Grateful Dead

I believe all his Quatrains were Tweeted.

Daverock, congratulations on finally receiving your copy of this awesome show.

LedDed, good call on the Doors and the Fender Rhodes. When I was posting, I couldn't remember off the top of my head, any songs or bands that made use of it prior to '73, but now that you mention it, Riders on the Storm has what is probably one of my all-time favorite implementations of this instrument. Good stuff.

Cumberland Blues / Dick's Picks 11 / Smoker / Garcia tearing it up on the solo. The San Diego show from 30 Trips '73 was my go-to version for a long time, but this Stanley Theater performance may have just slid into first place. May as well just put on the entire disk 3 from Dick's Picks 11, because it's all just that good. This was my pick of the day a few days ago, but I can't keep away from it.

Was a common fixture of the parking lot scene.

Before everyone disappears, in fact even if they have, I must also mention that 2/26/77 is amazing! I love the way it opens with Terrapin Station-such a quiet, reflective introduction to a rock concert-in a way the opposite to the opening of a Led Zep concert, which started like the outbreak of war. Terrapin Station sets a magical mood on which the rest of the show is based-in fact it feels almost like one long set 2 rather than a 2 set show. There is a famous Jerry quote where he talks about a show going from the street to outer space-and then back again. This one seems to start in space. Great sound, too.

Quite impressive, also, that such a great and unique show can be released after so many other live shows have already come out over the last 25 years or so.

It might be worth mentioning that there are a few officially released Led Zep albums that give a good indication what they were like live. The BBC Sessions features a cd of performances form 1969, with a second one featuring a whole concert form 1971. How The West Was Won is a 3 cd set form 1972, and the re was a double dvd released about 10-15 years ago featuring a selection of live performances from 1969-1979. I am not really a Led Zep fan, but all of these have moments of real explosive power.

As predicted in by Nostragroovus (Quatrain 11).. The first turtle shall swing and snow will fall in the desert of sin marking the year the Dead Brothers box, the complete recordings, is released.

The Grateful Dead / Allman Brothers, the complete recordings:
6/9/73 RFK Stadium
6/10/73 RFK Stadium
7/27/73 Watkins Glen
7/28/73 Watkins Glen

Every note by both bands. Bonus discs will, of course, contain the performance by The Band.

The prophesies are true! Nostragroovus, the younger, underachieving hipster brother of Nostradamus is finally getting his due. It has been written....

...pretty wide reaching storm then...I live and work at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon...I live in the National Park and work at the GCNP Airport which is 8 miles away...My main bread & butter is the we fly folks from Boulder City NV (a short bus ride from the Vegas Strip) to the Canyon and give them a 3.5 hr tour here...I was told yesterday that we will be closed today because of the stormy weather which means more time to ingest Denver '73....3 to 4 inches have already fallen and we're expecting another 3 - 4 by tonight...

....yup.

Just got back this afternoon from a couple of days in Vegas...took my Honey to see Cirque de Soleil's staging of LOVE...effin' awesome, the second time we've seen it and just as blown away by it as we were the first time we saw it nearly three years ago...everything about it was just amazing...had a bit of luck at a slot and used the proceeds to do some shopping and picked up the Denver '73 Road Trips along with some fine Blues comps and Box sets plus the newly released "Mavis Staples Live In London" which is killer...heard only Disc Three of the Road Trips set on the way home, will spin the rest tomorrow....we got home this afternoon about 15 minutes before the forecasted snow storm started...oh and I wish I had access to the Cirque de Soleil's theater's sound system!

Mr. Ray Manzarek championed the Fender Rhodes way back when, I dare say to greater effect than either Jonesy or the esteemed K. Godchaux. Led Zeppelin had been known for stretching out, live, since it's inception, particularly on Dazed and Confused. Zeppelin were born in 1968; by then Ray had already integrated the Rhodes into the fabric of pop music. John Paul Jones mostly listened to jazz, Bonham Motown, and Plant was an early blues and Elvis fanatic. Jimmy Page was no doubt aware of Jerry Garcia's prestige as an incomparable improvisational guitarist, but by 1973 the two entities were so universally established I think their live jams were more like-minded and commonly influenced by their shared love of early roots music than one another. Led Zeppelin was so much more aggressive. Still, I highly recommend anyone here not intimate with the Zeppelin catalogue immediately check out Led Zeppelin III, and Physical Graffiti. That was a great point about the bands around that time, however. I greatly enjoyed the post. Keep listening. \m/