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Joined:New year, new update. Tell us of your musical adventures in real time!
- Oroborous
Joined:Joe-eeeyWhat made them want to blow you away.
Thanks! Never know anymore if anyone even reads em let alone appreciates the stories.
Always been my favorite thing here, but alas we rarely get any good stories anymore, just what are you consuming/buying : (
I know I enjoy writing them because it takes me back to those golden daze.
Speaking of stories, HEY DV, we’re still waiting to hear about a 15 year old DV at his first and second shows etc…deets man, deets….(hear sound of foot taping ; )
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5/11/72 my go to if not my fav, but how can you have a fav of such superior/consistent goodness! And if/when you go 86, 5/10 is mos def a good one, one of the teas best!
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Elcaset, somehow never heard of that, Berry interesting!
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4/11/69 cool someone mentioned. Everyone goes on about Ark/Avalon, but I think I prefer that stretch, especially say the 12-17 of Acid month!
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So 86 was interesting, different than I expected, and we’ll finish December in December, good lord willing, if he says I may…
But it’s time for something completely different as The Monty boys say, so unto spring 91 and
3/17/91
3/18/91
Onward, through the fog… - Forensicdoceleven
Joined:Prisons of the mind..................Good morning, fellow rockers!!!
Today's commute: Terminal Island August 4 1971
Hard rocking, bare bones, very Bakersfield, very good old Grateful Dead. That includes a decent dose of the dog suckingest man in show biz, Mister Pigpen!! Including a merely 14 minute long version of that song that everybody loves to hate, Turn On Your Lovelight.........
If you like Phil---and who among us doesn't?---you will like this show. Very underrated and absolutely worthy of your attention!!! So what are you waiting for?!!
The eyes of others our prisons, their thoughts our cages.....
Rock on!!!
Doc
Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons..... - daverock
Joined:Psyche nuggetsPsychedelic rock/pop from the 60's seemed to get rediscovered in Britain around 1980. Nuggets didn't sell that well, I don't think, when it was first released about 1974. I got the reissued one from about 1978. Julian Cope of The Teardrop Explodes, wrote an article for the NME called "Tales from The Drug Attic" which set the stall out for a re-evaluation of the genre.
From that point on, psychedelic records were distanced from the hippy culture of the late 60's early 70's. Bands that had been forgotten, like the 13th Floor Elevators, Chocolate Watchband, Electric Prunes etc were considered more exciting than the more well known bands like Jefferson Airplane and ( sorry folks) The Dead.
In Britain, Pink Floyd with Syd were given precedence over the albums band that followed, and Revolver replaced Sgt Pepper as the most quoted "best" Beatles album. The spotlight fell on less celebrated bands like The Misunderstood and Tomorrow.
Ironically, although in Britain far more acid seems to have been taken in the early-mid 70's than the 60's, this wasn't reflected in the music, which tended to fall into the more serious prog or heavy rock world.
Same in America, going off the records. The success and influence of The Band seemed to mark the end of psychedelia on record, although I am sure many people tripped at their shows - just as we sometimes did in this country if we went to see non psych bands.A lot of bands who continued into the 70's and became successful disowned their 60's records. In some ways, the remixes of Anthem and Aoxomoxoa seem like an attempt to de-psychedelicize them, and make them more palatable to a hip world more attuned to country/blues rock than mind expansion. That's my take on it, anyway.
- Stalk-Forrest Hermit
Joined:Nuggets from the graveThere were two more Nuggets box sets, Nuggets Where the Action is that focused on Los Angeles and Nuggets Love is the song we Sing which focused on San Francisco, there was some attempt at more poppy nuggets, those are hit and miss, The Fading Yellow series is much better at that weird psyche pop. There was also the Back From The Grave series on Crypt records that is pretty gnarled but just as good as the first two Nuggets comps. Also the gentleman that compiled Nuggets 2, British box is Mike Stax and he publishes the amazing Ugly Things fanzine, which is one of the best music zines ever. With each new issue I’m excited if I know 25% of the bands inside, but well worth your money,
- uncle_tripel
Joined:short hair ...... Garcia
whoa!
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march 30th, 1988
@brendan byrne arena in east rutherford, nj
sdb streaming w/ headphones
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was a fun road trips cassette
for many years, really solid,
especially liked set 2
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PEACE for ALL!
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PS on the archive #140378
nice sq from mr. miller - JoeyMC
Joined:Currently listening to...I am right now listening to Acoustic On The Eel, so 8/29/87 Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band.
But otherwise it was 5/10 and 5/11, 1972. It was more obvious to me this time that Jerry was a little too high to start the 10th. I am moving on to 5/13/72. It was either that or 5/10/86 lol, because they're so similar.
I appreciate all the stories Oro ! :)
I always wanna get into some '86 and then I don't. Ha.
Man, last night I got into Bringing It All Back Home and then Highway 61 Revisited.
I have this thing about wanting to hear every Bob Dylan studio album in order before I leave this world. I'm not going anywhere I don't think, but i remembered last night to get some Dylan in me. - 1stshow70878
Joined:Forgotten Tape Format - ElcasetI just saw an Elcaset deck on fleabay called the Teac AL-700 which was the best deck ever made for a format I never heard of. Elcaset (for 'large cassette') was the "improved" cassette format where the tape was twice as wide and ran twice as fast to rival reel-to-reel in SQ. The tapes looked like a thin, tall VCR tape. The format died a quick death and was only around from about 1976-1980. The Sony decks ate tape but apparently this Teac was the best one with killer build quality and plug in boards inside for easy repair. They had external DBX units for them too. Technics also made some. I thought I knew something about all the formats but never saw one of these in the hours and hours of my misspent youth in stereo stores but maybe they never got to Denver.
So this begs the question, did the Dead ever use this format? Was Beta-max already around and superior? Obviously reel-to reel was king but these convenience oriented formats tried to break into that market.
Cheers
Rob & Bob ...
... Live
14 selections
Bob Weir & Rob Wassermann CD
Festival
Walkin' Blues
The Winners
K C Moan
Victim or the Crime
Looks Like Rain
Easy To Slip
Fever
Eternity
This Time Forever
Shade Of Grey
Heaven Help The Fool
Blue Sky Bop
Throwing Stones
acoustic live compilation
PEACE for ALL!
2/17/79 Oakland
This show will certainly see an official release one day, what a blast!i
victim ...
... or the Crime
may I chose to lose or win?
acoustic live
pretty neat don't you think?
maybe when my turn comes
I will have guessed
9/20/70 Fillmore East
Another classic that needs to be an official release. Killer acoustic set with David Grissman and David Nelson sitting in. I think Garcia might be playing piano on Brokedown Palace. A knockout electric set with a Big Boy Pete and Attics of My Life. If this one is available lets get it released, please.
5-14-74
DaP 9 Adams Fieldhouse Missoula, MT
Sound is excellent. Keith in great form!
Thanks to a friend.
Cheers
Love the jazzy Playin' to end the 1st set.
And wow, my new favorite Dark Star! Well, until we hit the feedback, lol. But thankfully it was brief. Can't have one without the other I guess. A very well played enjoyable show for sure.
Great American Music Hall Goodness
Billy, I love the Slipknot transition in the Eyes from that era too. I kinda wish they left that part in Eyes after Blues for Allah. But, HSF is a wonderful sandwich. I used to compare it to listening to the opening sequence of Genesis' Trick of the Tail - Dance on a Volcano>Entangled>Squonk.
As for The Great American Music Hall, check out Wolfgangs Vault if you havent. More treasure than one could ever want in a lifetime. Obscure stuff you mostly wont find anywhere else too. Those concerts by Joe Pass and similar artists at the GAMH are pure gold too! 3 Sets! Do a search by each venue for fun some time too. It will blow your mind. Cheers!
9/20/70
I bet the NFA etc. is too wobbly in sound quality to fix for release, which is unfortunate.
A holes who put Bear in jail robbed us of a lot of high quality soundboard recordings
Sigh
It's A Beautiful Night
Garcia; Reflections (side two)
Last five:
Heartless Bastards, A Beautiful Life
Albert King, Travelin' to California
Ty Segall, Deforming Lobes
Jimmy Smith, Midnight Special
Willie and Family Live
Currently listening to...
10/27/90, the 30 Trips version, and then 55 again. I'm about done with it. It is not bad and I would have been absolutely thrilled to have been there, but it is not really doing it for me. I really had high hopes for this one. I really like some of the later stuff, Dick's 27 (12/16/92) for example is a fun release I think.
For 10/27 and 10/28 especially, I like the Drums>Space a lot. clocks and frogs and some Season Of The Witch in there :)
I listened to some Pigpen, 2/28/69 the last night.
Right this minute I am waiting for the new Jerry release to arrive, I am getting dangerously close to too much, lol
seriously though, if I never got another thing I would have enough for a couple life times I think...
Oh, I love, love, love me some 5/14/74 :)
Not listening currently, but...
Today marks 56 years since GD at Woodstock
Just sayin'
Worth hearing at least once
"A THIRD COAST!!!"
Tangled up in blue
New Garcia Warfield dropped in the mailbox today.
Now Playing: Night 1. 2-28-91
How sweet it is.
Reckoning the expanded version
What a fantastic recording! I'm really glad I was as able to make it to some of these shows at the Warfield in 1980, they were very special . I wish they would have brought back Attics of my Life, Mtns of the Moon , and Rosemary for the acoustic part of these shows, that would have been something
RS Top Thirty GD shows
A friend sent me a link to the new RS article, how does this make sense, its like picking your thirty best friends, it changes. Many obvious choices and a few not so, had me chasing down a couple of the unheard primals from 8-Track tapes. At least two mistakes in places and dates listed, maybe you will find them. About one third the list has not been commercially released. Busy on summer hiatus, gonna fix that with an afternoon concert movie in a theater with AC in just a few minutes, at a location where they actually played in 1978.
New JGB release
X-Factor is immediate! And i'm only on disc one
Apparently an extra speacial spliff went round prior to walking out!! lol
Yowza
Curse you Cone Head
Just got in the new Jerry release, "live at the warfield - 1991".
Then the ice cream man says about the vinyl......
Bought the three shows.
Have just finished listening to the first set, first show,,,,, GREAT RECORDING!!!
Rock of Dave may want to order. (big vinyl man, right?)
Thanks for the heads up. (that's not from my wife :-) )
JGB Warfield vinyl bundle
Dennis,
The bundle has about an $8 savings.
But the shows ship at different dates.
Spinning now
Woodstock Movie Director’s Cut Blu-Ray.
Ice Cream @ The Warfield
I bought all three from Amaz. Free shipping via prime saved me a chunk, plus I will get them on release day.
The 28th is already out for delivery.
JGB Warfield
Check out the Cats that open the 3/1/91 show. It's evident right out of the gate that John Kahn is locked into very funky bass line. By the time they get to the solo/jam section Garcia, Kahn and Kemper are absolutely locked-in and laying it down!!!
A Cats for the ages!!!
Rock on, gang
8/17/71 ABB
Got 8/12/72 goin' in car - not in car, but in Dead Shed now. Post a lot of tasty jazz I've got ABB Picked Fresh @ Boston Commons. Did this stuff really happen? Gut-wrenching from the get go!
Hendrix at Woodstock
Blu-ray spinning now.
JGB Warfield. Can do.
Dennis - I haven't got many live JGB albums, so you've planted a seed. The last actual vinyl record I got by them was Almost Acoustic back when it first came out. A great record that I still re-visit.
Not that it's got anything to do with price of chips, but the record I play most of my recent purchases is Can Live At Keele University 1977. One of a great series of live Can albums from the mid 70's. They are often compared to Miles Davis live electric band at this time The whole sets are improvised. They start with a bang in the middle of a space jam and stop suddenly at the end of one. Great stuff
Dave & JGB
I will be putting the latest up shortly, so you can sample.
sidenote - have two albums from Can - Future Days & Tago Mago. Nothing from them on the archive. utube offerings are slim to none. Will investigate further.
Big Rock Powwow
Disc 2
After a trip to Long Beach washington I am resuming this release
I
Love
It
JGB
Cheers, Dennis that's great.
With Can, "Tago Mago" was the one for me. A double album back in the day, it starts weird and goes out where no man or woman had been before. Or since for that matter. Their equivalent of "Anthem of the Sun". A favourite track is "Mother Sky" from an album called "Soundtracks".
Reckoning
GD were brilliant to do the 80 acoustic material
Does a FULL SHOW of the warfieldrcmh shows exist in "officially released" form?
10/31/80?
I don't think so...
Listening to the 2nd disc from the redo from whenever
Beautiful
GBTGD
Warfield releases
They did release the acoustic sets from Oct 9th & 10th. Its a great release. I was at both of those shows. Its too bad they didn't release the electric sets along with them , maybe they don't have them .
Over the course of several weeks...
5/26/73
Very tasty
At the zoo concert (listening outside venue)
Ben Harper and the innocent criminals
Decent stuff
Currently listening to...
Right now... the 9/16/72 Dark Star filler after listening to 9/15/72 in the car yesterday. I will go through a second time.
I have also been listening to the first show in the new Jerry release, it sounds very good and the band is locked in.
Miles to go
In a Silent Way: The Complete Sessions.
Just recently acquired. For a long time I figured I did not need this one. At some point Columbia Records evidently decided to release every last scrap of Miles music they have on tape, and while some of the resulting boxes (Quintet '65-'68, Complete Miles Davis and John Coltrane) were obvious must haves, I took a pass on some others. Because I don't need to have EVERYTHING. Do I?
This set makes a good case that, yes, I do need all of them.
I resisted it because it has a bunch of tracks that were released on previous outtakes albums like Water Babies and Directions, which were OK but not essential listening. But I'll be darned, when you hear those tracks in the context of the session that ultimately yielded In a Silent Way (for my money, the best of Miles' fusion records) the whole somehow becomes more than the sum of its parts.
Kind of like a Dead show in that way. You can hear how the mood shifts in certain jams and how one thing leads to another and how one passage of relatively low energy playing can turn out to be essential to something amazing that happened next. And some stuff here actually does remind me of '60s Dead: the tracks that feature John McLaughlin noodling over Joe Zawinul's organ kind of remind of some of the Anthem-era live jams. I would even go so far as to say the Dead probably influenced Miles's work during that period, especially knowing he opened for them a few times.
Anyway, I think the moral of the story, once again, is that I should just buy 'em all, and let God sort 'em out. Next on my list will have to be the box containing the complete sessions for On the Corner, an album I thought was some kind of joke when it first came out, but which is now in regular rotation. Funny how that happens sometimes, you know?
Crickets are Screaming Here in Michigan
First listen to the Nassau '73 from Enjoying the Ride earlier this evening. Jerry is very fluid through the entire show. Sugar Magnolia is a metronome set to a clear cut diamond.
Now enjoying the daguerreotype of Sturgill Simpson's Metamodern Sounds in Country Music. Gets better with every listen.
September 15, '72....... Keith really steps up there at the close of the PYITB jam! Sounds like Hornsby. And gets MVP for second set; keeps the music floating.
Miles High
It's occurred to me too that Miles Davis recordings for In A Silent Way have a Dead like quality. On that 65-68 box there's a 33min 32 sec track called Circle in the Round which is very hypnotic too. Featuring one Joe Beck on electric guitar.
They seem very different, to me, these early Miles Davis sessions featuring electric guitar compared to the all out assaults that were to follow. Less celebrated, I actually prefer them on the whole.
Although, having said that, my favourite Miles Davis electric album may be Jack Johnson, which has some truly astounding guitar playing on it. But it's not one I can play that often.
set 2
february 23rd 1974
winterland
and I searched here
there and everywhere
for that postcard from paradise
still missing
Peace for All!
ETR 4-5-69
Wait, what? This sounds excellent!
Didn't expect that.
Source must have been a good one.
Sweet MOTM > Dark Star.
Cheers
12/9/79 St Louis
DaP 47 - Disc 2
ooo' boy this Shakedown!! Phil bass line in this era is especially awesome!!
(edit) on to Disc 3
omfg - Jerry's solo in Black Peter!!!!
love that jam out of Saint > Drumz > Space Black Peter!!
and a post-drumz Bertha!!
Currently
Via archive
10/4/80
Official releases offer no complete Warfieldrcmh shows
WHY
They can't have taped over ALL of them
And please
More GREEKS and FROSTS and SHORELINES and VENTURAS
🫠🫠ðŸ«
Snack Benefit- Kezar March 23, 1975
From a vinyl gifted to me a while ago. The Stronger than Dirt jamming takes me back to when I first fell in love with this band. Erratic and primal-- like what they would have conjured up ten years prior during the acid tests. Electric. Really great stuff.
Currently
6/14/69
Release worthy?
YES
cmon, Dave and Co., get some more 69 stuff out to us that has been polished. PLEASE.
PLEASE.
Re 3/23/75
I had a cassette of the show way back in college days. I listened to it one night while feeling "very special".
Phenomenal stuff.
8/24/68
We know all the '68's that are incubating, but we do have this one and it's a brain sizzler, no? Happy break in the freaking weather fellow mid-westerners!!!
Detoured from ETR to hit ...
9.24.72 from the 30 Trips box - such a great period for the band.
1st set is pretty sweet: Cumberland, Bird Song, and a Killer Playing in the Band
2nd set:
Dark Star > Drums > Dark Star > China Cat > Rider
'Nuff said
Currently
For a change of pace after 6/14/69...
ELO hits collection
Great crafted music
"A New World Record" was influential on my musical appreciation journey
I Don't Wanna Hear ...
.. Ain't Nobody Cares
I Don't Want Know! >>
september 13th 1993 set 2
@ the spectrum, phila
>> and there were days between
Summer flies and August dies
and the world grows dark and mean
onward to
june 15th 1993
@ freedom hall, louisville ky
PEACE for ALL!
edit: big like
Healy's comment on sound inside The Spectrum
Currently
12/21/68
11/4/77 Colgate Univ.
DaP 12
Dupree's! Fall '77 Let It Grows are off the chain!! And OMFG that Cold Rain and Snow out of Samson to start Set 2!!!!
8/25/72 Berkeley Community Theatre
Dave's Picks Vol. 24, third disc.
8/25/72
Pure magic!!
I Love 8/25/72 Berkeley!!
DaP 24 - one of my favorite releases.
"This ain't Kentucky man, this is Berkeley!" "He had roses for lunch!"
Awesome Other One. Edit - yeah Anatexis that Phil jam is off the chain!! In my mind it's part of the Other One.
8/24/72
Yeah, that Other One is killer! I love the extended Phil jam leading into the Other One.