 deaths — outside of China in 44 countries.

President Trump stated, “It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.”

February 28: the World Health Organization raised the global risk of spread of COVID-19 from “high” to “very high.”

This is a reality check for every government on the planet. Wake up. Get ready. This virus may be on its way, and you need to be ready,” says Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, during a press conference.

Europe faced its first major outbreak as the number of reported cases in Italy grew from fewer than five to more than 150. In the Lombardy region, officials locked down 10 towns after a cluster of cases suddenly emerged in Codogno, southeast of Milan. As a result, schools closed and sporting and cultural events were canceled.

February 29: the World Health Organization updated its guidance on travel restrictions. While it continues to advise against travel or trade restrictions, it notes that in certain circumstances countries can use travel restrictions temporarily, such as in settings with few international connections and limited response capacities. It says that countries can only justify significant travel restrictions at the beginning of an outbreak to give a country time to implement preparedness measures for an outbreak.

“Travel bans to affected areas or denial of entry to passengers coming from affected areas are usually not effective in preventing the importation of cases but may have a significant economic and social impact,” according to the guidance.

A patient near Seattle became the first coronavirus patient to die in the United States.

While speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump again claims his administration has the coronavirus under control.

I’ve gotten to know these professionals. They’re incredible,” Trump said. “And everything is under control. I mean, they’re very, very cool. They’ve done it, and they’ve done it well. Everything is really under control.

It would be revealed later that a CPAC attendee tested positive for COVID-19, leading multiple Republican lawmakers who came into contact with him to self-quarantine.

February 2020 COVID 19

Subsequent and previous COVID-19 posts

Internationales Essener Festival

Internationales Essener Festival

It’s full title was: Internationales Essener Pop & Blues Festival

In the Grugahalle in Essen, West Germany

October 9-11, 1969
1969 festival #46
 Internationales Essener Pop & Blues Festival
Poster Artist: Georg Boskamp

Bands (listed on the poster): Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, Cuby & the Blizzards, Keef Hartley Blues Band, Champion Jack Dupree, The Nice, Pink Floyd, Pretty Things, East of Eden, Muddy Waters, Hardin & York, Hard Meat, Taste, Free, Fleetwood Mac.

Bands that performed
  • October 9, 1969: Fashion, Keef Hartley Band, The Pretty Things, Yes, Warm Dust, Fleetwood Mac, Free, Spooky Tooth, Hard Meat.
  • October 10, 1969: Amon Duul II, Hardin & York, Keef Hartley Blues Band, Champion Jack Dupree & Shades, The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, Alexis Korner & New Church, Steamhammer, Muddy Waters, Taste, Shades.
  • October 11, 1969: Tulliver’s Brain, Taste, Cuby’s Blues Band, Keef Hartley Blues Band, Livin Blues, Deep Purple, Amon Duul II, The Nice, Tangerine Dream, Pink Floyd, Ekseption, Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, Xhol Caravan, Hardin & York.

Tangerine Dream performed at this festival, but is not listed on the poster.

Tangerine Dream’s drummer, Klaus Schulze, also played with Amon Duul II at this festival, when Amon Duul’s drummer couldn’t play after he took some bad LSD.

Internationales Essener Festival

German Music Festivals

The Internationales was not the first German festival and not the first German rock festival in 1969.

Here’s the list with links to posters and the shows’ basic information.

  1. 1967
    1. Non Stop Beat Festival, Bremen, October 20, 21, 22, 25, 27, 28, 29, 1967
    2. Beat-Festival, Essen, November 5, 1967

     

  2. 1968
    1. 4. Internationales Jazz & Pop Festival Neuss `68, Neuss, September 15, 1968
    2. Internationale Essener Song Tage, Essen, September 25-29, 1968
    3. Internationales Jazz & Pop Festival, Dusseldorf, October 20, 26, 27, 1968

     

  3. 1969
    1. Teenage Fair `69, Dusseldorf, August 23-31, 1969
    2. The Great Bravo-Gala, Dusseldorf, August 23, 1969
    3. Burg-Waldeck Festival, Koblenz, September 14, 1969
    4. Internationales Essener Pop & Blues Festival, Essen, October 9-11, 1969
    5. Black & White Soul-Pop Festival, Heidelberg, October 18, 1969

It is sometimes a challenging decision whether or not to include a 1969 festival on my list. I tend to include only multi-day festivals (continuous days) or festivals that took place on single days over several weeks.

So I am including this festival as well as the Teenage Fair

Konrad Mallison

1969

Konrad Mallison organized the festival (as well as the 1970 festival).

The October 23, 2020 edition of the It’s Psychedelic Baby magazine interviewed Mallison. Here are some excerpts from that interview

In 1967 he and a friend established a discotheque called Pop-In in Essen, West Germany.

There we played music by groups like Tangerine Dream, Can, Xhol Caravan, but also Canned Heat, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker etc. The underground scene in Germany in 1968 really arose through the influence of flower power from San Francisco, the musical HAIR, and also somewhat through the politicized ’68 movement throughout Europe. People wore longer hair and showed their peaceful inner attitude to the outside. The youth welfare office of the city of Essen even organised the “Essener Song-Tage” in 1968, a first big, but somewhat politicized song festival with top-of-the-bill Mothers Of Invention with Frank Zappa, Alexis Korner, Guru Guru Groove, Soul Caravan, Amon Düül, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity. Because of the politicization there were unfortunately some small excesses, this song festival was not repeated by the city of Essen.

Poster of the Essen Song Days 1968
Internationales Essener Festival

Bath Festival of Blues

In June 1969, he and his discotheque’s  DJ visited England and whle there saw posters for the Bath Festival of Blues.  In his words, “This festival with its sensational gigs, also with Jethro Tull / Ian Anderson, who were not mentioned on the poster, created a spark in me, so that I decided to do everything to organize a similar festival in the Grugahalle in Essen in October 1969.”

Internationales Essener Festival

Back in Essen

Back home, he received permission from the town to hold the festival in its Grugahalle despite the Lord Mayor’s concerns that there might be issues as happened at a politically-based festival in 1968 that turned out badly. He had to employ a certain number of security guards to ensure peace and order.

Melody Maker Sept. 27, 1969

He organized a staff. Here is a photo of the management team shortly before the start of the festival in the empty Grugahalle, taken by a reporter from WAZ.

He succeeded in getting the WDR television station interested in the festival and signed a contract for recording rights

Internationales Essener Festival

Film

Here’s the excellent hour and a half (!)  colorized concert film, the groups in the film and when/what they played”

  • 00:28 Warm dust – ?
  • 02:37 Taste – I Feel So Good
  • 08:36 Deep Purple – Wring That Neck
  • 15:36 Keef Hartley Blues Band – Sinnin ‘For You
  • 21:00 The Nice – Hang on To A Dream
  • 28:25 Pink Floyd (Careful With That Axe Eugene)
  • 34:39 Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation – Down, Down, and Down
  • 42:18 The Nice – Jazz Improvisation
  • 47:42 The Nice / documentary part
  • 57:28 Deep Purple – Mandrake Root Part 2
  • 01:00:52 Keef Hartley Blues Band – Rock Me Baby
  • 01:08:23 The Nice – Rondo 01:12:40
  • Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation – Let It Ride
  • 01:16:33 Deep Purple – Mandrake Root Part1
  • 01:23:39 Pink Floyd – A Saucerful Of Secrets

In Conclusion

I am happy and satisfied, also a little proud, that I was able to organize the first Pop & Blues Festival in Germany in 1969. The success of this festival was visibly so great that in 1970 a festival euphoria took place nationwide and similar festivals were held in almost every major city.

Next 1969 festival: Raccoon Creek Rock Festival

Dead Bust Outs

Dead Bust Outs

The Grateful Dead are famous for many things. Among them, the length of their shows, letting shows be taped, and the variety of setlists.

And of course their fans. The Deadheads.

Many Deadheads kept setlists during the show. And some of them occasionally and ecstatically found a diamond: the Dead played a song that they hadn’t played for a long time. Often years.

These occasions came to be called “bust outs” and here are some of the famous ones. There are others, but I thought these ten were a nice selection.

Enjoy

Box of Rain

Look out of any windowAny morning, any evening, any dayMaybe the sun is shiningBirds are winging or rain is falling from a heavy sky

On 20 March 1986 when the Dead closed their first set at the Hampton Coliseum (Hampton, VA) with “Box of Rain” it was the first time they’d played the song in 13 years or 777 shows!

Listen to the crowd’s reaction when they realize what’s being played.

Dead Bust Outs

So what was the show thirteen years before? Non other than Watkins Glen on  the 28 July 1973.

Attics of My Life

In the attics of my lifeFull of cloudy dreams; unrealFull of tastes no tongue can knowAnd lights no eye can seeWhen there was no ear to hearYou sang to me

Maybe there was something about the Hampton Coliseum, but on 9 October 1989 the Dead played Attics for the first time in 17 years…or in Dead terms, 1,082 shows!  This time as the show’s encore. The crowds realization is a bit delayed until the vocals begin, but then it is definitely reacted to.  And love the ticket!

 

The previous time was on Saturday 28 October 1972 at the Cleveland Public Hall, Cleveland, OH.  They played it in the middle of the second set.

Here is a link to the whole show:

Grateful Dead, 10/28/72…Cleveland Public Hall

Black Throated Wind

Bringing me downI’m running agroundBlind in the light of the interstate carsPassing me byThe buses and semisPlunging like stones from a slingshot on Mars

On Friday 16 March 1990 at the Capital Centre in Landover, MD. the Dead play “Black Throated Wind.” It was the first time in 16 years or 981 shows.

The previous time was in the middle of the first set on October 19,. 1974 at the Winterland Arena in San Francisco. Here is the link to the whole show:

Black Throated Wind, Winterland Arena, 19 October 1974

St Stephen

Wishing well with a golden bell, bucket hanging clear to hell,Hell halfway twixt now and then,Stephen fill it up and lower down and lower down again
Lady finger, dipped in moonlight, writing what for?Across the morning sky.Sunlight splatters, dawn with answer,Darkness shrugs and bids the day good-bye.

 

As much as “St Stephen” may be associated with the Dead, there were long stretches that the song was absent.They played it on 9 June 1976 at the Boston Music Hall for the first time in 5 years…

The previous time was during the second set at the Ohio Theatre in Columbus, Ohio on 31 October 1971. The song is not available separately. Here is a link to the whole show.

Grateful Dead @ the Ohio Theatre 31 October 1971

…and when they played it on 11 October 1983 , it was the first time in 4 years.

Four years earlier, at the Nassau Coliseum  at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, NY on 10 January 1979.

Ripple

If my words did glow with the gold of sunshineAnd my tunes were played on the harp unstrungWould you hear my voice come through the music?Would you hold it near as it were your own?

For such a great and well-loved song, one would think the Dead would play it all the time.  Not only did they not play it all the time [only around 40 times total!], but there were both spurts and gaps. They had first played it live on 19 August 1970.

Twice in 1970, they played it over different nights at the same venue: 8/18 & 1/19 at the Fillmore West, 9/17 & 9/20 at the Fillmore East, and 11/7 & 11/8 at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, NY.

When they played it on 25 September 1980 at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco it was the first time in 9+ years AND between that date and slightly more than a month later on 31 October at Radio City, they would have played it 25 times!

29 April 1971, Fillmore East, NYC

25 September 1980, Warfield Theatre, San Francisco

 

Then when they played it on…

16 October 1981, Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands

…it would not be until 459 shows later on 3 September 1988 that they’d play it again.

3 September 1988

Not only was the the last song of the 2-song encore, it was be the last time that the Dead played the song.

Bird Song

All I know is something like a birdWithin her sangAll I know she sang a little whileAnd then flew onTell me all that you knowI’ll show you snow and rain

The  Dead must have been in a nostalgic mood on 25 September 1980, because they played”Bird Song” for the first time in 7 years.

They’d played at at the Providence Civic Center on 15 September 1973

Whole 1973-09-15 show

They opened their September 25, 1980 show at the Warfield with Bird Song.

Whole show

New Speedway Boogie

Please don’t dominate the rap, JackIf you? ve got nothing new to sayIf you please, go back up the trackThis train’s got to run today
I spent a little time on the mountainI spent a little time on the hillI heard someone say better run awayOthers say better stand still
From the Song Facts siteIn his book of collected lyrics (A Box Of Rain), Dead lyricist Robert Hunter wrote that he penned “New Speedway Boogie” in reply to “an indictment of the Altamont affair” by rock critic Ralph J. Gleason, hence the lead-in lyrics, “Please don’t dominate the rap Jack, if you’ve got nothing new to say.”
Altamont was only 9 months earlier when the Dead played it at the Fillmore East on 20 September 1970. The show is only available via streaming

It would not be until 19 February 1991, 1,371 shows later, at the Oakland Coliseum Arena that the dead played it again.

Cryptical Envelopment 

23 September 1972  – 16 June 1985 [791 Shows]

From a Glide Magazine articleThe studio version of That’s It For The Other One on Anthem of the Sun contains four sections, one of which is sung by Jerry Garcia and called Cryptical Envelopment. The Dead would play Cryptical into and out of The Other One from the late ’60s through the early ’70s, at which point the tune disappeared from the rotation until a fateful evening in 1985 at the legendary Greek Theater in Berkeley. The group performed Cryptical four more times that year and then never again.

23 September 1972

Palace Theatre, Waterbury, CT 

Full show only available

16 June 1985
Greek Theatre, University of California

Cryptical Envelopment > The Other One > Cryptical

 

Casey Jones

Once again, on would think that such a great song as Casey Jones would appear at least a few times during tours. Not so with “Casey Jones.

Played on 2 November 1984 and then not again unt 20 June 1992, 549 Shows!

2 November 1984
Berkeley Community Theatre, Encore

20 June 1992
RFK Stadium, Washington, DC

Here Comes Sunshine

23 February 1974 – 6 December 1992 [1,213 shows]

Again from Glide Magazine: The future of the Grateful Dead was in doubt after Jerry Garcia became ill following Summer Tour 1992. The group canceled their fall tour to allow their leader to heal and returned for a few shows in early December. At one of these December shows, the Dead dusted off the beautiful Here Comes Sunshine with a new arrangement. While I’m not a fan of the arrangement, I – and if you listen to the audience, plenty of Deadheads in attendance – was thrilled to see the song return to the fold.

23 February 1974
Winterland Arena, SF, CA

Whole show only available

6 December 1992
Compton Terrace Amphitheatre, Chandler, AZ

Open the show with…

Dead Bust Outs

Death Don’t Have No Mercy

04/26/1970 – 09/29/1989 [1,320 Shows]

On September 29, 1989, the Grateful Dead treated the Bay Area crowd to their first rendition of Rev. Gary Davis’ Death Don’t Have No Mercy in nearly 20 years. The group was firing on all cylinders as they started what would turn into an epic fall tour. Jerry tore the tune up from the opening notes to the last.

The 1970 version is unavailable, but listening to the 1989 recording tells you that some realize what is happening.