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  • daverock
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    Jeff Beck RIP

    A real shock to read on here that Jeff Beck has died. Such a great guitarist.

  • Cousins Of The…
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    Dammit! RIP Jeff Beck

    man...terrible news

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    Sacramento

    I live there! Bad the las few days. Been pumping water...

  • Vguy72
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    I have a cousin that lives in Sacramento....

    ....it's bad. Real bad.
    RIP Jeff Beck. Almost saw him in November, but tix were $300.

  • Colin Gould
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    RIP Jeff Beck

    Another guitar great leaves us.

  • Gary Farseer
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    AJS & OB & Sixtus

    AJS, havent listened to 12/31/81 in decades, didnt know it was on youtube. Will definitely be looking it up.

    Someone posted about Dick's 10's, need to go back for some homework. Sorry short term memory is so so, but think it was Dave rock. Thanks for the reminder!

    OB, yeah the dove freaked me out, don't know why. For a split second I thought "What do they want me to do, should I stomp on it?" Then, peace overcame me, and the dove sat there for the rest of the show. That had to be close to 3 hours. Wonder how he enjoyed it? Was it to loud for his tiny ears? Did the sound hurt him?... Many years later I thought to myself, maybe he landed next to me because he could sense I am a kind person. Yeah, I know, that is stupid. Oh well.

    Sixtus, Happy New Year my man. Every time we start another TRIP around the sun, I think of you and yours. I am guessing your first must be in 1st grade by now? Man, time really does fly. Yeah, like others, I saw the original and all of the Star Wars when they hit the theater. Worked at a theater during The Empire Strikes Back. So saw it quite a few times. A few years back I researched and found articles on "How to Watch Star Wars." Had different ways to watch the whole series. Now I wonder, "was I reading some your prose?" As I posted, re-watching Phantom Menace was awesome. Now I have Clones set up for this weekend. I am trying to watch them all before we get to equinox. Want the sun to be set long enough so that it is easy to crack one open, roll another one, and watch while it is dark. I light watching those type films with no sunlight because they look so much better. I do plan maybe next year to watch them in others ways from other peoples ideas on watching. Maybe you can send me that paper? Smile. As you said, there is so much detail in the stories and the filming, that something can be gleaned and understood in a new light.

    Man sure do hope our west coast heads are safe. We went a week without power 11 years ago and it was not fun...it was manged CHAOS.

  • Gary Farseer
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    West Coast - Hope All Are Well

    We knew this could be bad, but it turns out to be way worse. Hope all California Heads are safe and secure. Only positive I see is the potential snow pack levels. Been watching radar for days, look like rain but also a bunch of snow has fallen in the mountains. As someone posted, that is the best cure for the drought.

    Part of me wishes I could come west to the final shows, but too expensive. I am also satisfied, excessively, with my final show. Meant to write about it on 30th anniversary, now plan to do it on the 35th anniversary. Have to make it there first.

    G

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    I Scream, You Scream

    We all scream for ... HEROIN!!!!!!

    Well, you know what they say: if you can’t remember the grunge era, that just means you were really THERE.

    John Lennon would probably top my list of all time great r’n’r screamers. Unless it’s Yoko, who could outshriek Edith Bunker any day of the week.

    Glen Miller was the ‘40s equivalent of, I dunno, the Guess Who, maybe? Not bad, but not the Real Stuff either. Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Bennie Goodman, even, if you want to get your Swing Era rocks off.

    Speaking of real stuff, and heroin, I’ve been rediscovering Tom Petty’s Wildflowers via a fortuitous Xmas gift. The 4 CD deluxe version of that record is a revelation. I liked the original album, but I didn’t realize what a high point it was for Petty as a writer: the original album was already long, but the deluxe version includes another album’s worth of equally good material that was shelved at the time. Plus demos and live versions and whatnot. Weird, isn’t it, how drugged out depression can sometimes produce an artist’s best work? I think this was Petty’s Layla.

    If it keeps on rainin, the levy is goooooing to break. Actually, it already did, in several places. NorCal’s been battered, friends. Major highways closed, streets flooded, trees down, power out. It’s looking like the drought might be busted (or at least we put a dent in it) but sheesh, what a mess.

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    Time of the year

    With few officially released shows from January, I have been dipping back into December to listen to shows I missed last year. Like Dicks 10 - 12/29/77. Hot guitar, and much else besides. Must be one of the best shows from it's timespan-ie. 3-4 months either side of it. It's pre-Bob on slide and loooong drums, and has enough power to source a city.

  • Vguy72
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    Spinning my first purchased vinyl....

    ....since the early 90's. Phish's Sigma Oasis. Sounds pretty damn good.
    Went with a Vinyl Buddy cleaning kit. $24.99. Used to have a kit like that back then.
    Used it to clean Jethro Tull's Benefit which was in pretty bad shape. No skips.
    Spring tour announced today btw. Three shows at the Hollywood Bowl in April. Temping. Very tempting. I'm one away from fifty Phish shows. Catching up to the Deads sixty. My 50th Dead show was the first Eugene '93 show.
    Star Wars? I also went the first week in '77 Charlie3. No lines. My childhood friend who I still keep in contact with, said, "Vince. You need to see the awesome villain in this movie "Darth Vader." Went back for more a couple of weeks later and lines also around the theater. Worth it though. I was 10. Perfect age to be totally absorbed. I had never seen anything like it.
    Ps. The new Puss In Boots movie is awesome. As is m3gan.
    We have an old school theater right down the street from us called The Cinedome. No casino to walk through. $5.50 matinees. $8.50 late night. Good deal and the best popcorn.
    I love the cinema. Always will.

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Those of us in Blighty don't get full tracking even when you sign up to UPS.The reason being is that they are sent economy post, and they do not track the item, from leaving the USA.
However you do get false emails from UPS when an expensive box set is ordered,and you pay over the odds on postage.

BTK... seems like we were at alot of the same shows in the early 80's .... I will never forget Halloween at the BCT ... it was all the heads dressed in costumes that made the shows, although "Halloween Space" was pretty trippy as I recall. And I missed the BBQ, dammit! Maybe next time ............tc

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The ones with meandering intros are the best. :-)

I am dabbling in June 76. 6-11 to be specific. But, 6-9 is another grate one...

We get the Bean sound again in Dec. 78. 12-17 has an Eyes of the World, but it's minus a real long intro...

P.S. Crosswalks

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the Grateful Dead were the greatest band ever, there, ok.

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The GD is the Dark Star at the center of this galaxy.

Sometimes we go to solar systems, planets, moons, etc. in our bizarre galaxy. Vacations, rants, joys, whatevers, hockey teams, trolls, und so weiter.

Just scroll past the stuff you don't want to read, and read the stuff you do want to read.

Keep on orbiting the Dark Star, y'all, and share what you will.

God bless us, everyone, and God bless the GD.

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Check one of the other active discussion boards.

This board is open mic night.

Red Wings started good……

DaP44 departed Fontana, due Tuesday.

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Bi-Curious George

A comet: Buoy the mascot.. WTF.

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not follow Deedee. What would YOU like to talk about?

Ya see many of us have been talking too much about the GOGD for so long that we’ve covered a lot of ground, and well, like a big family we discuss, or fight, about all kinds of things, but if you start a good GD topic, someone will most certainly reply…

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Those 1984 BCT shows were a lot of fun. I'm surprised you didn't see me , I was the guy with the long hair and a very cool tie dye t shirt. I bought the tie dye t shirt along with a very cool Rick Griffin poster outside at the very first show. I bet there were a lot of other folks who post on this forum that were also at those shows. Anyway, good to hear from you, have a great day and a great Holloween.

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over on the 2023 DaP Subscription page this morning between TimP and Keithfan. Things I didn't know about Keith and the keyboards he played and when.
Ya just gotta poke around DD.
Cheers
My 44 now tracking, due Wed.

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send me a PM with the details and I'll get the Doc on the case and also alert the tech folks that all is not as it should be.

As it turns out, I put the "ass" in asteroid this time.

I entered the wrong expiration date. A 5 looked like a 3. DERP.

"Got two good eyes but I still don't see."

Mea culpa, Marye.

I apologize for acting like a grumpy old man, Marye. How do you tolerate monitoring us?

Wait, I AM a grumpy old man.

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Ahoy, maties, 44 is shipped! Supposedly. Now comes the part where the post office doesn't know where it is for about 4-5 days, and then it takes another 4-5 to meander across California, as if traveling via dosed coyotes, and I'll get my copy about a week from now. Whatever. I'm used to it by now.

The Revolver deluxe edition sure looks a money grab. You get 5 discs: a new remix, a mono mix, two "sessions" discs of outtakes and demos and whatnot, and then a disc with nothing but mono and stereo versions of Paperback Writer and Rain. Now, Revolver is only about 35 minutes long, so the remix AND mono versions PLUS the Paperback Writer and Rain tracks could've all fit on ONE disc. Talk about "milking it."

The thing is, I wouldn't mind hearing the remix. The original stereo mix has always been a problem; there's way too much stereo panning, The mono mix is great, but it doesn't do justice to the swirling psychedelia of Tomorrow Never Knows. So I may have to break down and get the two disc version, which has the new stereo mix (all 35 minutes of it) on one disc, and then a disc out of outtakes. I think I've probably bought that record at least 5-6 times now, since getting that first copy from K-Mart for I think $1.99 back in the Pleistocene Era.

Good on you guys for remembering Steps Ahead! I'm a tenor sax player, so I'm obsessed with all things Michael Brecker (who was really The Guy on tenor after Coltrane) so I've got all the Steps records that he was on. I actually like them better than the Brecker Bros, whose studio recordings often suffer from overly slick production, IMO. (Though the live recordings are great!) Those first few Steps records with MB, especially Smokin in the Pit, are really really good.

Just listened to DaP 25. I do this a lot, where they announce a new release, and I get excited about it, but it's months before it's going to come, and so I listen to whatever GD I've got that's from the same tour to tide me over. So after they announced the Portland shows from October '77, I pulled out this gem (from a couple weeks later). Man, that has got to be one of the great first sets ever! Second ain't bad, either.

And speaking of baseball ... (OK, more like, "since nobody is speaking of baseball"): what an amazing World Series opener last night! Houston gets off to a 5-0 lead, had Verlander on the mound (a pitcher who was 99-0 in games in which he led by 5 runs), and the Phillies somehow come back and win 6-5. If I can't have my Giants in the post season, I can at least enjoy the schadenfreude of an epic upset win over the Trashtros.

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Sonic genus and amazing to listen to. Sounds unbelievable…

No comment on costs….

But it’s f’ing Revolver! Just saying…

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That was one of the best baseball games I've ever seen last night. They were playing Grateful Dead music going into the commercial breaks, Throwing Stones and Foolish Heart.

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just got a signed copy of Ken Babbs' new book Cronies Adventures with Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, The Merry Pranksters and the Grateful Dead. Reviews looks like fun, more Dead tales.

Revolver release haven't heard it yet but looks good, It's The Beatles and it's Revolver. nuff said.
Last 5:
America 1st lp
Alan Parsons Project Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here MFSL Original Master Recording
Grateful Dead 3-24-95 Set 2
Moody Blues On the Threshold of a Dream
Steve Miller Band Book of Dreams Original Master Recording
Beatles Revolver Original Master Recording let's see if the new release will sound as good as this one.
jumping all over the place today.

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Got Dave's # 44 and Revolver box set today and I am a big Phillies Fan Big day to listen and Watch

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Just back from a wonderful vacation on the Oregon coast. Watched a ton of hockey on TV.

Ya know, when I eat pork chops, I never let the mashed potatoes touch the chops OR the string beans. It just doesn't seem right.

I hear there's a World Series going on. Cool. More hockey. Planning next year's vacation, even now. And though I don't care about hockey, I think I'll just start watching a ton of it.

And then commenting here in detail on every single game. With breaks to discuss how to avoid having my mashed potatoes touch my pork chops.

Okay, I get the joke. "DeeDee" is actually Bobby Weir, but he done yanked his own chain a leetle too hard.

....I also don't like my food touching each other. In fact. I usually spin my plate around and eat the offerings one at a time.
The Wild/Red Wings game just started and Minnesota scored a minute and a half in. Muted of course. Dave's 42 on the stereo.
Detroit misses Yzerman. At least on the ice. He is their GM after all. Spent all 22 years with them. You hardly see that in any sport anymore.
I see heads are getting their Autzen's already. Sweet!!
Just checked my mailbox. No Dave's. But five political fliers. All the Republican ones just parrot each other regarding how they/you/me can help stop the steal by voting for them and nothing else. No plan. Luckily, my trash bin is just feet away from my mailbox.
Time for a beer.

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Great choice for a release. Jerry’s very inspired all night long, with an uplifting edge to every note played during the marathon second set. Massive versions of Eyes, Uncle John’s Band, Miracle, and Dew. The drum loops in the percussion segment is one of the trippiest ever.

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See article from Rolling Stone “Jerry Garcia's Lost Pipe Has Been Found After 30 Years -- and It Still Smells Like Weed” on the internet.
Amusing.

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Vocals almost inaudible buuuut you can hear lots of instrumentation

Worth at least one listen in your lifetime

Can't read article no subscription

I'm sure that pipe is kinda nasty

PF - That’s odd you cannot get the article, because I don’t subscribe to that magazine either, it just came up on my news feed, but the article has been picked up by dozens of outlets.
The pipe appears to have been made by the one and only Owsley Stanley, driven by only one owner - Jerry - and lost for many years behind a bed at Merl Saunders home. It is a cool looking thing, and as Owsley designed jewelry, quite unique!
I hope you can find it, at least the pics of it.

You’re welcome.
It’s a cool looking pipe, isn’t it? I never owned one that fancy, I chose function over style, but I had buddies with some pretty elaborate ones. More like art pieces. Even the boxes they kept them in were more intricate than anything I had, almost like they were ceremonial.

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That Mike, that's a good story about Garcia's pipe.

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for Jerry, how cool. They really did love each other. Tractors

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Stanley was a man of great talent and vision, and we all reap the benefits of his sonic acumen still.
Glad you all liked the article.

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Excellent show with a killer Dancing in the Streets, possibly the best Cassidy I've heard, stellar Let it Grow and superb Scarlet/Fire. Ran into Billy the Kidd there, he borrowed my comb and never returned it, dammit!! Regardless, this show would make a great pick.

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the pipe or the cool logos Rhoney Stanley, Owsley's ex, carved into it.
The reclining cat from Cat's Down Under on the bottom of the bowl.
The crouching tiger from Jerry's guitar on the front of the bowl.
Wonder how much Steve Cabella had to give for it?
Says it needs to be seen but not just in some pot museum.
And no one will be smoking it, he says, that was Jerry's job.
Obviously priceless!
Cheers

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Cousins, thanks for the comb, I still have it. Its s an ACE, its a beauty.

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You CAN hear three guitars

No drums or keys

An odd one. Worth a check after you have heard everything else.

Article...will pursue furthur. Get it? Furthur? Haha...ha...lame.

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It's a Betty Board of their set opening for the GD in London, May 26 [guess the year]

The band is tight, Marmaduke's vocals are pretty disciplined, the setlist is fun, the show fills an 80 minute disc and Betty's recording is her usual stellar stuff.

Great band! Caught 'em a few times in '72-'73, with the GD and without. Great fun. "Highly" recommended.

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38 years ago today,( you know where I was at). along with Cousins and alot of other great folks who post on this forum, the BCT, for a rocking night with the Good old Grateful Dead. This was my favorite show of the whole run, but they all were great! After the show, we stopped at Everett & Jones BBQ down on San Pablo Ave for some great bbq. My brother saw Rock Scully in Everett & Jones after a Dead Greek show one night, probably picking up some bbq for Garcia.

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The other day I went to one of those "celebration of life" things for a friend who passed a couple weeks ago, a drummer who I'd played in a couple bands with. He was very well liked, so there were lots of people there, lots of mutual friends I hadn't see in a while. And after catching up with one friend for a while, he tells me a story about how he went to the Sweetwater to see Ramblin Jack Eliot a few weeks ago, and Bob Weir saved the day,

Jack, who's over 90 now, was apparently drunk. At first it was funny, and it seemed like maybe he would pull it together. But it soon became apparent that, no, he was too far gone, and this was just going to be painful for all concerned. Jack couldn't remember lyrics, couldn't remember what story he was trying tell, couldn't play, and it was just ugly.

Then, who should appear from backstage but Bob Weir, with a guitar. Weir sets up on a stool behind him, and helps Jack through a couple songs, playing guitar to back him up and reminding him when he can't remember the words. But after a couple tunes it's clear even this is unworkable. So Bob puts his arms around Jack, helps him off the stage. Then he comes back, apologizes to the audience, and offers to play a few tunes. Which he does. Plays and sings his heart out, in fact.

Bob's a good dude. As if we didn't know that already. Just thought you might like to know that happened.

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They will be on Ebay tomorrow.

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