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New year, new update. Tell us of your musical adventures in real time!
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Joined:New year, new update. Tell us of your musical adventures in real time!
- FiveBranch
Joined:March 22, 1990For the midi work in the Scarlet Fire transition. And everything else.
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The stories that roll out from the older folk here are great. And funny how things always stayed the same. I get it now in retrospect. So for one from a circa ‘91 - ‘95 deadhead....... after the Highgate, VT ‘94 show while we were all being herded out of the field like slow cattle, where you couldn’t see ten feet in front of you from all the dust that was kicking up, everyone simultaneously got really quiet, scary quiet, and started to drift off to one side or the other to open up this empty hole between us all..... and then who slowly rode through? Beelzebub himself-- black curly hair, dangerous horns, a gnarly chopper, svelte nymph strapped to his backside. Yep, a reminder that it wasn’t momma’s backyard.
- Gary Farseer
Joined:Ventura1987-06-12: 39 years ago We drove from L.A. to Santa Barbara. Checked into Hotel and preparing to head to Ventura County Fairgrounds. Back and forth there, till we headed with tickets to the show.
I need to look at my tickets. I think show times were 6, 4, then 2: Friday Saturday Sunday.
All three were great shows and line up with this weekend's dates.
However, Saturday the 13th was an amazing show. Truly my second greatest psychedelic day at GD. Just an amazing show and venue. My favorite GD venue. Less than 100 feet off the beach. GD set-up a bonfire that night and showed movies/clips like reefer madness. What an awesome party on the beach. This late afternoon show was like heaven on earth. Incredible weather with the palm trees crackling like lighting. The band and crowd were one. Stranger stopping stranger indeed. Between Shakedown and Saint, there are dolphin sounds coming from the PA with effects. It sort of sounded like the GD was trying to talk to the dolphins. Wild. They mention the new album and "New Single."
The 14th, there weren't but maybe 3,000.people there. I am guessing maybe 16,000 for the weekend. Niiice! Peaceful! Glorious!
- hendrixfreak
Joined:Warms my heart, Oro!Made my day reading that story. You da man! How little we all know about each other and our adventures, even tho we've met in person.
Got a good story about meeting the Muscle Shoals boys at the Bottom Line, but it'll have to wait as I'm dashing to pick up a friend and get a beer in Parmalee Gulch, in the foothills (Colo). Cheers, HF
PS. And I can always bust out my Watkins Glen stories, if prodded (gently).........
More to come! - Oroborous
Joined:Amad JamalFour Classic Albums
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Black Oak Arkansas, now there’s a story!
Back 86, probably 87, BOO469 and myself had a Sound Reinforcement gig.
This included a regular Tuesday gig at a big club doing sound for either top cover bands,(called em clone bands back then) or occasionally older b or c type once popular bands.
Some of these cover bands were really good: Over the Garden Wall, a Genesis band from Toronto, Moonlight Drive Doors band from Cleveland, our brother Jim’s Syracuse Dead band Homel Alaniz, some Stones band I can’t recall etc.
But one Tuesday BOA was scheduled, so we were psyched to work with a more “real” band.
But my day job was driving a wheel chair van, and I had an accident that day, so was running extremely late for the gig. So late that when we arrived the band was already there and the promoter was losing his shit! He just kept going on and on and all the nasty shit he’d do to us if he had to cancel the gig etc. So I give him the ole “hey we can waste more time standing around bitching, or I can get to work and get er done” etc
Now not to toot my own horn, but Boo and I were pretty damn good and we had this system and venue down to an art form, and fortunately the venue had a real easy load in etc.
So we go to town schlepping and setting up and wiring the modest size PA (4 low end scoops, 2 mid range 15” Perkins boxes, and 3 or four various horns per side in a four way design) I had a method where I could set and wire the speakers stacks by myself, while Boo did the Board, racks, snakes etc.
I mean we had it down to a science by then.
So we had it up and running in even less time than usual, so I head over to the bar where their all hanging while they wait, and I ask for a beer. Again the promoter starts in with his BS and “a beer? are you fuggin kidding me etc” to wish I informed him, yeah, the systems ready, it’s been a tough day, I wanna a beer…well he still won’t shut up, so BOA start telling the guy to STFU etc and if you don’t we’re not playing!, patted me on the back, bought me a shot/beer and told the guy he should give us a raise as they’d never seen a system set so fast or so well, especially the stacks by just one guy, in all their twenty something years they’d been in R&R!
One of the Proudest moments of my life lol
So I always get a big grin whenever I hear BOA! - WM_2004
Joined:6/5 - 8/69 Fillmore West (ETR Box)Wow. These Dark Stars are phenomenal. So are both of the That's It For The Other One's. But what really blew me away was the Dancing In The Streets -> He Was A Friend Of Mine -> China Cat Sunflower -> New Potato Caboose from 6/8/69. This ended up being the very last New Potato Caboose ever (with Jerry at least), and the jam is beautifully intricate. Considering that this was the fabled "apple juice" show, they are on fire. There are a few tapes squeals in songs like Cosmic Charlie, but Dave did fantastic work with these selections.
Keep the Pre-1970 coming, Dave!
P.S. - Just wish he had included the 6/7/69 St. Stephen...
5/24/95
Oro - I was on the rail for that one and had a special Jerry moment during Want To Tell > Estimated (I posted about it not long ago.) Those 3 shows at Memorial Stadium were all pretty dang good and Jerry was in good form and spirits. Truly hard to believe how much he had deteriorated less than 2 months later when I saw him at Soldiers Field. There's a circulating soundcheck from 5/24 of them doing Tough Mama. Phil suggests Unbroken Chain next but Jerry counters with Childhoods End. After that, they play Rain. I swear I read they sound checked Whiskey in the Jar before 5/26 but I couldn't find recording or even reference to that earlier this morning.
Pay special attention to the D/S > Wheel 5/25 Night 2 - it was very wild and, as it turns out, that was the final Wheel . . . .
Edit - and the Throwing Stone > NFA that followed was fine by me also lol ; )'
Seattle 95
Good shows
5/25 was lysergic; they did TS > NFA. blech. but everything else was good. The Mighty Quinn was encore...yes.
5/26 was indeed remarkable. release-worthy, even.
decisions decisions ...
... done ...
march 24 1973
@ the spectrum
set 2
for a late winter escape!
Peace for All!
uncle_tripel
5/26/95
Yes, I skipped 5/25, only because I’ve already enjoyed it via BCs crack recommendation! (and recent enjoyable first hand report) POTD maybe? Anywho, first night was nice, and Jer sounds pretty dern good here on 5/26 Help/Slip/Franks so far…psyched for rest after BC and PFs 👍
Last night 3/17/25: the Quintet (sorta) can still bring it!
DS 1>>Viola 1>>Doin That Rag…DTR kicked buttowski!
Or howsbout: JAM>>Masons>>SS>>Good Times, Bad Times>>SS>>the 11>>DS 2>>New Speedway.
Yeah, I know it’s not the Dead, but I can’t understand why more folks who dig the primal stuff don’t dig the Phil show? Their loss…
Onward, this house ain’t gonna clean itself lol
5/28/95
5/26 You guys weren’t kidding! Good Sheet Mon!
Onto the 28, (LIG) which is a good show, but maybe not quite the previous equal…?
Looks like a DHB today! Woohoo lol as were deep into 5/29 now!
These shows are good too, maybe just a little less peppy than Seattle?
Pretty good Aud (29) too!
Providence, RI - 5.14.78
Up and Down - some songs reach/near excellence, and some songs are pretty much lost in 'the haze' - which is indicative of this time period and year ... Fair observation or just one man's biased opinion, you decide:
Evidence Keith starting to use more of that 'ham fisted' approach on the keyboards - versus his lighter touch post-hiatus up to 6.9.77. I do enjoy Jerry's Wolf tone and most of his playing at this stage, but he is straining to sing more and more, and missing his vocal marks more often ...
They are all Way coked up (freebase and/or whatever else), to my ears - such that much semblance of nuance is lost. It's definitely the 'all power' edition - and no doubt, when the juice syncs up (back half of Big River through Let it Grow set ender) it's pretty damn powerful and full of swagger.
In that power GD vein though, I prefer the primal era and the raging elements of '74 that have more psychedelic underpinnings and twists in them.
Anyway ...
Cheers, All
Carousel 1.17.68
In cast on right arm after reconstructive work, (anthem) sun blazing on the deck, cold brew in hand, needed a little primal CE/TOO, this was perfect.
DMCVT
Ouch! Hope the prognosis is good for golfing.
Doctor, will I be able to play the piano?
Yes.
Good, I always wanted to.
Cheers
Listening to suggestion for the 2024 sub. bonus disc.
starting the day...
...with a Box of Rain 3/19/90
walk into splintered sunlight
inch your way through dead dreams to another land
then it's off to the greek
july 15, 1984
for some more
BASS GRATE LESH PHILLING
after the 1st encore: brokedown
mr. lesh steps-up to the microphone
"many thanks and god bless you all,
be sure and come back
we'll be here again"
y'all have a grateful day!
Peace for All!
uncle_tripel
Thanks 1STSHOW,
Yes, indeed, return to golf well in mind for scheduling this, will start to putt and chip again in a few weeks after cast comes off. Just before, went south to play a couple nines with a nephew. Was going to comment on anesthesia and propofol notes on another post stream, but I don't recall anything after they said just a little pinch, after which I was being helped into a car, I want to thank them for not putting on my underwear backwards... good docs and great meds, gel freeze packs and elevation of various sorts and degrees working for me. Not sure about this new box yet, especially looking forward to 54, my first show, had a camera with me.
The plan was...
The plan was 7/19/74 Dave's 17...
But you guys got me listening to 5/26/95. It's GOOD! :)
I'll still be going back to Dave's 17
finished 11/17/72 on the way in today
"a really big shew" (Ed Sullivan)
additional material from 11/15/72, I think.
edit: I think correctly
Onward!
Through the fog to Shoreline, 6/2/95!
BTKs last? I have him noted for some reason?
Anyway, through the first, another good show!
Sure, usual, small occasional vocal flubs, but Jer sounds fairly energetic, engaged, etc. he’s progressed nicely back to old self (sorta) especially after Atlanta bottom…
DMCVT: they put your under ware back on? Mine was on my head for some reason? Hmmm? Right or left? You can always play with just your right if need be. Hey, desperate times call for desperate measures! Be well amigo!
Where the hell is Jimmy? Still out there somewhere on the lost highway?
All good things in all good time…
Ha, 1sty replacing Vguy with the dad jokes! Hey-Oooo
And a 6/3&6/4 95
6/3 good, but didn’t get a very good listen in so…
Jers been good in the first sets, later in the shows, sometimes seems like he gets a bit fatigued, but still reaching for the gold ring!
6/4 just starting…DHB? Should have just enough time?
Completed, all good until Days Between, Ist half good, then?…
Actually, upon Futhur review…Jers starting to drift well before Days…first part of Victim it’s like he’s playing a different song?
Probably should listen to this whole run again? Admittedly, it’s been more wallpaper than critical listening, but I usually can pick up on anomalies, both good and bad. Kinda like when the kids are romping and making a racket the adults don’t really hear it, but if it gets really quiet…that’s when they start worrying lol
Maybe BC will give it a better treatment?
Think I need to move on a bit, like say parts of 78 I’ve not covered yet, THEN!
Then we finally go 85! I’ll finish the final death tour later…
9/19/72
Bird Song from Jersey City on 2023 DaP Bonus Disc. On "work detail" today so only a few quick tunes before heading out. The Boston Music Hall 9/15 (+ DS from 9/16 it sounds like) is gonna be a "reel" treat in the Enjoying the Ride box.
Oro - you got me thinking time to check out those Shoreline '95 shows - remember way way back when GDH episode with 6/2 Space and Gyoto Monks that Bobby bigfoots with Easy Answers but don't know if I've ever listened to much else from that run.
Joey - glad you enjoy 5/26 Memorial Stadium! That was a good run.
Set 2 Group 3 Take 1...
...The Grateful Dead
as bill graham launches the
late electric show
on may 15 1970
@ the fillmore east
Peace for All!
uncle_tripel
6/2
“Bobby Bigfoot’s” it lol Nice!
Yeah the monks are CAF!
That show seemed pretty solid comparatively.
Perhaps a slow decline over the next couple?
Would love to hear what you think?
Think imma gonna hit the two may 78 Uptown’s next, I’ve not yet had the pleasure, then it’ll be off to Egypt and fall 78…
Elton John
Mad Man Across the Water - LP
Found for $1.00 at a thrift.
Not a pop or scratch.
Cool cover with a booklet inside.
Nothing but classics.
The soundtrack of our early FM radio years.
Cheers
PNW Box - 5.17.74 - Vancouver
... Going with the least heralded '74 show of the three, since I have listened to Portland and Seattle Hec Edmondsen late last year.
The same tendency applies to the '73 selections in this (very fine) box. I have listened to 6.22 Vancouver most often, and 6.24 Portland (w/Dark Star), while not taking in the Seattle show very often.
Maybe that one next, IDK ...
March 21, 1981 Rainbow Theater, England
Been on a March '81 kick as of late.
But...
...I would slave to learn the way...
july 25th 1974
@ International Ampitheater
has always been a top '74 choice of mine :)
...to sink your ship of fools
everyone enjoy your 1st SPRING weekend!
PEACE for ALL
uncle_tripel
7/25/74
noted...
in the car
7/19/74
if you need a recommendation for today:
3/21/70
THAT would be an excellent Dave's
but prolly no soundboard or no copy in the vault
in the minutes before things kick off at work: Ballroom Blitz by Sweet
that track never gets old
one of the best RnR songs ever
Weekend update
Yesterday we caught the 2 chi chis from 5/16&17/78, good, 78 status quo like.
but not RJ?…onto 9/14&15/78. First night interesting, for geeks…just getting to the 15…bound to cover just a little more ground…
11-1-73% now
3-21-90 earlier in the car.
10-19-72 last night
The plan was...
Road Trips Vol. 4 No. 2, April Fools '88...
But now I'm on 7/25/74, it wasn't far from 7/19 :)
and omg the sound of it alone is worth the price of admission, the playing so far is incredible, Phil is everywhere.
Thank you Unc!
I thought I hit this one last year, but I'm pretty sure now that I skipped it.
9/16/78
15 was better than 14, but still weird recording/mix…gets better progressively, but…
Currently Rocking the cradle, rearranged in proper sequence now…
3/21/90: fun night, unbelievable Victim, but ya had to be there. The surround effects just don’t happen on the CD. Worked, met up with Harry the Sweaty Drummer, drove over the border and the couple hours there, and back after, worked the next day, then did it all again, oh to be young lol
All kinds of crazy shit, but perhaps craziest, the border incident lol
Around the house
11 4 77
Daves
Still 7 19 74 in the car
Gotta Go There Soon - Nov. '77
Thanks for reminding on Colgate, PF.
I'm thinking I'll start with the 11.02 Toronto show parts that are on disc 3 + the rest of it on DP 34 (Rochester) - as it's been quite a while for that one.
... Then Colgate - and leave the 5th and 6th for another time later this spring.
10/17/78
Another relatively unexplored run!
And 10/18/78, more 78 goodness!
7-31-74 vinyl
Getting in some Wall of Sound for this one more Saturday day.
My usual car being used by TOO
So I have her car with NO CD PLAYER
so I am doing archive 7/13/76
Awesome show
A long-time friend since the early 80s
8/25/72
An absolutely stellar Pick!!
Truckin>Phil Solo>The Other One>Stella Blue
This particular segment is a contender for best of 1972, and that's saying something!!!
The Playing In The Band is a Jazz-fueled psychedelic masterpiece
Entire show is flawless
The first set closing Bertha is like a runaway train!
A++ Grateful Dead
Vancouver '74 Rocks
The sound was killer - up there with the Jai Alai Fronton shows for best capture of WoS ... well, sound.
I highly recommend this box (and Listen to the River) to anyone who might be interested.
Spring cleaning music
9/9/72
First two discs
Nice stuff
Why, 10/20/78
of course!
8/25/72: remember being non-plussed?
Think i was crabby because he skipped the Dark Stars, which negatively biased my thought lol Need to revisit it, so many really. We’re always hurrying on to the next thing…come to think of it now, gonna need to hit a bunch of later 72 this summer. But for now, digging this WL run. JG a bit hoarse on the 19, see how he holds up on the 20th?
Onward!
Been watching a few Beavis and Butthead vids
That have popped up
Then I watch basketball
Team mascot Gamecocks
Hehheh....Gamecocks...heheh hehhhehhheh
Hitting 6.9.77 ...
since it was mentioned (and it's a beautiful afternoon) >> Then 11.2.77 and Colgate, 11.4.77.
Thanks again for the reminder on that one.
Cheers!
Now listening to disc 3 of 9/9/72
If the new box is too $$$ for you and you don't have 9/9/72, order 9/9/72. Glorious GD72.
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Wow
Great GD day
7/13/76
9/9/72
11/4/77
Two of those were already in progress
Greatest
Band
Ever
Greatest HSF Ever ...
+ glorious Estimated > St. Stephen, etc. and therefore a contender for best post-hiatus show ever >>>
06.09.77
It is tempting to forget that, in fact, (really, really talented and 'synched up') Humans - including those on the production & sound and recording crew/s - made this music ... It sounds incredible / impossible, from a syncopation, dynamism, and focus standpoint ... But they are
The Greatest
Band
Ever
Music to Fill the Air >> For All Time!
Gotta relisten to those June 77 Winterlands
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Currently listening to...
4/1/88 Road Trips Vol. 4 No. 2, this release sounds very good, much better than I remembered, might give it a second run through.
I was under the impression a lot of people thought 8/25/72 was the wrong house... I don't know enough about the run to have an opinion. I'll have to do 9/9 again, I didn't really get it at the time, I moved on pretty quickly.
Man, I think 6/8/77 is one of the best shows of the year... I just like it better, probably the setlist, compared to the 9th
So, 7/25/74 is a really great show up until the Uncle John's Band falls apart, Bob actually says "bad" during the "how does the song go" part :)
They do recover quite nicely though, with an ok jam..
ended last week in chicago...
...might as well stay in town one more day...
june 29th 1976
@ the Auditorium Theater
if my mind serves me correctly
this one has that same
slow Garcia tempo right out of the gate
as daP 53
Peace for All!
uncle_tripel
Greatest H-S-F ever?
9/6/77 - I agree.
10/21/78
Onward!
The 20th was pretty sweet!
Looking forward to hearing this one complete.
8/25/72: Joey, that was probably me, picky DH lol
Though I think some others felt the same: initial reaction, bummed for no Dark Star, but most of us got over it once we started listening, like that crazy Other One etc…there is a lot of competition within 72, so always lots of speculation there.
Also, I remember some folks were lamenting the fact that the run wasn’t made into a small box, kinda like February 74 etc…since we only get one a year I’m not into the small boxes, so that didn’t bother me personally.
Initially I didn’t want to get into collecting “stuff”. Just wanted shows I was at (which I did pretty well early on, but DaP has given me only the two 87 : (…but then I got way deep into the 72-74 Dark Stars and started getting sucked into the subs so as not to miss out, (after missing out!) but now of course fully immersed chasing the collection, which means getting the occasional mediocre or head scratcher release. I enjoy them all, but some not as much, kinda like 9/9/72. That one seems like wrong house to me, but I’m sure there were other factors involved with that one…but hey I’ll take it all, just wish I’d get some of my shows…
6-9-77 Winterland
Ok, ya got me.
Doing disc 2.
Nice Samson to start.
And who doesn't like a spirited Funiculi, Funicula.
Help is on the way!
Cheers
Can't rate it, I'm just not that knowledgeable, and I like them all, lol.
But it is just exactly perfect!
hmm, Hampton '81...
...has peaked my interest...
for multiple '81 show run
beginning this trip with
may 15th 1981 set 2
@ rutgers athletic center
in piscataway nj
Peace for ALL!
uncle_tripel
Uncle T
I highly recommend 5/17/81,
and I’d go with an Aud so you can fully appreciate how loud Jerry was!
He was trying out the latest (at tge time) McIntosh Amp: the MC 2500 (prolly since Mac is just down the road in Bingo Town), which used mono is rated very conservatively at 1000 watts, compared to his usual MC 2300 at 600 watts!
I was in the third row and couldn’t hear right for days, including the proffs directions for my final the next day lol
Some of the SBDs you can’t tell so much, but on certain Auds, yowsa!
He’s just ripping!
I think this show is as hot or hotter than anything he’s released from 81 so far!
10/22/78
Finishing up this fine run!