Grateful Dead: The New Jersey Broadcast (9/3/77)

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2017

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Grateful Dead: The New Jersey Broadcast,
Raceway Park, Englishtown, N.J. 3rd September 1977

Please note: This concert was previously released as
Dick's Picks Volume 15 (SOLD OUT)

NEW JERSEY BROADCAST 1977 - POSSIBLY, THE BEST DEAD SHOW EVER Die-hard fans of the Grateful Dead have their favourite shows. And often their favourite years too; for many 1977 stands out. By now the band had left behind their cosmic, psychedelic shows, a feature of their 60s performances, and was putting together more crafted sets that mixed songs from their growing repertoire of folk, country, blues and rock music. By the time they reached Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey on 3rd September 77, they had finished one of their most successful tours, and subsequently played what many fans consider the best Dead show ever. At Raceway Park, 100,000 fans showed up to soak up the heat and the Grateful Dead. The results can now be heard again on this superb three CD set which features the entire show, as broadcast live by WNEW FM New York and transmitted across the Northern East Coast.

Tracklist:

Disc One:
  1. Introduction by John Scher
  2. Promised Land (5:08) Berry
  3. They Love Each Other (7:41) Hunter, Garcia
  4. Me & My Uncle (3:52) Phillips
  5. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo (13:35) Hunter, Garcia
  6. Looks Like Rain (7:52) Weir, Barlow
  7. Peggy-O (9:18) Trad. Arr. by Grateful Dead
  8. New Minglewood Blues (5:21) Trad. Arr. by Grateful Dead
  9. Friend of the Devil (8:13) Garcia, Hunter, Dawson
  10. The Music Never Stopped (7:03) Weir, Barlow

Disc Two:

  1. Bertha > (8:36) Hunter, Garcia
  2. Good Lovin' (6:00) Resnick, Clark
  3. Loser (8:37) Hunter, Garcia
  4. Estimated Prophet > (9:30) Weir, Barlow
  5. Eyes of the World (13:17) Hunter, Garcia
  6. Samson and Delilah (6:40) Trad. Arr. by Bob Weir

Disc Three:

  1. He's Gone > (14:19) Hunter, Garcia
  2. Not Fade Away > (20:07) Petty, Hardin
  3. Truckin' (10:06) Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter
  4. Terrapin Station (11:02) Hunter, Garcia

Blair Jackson's review: ***** copyright: www.blairjackson.com

The Dead were famous for blowing the Big Ones (Monterey Pop, Woodstock, Egypt), but at this concert, played for more than 100,000 people at a racetrack in New Jersey, they rose to the occasion and kicked ass. Set one is not my favorite selection of tunes, for the most part, but the playing is often spectacular, particularly on the definitive versions of “Mississippi Half-Step” and “The Music Never Stopped.” Yow!

The second set is a scorcher, too, with a rousing “Bertha” > “Good Lovin’,” charged run-throughs of “Estimated Prophet” and “Eyes of the World,” a relentless 19-minute “Not Fade Away,” and a “Terrapin” encore. There’s an energy to this entire affair that is positively electric, and something of a departure from the typical, somewhat mellow ’77 vibe. A great show.

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