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Good finish.

Never mind.

Game 2 is Thursday. Start time is 7:00 EST. That’s a half hour earlier than tonight. Make sure someone tells the Leaf players this time.

....are the best!!!

Good luck tonight.

The game starts at 7:30 EST. Sharp. Make sure your boys are ready.

The back cover has that "Next of kin" picture; I always felt this was some kind of answer to the Sgt Pepper's front cover. Instead of having a collage of some (allegedly) hip/cool pop icons, and at a time when the counter culture rejected parents and family values altogether, they just had a picture of all their own family members, with no artifice - definitely unhip at the time.
Tears of Rage opened the album, and mirrored that feeling with the lyrics about the hurt parents felt about their daughter rejecting them(incidentally, the "we're so alone and life is brief" line reminds me of Box of Rain's "a long time to be gone, and a short time to be there"

Special place in my heart. My first ever gig was seeing them at the Albert Hall in June 71. Soon after got the bootleg of the Dylan 'Judas' electric set supposedly from Albert Hall but actually Manchester. Bought from Virgin record store in London - you had to walk through the back of a shoe shop. I was sweet 16 and still very innocent. That bootleg changed my life and to this day the version of 'Like a rolling stone ' is one of my all time favourites. Didn't get into the Dead till 74 and life took another turn, this time weirder and wilder

I’d venture no.
They were ripping it up for many years before any of that with The Hawk!, Ronny Hawkins.
And they had started out on their own before Bob.
Was their association with the Big D a variable in their trajectory?
You betcha. But responsible?…

Wouldn't Bob Dylan be responsible for the Band?

The game. Is afoot…
Doesn’t the cup, 9 outta 10, come down to who’s the hottest goal tender…
First games were what you’d expect, though they appeared closer than one might think.
I caught the end of the Os debacle, but missed the crazy Wild/Stars finish.
So far, looks like we might get some good tight series!
Big night tonight!

Wonder if 46 will drop today, hmm, well it’s past ten here, or is it 10 pacific? Anywho, thought they often drop stuff on Tuesday’s so thought today might be the day, if not, you’d think they’d do so sometime this week….but hey, it is dead.net so…..

Just a thought: there wasn’t Americana, as a trend anyway, until the Band put out those first 2 albums!
Before CSN, the Dead etc, the Band was the catalyst that changed damn near all of rock/pop music at the time.
Like Rock with the Beatles, they didn’t invent the genre, but caused it to blow up and changed it dramatically, forever.
This is fact, not opinion. From Clapton to Elton John, even the Beatles, everybody at the time was significantly affected by the Bands music! Clapton has stated repeatedly he wanted to be IN the band but they told him no. If you read the biographies of musics elite, they all state how much the band changed and influenced late 20th century music.
I can understand not everyone would like it, and looking back from afar, in some ways, perhaps it hasn’t held its power and is rooted in those times, but to deny the Bands impact and greatness is folly.
Yes Robbie was a great song writer and musician, and as musicians they all were so good at supporting the song etc. Truly a band, until it wasn’t…But I think Rick Danko is one of the most underrated bass players, and his harmonies are just as sweet as Richards! I’ve seen Rick sing It’s Makes No Difference that made the entire crowd weep! And Lee, come on, Lees more cool in a house coat making ya sandwiches (his usual MO) than slick LA Robbie ever could be. Robbie was about Robbie and his need to be a big shot. Not meant as a diss, just the truth. It was just another case of the ole divide and conquer!
Read Levon’s or Joe Forno Jrs books. Shit was complicated as it often is in bands. I’ve said for years: playing musics the easy part, it’s all the other personalities and BS that’s hard. Being in a good band is like being married to several people…
Oh, and the look was probably somewhat prescribed, but like someone said, to help set them aside from the suit wearing uniform that was the norm of their 50s R&R past, or the outrageous psychedelic regalia that was the norm. But come on, who besides the Dead didn’t try to promote an image! Hell, even the Dead, if you look at early promo shots etc, even the Dead sport “costumes” of the times for awhile.

Daverock, interesting perspective about Ziggy. It’s easy to look back, as an “adult” lol, but from the context of it being music for children etc, it makes sense. Like my seeing Kiss first when I was still fairly young figuring shit out. They spit out good ear crack and all the hoopla resonated with us young impressionable tad poles. But within a year, especially after I started seeing “real” bands live etc, well Kiss became sort of embarrassing to us.
Funny with Bowie, though not a fan I didn’t mind his music so much, but all the other BS drove me away from ever giving them a fair consideration.
Oh, I also been thinking bout what you (Daverock) said recently about early seventies shows after Pig Pen: that they seemed to sometimes seem extra long and not as flowing without Pigs thang in the mix to break things up and give it that occasional jump start. Listening to more 73 this spring and the second sets/Jams are legendary, the playing is often great, but man sometimes those first sets do seem to go on. And, as evidenced in E72, he was starting to write some good songs, so yeah, huge loss on even more levels than one might think.

HF, good to see Mr PC is still around and ready to raise hell!
You must be like a kid 2 weeks before Xmass waiting on 46!
Got the LA 69 Experience show on your recommendation and love it!

Goaltending. Always goaltending in the playoffs. The Oilers are the Don Knotts of goaltending, shakiest goalies in the West.

My son is having his stag in Vegas later this month, and he is hoping to catch a playoff game. I told him “To dream”, they will be impossible to get at less than Taylor Swift prices.

The Band? One of the best, IMHO, and they are definitely a Desert Island choice for me, but not for everyone, and that’s fair. One great thing about this group of fans here is the diverse musical tastes. Lots of recommendations come up here, and good ones, too. But as every good parent learns, sometimes the answer is No.