Grateful Dead

JGB - 5-21-76 Orpheum theatre S.F., CA
Always a favorite.
Jerry is tearing it up on Tore Up Over You.
Has a great Mission In The Rain too.
Ride high to glory, ride mighty high!
Cheers
New thread for Oro - "Tales From The Tour"

What made them want to blow you away.
Thanks! Never know anymore if anyone even reads em let alone appreciates the stories.
Always been my favorite thing here, but alas we rarely get any good stories anymore, just what are you consuming/buying : (
I know I enjoy writing them because it takes me back to those golden daze.
Speaking of stories, HEY DV, we’re still waiting to hear about a 15 year old DV at his first and second shows etc…deets man, deets….(hear sound of foot taping ; )
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5/11/72 my go to if not my fav, but how can you have a fav of such superior/consistent goodness! And if/when you go 86, 5/10 is mos def a good one, one of the teas best!
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Elcaset, somehow never heard of that, Berry interesting!
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4/11/69 cool someone mentioned. Everyone goes on about Ark/Avalon, but I think I prefer that stretch, especially say the 12-17 of Acid month!
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So 86 was interesting, different than I expected, and we’ll finish December in December, good lord willing, if he says I may…
But it’s time for something completely different as The Monty boys say, so unto spring 91 and
3/17/91
3/18/91
Onward, through the fog…

Good morning, fellow rockers!!!

Today's commute: Terminal Island August 4 1971

Hard rocking, bare bones, very Bakersfield, very good old Grateful Dead. That includes a decent dose of the dog suckingest man in show biz, Mister Pigpen!! Including a merely 14 minute long version of that song that everybody loves to hate, Turn On Your Lovelight.........

If you like Phil---and who among us doesn't?---you will like this show. Very underrated and absolutely worthy of your attention!!! So what are you waiting for?!!

The eyes of others our prisons, their thoughts our cages.....

Rock on!!!

Doc
Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.....

I seem to remember far more about the music scenes of my youth than I do of more recent events. Records bought and gigs seen - no problem. Less good at what I did this time last week, or where I am supposed to be tomorrow. Nowhere hopefully !

Psychedelic rock/pop from the 60's seemed to get rediscovered in Britain around 1980. Nuggets didn't sell that well, I don't think, when it was first released about 1974. I got the reissued one from about 1978. Julian Cope of The Teardrop Explodes, wrote an article for the NME called "Tales from The Drug Attic" which set the stall out for a re-evaluation of the genre.
From that point on, psychedelic records were distanced from the hippy culture of the late 60's early 70's. Bands that had been forgotten, like the 13th Floor Elevators, Chocolate Watchband, Electric Prunes etc were considered more exciting than the more well known bands like Jefferson Airplane and ( sorry folks) The Dead.
In Britain, Pink Floyd with Syd were given precedence over the albums band that followed, and Revolver replaced Sgt Pepper as the most quoted "best" Beatles album. The spotlight fell on less celebrated bands like The Misunderstood and Tomorrow.
Ironically, although in Britain far more acid seems to have been taken in the early-mid 70's than the 60's, this wasn't reflected in the music, which tended to fall into the more serious prog or heavy rock world.
Same in America, going off the records. The success and influence of The Band seemed to mark the end of psychedelia on record, although I am sure many people tripped at their shows - just as we sometimes did in this country if we went to see non psych bands.

A lot of bands who continued into the 70's and became successful disowned their 60's records. In some ways, the remixes of Anthem and Aoxomoxoa seem like an attempt to de-psychedelicize them, and make them more palatable to a hip world more attuned to country/blues rock than mind expansion. That's my take on it, anyway.

There were two more Nuggets box sets, Nuggets Where the Action is that focused on Los Angeles and Nuggets Love is the song we Sing which focused on San Francisco, there was some attempt at more poppy nuggets, those are hit and miss, The Fading Yellow series is much better at that weird psyche pop. There was also the Back From The Grave series on Crypt records that is pretty gnarled but just as good as the first two Nuggets comps. Also the gentleman that compiled Nuggets 2, British box is Mike Stax and he publishes the amazing Ugly Things fanzine, which is one of the best music zines ever. With each new issue I’m excited if I know 25% of the bands inside, but well worth your money,

Got to work and started and finished 9/10/91, MSG, with Branford Marsalis sitting in. Started 3/20/92 and almost finished the show before I got home. Life is good.

... Garcia
whoa!
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march 30th, 1988
@brendan byrne arena in east rutherford, nj
sdb streaming w/ headphones
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was a fun road trips cassette
for many years, really solid,
especially liked set 2
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PEACE for ALL!
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PS on the archive #140378
nice sq from mr. miller

I am right now listening to Acoustic On The Eel, so 8/29/87 Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band.
But otherwise it was 5/10 and 5/11, 1972. It was more obvious to me this time that Jerry was a little too high to start the 10th. I am moving on to 5/13/72. It was either that or 5/10/86 lol, because they're so similar.
I appreciate all the stories Oro ! :)
I always wanna get into some '86 and then I don't. Ha.
Man, last night I got into Bringing It All Back Home and then Highway 61 Revisited.
I have this thing about wanting to hear every Bob Dylan studio album in order before I leave this world. I'm not going anywhere I don't think, but i remembered last night to get some Dylan in me.

I just saw an Elcaset deck on fleabay called the Teac AL-700 which was the best deck ever made for a format I never heard of. Elcaset (for 'large cassette') was the "improved" cassette format where the tape was twice as wide and ran twice as fast to rival reel-to-reel in SQ. The tapes looked like a thin, tall VCR tape. The format died a quick death and was only around from about 1976-1980. The Sony decks ate tape but apparently this Teac was the best one with killer build quality and plug in boards inside for easy repair. They had external DBX units for them too. Technics also made some. I thought I knew something about all the formats but never saw one of these in the hours and hours of my misspent youth in stereo stores but maybe they never got to Denver.
So this begs the question, did the Dead ever use this format? Was Beta-max already around and superior? Obviously reel-to reel was king but these convenience oriented formats tried to break into that market.
Cheers