Grateful Dead Hour no. 1265

Week of December 17, 2012

Part 1 32:34
Grateful Dead 12/31/77 Winterland, San Francisco CA
THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED
TENNESSEE JED
FUNICULI FUNICULA
ME AND MY UNCLE
LOSER

Part 2 23:03
Mickey Hart Band, Fall 2012 tour highlights
WEST LA FADEAWAY
DJINN DJINN

The Mickey Hart Band just announced their first dates of 2013. Highly recommended!

When I was a kid in Los Angeles, there was a commercial for Fulvita Vitamins that used the melody of Funiculi Funicula. I knew the Dead weren’t playing a commercial jingle when they started playing it during repair breaks in ’77, but I didn’t know much about the song. There are some pretty elaborate performances of it on tape from that year – I think it’s 6/9/77 that has a particularly fine rendition.

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