Grateful Dead

hey y'all 2/27/81 2/27/81 2/27/81 "let there be pre-86 80s Grateful Dead to fill the air"

Hey all. I’ve enjoyed the wonderful posts intermittently over the past couple few months. Been super busy coaching high school wrestling and teaching math and science, so may have missed a little. Good thing we have both sports and academia. Who’d wanna choose between ‘em? Who’d break up Boxilla? Who argues about various GD time periods? Who would start listening to GD later in life? Oh, welcome to Maine. I was a fan of the GOGD from about 8th grade on. I became obsessed later in life when the archive and I met around ‘05-‘06. Back then I was able to download shows, and I took full advantage. I then became, and still am, consumed with the official release stuff. Wholly crap there’s a ton of released material! My commute is about 12 miles out of Atlantic City and back on the Expressway with a little bit of suburbia to round out the 23 minute drive. Driving is dangerous in jersey, no matter what time of day. I can’t concentrate enough to enjoy music the way I want to while I drive. My inferior car radio is usually tuned to Temple Jazz / Classical station. It’s purely background as I use it to calm my nerves and keep me driving safely. I don’t know, maybe it’s my base model car stereo or the fact I’m afraid to zone out a little while I drive. I can zone out grooving while cooking dinner or sitting on the couch during deadicated listening sessions… driving?….eh, notsomuch. I say bring on autonomous cars! Then I’ll kick back and enjoy some GOGD on the go. I’ll be the first person to turn over my keys, sit back and relax. Yes. I trust the computer programmers, and engineers hella more than I do the average vacationer texting, or the person who gets off work tired texting, or the person who left home pissed off texting, or the person putting on make up…texting, or the teenager / twenty year old person instagramming, facebooking, snap chatting, and texting. This whole driving cars thing is crazy; albeit necessary. Random shit. I much prefer time machine travel. Cheers all!

I am a road warrior. 1-2k miles/month. GOGD all the time, everytime. Rotation of DP and DaP along with the 96 pack of burned goodies. One GOGD disc is too much, a thousand is not enough. Have fun in the snow, you darn yankees. Hope to take the snow tube out for a maiden voyage tomorrow!

Dead of the Day: March 12, 1966http://gratefuldeadoftheday.com/03-12-1966 Danish Center Los Angeles, California The Dead of the Day is from 1966, and, really, that is all we should need to say. The Viola Lee is phenomenal with really crisp riffs and an almost pop delivery to the vocals, making it clear the Dead are still exploring their sound and at least somewhat influenced by the Top 40 radio of the day. But do not be lulled into complacency as the picking jams during the second half of the tune are lights out. As the show goes on, we get a couple of first time played songs, including You See a Broken Heart, which was not just the first time, but, also, the only time it was played. The Ice Cream Break banter is pretty humorous towards the end, and then the Dead go into another sweet blues jam in the Stormy Monday rendition that rivals the end of the Viola Lee. In all, the show is an enticing piece of early Dead. Taken as a whole, it might not be as well constructed as some others from the era, but it absolutely shows you something about the evolution of the band’s sound. This is primal Dead at its most raw, still searching for how it will rise out of the water and start walking on the land.

Pretty darn tough and very few tapes coming out of the cassette housing, fidelity and tape hiss issues were a problem.I still have a few left, all GD and 1 or 2 JGB tapes. Almost all CDs except for some vinyl. I've got 2 decks at home but nothing in the car nor a boombox. I'm looking for nice hand-drawn and hand lettered j-cards for 5/8/77.

...this release is Primo, beautiful work all around for this release.Don’t miss out ! and order a copy while they are still available! Gratefully presented in high quality :)

tapes always n tha car 9 28 75 full show 9 27 76 set 2 6 9 77 set 2 9 2 78 set 2 4 22 79 set 2 also a box of random reconstruction an legion of mary tapes nothin beats rowing down tha bayou with tha boombox blastin thelma 69 an pow wow tapes tha gators love it

It was a great Saturday: house to myself, a nice fire in the stove, a few IPAs and something edible and DP8 on vinyl. It's crazy; I have probably listened to that show on CD/ digitally I don't know how many times, but it seemed to take on a different life on vinyl. It was warm and had depth (I'm sure being able to solely focus on the music helped as well). It felt like you were sitting on stage with the boys. It was clear, funny, raucous, and amazing. By the time they got electric, I was up and dancing around my living room like a nut- I wonder if the neighbors caught a glimpse. Haha! The Cold Rain and Snow was a nice surprise- a longer instrumental intro than normal and maybe a little rough around the edges, but I'm glad it was included- wish it was on the original release. Overall, it was just an incredible way to spend the afternoon/ evening. Can't wait to do it all over again- though I don't think the wife has any plans to take the boys anywhere anytime soon. The packaging/ book/ the whole thing is just awesome. Definitely glad I grabbed it. Is it time for a Box announcement yet? Ark, please!

I, too, am stuck with a 15-mile commute which, in turn, repays me with a 45 minute car ride if I'm lucky...usually longer. BUT, as others have noted, it certainly affords me some down-home GD time. Whoever it was that declared they have a shoe box full of CDRs...me too! I actually bought these snap-together small banker-type boxes a few months ago that are the perfect CD size so that definitely helps. But yeah I have a mad conglomeration of ripped CDs, mixes (aka Sixtus' Picks) and even (blasphemous!) a few actual copies of Dave's Picks hanging around in there. I also have a cassette deck still. Yes. that is correct. A cassette deck. I will spin a copy of DaP 18 from time to time in there, just for nostalgia's sake. But the warble is ever-present, of course. Sad will be the day when I go to get my next car and will have to negotiate simply having a CD player in there. I couldn't even imagine not having one... Traffic is the bane of my existence. Sixtus

I hardly drive at all now-maybe about 10 minutes every week, just to keep the battery running. So I felt quite nostalgic reading about other people listening while in the car. My favourite journey for doing this was when I used to visit my parents, which was an 11 hour round trip, done in two journeys. I loved listening to whole shows from beginning to end, without a break-something I never do now. The shows that seemed to work best, and my favourite at that time, were ones from 1973. 26th May at Kezar Stadium was one that worked really well. But my all time greatest listening experience in a car was in 1990, when I went to the West Coast of America with my then girlfriend. I only took one show, as she didn't like the Dead much-and that was Stanley Theatre 26th September 1972. It was amazing driving ( or being driven to be precise-I couldn't drive then) through the wonderful American country side listening to the Dead. When we got to San Francisco, as we were driving over the Golden Gate Bridge we were listening to Playing in the Band from that show. After we arrived we went to Haight Ashbury and then on to the City Lights book shop owned by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. What a great day that was! When we got back to England, I heard that the Dead were going to play 3 nights in London in October-November, which was the perfect homecoming news.