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Joined:New year, new update. Tell us of your musical adventures in real time!
- SPACEBROTHER
Joined:Hey Oro!A summer 91 deep dive. Love it! One of those tours where the band experimented with song placement and new additions. The Vegas Birdsong with Carlos Santana as a guest is one of many great moments.
Jimmie! Sounds like you in the right place right time for shows. Can only imagine.
- JimInMD
Joined:Secret BunkerNot too far from the truth.. but a story for another day.
I did bite on the 85 box, I was at three of the shows and am one of the lucky few that has an uncanny ability to overlook Garcia's froggy vocals and see the brilliance of his guitar work during this summer tour. I walked to the two Merriweather shows from my parents house and we had big parties after the show. In hindsight, my parents just let us have at it because they knew if they stood in the way it would have damaged our relationship perhaps irreparably. These were magic times in my youth. I had already moved out and was in college so people were travelling in from all over. And we walked to the shows. No risk of being pulled over or frisked. Anyway..
What am I listened to now? Lots of GD. I have been revisiting the 81 Rainbow Theatre release pretty heavy this week. I also got nudged into 2/14/68. One of the best Grateful Dead Shows ever performed.
I got sidetracked into a total refurb of a house built in 1900 that has been a little intense and at times overwhelming. I am doing it to help pay for my son's college, he starts in (think scary music as I say this) five weeks.
Reality hits and it's scary, when you get confused just listen to the music play.
Oro, thanks so much for the shout out. Came at a good time.
Edit: My older brother is a bit of a head too. A scary smart, retired rocket scientist.. got stoned and tripped for the first time with him, but I saw the dead before he did (barely). We saw a lot of shows together and he has always been a guiding light. He shared the 'burden' of having crazy after parties at my parents house when the dead played Merriweather. Great times, shit you cannot make up, it just happened and then it was unfortunately over. All we have left now are the memories, the tapes and what will be I hope a great box set.
- Oroborous
Joined:Went to tell everybody, but I could not get acrossFinished off 68 yesterday with what’s labeled 12/31/68, but it’s really miscellaneous chunks of 68. But definitely some good sheet in there for those looking for a nice primal fix…
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But now it’s time for summer 91, including the awesome videos (remember when we used to get those ; )
I’ve heard all but Charlotte and Cal X, but always just rando listens, not tour in order approach. So being summer, and HOT, figured it’d be a good time to do so before 59 comes round etc. Watch some of those vids in the nice cool,basement!
So to get things going, rehit the sweet ETR show from
5/12/91 to start
6/6/91 currently
6/7/91 hopefully later
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Speaking of summer and the discussion of additional “summer 85” I’d guess it depends on how well this one sells? AND, it wouldn’t be easy to select…why, because there’s a lot of good sheet! Like;
6/22/85, (6/21 is solid but not quite the ripper)
6/25/85 possibly best of tour! Bet that’ll get out somehow…
7/13/85 ridiculous first set, good second though perhaps a tad sloppy? 7/14 good but…
8/31/85 is decent
9/3/85 definitely needs to end up somewhere!
Red Rocks of course. I found 2nd good, 1st better, 3rd night best
The Kaiser run is solid through out,
9/15/85 is worthy! Their having so much fun they forget to do drums until the shows almost over!
Then things kinda level out for first of fall tour.
But there’s must have gold also as fall tour proceeds, and imho there needs to be a Spring box. But not sure we’ll get all that as there’s so many other possibilities from all the years combined, so again, I guess it depends on how/what sells?
Happy Fry-Yay! Hope y’all have a great, smoke/fire free WE!
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Good to see Spacebro, Gratefulhan, 5branch etc back in the mix!
But WTF is Jimmy? Probably in some secret bunker with around the clock multi media monitoring of the situation, which is not good…So Keep up the good work comrade; )
But we miss ya! - Doingtheneedful
Joined:Ordering difficultyI got a reply from CS to suggest they’d implemented a “fix” to resolve my PayPal issue. I believe it may have been something to do with PP parsing commas during the address phase which the dead.net checkout would consider “illegal characters”…. Who knows though?
Anyway. I’d already gone through and paid outright direct to GD and had no problems. So it’s a bit moot now, however if you still want to order and want to use PayPal, in theory it should all be just exactly perfect….
- ronmarley1
Joined:4/5/88From the triple Dead Drop this week. Jer's voice ain't all the great, but his playing is just fine.
Great to hear so many comments about Blossom Music Center. I've seen so many concerts there in the past 45 years. Everyone from Rush to the Cleveland Orchestra.
Canadian wildfire smoke rolling into the Great Lakes region yesterday and today. I'm sure it's not as bad as some folks here are experiencing out west, but still not very pleasant. Air Quality index yesterday was over 550; the worst here since they started measuring in the '80s. I think I'll just stay inside and watch the British Open. - FiveBranch
Joined:August 23, 1980, Alpine Valley; from ETRShow has muscle. Brent with some great distortion through his left hand's lower end playing. First set starts getting thick with the Supplication. Listening makes me even more excited for the '85 box we have coming. Releasing '80 - '85 has made great strides the past few years (Santa Fe '83, Frost '85, Rainbow Theatre '81, all the ETR inclusions) but still need more! Was actually hoping for a Red Rocks box with the '85 shows included but this will be just as great.
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.
🫠🫠🫠
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
🫠🫠🫠
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!