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    Pink Floyd - 1973 - International Amphitheater, Chicago, IL. They were scary. Careful With That Axe Eugene floored the place, it just scared everybody to death. Dark Side of the Moon with quad speakers, there was sound coming from all four corners. A giant mirror ball, too. I was just a puppy, this show left an indelible impression on my young mind. I saw them a few times after that while Waters was still with them, but nothing else came close to this show. Robert Hunter, Mississippi Nights, St. Louis, MO. Late 1979 or early 1980. It was twenty below outside, and very warm inside. Not very many people, it was like a private show. We all got very drunk. I remember stumbling up to Hunter and telling him that he is a "true troubadour" or something like that. I was trashed, but he was gracious, said thanks, and shook my hand. I remember the FOTD was real sweet. The Dead Kennedys, COD's, Chicago, early to mid 1980's. My friend wore a shirt that said "Old Wave." This was the first time that I saw stage diving. This show was like a buzzsaw attack, not really our kind of music, but it was like being at some crazy European soccer game or something like that, except everybody would apologize if they ran into you in the melee. Good sweaty fun. Jello kept ranting on and on between songs while the guitar player filled the air with power chords.
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    Best shows other than the Dead (dates are ?): Zappa (Uptown Theater 81) Frank & Jerry show (U of IC Pavillion 84) Telluride Bluegrass Festival (87 & 89) Albert Collins (front row - Park West 92) CSNY (Tampa 05) Pink Floyd (Mile High 94?) Roger Waters (Tampa 07 & Denver 08) Allman Bro's (4th row Red Rocks 90) Santana (2nd row - Poplar Creek 81) Jorma and Hunter - (Cubby Hole? - 84?) There's more but I can't remember them all!
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    Went to see Splintered Sunlight again last night at the World Cafe' live upstairs. A very cool venue and of coarse Splintered rocked the house!! So much fun!!! My feets are sore from dancin til 2am!! Happy Mommy Day!!
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    They are from Michigan and did a whirlwind tour of the west. I think almost everyone there had been gifted a free ticket. The venue gave out many. Met hey bob and Chief Book Dog from here and their partners at the show. Greensky Bluegrass has shows on archive.net and a Website. I am on my 3rd or 4th childhold with all the joy from the jam bands that are around now and yes so much of it goes back to GOGD. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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    are those guys local where you live? Do they tour? Gigi: my pleasure. I had fun doing that story.
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    Thanks for sharing that story Peace, Gigi
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    They are a bluegrass jam band I saw last night. Did a wonderful version of Jack Straw and really got in the zone on some other tunes. The guitar and mandolin players were astonishing when they cooked. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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    yeah, and nice guys to boot. I did a story on them for the Rex site last year: http://www.rexfoundation.org/musicianspotlight/borisgarcia.html
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    A cool band my friend told me about check em out...... Bob Stirner on lead guitar used to play with Living Earth a GD cover Band...out of Pa.
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    Last night.Hours and hours of dancing. What fun. See them if you can. Jamming Electric Bluegrass - wait that sounds like another band I used to go see. Lots of heads there. I wore my Phil t shirt and well all sorts of folks came over and talked to me and say hi. "Strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hand". It still happens. I'm still buzzed from the show. Have a Grate spring Sunday off everyone. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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Seen something really really good?
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Definitely a must-see. My favorite band to see live right now is Wilco, and the first time that I saw My Morning Jacket they were opening for Wilco. Excellent show! My only MMJ complaint is that, at least locally, they seem to draw the frat-party crowd which can be more than a little distracting if you're stuck with them around you at a show. I had a good conversation going with a college-age set list freak when I saw them last spring...but then he cracked me up with, admittedly, a pretty good line: "This is like seeing Led Zeppelin in 1971!!!" (Yes, he said it with at LEAST 3 !!!). I don't know if this was something that he said all the time, or if he said it for the benefit of this old geezer (me) that he was educating in all things MMJ. Regardless, I couldn't resist my not-exactly-kind impulse: I looked at him and said, "I'm probably older than your parents, and I'M too young to have seen Zeppelin in '71." Barely too young, to be honest, but I guess that I made my point. He stopped talking to me after that.
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Wilco I will second since you seconded my MMJ! Wilco has always been good live but since they did that amazing 5 show run in Chicago where they played EVERY SONG they had ever officially released, their shows have transcended to a new level. And Nels Cline is ferocious on guitar AND brings out the nasty side of Tweedy when he solos- they complement each other perfectly. Wilco, like MMJ, is another band that plays long shows, mixes up the sets, balances high energy with ballads- understands how to build a slowly building, well paced concert. AND- when seeing Wilco, you never know when Tweedy's gonna start arguing with an audience member- always entertaining when that happens.
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Kyle Hollingsowrth is doing an event in Chicago on Saturday December 10 before the final performance of String Cheese's tour. The Brew Fest will take place at the Bottom Lounge. Hollingsworth will join Chicago’s Family Groove Company for a very special performance at the festival. This is also the finale of Hollingsworth’s Hop On Tour interactive fan experience throughout SCI’s Roots Run Deep Tour. Sounds like a super fun time and an awesome way to wind up the tour. Definitely not going to miss out on this one
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Didn't see a spot for Further. Sorry, if I have erred by putting it here. That Sunday Further show at Red Rocks with Branford joining in for the whole second set was amazing. The first time I've consistently gone "Holy shit!" at a concert in a long time. Friday was very good, from our limited experience, Saturday not so hot, but Sunday was a Spinal Tap 11.
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I got to knock two artists off my bucket list this summer: New Order (sans Peter Hook) and "Black" FLAG (feat. Keith & Chuck & Bill & Dez & Stephen). I've been a HUGE fan of New Order since probably sixth or seventh grade when I heard HFS play the original version of "Blue Monday" on the radio. I know just about every song on every album inside-out and could probably sing the band's entire catalogue through their first break-up without batting an eyelash. When they got back together and started recording again in the early 2000s, I was so excited that I might actually get to see them play live. Sadly, they rarely ever come any farther into the U.S. than New York, then they broke up again shortly after the release of 'Waiting for the Sirens' Call', and I thought my hopes of seeing New Order play live were dashed for good. Fortunately, they've reformed and relaunched themselves across the globe, and I finally made an old wish come true. I saw them in July, and they were absolutely amazing; I was floating for days after the show. Since the Trayvon Martin verdict came out, I've been listening to a lot of '70s & '80s hardcore, mostly bands like Black Flag, OFF!, and Void. Black Flag broke up YEARS before I'd ever heard of them, and, considering the political climate of the last decade-plus, I'm not surprised these old Reagan Era bands are crawling back out of the rafters. I won't get into the legal issues going on between Black Flag and FLAG (the Keith Morris-fronted "cover band"), but seeing FLAG is probably the closest I'll ever get to seeing Black Flag from the late '70s as I'm ever gonna get. They were insane. They blasted through 24 songs in a little over an hour, and I don't think Baltimore has been the same ever since. That was last week.
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Been looking for a place to post this, hope this is a good spot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh6ntKguZ-I&feature=share One More Saturday Night is a show dedicated to fans of live music. The show has been given permission, by Ice Nine Publishing, for anyone to perform songs from their catalog. We really appreciate this. The show is also a place for folks to come and talk about their experiences on the road, and at concerts by the Grateful Dead. So many of us have had our lives and consciousness changed and improved because we were there. So many of us discovered we were part of a family we didn't know existed until we met our brothers and sisters on the road when we needed them most. So, One More Saturday Night is a show that celebrates the stories, music and values given to us with the music, from the Grateful Dead. We welcome all musicians and songwriters. Performers on the show may play any original material they hold the rights to as well as any song from the Ice Nine catalog. All stories are welcome too. If you are not familiar with Google Hangouts or how to use them, I can show you how it is done. All you need is a laptop or computer with a webcam and a decent internet connection. The rest is easy. I can be contacted by leaving a comment on the youtube page where this video is being viewed or at icloudrules@gmail.com I hope you will join us this time, One More Saturday Night.
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check it out, folks! (this is the man who sold me my first Macintosh...)
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There are so many awesome jam/dancing shows coming up in NYC! 5/2 Deadphish Orchestra playing Dead and Phish tunes aboard the Jewel in NYC THIS FRIDAY with booze, food, city sights and a break from this crappy weather! 5/3 Dopapod with Jimkata and Aqueous at the Music Hall of Williamsburg THIS SATURDAY 5/28 moe. at Stage 48 in NYC Okay so which one would you rather go to? I think Deadphish is an interesting combo on a BOAT!!
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Agalloch.
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1)King Crimson in 1982 on the "Pier" in NYC.2)Weather Report w/ Jaco in 1979 @ the Paramount in Denver CO, in the fall of that year. 3)Roy Buchanan @ the Bottom Line sometime in NYC in early 1979. 4)Pundit Ravi Shankar w/ Ustad Ali Akbar Khan & Ustad Alla Rakha w/ his son Zakir Hussain @ Carnegie Hall In NYC. One can just imagine how beautiful an experience this was...
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I'm waiting for May to roll around so I can go with friends and family to see the Stones,but I would also like to see Dead and Company play Shoreline Ampitheater ,I believe its the 31st of May and June 1st 2019,that should be really sweet!!!,but I'll be in Arizona when that goes down :{,oh well, but hey a talent picking up momentum and plays really tasty is Duane Betts,son of Dickey Betts,he plays a Gibson guitars like he invented them himself, watch out for him, his tours with be mentioned in Relix magazine and Allman Brothers online sites Be Well all

Miss him..Sucks that all the real legends are disappearing one by one. Tell us about the Essen show though, how was it? I see there are some vids out, including this one. Guess he could have performed there multiple times..

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I would say a show that stick out in my fuzzy memory was

The Kinks @ The Hollywood Paladium...in support of the Muswell Hillbillies LP..damn it was fine

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Want to create a requiem for Robert Hunter?
I'll broadcast whenever anyone has free time (that can include live sketching that makes music and now the sketchhing can make surrealistic 3d animations simultaneously because of augmented reality).
I think Robert Hunter would appreciate a few of us performing, live broadcasting and/or calling people on the phone at the same time for him.
This will allow the US to be used as a canvas and send a broadcast into space with the surges of several cell tower zones. Only a few of us needed really with interest in my work alone, so dont get discouraged if there is only a few of us.
I am also thinking he'd like to chill in Antarctica with all the folks that are going to need to go that ways to save on AC anyway (Antarctica AC is cheaper than fire/dust) and we keep him going by supporting his externalized mind structure aka infomorph that is still with us with cell apps and scans, we are calling it quits on him way to early because many of us know that when heavy weights like this have their synapses stop firing these days only a small portion of their consciousness that was housed in their brains bail (which in cases like this is seriously not going to effect him).
Anyway, lets create a requiem for him that broadcasts to space (and encourage the use of lucid dreams as a monitor which is the foundation of consciousness externalization).
I can solo this thing out if I don't hear from anyone (with whatever is causing our impossible isolation in the giant masses of artists since the 60's every show). I should just conference call a bunch of folks and start playing music for them or something that will work too. What pixelated image is best to sketch out on the US?

Use lucid dreams as a monitor when waking in the morning to defeat grief. This is an innovation on the popularized by using apps that remind you of what to dream and to move your hands in your mind to stay lucid (focusing on moving your hands in your mind only not physically moving your hands when falling back to sleep in the morning and you can control your dreams and dream what you want).
Side note: this is malleablitiy of consciousness needed to externalize consciousness from the 4 areas of the brain that house consciousness that span from the front of the skull above the eyes to the back of the skull above the spine [tape several simple electrodes at forehead and back of skull that are connected to a cell phone app then use lucid dreams as a monitor to flux consciousness sharing into the cell (same as if you lost your frontal lobe except the opposite)].
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2003 Atlanta Dylan and the Dead performance of his was intense with the geese flying in formation through the mist fractilizatiion of the sky gradients (really gives you perspective of the Earth as a giant aircraft we are flying that Apollo earned us the right to consume from because we defend Earth so we can immortalize existence).

Seriously feasible that Hunter eliminates death for all (by flooding the heart valve waiting list earning donations that makes all Antarctica immigrations free and include mind externalization with the optional new jobs for all as engineers of starlight sculpting quantum eraser experiment apps that allow us to travel the Universe in moments then return before sent to any thought /anywhere thought throughout time).

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Stones w/ Journey
Pink Floyd--Nassau
The Who w/ The Clash

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I would say a show that sticks out in my fuzzy memories was

The Kinks The Hollywood Palladium.. in support of the Muswell Hillbil...
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Dear Dead Heads,
I am organizing a memorial rock concert for my mom who has recently passed away. It's free and you all are cordially invited.
Time: 9/18/2020 Friday (From 5 - 6 pm)
Place: Hankook Mortuary Parking Lot
2045 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90018
(323) 734-5656
Band Members: Devon Taylor (Bass), Charlie Wright (Rhythm Guitar and Vocal), Ray Bergstrom (Lead Guitar), Drums (Tsugumi Shikano) . The set list includes songs from Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and Eric Clapton.
A Buddhist monk will kick off the concert with some sermon or such about the Diamond Sutra - about the value of of being selfless among other things. For those who are interested I will show you my mom who is resting in peace, surrounded by $3000's worth of Casablanca lilies. I will give a lily to every dead head who comes - each one is worth around $7 dollars wholesale from what I hear.

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saw them in Austin in April 2019. Did not know what to expect some really solid musicians. Well, they started a tad slow...playing 1st song almost note for note from the CD, for about 5 minutes. then, they just started jamming away for 2 1/2 hours non-stop. EXCELLENT show and energy.
My thought was they had the improvisational skills of an excellent jam band, with the discipline of Steely Dan. I'm not even sure what that means, but I know it' s right.

Not sure if this was the BEST non-Dead show I've seen but it was right up there.

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King Crimson 2019-07-12 Juan les pins
Accoustic Hot Tuna 2005-03-22 Hyères
Bob Dylan 2016-07-12-Albi (France)

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i forgot
Richard Thompson band 2011-02-7-Bruxelles

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Bradford’s finest, Bad Boy Chiller Crew, is an MC trio self-described as “the explicit Vengaboys”. They’ve blown up online thanks to their killer flows and throwback bassline beats.

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Phoebe Bridgers, St. Vincent, Erykah Badu, Big Thief, Angel Olsen, Flying Lotus, Thundercat

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One of the best shows I ever attended to.