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I'm stoked for this March 24/73 show. Dave Picks 21 from a week later at Boston Garden is near the top of my list in this series. If DaP 32 is similar to DaP 21 then this'll get a lot of play by me.

I always thought he looked a little like this 1980's Showtime Movie Critic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMyjq4Xm30M

I don't have time to look through the movie and compare and am not finding what I need on YouTube. Is this the guy?

The pissed off guy who wanted royalties if he appeared in the movie called himself Sam Hughes, the Mustache'er called himself John Williams. I always thought he looked like the Showtime guy (Bill Harris, Hollywood Close Up)

Some more old-timers who keep us newcomers honest:
SimonRob, Ziffle, mhammond, Strider88, who am I forgetting??? Oroboros.. who else?

Love encouraging them to come out and tell their tall tales. If too much more time goes by, they might just forget them. I know I am beginning to forget mine.

Yes, somebody on the GS Box page confirmed that some older DVD players need a firmware update.
Skip the update and upgrade to a BluRay player, it will still play your DVDs.

I also watched it last night, and what caught my eye was the psychedelic pattern on Dave’s chest of the sun reflecting off the water. It was constantly moving around as he stood there and talked. Nice psychedelic addition.
2 sets of master reels, neither complete, although it sounds like the 7 inch reels are just used for filler. Wonder if the 7’s are from the soundboard and the 10’s are from behind or side stage.

I don’t know anything about fly fishing, although I did see that SYF reel before for sale, didn’t realize it costs that much. The other side should have been printed like a 10 inch tape reel. I assume those forceps attached to Dave’s vest are for removing the hook from a fish’s mouth, but I’m curious if the tips have burn marks on them.

Dark Star, glad you find my comments informative. There are a lot of people on this site that know more than me, so I try to pick up from them. Being that I am a Touch Head, I don’t have the extensive tour experience going back to the old days, so it’s good to hear those stories from those folks. And every now and then you get early 70’s stories from people like Hendrixfreak, Hbob, etc. I think Nappyrags and/or JeffSmith attended UCSD in the early 70’s and got to see a bunch of Cali shows, so those stories are fun too.
I don’t think that we have ever heard from anybody who attended the Winterland 74 Last Ones. I would like to hear from the two guys arguing during intermission about the fact that a movie was being made. The guy with blond hair and a mustache even gave his name to the other guy. I suspect that the guy who claimed that the movie was a rip off went to the theater to see the movie.

Anyway, as this new GS Box proves, at least during the years that I saw shows the sound quality was excellent and the boys could still put on a show. The 91 Drums/Space sounds amazing.

Today’s anniversary is the final CA Earthquake, 10-23-89.

“Like a road, we’ll be here”
Hang in there brother. All things must pass....
Or
If you get confused, just listen to the music play!
Or
There’s always uncle Jimmy to makes things right!

SIXTUS; what he said!

MUFFIN; you might just need a firmware update on your Blu-ray player....

WEIRDOS; count me in! If Charlie’s too weird, than I don’t want to be “normal”.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro!
My only real complaint about all this......it never got weird enough!

Thanks for posting! You pretty much nailed it and thanks for that. I love the good vibes this board offers and read it every day. Rough times are no fun, please know you are among friends here.

I don't usually post much but I read everyday. I love this site. Everybody contributes of course in their own way. I forget the gentleman's name who always supplies the album artwork from his computer scanner. There's a ice cream cone kid who like many just seems to be a wealth of knowledge on all of the releases and I'm not too shabby myself and I learn stuff from ice cream come kid. JimInMD you are the perfect mix of humor and Grateful Dead knowledge. I was having a crappy morning for the most part every day this week and little bits of humor when I wake up on this site are a great way to start the day. And Jim, I always see you try to mediate when a big brouhaha erupts on the message board. Vguy your one liners are classic. King of the one-liners. Can you tell the two priests joke again? Divorce papers haha! Or Keithfan just your little joke yesterday about how you keep buying extra copies just to feed the urge and get it to your mailbox quicker . KeithFan2112 I don't know if you are a writer or a music critic or both but you tell some funny stories like that Star Wars scene from the other day, and I'm also pretty sure you wrote the review on heady version about The Other One (am I right?). But you also have an ear for what is going on within a song. Stoltzfus you are also a king of one-liners and I'm happy to see you figured out how to pick an avatar for your screen name. May I suggest something more dead like? Spacebrother your knowledge of the 80s is second to no one. If I may suggest you could also use an upgrade to your avatar even if it's just a different picture of Marvin the Martian.
There are many more too many to mention I should really say everyone is included in the personality of this website. I am saying all this because times have been tough lately and this place brings a smile to my face.

Along those lines, my dad always says, "Confucius say, 'One who flies airplane upside-down have crack up.'"

Lets not forget the 2015 run-in with the giant Kraken he mistook for a harbor seal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5lM-q4FK_k

I especially love the what appears to be a photoshopped fly or bee someone edited in at about the 2:00 minute mark. I mean.. that can't be real? It must be a play on the easily distracted line that came up moments earlier.