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- ForensicdocelevenJoined:When words leave off, music begins......
Hey rockers!!!
Yes, we were at the two 1985 Providence shows. They were "just OK", which means very enjoyable. I believe second night they brought back She Belongs To Me, being a huge Dylan fan I recognized it immediately and that was a very big thrill for me. One of many......
My friends, slowly edging back into it.............
Revolutionary Hamstrung Blues!!!
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart......
Rock on!!!
Doc
I don't make a particular distinction between 'high art' and 'low art', music is there for everybody, it's a river we can all put our cups into and drink it and be sustained by it..... - ForensicdocelevenJoined:To give thanks in solitude is enough......
Uncle Tripel..............
Thanks for what?
I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me......
Rock on!!
Doc
For me, I want to make sure every single day I wake up and give thanks for everything that I've been given in life...... - ForensicdocelevenJoined:Life changes on a dime, so live life to the fullest.....
Hey rockers!
First life changing show-Providence 1974. That's when we got on the bus.
Second life changing show---Augusta October 12 1984. We spent several years afterwards chasing Augusta. Never found it again..............
All this really requires no explanations............
I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.......
Rock on,
Doc
Everyone needs reminders that the fact of their being on this earth is important and that each life changes everything......... - strat-wolf-beanJoined:7.01.85 - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Special mention to the Shakedown opener on 6.30
My first show was 10.14.84 (Hartford) ... Everyone was of course raving about Augusta, which the tapes - once I got them - confirmed the special atmosphere and performance for that gig. I liked 10.14, especially the Let it Grow late in set 1. But Jerry was all bloated and seemed (and mostly was at that point) quite a different person than all that I had seen/heard of him in the few years before and after 1980 ... Anyway, it was a pretty decent introduction and the crowd + sound was overwhelming in the good way - enough for me to try to get tickets for spring '85.
I scored two for Providence 4.03 & 4.04. But given hassles & limitations surrounding my friend Bill's Mom's insistence on chaperoning/driving us (she went to a movie or something, while we went to the 04.03 show) I ended up selling the Sunday tickets and Saturday's show was just OK (I think Doc, and perhaps others can confirm that).
Rinse and repeat for the summer tour, as far as still being somewhat of a noob to the ticket process and tour 'flow'. But, having just graduated HS and bought my first beater car, I was emboldened - wanted SPAC but did not get them ... and announced to my parents that I was going to Maryland (for 6.30 and 7.01).
At least for me, the feel of these shows was way different than the first two I saw, and the awesome 6.30 Shakedown gave me that total 'liftoff' sensation and pure joy factor of all around that I'd heard/still hear with goosebumps on the 10.12.84 Augusta Stranger.
So 6.30 Shakedown is probably the singular moment. Though the next night is the one forever etched into my circuits - being 2/3 the way or so up the pavilion on the right - with Dupree's (!) and what I thought was a fine My Brother Esau-Stagger Lee-Let it Grow sequence (less the Day Job closer +/-). Shrooms kicked in fully around there ... And Scarlet - Fire blew me away. (I love where on the sound board you can hear one of the boys say 'Wow. I wish we could do it like that every time). That's to say nothing of the sort of fugue-like organ that permeates Playing, Uncle John's (more pure joy all around), the exploding toy shop space into Dear Mr. Fantasy + GDtRFB - Good Lovin. Satisfaction was a little weird for me (I did not know how relatively rare/special it was at the time). But the Baby Blue that followed is 100% archetypal and seared into me. I vaguely recall the cool lights on the paths (bridges?) in the trees (??) as I walked up and out.
I saw about 30-35 more shows, some were late 85, '86 - 87 & 2 in mid '88 Maine on the East Coast, before moving to CA. Then fully on board as much as possible through August 1991.
Also grateful for the good fortune/timing to catch a similar number of JGB shows (35 ish) - starting at the Orpheum in late 88 or early '89 + virtually every Warfield show from then through1990-91 + Electric on the Eel & the Greek Theater with Jimmy Cliff, which was really a great night for a variety of reasons.
As I said somewhere else a couple of hours ago, I'm feelin' it and soakin' it in ... So, Peace and Love to you All - And Cheers to all the good times we (surely rubbed elbows at and) experienced together at these shows !! - OroborosJoined:June 14, 1974 was my first GD show
At the Des Moines Fairground with the 'wall of sound' set up in the middle of the horse racetrack, facing the grandstands.
A three set show which left me speechless (for you who know me realize that was a feat in and of itself) and blissful.
"Chance favors the prepared mind." - Phil Lesh
- ForensicdocelevenJoined:I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration.....
Providence June 26, 1974
First show was Boston Music Hall December 1 1973, but we were relatively clueless and I didn't get it yet. At Providence, it finally kicked in. THAT'S the night I got on the bus. First life changing Grateful Dead experience.....
Second was Augusta October 12, 1984. Minds boggled and restored our faith in the Dead, for ten years after that we were chasing Augusta..............
Rock on,
Doc