Grateful Dead - 8/24/72 - Berkeley CA - Soundboard - Complete Show

*This video is part of an ongoing effort to catalog my favorite shows in the highest sound quality possible. To the best of my knowledge, each recording is the clearest available version. Some recordings may be "Matrix" (a mix of soundboard and audience taping). Files have also been combined so that transitions between songs are seamless. All recording info has been copied from etree.org.*
Original artwork:
Astronaut from unknown source. Jerry is from Egypt '78. Melded together by the esteemed and talented George Pearson.
Grateful Dead
August 24, 1972
Berkeley Community Theatre
Berkeley, CA
Recording Info:
SBD... Rm ... Dat(48k)
Notes:
Sugar Magnolia, Ramble On Rose And Greatest Story Ever Told were patched from SBD...Rm...Cass...Cass...Cass...Dat...Samplitude...SHN
All transfers (including the patch) were done by Charlie Miller
6/12/03
-Set 1-
The Promised Land
Sugaree
Jack Straw
China Cat Sunflower ...
I Know You Rider
Me & My Uncle
Bird Song
Beat It on Down the Line
Tennessee Jed
Playing in the Band
Casey Jones
-Set 2-
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
Mexicali Blues
Brown Eyed Women
Truckin'
Dark Star ...
Morning Dew
Sugar Magnolia
Ramble on Rose
Greatest Story Ever Told
Sing Me Back Home
One More Saturday Night
-Encore-
Uncle John's Band
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[@WallofSound65]

You'll want to go to 1:56:09 for a face-melting Dark Star - that transitions so carefully and quietly, into just the loveliest Morning Dew ever. Eat your heart out, Veneta OR.

[@chsmt19]

@Mookie Blaylock Up there with Dane Co. '73. Eyes baby!

[@Karmakatt6]

At work... checkn' it out as soon as I get home... Cheers Bro

[@eddiem5997]

Thanks 👌

[@hubertsumlin9697]

@Mookie Blaylock LOVE the UNLV handle! nobody ever recognizes mine. good stuff Mook!

[@robmaddox1886]

Thanks for that !

[@andrewculhane9082]

This is my favorite Dead show. The Dark Star into Dew is the finest music I've ever heard the boys play.

[@litedawg]

Check out Dicks Picks 36 9-21-72 its outstanding

[@williambattersby1895]

Thanks WOS. These shows are the only thing keeping me going in these dark Virus times. A million thanks. Dire Wolf Willie, Brighton, England

[@ResearchSoundLab]

@Mookie Blaylock haha.. it actually is, though...

[@daveanthony2959]

Mookie Blaylock Ik. 😂It’s a wasteland of misery and darkness. the sky is falling 🤯🤯

[@rajsuss]

Hey, DWW-I lived in Brighton 1979-80 while I attended Sussex U. How do you do?

[@daveyboy8907]

Haha you all fell for it

[@hamunderhill2062]

what a month it was culminating up in veneta at the creamery benefit watch the sunshine daydream movie and smile at how young everyone was Jerry had just turned 30 sheesh

[@GratefulZen]

Good Old Grateful Dead...a tonic for the troops!

[@peggy2360]

Where you at, Richard?

[@jimgreene3914]

This show really made me happy. Them boys really are f****** magical. There really is no explanationfor the emotional response a good dead show gives me.

[@cranntara3741]

SET 1 0:00 Intro by Bill Graham 0:22 Promised Land 4:02 Sugaree 12:17 Jack Straw 18:52 China Cat Sunflower → 25:50 I Know You Rider 33:37 Me And My Uncle 37:25 Bird Song 47:54 Beat It On Down The Line 52:34 Tennessee Jed 1:02:42 Playing In The Band 1:19:01 Casey Jones SET 2 1:25:16 Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo 1:34:27 Mexicali Blues 1:38:18 Brown-Eyed Women 1:45:04 Truckin' 1:56:10 Dark Star → 2:23:37 Morning Dew 2:37:37 Sugar Magnolia 2:45:35 Ramble On Rose 2:52:30 Greatest Story Ever Told 2:58:02 Sing Me Back Home 3:08:11 One More Saturday Night ENCORE 3:14:02 Uncle John's Band

[@winthropallegaert3793]

Like most WOS productions

[@AraCod]

thx for the time stamps

[@mikec6733]

Listened to the first 4-5 songs. IMO, they was really in fine form on this particular evening. Especially Mr. Lesh. OMGoodness. And Billy. Everyone really.

[@stevenlawrence9930]

Sweet tunes from the most golden Dead decade. The ☀️ will shine ✨ in my back door some day! What a long, strange trip it’s been!

[@jeffspaulding9834]

It's great when an amazing show coincides with amazing sound quality. Thanks, WOS!

[@ryanjofre]

You said it. Heaven on Earth.

[@TheBoogz101]

The world can be dark but But these guys made sure there was still light in the strangest places☀️ love security and devotion ✌️

[@stefanschleps8758]

WOS you legend you. Thank you for keeping the love alive. We are family, close to two generations now. Archive for the future generations, and the legend will never die. The Dead are immortal. Jerry is God. NFA.

[@kfallstidi]

The Promised land opener was like breathing fresh air...Jerry started playing at the show's I saw throughout the years, and I would tear up at the first notes...saw them in 70...I'm 62, and this invaluable piece of recording and time is so appreciated...TY WALL OF SOUND...ty

[@mikedddd714]

Thank you Wall of Sound. You are the BEST Brother

[@davidperry5844]

I was four years old. Nobody took me to dead show I corrected that problem but I can never get enough. I can never forget

[@danysam48]

De los mejores recitales de grateful dead que escuché en mi vida

[@BlueFlameJay]

Another big thanks to Wall of Sound! The awesome quality of your mixes just fills me with delight during these dark times. What I would give to go back!! Peace-

[@morningdew5872]

"Reason tatters, the forces tear loose, from the axis; Searchlight casting, for faults in the, clouds of delusion"

[@luisarielisasi516]

Viva el 72 de los Gloriosos Grateful Dead 🙌❤🙌

[@danielthomasmoran]

Well this is one of those magical shows. The band was sharp as hell, at the height of their powers, firing on all cylinders, and your could sense that they knew it. It did not always go that way but when it did you were fully believing that they were going to levitate the place.

[@tomb613]

Not only levitate but transport into another dimension altogether.......Cheers!!!

[@danielthomasmoran]

@@tomb613 It was always best to be in that other dimension before you walked in the door!

[@danceswithdogs2041]

It was maybe being primed to get to another dimension... Getting there... Probably happened all the time... Like a castle floating above the ocean amongst columns of clouds. Everybody was so busy groovin' on the music that they either didn't notice... Or they didn't remember. Like the time I eyeballed an eighth of sillies. It was all spoors and caps... Broken bluish stems... Whoops... Guess it was more like a quarter... Sure was a strange show. Finally came back. They'd called rock med. Guess I got rid of that quarter and the doc told me I could come and hang out downstairs, listen to the show and drink Gatorade with the other too mucho cuando folks... But I declined. So He said... The doc sez... "Gabe... If You can dance you can stay up here... If not... Come on hang out downstairs or... We'll hafta put you in an ambulance and send you to the hospital". I said... Sorta like I was Leo Sayer or something... " You know I can dance... But first you must clean all this puke off offa me." Well someone donated a clean new tiedye and three of them volunteers from rock med cleaned me up with spray bottles and paper towels just like the ones some ORANGE BABY tossed to the Puerto Rican folks back a few years or so ago. This old Brother came with a reeking mop all fuming and grumbling about hippies making a f**king mess all over the place... And I flipped to another dimension where he was a guard with a club and I was in a huge hanger over in Treasure Island full of cubicles of tubs full of pulsating orbs connected to tubes and cables feeding a big central Matrix and I danced, just like always and the rock meds and the mop man smiled and trooped away while Jerry's Artwork filled the screens and I spent the rest of the first half of the show jumping from dimension to dimension spinning a big wheel till I finally hit the right dimension... At break me and my friend Shannon were hold haands, stumbling along like a couple of toddlers to the bathrooms... Lesson learned? Don't leave the floor without getting the password to get back in. Phewhooshh!!

[@robinmorton8585]

i have never listened to a dead show i didn't love. they change my energy i forgot i possessed. i am full of joy and love thank you fellow heads

[@nickpreetic4670]

the >>Dew transition is sublime

[@stans9487]

One of the best.

[@j.g.hermanson3943]

thanks to Wall of Sound! The awesome quality of your mixes! i am on lockdown in Kuwait 24/7 , leave it on all day long all of the WOS dubs great quality recordings (matrix) redbud in kuwait

[@mcpaplus]

WOS, this is awesome. My first concert wasn't till 77, so these efforts of yours really allow us to experience the earlier days. I've never had a "flashback " from days experimenting, but kicked back in the easy chair, low lights, a good dinner consumed and headphones on, this was pretty close, especially the darkstar dew segment. Wonderful work, thank you so much.

[@elwoodblues9215]

This so hits the spot....😎

[@pushkari]

Truly brilliant performance! They were so ON! I get goosebumps listening to this. Thank you, WOS, for this delightful Saturday afternoon enjoyment of beautiful music!

[@elwoodblues9215]

Right out of the gate they are rocking!

[@loudfast1261]

feel i should see a "I need a Miracle sign' any minute now while going through the turnstile, this takes me back ol Dead recordings never get old.

[@jordanalexander5275]

I love it when Donna takes her vocal break

[@jonesst0101]

Awesome. I was nine days old. I think this may be the closest show to the day of a great hatching.

[@adirondacktrekking1972]

Hey fellow Leo ,72 was a good year ...8/10/72 here brother ,enjoy what’s left man!!

[@floepiejane]

I was six months old. If only I grew up in Berkeley.

[@sisterearth]

Right on 😍✌️

[@tomb613]

"Good time music by good time people.."

[@musicandcoffee2853]

Thanks brother ⚡️💀🌹

[@edjurzenski8602]

Bezerkley, great space for music. Thanks for the tunes !

[@litedawg]

Ok so as far as this Deadhead is concerned 8-21-72 to 9-21-72 is some of the finest GD music you will ever hear. Damn near every song is perfection plus we get 3 insane Dark Stars and 2 of them into Morning Dew. November 1973 and May/June 1974 also in there .

[@nealmccarthy5903]

TYTYTY this is so great. Thank you kindly for sharing it

[@kirkbarnum8610]

Thanks for keeping it crispy and clean

[@richardmccoy3346]

Greatest Dead show I've ever heard!

[@namcat53]

THIS is the Good Ol' Grateful Dead at a solid peak in their playing skill. I'm glad I got to see them a couple of times around then. Thanks.

[@Steve-vy6kg]

This is upside out, inside down territory. There’s playfulness here. Home field advantage. Maybe a stroll through Kepler’s during the morning hours. Maybe hanging out in the Eagle Wing Palace....

[@donaldemeyer]

Thank You!

[@bluesriot2]

perusing the aural galaxy dreaming of Janis while relaxing after a couple of rough and rowdy days, and then that bass note Phil hits in the drum interlude midway thru bird song, it's, the , it is , it's the sex wax in my eargasm, such bliss , oh lordy ty wos

[@sterlingmartin3212]

Thank you

[@RobHollanderMusic]

Most folks don't know that the BCT is the Berkeley High School auditorium. Saw the Dead there many times, and there is a great Hendrix DVD available filmed there in 1969.

[@johnmongani5223]

Hendrix show in Berkeley was May 30th, 1970. He played near Berkeley in 1969 at the Oakland Arena.

[@3er2ic3]

Sure hope the sun shines in my back door again. But I think its gonna be a long , long time. Thanks WOS 🙏 for posting these shows!

[@danieldevaney2207]

Thanks.

[@adirondacktrekking1972]

WOW I was just 14 days old ,what a great show ,Thank You !!

[@ZeppelinStoner]

Have recently stumbled upon this amazing collection of live recordings you have provided for us. So far i have yet to run out of dead shows after skimming through 30plus i can't wait to listen to them all the way through. Thank you so much for providing all this magic i will forever keep with me in my heart to get me through my remaining trips around the sun. If any experts could give me their choice on top 10 shows that would be awesome. Much peace and love to all deadheads!

[@WallofSound65]

Welcome friend. Settle back and light up.

[@kathyellis4272]

lifeblood!!

[@boomshanka8743]

Good lord, this is some FINE listening!

[@tedbaker8291]

Some of the clearest Dead vocals I've ever heard. Thanx! PS: then again, some of Donna's vocals I wish I couldn't hear at all. 😉

[@Been.Here.Since.2007]

90-95 West coast tour and I really miss shoreline.

[@IzitAllGoUnder]

I was at the 6-17-72 Hollywood Bowl show and the Palladium shows in September. What a great time for live Dead. Thanks for doing a great job on these and posting them. I'm not sure why Lemieux selects many of the ones he does other than he's looking forward to a very long career rather than selecting truly "great" shows. Kind of a disservice to those of us who don't have a lot of time left to have to wait for him to get around to it. Anyway, thanks much !!

[@RobHollanderMusic]

Dave does a great job generally. True, occasionally he swings and misses, but so did Dick Latvala every once in a while.

[@eddiem5997]

Dead at the palladium? That's badass.

[@IzitAllGoUnder]

@@eddiem5997 yeah, it was amazing. Open floor and just like a big family get together. New Riders would open then the Dead came on and blew the place away. Saw them there in early '71 when pig was still pretty healthy. Like nothin' else.

[@danielmorris3687]

@@IzitAllGoUnder How cool. I wasn't old enough to get to my first show until early Brent which was still great but man to have seen Pig and then Keith shows woulda blown my mind

[@jeffredfern3744]

Dave at least releases full shows. I wasn't a fan of how Dick released partials of a run or sometimes two shows months apart as a volume of his picks.

[@axm4732]

YAY WOS!

[@donnicholas7552]

Cool show!!

[@jerrodloveland6069]

This is brilliant.

[@lr21643]

Great stuff. I don't have time to listen to it all now, but they seem to be really together. I just checked Europe 72 and Steal Your Face to see if some of these songs made it into the albums, but it seems not, however familiar they sound. Thank you!

[@sumnerwaite6390]

Sharing from Atlanta!

[@captinbrasiliano7281]

Epic!

[@solefood7477]

This show is hot fire!!!

[@trubbeltron]

That Mississippi half-step is one fire🔥

[@bvans6439]

Wall of Sound => Superb Stuff!!!

[@ChuckPiotrowski]

Love the Donna Jean intro! We can dig it!

[@ryanparker8515]

Listen to the whistle of the acid train Lol

[@mattcouch2965]

Talk about a set list!!

[@danosullivan7239]

Cool beans😁

[@monumentlandscapeservicesl6464]

Listen to the whistle of the A-cid train..

[@williamgresser8624]

Happy Friday!😃

[@justicesomeday]

✌️💞😎

[@rsuverk]

I was there - I live nearby and like to sit there and play this recording

[@DeadDave50]

Good stuff... I recently decided to make a concerned effort to listen to every show I have in my Music Library. Right now I am working on Ratdog shows 2006. Lots of great shit. I put them on my phone for my daily runs and work around the house. Not sure it If I will have enough time left to work my way thru all that I have. Dead.Phil and friends,Furthur,Dead and Co....etc...but I decided to try. I am up to 1973 Dead,2006 Ratdog, 2017 D&Co...and 2008 P&Friends...maybe I should just stop and listen to Britney instead

[@adrianpeters2413]

No not britney, justin instead, you could be just in time for to be educated about the wokes millenniums the lbgt, and crossover sex, oh bi sexual and , sorry woke!!!! More like Moke, hey that was a car ain't it, .... ha ha ha on your bike and pedal hard ....

[@user-zl7yp7qd8k]

China Cat Sunflower - Dancing Music!

[@jamescalder9639]

Thanks WOS! What an amazing show. How did you score such a sweet SBD? 8-24 is my birthday. Daydreaming what it was like to be there on a warm August night in Berkeley.

[@analogkid5618]

Awesome!! But Donna scared the hell out of me on PITB.

[@williamclark6233]

One of the better 2nd sets I've heard in a while

[@borkfork3163]

For me best Dark Star ever has got to be 1969-02-28.

[@borkfork3163]

There's always 1970-9-19. Tough to beat.

[@WallofSound65]

2/28/69 is tough to beat for sure. The 69 Dark Stars were so different from these, maybe because no Tom Constantine here? 9/19/70 is also incredible, with that period of silence in the middle and the China Cat jam. Been trying to find that show in HQ for years.

[@borkfork3163]

@@WallofSound65 Heard a podcast where Phil L listened to 9/19/70 and became quite emotional about Jerry's playing then.

[@WallofSound65]

@@borkfork3163 I can dig that. Hell I get emotional and I never even knew the guy. Imagine spending thousands of hours onstage with him and listening to these tapes 50 years later.

[@michaelmohrle1773]

I think 3 days later might be the best, 8/27/72. And 10/18/74, I like them all 1968-74 !!

[@user-tx6lv3tj5c]

Donna!!!! Please just stop wailing.

[@linitakegel3343]

Fucking great 👍 🚬 weed 🍸 beer 🍺

[@joegibson6041]

I’m assuming this was at the Greek? Anyone?

[@curb_fiend]

Fun fact... I shit my pants during dark star

[@danielmoore7332]

Excellent show until the 2:55:00 mark. Donna Jean sent me scampering away again. Why oh, why did she have to skreetch like that? I remember leaving a MD show (Capitol Center?) when she let loose. Some folks like it I guess. Sounds like Yoko to me

[@mcpaplus]

I didn't start getting into the Dead until after Pigpen had gone home. Can someone tell me which songs he sings on this set? I kind of think I can tell, but get confused between him and Bob.

[@markoshirazi]

pig was sick and didn't play during this run

[@mcpaplus]

@@markoshirazi That's sad to hear. Thanks for the info Mark.

[@winthropallegaert3793]

I don’t think there’s any Pig here..

[@djtigerstripes]

Best Morning Dew?

[@shevekanarres2926]

It's not that Donna sounded bad...i think she was just too high in the mix.

[@jhobopopo2yo209]

She was mixed too high in many cases. I also do not think she could hear herself very well at times

[@joebarr725]

She sounded pretty terrible on Half-Step.....and she was too high in the mix.

[@davidperry5844]

Somebody dosed Bobby

[@ryangray5511]

That Donna screech at 1:04:00 is about as terrible as it gets.

[@ajisstillright]

This show is far out, the band was controlling the forces of the universe.

[@borkfork3163]

Some great jamming on this recording but honestly Donna's screaming ruins it for me. I had to mute some songs.

[@georgepapoutsis1598]

it always ruins it. I don't know what they saw in her. It hurts.

[@gratefulkm]

Why oh why is LSD not legal FFS

[@UUpianoman]

I think that folks who have experienced LSD will not willingly kill others for any reason. Neither will they be slaves to stupid religious dogma. Both are very dangerous for the folks who crave power. Of course there are exceptions... acidheads who are jesus freaks, etc, but my experience with acid made me realize we all are in this together. Remember, the drug war enables us to put the 'bad' people in prison, while letting the 'good' people go free.

[@quinnmichael2657]

Hate to say something negative in a dead comment but I really wish Donna's vocals were turned down or off.

[@matthewcannon2560]

Donna is truly terrible. Thankfully she doesn't wail during Dark Stars.