Grateful Dead

RGM releasing DiP 6 from 10-14-83 in Hartford on 5 LPs. Goes on sale Thursday at 10amPT and only 1000 copies.
So need it if you dare.
Cheers
Says it has a Scarlet> Fire and Estimated>Eyes back to back. 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

A bit later this morning at my citizenship ceremony.

#59
Second set. It is growing on me. So unique and well played. This year the releases have been top notch. Hoping for 60 to top them all. My vote is for 68.

11/9.10.11&12

Stellar Blue!!!

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8/18/91 aggressive out the gate! Let's Go!
Even Vinnie sounds good
Not all that smooth at times , but Rocks!

... complain,
but sometimes I still do
(as mr. joe walsh would say)
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last five:
june 28th, 1985 @ hershey 2X
(also 2X the hershey DEADCAST
and all with headphones)
both while mending 175' of fences in my side yard
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september 24th, 1991 @ boston gaaden
cd-r's recently found in my treasure chest
and because it's the nicest one / show
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june 22nd, 1991 @ solider field
because summer '91 smokes fall
certainly looking for this release
in all it's splendor; how 'bout it Dave? or Pincus?
oops, sorry, I forgot about
that upcoming chicago boxed set, lol
:
june 17th, 1991 set II @ giants
only because it's been a few years,
but not the summers best
:
garcia & saunders: live @ keystone volume 1
(1988 CD on fantasy records), also picked out
of the treasure chest because
it was the day to celebrate the fat man
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Life's been good to me so far!
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PEACE for ALL!
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PS: 30 more days
(y'all know what i'm talking about)
until the magic!

Couldn't get to the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, but came close. Glad my second-hand recollections of the event aren't quite so narrow and cynical. Guess Woodstock will always be kinda like the elephant the blind men were trying to describe.

Those were very different times. Despite daily Vietnam body counts and political assassinations and riots, and. . ., there was still a surprising lot of hope in the air. Lots of us were protesting the war. We'd just landed on the moon. Peace Corps was a thing. Tricky Dick even authorized the EPA. . . Lots of the music, at and beyond WS, embodied that hopefulness (like the Grateful Dead in the rain 🤪). Naive? Certainly. Especially when viewed from the start of the 2nd quarter of the 21st century. I miss that "hippie hopefulness".

(Jerry's and other trashings notwithstanding, the GD's Woodstock set is always worth a relisten, and I'd have stayed for all of Jimi.)

After Sha Na Na Jimi must have scared the shitts out of people !

8/18/89 Greek Theater nice RowJimi, Victim, D/S their just toying with us!