10-24-2022, 11:42 AM
Costello saw the Europe '72 tour. He got into the Dead because his father was a sailor and would bring home American albums for him, and one was a Dead album. That tribute album was Deadicated and it was rather hit or miss. (There's a fairly recent one, Day of the Dead, that looks better but I haven't heard it.) He did "Ship of Fools," and was playing it in his solo acoustic tour around that time. Our old drummer, not a Deadhead, saw one of the shows, and when Costello said that the next song was a Grateful Dead song, he thought it was a joke.
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