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Joined:New year, new update. Tell us of your musical adventures in real time!
- Gary Farseer
Joined:OroborousI wore that 86 River Bend tape. I had started to get the tape collection going pretty good. Had the River Bend tape with a week to 10 days of the show. Also enjoyed the Rubber Bowl show as we got tapes fast. Also received the Greek shows about as quickly and enjoyed all three but wore out summer soltice as it had a nice smokestack. I have written before about my Pig-smoke. It was Pig's rendition on Bear's choice that sunk the hock in this phish's mouth.
- Oroborous
Joined:Oh, fogotHey Dav, how bout some of your memories from both Alpine, but also your first at the Horror dome? Fifteen huh, did you go with older sibs or..? Need more road tales here than just from this old windbag! I think that dome show is underrated and the playing was pretty good in spite of the horrible acoustics etc. Felt the same about Carrier Dome shows: good shows, just a terrible place!
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DOC! Off the 71 wagon I see ; )
I love that 3/24 show and also think 4/10s a bit of a dud, comparatively, especially to the previous night! - Oroborous
Joined:Summer 86 continued
6/30/86
7/2/86
All such a blur?
Have always remembered River Bend as being one of my top @ Shows.
Maybe getting decent inside seats for the only time influenced a little?
Definitely think ya had to be there!
It’s deceptively excellent. Even, well played, sorta laid back mid-west vibe, building solos up nicely versus the more forced? manic stadium shows of the time.
It’s a shame there’s not a better source for the full show.
History/memory of course is a fickle mistress, but my recollection was of a large barge rollin by (really close behind the amp on the Ohio river) during Big River, and an old Mississippi River Paddle boat during Ship of Fools, and that the crowd reacted appropriately. But I can’t hear it on the Aud? The fact that I recall something so specific tells me I’m correct, if not fully accurate! Man we really foraged in the fungal forest this tour, hell all year, so ya know, shit gets funny lol Seem to also recall a LOT of fireworks after the show.
Next memory is pulling into Nazareth feeling about half past dead….or in reality Akron Rubber bowl. I swear I remember burning tires or some such weird ominous energy as we drove in, adding to a muggy overcast kinda day, but who knows? It definitely was muggy, and seemed really overcrowded in front of the SB etc…and we were kinda of understandably burnt by tgen, that running on manufactured energy at some point quits feeling good.
My recollection of the show was it was one of the most lack luster shows I saw, but the one time I’ve heard it I didn’t think it was that bad? We shall see soon…certainly set/setting played a part with this one. For sure a huge setting let down after the awesome Riverbend experience!
Thought Dylan coming out was gonna be cool, but it didn’t really work, think luckily Jer kept it from totally falling apart?
Then it was back to Bu faf which after sleeping hard in own bed and resting up was big fun. Like some of the other stadium gigs, maybe a bit forced etc, but good energy and ya had to be there when the sky/clouds opened up and let a direct shaft of sunlight on Jer during Fire!
Went solo but met up with different folks, including Phinster who you can see us in the video, especially if you’ve ever seen the non broadcast one of the first set. There’s just one camera mostly static I think, at the SB, and we’re just below it in the bottom mid right of the screen. I’ll have to look this up on Tubes of you this WE…
But I walked out to a main road and got picked up without even trying, immediately by a buddy, not going, but took me a few miles outta his way and dropped me off right in front of Rich Stadium, or the Ralph as it was known locally. First of five mostly good shows there.
Petty/Dylan was decent, but quite the juxtaposition and let down after the boys.
After, I wandered the lots and ended up hanging with this really kind, beautiful gal who was trying to get a ride to the Rainbow gathering, so being a road warrior in those days and thinking it was in Allegheny State park (not too far away) instead of much farther Allegheny National Forest down in Pennsitucky. So mr Bright idea gets a quick ride home, where I had recently moved back to, borrowed the family car as I didn’t have one, and proceeded to give the young lady a ride…well, didn’t find out the mistake until we arrived at the State park with not a freak in sight. That’s when the lightbulb went off about the National Forest…
By now it’s getting very late, but I can’t just leave her in the middle of nowhere, so kept going until, luckily, we ran into some travelers on their way there at some all night gas store.
She gave me a big hug and a kiss and an awesome tape from 85 Red Rocks!
Ok, not great situation, but figure I’ll fill the tank back up mañana and, well,, Opps, forgot the old man had to go to work so as I pull in well after dawn, there he is standing in the driveway and non too happy lol as he’s just about late for work!
Luckily, the old man RIP was always fairly cool, and it did lead him to give me a small loan to by my awesome 73 LTD with 30K original miles from a guy he knew. Man that car was awesome and went on to hit dozens of shows over the years until I had to junk it in 92 due to rust etc. When I took it to the JY, the guy asked if it still ran, to witch I reached inside, turned the key and started her up, what a car! I miss it like a good dog or friend!
Man what a year!
Folks like generalize about JG and the drugs and how horrible he was etc, but it’s not accurate. Yeah he looked terrible, but if you see past all the BS and listen, he plays consistently well, not necessarily stratospheric 72, 77, GOAT, but often good, and I haven’t heard “the voice” yet this year, though there were a few shows he suffers from the ole vocal flubs, but not much, and when didn’t he?
No I think it’s more like Bob related in a semi resent interview: the guy just unfortunately took horrible care of himself. Diet, smoking, lack of exercise alone would do it, so not a shock he ended up with major diabetic troubles, we perhaps were just too young/dumb to realize such things BITD? No I think the drug problems are overblown in the context of over all health, to the unfortunate point where I’ve read folks who just categorically write off the year without objective consideration of just the music. But hey, that’s just me and I’m sure there’s folks who’ll disagree, which is fine, but too bad… - Gary Farseer
Joined:Uncle Trip
I ordered the PPV back on 1989-06-21, Summer Solstice show. I still have the video tape. It was a great show. As many heads agree that I have spoken with, wish it could have been Brandford instead of Clarence but still awesome. Phil thunders on the opening of Estimated. I am sure I have watched it on youtuber, but not certain. Always wished they would release that as an official release "View from the Vault." Not sure why they didn't include it as a bonus in the "All the year's combine" box. Was speaking to another poster friend about this very topic last weekend.
For me an awesome day, after being semi-retired, I am now considering full blown retirement. Unfortunately, related to health issues.But being in the deep south, to look out and see blue sky is awesome. With the gulf to the south, we usually have many gray days, akin to Seattle. And starting the day out as a green day with tasty coffee and listening to some tasty music is fine indeed. Just finished listening to the new Brother Cain album, it will be released tomorrow. It is exceptional if you like hard southern rock. Right now have on ABB at the Beacon March 27, 2009. Has some great guests. This afternoon (?), tonight March 21, 1981 - Dave's#56. Sweetest green day.
Hopefully more l8tr
G
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Joined:freddy king ...... Hideaway
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then onward to a new found mix of
June 21st , 1989
@shoreline
hoping it sounds cleaner
than my master cassette (FM broadcast)
which was not very good SQ
IIRC a splendid box of rain
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this new one is a healy/pearson
ultramatrix on the archive at #151620
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PEACE for ALL! - Forensicdoceleven
Joined:We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing......Hey rockers!!!
Today's commute: Winterland March 24 1971.
Felt a sudden urge to revisit this. OK they forgot to bring an organ but they remembered to bring Pigpen and his gooey greasyness. Short sharp Other One, and hey I'm an Other One kinda guy.............
Would have been too easy to go with April 10 1971, but for some reason that one never found the musical G-spot in my mind............
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end..........
Rock on and happy weekend!
Doc
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.....
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
🫠🫠🫠
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.