Grateful Dead

Did for cuisine what Garcia did for music.

Been a long time since I have posted. Came home from a fundraiser tonight and was not ready for bed, so I stumbled upon reruns of Parts Unknown. Just cool, informative stuff.

So, I thought I would check in.

The Other One, China>Rider, and PITB.

Of the three, PITB never really did it for me. Cool song, but I lose focus on the extended versions.

China>Rider is an easy one. DP12. The version is so unique, that in my opion, the gap between the next best version is vast. More so than any other GD song.

TOO can vary depending on my mood, but 5/3/72 is the benchmark. No better choice when you are looking to extend your glow in Florence with a nice bottle of Umbrian red.

Be well all.

....looks like I picked the wrong music to pull weeds to. Lindley delivers. Steve Harris's bass line on Sea Of Madness is too much to ignore though....galloping romp. Moving on from pulling them to smoking them as we speak.

It's been a while, will have to check the bonus tracks out again.

I'm late to the conversation and that's nobody's fault but mine. But if you're talking about The Other One from 1972 you need to go to Dick's Picks 36 and check out the bonus track from September 3rd in Colorado. That's the king of all 1972 Other One's right there.

Lindley Meadows. Rare gem. Very underrated on account of being too short. Would have been a perfect show if they had thrown in The Other One or Playing in the Band or Eyes of the World. Or at least some rare shit like the Eleven Jam. Oh there you have it right there perfect show.

Good call on that 9/28/75 show from boxilla. Finishing it up now. I was finishing up Layla by Derek and the Dominoes and wondering what to put on next when I saw VGuy's reference to Lindley Meadows and thought that was a short enough show that my wife would not hit her saturation point on the Grateful Dead.

The Spirit one is advertised as being region 2 now, but with the cd half the price, I'm tempted by that one.

I also noticed two in the same series featuring John Cipollina, one with Nick Gravenites and one with Terry and the Pirates. The Dead one doesn't seem to be there, though.

....got reminded of The Alan Parsons Project by way of last Fives. Now Spirit. Spent today pulling weeds to Iron Maiden's Somewhere In Time. Good weed pulling music.
Spun GOGD's Linley Park '75 via Boxilla prior. Music Is Life.

That fine Spirit video that the cone kid posted is available on both CD and DVD. German releases on the SPV label, the "Rockpalast" series has some fine releases. The Spirit release is "West coast legends volume 3". The DVD is region 0, I think, which equates to region-free but one would do well to check.

thanks for posting the Spirit video, nice taste of what they were like. I miss Randy almost as much as I miss Jerry, they were both kind souls and the world is not as good without them. 1995 was a bad year, I lost both my guitar heroes that year. I believe that was the guitar that Randy purchased at Sears for 100 bucks, had a wammy bar and everything, made a nice sound too. Unique

Fifty year anniversary next Thursday of G.D. in Tucson . 4/11/69