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The unexpected return of the masters of the Grateful Dead's triumphant show at the Albuquerque Civic Auditorium, November 17, 1971, yields great rewards. The Dead came in HOT for their first New Mexico show. Aided by clarity and precision and abetted by confidence and focus, they finessed old standards with definitive takes. With Keith now blending in seamlessly on keys, the first set offered up a triple shot of electric Blues, an exceptional "You Win Again," and a stellar "One More Saturday Night" to wrap things up. And the second set, well, it might just be unlike any you've ever heard. Archivist David Lemieux urges you to turn it up and do it loudly. We won't dare spoil all the surprises, but pay special attention to the rippin' "Sugar Magnolia," the aggressively monstrous "The Other One," and the highly-danceable "Not Fade>GDTRFB>Not Fade." Rounding out the 3CDs, you'll find selections from Pigpen's return tour at Ann Arbor, MI, 12/14/71. Subscribers will get nearly all of the complete show as this year's bonus disc.
As always, Dave's Picks Volume 26 has been mastered to HDCD specs from the original analog tapes by Jeffrey Norman and is limited to 18,000 individually-numbered copies*.
*Limited to 2 per order. Very limited quantity available.
S&P
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!
Documentary’s
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....
Documentary-Jeff Beck
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!
Re/ 1988
-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…
name the movie this is from and win a new car!
"while I beat you with a pair of tennis shoes I got from Jeff Beck."
Zappa - magic fingers
winner winner chicken dinner!
oh, thats the song, not a movie....
jrf68 wins a new Vista Cruiser!
it'll be delivered any day now
good work, jrf68.
open up your pocketbook
get another quarter outdrop in the meter mama
try me on for size
the guitar solo in that track is cool
Two for the Show
Two Oro's how can that be.
From now on I will be known as Sir Garret Farseer...
Dang lovin the conversation.
Don Airey, seems I remember a documentary explaining a battle with him and Sharon Osbourne. I know Bob Daisley is credited now with helping write Diary of a Madman, but it seems like he Randy Rhodes and Don Airey wrote all the music to Diary. Seem to recall there was a dispute about royalties and such so Airey and Daisley and Kerslake the drummer were released. I know Sharon helped some with helping Ozzy deal, but I put her in the same category as Gail Zappa.
The theme of this story is purely fictional and should not be confused with actual people places and events, real or fictional.
Or something like that...
Not the Jack Straw from Cornell?
I have had the tape FOREVER and I, of course, bought the official release....I am going to have to go back and listen. That Jack Straw when I was in High School would get me so revved up because Jer just takes it, and takes it, and takes it. Higher, Higher, Higher, then BANG! Jack Straw from Wichita! Why would they swap them? and for which show is the Jack from GSTL 5/8/77 ACTUALLY swapped with?
AcrosstheRio
AcrosstheRio Definitely want to meet up for the ABQ Dead n Co show. I sent you a PM seeing if you wanted to meet up for Phil but you might not have read it. Get a hold of me! PM me and I will shoot you my number.
Also, any other Colorado deadheads trolling around on here...PM me. I love an excuse for a meet up and why wait till show time? Strangers stopping strangers...
Movies
Keep asking.. eventually someone will say yes. Gets harder and harder each year for me too.
...I'm bet they will crank out a meet up at the movies again. So what's it gonna be this year? There are some prime 89's yet to be plucked and I, for one, would be happy with a repeat of the Beat, 72. or how's this? 4/17 Amsterdam and the Beat. Or how about 71 Chateau d'Herouville?
Wouldn't it be grand to announce the Box Set the same day?
And what about Gainesville?
Is Dave still feeling a bit under the weather?
How come no one filmed the 5.9.77 Buffalo show?....
....to see that Help>Slip!>Frank opener on celluloid would be neat. Guess we need to settle for the Normanized returned Betty's. For shame! (p.s. it's really good. Here. Listen).
5/9
I always liked 5/9 the most of the three.. simply for the Help/Slip/Franks and the second set Other One, NFA, Comes a Time jam. In fact, on my drive home tonight I was listening to the Playing, NFA, Comes a Time Playing from 5/12/77 Auditorium Theatre, Chicago. It could be my favorite sequence from the Spring 77 Box v. 1.
I honestly don't listen to that much 77 GD these days, primarily because I have listened to it to death decades ago.. but that doesn't mean I don't really like it. So many tapes, so little time.
Edit: oh.. VGuy, I had 35 mm film of all the 77 shows, but my last gf tossed them at the same time she tossed all my ticket stubs. Ain't that a shame...
Re: mhammond
Give them to me.. my ticket stubs and my 35 mm tapes of GD shows. I knew you had them all along.
Honestly
When have you ever seen or heard a show opener like this H>S>F?
Oh yeah. We forgot to play this last night at Cornell, so here you go.
Unreal.
I maintain that 5/7 has the best Bertha, Peggy-O and 1/2 Step ever played, but Buffalo is my favorite of the three.
5.9.77....
.... apparently Jimbo overdosed on Spring '77 awhile back. Sucks to be him. I was thoroughly in an Estimated vibe when a Spanish lady came by with a rose and took my hand out of nowhere. The rest is 5.9.18 history....
Buffalo, yo!
I know Cornell gets all the hype, but Buffalo is my favorite show out of the sacred three. Gets regular play, especially on those scenic drives along the coast or out to the desert.
RE: vguy/Jim
...yeah but what’s gonna happen if ol Jimhas one of those flashbacks they warned about...
Carful vguy, I’ve heard some things about her!
Jack Straw switch?
Hey icecrmcnkd: Can you (or somebody), explain the story behind your comment that "the GSTL ‘5-8-77’ Jack Straw isn’t actually from 5-8-77."? I couldn't find an answer and can't stop wondering. . . Thanks!
RE: movies
Good choices, and what about Hampton 89, that still kinda frosts my ass.We all know they had vid from all those tours. For the box price, you think they could of tossed in some vid.
I still like how they did crimson, white and indigo; discs and vid in relatively simple package at reasonable price......
Like I was saying the other day; why don’t they have us pre-pay before they run production, that way they don’t lose money, and we don’t get shut out?
RE: switch
Yeah, I’d like to hear that also
Jeff! Your back, we were worried, last time you said things were starting to be contained etc, but weren’t outta the proverbial woods yet. Hope things have worked out?
5/9/77/H-S-F
Whoooosh, always liked this one the best, but I’m no 77 expert, listed through Ship o last night, man what a solid first set,that H-S-F is definitely one for the ages. Like that the Franks doesn’t drone on too long, sometimes happens IMHO....
Wait....WHAT!?!
Hey Oroborous....a Franklin's that DRONES ON???? I actually don't think that's possible. The licks are bouncy and happy and upbeat from start to finish! Add-in some pianer-tinkling and bass bombs and it only adds to nuance and happiness all the way to the final coda.
I challenge you to rethink this borderline blasphemous statement. :D
Sixtus
Smithers..
Release the hounds.:D
Is it the weekend yet? Aren't they going to announce the box set soon? Has Dave been replaced by a cyborg or vampire?
Feels like Funky Thursday.
Sixtus
Good morning Sir!
First, I did qualify my premise with “ IMHO” which that and a dollar miiight get ya a cup of coffee.
Second, I can certainly time some of the looooooooongish end choruses of Franks that never seem to end to make my point, not so much the song body proper...but why bother, the main thing is YOU Dig It, and enough so to call me out, so like someone (sorry, not much memory left ; ) so wonderfully said the other day, that’s what’s trully important, that makes YOU happy.
Who gives a rats ass what I think!
I’m just an old dog who misses shootin’ the breeze about the boys and the “good ol days”
and perhaps, occasionally one of you nice folks will scratch my ears or rub my prodigious belly
Wooof!
Woof Woof
It's always great to scratch that itch my friend. I'm just razzin' you anyway. I completely concur this is all just opinions and likes being shared, which gives wonderful insight across the ether into each kind soul on here who wishes to participate. And now that you are getting a little more precise, I can understand your point of view on the outros in there from time to time. It is perhaps in the same vein as 'Deal' from, say, '78, where they go on and on and on with the vocal coda - sometimes to the point where Donna's attempts to hit a higher vocal pitch ends up sounding like a banshee at midnight - but again just an opinion!
I say, let the music play. And kick it off with a fine Help > Slip > Franklin's.
Happy day to All.
Sixtus
Box set announcement
It's all part of the delicate negotiations to free the North Korean "detainees." OK, hostages. Now that our citizens are joyously back on U.S. soil, other critical international business can soon follow.
I ask you, what can be more critical than unleashing more transcendent GD music to soothe the pervasive bitterness, anger and anxieties currently floating around the globe? As Joseph Campbell once said, "the Grateful Dead are the best answer today to the atom bomb." And perhaps lots of other bad stuff.
Carry on.
I predict box announcement on
June 1
WHAT'S IN THE BOX?
(prepare for complaints)
RE: bolo
By George old man I think you might be on to something there.....Perhaps when the revolution starts, they should lock all the power elite in a room with some high powered speakers, air-dose em, and not let em out until they listen to 30 trips, or E72, Spring 77 or ???....
Hell, they can bring em nothing but kind veggie burritos, falafel, PBJ and other usual tour chow....
Who needs the U.N. we got Bolo and the gang on it!!!
...Pigpen/ Elvis....what ?
https://youtu.be/8WiVzo2iJ8M
...1970’s pigpen ‘Mr Charlie’ >>> I can picture PigPen singing this Elvis tune/song. :)
Re: Get the Rope / N. Korea Box Connection
Get the rope.. I love it. Nothing like a good old fashioned lynching to steer / keep the discourse on point. Burning and a Looting Tonight...
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Makes perfect sense. The North Korea connection to Dave and this Box Set.
That explains the basement Release Video, Dave being in exile and Dave's strange change in appearance of late. It also helps explain some of the delivery times.. They are using Kim Jong Un's (Uni for short) 30 mph max, heavily armored train to deliver these things.
My question is.. who has the master reels, or at least what country are they in?
Box Set
Complete 1980 September/October Warfield Theatre run. There were 15, three set shows, at the Warfield. If memory serves, much of the run was lost (or rather taped over) The box will consist of shows that fully remain intact. Probably a bad guess; just going with the 1980 Iran "hostages" clue or not clue from Bolo.
Sam T
the box before DaP 27, more guitar
Taking bolo's comment to mean that box set order date announcement is imminent.
Avoiding political quagmire discussion, the proverbial olive branch... is dead.net ready to send Kim Jong-un a promo copy of DaP27? He could use more than a few miracles. Back to music.
Let's warm up Jim's mower, shall we? Put in some high test, go back a ways? Thanks, Jim!
A Korean War vet (connecting some dots here) rocked the world with his guitar, gets cred for surf music influence, moves to San Fran in the early 70s, jams out with John Cipollina of Quicksilver, he had to have been at some early Dead shows...
It might get loud: Jimmy P chortles and plays air guitar to that vet's music. Pete Townsend said this guy was responsible for him taking up guitar.
thanks for that sweet little sister Elvis clip (note James Burton there with his then rad red paisley telecaster!) brought to mind a Shawnee genius, so geezer or not, dial that mower back to '59... intro by Dick Clark, seemingly a cowboy tune with a 31 fret bizarre cutaway Danelectro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn5hl2IA7_s
Wray
Thanks dmcvt. Link Wray! When you mentioned surf music (I know- I'll never hear surf music again) I immediately thought Dick Dale, forgetting about Link. So thanks for the Link. I'm a huge surf guitar fan....we recently (March 2018) lost Nokie Edwards, the Ventures guitarist. (But maybe the Ventures considered themselves an instrumental rock band more than a surf band...)
Regarding the Elvis clip - I assume that's Ron Tutt playing drums for Elvis? I never saw Jerry with Ron, but I wish I had. Ron Tutt...backed up Elvis, then Garcia, then Neil Diamond. Wow. That's a lot of talented entertainers.
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