Grateful Dead

... leads to a weekend
of sonic adventures with

4/12/71 pittsburgh daP #51
7/2/71 fillmore west on 50th skullfuck
10/24/71 set II at eastown theater in detroit
12/9/71 st louis on cd-r
5/29/71 winterland arena

and then a deep dive into
the rabbit hole with
recording the '71 sounds

best info I could find
was INSIDE THE VAULT
on the GOGD Deadcast
season 4 bonus 2
with DL2 touching on the end of 1970
and what I was really interested in exploring, the 1971 recordings,
he says: "but one of Rex’s new jobs on the crew in January ‘71 and onward was recording. I’ve always looked at them as Rex and Betty recordings.
That goes really through all of 1971. By the fall tour though, it’s only Rex doing the recordings: all of that early Keith stuff in October and November, I don’t even know if Betty was on the road then.
Those were Rex recordings with… I don’t want to say Betty’s training,
I wasn’t there and don’t know how it went down.
But certainly, her sonic fingerprints are on those recordings."

And so I wonder if the recordings of
4/10 Lancaster, PA
4/12 Pittsburgh, PA
4/13 Scranton, PA
4/14 Lewisburg, PA
4/15 Meadville, PA
are perhaps FOH PA recordings

now, back to the business at hand,
today's listening party and
my friend of the devils choice is

october 21st 1978
@ winterland

could it be the best show of '78?
best set II of '78?
play Dead
PLAY DEAD LOUD!

Peace for ALL!
uncle_tripel

I remember them well, although I never saw them. They were included in with the punk bands that made records starting in 1977. Musically, they were a bit different from other British punk bands as they had someone on organ and later synthesizer. More influenced by The Doors than Iggy and The Stooges. I also like the twangy guitar, which sounded a bit Ernio Morricone or surf like at times.
The biggest downside was that they wrote some of the most sexist and sexually violent lyrics it has ever been my misfortune to hear. They seemed to celebrate thuggishness.

28/94

I decided to listen to the Stranglers. Maybe the creepyass name kept me away

Anyway, apparently were huge in the UK but NEVER heard in the US

so a few tunes in and yeah, they sound rather unique.

Any UK input on the Stranglers?

Absolutely 💯

Disc one good
Disc two great
Scranton test passed
Bonus material tasty
Disc three will be tomorrow's festivities

Edit
Went ahead and enjoyed it tonight

Got thru Hard to Handle

Went to disc three of 4/24/72

Melted

Will return to Scranton shortly

I would post your Tiger Rose comments again. I think the take down was unintentional and not targeted at you. I remember that there was a wordy spam/bot post from a newly minted account right about then and it got taken down when I checked back in. My guess is that the ptb that police that sort of stuff inadvertently took down yours also. Been awhile but I've had it happen to me and if I remember correctly several of us lost posts once because they were sandwiched between 2 spam posts.

Not listening to anything at the "moment" - focusing on pizza and some cold beer after hot day in the field. The music will flow shortly. I could easily go Tuscaloosa but don't have it at hand. Edit - so its 5/26/77 Baltimore DaP 41 - its got a Jack-A-Roe and the whole release sounds amazing (as we all know).

Keep on enjoying the weekend everybody.

As I did not get to it earlier this week, I thought I'd go ... Anniversarial 😊

Let's find out