Dead & Company perform "New Speedway Boogie" from the 1st set of their show at TD Garden in Boston, MA on 11/17/17. Click SHOW MORE to read Gary Lambert's notes on this performance.
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Performance Notes
Perhaps the closest the Grateful Dead ever got to a topical song about a specific event. Robert Hunter’s lyric to “New Speedway Boogie” was a response (in typically oblique form) to a dark day in rock ‘n’ roll history - the Rolling Stones’ ill-fated free concert at the Altamont Speedway in Northern California on December 6th, 1969 - and to the wave of finger-pointing and recrimination that followed. Jerry Garcia quickly set Hunter’s words to music, and the Dead played the song live for the first time two weeks to the day later, on the 20th, with the trauma of Altamont still fresh in so many minds, and the band recorded it as the closing track to side one of “Workingman’s Dead” shortly thereafter. Even with its lightning-in-a-bottle origins, the song’s refrain - “…this darkness got to give” - has remained relevant in troubled times over the ensuing decades. - Gary Lambert
Credits
Performed By Dead & Company
Written By Jerry Garcia
Filmed & Edited By Ross Harris
Produced By Derek Featherstone
Production Company: UltraSound
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Dead & Company was formed in 2015 when the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir joined forces with artist and musician John Mayer, Allman Brothers’ bassist Oteil Burbridge, and Fare Thee Well and RatDog keyboardist Jeff Chimenti. The result was one of the most successful touring bands of the decade. The inaugural tour kicked off in the fall of 2015 with two sold-out shows at the legendary Madison Square Garden in New York City and ended with two sold-out performances at the ‘Fabulous’ Forum in Inglewood, California.
Since then, the band has completed five tours, playing to more than 1.5 million fans, and has become a record-breaking stadium act. Dead & Company has headlined iconic stadiums across the country including Folsom Field, Autzen Stadium, Citi Field, Fenway Park and Dodger Stadium. Additionally, the band broke Wrigley Field’s all-time concert attendance record in 2017. Dead & Company’s 2018 Summer Tour ranked in the top 25 of the Top 100 Worldwide Tours and for the past two years, their Summer Tours ranked in the top 15 of the Top Global Concert Tours.
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