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I’m a Dead Head that refuses to listen to Motorhead, or any heavy metal. Find it quite annoying.And pretty much any 80’s big hair band, other than Van Halen, which is actually a 70’s big hair band. The 80’s big hair bands were all just Van Halen wannabes. I consider Led Zep to be rock n roll, not heavy metal. I know somebody who would listen to Alice In Chains but then said he didn’t like The Who because ‘they were too hard’. WTF????

....that clue was bullshit. ;)

Well, the GD proves you can have bacon AND Dark Star in the same first set, no less. I don't think Bolo stores up days-old comments. He said quite recently, in a stab at humor, that there would be a box set. Then he posted that "they" heard Stoltzfus, who had just uttered the Dark Star, 1970, acid month and 4/21/71 comments. I SAY (beating my chest) that Bolo was reacting to those four items. BUT, indeed he'd teased bacon some time ago. Conclusion: Feb '71 has a Dark Star basting in grease. Of course, as I like to say, "I've never been wrong before." Except there was just that one time in the garden of forking paths when I took a left when I shoulda taken a right..........

Does it sound like Dark Star? But didn’t Stoltzfus also say something about some 80’s shows recently? We don’t know what Stoltzfus comment from what day Bolo was referring to. Could be from days ago. Why did I go to my first show? I liked the songs that I had heard, I was told that they were great live, I was looking for a Pink Floyd substitute since they didn’t tour regularly but I had made it in 87 and it was awesome, and I was told I could buy sheets in the parking lot and boy could I. The show was awesome (4-6-89), at least to me - prior to that I had only seen Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Jimmy Buffett. GD blew away all of them, including Floyd which was my favorite band up to that point. I walked out of the arena that night and Floyd had just been demoted to second favorite band. On a side note, I was on probation for a DUI when I attended that first Dead show. Good thing I didn’t get into any trouble while there. Caught 29 shows from that night until 7-9-95, 4 Brent, 5 Bruce, the rest Vince. Maybe a lousy era in some people’s opinion, but I had a great time and wish I could have gone more. The only really horrendous show was Deer Creek 95. Speaking of Deer Creek, I believe that D&C is playing there right now.

See what tripping as 15-yr-old does? Worm holes in the 60-yr-old memory! Hmmm, if bacon's involved, I'd have to drop Summer '73 and go with Feb '71 and my man in the greasy corduroy hat: Ron McKernan, who lays down great versions of: Hurts Me Too Hard to Handle Big Boss Man Smokestack Lightning Easy Wind(x2!) Good Lovin' Next Time You See Me Lovelight King Bee Hey Gollum, if it's 1971, I've got all kinds of time to hear Summer '73. I've agitated for Capitol Feb '71 for a while, but as a guitarist, I couldn't keep up the constant drum beat.....

that phish box set is way too rich for my blood. the good thing about it is answers my question were multi track? yes as they are advertised as being remixed and mastered. problem I have though unless they remix the individual shows I possibly might be having to settle for a inferior mix. for some odd ass reason I have this feeling the Dead box set is going to be just as ridiculously big and out of my price range.

Yes, hendrixfreak, maybe Portchester! Also wasn't there a wild Bolo clue a long, long time ago about hearing voices from on high or something? That could fit with the ESP thingy. And it fits the bacon in a box Pigpen clue.

Gollum may be right. Capitol run was multi-track, there was Stanley's ESP experiment (I've met Stanley, nice guy), there's one Dark Star and they've never put out a six-show consecutive run from a single venue. (I think...) 1971 or 1973, my cash money is on the line. Not to wager, but to buy. See, they've got us self-frothing. And no, I'm not in cahoots with TPTB, I'm just a hendrixfreak in Colorado who enjoys the vault guessing game, though, admittedly, I have in the past counseled "patience," "let it be a surprise" and other horseshit like a good hypocrite.

What other choice, at this stage, do I really have? Just remember, though, he 'watches every card he plays and plays 'em slow...' Stoltzfus mentioned Dark Star, 1970, "acid month" (I actually looked that up, just in case...) and 4/21/71. Hmmm, let's see now... Dark Star was mostly played in 1968 to 1972, with a few in '73. (Keeps my "Summer '73 box" hopes alive.) 1970 ... whoa! We know the vault has a scarcity here, UNLESS a couple choice shows were in the Mtn Grrl stash; don't think '70 was cited in the ABCD Ent. returned tapes. (Wasn't the latter ~1971-1978?) But as 1970 is so rare, I kinda doubt a '70 box. (Prove me wrong, please!) 4/21/71 ... certainly April or "Spring" 1971 contains a few Dark Stars and could be the "seasonal" box they've never done before. Between my emotions (summer '73 I caught six shows) and my reason (Dark Stars crop up three times in summer '73, summer '73 represents the single biggest gap in the vault release program, AND returned tapes may include '73), I'm still on the '73 box bandwagon. I've never been wrong before... As to "why" I attended my first GD show (9-19-72), American Beauty had been on the turntable in our basement (ping pong table, too) for more than a year, I was a freshly minted 15-yr-old, my older brother's friends had a car and could drive and I had an ounce ball of hash at my disposal. And I'd taken psychedelics already and been to several large, loud rock 'n roll concerts. Oh, and tickets were about $3. Now I'm a hugely maladjusted 60-yr-old with a freakin' enormous CD collection, including hundreds by the GD. That $3 tic was more expensive than I thought at the time. My prediction: a box announcement for pre-order before the July availability of the Anthem reissue (so psyched for fall '67!!). As to timing, it's like an old Twilight Zone episode in which the market (that'd be us) works itself (with my unwitting help) into a positive froth over the announcement. Properly primed, demand surges!

Krippner ESP experiment?! Portchester early 71!?