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Thats an untapped market, gdm.

Steal your j!zz

....what was the answer to the last one bolo? Something about bananas??

Fishnets Banana was the clue.

Bananafish Garden, a 70s concert venue, used to be known as the 46th Street Rock Palace in Brooklyn, the borough the NBA's Nets call home. The Dead played 4 shows there - 11/11-14/1970.

1). Greek Theatre 1981, I always felt this was the best year at the Greek. 2). Frost Ampitheatre. 10/9 & 10/82. and 4/ 27 & 28/85., my favorite years at the Frost. 3). The April 69 Avalon run, I always liked this better then the Ark shows, I posted a couple songs on here when we used to be able post ( Death have no Mercy & Dark Star ) , killer version of Death Don't have no Mercy. Or, 5 great random shows from 1969. 4). Anything with acoustic sets from 1970 would be fantastic.

I really think the (3) March 1977 Winterland shows are way overdue.

Anniversary listen going.
Forgot 2-18 yesterday, so will get that in tomorrow if not tonight.

That went away when people started typing with their thumbs.

Also, on Apple products hitting space quickly two times inserts a period, a space, and activates caps for the first letter of the next sentence.

I still use 2 spaces after a period when typing documents on a computer.

....although, I would be if I invested 10k in them back in the day. Doh!!

One of my ports of call, on my pre-lockdown visits to London, was to the flat Jimi Hendrix lived in for a while, on Brook Street in Mayfair. It is now ( and hopefully still is) open as a museum, decorated in a way similar to the way it had been in the 60's. A lot of it is reproduction-the records there are not the actual ones that he owned-although they are different copies of the same ones. They had the 12 string he played "Here My Train A Coming" on in that documentary - that was the actual one he played, I believe. It was great being there on my own, when no one else was there at all - very atmospheric.

The second set disc is stuck in a Blue-Ray machine I inherited and I can't find the remote for it. And the cheap B-R machine doesn't have manual buttons on it.

It's like the stupidest thing I could possibly report. Somebody save me. Gonna look under the cushions again.

Samsung made a piece of junk that was supposed to ‘modern’ (bought it in 2013/14).
Small black box with no buttons, display, or indicator light. You couldn’t tell when it was powered up, which also means that you had no idea if you turned it off.
It was made for Hollywood movies and didn’t have a good audio processor for concert videos.

I replaced it with an Onkyo which has a far better audio processor, buttons (including an eject button), and a display.

HF, good luck finding that remote.

Thanks Colin. Unfortunately, this could mean we might not see another box of 8-track reels surface. Man.. Road Trips vol 2 no 2 has got to be one of my all-time favorite releases ever.. I really like the Big Rock Pow Wow Roadtrip too.

We are a lucky bunch.

Again, many thanks Colin.

I went looking online (Crutchfield) for a new snazzy CD player a few years back...it's in storage now along with most of my playback system and I don't remember the Yamaha model #...when I received it I excitedly opened it, connected all wiring and sat down with the remote to familiarize myself with it and lo and behold there was no power on/off button...I looked and looked, thinking maybe there's some new fangled digital process I was unaware of but nope...I even called Crutchfield and the poor guy who answered was just as confused as I was, unaware of the fact it had no on/off button...uggghhh

I really miss Bass/treble knobs on new receivers as well....

I couldn’t find a remote for my Amazon Fire Tv and was able to download one on my phone. Maybe you could see if there is a phone app that would work on your machine.

Last 5:

Love-Love Lost
Shuggie Otis-Freedom Flight
Harry Chapin-Greatest Stories Live
Johnny Cash-Carousel Ballroom 4/24/68
Patty Griffin-Silver Bell

Nappy-I’ll admit to being pretty thick, but are you saying no on/off switch on the remote?? I’m getting used to seeing no on/off switches on the actual box itself.

VGUY, SHADYGUY et.al. My wife’s nephew played Rainbow Connection by Kermit The Frog for his Mother/Son dance. Turns out she played that for him every night at bedtime for years. It was quite touching.

DAVEROCK-I went to Liverpool 34 years ago and visited essentially every home that a Beatle was born in/Lived in as well as a copious number of well known sites. This was pre-Blue Plaque(I think), so no ephemera, I just touched doorknobs, trespassed in the back garden etc.
Still perhaps the highlight of my life.

To no one in particular-am I the only guy/gal here who places the song ahead of the quality of the recording. I swear I don’t mean this in a pejorative way, and I don’t think I have the ears to be an audiophile, but it’s always been all about the song, over the recording quality. Don’t get me wrong, I totally enjoy a well recorded song, but if the choice was the poorly recorded or nothing, I’d take poorly recorded.

Anyway……
Music Is(Still) The Best!!

Mr Ones - no, I would rather have great playing poorly recorded than mediocre playing in pristine condition. I have thought this very recently. For years I was put off buying the King Crimson box "Larks Tongues In Aspic" because of the negative reviews the sound of the live discs have. But two weeks ago I bit the bullet and bought it. To be sure, at times the sound isn't up to the standard of the other boxes, but each disc features improvisation that hit the 30 minute mark-and they are mind blowing. I soon stop thinking about the sound quality and get lost in the maelstrom. You obviously have to really like the band to shell out for something like this...probably not recommended as first purchase - but if you are already in - it's a good 'un.

I was talking in my local guitar shop last week, and the owner told me he had been on a tour of Abbey Road in recent times. Apparently it had been opened briefly to the public for guided tours to commemorate the recording of Let It Be, I think.

Yes it was the remote that didn't have an off/on switch...weird to the nth degree

I have a Vizio TV that came with a basic remote, including an on/off button, but there are also Vizio phone/tablet apps you can use.
I read before in a Samsung TV review that they just gave you a Samsung phone with the TV to use as the remote.

Mister Ones,
The playing matters, which is why I listened to hissy cassettes when I got started collecting.
Right now I’m listening to 10-22-67 (Anthem-50th bonus disc) and it certainly doesn’t sound like Listen To The River, but that doesn’t matter, it sounds great to me.

....I just counted mine. TV, soundbar, DirectTv, amp, CD player, Chromecast and PS5 (controller counts).
Seven. And only I know the combination. Insert villain muah-ha-ha-ha laugh here.

We played 'Sunshine Daydream' at the completion of our vows. Because my fiancé was a Stanford student, we were privileged to hold our wedding in a small grove off of Frost Amphitheater. We hid the speakers in the ferns around the grove.

Seven years later, we divorced.

The happy ending is I have been blessed with my best friend and partner now for decades.

It takes 4 remotes for me to play a DVD in my bedroom! I guess if I cut out the bluetooth speakers I would only need three.

....anything.
Do yourselves a favor and Google John Paul Jones Levee Breaks. Do it. Now.

Perhaps the only downside to owning physical music or video, eh? (Besides the obvious issue of stuff piling up on tables and shelves. How to explain it to the woman?)

Which leads to the topic of physical versus virtual/streaming. I'm old school. The library is wonderful because once you're in the right section for the book you're seeking, you'll see others that relate but that you had not been looking for. Same with my physical CD collection. I love seeing stuff at random and lining it up for a listen.

My younger friends all think I'm a dinosaur for having a CD player, but they listen to streaming MP3s on their phone, with ear buds, as some of you undoubtedly do -- different strokes for different folks. But, that has led to the ultra-cheap CD walkmans, DVD and Blu-Ray players because only a sliver of the market uses physical product anymore, so why build machines? Yes, keeping music and video on a hard drive for replay is a good option, but streaming, ultimately, has downsides and serious consequences. One is that if someone else's network is down, you're SOL. The other: I work on occasion with computer scientists at Oxford University as an amanuensis and they said that in a decade or so streaming will consume the majority of energy produced on this planet and they are working to reduce power consumption by 10x-100x to prevent a catastrophe.

Plus, I just like being surrounded by bookshelves full of books reflecting my business and pleasure, and shelves and shelves of CDs. (Yes, I live alone! The cat does not care.)

Thanks, the phone app angle sounds intriguing. And that damn remote could not have gotten too far. Maybe I better check where the sun don't shine, maybe it got lodged somewhere. The implications are ... dark.

Breaking news, just announced. HendrixFreak, this one's for you:

The Rhino Climate Controlled Shred Shed. Big enough for all your Box Sets and Oversized LP's. (Turntable and Wall Of Sound TM (R) speaker stacks not included). Your own private vault. Buy one today, save and subscribe.

"My girlfriend loves it"
"It practically cleans itself"
"My wife thinks it holds yard tools"

I was at that Cap Center show, and that 2nd set was one for the ages. By the end of Uncle John's there were tears of joy as far as the eye could see!

The goat is gone for now. I like the idea of revealing what we look like. So yeah, that's me with another GOAT, the man himself, Emmitt Smith. And we were parTAYing.

I like the shed idea, but can it turn into a taco truck? Oh and a pisser too...

I like to keep technology down to a minimum - I haven't even got a mobile phone now. I had to have one when I was at work as I used to go out and about visiting people who could be a bit...lets say - unpredictable. The phone was supposed to offer some measure of security. Though what use it would have been if someone had attacked me I wasn't sure. Maybe I could have hit them on the head with. It was big enough.
But my house is full of books, cds, records, films, guitars amps, bottlenecks etc.. All indispensable and unreplicable in any other form.
I've met women who are the same with books, although I haven't as yet met anyone with so many box sets.

Dude, that's hilarious. I'll take one!

My problem with streaming services (aside from the fact that the audio quality is not as good as physical media) is that they don't pay the artists. Kind of amazes me that I know people who won't buy coffee unless it's certified Fair Trade, or won't buy chicken unless the birds are treated humanely, but who apparently give no shits about the humans who make the music they love. But I won't support that business model: basically ALL the money goes to the venture capitalists who own the platform, a significant slice goes to the record companies that sell their catalogues, and the musicians who make their "product" get barely enough for a pack of gum. Seriously, a friend of mine is an indie rocker who's fairly popular in Europe, and she get these royalty checks for like $1.59 when she gets a couple hundred thousand streams. Don't spend it all in one place, sweetie!

Been relistening to the StL box lately. It really is a killer. So great to be able to listen to how the band changed from '71 to '72 to '73, and all of it marvelous in its way.

Last five:

Coffee and toast with peanut butter on it
Spaghetti bolognese with salad (and Zin!)
Leftover stir fry
bacon and eggs (cage-free of course)
Stir fry

WTF AM I Doing for $500, Bob...

Wait, the girlfriend loves it? Just how big is this Shed and does it have, like, a bed with Magic Fingers installed? (Does anyone remember how weird and lame "Magic Fingers" was?? Anytime there's a meter for quarters attached to a bed, you probably want to look around for hidden cameras and Rudy Ghouliani in a compromising position..)

Well, they talk about Man Caves. Hey, my entire house is like freakin' Carlsbad Caverns. Every single room chock 'o block with books, CDs, guitars, amps, cabinets bulging with jars of produce. (What's not to love?) When it needs a woman's touch, I crank up PitB and let Donna wail away...

Using my new, advanced GD forensic logic machine, I'd say all this moaning about "storage" means we're all just about ready for another huge box set (or "boxed" set, as they say on this site).

Pay no attention to the Man Behind the Curtain, he's just rolling around on mossy logs at an inlet in Vancouver...

Ha! My sides!

Keep those ants in your pants, we are at least 5-6 months from the 2022 Box Announcement, unless someone spots it's one off on Amazon.

Check out Jimmy Fallon Tennessee Jed!

....we're a pretty good looking bunch of bolos if you ask me lol.
And I did see that Fallon Jed. I think he was high.

BROWNIE, I listened to this show less than a year ago, and it still sounded strong to me, even the first set. But Stella>Miracle>Good Loving was WILD!! I thought I felt the roof lift up during I Need A Miracle. And of course, what could possibly be bad about a Brokedown Palace encore?? You’re damn right, nothing!!
I frequently play the Dead shows you all bring up(especially early years), so keep ‘em coming.
Big Rock Pow Wow, and Road Trips ‘71 + Bonus Disc recently lifted my spirits immensely!!

Music Is The Best!!

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It's very trippy

11-24-78 A must listen! Radio broadcast show from the Capitol in Passaic NJ. Jerry had bronchitis so his voice is a little ragged but the playing is crisp high energy all the way through.

Walking into my house is like walking into my mind. I always feel a bit embarrassed when someone comes round for the first time, but I am usually told something like it's "very me". With a smile, so I take it as a compliment.

I am not great at following anniversary shows, but I do like to aim in the general direction. This led me to Dave's 32 yesterday, 3/24/73 - a phenomenal show from first note to last. I was so impressed I went to have a look to see if there were any others from that timespan-and of course, my eyes lit up on Dave's 16, 3/28/73. Great cover, although looking at the playlist 13 songs on cd 1 and 12 songs on cd 2 looked a bit off putting. Nevertheless, I started at the beginning, and with great opening songs, Cumberland and Here Comes Sunshine I was glad I had. Again, highly enjoyable from the start.

Daverock, I've had people come over and say "looks more like a shrine to the Grateful Dead than a living room". Lots of Dead stuff everywhere. Hard to keep up with you all so I'll just listen to some tunes and here they are:
Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland
Eric Burdon Sun Secrets
Electric Boys Funk-o-Metal Majic Carpet Ride
Klaatu 1st
ELP - 1st
Procol Harum - Broken Barricades

One of my favorite shows from the big box. My favorite shows from the big box are, 1967, 1968, 1969 & 1970., not necessarily in that order.

VGuy - Thanks for the heads up on that John Paul Jones video - awesome! I’ve seen a couple of the Playing For Change videos, including with Sebastian Robertson’s daddy, Robbie, and they are extremely well done.

DaveRock - Great pic, and I like what you said about your home. Listen, if they say our automobiles say something about our personality, our homes should absolutely mirror us!

Since we are in the Face avatar (I like it), this is me skulking around fellow Deadhead and Canuck Dan Aykroyd. I had time to kill before my youngest’s high school football game, and Dan was nearby at a liquor outlet, hawking his new winery (before he got into his Crystal Skull Vodka). A funny guy, he was making cracks about the guy in line behind me I had take the picture (think Ned Flanders with girth!). Next to music, humour is a great stress reliever!

In hindsight this was so obvious.

So what to do with the Miami hint. There were 12 shows in Miami, three in 1968 at a little seemingly psychedelic club called The Image. Almost no information exists on these shows.. so it's hard to even toss a guess towards them.

They played the next three Miami shows at the Jai-Alai Fronton, two in 74 and one in 78. The 74 shows immortalized in the excellent Dave's Picks 34. The remaining 5 Miami shows took place at the Miami Arena, two in 89 and three in 94.

I cannot connect squid to this.. but taking a step back there is no reason to think the shows took place in Miami. Seems too obvious for a Bolo riddle.

Discussing this outside PM's is probably not advised, but we need some additional stimuli. A catalyst so to speak.

Thoughts?

Did you ask him for a wish sandwich ; )

Recaptcha BS!
Still letting spam through (turn the party mode on), but I couldn’t post what I wrote about Miami greyhound squid, FFS!

Head to Jersey for 5 days and come back to pages and pages to catch up on,,,, whew!

I agreed with everything I read, except the stuff I took exception to.

Orobo,,,, best picture. Hard to just pull a shot to post since the quality level is shit, but that good close up allows us to really see your face.

Did you ever download these pics so you can make them bigger to see faces,,,, pixelated hardly describes.

While gone my Joni Mitchell vinyl came,,,, should get my Tie-Dye Bob Weir album (out for delivery),,, also got the cd. Also got a 45 of central time by Pokey LaFarge :-)

enjoy

Lots of info on what must have been a great, if short lived, venue for psychedelic rock on Rock Prosopography 101.
I found it on a search result something like Thee Image and the Miami rock scene March 1968 to April 1969. The list of performers was stunning i.e. Cream playing an unannounced show and "blowing the walls off". According to that article the Dead played there more than the 3 day run 4-19,20,21, 1968 listed here on Dead net. Really gave me the impression that the scene in south Florida at the time was way bigger than I had imagined. They do list a lot of dates and some discrepancies that are known. Worth checking out. By the bye, I already tried the Thee Image guess with Bolo. It's a no go. It did say the Dead played at least one free concert in the N. Miami area around then at what they were calling "weekly love-ins". Classic 1968. Poster Capt. Ted said he "wished he'd have brought his camera" to that free concert under the venues by date thread for Thee Image 4-19-68. Again, this is a must read. The list of performers is a who's who of 60's psychedelia. A catalyst indeed Jim.
Cheers

Good to finally “see” you!

Sharing some totally inane trivia for all today. Just want to pop in a plug for Bobby Weir (!) & Wolf Bros new disc - a great addition to any collection.

Now, about 2-22-22:

“The deuces are wild today as one of the grandest palindromes of 2022 arrives on Tuesday, unofficially known as "Twosday."

Feb. 22, 2022, is written out numerically is 2/22/22. Not only is it a palindrome because it reads the same forward and backward, but what makes it special is the date has all twos. It will also be the same no matter what part of the world you're in, regardless of whether your country uses the day-month-year or year-month-day format.“

R.I.P. Gary Brooker...this hits hard...Procol Harum was one of my faves...saw them I don't know how many times, starting with the "Shine On Brightly" tour...Seeing them headline at the Rose Palace in Pasadena, 1969 behind the "Salty Dog" tour where Trower killed me and a little known band, "The Carlos Santana Blues Band" opened...Sail On Gary, Sail On ....

As I join the throng revealing "head shots" for the curious.

Did it work?

Probably the words etched into my gravestone: He never scrolled down to click on "save".........

So, here I am, for the morbidly curious.

I tossed out a humble offering. Got sucked into it and half my afternoon is a blur... We will see.

..and HF, that picture is a direct match for a faded Maryland's top ten wanted photo that's been up in our local post office since I moved here. Let's hope CO doesn't have an extradition deal with MD. On the bright side, it appears you haven't aged a bit in the last 30 years. What's your secret?

RIP Mark Lanegan