'Ship of Fools' is an unusual encore choice, but ends a very interesting evening of music.Ī torrential rain accompanied the opening 'Box of Rain' on this second set of the band's performance in Washington DC on July 12, 1990. While the show took place on Thursday, they close the set with 'One More Saturday Night'. While not really a jamming song, this one has some very nice riffs and leads into 'US Blues'. Goode' comes out of Stella, which leads into 'Uncle John's Band'. Towards the end you can hear the 'Slipknot' theme, before they break into a sweet 'Stella Blue'.Ī rockin' 'Johnny B. Following 'Jack Straw' they go into one of the few '74 Dark Stars - this one quite cosmic - that goes deep into space land. A sweet Roses follows with Jerry in good voice. Things start out with a standalone 'Scarlet Begonias', including some very nice guitar work from Jerry, then they go into a really rockin' 'Big River. We continue this week with the concluding set from the band's performance on Jin Chicago, Illinois. 'All Along the Watchtower' grows out of Space and the post-drums highlight for me is 'Attics of My Life', although there is a bit of static here and there.Ī fun 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds', is the encore this night sending folks home with a smile. 'Estimated Prophet' begins a nice long stretch of music highlighted by a 'Terrapin Station' and a sweet jam out of Terrapin into Drums and Space. A Scarlet>Fire opens things up and Jerry gives us some remarkable work during the transition and in the opening solo of Fire.

This is a fine setlist - highlighted by some outstanding work by Garcia especially during the transitions between songs. We continue this week with the second set form the band's performance at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View CA. With its words of a life where nothing is newĪh, Mother American Night, I'm lost from the light 'The black-throated wind keeps on pouring in You can listen to this week's Deadpod here: As you'll see next week, it was not alone in this show.

Of course I have to mention the almost 19 minute long 'Playin In the Band' - long a vehicle for exploration during this period. Some of the highlights for me include the sweet 'Sugaree', 'Bird Song' and Keith's transitions in 'Black Throated Wind'. In this week's first set, we have plenty of classic songs, as well as some intense jamming.

This week's Deadpod, from September 9th of that year, showcases some of these changes. They began to explore longer shows with more exploratory jamming. The Fall of 1972 was an interesting transitional period for the Grateful Dead.

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