Grateful Dead

A fantastic anniversary show. Today's, from 1991. Love the Bruce. Holy cow hold on tight from the opening Shakedown:

https://archive.org/details/gd1991-04-05.132572.sbd.healy.latvala.wise…

....Including Dick's Picks 17, that one's a doozy and an all-time favorite great call. I still think that the entire Garden 91 run should be released in a wonderful Bruce-infused box.

And Keithfan, as for the Europe 72 trunk, I gave that a once-over last night and also came to the same conclusion that this starts on Sunday. Looks like there's going to be some Greatest Story blasted at 10 a.m. to get things rolling along with the percolating smells of coffee and bacon ummhmmmmm.

Sixtus

Sunday April 7 - anniversary of the first show of the tour. Time to bust out the Europe '72 Steamer Trunk. One of my favorite Greatest Stories - cool clear water well you can't ever tell - 2x. Go Donna.

Almost listened to all of them. I'm putting the whole shows on for these, so it's taking time.

Just received this the other day. Really like this show 9/25/91. Listening right now to the bonus song 23 minute version of Eyes of the world from 3/31/91.

I played Dr Sardonicus as well last night. I had forgotten what a great album this is-everything about it works, but the incredible guitar sound and playing stand out. Strange how this album, and band, come to that, tend to get overlooked in retrospectives of psychedelic albums and bands of yore.

Yes, it would have been quite something if Spirit had played Woodstock, and Randy California had jammed with Hendrix. Watching the film, you can see Jimi willing Larry Lee to step up and spar with him, but sadly Larry really isn't fit for purpose-although the Hendrix set is still the highlight of the festival for me. Sparks could really have flown had Randy been up there.

Thanks for the offer, Sam-pm to follow.

Just digging in....that PotatoLand Theme's some funky shit.....

Thanks Sam!

Buenos Dias Rockeros!

Got them anniversary blues? So much great dead, so little time!
I, like perhaps many of you, often don’t have enough time for proper Dead listening.....blasphemous I know!
So I’ve been using the five year method for a few years now and it seems to help.
I simply follow the below criteria, or not, because some times you just feel like a nut 😉

Generally, for any given calendar day, I take the years in corresponding five year increments; so this year it’s 69, 74, 79, 84, 89, and 94 prioritized accordingly...
1) Officially released shows I was at (especially if one of the above years)
2) Shows I was at from the corresponding years; so again this year its 9’s and 4’s.
3) Official releases from the corresponding years that I was not at.
4) Shows I was at, but not from the corresponding years
5) Offically released shows, but not from the corresponding years
6) any dam thing I want if I have a certain itch to scratch...
This has saved much time (and headaches 😀) figuring out what to listen too, and made anniversary listening much more manageable...perhaps this might help you too?

What ever works, PLAY DEAD!
& Be well folks!

PS, I’m really glad I’m just a dog and not a robot. I was worried there for a minute.

...I also concur Daves Pick #21 is great. Made up for 20th Pick from the 80’s...lol , I love it all..

sent you a couple of emails, let me know if you got them, more if you want it, just got to figure out how to put it all in an email.

Popped this one this morning and for me still one of my favorites. Not sure what it is about 73, but I go back to this year a lot.
Probably one of my favorite China-Riders to date and we get a Box of Rain! Jerry is so on throughout entire show. Awesome Eyes and than the two song encore!