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"We left with our minds sufficiently blown and still peaking..."
We're headed back to that peak with the newly returned tapes from Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena, Binghamton, 11/6/77. The Grateful Dead's last touring show of 1977 finds them going for broke, taking chances on fan favorites like "Jack Straw," "Friend Of The Devil," and "The Music Never Stopped," carving out righteous grooves on a one-of-kind "Scarlet>Fire" and a tremendous "Truckin'." An ultra high energy show, with a first set that rivals the second? Not unheard of, but definitely rare. Hear for yourself...
DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 25 features liner notes by Rob Bleetstein, photos by Bob Minkin, and original art by our 2018 Dave's Picks Artist-In-Residence Tim McDonagh. As always, it has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman and it is limited to 18,000 individually numbered copies*.
*Limited to 2 per order. Very limited quantity available.
Get one before they are gone, gone, gone.
one good 69
deserves another. back to back chicken shack.
https://themidnightcafe.org/2015/07/02/lossless-bootleg-bonanza-gratefu…
Grateful Dead
6/28/69
Veterans Auditorium
Santa Rosa, CA.
Download: FLAC, MP3
Lineage:
Soundboard->Master Reel->Cassette->DAT->DAT
Transfer:
DAT->ZA2->Soundforge->.wav->mkw->SHN
DAT seed provided by Michael P. Weitzman
Transfer and SHN by Joe Samaritano
11/10/2003
–songlist–
101-d1t01 – Slewfoot
102-d1t02 – Silver Threads & Golden Needles
103-d1t03 – Mama Tried
104-d1t04 – Me & My Uncle
105-d1t05 – Doin’ That Rag
106-d1t06 – High Time
107-d1t07 – King Bee
108-d1t08 – Sittin’ on Top of the World
109-d1t09 – Turn on Your //Lovelight
Notes:
1. Known low generation lineage and transfer info.
2. Splice in Lovelight about 20 minutes in.
3. Garcia on Pedal Steel for Slewfoot and Silver Threads.
4. Peter Grant on Banjo and Marmaduke on backup vocals for MAMU.
Sixtus and alloting extra time....
One of my best friends has an Ecuadoran father and a Spanish mother. His wife is from Mexico.
They are one of the warmest, friendliest families I know. Though he was raised in the US, their extended family get-togethers are Latin style.
That means about 45 minutes to an hour to say goodbyes when the 20 or so of them gather for family events.
Though we joke and groan about it, it's actually a nice touch when it comes down to it.
Extra Time
In truth.. I had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Sixtus, Sixtus Jr. and the rest of the Sixtus' in Boston last summer to catch some shows.
Let me be clear.. Mrs. Sixtus is an absolute saint and even Sixtus Jr. was on his dad, cracking the whip to make sure we made the show on time.
Thank goodness for the rest of the Sixtus clan, we did make it the shows in time and the fun level was pegged at 11, considering I got Mrs. Sixtus' ticket, that's pretty cool. A little praise goes out to Sixtus Jr. or we would have surely missed most of the first set.
Just adding a little whimsical perspective. I hope that's ok.
Olympics
Love the Olympics.. they did a real nice write-up of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics tonight, I think Serena Williams narrated the piece.. medals won vs. leaders lost (Kennedy, King, etc.). 1968 was an epic year. I am biased... my grandpap won a gold medal in 1932 in Los Angeles in Lacrosse of all sports so I love Olympic hyperbole.
1968 is perhaps my favorite GD year too. Volcanic and explosive.
As most of you know.. I am an advocate for all years, not era centric.. but I have a soft spot for the jazzy and psychedelic pre-hiatus years. Still, I listen to and love it all.
In GD terms.. the Olympics are to GD music what the keyboard player years are to total crap and not even winning the bronze. (if that makes any sense). Performance is primary and ego/pre-expectations = nothing.
Happy Olympics and happy listening my friends.
It matters not preconceptions, it matters more effort, timing, luck, group mind and lastly yet importantly individual performance.
kyleharmon
This looks like its what you wanted
http://phish.in/1990-01-27
The site will let anyone stream, but in order to download it makes you create an account, and it only downloads one track at a time.
But you can do it.
Found a couple Phish shows on here that me and Mrs Deadguy attended back in the day --- oh some good times. To be young and foolish like that again.
Tonight I'm going to see Lettuce and Galactic in Detroit. Smells funky up in here.
Jammed out to 2-22-69 from 30 trips last night. Hat tip to the folks on the board who planted that bug in my brain. Dare I say, I think its one (maybe the only?) instance where the Dark Star gets overshadowed by the full Other One Suite right after it. St Stephen > The Eleven was great too. Death Don't Have no Mercy gave me the sadz. I shouldn't listen to that song anymore for awhile.
Jim, my Olympics/GD comparison
Have been watching the Olympics off and on from our current perch up in (finally getting some snow) Tahoe the past few weeks. I got mesmerized by the womens' figure skating, just watching the grace and power from such young 'uns.
So this year's finals was the much vaunted showdown between the 18 year old and 15 year old Russians. As you probably saw, it was razor close to the finish.
The announcers and experts were comparing the styles of these two. They said the 18 year old maybe had better overall skills, and skated more emotionally (whatever that means), fully wrapping herself up in the story of the music and performance. While the 15 year old had better jumps and power, and structured her program to get the bonus points from jumping later in the freestyle performance.
But I found the movement and grace of the 15 year old to be more moving to watch, just thoroughly capturing my attention, while the 18 year old's routine seemed less graceful and more herky/jerky somehow to me. I could tell that the 18 year old was doing some perhaps more complex movements and combinations as a whole, but it didn't fire my imagination or move me the same way. My vote was for the 15 year old all the way.
That reminded me somewhat of the 68-71 primal vs. 72-74 cleaner, jazzier, and sometimes longer jammy interludes comparisons. I normally come down on the side of the primal. For whatever reason, a St. Stephen/Eleven/LL sequence and jams will light me up more that a post-72 PITB jam every time. Also, the primal Dark Stars take me to places that the 72 Dark Stars and after don't, even if there's more on the spot improvisation and jazzy permutations after 72. I know that a lot of deadheads feel differently, but no matter how many times I try to hear the other side of it (and I do), I always seem to come back to the primal. For me anyway, that's still the primary heart and soul of the band. Didn't hurt to have the Pig in his prime either.
So it's just part of the natural progression of things I guess that every variation will have its fan favorites.
But like you, I'll take all the variations, and play and enjoy the different eras based on my mood at the time.
Check your PM Kyle
Check your PM. I think the link I sent you is the equivalent of archive.
loves me some...
Freak Out!Absolutely Free
We're Only in it for the Money
Uncle Meat
Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Ahead of Their Time
when you are in that FZ/Mothers of Invention mood
all are HIGHLY recommended. Genius compositions. Zappa is Zappa, just as the GD are the GD. Unique.
in other news:
I found my DaP 10 Bonus Disc!!!
and
listen to Big RR Blues from 10/21/83.
Anthem Impossible
These are the shows which were used for the live parts of Anthem of the Sun:
Municipal Auditorium, Eureka - 20 Jan 1968
Eagles Auditorium, Seattle - 26-27 Jan 1968
Crystal Ballroom, Portland - 2-3 Feb 1968
Carousel Ballroom, SF - 14 Feb 1968
Kings Beach, Lake Tahoe - 22-24 Feb 1968
Carousel Ballroom, SF - 15-17 Mar 1968
Carousel Ballroom, SF - 29-31 Mar 1968
Some of these or parts thereof have been released on Road Trips #2.2, Dick's Picks #22 and Download Series #6.
Your mission, if you decide to accept it, is to pick one bonus disc's worth of music for the Anthem 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition.
This post will self-destruct in five minutes.
Dissident-1971
I agree with your comments on the 1971 shows released-and the oddness of choice for both Daves Picks, 22 and 24 both of which seem to be weaker than other shows played at the same time.
It surprises me a bit that the Capitol run of February 1971 is held in such high regard, too. They seem very pedestrian compared to the shows from the previous two years and the following three. It seems incongruous that they should have focussed on shorter, country/blues based songs considering the shows were being linked up with the ESP experiments. Maybe the experiments just happened to be conducted at an inappropriate time in the bands development. If they had been done in February 1969 there might have been a seismic shift.
I've chosen my mission....
....1.20.68. Eureka Municipal Auditorium, Eureka, CAJam -> Clementine -> New Potato Caboose -> Born Cross-Eyed -> Spanish Jam -> Caution Jam -> Dark Star.
Jam / Jelly, Potato / Potato. Release this show and get ready for the fallout....hard to imagine that the Anthem shows aren't back in the dark corner of the Vault, collecting dust bunnies, just waiting to be woken up and finding out they are the eyes of the world....
6.28.69 pre-Slewfoot banter....
....Phil poses the question, "Does a bear drop in the woods?" Made me smile. Nice steel guitar by Garcia in ensuing Slewfoot btw.
The Ghost of Led Zeppelin
To break topic, I ran three miles, showered and got into my Led Zeppelin T-shirt.Just poured a whisky... an excellent afternoon.
We're seeing Robert Plant, tonight after dinner. At a very fine theatre downtown.
Saw Page and Plant twice, once at Red Rocks... I emerged from ingesting illicit substances in one of the stage-side bathrooms, and miraculously security didn't bat an eye as I edged over and stood about 20' from Jimmy Page, cigarette dangling as he was bathed in smoke and blue light playing, "No Quarter." I remained there right in front of the stage, right in front of Jimmy Page, unmolested for the entire song.
No shit. That was my penultimate Led Zeppelin moment right there. I went back to my
seat after the song knowing I could die now, I've seen Valhalla.
Other than the O2 reunion, Plant has effectively halted any further excursions by the band. He alone declined the $14 million offer to play Desert Trip; Page, Jones and Jason Bonham were in. A bummer but it is what it is.
Every Robert Plant solo record is worthy. He has crafted an admirable career post-Zep. In his own words, he's playing more "age appropriate" music, but it's still rooted in the blues and his band is always fantastic live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-sFRVlVA5Y
\m/
Money, Money....
....nugs.net Dead & Co HD streams are thirty bucks? I'm good.
Re: Anthem Impossible
Mr. Duryea, you may have come up with the reson for the delayed announcement of the 50th Anthem. What if they are readying a box of all the shows used to make the album?
Happy Birthday to me
Well not really. I bought the RT 2.2 several years back. Paid a little more than I should but have enjoyed it. I had it on for the 50th but did not make it all the way through. Today I woke up and was reading back through the liner notes when I decided to put disk one back on. I noticed an extra disk never seen before and knew I had misplaced a disk somehow. I went to pull it out and it was the bonus disk. I have listened to that release several times, how that disk got past me I will never know. Hidden in plain sight. So much for my prankster powers...
The Farseer fail....
....in the end, you found it. So no fail imo. Last five....Ozzy Osbourne-Blizzard Of Ozz (Randy Rhodes. So much promise).
Judas Priest-Hell Bent For Leather
GD-Boxilla Detroit 1976
Ween-Chocolate & Cheese
Dead & Co-The last Mexican night
Some defense of Port Chester
"See, there's only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that - the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country."- Jerry Garcia
24-track Betty Boards
2/18 Dark Star - Ned Lagin on clavichord!
2/18 First-ever performances of “Loser,” “Playing in the Band,” “Bertha,” “Greatest Story Ever Told,” and “Wharf Rat.”
2/19 First-ever performances of “Deal” and “Bird Song.”
And for those of you calling Port Chester 'pedestrian', tread carefully or you'll bring about the wrath of the dead in the form of our well-loved and respected in-house forensic pathologist.
mmmmm my metal
Includes Judas Priest (with Whitesnake and Iron Maiden on the Killers tour) at the Fox in Atlanta in August 1981.
Of course Kiss in the 70's.
And Randy Rhodes' second to last concert in Birmingham AL, Boutwell Aud. UFO opened and we were all into The Wild the Willing and the Innocent.
Weird to then see UFO in April of 1983 at the Hammersmith Odeon which then was released in limited issue.
2/24/71
Capitol TheaterPort Chester, New York
http://gratefuldeadoftheday.com/02-24-1971
This is the last of the epic six-show run at the Capitol Theater. You can argue which show is best, but there is no doubt that the Dead storm out of the joint with this one.
2/24/73
The Fieldhouse at the University of IowaIowa City, Iowa
http://gratefuldeadoftheday.com/02-24-1973
Sadly, the full recording of this night is not on Archive and probably does not exist at all outside of, perhaps, the Vault. We are fortunate to have some really tasty nugs from the night though. I especially recommend the ferocious Playin'.
2/24/74 Dave's Picks 13
Winterland ArenaSan Francisco, California
http://gratefuldeadoftheday.com/02-24-1974
Our Dead of the Day, February 24, 1974, from Winterland, is one of those truly special shows where the band is perfectly on and totally in sync; transcendence awaits the listener. From the US Blues opener to the end of the encore, the show is pure ecstasy. If it is even possible for some tunes to rise above the rest, in the first set it has to be the China Cat > Rider and Loser. All three songs are just bliss with the drums majestically keeping time, Phil throwing in some occasional bombs, the vocals perfectly evoking the deep meaning and passion of the lyrics, and Jerry’s guitar haunting it all. In the second set, the magnificent Weather Report Suite and absolutely face-melting Dark Star > Morning Dew somehow manage to surmount the remainder of the incredible set. To try to put words to the ethereal awesomeness of these tunes is just impossible. Just go listen for yourself.
Forensic Doc shout-out
Many (perhaps all) of you already know this, but I just wanted to give a public shout-out on these boards to Forensic Doc Eleven, who is a great guy who spent much of his evening uploading shows and sending them my way. This was after he graciously reached out to me after my initial post a few days ago, and made the offer -- no begging from me, he offered to hook me up within minutes of my signing up here.
I had to think about it for about, oh, twenty seconds before I decided to take him up on it.
Tonight he has gifted me an abundance of sweet shows stretching from the late 1968 to 1977, with an emphasis (naturally) on his beloved stomping grounds of 1971.
Thanks, Doc! You are a gem, and the world should know it.
Reminds me of
that famous Bugs Bunny line, "Eh, what's uploaded, Doc?"
I'll second that, Maine Dave
I'll second that statement / post about forensicdoceleven, Maine Dave. He truly is.
Dead of the Day: 2/25/66
52 years ago at the Ivar Theater, Los Angeles, CA., when our boys were just starting out.
http://www.gratefuldeadoftheday.com/02-25-1966
An outside (of dead.net) fan website.
Radio Silence
Been off the grid for a few weeks while away.
A few thoughts:
The Capitol Theater is sacred. Any release would be more than welcome.
Vguy - skydiving is way cool. One of the best things I have even done. In fact, my wife and I went skydiving on the the day I proposed. If she was willing to jump out of a airplane with me, she was worth keeping.
Way down with the Olympics. Winter much more than the summer. Unfortunately, we missed most of them this year. Love the competitiveness and pride the athletes show for their countries. However, I also never miss an oppotunity to use Lindsey Jacobellis as a teaching point for the kids as how not to behave in life.
metal
I can't remember if the term heavy metal was used at the time, but Hawkwind and Black Sabbath were my favourite bands back in the day-the early 1970s. Neither made much impact on me until I saw them live-after I which I was no longer a boy. Two of the best live albums by British bands in the early 70s are Hawkwinds Space ritual and Deep Purples Made in Japan.
I never knew that was Ned Lagin on keyboards on the 18th Feb 1971 show. That Dark Star IS great - no doubts there at all.
Metal!!!
I'm pretty sure that the term "Heavy metal" came somewhat later than the early '70s. I cannot recall the music of Hawkwind or Black Sabbath being described as heavy metal when I saw them in the early '70s. Black Sabbath played at the students union building in my hometown in the early '70s. It was the loudest thing I had ever heard. People who lived 5 miles away complained about the noise and it was an indoor venue! Albums that made people sit up and take notice in those times were (amongst others) Led Zeppelin 2, Deep Purple in Rock, Dark side of the moon, Ziggy Stardust and Transformer (?). Interesting times, the best of times. Everyone in those days was into music and every evening was spent at someones pad listening to the latest releases. I miss those days. Oh the innocence of the early '70s. Really the best time to be young in England. Nostalgia magnifies seminal events and times, but really the early '70s was heaven on earth.
Early 70's planted it....
....but the early 80's cultivated it. Reap the harvest. Metallica, Slayer, Scorpions, Priest, Maiden, Motorhead, AC/DC, Anthrax, Megadeth, Kreator, Destruction, Ozzy, Bathory, Savatage, Motley Crue, Manowar, Venom, Cirith Ungol. I could go on and on, but I don't want to bore you. A heavy riff gets me in to the mood for working the soil of my garden....I once planted a flower called Tipper Gore. It died. Granted. I didn't feed it....
I went on, didn't I?....
....forgot early Def Leppard, Accept, Possessed, Sepultura, Death Angel, Mercyful Fate, Suicidal Tendencies (reaching), Cinderella, ecetera. Thanks for indulging with me. Deep in the muck with stolzfus
And then, the Europe '72 Cumberland came along....
....and saved me? Music is universal. As in a Universal City '73 box? Segue....
The Segue....
....that was a musical eye opener for me. And no one does it better than you know who....
Heavy Metal Thunder
Metal started its downward spiral with me in the summer of 1982 when the fellas found me. I still listen to some music outside of the family. Some harder stuff, some country stuff (hey it is where I live), but have also always had a funky side from seeing the Jackson 5 in 1975, Parliament Funkedelic in 1976, to Prince with Larry Graham (of Sly and the Family) on bass in 1998. That is why for me I love the funky side of the fellas, Shakedown, Stranger, a funky Dancin, or even a funky Althea.
Oh yeah but Van Halen on the 80 Invasion Tour, and 81 Fair Warning Tour was a phenomenal think to witness. The power of rock and the energy of youth.
I believe it is safe to say most folks around have their own individualized musical stew that is their life. Alas, Born to be Wild!
There's a time for groovin'....
....and there's a time for bobbing the head. Downward spiral. I get you....
2-24-74!!!!!
I may be a day late, but I’m not a Dark Star or Dew short
Like a virgin
I ran across the Woodsworth (???)jerk spice hot sauce at a Firehouse Subs a few days back. I have always seen y'all post about it but had never seen it in my neck of the woods. It is quite tasty on a smoked turkey sub fully involved.
Speaking of segues....
....hot, hot, hotter than hell. A burning tongue is better than a loose one. Ghaaa!
"Progressive"-early 70s
If I remember rightly, most of the bands who specialised in albums, as opposed to singles in the early 1970s were regarded as "progressive" in England. A section in my local record shop had this title, and it was where you could find albums by the likes of Sabbath, Hawkwind, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Free.. all sorts of bands playing all sorts of music. Even the Deads albums could be found in this section, although I didn't get round to buying one, unheard, until 1975. David Bowie seemed a bit different to me-I saw him in 1972, round the time Ziggy Stardust came out, and he really did seem to be coming from somewhere else. Ditto Lou Reed.
But I agree, the early 1970s were a great time for music in England. So many fantastic gigs in Manchester at that time.
Taking The Plunge
Said the straight man, to the late man....
I know I am late, but I am taking the plunge.. Just loaded the Port Chester 71 run on my devices and that takes front and center of my next week or so. I have listened to all these shows before, but never back to back.
Thanks for encouraging me all..
Sometimes, it's the enthusiasm on these threads that thumps me on the head and I usually learn something along the way.
Just got back from a rather enjoyable day boating some of the local, very flooded creeks where I live. Had the pleasure of a few guest paddlers and enjoyed the company of some of the greatest whitewater athletes alive.. a very enjoyable day with old friends and no real carnage to report (which is always good). Wake of the flood, laughing water, forty nine...
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