Dead & Company - New Speedway Boogie (Boston, MA 11/17/17)

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. Dead & Company live recordings will be released throughout the year! Follow this link to find all the shows Subscribe to the channel! Stream Dead & Company LIVE on 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 th