Grateful Dead

"while I beat you with a pair of tennis shoes I got from Jeff Beck."

-Grateful Dead Live at Madison Square Garden on 1988-09-18 Feel Like A Stranger-> Franklin's Tower, Good Time Blues, Big Railroad Blues, Memphis Blues, Stagger Lee, Promised Land Not Fade Away-> Scarlet Begonias-> Fire On The Mountain-> Women Are Smarter-> Drums-> Space-> The Other One-> Wharf Rat-> Throwin' Stones, E: Black Muddy River ...I always dig listening to this show, being from the garden and all, and it’s well know acoustics..., ...or how about these three shows in April 7,8 & 9th. :) https://www.discogs.com/Grateful-Dead-The-Centrum-Worcester-Massachuset…

There was a good one on telly here on Jeff Beck last week. Lots of clips from The Yardbirds up to recent concerts. He is as vital now as he ever was. I haven't bought his latest studio cd, Loud Hailer, but the blu ray Live At The Hollywood Bowl summer 2016 is superb. He is joined by various people on different tracks. All great, but the music played with Jan Hammer is dazzling. High hopes for London next month!

In fact, there have been a bunch of great docs and concert vids on the Telly the last few years...Sabbath, Clapton; life in 12 bars, Hendrix, Stones rellesead a few, Rush, know I still have a few others on DVR but forget?....and of course the F.T.W. shows, The Dead, and Weirs excellent T.O.O....

Wasn’t a huge fan of that stuff, but again, by today’s standards they still rock!Like Ozzy cause he cracks me up; road trip show with Jack, his books etc But if you’ve seen the farewell concert/documentary The End, I think on showtime, they were awesome. It’s a shame touring sucks so much because a lot of these old goats still have it, like Phil!

I saw both Black Sabbath and Deep Purple last year, for the first time since 1975. Incredible! Black Sabbath's set was culled almost exclusively from the first three albums-and the arrangements and solos were almost exactly the same as the original recorded versions. Deep Purple played some new material, and with Steve Morse on guitar and Don Airey on keyboards they were much different from early 70s. More contained, and less chaotic.But both Steve and Don played really well, incorporating just enough of their own styles while still referencing Blackmore and Jon Lord. And Ian Paice's drum roll at the beginning of Fireball nearly blew the roof off. None of which has much to do with The Dead. I suppose Sabbaths gig was the polar opposite of a Dead show-rehearsed to the minutest degree. Maybe when Daves Picks 26 arrives, I'll get back on course!

Yes, good call Oro! Just gotta poke around

Yes Oro! The Night Sweats are great indeed! I saw them on Austin City Limits and was immediately turned on without realizing that they have been fairly well known for a few years now. I got the live at Red Rocks release that came out recently and think it is great. Well worth checking out live - very high energy stuff. High on Dick Clark's dance-ability meter too! Son of Bitch - get me a drink!

A little late to the post, thanks Cosmic David for the link to the show. I was there, really enjoyed it and took a few days to meander my way back to NM. Maybe I'll see you in July when Dead and Co are in ABQ. One of my favorite parts of the night was when Phil joined Leftover Salmon on Catfish John (and then Big Boss Man). It really suited the JGB, but hearing Phil play it live I wish they had played it with the Dead a few times. Leftover Salmon's entire opening set (including their entire new album which they released the day before the show: https://archive.org/details/LeftoverSalmon2018-05-05.AKG.P170.AUD.flac16 The listening theme for my trip was CO shows (other than DaP 26). 1973-11-20 Denver, 1981-12-09, Dead and Co 2017. As everyone else, I like DaP26 a lot. TOO from the two shows are very different from each other and very good. Love the 71-72 TOO's with a cowboy middle. Love those Dark Star sandwiches from that era as well. All the new material sounds fresh, the band sounds energized. For me, I prefer this release by a fair margin over DaP22 - was excited for Felt Forum but it didn't produce for me the way DaP 26 has.

So Much stuff being tossed about here and there; all quite interesting and inspiring. First, a shout out to 5/9/77 Buffalo - most specifically to that ridiculous Help > Slip > Franklin's OPENER. Can you possibly imagine being a lucky Head on a third consecutive night of this unfolding magical trifecta only to have it open up with this monstrous entity??? Distilling these three shows down, I think this sequence is probably my favorite out of all three shows. A few years back I made an 'ultimate setlist' from these shows and sure enough it kicks off with this sucker. Lots of banter related to 12/9/81, and admittedly I haven't relistened to that one in quite some time but I feel compelled to now. I DO recall the several unspecified patches that caught me off guard and sort of took me out of the moment when I first heard it. I suppose the 'How jarring is it?' is the question I will need to revisit. Bill and Ted are returning! (thanks VGuy for that tiny blink-if-you-miss-it reference). I actually saw this news yesterday and was like - wow! totally cool. Just think how far Neo I mean Ted has come since this role... Recently also learned about Fleetwood Mac going on tour without Lindsay Buckingham. That sort of shocked me too, as I figured of all the people left he was one of the pillars given his role. I suppose even pillars can be replaced to hold up the roof. GFar - thanks for posting that awesome article/interview about the early Jerry years. Reminded me I needed to go pre-order that. I did. Looking forward to it. When's the box set announcement? What about Gainesville? Sixtus