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Grateful Dead: Bertha « Previous | |Next »
July 28, 2008

I thought that I'd link back to this trucking post I couldn't find a good live version on YouTube, but I came across this late version from a revitalised Dead:

I first came across Bertha on the Skull and Roses live album, which I thought was pretty poor. Bertha opened the album and its spirited playing promised much in terms of energy driven by the dynamic bass playing that propelled the material along its path. The promise was not delivered on the album.

This was a transitional period for the Dead, a fallow period between the heights of the classic expression of free-form, improvisational San Francisco psychedelic sound on Live Dead and the classic expression of the return to their American musical roots in American Beauty.

A much slower version of Bertha can be found in the May 1977 run of concerts--- Buffalo Memorial Auditorium on 1977-05-09.

'Trucking' was on American Beauty:

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 7:35 PM | | Comments (2)
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I'd always thought Clapton had snaffled the basic ideas for Layla from Bertha - a song about a Dead studio fan but it appears Layla appeared before Bertha did.

FXH
Maybe it was the other way round?