Grateful Dead

..was one of the first soundboards I got on tape. It sounded 'pretty good' but it as reaaalllllyyyyy slow. Not pitch corrected. It was so early on, I just thought it was a slow and mellow show. Again.. it sounded ok just the opposite of chipmonked, in hindsight.. someone's batteries must have been running low when the tape was transferred. Years later I got an upgrade at the proper pitch. Still like that grove they get going in Eyes of the World. A unique version.

Dead of the Day: February 9, 1973 http://gratefuldeadoftheday.com/02-09-1973 Roscoe Maples Pavilion Palo Alto, California Without a doubt, our Dead of the Day is February 9, 1973 at Stanford University’s Roscoe Maples Pavilion in Palo Alto, California. Not only is the show historic, with seven first time playeds and the debut of the proto Wall of Sound, but it has some very good moments and a wicked setlist. With the new sound system, the band encountered a host of technical problems, including blowing out all the tweeters as Promised Land just got started, kicking off the first set. They also clearly had difficulty hearing themselves on the stage, especially in the first set. Still, this show is one for the ages with a spectacular They Love Each Other and smoking Truckin’. The fact that the They Love Each Other was one of the debuts is just amazing, but many of the other new tunes – Here Comes Sunshine, Row Jimmy, Loose Lucy, Wave that Flag, China Doll, and Eyes of the World – came out as stunners as well. There is also a beer-barrel polka for those aficionados. The February 9th show opened 1973 for the band, six days before they began their tour in earnest out in the Midwest. The year would prove to be one of the best for the Grateful Dead as they honed a new style, encompassing their earlier psychedelic, blues, and Americana, but adding a purposeful, exploratory jamming to the mix that really became, all mixed together, the heart and soul of the Dead sound. Named after the major donor who funded the project, the Roscoe Maples Pavilion, primarily constructed for basketball, had only been open for three years when the Dead came storming into it. The central floor, where the basketball court resided, was designed to be slightly springy, to protect athletes from hard landings. Once the heads started dancing at the show, the floor began undulating with the movement, making for a strange and wavy feeling that more than one person mistook for the effects of drugs. Just before the beginning of the second set, Wavy Gravy gives a little rap about raising money to replace the Bach Mai hospital in Vietnam. During Operation Linebacker II, a massive aerial bombardment of North Vietnam in late 1972, the hospital was leveled by bombs intended for the Bach Mai airfield. Eventually, donations, many coming from the American left and peace movement, helped rebuild the facility.

I recall hearing the show for the first time :)))

I really like this show. Give it a try if you haven't heard it. But you gotta turn it up to 11 (or more). I got it on more. Sunshine!!! Next up ... 2/15/73 - see ya then.

we don't need his lil' nose around here.

....look mighty fine.

Popping the tabs. Nice Green is the Colour, thanks.

Yes, just like not popping them on a cassette affected the music!!! Enjoy your weekend. bob t

I used to pop orange sunshine tabs, does that count? https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.drugfreeatlast.com…

Aaaahhhhhhhh! Yes, it happened to me more than once... If you don't catch it right away, you never notice and then one day you hit play and record at the same time instead of just play.. but wait, it only happens on your favorite, low generation crispy favorite tape and you notice almost right away, but it's already too late. Proving more than once... I have been a dumb ass. As for colors.. Green haters beware - green is clearly the best color.. it's true I like all colors, even black.. but Green is clearly the best. Or is it Greene? Whatever.. no bother.. green rocks no reason to debate this further. A very respectful, old time poster wrote something a couple weeks ago to the effect.. I was listening to xx/xx/71 today, a show I have listened to a number of times.. and I noticed something new I had had never noticed before. It might have been frosted or one of our CA friends, I forget.. might have been the 71 Texas Road Trips.. ..but the same thing happens to me all the time. Yesterday listening to a show that I have listened to many times over the years. I fell right into that grove the band was in, one of those PITB/UJB segways. Jerry fell into this fold and the whole band followed.. complete synchronicity, perfectly timed and powerful. green. Anyway.. regardless of the color or the show, when the band falls into one of those folds and you happen to catch the same wave, there is nothing like it. Quintessential Grateful Dead. It matters not the night, the color, the year or the personnel.. when they catch fire and you are in the right frame of mind to take it all in... Bliss.