Grateful Dead

And everyone watch out for Keithfan on the turnpike. Not only does he text while driving, he watches YouTube too.

KeithFan, this comment you made had me chuckling out loud: "Plus the occasional time I drop one amuses everyone in the house, as I contort my body every which way trying to catch it before it hits a hard surface." Then immediately I made a mental link to Rick and Morty. Is this you? https://78.media.tumblr.com/d948046f55ec58d262b9dd301c843798/tumblr_my8… Sixtus

Evil Yn, Your testimony reminds me of the moment in the GD movie when the cameraman caught some regular Deadheads in the lobby and one really spelled out his love for the band and its courageous adventures in jam-land. The vitality of your testimony leaps off the 'page' here. Grate way to start the weekend. Deinitely going to spin an under-appreciated show tonight, one loaded with ole' Ron's righteous bellowing. Bacon GREASE, folks. P.S. Yes, JimInMD -- I AM Pavlov's dog -- one whistle that sounds like M-c-K-e-r-n-a-n and I begin to salivate, then ... unlurk.

I'd love to meet your friend, Thin, as I couldn't even imagine listening to that classic final show of the Europe '72 Tour at the Lyceum Theatre on 5/26/72 and thinking, "well, that's that." Just the thought of 7/18/72 at Roosevelt Stadium-Jersey City, 7/26 at the Paramount in Portland, OR, the absolute insanity of 8/12 in Sacramento (one of my dream shows for an official release), the four gigs at Berkeley Community Theatre between 8/21-8/25, of course Veneta, OR on 8/27, the WHOLE freaking month of September '72 and the scattering of jaw dropping brilliance throughout the rest of the year leading to what would be THE greatest New Year's Eve gig ever performed by ANY band (if 12/31/78 did not exist). My God, to stop at the end of Europe '72???? WHY?????????? I can understand (to an extent) those who just can't get into the post-'74 "break-up" Dead as there IS a distinctly different tone (with the re-addition of Mickey Hart, the more luded out, smackified re-tooling of some older numbers, etc., though just the idea of NOT listening to ANY single show from the Dead circa the 1970's makes me sweat). But to take a year as front to back solid as '72 and just stop at the end of the Europe Tour befuddles me...unless the absence of Pigpen is completely untenable, and I WILL admit, I'd give my right nut for another 25 versions of "The Stranger (Two Souls In Communion)" alone. But man, even the tragic loss of Ron McKernan did nothing to extinguish the audacious confidence of the band throughout the WHOLE year of 1972....and on.

I just clicked on your link I'm in the car on the way to work, pulling up to the toll booth. The video started right as I rolled my window down and I just lost it laughing. My grandfather listened to a lot of Johnny Cash LPs in the house growing up. Thanks for that. Grateful day everyone. Dave's Picks 24 now has me listening to all of this summer and fall shows that came out. Garcia has a smoking solo on Cumberland Blues on 30 Trips 1972 from Waterbury. Edit - icrmcnekd, I just saw your question about burning the originals to backup CDs. I do that too (and to redundant hard drives in WAV and 320Kbps mp3). I use the backups occasionally. I don't know, it's a mental thing. I guess I like looking at them and reviewing the track list before I play them. Plus the occasional time I drop one amuses everyone in the house, as I contort my body every which way trying to catch it before it hits a hard surface.

Buying from this site is not honorable?You don’t buy from Amazon, iTunes, Dead-net? The person in question bought the product in question from this site and then resold it for more money. That’s exactly what resellers on eBay do, but you think that it is more honorable because it was done from a record store and not on the internet? Amazon has many small retailers selling stuff on its site. In fact there is one right now called CD Rareities selling GSTL Boxes for $300 each, only 8 left. A few days ago there were 10 left, can’t believe they sold 2 that fast at that price. I have an extra GSTL Box that I want to sell, not because I’m a reseller but because I got 2 during the ordering snafu (as I posted before). I’m trying to sell it at cost just so I can break even. Maybe I should do the honorable thing and price it at $300. As for the old argument about having to pay a mortgage or support a family, people who buy stuff also have those expenses and it makes sense to buy stuff at the lowest price possible.

Sigh. The melting lawn. Those were the days...

Funny, but I'll tell you what reading that post stream-of-consciousness it makes perfect sense. Awesome summer tour announcement. Looking forward to both Boulder shows (again and again and...) Can't say I've ever seen the last date of a Dead tour. No opening band to pelt them with eggs and flour, guess they'll just have to yuk it up themselves. Man I am totally in defense of record store guy and his post on every level... people have to eat, this guy is selling records not bombs. It seems more honorable to me to support the little brick and mortar store than buy everything off amazon, itunes, and this place. And seventies Dead rules. \m/

Could this be him? I think he just needs some weed and it will all sound perfectly coherent. Yes.. points for most creative post of the thread. Love it.

BU Class of 99. Checking in. This is going to be fuggin fantastic. Dave and Crew making hay while the sun shines. All your tapes are belong to us.