Grateful Dead

4/20/84 :)
yesterday was 4/19/84 I like that China>Rider
before that was 4/26/83
Next I might do 4/14/85, Charlie Miller updated that last year shortly before Dave's 49 came out, 4/27 & 4/28 in case anyone forgot. Anyway that 4/14 show is pretty damn good.

Bluecrow got me thinking about China>Riders so I recommend 6/22/74 that one really gets me sometimes...

Happy Easter :)

Edit: For recordings, what was Healy doing in April '84 that was different from April '83? was he using digital Beta instead of cassettes or something along those lines?

...ROCK on

march 22nd 1973
@ the Utica Memorial Auditorium in Utica NY

as we inch ever so closer to #54

Peace for All!

Alright Joey, I'm in. And thank you! (Thinking - How can it be 5 years since this - the DaP 34 Bonus Disc - came out??)

Wandered again yesterday through that Missoula 5/14/74 WRS > Dark Star > China Doll and it was freaking amazing.

Wow.

Impressive.

Wow.

Impressive.

One of the better China Cat > I Know You Riders you are ever going to hear. The transition is mind blowingly good.

That is all ... 🫡

...was on fire

several years later...
PHIL & the GOGD were also

december 6th 1973
@ Public Hall in Cleveland OH

with an early iteration of the WOS
resulting in crispy incantations

PEACE!

What are you listening to right now has become my new POTDWD. Been trying to keep up on all this '74 everyone is talking about and loving every minute of it. I have so much I haven't listened to lately that the suggestions always have me digging around to see if I have that. Thanks all!
Cheers
Currently finishing the 5-17-74 and starting the 6-18-74 next.
The 5-17 China>Rider is very different from the 6-16 version. The latter being a little more wild, the former more smooth and just exactly perfect. Fun comparisons!

It's not that it's the best. More like it's the last GD I listened to, which is by definition always the best.

...can a deadhead have...

wrapping-up a 16 show run
from '73 with

march 19th 1973
@ Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale NY
on the archive (identifier #141298)

will now lay-low
with 1973
until #54 and the bonus
arrive in the mail
fingers-crossed
for a saturday/sunday
listening party

PEACE for ALL!
uncle_tripel

I'm very pleased with this release. The records all sound perfect, with every instrument clearly audible in the mix. High quality 76 show, too.

chilling in the '74 rabbit hole :)

Really really enjoyed that 6/22/74 bonus disc - it's a beauty. Especially dug the China > Rider and the Eyes > Wharf Rat. Have spun it several times last 48 hours or so. I realized going in that I wasn't familiar with it at all despite 6/23 getting a fair amount of play over the years. DaP 34 came out in April 2020 and guessing "something" about that time sorta caused it to fall to the wayside without my recognizing it. Another thing that struck me with recent discussions is that despite having actual dates associated with all these '74 shows my mental filing system had no real sense of the actual chronological order and "spacing" for a lot of these. It was a jumble. Like Jai-Alai is 1 week after Des Moines??

Moving on to 6/23/74.

..."the finest band in the land"

september 3rd 1977
@ raceway park in englishtown, nj

and when the 50th anniversary
rolls around
I'll be standing in line for vinyl
and how about you?

PEACE!!
uncle_tripel

Dave's Picks 49, I'm still on 4/27, I love this Brother Esau.

Yeah, that Dave's 34 bonus disc is probably my favorite bonus disc of them all, that China>Rider is one of those that makes me wonder about what it is Garcia is thinking when he crates such beauty... :)

Michael Hedges.

Love this album

“I just wish they’d get these elephants off the stage”

1974/09/18 - Parc des Expositions, Dijon, France

Dang it, now I have to dig out the killer tape.
Thanks, BC another good one.
Cheers

Playing! - The one with the funkedelic groove / protoShakedown middle section.

😋

Pretty much sat on a stool in the middle of my living room and air drummed the whole way through.....

The box was near a window and after dark, the top turned to a cool shadow green while the sides kept to the usual golden red hues. Aweseome! That foil must refract the light somehow.

Never noticed Phil's fantastic work in Sugar Magnolia. Almost as great as Tennessee Jed's LSD break.

Listened to DaP 49 last weekend. An enlightening Esau indeed.... makes me think of fireflies.

Closing out the evening with Portland 5/14/74-> sides H, I, J, K

It's been since 4th of July 2023 since I have been in my kayak, but shoulder surgery be damned I'm back. It's also been that long since I listened to one of my waterproof devices, I've got like six I keep charged up for just such an event. They are not labeled so I never know what is going to play, I biked the shuttle first then hopped in my boat I think the river was 10 miles Class III and IV, just enough time for a full-length show. An interesting Dire Wolf, Bobby McGee (so I'm thinking 71 maybe?) then Sugaree, Here Comes Sunshine (that means 1973, right), Row Jimmy, WRS (must be fall 73 because they did the whole thing), He's Gone, Truckin', The Other One, Eyes of the World which is when I got to my truck and drove home. It sounded '74 to me.

Had to look it up when I got home, 2/23/74, the last Here Comes Sunshine until the 90's and the only one in '74. Great show completely by accident. Shoulder is sore, but ok. Rabbits.

Jim - so glad to hear that you are back on the water!! And paddling to a waskally wabbit show!!

Dijon - To Lay Me Down Playing Seastones damn

Just funny that it happened to slip it's way into my week.

Feels good to get back on the water, but I'm in no way ready for the harder stuff. I was huffing and puffing all day.

What a drag it is getting old, right.. Still, a solo run with a few decent drops and water temps are just starting to warm up. I'll take the win. Didn't see a single person the whole morning, Just Blue Heron's, an Osprey, Mergansers. I like people, but alone time with some 74 GD. Precious.

... is a charm for the GOGD
in the "Charm City"

september 17th 1972
@ baltimore civic center (aka DiP #23)

yup, just a lil' audio tune-up
before #54's arrival

everyone enjoy
your weekend

Peace for All!
uncle_tripel

...with all this '74.
6-22-74 + 6-23-74
DaP 34 + bonus this weekend.
Never met a '74 I didn't like.
Cheers
Paddle on Jim! Good on ya.

These OSF releases are so special, Bear's gifts, finally got my hands on this one, fantastic recording, pure acoustic bliss. I was turned onto John's music circa 1971 in a deep dive than ran from Mayall to Savoy Brown for second wave import stuff, after cutting teeth in high school on Muddy, Wolf, et al. Did not discover Burnside til much later. Fast forward to the North Atlantic Blues festival 2016, a chance meeting with John and his wife staying at the same hotel, they invited us to join them in the breakfast room. Where does one begin to ask what it was like to play with everybody from the mid 1960s on. Not at breakfast... in an interview about this release, Hammond said he did not know Bear was recording him, he is amazed how good it sounds 51 years later. Stephane Wrembel, virtuoso Django plus tomorrow night.

AKA Dicks Picks #11

Heard some talk of this show today so I thought I would break it out. I remember when this came out I couldn't get enough. Two songs in and I know why; it's a hot one!!!

Rock on, gang

54
because it's not here :(

am listening to 4/28/85 set II

Listening with ear buds to Velvet Underground
"The Gift"

During the part where Waldo is delivered to Marsha's house, the TV monitor is showing Ridiculousness

The segment featured things going awry with package deliveries

Very interesting synchronicity

6/15/76

I was digging through my collection and came upon the show

Tasty

Fred Hiersh Alone at the Vangaurd
Gary Burton Departure
Bill Evans Trio Live at Oil Can Harry’s
GD 6/9/73

Bill Evan's Trio Live at Oil Can Harry's??!!

On it!! How Deep is the Ocean

listened to 6/9/73 a couple times 2 or 3 weeks ago - first times in a while. hot stuff. awesome.

edit - TBC I was intrigued by a venue named Oil Can Harry's, sort of seemed it was out of comic strip. Cracked me up. It's in Vancouver BC. Show is from '75 and only surfaced commercially several years ago. Very nice. Listened to several cuts on ut2b, including Nardis (top shelf). That song sent me back to the Steve Silberman essay Broken Time on Nardis that he published in Believer Magazine in 2018. From there, because I had it at hand (as ripped to my hard drive) I dipped into Jasmine - a duet album by Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden. Beautiful.

Nice to see recent jazz love, it's a cool rainy Sunday here, perfect for that. Last night down in Putney, Stephane Wrembel's quartet, hot jazz, Django and beyond. Small venues so fine, often the artist will hang out after at the merch table and visit. Between songs, his discourse in various directions, noted the old saw synchronicity of Pink Floyd albums for movies 2001 and Wizard of Oz as if to test the audience, then into instruments of great antiquity, etc. This was a converted church with a bar at the entry level, perfect. Stephane spoke on his upcoming Django a GoGo event, two weeks from now (but five hours drive) in NYC and Maplewood NJ, week long series of concerts and music camp. I asked him over merch if he had explored the various cave art of the Dorgogne, if a favorite, he indicated best known Lascaux, did not seem familiar with Werner Herzog's movie, Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Did not get all the way to speculations that ancient people altered stalactites tuning them for subterranean vibraphones... or was that a Disney.

5/2/87 Frost Amphitheatre
Most likely followed by 5/3, I started these last year and didn't finish for some reason...

It did occur to me that I should open up this new copy of Electric On The Eel I have sitting here... lol

To be continued...

Nels Cline “Consentrik Quartet” for Sunday coffee, Pure Jerry Bay Area 1978 is next in the queue

DMCVT - re musical stalagtites / mites you may find interesting a discussion of lithophones from Great Sand Dunes National Park . Nice intro video by History Colorado on ut2b (2021 Stephen H Hart award).

Wrembel delved briefly into early instruments going way back, said we don't know what they were really like... though we imagine stone and bone and wood whistles, flutes (examples exist that date back 30K plus), drumming on anything resonant, early string bass built as a bow, chants and song. Music was part of ceremony and ritual going back hundreds of thousands years... somewhere read of a recently discovered cave in south of France where the stalactites had been modified by people in Neanderthal times as if being tuned. The Disney version, dinosaur skeleton as a xylophone.

...the Eskimo OPENS set II

december 27th 1986 set II
@ henry kaiser convention center in oakland, ca

this one got
lots of attention
when cassettes RULED
today on my phone
ENCORE: push comes to shove

twist their arms around you,
slap you till you cry
wrap you in their sweet perfume and love you till I die

PEACE for ALL!

All the cool old stuff seems to come from caves in the South of France.

Today's mystery show in my digital waterproof music device was 10/12/84 Augusta Civic Center. What a second set.

In the truck ride home I got the second set of 9/3/77 Raceway Park, Englishtown as part of the top 30 fan rated Grateful Dead Shows. What a second set.

They talked about this briefly on Tales from the Golden Road yesterday. Apparently, the survey started with a list of shows SiriusXM had in the can, already processed as 'playable' through their system. A pretty fun little activity the scheduled this month which conveniently has 30 days.

Here's the list so far down to #3 that some kind soul painstakingly tracked and posted on reddit today:

30. 1977-12-29 - San Francisco (Winterland)
29. 1989-10-08 - Hampton VA (Hampton Coliseum)
28. 1974-06-18 - Louisville KY (Freedom Hall)
27. 1974-10-19 - San Francisco (Winterland)
26. 1987-09-18 - New York NY (MSG)
25. 1977-05-28 - Hartford CT (Hartford Civic Center)
24. 1974-10-18 - San Francisco (Winterland)
23. 1980-10-31 - NYC (Radio City Music Hall)
22. 1972-09-21 - Philadelphia PA (The Spectrum)
21. 1972-05-03 - Paris France (Olympia Theater)
20. 1991-06-17 - East Rutherford NJ (Giants Stadium)
19. 1971-02-18 - Port Chester (Capitol Theater)
18. 1977-05-07 - Boston MA (Boston Garden)
17. 1978-07-08 - Morrison CO (Red Rocks)
16. 1969-02-27 - San Francisco (Fillmore West)
15. 1975-08-13 - San Francisco (Great American Music Hall)
14. 1989-07-04 - Orchard Park (Rich Stadium)
13. 1978-12-31 - San Francisco (Winterland)
12. 1973-06-10 - Washington DC (RFK Stadium)
11. 1989-10-09 - Hampton VA (Hampton Coliseum)
10. 1989-07-19 - East Troy WI (Alpine Valley Music Theater)
9. 1970-02-13 - New York NY (Fillmore East)
8. 1989-07-07 - Philadelphia PA (JFK Stadium)
7. 1977-05-09 - Buffalo NY (War Memorial)
6. 1972-05-26 - London (Lyceum)
5. 1990-03-29 - Uniondale (Nassau Coliseum)
4. 1970-05-02 - Binghamton NY (Harpur College)
3. 1977-09-03 - Englishtown NJ

Way down in the South of France, all the Neanderthals love to dance (while singing and playing music beating on modified stalactites and rocks with sticks and bones [makes me wonder what they were smoking])

...Dick's Picks Vol. #3

may 22nd 1977
@ the Sportatorium in Pembroke Pines, FLA

with headphones
OMG!

why have you avoided me
for so LONG?

WELCOME BACK!!!

: )

PS - - - and this one is NOT ON that survey LIST - - - for SHAME

54

Did I hear Kidd switch channels in the China>Rider?

I've listened through Set I. Bob is mixed right for this show, Jerry at center. Bob is not shifted to center during his post China Cat lead like he was in some instances. However, I thought Phil got shifted during the Playing jam. He was right center and then is moved to center and his volume increased - when making that shift Kidd overshoots the center a tad to slightly left of center and then brings Phil back to center. Don't have the timing for that at hand.

Classically great '73 Set I. Gotta say that the Looks Like Rain struck me as wildly gorgeous. Some very interesting spaces in the Playing. So wild that they just go full on deep space to close Set I as they were want to do in that era.

... BONUS disc!

which leads me to today's
SONIC adventure

march 31st 1973
@ war memorial in buffalo
and the entire show

play Dead
PLAY DEAD LOUD :)

PEACE for ALL!
uncle_tripel

last couple days . . . . somewhere in there . . .

Malcolm Dalglish - Jogging the Memory [calmed me right down - hammer dulcimer - astonishing sound space]

rn - 1978/07/05 Omaha Set II [Holy Guacamole]. I mean - Jerry's final shred on Promised Land - OMG!!

oh boy 7/5 segued into 7/7 - maybe my favorite Set i ever

... is sold OUT
which leads me to

may 2nd 1981
@ the spectrum in phila

because, well, I was there
and the SQ is real nice,
and so when that sold out BOX arrives
I can't wait to hear
what Healy did on may 1st 1981 @ hampton roads

enjoy your weekend
focus on the MUSIC!

PEACE for ALL!

The greatest show on earth.

and
7/6/90

4.24.72 Dusseldorf, Germany

An almost perfect show that - as it was released long ago - gets overlooked as one of the greatest ever.

With Truckin and a snappy Tenn Jed up front, an early China Cat > Rider (w/super clean vocals) surrounded by a very fine BTW, a jumpin' Mr Charlie, and possibly all-time best Loser (for me, at least), the 1st set smokes - Big Time.

2nd Set, etc.
I like to call the first half of this epic Dark Star "Hansel & Gretel" as there are clearly bright and giddy moments of exuberence that pop up amongst the sense of forboding forest and then ominous at times avant-garde and witch-like tones ... Bobby and Co. then throw a slick Me & My Uncle into the mix, as a different kind of fable - whereupon they return to the DS theme with a beautiful build up and fairly heroic - seemingly Wagnerian - transition to one of the best ever Wharf Rats played ... Just my opinion here, but in the wake of that DS, it just Kills (!)

A short break, a joke (My Dog Has No Nose), and they close it up nicely with a jaunty He's Gone, a top-notch Hurts Me Too, and a tight NFA > GDtRFB > NFA.

One More (blissful) Saturday Night here at the Homestead!!

on repeat, until I love it or don't.
I just now began to love the China>Rider :)

I so far really like the Row Jimmy and Playing In The Band, and TOO on the bonus disc, I actually really like it before the Spanish Jam...

As the Eyes of the World is winding down, I'm hearing or thinking China Doll before it is clearly Morning Dew...
anyone else?