Grateful Dead

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Doc, best wishes on a full recovery. You're in my prayers. V Guy- happy belated birthday and congrats on your Golden Knights making the Cup finals. Hockey playoffs rule. Hope it goes 7. Jim, funny you mentioned Dave's 16- I was just listening to that one yesterday- it's a monster. Haven't listened to it in a while and it rocks. Love '73. I know it's blasphemy, but I haven't listened to Dave's 26 yet. My CD player at home is done as is the one in my car. I have to burn it to my wife's computer, which I will do tonight, and dive in over the long holiday weekend. From all the feedback on this here board, I am in for a hell of a good weekend. Been spending a whole bunch of time with vinyl lately. 2/27/69 is truly magic. Can't wait for the rest of the set to come out over the next few years. I also got the 140gram Cornell- missed the first pressing. Been listening to it late night after the wife and kids have gone to bed. What a treat. I'd probably give Buffalo the nod in that box, but damn that Dancin' is good. Bring on the Take a Step Back Box! Phil cracks me up on Dave's 25- I laugh every time I hear it. One last thing--> I haven't given a ton of listening time to the early 80s, but 5/23/82 from the Greek is a great show. I'd take this as a Dave's Pick any day: https://archive.org/details/gd82-05-23.sbd.gorinsky.5058.sbeok.shnf/gd1… Have a great weekend, y'all. And let's all remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice, so we can enjoy this beautiful country.

One of my favorite sleeper shows of the tour. I really like the four night Lyceum run. To listen to them as a suite of shows is a real treat. It's ridiculously good. In fact.. I have come to enjoy the less popular shows more than the mammoth ones. They contain more surprises mainly because they are on the roads less travelled. I do like this Lovelight.. The Lovelight>GDTRFB from Bickershaw is a treat too as mentioned earlier this week.

There are anniversaries, and there are anniversaries. Today marks the last time pig pen sang turn on your lovelight 46 years ago. In my humble opinion, this is the best love light. I think the streamlined versions that you get on the Europe 72 tour really showcase this song best. They only played it three times on this tour, and this is the only version that contains the doot doot doo arrangement that they played on many lovelights previously. Pig pens improvised vocals during this part are the best I've heard him do on this song. Tune in at 10:05. I'm also fond of saying that they jam like The Allman on these Europe 72 versions. You can check it out on either the Europe 72 box set or Rockin the rhein, where was included as a bonus track. Check it out, it's like one of those caramel macchiatos, it'll change your life.

I love the face cover of Relics https://www.google.com/search?q=pink+floyd+relics+cover&safe=strict&tbm…:

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My favourite Floyd era seems a bit different from everybody else's. To me, they were far and away at their best between 1966 and 1969-particularly when Syd Barret was at the helm. In the first few years, their sound was sculpted by Syd and Rick Wright, with Nick Mason providing great ticking clock like support on drums. Roger Waters, by his own admission was in it for the "birds and the booze" during those early years, which could be why he always puts the era down now in interviews. So, the best albums, for me, are "Piper at the Gates of Dawn"-the three disc version which includes the superior mono version, the recently released Early Years collection of discs 1965-1967, which includes singles and some priceless video clips of the band, Saucerful of Secrets and Ummagumma-the live tracks only-the studio ones aren't up to much. As Syd Barret and his influence receded into the distance and Rick Wright became marginalised, Dave Gilmour and Roger Waters steered the band into duller pastures. Stadium rock beckoned and they became one of the most successful bands of all time. But their best years were behind them. The Syd Barret solo albums, "Madcap Laughs" and "Barret" are also worth checking out-especially Madcap. Tool sound interesting.

Floyd's themes and lyrical content I think should be listened to in order. There is a distinct arc and progression of both content and emotion, listening out of order well to me, that is akin to reading a classic novel by random chapters. Love, loss, sanity, war, fear, family, friends who are no longer here, frustrations with the effects of capitalism and politics, floyd is some heavy stuff. They really feed one into another and taking parts out of context would most likely lessen the impact of some of the more subtle connections that exist from one album to the next. Some of the connections are not so subtle as in the trifecta of dark side, wish, and animals and then the wall. It is a near perfect representation of ascending from the glow and joy of youth to the reality and cynicism as a person realizes their idealism and oddity does not jibe with the societies at large and their art is used to commoditize a persons passion, inspiration and art. Days of lying supine in the sunshine transition to disconnect, fear and paranoia. But thats just my take, though waters and other band members has said as much in a number of different interviews. In case you can't tell my favorite 3 bands are GD, Floyd and TOOL. Though tool is usually for only the real psychonauts as most people just hear it and assume heavy metal. Its more like launching in the galaxies on a heavy ayahuasca trip but thats not usually for the faint of heart. Tool, Floyd, and Gd Have siginificant overlap if you can get past the different styles of presenting the music.

I have enjoyed the releases from the Vault since they started. Comparing the 50th anniversary to present day, I am pickled with 2016 to present, simply because they have exceeded expectations since the big year. I enjoy 30 trips, it is spectacular.. but costly and I did not dig they way the marketed Fare Thee Well. Ok.. I did really like Dave's Picks 16, the final DaP of the year and I think the first release from the returned reels. 2016 started off with a bang, starting with a great 74, then the July 78 box set. 2017 was also wowwie and we got the apex of May '77 which although was sort of expected.. when it finally arrived I thought wow.. they pulled it off. Both years had one release with mixed reviews.. but I think that is part of the formula from here on out. Still, it's the Dave's Picks series that have really kicked ass. I doubt if this level of kick-assness can be sustained forever. The influx of new reels is candy for the ears and mind. Yes.. 2015 was better but we paid for it. The last two years simply exceeded expectations, both at a lower costs and some real gems and surprises. To me.. it's just as much fun as the very beginning and (almost) just as good. Scratch that.. with the exception of Harpur College it might just be just as good. This might be controversial.. opposing thoughts are welcome. Who the hell am I am anyway.. just another jackwad that loves music, life and has a usually flawed opinion. Who is David Duryeau and Kayak Guy anyway and why do people keep mentioning their names. Gainesville? Ok.. riding high on a personal story.. an old friend rang my doorbell today and I got quite the invite. Hard boating with hottie female whitewater royalty. Just got a text.. It looks as though tomorrow I'll do pretty much the same. Life is smiling.. I might as well embrace it. I mean.. both days, I am the only guy with an all female, cutting edge team doing some really hard shit. British royalty has nothing on us in the backwoods of WV. It doesn't hurt that it has rained almost every day for the last month. The creeks are pumping. Doesn't really relate to the GD except that it's pretty much all I listen to when I boat, so it ties in quite nicely to the GD, at least to me.