Grateful Dead

It's Neil Peart, people, P-E-A-R-T. What, you were all out doing bong hits in the parking lot during English class?

Listening to the Dead, and RUSH, no doubt...

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I had the same issue with Dicks Vol 17. I remember thinking :What were THEY thinking to release this lousy show? The disc gathered dust for a few years and one day I accidently grabbed it when I wanted Dicks #16 for a road trip. I put it on in the car and it sounded great! Sometimes your head just isn't into a certain show at that time. Do not fear, always give it a second listen, cause I love # 17 today. Stay warm, its 10 degrees in Pittsburgh (but sunny).

Try 26 BELOW Fahrenheit, here in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where she tore me up . . . Schools have been closed for three days, and the USPS even suspended delivery yesterday. I'm glad--I don't want some poor soul freezing to death, just so I can get DaP 29 a day earlier. Now it's supposed to go to 40 above and rain this weekend? So much for our skiing snow . . .

Moby Dick: I somehow earned a degree in English Language and Literature without encountering that. A high school teacher tried to get us through Billy Budd, but we revolted and he relented. So I picked up Moby a few years back and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Second listens are crucial. Yesterday I revisited VFTV IV, the 7/24/87 show. My notes in the DVD box said nothing good about it. Watched it while riding the exercise bike and had a real good time! I had revisited the second show on that release (7/26/87) on an indoor ride a month back, and loved that as well. Those shows are short, and there's not much jamming, but the energy is top notch, and Jerry is very happy. Cool.

I'm very pleased that we get releases from all thirty years. Imagine how dull this hobby would be if we only had shows from one year or era.

I'm not a robot, but I play one on t.v.

Says by the end of day Friday....woohoo, gonna be a Grate weekend!

I also picked up a copy of Dicks 36, however I found it about $10.00 cheaper with free shipping on EBay for the exact same brand new Real Gone reissue. I think it’s also available from rare waves on amazon for about the same price. Real Gone is more expensive and you pay shipping! Seems odd?

Rock on Dead People!

I too have never read Moby Dick. My brother-in-law read it YEARS ago and said it was pages and pages about how to dissect a whale.

In the end, fuck Greg Peck's movie version, Mr. MaGoo performed the definitive version!

Fun Melville fact - He went blind later in life. Unable to read, he forced his daughters to read to him. Except he made them read original Greek works, they didn't read Greek, they just spoke phonetically! Can you image reading books to a blind old bastard in a language you didn't understand!

Were the CD's in here individually shrink wrapped??? I don't believe they were.. Only reason I ask I saw the Dream Bowl show on Ebay and it was wrapped. Stay warm everyone... Bob t

Rush plays basically the same setlist every night and Neil plays basically the same drum solo, if he plays one at all.
I wasn’t saying that he wasn’t a good drummer. There just isn’t the same creativity each night as with Drums/Space.

I could be wrong, the last time I saw Rush was 3-22-94, maybe things have changed since then.

There’s actually complete video of the show.
https://youtu.be/N_PdK8Gt7BE

Back tracking slightly, there is an interesting article in a book I bought in the 1990s, called "Dead Reckonings", edited by John Rocco that references "Moby Dick". Its in the introduction, and he suggests that Ahab's pursuit of the whale was an early, and more negative, prototype for the sort of quest that The Dead engaged with.

Dead Reckonings consists of selection of essays on the band, and is a bit hit or miss, from what I remember. The introduction, is actually the best article in the book.

I have never read "Moby Dick", though. Maybe later this year.

Reading Oroborous' post it struck me as similar to my experience with these releases. When the From the Vault releases and Dick's Picks first came out, I got them all, but at some point around DP21 or so I just felt like I had enough Dead and that there was other music that I wanted to acquire. I picked up a few of the general releases like Sunshine Daydream, Rockin the Rheine and the Hundred Year Hall, but I skipped Road Trips and passed on the FW'69 and E'72 releases when they first came out. At some later point, maybe 2014, I was driving around with one of my kids for their driver ed requirement and the E'72 Bickershaw Darkstar-Other One came on the Grateful Dead hour and got me right back on the bus. Picked up the E'72 volume 2 set shortly thereafter, then a couple of individual E'72 shows, then started acquiring box sets and individual releases that I had missed out on as well as the Dicks Picks and most of the Dave's Picks that I missed, and the rest of E'72. Pretty much got most of the holes in my collection filled before everything sold out on deadnet and prices seemed to skyrocket on ebay after the 50th anniversary stuff started and the 30 Trips box came out. Had I not just spent a bunch of time and money picking up releases that I had passed on, I might have been scared off by the price of the 30 Trips box, but as it was I knew I was ultimately saving myself money by purchasing it upfront rather than piecemeal on ebay later on. At this point, if they are releasing something, I want it.

To VGuy's point, absolutely agree, sometimes a show that doesn't click on one day blows me away on another occasion. If a release doesn't click on a first listen, there is a good chance that on another day, in another mood, I'll dig it.

....never judge it. Listen to it. Don't like it? Fine. Listen to it two months later. Still doesn't click? OK. Fine. Shelve it. Two years later, you notice the dust accumulating. Pull that bad boy out then. You might be surprised....I love surprises.
And if you spin it five times and still sucks, just sell it and move the fuck on. Someone, somewhere, will relish it. 😉
Spinning Dick's 11 after approx two years. Then again, I've always loved that Stanley show, so perhaps I failed the litmus test on that one.