Grateful Dead

Sixtus, this post may be a bit removed but, although expensive, that Bootleg Series release 3/23, is going to sound markedly better than what is available - kinda like Dave's 26, 12/14/71, compared to the Charlie (The 11/17 portion, however, is going to be a mind-blower). Jimmy Cobb, Paul Chambers, Wynton Kelly swing their tails off and 'Trane and Miles groove. The shows take place a year after Kind of Blue and in many cases the tempos are up, but not over the speed limit. What a culmination! (sorry if this reads like a Hemingway novel lol)

Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile, hendrixfreak. That rough ground sea-salt/ tequila sounds good. Is it too early to be drinking yet? It is Saturday. Looking forward to more stories and that Summer of '73 Box- come on, Dave. Bolo, clue for the next box? What's that saying? You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Have a great day, y'all! 3/2/69 Eleven jam is filling the air right now. I'm grateful!

And when is this release going down ? https://archive.org/details/gd1969-03-28.sbd.miller.81543.sbeok.flac16 Dave "Vault Master" Lemieux ~ i got some requests for ya, dead head-in-Training "Baby Jack" aka "Happy Jack" is looking for ~ 5.26.77 ~ ~ 3.3.81 ~ and ~ 7.5.81 ~ Toss in Fillmore West June 1970 perfomrnaces for good measures Dough knees Dough knees

Take anything I 'say' with a grain of rough-ground sea salt and a cold tumbler of Anejo tequila, my friend. I use colorful language -- goofed up hyperbole -- to jump off the screen at ya. If it's a Summer '73 box I'll cough up the RFK/Watkins stories again. Now that you mention it, I guess it isn't quite normal to be juking around at 15 with an oz of sheesh, t-shirt, jeans, sneakers, $2 and a sheet of blotter. Hey, can I have a do-over-r-r-r-r?

inspired me to put on Dick's Picks Volume 7. It's all nice, but it really starts taking on a personality from Truckin' forward, mid disc 2. The end jam is very good. It goes into Wood Green Jam, also very good, and then Wharf Rat, which is always welcome. Disc 3 starts with Me and My Uncle, which I love in 1974 because I think it sounds more Western with the smooth polish of the Dead's 74 sound. But then there is a Not Fade Away that has to be heard. It's a 16 minute stand alone version like no other I can think of. I never realized this before, but they hardly played it in 73/74, and never for this long, at least on the released shows. Sixtus great recommendation that Other One medley from Road Trips Denver. Vguy I agree, I think more breaks would have helped the Dead. Who knows, maybe Jerry could have properly cleaned up and still be with us. I always get a little sad to think of the what if in that respect. 1979 would have been the time. They seemed to have hit the substance hardest by then, to the point that it was affecting the music and personnel decisions. Kudos to daverock and LoveJerry on the succinct analysis of the band's transitions in sound. Keithfan I checked out your "Wheels 'n Deals". Well most of them. That 2/3/78 Wheel is stunning. I never realized it before. I think the Wolf sounds magnificent in the first two minutes when Jerry is playing lead. Also the Egypt Deal might be my new all time favorite. I ended up listening to a lot of that Rocking the Cradle set. There is also a very slow and very cool New Minglewood Blues. I've never heard them play it like they do there. I don't know why I don't reach for Egypt '78 more often, it's really pretty good and has the Shakedown Street songs. I was sitting there thinking I can't believe I don't play this Fire on the Mountain, Iko Iko, Shakedown Street more often.

Thanks. To me the band were on an incredible upward trajectory between 1965 and 1974. Their first great year was 1968 ( well..it started Fall 1967) and after that they seemed to add more and more components to their shows, building and developing on what had gone before. And paradoxically, this development and upward trajectory doesn't devalue the earlier years in the timespan. Although 1969 was a development from 1968-it wasn't necessarily better. The same with 1974. It wasn't necessarily the best year, but all the years preceding it pointed towards it. The development incorporated all aspects of their music too. The sound, singing, song writing, character of jams, composition of band. Maybe during 1974 they ran out of road. Having a break in the first place indicates this, as well as the music they started playing when they returned. 1976 seems quite an odd year to me. They seem a bit lost. The energy and instrumental dexterity is greatly reduced, although they do occasionally go into some very unusual and exploratory jams. It also seems to me that in reviving St Stephen and Cosmic Charlie, they had become conscious of their history for the first time. Those songs don't seem to fit in with the world and sound of 1976, and I wonder if they included them as a sort of acknowledgement of the past. Blasts from the past included as crowd pleasers-a bit like how Dark Star seemed when they played it on New Years 1978. On the other hand, I may be completely wrong.

I never really considered how drastically the band changed from the time they walked off the stage in October '74 to the return in '76. I guess it was less of an evolving and more of reforming. LJ's comment about what if one drummer only in '76 got me wondering how interesting Samson & Delilah might sound if it had Billy's swing. Vguy, you confirmed what LJ suspected, it was Jerry who orchestrated the change to bring Mickey back. Figured as much, but Ive never read any of the books. I need to do that. I have Long Strange Trip I think it's called, but haven't found the time. I will nab a copy of FW '69 on vinyl, but do wish they would release a previously unreleased show on RSD too, like they did with Winterland May '71.

Hendrixfreak, Wasn't trying to call you out. I just love the little details about you seeing shows at 15- hitchhiking around, smoking joints, etc. I, unfortunately, just turned 15 in '95 and never got to see Jerry. I lived a much more sheltered life at 15. I'm jealous and I just enjoy the stories. The book sounds cool- glad you plugged it. Happy weekend! Think I'll finish up the FW Box and then... Allmans live at Fillmore East- the vinyl just arrived on my doorstep yesterday.

...I'm surprised no one is excited about the news of the Grateful Deads upcoming RSD release this April... ...Grateful Dead Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA 2/27/69 (4LP 180 Gram Vinyl)(RSD 2018 Exclusive)... ...I'm very excited that we are being treated to a 2/27/69 vinyl release... ;) ...the art work alone is stunning! Skeletons with hair and beards ? Take a guess everyone

I'm excited and already decided I am getting it (if I can).