Grateful Dead

Just thought a completely off-topic post would be apropos....

Original ABB lineup, January 1971 -- two months before Live at FE -- is set to drop later this year. Apparently, they played 3 shows, opening for electric Hot Tuna, and a 4-CD box is forthcoming.

The two-track soundboard reel is said to be well-balanced and well worth the listen.

RIP Duane, Gregg, Butch, Berry.

Chuck Berry - Definitive Collection, lots of good stuff. Carol and Nadine always smoke. Nadine, honey is that you...
Steve Miller Band - Book of Dreams. Saw the album cover, along with some others, on big squared blotter in the '80s. Good stuff. The album and the blotter.
GD - Rotterdam 5/11/72, saw all the talk on here about this show recently and figured it would be good to hear again. That Dark Star is more melodic than I recall, I must have confused it with one of the more chaotic E'72 Dark Stars. The Rotterdam and Amsterdam shows from E'72 were the first individual shows I picked up, back when I thought I would just get couple. Then I thought why not a couple more? Ultimately I picked them all up, including replacing my Hundred Year Hall cd with the full show and my Rockin' theRheine with the show in the correct order.
GD - DP 11 9/27/72. I was going to continue running through some more E'72 shows, but then it occurred to me that I wasn't going to hear a Birdsong that way, and DP11 was the first thing I came across with a Birdsong.
GD - DP 23 9/17/72, seemed like another '72 show with a Birdsong would be a good idea, so DP 23 it was. The clarity of the recording by Owsley on that one is amazing, and the show smokes.
Currently spinning Deep Purple - Machine Head for a little variation. Been digging the comments lately, things seem to be percolating nicely. More than I dig looking out the window and seeing more snow falling, which is the other thing I just did.

Catching up on 03/26/90 Knickerbocker today....Monster set list with a second set run that goes: Dew, Brokedown, LTGTR> HELP>Slip>Frank....

Just starting to Roll Away That Dew now.....pretty damn phenomenal.....but earlier in this show, I must say that Brent shines brightly! Perhaps one of the best versions of Blow Away.....I would bet so!

Also listened to the 30TATS 93 show a couple days ago...fine show also from Knickerbocker which includes a mighty fine Comes A Time....aren't they all mighty fine? Any blind man could certainly see!

Simon Rob....darn it.....my carpet rides were not running back then, otherwise you could have caught a flight home from that blue-light, cheap airport :-)

Peace all,

KCJ

...STOLTZFUS...”Want To Hear Some Insane Brent Harmonies?, This is worth hearing,” 10/2/80 - ‘Birdsong,’ “He sounds really good.”...
I concur! 🙏❤️😎

My surprise show from the box, the 93 show's anniversary is today.

...a grateful Wednesday to everyone! The Sun is Shining brightly here Today, I hope everyone else is enjoying some Sunshine on this day in March...
...your welcome ‘Kevinbrandon’, I have to concur with you on 10/28/79 being a Primo example of how beautiful 1979 was in DeadLand...🙏❤️😎
What an amazing run /tour in 1979...
...’Woodstock 40th Anniversary Boxset’ is a great release. Believe it or not I listen to it on days when I’m thinking of what I want to play next😉
Audio is excellent ! Also includes a great booklet inside/included with the boxset. I heard it’s available on Amazon for $24 dollars which is an amazing price! I paid a lot more when it was first released in 2009! Lol ha ha but it was well worth the price at the time. Primo Audio in my book!
They did an amazing job on that boxset...🤠
Keithfan I to have to concur with your views on Dicks Pick #31 August 4th - 6th, 1974. Just days after Jerry Garcia’s Birthday the band had this great run in 1974, primo stuff. I believe but might be wrong, my memory, we are missing about 25-27 songs not included/released in the Dicks Picks #31... still a great Pick in the series, thanks Keithfan. And also thanks for the tips “Trainwrecked” ; )
It got me too! Lol The first time it happened to me, I was asked if I was a robot...and a photograph came up of a traffic light. I was waiting for a while for it to turn green lol ha ha 😂...
...and 12/1/73 ‘Playing>UJB>Playing’ is a beauty!
And i can’t recall if I have heard 9/11/74, sounds interesting. Thanks again Daverock. 🙏
...late this morning I decided to listen to the Grateful Dead’s performance on May 16th, 1981!
Cornell university, Ithaca NY a another Amazing release from ‘The Big Box / 30 Trips Around the Sun’! Both the first & second sets are primo.
‘Shakedown Street’ starting off with the second set is great. 🤠 it’s a shame the vault doesn’t have the end of this show, starting after Trucking, During production an audience tape was used to include/complete the Dead’s performance that day. 🙏❤️😎
Peace be with you all on this grateful Wednesday my brothers & sisters! Rock on 🙏❤️😎

Indeed I was present at one night of the '74 Ally Pally run. It was excellent, but I was unable to appreciate Seastones, possibly due to the copious and excessive quantities of space cake I consumed during the first set. Got so hopelessly lost trying to get home that I ended up spending the night in a airport lounge. Really.

Gotta agree on the shout out to 12/1/73 - a fantastic late '73 show and especially that Playing > UJB > Playin'. The transition to UJB as noted is pretty special. I recall getting my grubs on this via a Grateful Dead hour back in the early '90s and being blown away by that transition as well as the start to UJB...Jerry just jams on the theme for several minutes which I had never heard before (and never really since as far as I can remember). There is also some fun/interesting banter going on during this show, as the fire marshall was getting all amped up because everyone was dancing in the aisles. They stop several times to coax the crowd back their seats, and even play a little diddy taboot.

https://archive.org/details/gd1973-12-01.sbd.miller.112205.flac16

Oh, and KeithFan....nearly blasphemous that you hadn't yet been turned on to the funky-'74 Not Fade Away's. Dick's Picks 7 notwithstanding. IMHO these are some of the coolest romps through this classic due to said funk as well as some differing approaches to transitions into subsequent songs. And they are usually a bit longer than the earlier versions. I'd say the Portland PNW show from '74 is a perfect example of this.

Funk.
It makes Everything Better.

Sixtus

I've just checked, and yes, this is the compilation from Ally Pally September 1974. In which case, I must say that I have recently listened to the second set from 9/11/74 , which wasn't included in the official release. One of the most incredible jams I have ever heard-Seastones, space jams, Eyes of the World - maybe as "out there" as the band ever got. I hadn't started travelling about seeing bands in 1974, and didn't know who The Dead were then. Even if I had-this music would have gone way over my Hawkwind fixated head.

....it was a fun app, until it made me wanna drink more. AA warning.