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New year, new update. Tell us of your musical adventures in real time!
- 7,482 repliesmarye
Joined:New year, new update. Tell us of your musical adventures in real time!
- DeadVikes
Joined:JimGood to hear from you Jim. Your presence is missed.
Hope it all works out for you and your son.
My daughter is approaching her senior year in Highschool, so I understand.
I hear you about the froggy voice and still look forward to this box in the fall. Great this band brings us all together. - 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.
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.