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“We’re just now starting to loosen up to the point where we were, say, back in 1970, ’72, where we can start drifting from key to key, from rhythm to rhythm, and in the jams, some interesting stuff has come up. Once again, we’re tending to go new places every night.” - Bob Weir, Rolling Stone, 1980

3/9/81 at Madison Square Garden delivers all that. It's got color and texture and freshness, keyboardist Brent Mydland's Hammond organ painting a new layer for the Dead to dabble on. And dabble they did, from the "shot out of a cannon" opener of "Feel Like A Stranger" to the "fleeting romance of 'Althea,'" to the high-gloss 80s blues of the first set to the second set, both intense ("China>Rider", "Samson And Delilah," "Estimated Prophet") and dramatic ("Ship Of Fools," "Stella Blue) in its ability wrap you up its spirals and accents. It's all undergone Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction, with mastering by Jeffrey Norman. Hot, hot, hot!

 
   

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   KatfishJohn  (3/21/2024 4:31:30 PM)

This show has long been one of my favorites of the 80s. The band plays like a 110 volt appliance plugged into a 220 volt outlet. At one point in the incendiary Stranger opener, for example, Jerry’s g MORE>

   Gonzobiker916  (1/6/2024 10:55:13 PM)

The energy at East Coast shows was very different that west coast, and MSG was no exception. I remember being outside one night and watching 2 NYPD cops sitting in their car listening to the simulcas MORE>

   Oshie  (8/30/2023 5:08:53 AM)

To open a first set with Stranger/Althea is epic in and of itself

 
 
 
 

DISC ONE
SET ONE
Feel Like a Stranger
(9:07)
Althea
(7:52)
C.C. Rider
(8:00)
Ramble On Rose
(7:41)
El Paso
(5:31)
Deep Elem Blues
(7:03)
Beat It On Down The Line
(3:58)
Bird Song
(11:15)
New Minglewood Blues
(7:02)
SET TWO
China Cat Sunflower
(9:33)
I Know You Rider
(6:11)
Samson And Delilah
(7:32)
Ship Of Fools
(8:57)
Estimated Prophet
(13:50)
Uncle Johns Band
(11:46)
Drums
(10:32)
Space
(7:30)
The Other One
(7:47)
Stella Blue
(9:50)
Good Lovin'
(6:51)
ENCORE
U.S. Blues
(5:32)

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