Let''s roll into March with a really excellent show from the Spring of 1981. This one comes to us from New York City, March 9th, 1981 Madison Square Garden. From start to finish this is a most excellent show, one of the best in the earlier Brett years. Here in the first set all the songs are tight and well-played. I particularly enjoy the 'Althea' and 'Bird Song' but we are treated to a most welcome 'Deep Elem Blues' and an unusual 'Ramble On Rose -> El Paso'.. one of those unusual combinations the band was experimenting with this year. 
Next week we'll hear the marvelous second set from this beauty...
 
Grateful Dead 
Madison Square Garden  
New York , NY   3/9/81
One
Feel Like A Stranger [8:10] ;
Althea [7:56] ;
C C Rider [7:30] ;
Ramble On Rose [7:46] >
El Paso [4:53] ;
Deep Elem Blues [6:23] ;
Beat It On Down The Line [3:18] ;
Bird Song [10:55] ;
New Minglewood Blues [6:52]
 
You can listen to this week's Deadpod here: 
http://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod030416.mp3
 
My thanks to those of you whose contributions keep the Deadpod available! 
 
Keep on Truckin'...