Grateful Dead

I'll pay more attention to that Lovelight tonight. I've always thought of New Potato Caboose as being the highlight of this show. But its all good.

....like all this life, was just a dream.

Fine.

I had a dream last night that Dave's 28 was 12/5/79 Uptown Theater, and we FINALLY got a Shakedown Street in the series (I know, broken record... :) However, in the clear light of day, I now see that Dave's 28 will be Avalon Ballroom, 4/5/69, with all or the majority of 4/6/69 as bonus material in a wonderfully cleaned-up, pristine remastering. Finally, these past few days, my GD buddy and band-mate has encouraged me to jump ahead a little in This Day in GD History and play the 8/29 and 8/30/80 Philly Spectrum shows... Holy Frijoles, Batman! These shows are fantastic, and the SBDs available on LMA are great! I would love to see these taken, remastered, then released as a mini-box, a la RFK 89. 8/29/80 - https://archive.org/details/gd1980-08-29.sbd.miller.91694.flac16 (Great playing from all, a ton of passion! Rare 2nd set Let it Grow, great He's Gone>TOO>Drums>Space>Wharf Rat,... Check out Candyman, if nothing else...) 8/30/80 - https://archive.org/details/gd1980-08-30.sbd.munder.tetzeli.fix-8875-15… (Killer show top to bottom! One of the most rocking Cold Rains, Estimated jam is off the chain, and the post Space NFA>Black Peter, while commonplace, is exceptional! Jerry is on absolute FIRE!) If anyone is interested, PM me your email address and I can send one, or both, your way! Peace

today's first listening: 10/21/83

.......what the hell is going on here???

No response necessary.

...hope this helps you Grateful Dead: Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir (vocals, guitar); Ron "Pig Pen" McKernan (vocals, harmonica, keyboards); Phil Lesh (vocals, bass); Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart (percussion). Engineers: Jeffery Norman, Don Pearson. Recorded live at The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California on August 23, 1968. Includes liner notes by Harper Barnes, "Maestro" Dan Healy and "Dr." Don Pearson. All tracks have been digitally remastered using HDCD technology. You want prime early Dead, you got it. The August '68 Shrine Auditorium concert captured on TWO FROM THE VAULT is the sort of gloriously extended jam-a-thon for which the Grateful Dead became famous. Multi-part pieces like "That's It for the Other One" are like miniature symphonies, with Garcia's guitar building devilish musical spirals around Phil Lesh's thunderous bass and the two-headed drum team's galloping poly-rhythms. The set's highlight, though, is when Ron "Pigpen" McKernan steps out front for easily the finest "Lovelight" the band's archives have officially released. Strutting like a jive-talking dandy, trading hollers with Bob Weir, and conducting the band's groove as though they were the JB's on acid, Pig demonstrates how he really was the Dead's original captain. As an encore to such raucous behaviour, the hall's custodians turn off the power just as the band starts hitting warp speed on "Morning Dew." Grateful Dead: Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir (vocals, guitar); Ron "Pig Pen" McKernan (vocals, harmonica, keyboards); Phil Lesh (vocals, bass); Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart (percussion). Engineers: Jeffery Norman, Don Pearson. Recorded live at The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California on August 23, 1968. Includes liner notes by Harper Barnes, "Maestro" Dan Healy and "Dr." Don Pearson. All tracks have been digitally remastered using HDCD technology. You want prime early Dead, you got it. The August '68 Shrine Auditorium concert captured on TWO FROM THE VAULT is the sort of gloriously extended jam-a-thon for which the Grateful Dead became famous. Multi-part pieces like "That's It for the Other One" are like miniature symphonies, with Garcia's guitar building devilish musical spirals around Phil Lesh's thunderous bass and the two-headed drum team's galloping poly-rhythms. The set's highlight, though, is when Ron "Pigpen" McKernan steps out front for easily the finest "Lovelight" the band's archives have officially released. Strutting like a jive-talking dandy, trading hollers with Bob Weir, and conducting the band's groove as though they were the JB's on acid, Pig demonstrates how he really was the Dead's original captain. As an encore to such raucous behaviour, the hall's custodians turn off the power just as the band starts hitting warp speed on "Morning Dew." ...An expanded edition of the album, with a third CD, was released in 2007 featuring the three songs (from August 23, 1968) previously released as bonus tracks on the 2003 reissue of ‘Anthem of the Sun’ Two from the Vault was released by Light in the Attic Records as a four-disc vinyl LP on December 9, 2014 ..,I enjoy the 2007 CD mix very much. I would recommend this release to any Grateful Dead fan! Smile smile smile :) ..,same goes for the vinyl release... Grateful Dead: Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir (vocals, guitar); Ron "Pig Pen" McKernan (vocals, harmonica, keyboards); Phil Lesh (vocals, bass); Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart (percussion). Engineers: Jeffery Norman, Don Pearson. Recorded live at The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California on August 23, 1968. Includes liner notes by Harper Barnes, "Maestro" Dan Healy and "Dr." Don Pearson. All tracks have been digitally remastered using HDCD technology. You want prime early Dead, you got it. The August '68 Shrine Auditorium concert captured on TWO FROM THE VAULT is the sort of gloriously extended jam-a-thon for which the Grateful Dead became famous. Multi-part pieces like "That's It for the Other One" are like miniature symphonies, with Garcia's guitar building devilish musical spirals around Phil Lesh's thunderous bass and the two-headed drum team's galloping poly-rhythms. The set's highlight, though, is when Ron "Pigpen" McKernan steps out front for easily the finest "Lovelight" the band's archives have officially released. Strutting like a jive-talking dandy, trading hollers with Bob Weir, and conducting the band's groove as though they were the JB's on acid, Pig demonstrates how he really was the Dead's original captain. As an encore to such raucous behaviour, the hall's custodians turn off the power just as the band starts hitting warp speed on "Morning Dew."

I'm not really one for anniversaries-but 50 years ago today has come to my attention. Incidentally, I got my copy of Two From The Vaults back when it first came out, in the early 1990s. I've only just noticed that it was re-released, with the bonus tracks originally served up as extras on the earlier version of Anthem, added. So-is this upgrade of Two From The Vaults much better than the original version? It probably is, but I'd be interested in finding out for sure.

What happened to this musical messaage board?I don’t think we are in Kansas anymore Toto or is it the other way around :(