Kosmik Radiation Radio - August 2, 2013 Playlist

Grateful Dead Audience Tape Special IV
Recorded by the fans for the fans

Jerry Garcia would have been 71 on August 1st
Thanks to all the tapers and archivists who made it all possible!
Click here for the archive of audience recordings

CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Grateful Dead "Anthem Of The Sun" 1968 (USA)

Jerry Garcia would have been 71 on August 1st; this year's Grateful Dead Audience Recording special (4th annual) features the 1972 tour, and our classic album of the week is their second (and most psychedelic) studio album. It's probably their best studio album...because most of it was actually recorded in concert! But then, as Jerry G. put it, they spent a lot of time "mixing it for the hallucinations". But enough about that - 1972 was a pivotal and interesting year for the band: the legendary seven-headed dragon of the sixties was dismantled as Tom Constanten (second keyboard) quit in 1970, Mickey Hart (second drummer) quit in 1971 (his father, who was the band's manager, emptied the band's bank accounts and disappeared), and by the spring of 1972 Ronald "Pigpen" McKernan (soul organ, bongos & blues) was getting too sick to play (his final gig was June 17, a selection of which is heard on the program this week). The quintet that was about to become a quartet could have folded, but fate sent them Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux (a new pianist and a girl singer to do the high harmonies that Phil Lesh didn't want to do anymore). They stayed with the band until the late 1970's, and the new six-headed beast turned out to be just as iconic as (and even more popular than) the earlier model (as documented in the 1977 theatrical release The Grateful Dead Movie, filmed at the Winterland ballroom in 1974).

Artist	Songs (all recorded live)	Album / Source	Graphic	Country
Grateful Dead	Black Throated Wind / China Cat Sunflower -> I Know You Rider (trad.) / Jack Straw	July 18, 1972 Roosevelt Stadium (Jersey City, NJ) Audience recording by ??? Click here to stream or download this entire show! (no commercial recordings from this show have been made available to date)		USA

Grateful Dead	That's It For The Other One I. Cryptical Envelopment II. Quadlibet For Tenderfeet III. The Faster We Go, The Rounder We Get IV. We Leave The Castle -> New Potato Caboose / Born Cross-Eyed	Anthem Of The Sun (1968) CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK		USA
Grateful Dead	Cumberland Blues (live - April 8, 1972 Empire Wembley Pool London, UK)	Europe '72 (1972)		USA

Grateful Dead	Playing In The Band / Greatest Story Ever Told	August 27, 1972 Old Renaissance Faire Grounds (Veneta, OR) Soundtrack to the non-commercial concert documentary Sunshine Daydream Click here to stream this entire show! (no commercial recordings from this show have been made available to date)		USA

Grateful Dead	Truckin' -> Drums -> The Other One	June 17, 1972 (Pigpen's last show) Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles, CA) Audience recording by Dave & Jim Melton Click here to stream or download this entire show! (no commercial recordings from this show have been made available to date)		USA

Grateful Dead	Dark Star -> Sugar Magnolia -> Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)	April 29, 1972 Musikhalle (Hamburg, West Germany) Audience recording by ??? Click here to stream or download this entire show! (commercial recordings of this entire show have been released as part of the 73(!!) CD box set Europe '72: The Complete Recordings)		USA