Grateful Dead

Has anyone ever listen to this when Bob sings an extra verse at the end!!! Oh man someone is pissed... You can hear someone say you F everything up, or something along those lines. Brent says everyone makes mistakes and you can hear Jerry try to say thanks a couple of times... Anyone have any color on this if they were there??? I can never make it out... bob t

I am bipolar on this one.

On the one hand.. the acoustic stuff from 1980 was both excellent and excellently recorded.

On the other hand, there is not nearly as much variation in the acoustic stuff as the electric. At least that's my memory when I last compared the not released acoustic stuff to Reckoning/For The Faithful. So it loses the new car smell very quickly and becomes sort of a novelty piece or something I am in the mood for less frequently.

The acoustic 1970 acoustic sets, although tasty and might I say historical, just don't sound as crisp or as good as the 1980 acoustic stuff. When I first got around looking for Reckoning and trying to get it and listen to it.. it was horribly out of print super expensive. I looked everywhere for it and after about six months to a year of looking, it was magically re-released as For the Faithful. It was (is) so good and I finally had some less spaced out GD I could play for the non-believers around me. You know.. 4 minute songs you could tap your feet to, etc.

Still, I will gladly buy this and listen to it with an open mind and I am sure I will love it. It just likely won't see a ton of play time. It's all good though.. I know there are some that will kill for this stuff and are looking forward to it. I knew a couple people that think the acoustic stuff is the very best of the GD. We are a big tent crowd, I say bring it on.

I feel a bit underwhelmed, myself, I must admit. Hardly a fair substitute for 2/28/69. Still, at least it isn't a Dave's Picks. Other people seem happy, and I get to save a few bob, so it all pans out.

Hey KF, yep, that Bouncy Jam was included, or at least a segment of it, on the reissued/remastered Blues For Allah that was initially released as part of the second anthology box set. I forget which track it is, but it is one of the instrumental tracks listed here following the Blues for Allah track:

Blues for Allah Remastered Track Listings:
Disc: 1
1. Help On The Way/Slipknot
2. Franklin's Tower
3. King Solomon's Marbles: Part I: Stronger Than Dirt/Part II: Milkin' The Turkey
4. The Music Never Stopped
5. Crazy Fingers
6. Sage & Spirit
7. Blues For Allah: Sand Castles & Glass Camels/Unusual Occurrences In The Desert
8. Groove #1 (Instrumental Studio Outtake)
9. Groove #2 (Instrumental Studio Outtake)
10. Distorto (Instrumental Studio Outtake)
11. A To E Flat Jam (Instrumental Studio Outtake)
12. Proto 18 Proper (Instrumental Studio Outtake)
13. Hollywood Cantata (Studio Outtake)

And the PBS acoustic stuff you're referencing was indeed from Dead Ahead, which was incidentally from this acoustic run in fall '80...I catch that from time to time on good ole public tv.

Sixtus

Never heard that one before. I like the conversations they're having in between jams. Sixtus, did you say that's been released before?

Was that Warfield acoustic stuff on PBS at one point? Or is that Dead Ahead I'm thinking of? All I remember is I caught my dad watching it one night, and he grabbed the remote and change the channel quickly, as though I walked in on him watching porn. Call it a missed opportunity I guess, but I often think I should have broken out a spliff.

Yes they are being released on cd and LP, both say 2 disc. By my math that is a big difference in amount of space available. Both are listed a RSD only releases, so i do not know if they will go out to the mass market.

but to release the acoustic without the electric...no, no, no.

the acoustic would stimulate my synapses...oh, just you wait until the electric happens...oh, yeah...I am so ready...

"NO ELECTRIC SETS FOR YOU!!!"

psychedelic azure spheres like you wouldn't believe.

Man, I'll say the 10/10/80 show does it for me. That Setlist - WOW. Although the purist in me would want the whole lot. But that's just being acoustically greedy.

The sad reality is I haven't had a record player since probably the early '90's and knowing myself if I started now it would turn into something like my outrageous Lego collection....
Anyone know if these suckers are gonna be released on CD too? A long shot but hey one can dream big.

Happy Friday in Deadland.
Sixtus

No, not Phish, Fish. This is what happens when you give a fish too much LSD.

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One of these washed up on the shore new Santa Barbara this week, undoubtedly lured by the sounds of Live Dead being played on the beach. Mystery solved, ok back to your regularly scheduled listening.

These are the complete setslists for both shows:

10/09/80
Warfield Theater - San Francisco, CA

Set 1:
Dire Wolf
Dark Hollow
Been All Around This World
Cassidy
China Doll
On The Road Again
Bird Song
The Race Is On
Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie
Ripple
Set 2:
Feel Like A Stranger
Friend Of The Devil
Mama Tried
Mexicali Blues
Peggy-O
Little Red Rooster
Brown-Eyed Women
Tennessee Jed
The Music Never Stopped
Set 3:
Alabama Getaway
Greatest Story Ever Told
High Time
Lost Sailor
Saint Of Circumstance
Terrapin Station
Drums
Not Fade Away
Wharf Rat
Sugar Magnolia
Encore:
Casey Jones

10/10/80
Warfield Theater - San Francisco, CA

Set 1:
On The Road Again
It Must Have Been The Roses
Monkey And The Engineer
Jack-A-Roe
Dark Hollow
To Lay Me Down
Heaven Help The Fool
Bird Song
Ripple
Set 2:
Mississippi Half-Step
Franklin's Tower
Me And My Uncle
Big River
Candyman
Beat It On Down The Line
Row Jimmy
New Minglewood Blues
Althea
Jack Straw
Set 3:
Scarlet Begonias
Fire On The Mountain
Samson And Delilah
Big Railroad Blues
Estimated Prophet
Eyes Of The World
Drums
Truckin'
Nobody's Jam
Black Peter
Around And Around
Promised Land
Encore:
U.S. Blues