Grateful Dead

Gifted a ticket day before in Chaco by gentleman who ran the Seva table at shows during that time. First journey into the Low Desert during summer - it was on fire! Afterwards camped in Oak Creek Canyon north of Sedona - simply gorgeous. This was almost 10 years before I moved to the High Desert Southwest.
Crazy Fingers opener Set II - yess!
The SHNID 174673 ultramatrix is new since I last streamed this show. Started in on Set II - sounds grate!!

Immortalized by being filmed and recorded.
I don't think I would have enjoyed myself there, though.
Hot, muggy, wet, chilly, CROWDED af, insects, mud, no showers (gotta have my daily dip), lack of restrooms, etc.
I do enjoy the film and the performances.
I've heard the GD's set...
Of course, they played Lovelight for a long time...meh.
Remember, however...there is a THIRD coast. That is a gem of psychedelic knowledge.

Guessing Dick's Picks 6 vinyl will be popular and sell out fast at only 1000 copies. Have your screen at the ready Thursday all ye vinyl-philes.
Cheers

WOW.
I heard it a few years ago and recognized it for the joy that it is.
I just heard it again on a field trip here in WA.
Morning Dew is transcendent.
If you were there in person, congratulations.

I've just had an email from them to say Dicks 6, 14/10/83, is coming out on vinyl soon.

1stshow - apologies - I've just seen that you've posted with this news.

Blows both 89 and 91 out the water!

Woodstock love the music fest, love the stories!

Sitting in murky cinemas in the mid 70's, this one seemed more a reflection of the Age of Aquarius than Woodstock. It all looks much fresher and more exciting. They even gave you a little chair to sit on.
I have to say, I never really liked outdoor festivals myself. My main period of going to them was between 1975 and 1978, when the hippie dream had been well and truly trashed. The ones I went to were either over inflated events starring big bands like The Stones or Pink Floyd, or poverty stricken free festivals where lost looking hippies mingled uneasily with spiky young punks. Pseudo Hells Angels lurked in the wings. People always seemed to be saying that Hawkwind were going to appear at some point. When you went home several days later no one was really sure whether they had or not. I never mastered the art of sitting in the lotus position either, which didn't help.

RGM releasing DiP 6 from 10-14-83 in Hartford on 5 LPs. Goes on sale Thursday at 10am PT and only 1000 copies.
So need it if you dare.
Cheers
Says it has a Scarlet> Fire and Estimated>Eyes back to back and a half hour each. I better go back and listen to that CD!

I think that, at the end of the day, the most significant thing about Woodstock was the size of the audience. That's what made it a national news story, and blew the minds of participants. Nobody had ever seen so many freaks in one place. There had never been a rock show anywhere near that big. And the fact that people behaved themselves, despite the rain and the mud and the lack of amenities became a generational point of pride. It made it seem like a more peaceful world was actually possible.
It would only be a few weeks before Altamont came along and revealed the dark side of that coin. But there was a moment when it seemed like peace and love might win the day. And I think that's partly why the event is looked upon with such nostalgia now.
Although the music was definitely worth remembering. Iconic sets from Sly, Santana, the Who, Joe Cocker, Ten Years After, good if not great sets from Janis, the Airplane, CSNY, even Sha Na Na. Butterfield was there, CCR, Johnny Winter, the Band, Joni, Country Joe. And of course Jimi Freaking Hendrix, even if he went on at 9am on the fourth day after most people had left. It's great that almost all these performances are available to be heard, and they all sound pretty darn good to me.
One downside to the whole thing was that Woodstock, and the success of the film and record album, helped to usher in the era of corporate rock. It showed that the rock audience was so big that big business couldn't ignore it. The businessmen looked at that crowd and thought, If only we had sold each one of those 500,000 people a ticket and a t-shirt and a few $5 bottles of water and and and and. And so we got the commodification of the counterculture. Which eventually sucked the life out of it and turned it into a whole set of cliches you could order from the Sears catalogue.
But it was fun while it lasted. Wish I'd been there.

Grateful Dead show at the O'Keefe Center in Toronto on August 4, 1967
Grateful Dead show at the O'Keefe Center in Toronto on August 5, 1967