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You from jur-zey, I’m from jur-zey, what exit?
That’s the way my old (departed way too young) former band mate from the garden state told me residents introduce.

Oh, oh, oh, Mr Kotter, another extended bad ass JGB cover: Lonesome and a Long Way From Home!
Or easily insert Jur-zey ; )
(Not sure if that’s the actual name?)
Sometimes the a backup vocals could be a little tough to take, but the jam was always sweet!

Yep Vguy, Philski is still bringing it! D&C’s ok, but Monsieur Lesh is still the man imho.
Did you stream video of that?

....in case anyone was wondering if they shipped.

Watching some U Toob from the Sacred Heart Festival with Jeff Tweedy & Nels Cline from Wilco (great band) sitting in with Phil & Friends, aka Philco! It really works - Dire Wolf, for one, clicks nicely! Lots of good acts I like at this festival - Molly Tuttle, Punch Bros, Greensky Bluegrass, etc etc

While on U Toob, if you are a jazz fan, some very rare footage has been found of Hank Mobley performing on a Danish TV show. This is believed to be the only live performance video of this really underrated player. It’s a crime so many of the black jazz guys had to go to Europe to gain some respectability. Anyway, look under Hank Mobley Denmark, and you should find it. Check out his brilliant “No Room For Squares” album, among others.

I’m glad you got your DaP glass intact, VGuy, as I know you had received DaP Dust one time, where it had been handled with care - not. I noticed the other day this edition does not appear to have sold out, whereas normally it is a quick sell.

Hey Oro! How are things Amigo?

....yeah. For some reason they shipped that one wrapped in newspaper instead of bubble wrap. Doh!! At least they sent me a replacement.

J3ff, just want you to know. I NEVER tease or go cynical on people I don’t like, I ignore those people. If I’m giving someone on here ‘the business’, it’s because I like/respect you and your views. I think we can all be a bit touchy sometimes, but it’s all GOOD!! Most everybody on here is REAL GOOD PEOPLE!!

Talking about Garcia releases that have not been listened to in a long time. Let It Rock!! Great stuff, featuring Nicky Hopkins, and his fantastic QMS song, Edward The Mad Shirt Grinder”!!

Oh, another good 15 minute Lovelite, is from 5/30/71, the RSD 2-LP release from about 10 years ago. Might be my favorite!!

Well 32 years ago today, I went out to Shoreline Ampitheatre to see Garcia & Los Lobos put on a knockout of a show. The Garcia part of the show, has been put out on dvd and is well worth picking up.

I enjoyed that show also.

Gotta give Phil some credit.. he braves it with a fresh bunch on a regular basis. Lots of practice must somehow take place and the patience it must take, the guy is in his 80's, to work through a new group every few months..

Well, it's worth it. I get more out of Phil than I do D&C these days. I streamed that show.. the Viola Lee was FUNKY.... as it should be. Shakedown>Viola Lee Blues to be more specific. Worthy.

Mr. Ones.. I sent out some feelers.. we all feel ignored. alas.. (kidding of course)

....gonna play it low as I go to sleep.

Looking back on recent posts, I see this was acknowledged a day or so ago. Coincidentally, I also played it last week for the first time in ages too, and I agree-top booty. Full of great riffs and uptempo rockers-a very underrated album. Time Waits For No One is a great and unusual song too. Nothing else they recorded sounds remotely like it.
Black and Blue always seemed a bit tired to me-but even then, there are some great songs - Melody and Memory Motel come to mind. This is The Rolling Stones I'm talking about here.

I may play Blues For Allah later today too-another album that has stood the test of time

Jim - You bring up a good point that Phil is well into his 80s, yet is still bringing it with such new creations as Philco. I think he personifies that well worn axiom “Find something you love to do and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”

DaveRock - I personally always loved the subtle guitar work on “Fingerprint File” from IORR. Mick Taylor should never have left the Stones, they were a much better band with him (with due respect to Ronnie). Last week, I re-watched their “bootleg” release from the Marquee Club in 1971 - now THAT was THE best Stones lineup.

Blues For Allah - what an excellent choice. Some really jazzy passages throughout that entire release.

All is well in the middle of the country and I couldn't agree more with this esteemed group's statements on current and past musical topics.

Phil and Friends has consistently displayed such exploratory and jamtasic shows which makes them a 'must see.' I recently attended another Wilco concert prior to that show and the inclusion of Jeff Tweedy and Nels Cline in the friends in Chicago reflect excellent choices. Nels has sat in with P & F on multiple occasions and Wilco has covered the Dead on a variety of occasions including Bobby sitting in for Dark Star, Ripple, etc. I regretted that Phil got Covid and couldn't headline with String Cheese Incident's recent Red Rocks shows, but Billy Strings was a welcome replacement and we in the audience had a wonderful time. Still I long to see Phil play again and hope to have another chance soon. The SCI 'dead set' with Billy was a delight and I saw Billy rev up with the Cheese as they took on many of our favorite Dead tunes that evening. And I am quite relieved that Phil has fully recovered from the Covid and is back playing live.

Besides attending the Wilco and SCI shows, I have also loved recent concerts with the Infamous Stringdusters, Joe Russo's Almost Dead, the Jayhawks, Railroad Earth, Yonder Mountain, Mollie Tuttle, Sierra Hull, and several years ago was quite taken by previously mentioned Larkin Poe (opened for Elvis Costello). Such terrific music touring again and I'm very grateful to be able to make the journey (pun intended).

However, given this thread on DP 43, to get back on how this Dave's Pick is stellar and echo others sentiments how the primal Dead are such an unmitigated treat. This is a special release and deserving of frequent rotation.

And should any of you be inspired by the break-neck speed and turn on a dime of the early Grateful Dead, please consider attending a Joe Russo's Almost Dead show. Yes, Oro (my brother from another mother) those two Vail JRAD shows, along with the JRAD show at Red Rocks were stellar. These guys have the stamina and pace of the early Grateful Dead but along with the Dead's entire song catalogue. Simply remarkable jamming, truly exploratory, and much more in the vein of P & F as opposed to the D & C. JRAD is energy personified and each band member is truly infused with amazing grasp of these wonderful songs along with a jazz mentality and interplay.

To add to the dialogue regarding 'rain stories' from concerts (discussed earlier in this thread), I got one to share. I recall back in 1978 when the Grateful Dead played at the Omaha Civic Auditorium in July. The venue was about half full (4,000?) but everyone was chomping at the bit as we had not seen the Dead in Nebraska since early in the early 70's. I took my Nak 550 into the venue and there was no hassle getting in the deck in this time, but remember this was before the days of 'taper's sections.'

Out in the hallway, the Hell's Angels wandered about sporting full colors and big grins. They may have been transporting 'party favors' and decided to take in a show, or perhaps road tripping with the band? Although I did not see them at the subsequent Red Rocks shows. Anyway, I headed down to the floor to set up my Nak in front of the sound board. When I was getting everything ready, I saw this guy with a great rig setting up. Luckily this kind stranger (I have since discovered he was famous taper Bob Wagner) let me patch out of the back of his Sony, which was terrific as he had a tall (8 ft?) stand to get will above the crowd noise. We were about 15 to 20 feet in FOB. So Garcia treats us to a blistering Sugaree opener, the kind that drove the crowd wild. His leads mounted into a wave that crests, recedes, regroups, and roars back with such power and delight that adds to the synergistic effect causing our frenzied response as his rolling/soaring guitar work lift and subside within the band.

Then BIODTL, TLEO, and then Bob took the spotlight with a "Look's Like Rain." About half way through the son, I suddenly noticed something shimmering in the air between the band and me. I thought "what a fantastic light show! Or have I shifted into 5th gear just a little earlier than I scheduled?" I staggered towards that visual disturbance in front of me to investigate. The crowd was dancing madly in the middle of the floor as a waterfall played over them. The waterfall was about 25 feet in circumference. I put my hand into the water...hand out, no rain, hand in, pouring rain.. I jumped into the waterfall drenching us all in the middle of the Civic auditorium. Then stepped out and there was none. I shook my head and then dove back into the deluge and danced through LLR and next came Direworlf and a delightful All Over Now, with Keith and Donna simply killing it. Candyman, Lazy >Supplication and Bobby informed "we are going to take a short break" (ha, it was never a short break!)

I staggered back to reload a new tape (remember cassettes?) and I looked for some validation of my experience. I asked my friends if I was not in fact 'soaking wet' as I patted my wet t-shirt? And they grinned knowingly and affirmed that , yes, in fact I was 'all wet."

Then this unique show continued (nice indoor water feature, boys!) with a killer second set, complete with a transportive Estimated>Eyes>Wharf Rat>Truckin'>Iko Iko > Around and Around.

As I left the auditorium I noticed the water standing on the ground outside, a summer storm? Hey was this just a case of a leaking roof? Or did the Dead actually conjure up the forces of nature as they were so prone to do?

Next to travel to their/my maiden Red Rocks shows. Would Phil bombs create reverse gravity and make us float up into the air? What do they have up their collective sleeves for us next (ah-oooo, Werewolves of London, ah-ooo)?

Those were the daze.....

Zen saying "teachers open the door, you must enter by yourself."

The other day I ordered a burger with fries. Instead, they brought me fries with a burger. So I complained. But dude, the burger guy said, you can eat them in whatever order you want. Mmfff, I said, eating my fries and burger.

Received my shipping notice today for the TTB’s “I am the Moon” vinyl set. Because today is the release date. What a concept! You release the record on the release date! Genius! I just want to note that, when you bought the 4-lp set, they promised to provide a digital download of each separate album as each of the four parts of this project was released. And then they actually did! On the actual release dates! And the files actually worked! Amazing! And now they shipped vinyl on the release date. It’s so weird.

A lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. Like the other other day I’m eating a plate of shrimp and listening to Electric on the Eel for the first time in years. And so were you.

Last five:

JGB: Electric on the Eel (discs 1 and 6)
Derek & the Dominos: Layla
Bill Evans: The Hilversum Concert
Christian McBride: At the Village Vanguard
Stones: El Mocambo

...It's like buying a book from the bookstore and then realizing the pages are all put together out of order, and there are pages from another book mixed in. And when you go back and say, hey, bookseller, they put the pages of the book in the wrong order, and there are pages from another book mixed in. And he says, don't worry, you can rip them all out and put the book back together in whatever order you want.

you guys are so cool. Love this forum

Hey guys, I lurk more than anything but I saw some Stones talk and I agree with Dave Rock. It's Only Rock 'n Roll is an underrated album. The thing with it in my opinion, is that the songs are either dynamite (like the opening song fictional drummer) or B side material. The other problem is a couple of the songs suffer from Led Zeppelin IV / Dark Side of the Moon syndrome, meaning they've been played on the radio so much that they've lost a little luster (title track and Ain't Too Proud to Beg). I think these songs are pretty high quality once you're sitting back giving them your full attention (In their order of appearance on the LP).

If You Can't Rock Me
Ain't Too Proud to Beg
It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)
Till the Next Goodbye
Time Waits for No One

Dance Little Sister

The first 5 songs are all of side one and are solid. It's Only Rock 'n Roll has "Start Me Up" hit quality. Time Waits For No One makes us realize that Mick Taylor should have had at least one or two tracks on every album to stretch out like he does on this one and Can't You Hear Me Knockin' from Sticky Fingers. Missed opportunity. The thing with these songs is you may think of hearing Dance Little Sister on the radio and thought, meh, average song. Until you really listen to everything going on with the guitars. Keith Richards bass chops on If You Can't Rock Me are cool. Till the Next Time is on par in my mind with Wild Horses and Angie, but again, missed opportunity in that Taylor could have been used to play an electric solo or something, similar to Wild Horses. The remaining songs on the record don't do it for me. Luxury is borderline, but leans too far into funk. Fingerprint File is way too far into funk and not that great a song for me. If You Really Want to Be My Friend and Short and Curlies should have been put in the can for later. Between Goats Head Soup and It's Only Rock 'n Roll, I think there's a great album in there.

Black and Blue had some great songs with Hand of Fate and Crazy Mama. I think Hand of Fate was as good as 70s rockers got, with very few exceptions.

Not much to say that hasn't been said about Dave's 43. I would never complain for this type of release.

Been looking at that July 1978 box when picking some dead to listen to lately, but keep getting sidetracked by a different choice, but Oroboros' post about the virtues of the July 5, 1978 Omaha show prompted me to give it a listen today. Currently on Wharf Rat. I always liked that show, and the recording is excellent. I imagine it was exponentially cooler to be there in person at the time. The artwork on that one is probably about my favorite from that box as well, and I liked all the art from that box, a lot.

That Estimated > Eyes is outstanding. That Eyes of the World has always been a go to post hiatus Eyes.. it's outstanding. I've always been big on that box. 7/1 never circulated and is outstanding, the first Red Rocks shows did circulate and are well.. not to overuse the term but outstanding. A great moment in GD history perfectly preserved for us to enjoy. Aptly timed as we are entering a holiday weekend and the box centers around the Fourth of July.

Outstanding

I also played Omaha 7/5/77 after reading Oroboros's post. The first set, last night-excellent - Jerry's guitar sounds as cool and clear as the driven snow. Own up time....for the last couple of years, when I have played shows from this 78 box, I have played the first one 7/1, missed out the next two and gone on to the two Red Rocks shows. I have no idea what put me off Omaha in the past - makes me wonder what other unidentified jewels I have here.

Exile - I was unfairly dismissive of Black and Blue, too. It's a very entertaining album - I didn't like funk or disco in the 70's, but that's no excuse now. I wasn't keen at all when it came out-Spring 1976, I believe. With Mick Taylor gone, "Fool To Cry" issued as a single and punk waiting in the wings, The Stones, along with most of the great bands from 1965-1975 suddenly seemed a bit passe. I bought the first Ramones album in Summer 1976-that was the sound of the times for me. 40 odd years later... Black and Blue is still on my playlist, and I no longer even have that Ramones album.
I saw The Stones at Knebworth in 76 - and I have the programme here-nothing to do with music, but it's curious how The Stones and their fans were presented. In the article on The Stones, it states, "Young boys eagerly flocked the Mary Quant make up department in Harrods trendy Way-In shop on Saturday afternoon.The disco pumped out "Hey Negrita" as the boys applied eye liner and lipstick to gaunt virginal faces." I don't think so. I was 19 then, and the article seemed to show how out of touch The Stones had become at that time, with my generation.
They also apparently had a food stand where you could buy a portion of chicken curry for 0.55p. This in the middle of the hottest heat wave for decades.

Daverock, of course I too went straight to the Red Rocks shows upon first listen before hearing the rest of the box. After getting to all of them I was calling 7-3-78 St. Paul the hidden gem. That must have been a peak period for them. The energy is there. Almost swaggering I'd say, like they need a pack of cigarettes rolled into the sleeve of their t-shirt.
Cheers

Unidentified jewels

That's one of the many things I love about the GD and music in general

9 18 87 is GD example. Dismissed it until this summer when I totally got off on it

and

RS black and blue
I got that at library in the late 70s and was like "meh".
Decades later I gave it another chance and I love it
Yesterday driving here and there I had it blasting via my phone
The groove in Hot Stuff is awesome (lyrics a bit...simple. "hot stuff can't get enough")
Then here comes Hand of Fate
Cherry O is acceptable
Memory Motel when you are driving is sublime
I am amazed at the drive of Hey Negrita
The next song so far isnt memorable
I always did like Fool to Cry
The last song is good

The chemistry of the glimmer twins could make "the hokey pokey" sound edgy

RS always had a sleazy edge that I simultaneously "got" and was repulsed by

They are giants in music, regardless of my opinion

....I will be checking you out later.

Artemis 1 launch again scrubbed. A large sigh of relief was heard by the 3 Moonikins, and one stuffed Snoopy.

Where is the Omaha in “Omaha”? The catchy Moby Grape tune “Omaha” does not mention the city at all.

An eclectic Last 5:
- Jayhawks- Paging Mr Proust
- The Band - The Band
- Jimi Hendrix - Live In Maui
- The Firesign Theatre - Waiting For The Electrician Or Someone Like Him
- The Firesign Theatre - Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pilers

....have a lot of relevance to my history with the Dead.

Englishtown was my very first show. Also my favorite of all the ones I saw. What an introduction that was! True sensory overload in many senses of the word.

St. Paul from the July 1978 box was my second favorite show of all that I went to.

I loved the Dead from the first time I heard them, which was the 1971 Skull and Roses album. But the moment that I really "got" them at a different level was when listening to Help on the Way through Franklin's Tower with headphones on, listening to the Blues for Allah album shortly after it was released, while I was in a rather altered state of mind. I still remember that feeling of getting on the bus that evening.

....I went to the pet store, and the owner said "that'll be $200 please", I said "$200? It'll be cheaper getting one off the web!"

Hot Hot Hot

Spidergawd

Do you come up with these, Vguy? Or do you have a Dad joke encyclopedia?

That Madison Square Garden show from 9-18-1987 was one I was lucky enough to attend. Fun show, cool vibe when they did La Bamba as that song was all over the radio that year as I recall, a result of the release of the movie of the same name in summer '87, and playing that song just confirmed the band was living in the same world as the rest of us, and digging some of the same stuff while drifting through. All part of the one. Also, I was about as high as you can get at that show. Weed, whippets and blotter, oh, my. On the first year of probation for possessing a suspiciously similar array of items the previous summer, but sometimes you just have to say what the fuck, might as well live while you can.

I find there is a lot of music that I find ok at first and then listen to at some point farther down the road and realize just how cool it is, often after my tastes have shifted with time and experience, or sometimes just mood. The most recent example would involve country music - formerly I just wrote it off and didn't really give it a chance or a listen, but after seeing the Ken Burns Country Music Documentary I realized, holy shit, there is a lot of good country stuff. Sturgill Simpson had already started to shift my view with his Metamodern Sounds in Country Music and Sailor's Guide to Earth albums, but now, I have a have grown to really groove on some country stuff, mostly Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and that Outlaw Country end of the spectrum. I go back to Waylon Jenning's Honky Tonk Heroes album a lot these days, smoking album, great lyrics. Currently spinning Wilco A.M., the only album I have of theirs, and which I picked up to get the song Passenger Side. When I got the album it was a little to country-ish to really click for me outside of Passenger Side, but after seeing the comments about Wilco on here lately, followed by the talk of hidden gems and reevaluations I thought I ought to give it another try, and it is hitting the spot this morning. Really hitting the spot, actually.

Other songs just grab your attention and won't let go from the first time you hear them. First time I heard Space>Fire on the Mountain from Dead Set, I was hooked, same with Dark Star from Live Dead, both of those just lit my brain up on the first listen, and still do to this day. Another one would be The Message by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, heard that song shortly after moving to Missoula, and it just clicked. "Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge, I'm trying not to lose my head, ah huh huh huh, it's like a jungle, sometimes it makes me wonder, how I keep from going under." That song never fails to gratify. But, I have probably rambled on enough with my random stream of consciousness response after reading the recent posts.

....I'll never tell.

As I listen I remember why they give me the creeps

I want Dark Star, not Star Star, thank you.

I gotta go take a shower

are great, but I like the Beatles music more then the Stones, but I like the Grateful Dead's music way more then the Stones or the Beatles.

Back after a break of a few days. I have not been able to find what is on the Bonus Disc from this release. Were these from the show, because I thought the release was the complete show. I believe the Bonus was Called "Way after Midnight". Back to the peace pipe now.

Put your gold bunny where your hutch is, baby

So now I gotta contemplate that Englishtown is 45 freakin' years in the rearview mirror? Oh boy! (I won't bore you with another recitation of my experience, except to say, the weather was warm, the bands were hot, the GD was loud, the acid strong, the crowd was gi-normous and I slept in the bushes after the show and some crispy Deadhdeads kindly gave me a ride home the next day...) Next month it'll be the Denver show at McNichols, then 2023 itself, when I'll have to get "RFK" and "Watkins Glen" and "50th" tattooed on my forehead...

If I knew then what I know now, well ... then I wouldn't know what I know now, so I couldn't have known it then. Take that, young whippersnappers!

Psssst... I suspect Vguy has access to something they're calling "the internet," where a prankster like Vguy has some serious ACCESS, if you know what I mean...

From time to time I have GD related dreams. This one was pretty funny. They were going to play near me and I wasn't going. Then I thought. 'heck what am I thinking? I should go!'. So no ticket, I was outside the venue along with many others trying to scare up a ticket. Got turned down many times, thought about moving to a better location, then I got lucky, someone sold me a ticket. Others were surprised I got one. So I go into the venue, and up to the front of the stage, the band is playing, and to my surprise, everyone in the hall has headphones on! End of dream. When I think about it, it kind of suggests the discussion of listening to a sbd or to the hall ambient sound. Given the choice, and a good sound system and a good hall, I would choose the hall sound.

Any of you fine folks have Dead Dreams to share?

Istshow - I'll try 7/3/78 in the next day or so. Another show I have let pass me by.
With The Stones, their freakbeat era with Brian Jones is also worth going back to. Like "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow?" A great example of one of the things they were great at - making a racket. Best heard on vinyl with a bit of fluff on the needle.

Interesting couple of posts in the welcome back section about whether someone's copy of WOTF is a pirated bootleg that were going around BITD. Story is something like the Dead got involved in trying to shut down distribution of it as it was a counterfeit posing as the real thing that looked real. (Got me to check mine and it's real but it had me wondering as it was a cut-out also.) Another poster had both and detailed the differences so the guy could tell them apart.
That reminded me of the bootlegs I had a few of BITD that were not counterfeits but just unauthorized live shows in plain white paper covers which were going around then. I bought them at The Finest record store (FT. Collins, CO) and my favorite was an ELP live double which had Pictures at an Exhibition and other songs but the wild part was the filler. Actual bloopers from the original Star Trek TV series with hilarious excerpts of Shatner monumentally blowing his lines repeatedly then yelling "F**K". The cast is in uproarious laughter and almost in tears by his third try. Those were from the Horta episode (The Devil in the Dark) where Kirk in telling his away team personnel which tunnels to go into. Seemed stuck on too many names and especially an Italian sounding name like Giancomo. Other outtakes too at the end of each side so somebody who worked in the film studio got those out somehow and got them on that album. Wish I still had that one! And the music was good too!
Cheers
Edit: I wish I had dreams about the Dead. Mine are always about a work environment unfortunately and they still are even though I recently retired. I'll try manufacturing one by thinking about it while dozing off.

Rasta5Ziggy - Way After Midnight was recorded at the JGB’s next two shows after Kean College, on 2-29-80 in Hempstead, NY, and on 3-1-80 in Passaic, NJ. Four out of the five tunes are top shelf (the fifth, Russian Lullaby, has always been a dull, plodding song IMHO), and this disc was one of the best Jerry bonus discs I received in the Pure Jerry series.

The second set of the Omaha from July '78 is probably my favorite set in the entire box. Dizzying. Wonderful magic. Odd then to find the fist set lacking to the extent that it does, to my ears at least. And the packaging for the box truly is a work of art. Very GD. Fits in the bookcase perfectly. Always fun to pull the sleeves out when I listen to one of the shows, even though I'm actually listening from a USB.

This afternoon I visited a good chunk of Veneta, with extra wattage to drown out the neighbor's power washer. That PITB is something else. For its 19 minute length you would think that at some point the playing would have broken apart to venture into something space-like. But nope. A sparkling lit fuse from front to end.

Last five (not GD or Phish):

--XTC, Oranges and Lemons
--XTC, Apple Venus Vol 1
--Talking Heads, Fear of Music
--Paul Chambers, Bass on Top
--Steve Winwood, Arc of a Diver

Wrote Russian Lullaby.
Garcia & Grisman did some good ones.
Fits the mandolin well really.
Jerry's influences are deep and wide.
Didn't his Dad name him for composer/band leader Jerome Kern?
Cheers

Yes

....I've had a few. One was of them playing a concert on an aircraft carrier. That was cool. Had another one where I was running a marathon and Phil, Billy and John Lennon ran past me.
Also. Not really a dream, but I was woken up suddenly at 3:10 AM on 8.9.95 with a feeling of dread. Went back to sleep and thought nothing of it. Later that day, I heard the terrible news of Jerry's passing. I reached out to by touring buddies (obviously) and told them about my sudden out-of-the-blue wakeup that morning. They all said they woke up at about the same time as well. Things that make you go "hmmmm".

Crazy dream. I was hitching in West Marin and who should pick me up but Jerry Garcia. He was driving mid-60s Ford Falcon (same car a friend of mine used to drive in high school). He was mid-'70s Jerry, black hair and beard, no gray. I was of course super stoked to be picked up by Jerry, but soon my elation turned to terror as I realized he was a really horrible driver. We were on a winding road up over the ocean and he kept almost falling of the side of the cliff. He was scaring the shit outta me. Unintentionally, keep apologizing. Anyway, then I woke up. No big deal, I know, but since we're talking Dead dreams ... there's one.

Glad people reminded me this was the anniversary of Englishtown. Good excuse to spin that one. What a great show.

Agreed with the comments about '78. Not as together as '77, but often wilder, louder, more rawk, ya know? I need to explore more '78 shows.

....smooth like butter.
Edit. Pure Jerry CD's fetch quite a bit. I missed them.

and 8-31-78.
Lots of new tunes off Shakedown St.
My 3rd & 4th shows.
No walls but the Rocks were moving.
Cheers

I got that on cassette early on. I have always loved it.

Mississippi 1/2 Step > El Paso :))))))))))))))))

And you were at both. The envy is all mine.

"Show envy"

than the prior July 78 shows.

I believe the Dead got a reprimand from the town of Morrison for the volume on the previous shows. So they did turn it down quite a bit as they showcased the new Shakedown Street selections along with the rest of the other Dead tunes during this concert.

That said I was impressed with their quieter take and use of dynamics with this show as they prepared for their Egypt shows.

Those shows were a long-standing dream of Garcia and the Grateful Dead to play a concert in front of the Sphinx and pyramids.

Several songs were released both on DVD included with a CD audio selection from those Egypt show(s).

Samuel Clements " It ain't what I don't know that gets me into trouble, it's what I know for sure, that ain't so."

A few years back. I'm driving a convertible and in the bench-style back seat are Jimi, Jerry and Roy Buchanan. Just yucking it up on a drive in the country.

When I awoke the most unsettling thing was that it seemed perfectly 'normal' at the time. Taking a Sunday drive with three dead guys who had some notoriety.

Thank you that confirmation. I had thought about that. I thought it might have been just the way things were recorded.

were energized by the Dead to 'shake their bone's' the massive rocks started pulsating, heaving, and swaying to the 'band beyond description' during those shows and all that followed.

And we danced........

African saying "you see the hut, yet you ask where shall I go for shelter?"

Sometime in the last 5 years or so I had this one.

Was out at some County Fair looking place, like in a midwestern farm town somewhere out in the countryside with a makeshift stage also that had side walls and a top canopy set up, but just large enough for the band. Was just a concert, not amusement rides and such, so the focus was on that, not that it was part of a larger event or Fair. I was reasonably close to the stage, in a crowd of maybe only a few thousand.

Was like a 1970 or so version of the Dead. Dream was in black and white. They were rocking and cooking and it all seemed so surreal because I was aware that they were no more with Jerry gone in reality, but still it was all jamming and stuff I never heard much in the late 70s when I saw my first shows, and there they were, seeming real as could be.

One of those you remember when you wake up (because many dreams I never do recall), and it sticks with you. Was almost like I was cheating time somehow and shouldn't have been there and it shouldn't have been happening, but it was a chance to see the early days like I never got in real life. I couldn't name the tunes they played after the dream, but it definitely had that late 60s / early 70s sound.

Dreams can truly be strange. Then just now as I was filling out the CAPTCHA, it gave me a bunch of tractors to select that were all shown out in midwestern farm looking countryside...heh heh.

....my youngest step-daughter is being induced Tuesday. She lost her last baby to a heart defect. Here's to a healthy baby. 🍻
I married into four girls twenty-three years ago.