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  • c_c
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    how's tricks?
    how's tricks?! peace.
  • iknowurider
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    Thanks for the link TL
    UFOINK! Cheezy I know, but I had to say it. PEACE
  • TigerLilly
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    how sad!
    www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN2934219420080429********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens
  • GrayFolded
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    RIP ALBERT
    Albert Hofmann, father of drug LSD, dies in Switzerland By FRANK JORDANS – 14 hours ago GENEVA (AP) — Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired — and arguably corrupted — millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died. He was 102. Hofmann died Tuesday at his home in Burg im Leimental, said Doris Stuker, a municipal clerk in the village near Basel where Hofmann moved following his retirement in 1971. For decades after LSD was banned in the late 1960s, Hofmann defended his invention. "I produced the substance as a medicine. ... It's not my fault if people abused it," he once said. The Swiss chemist discovered lysergic acid diethylamide-25 in 1938 while studying the medicinal uses of a fungus found on wheat and other grains at the Sandoz pharmaceuticals firm in Basel. He became the first human guinea pig of the drug when a tiny amount of the substance seeped onto his finger during a laboratory experiment on April 16, 1943. "I had to leave work for home because I was suddenly hit by a sudden feeling of unease and mild dizziness," he subsequently wrote in a memo to company bosses. He said his initial experience resulted in "wonderful visions." "What I was thinking appeared in colors and in pictures," he told a Swiss television network for a program marking his 100th birthday two years ago. "It lasted for a couple of hours and then it disappeared." Three days later, Hofmann experimented with a larger dose. The result was a horror trip. "Everything I saw was distorted as in a warped mirror," he said, describing his bicycle ride home. "I had the impression I was rooted to the spot. But my assistant told me we were actually going very fast." "The substance which I wanted to experiment with took over me. I was filled with an overwhelming fear that I would go crazy. I was transported to a different world, a different time," Hofmann wrote. Hofmann and his scientific colleagues hoped that LSD would make an important contribution to psychiatric research. The drug exaggerated inner problems and conflicts and thus it was hoped that it might be used to recognize and treat mental illnesses like schizophrenia. For a time, Sandoz sold LSD 25 under the name Delysid, encouraging doctors to try it themselves. It was one of the strongest drugs in medicine — with just one gram enough to drug an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 people for 12 hours. LSD was elevated to international fame in the late 1950s and 1960s thanks to Harvard professor Timothy Leary who embraced the drug under the slogan "turn on, tune in, drop out." But away from the psychedelic trips, horror stories emerged about people going on murder sprees or jumping out of windows while hallucinating. Heavy users suffered permanent psychological damage. The U.S. government banned LSD in 1966 and other countries followed suit. Hofmann maintained this was unfair, arguing that the drug was not addictive. He repeatedly argued for the ban to be lifted to allow LSD to be used in medical research. Peter Oehen, a psychiatrist in the Swiss town of Biberist, says substances such as LSD and MDMA — also known as ecstasy — can produce results where conventional psychotherapies fail. "They help overcome the wall of denial that some patients build up," said Oehen, who met Hofmann and has studied his work. Hofmann welcomed a decision by Swiss authorities last December to allow LSD to be used in a psychotherapy research project. "For me, this is a very big wish come true. I always wanted to see LSD get its proper place in medicine," he told Swiss TV at the time. Hofmann took the drug — purportedly on an occasional basis and out of scientific interest — for several decades. "LSD can help open your eyes," he once said. "But there are other ways — meditation, dance, music, fasting." Even so, the self described "father" of LSD readily agreed that the drug was dangerous if in the wrong hands. This was reflected by the title of his 1979 book: "LSD - my problem child." In it he wrote that, "The history of LSD to date amply demonstrates the catastrophic consequences that can ensue when its profound effect is misjudged and the substance is mistaken for a pleasure drug." Hofmann retired from Sandoz in 1971 and devoted his time to travel, writing and lectures. "This is really a high point in my advanced age," Hofmann said at a ceremony in Basel honoring him on his 100th birthday. "You could say it is a consciousness-raising experience without LSD." Funeral arrangements were not immediately available. Dead to the Core www.myspace.com/bongwizard
  • grdaed73
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    faint memory
    this has bothered me for years now, i need substantiation please. does anyone ELSE remember the boys being on "hootn'anny" or similar tv show, around workingman dead release playing "uncle johns band"? or how about some weird movie about a party, i think peter sellers and pia zoa(sp) were the stars, as the camera pans thru the door on thru the main room passing the live band playing, it pans the band members briefly and i swear my minds eye sees all the boys in late 60's glory and thats it, they're gone,pan to beach, no memory of the tune, pretty acidity stobes light show oil globs on walls. could of been around time they where living in lalaland, tring to pay the rent? validate me or flat out no way!
  • Phatty1976
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    Hey
    I just want to say hey. Been listening to the Dead since the very late 80's. Never seen a show, although I have seen JGB and Ratdog and The Dead without Jerry. Been to many shows while they played the Knickerbocker but just never made it inside. The music has meant so much to me throughout the years that it is hard to comprehend sometimes. That is all for now. "Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile"
  • Ami
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    CCj's uTube vid on p. 65
    too funny. I was there and they had a big screen, Franken & Davis were bizarro. That was a great run of shows. we were all jerry's kids that night. Ami
  • GratefulGigi
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    Went to a benefit ...Bike run
    Saturday for a 3 year old little boy with leukemia.....Wow they raised over $10,000 for the little guy....Bikers are so giving!!!! It was fun with a band and all..and lots of beer!!I never saw so many bikes in one place...so cool!!
  • deadheadkid
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    Siberia?
    feel better man. have fun in siberia. wheres deadheadland? can i catch a ticket at an airport, or in my mind? or perhaps a music store. g2g history class just started.Peace The Kid
  • TigerLilly
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    Glad you told
    You´ve been down, Badger. Had been wondering whether your mood was not so good.********************************** Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live. Samuel Clemens
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yeah, this will be cool. thankx. but now I got nothing to say... ) - ; "a first in the history of the world!" comments CC Joe's old lady... peace. "The highway is for gamblers, you'd better use your sense Take what you have gathered from coincidence"
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Well put or not put. I, however, suffer from verbal incontinence and will gladly have something to say. Here are random and semi-on-topic tidbits. After Jerry ditched the Wah-Wah pedal in favor of the Envelope Filter, Playin' in the Band was never the same. The first kind veggie burrito I ever had transformed my tastebuds. Quixote's True Blue is a cool Dead Head bar in Denver, CO. When I bailed out on the scene in 1993 I was kinda bummed. Getting together like this with all of you sure is cool and makes me feel goofy like a kid again. I'm just a, well...porpoise.
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This will be fun.Thanks to are Mods for this free-zone......Im off to see Terrapin Flyer w/ Tom Constanten tonight at the Kinetic Playground in Chicago......IF YOUR IN CHI-TOWN YOU NEED TO GO AND SEE THESE GUYS!!!!!!!!! Dead to the Core www.myspace.com/bongwizard
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Greetings and accolades to izzie and Marye for listening and assisting. I'm sure it (open thread) wouldn't have happened without you. What to say, what to say, shit, given this opportunity and passing up an audience. Is this stage fright? Cat got yer tongue? Nope, I'm just smiling wide on this Friday night and jazzed at the recent turn of events to connect with old and new friends in our new 'station.' Author Steven Peter's book titled 'The Stories Behind Every Grateful Dead Song 1965-1995 -What a Long Strange Trip' he chronicled an explanation around one of my favorite tunes, The Wheel and he wrote "Hunter compared the unending spin of the Grateful Dead's career path to the oroboros, a mythical dragon or serpent which is depicted as biting it's tail and symbolized infinity or eternal recurrence. It was a pattern the Dead could relate to on a different level as their own "snake" continued to grow bigger and bigger with every turn." This site is an extension of that concept, to be part of continuing to nourish and expand with the help of each other "one man gather's what another man spills". And even the story behind the Grateful Dead's name (I will leave that for another to share and elaborate on) is evidence of the evolving and helping nature of the Dead, this site, and the relationships that we foster with one another. Again Peter's book relates how world renowned scholar (on Myth and Religion et al) Joseph Campbell attended a Grateful Dead show and then stated "It turns on something in here", he later said enthused, pointing to his heart, "what it turns on is the life energy. This is Dionysus talking though these kids. Now I have seen similar manifestations, but nothing as innocent as what I saw with this bunch...this is a wonderful fervent loss of self in the larger self of a homogenous community. That is what it's all about." Shit, I guess I went overboard and got all high fallootin' and philosophical, er, heynow, crank it up. We have arrived. Let's dance.
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Hey, sken's verbal incontinence was contagious.But point taken, I must go and mental floss. Control is within my grasp.
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hey, Sken, as I do not play the guitar, could you please list 2 primo shows (from archive.org) actually, could you pretty please with sugar on top, put up the links for 2 shows one with the wah wah pedal and one without and one with the envelope whatever the fuck that is filter. I'll give a listen and comment. (maybe, if I remember to do that) ( -: my hearing is pretty lousy, so if there are SBD shows, those would be best. "The highway is for gamblers, you'd better use your sense Take what you have gathered from coincidence"
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by the way, to everyone here, if we use the subject box as a kind of topic starter, (or topic continuer) it will kind of, 'kind' of (note the kind!!) it will kind of be like starting our own topics... on the other hand, if someone does not use the subject box, it automatically takes the first few words from your post... which may or may not indicate what you want to talk about. looking for and finding that silver lining. ( -: peace. "The highway is for gamblers, you'd better use your sense Take what you have gathered from coincidence"
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the much awaited NEW gameshow is here! The producers finally got the Call the Tune game show up and limping... OK, there are still a few problems, (don't blame your humble host, please) but click on the link or simply press play on the VDO screen and turn up the volume!! your humble host here, CC Joe... don't blame me for the crappy audience tape with very poor quality sound, this IS a reality gameshow. This is what it would have sounded like back on that day... at that time, in that place... especially if you were standing next to Ace McDanger and Spiker Jones... listening to the first few tune - up sounds, can you?? will you dare to try to Call THE Tune!!!???? pece. ( -;
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Sugaree
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nice try, but......... nope, not Sugaree. please try again. by the way, who digs my cool antique Japanese boxes and our ultra cool clock which is set to 5:15 permanently??
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My ears are toast. I pulled out the headphones and gave it my best try. If I don't get it then I might just have to let the youngsters with their fresh ears do the heavy lifting. note: The guy next to the mike had a nice machine-gun laugh, but I call Bertha as the tune.
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not Bertha! "The highway is for gamblers, you'd better use your sense Take what you have gathered from coincidence"
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the box on the right is a sewing box, probably about 70-80 years old-- the little box connected to it on the rod, is the old pin-cusion...the box on the top left is a 'hako kaidan' staircase box... back to the show: there is ONE or two very distinctive notes at the very end of the clip, barely able to make it out... I chose the tape 'blind' just popping one in without looking at the set list, and I could call it, so I thought it was 'fair' oops, did I just give away the fact that it is the first song from some set?? perhaps a first set or perhaps a second set?? I'll never tell. it took about 10 minutes to find a suitable tape, then another 5 or so to get the vid just exactly perfect, then another 10 minutes to go through the upload to youtube... it was actually pretty easy to do, I've never uploaded any vdo before. HINT HINT HINT, anyone can do it... then I can be a contestant, too. ( -; if I don't get some sponsors in a hurry, this may only be a weekly feature. it is pissing down raining sideways here, so at home with nothing to do... ( -: "The highway is for gamblers, you'd better use your sense Take what you have gathered from coincidence"
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Stupid computers.... How do we delete a posted comment?
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I can't get youtube here at work (picture a kind of NORAD scenario) so I'll just blurt out song names so ya'll don't forget about me. "Brown Eyed Women!!!" "This aggression will not stand, man....."
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you win!!! Wow!! what insight!! no, just kidding, it ain't Brown Eyed Woman. you can not delete posts, I learned that the hard way more than once... are you THE GRTUD, dude, as in the nug that tied the room together?? will you abide me, dude?? what's up with changing the name? you trying to add extra confusion and dissaray into my frazzled brain? ( -: peace. "The highway is for gamblers, you'd better use your sense Take what you have gathered from coincidence"
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OK, GRTUD.it IS you. I just read your intro. cool, glad to see you here. thanks for adding confusion to my feeble, moldy memory. you see, the fucked up thing about screen names, and avatars, is I will never be able to ever call any of you by your 'given' names. just your chosen names, and I will always associate you by your original avatar pics... as I am rather dissassociated from myself enough already, I continued with the CC Joe thang, as well as the same Bulldog. ain't that 'just exactly perfect'? now I will always know who I am. but I still wonder... "I know who I am. Do you know who YOU are?" - Sid in Seinfeld peace. "The highway is for gamblers, you'd better use your sense. Take what you have gathered from coincidence"
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"From day to day, just lettin' it ride,You get so far away from how it feels inside, You can't let go, 'cause you're afraid to fall, But the day may come when you can't feel at all."
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nice try, but nope. please try again! ( -: "The highway is for gamblers, you'd better use your sense. Take what you have gathered from coincidence"
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An attempt at Get Smart humour. I determined the key it's in - A - it sounds as if it's going to be rock 'n rollish - so, before I run, I'm going to say Albama Getaway? "From day to day, just lettin' it ride, You get so far away from how it feels inside, You can't let go, 'cause you're afraid to fall, But the day may come when you can't feel at all."
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you guys want a separate space for your game? and don't throw nuthin' at me - I'm just tryin' to be helpful!
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the only thing I might EVER toss you, would be a cold beer, and that would be underhand... (ooohh, underhanded - love those double entendres) ( -; and don't think you can get me to toss you any clues, either... ( -: sure, why not set up a space called Cheesy Game Shows or if you think of a better title?? 'There ain't a winner in the game' 'The wolf came in, we sat down for a game' 'If the game is lost, then we're all the same' anyone else have a beter title. Shake down Street was 'just exactly perfect' for the hawkers!! damn, did I get a chuckle out of that... yeah, another link in this area would be very cool, then ANYONE who wants to post up trivia questions, or the name THAT show, or any of the other little mind games we could come up with could fit there... sure, please set it up and if possible, please move the related posts over there? or just re-name this one, and the other new 'free' space can continue as this one was intended to do... COOL! "The highway is for gamblers, you'd better use your sense. Take what you have gathered from coincidence"
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and, deadicated, it ain't Alabama. ( -; "The highway is for gamblers, you'd better use your sense. Take what you have gathered from coincidence"
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Sken: Just picking up on your Quixote's nod. I've spent a lot of time in there (all three incarnations) since the inception in '95, as well as his other three joints. Great place for great tunes in Denver
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nope, nice try, but not Prminsed land. please try again! "The highway is for gamblers, you'd better use your sense. Take what you have gathered from coincidence"
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I don't know why/how the other post got 'out of order' And Justice for All AL!!!! Judge Rayford: Mr. Kirkland you are out of order! Arthur Kirkland: You're out of order! You're out of order! The whole trial is out of order! They're out of order! That man, that sick, crazy, depraved man, raped and beat that woman there, and he'd like to do it again! It's just a show! It's a show! It's "Let's Make A Deal"! "Let's Make A Deal"! Hey Frank, you wanna "Make A Deal"? I got an insane judge who likes to beat the shit out of women! Whaddya wanna gimme Frank, 3 weeks probation?
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the link from CCJoe due to I'm using Firefox, but aw what the hell, I'll guess "All Over Now."
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not all over now... babyblue... please try again. my current signature is NOT a hint. no hints on this show! peace! "The highway is for gamblers, you'd better use your sense. Take what you have gathered from coincidence"
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I can understand why GRTUD's work 'puter would block out youtube, but I don't get why a program would not let you play the youtube vid?? did you try to click on the link that takes you to their site rather than hit play on the screen thang? peace. "The highway is for gamblers, you'd better use your sense. Take what you have gathered from coincidence"
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I've noticed this with Firefox. It just doesn't take me where I like to ride sometimes... And Explorer (which graciously allows me to view youtube whatnot) is not cooperating.
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oooh, good tune, ooops. my conclusions were jumping. ( -; but no, it ain't 'I used to lover her and it's all over now' either... peace. "The highway is for gamblers, you'd better use your sense. Take what you have gathered from coincidence"
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why the fuck is this thing posting posts out of order?? "The highway is for gamblers, you'd better use your sense. Take what you have gathered from coincidence"
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keep trying to confuse the humble host more than he is already confused will get you disqualified... ( -: peace. "The highway is for gamblers, you'd better use your sense. Take what you have gathered from coincidence"
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why it posts out of order but it's nice that I can live in the past for a spell.
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wtf? everything is out of order... and I am a pretty well organized guy. ummm, not really. ( -; peace. "The highway is for gamblers, you'd better use your sense. Take what you have gathered from coincidence"
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I spend my life in the past.
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has passed. Passenger era early Brent (fall '79) is my favorite Passenger zone.
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Stab #IV - Johnny B. Goode "From day to day, just lettin' it ride, You get so far away from how it feels inside, You can't let go, 'cause you're afraid to fall, But the day may come when you can't feel at all."
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No! no es Johnny B. Bueno. buennnyo (long n with the ~ on top! pero bueno guess con mucho gusto, Senor Deadicatado. "The highway is for gamblers, you'd better use your sense. Take what you have gathered from coincidence"
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Deal (??)
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Loser.
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this is getting pretty heated! not deal and not loser. nice try, but nope. please try again. ( -: peace. "The highway is for gamblers, you'd better use your sense. Take what you have gathered from coincidence"
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Just for kicks, I call: Race is On I'm gonna get to work on the Playin' controversy to give y'all an idea of what I'm talkin' bout. Bozo Bus: I played at Quixote's once. Probably the best gig of my life, until the next one, of course! I'm just a, well...porpoise.
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OK, for starters, Jerry seemed to use the Wah-Wah pedal almost exclusively for "jams" and never really incorporated it into songs like he did with the Envelope Filter. The Envelope Filter brought you such tunes as: Shakedown Street and Estimated Prophet. Anyway, it doesn't seem fair to compare this Berkeley Community Theater 8-21-1972 Gem to anything, but check out the Playin' at this show: http://www.archive.org/details/gd72-08-21.sbd.hamilton.150.sbeok.shnf So, since I didn't want to compare it to a version that couldn't measure up, I chose one of the "Warlocks" shows from Hampton, VA. Check out the jam during Playin' here: http://www.archive.org/details/gd89-10-09.sbd.serafin.7721.sbeok.shnf Thats the Envelope Filter of which I speak that Jerry is using during the jam (as well as other midi). While it is trippy and fantastic, it feels to me like that old Wah-Wah captured the raw energy of the song better than the Envelope Filter and midi effects. I really liked Jerry's use of effects throughout his time on earth, but his Wah-Wah expeditions during Playin' back before I was born just floor me. Uh-oh, maybe I blew it when I was born. I disrupted his cosmic chi! Yikes! I now have a complex!! <>
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What form did you play in at Quixote's?
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it ain't race is on, but nice try. and thanks for the other details about the wah wah pedal etc. ahhh, Shakedown, one of my all time favorites, I might have thought that was a wah wah, since I don't know anthing about guitars, and effects... I'll give your links a listen later. I appreciate the links. I listened.... the songs were so hot, I forgot why I was listening to them! hmmm better or worse? no better no worse, same same but different. different. keep in mind, though I had great aspirations to become a rock and roll star, (who didn't) I am essentially tone deaf and lack any musical talent whatsoever... (though my harmonica skills aint too bad) so this is like asking a layman. because at the same time, you got different keyboards, Brent's playing the Hammond, B3 right?? so that adds some of the old trippy-ness... but, yeah, I see what you mean about the guitar not being QUITE as trippy... "never the same since Jerry ditched the wah wah" as you said before, hits the nail on the head... but I dig both sounds. by 1989 Jerry was using the Tiger and not the same Strat or whatever it was in 1972... that is another reason for the difference... no? wat the fuck do I know? the thing about the 89 version, v. the 72 version; during Jerry's leads in the jam... to my ears, the notes sound 'cleaner' that is, until the 'pitch' is it the pitch? what the fuck do you call it? the scale? no, the OCTIVE until the octive gets deeper, then I think the wah wah sounded better... that is about as much musical anlysis I can handle for one day... peace. thanks again for the links. love both shows. ( -: "The highway is for gamblers, you'd better use your sense. Take what you have gathered from coincidence"