Grateful Dead

When I had no shows to pick, I picked the one I could not hear.

& today the pendulum swings...

You and me bound to spend some time
wonderin' what to choose
Goes to show, you don't ever know
Watch each card you play and play it slow

Wow, well that was the hardest search ever, but now I'm jumping up & down!
So, I never actually found it. But I knew the time frame right away and listened to every date around it. The closest I could find was 2/27/1970. I wasn't focusing on Jerry's solo as much as others mentioned, but I zeroed in on the intro notes as well as Jerry's voice dropping down at the very end. 2/27/70 was SO close, but not exact. I couldn't find a match, but I saw that the setlist for 2/28/70 had every song available to hear on Archive, except for Casey. In the end, nothing else made sense so I chose 2/28 which I never actually heard. So....it was just my best sleuthed-out guess!

I hope others will say if they ever actually found the song to listen to, and how & where they found it. Cuz I was stumped on that end. Many thanks.
Now onward....today should be a breeze!

Keep your eyes peeled today.

so…. if you never visited this site before give it a try. you enter up to five songs and you get all the times they were played in that sequence.
promptly at 3am eastern i put todays in and…looks like it’s gonna take eons to find it. i mean choice after choice to go thru and look for anomalies, who has got that time.
thanks dave, i do appreciate all the songs in any format as this month truly connects some very old heads.
I currently have close to 18 sites in my 30 day bookmarks, some of them give info that you can’t get anywhere else. i like archive and make a november donation but their is so much out there.
i have a dead bibliography book 250 pages of every time the band was even referred to in any type of media, handwritten books of true poster dimensions and current prices. i’ll list a few more sites tomorrow, maybe some of you that go back beyond my first show in 1977 can add things as well.
good luck to all today sorting thru the choices.
Q

mindbender ( confusions prince)
eac jam
alligator-caution
or the 2012 “jam”
something that takes us to multiple dimensions of time and space
bring it on dave….lol

Been loving the band and music since '82... Love this month, Thanks Dave...When I have time or get lucky I try and find the correct show, (found 3 so far this year)... But this year for me that I haven't done in past years is listening to the full correct show the next day,. Thanks everyone and keep Dancin'

This was and might be one of the hardest to ever search for. After listening to countless Casey's, I came across some clear relics. Take a full listen to a very short version of Casey Jones from 1973-10-23 Bloomington, MN. This is totally outRAGEOUS and makes me wonder how many times this took place. You gotta love the words from the band!
and for those who think I gave a clue in the subject. It's a day late and just wanted to put my thought of yesterday's "Casey".

🙄

Now why would you do that? I take that back and THANK YOU!

Sure did Love Brent’s soulful voice.
If I had my way, I’d listen to Brent & Jerry all day.
There are things & you can replace
And others you cannot.
Never forget the love we bring.
Thanks David.
And thanks to the most generous unselfish band for allowing fans to enjoy your live performances all these years.
Very Grateful!

Pretty quick find.
Fifteen years in, and nine days this year, and we still see folks posting their answer in the comments. Sheesh...

figured it was 1970
figured it was before June 14th
figured it would be findable through Archive/Relisten
figured wrong
who'd a figured that?

I have to totally agree with you on what you stated. Finally, Brents voice and crystal clear.
Love and Respect to all!

Casey Jones... I knew it was a 70s show but I couldn't find all of the shows on Relisten or Archive. I went to that show this morning, because I had a question mark next to that date. Setlist had it listed as played that night but achieve and Relisten don't have it on their setlist. I am confused. For those of you that found it. How did you do it?

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Yesterday's was my first miss this year, tough because Internet Archive/ Relisten doesn't list a Casey Jones on 2/28/70. They have this version as 2/27/70, and doing a deeped dive I see the Archive date is wrong. First time I've found that kind of error - guess I need to expand my search methods. But really love the 30 Days! Thanks Dave and team

Used the Tapers section twice now. He is a sly one. Will he do it again? Why not. Good luck to all.
Cheers

As I said last night, yesterday’s search was one of the most challenging ever. For me, I suspected all along that 2/28/70 was the answer. There was a similar versions in late ‘69, but TC’s keyboard crossed it off the list. And then there were the other versions missing from the web as well as the (really) bad audience tapes. I was able to eliminate many of them because they were set openers or closers or they repeated the chorus five times instead of four and added “you know.” I had listened to crowd from the Capitol Theatre shows in November 1970 and had eliminated them because they were just too ruckus. The crowd noise from 2/28 seemed to match. I searched off and on all day and was prepared to guess 2/28 anyway. But I did one last search for “Grateful Dead 2/28/70 Casey jones” and the link to the Tapers Section popped up with a handful of songs from that night ending with the Casey Jones. It was obviously the same source as it synced up perfectly. Dave likes to throw us a curve ball every now and then. I still remember the Crème Puff War from ‘66 and the RR Blues from ‘72 that were not on the web. Some years are easier than others, but the joy is always in the search.

Haha right before bed, I decided to give it one last shot and searched alternative sources for any shows in Feb/Mar ‘70. I was convinced it was in there somewhere. Found the 2/28 show and thought, this sounds pretty close. Punched in the answer and went to bed without even listening to the whole thing! I should buy a lotto ticket today.

Basically did process of elimination yesterday. Knew it was February 70 because I didn’t hear TC’s organ, but by Port Chester in March the guitar solo had disappeared. Having heard all samples that didn’t match (including a YouTube video of the 3/1 version that doesn’t circulate) and the 2/28 version on YouTube being a mismarked 2/27, I had to guess it was the one version that I didn’t hear, and darned if I wasn’t right. Today is a 50/50 shot if you determine the era and know that one of the songs took a long hiatus.

Edit: I did see late last night that a You Tube version has a mislabeled / "mis-dated" Family Dog February date up masquerading as 2/28. That threw me off too...

Hi, 2/27/1970 is not mislabeled in the Archive - that version of Casey Jones on 2/27 in the Archive is different from yesterday's answer. The guitar solos, while similar in the first couple notes, are different (as is the wait time/tuning after the end with that laugh, comment, tuning a string etc...). Like others, I nailed it down to the Jan-Feb 1970 era where there's no Bobby solo and they jump right into a Jerry solo that has different beginning phrasing from the recorded version and most live versions after mid 1970. Jerry starts it like a "tightrope walker getting his balance" a bit in these early 1970 versions. But the 2/27 version is different on the solo in that he goes up to some higher pitch notes after a similar bit of phrasing he was doing in Jan-Feb. The answer from yesterday's version, the "missing Casey" from 2/28 tapes, has him stay in the same range of notes for a bit longer.

A streaming version of 2/28/1970 with Casey Jones actually on it just does not show up on the usual sources. I tried to find a 2/28/1970 elsewhere and could not after I found out about the "missing" Casey Jones on some reported tapes. I thought I found one but again that guitar solo did not match. I wonder where it is....

That's all I got to say about that.

Man that was brutal in the best way possible, it was a deep dive fer sure. Maybe I don't need to hear that song for a week or so haha.

What a nugget from the vault yesterday! That’s wa ha hooo was a clear Alligator tee up, only 2 CJ>Alligators, uncirculated on the 28th, and pretty identical to the one they played and kinda botched on the 27th . Thank you Dave!

This is an easy one, finally.

Way to easy!

My friend at school from another part of the state had the tapes. He knew about the show from his older siblings and their friends that attended as it was their big local city for rock shows. A great crystal clean tape. We played set 2 many times. Later on I found some other shows from this era, before and after this particular date and they all show a tight band with a clear sound heading off to the next big era. Highly recommend set 2!!! And the night before!

This is the best version of Althea I've heard.

@bundubush- hey brother just wanted to thank you for the very clever clue that you gave me. it actually took me to exactly the right place, alas to no avail thanks to my timidity. your clue that i had to look within myself convinced me that i was looking in the right place (early 70)- so i searched for missing Caseys and that took me to a blog post about 2/28/70, and someone else had said "trouble ahead, trouble behind", which convinced me that it was a missing Casey sandwich. So i said AHA! and searched for and found a youtube (audio only) of that show which contained said missing Casey. but i didn't hear Bill's 2 five- beat flams in the beginning, and then I remembered the comment about "take a step back" from someone else, which prompted my to took at 2/27/70, but that didn't sound right in the beginning either. i came back and saw posts about Jerry's solo, but i was too tired and just didn't enter. i should have just gone with my instinct about 2/28 and listened to you! Much appreciated my man. A clever and great clue.

what city am I in??? But I digress. Nice versions of all 3 of these streams. All three flow into one stream nicely. Very easy to love.

Till tomorrow, signing out from Happytown, USA.

BTW THANKS to those who shared info about the Tapers Section resource for searching out other versions of tracks not found in the standard search areas or ones that don't circulate. Very helpful.

It's probably the best of the tour, but for some reason, other dates have been featured on releases right around it. I hope this is a DP 2025 teaser.

This sequence......?

Hey, thanks for the Taper’s Sec info. Does anyone know a way to Search in this section?
I go to the Taper’s Section often, but I’ve never found a way to search in it. I always just scroll down thru each entry where they write just a bit about the post. To see more of what’s in the post, I click on Read More. And if I want to go farther back in time, I have to add pages at the bottom. It’s a bit antiquated, but so be it. Just wondering if I’m missing a way to Search.

I think jeff4682 posted about 20+ posts back on this thread how to do that.

Two towns, only one has the H.
@Mick55: I've got it as the 2nd of 2 (although setlists has the order wrong on one of them).

That's one smokin' Althea

Finally, it occurs to me to wonder about which, because there must be, GD show DL2 has never listened to. Or has he really heard every show that's in the Vault? Maybe he has, I guess he's had enough time to. Anybody have any idea? Peace!

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Once you find it, today’s show is great from start to finish! Second set is on fire!