Grateful Dead

and 5/4/81
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Edit: the 5/1/81 ETR show was sweet!
Definitely one of the years best…so far ; )

I agree but if or when they remaster those tapes, they should release the shows in their entirety. I believe Seastones was played twice, of which I heard one. I don't need to hear it again.
I can't compare the show I saw to Europe '72 as in '72 I only saw the Bickershaw show. The circumstances of that outdoor performance in adverse weather conditions make it unique.

Thank you, Simonrob - the 3-disc-set from these shows are great, but could use a new remastering..

I wasn't at those Ally Pally shows and have never been to the venue. Although I like cds I have heard from these shows, I get the impression that at the time they were slightly less celebratory than the ones played in 1972. I may be wrong, of course.

But interesting how shows get reported on as there are less people around who actually saw them. I recently got a triple album of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie et al at The Massey Hall in Toronto, 5/15/53. It's a very famous concert, in jazz circles, but in the photos accompanying the album, it looks as though the hall was only about a third full.

Bolinas Brown..

Still on 6/15/76, but took a detour and watched the video. It brought the tears back all over again. His eulogy was also very touching.
Fortunately I’m in Florida now. The “feels like” on the south shore of Lake Erie will be -13° tomorrow.

Ally Pally is a big place with several halls. For the snooker, the place was full of seats around the snooker table(s). When I saw the GD there in '74 the hall where they played was empty apart from a stage at one end with the Wall of Sound at the back of the stage. One could sit or stand on the floor. To help acoustics, there were banners, flags and suchlike on the walls and hanging from the ceiling, supposedly to make it look like a San Francisco dance hall. Whether the GD and the snooker were in the same hall is something I cannot determine. Next to where the GD played was a near identical hall that was empty apart from a few people with frisbees.

....Skull & Roses bonus bonus.
An eagle/hawk circled over as Chloe Weir was giving her eulogy. 💫

Amazing show

2/11/70