Grateful Dead

Sorry for your loss Sixtus. Losing a parent or loved one is no fun. All my best to you and your family.
Thanks for the link to the Dave L interview. Interesting read.
Think how lucky we are that Cutler recorded 3 tours from 89 to 90 for Without a Net in multi track. That is the summer of 89, the fall 89 and Spring 90.
A huge chunk of shows from those tours have been released, but we have some left for sure.

He also mentions how they recorded the famed 80 Warfield and Radio City runs in 32 track! You never know, maybe this is the year.

OROBOROUS, good to see you back in the mix. Happy New Year! Man, have you seen a ton of cool shows. The stories I am sure you could tell.

Peace.

In 92 saw Blues Traveler there in the spring and Phish in December.
First time for both bands, won the BT tix on the radio for answering a Beatles trivia question which I only knew the answer to because a friend who loved Beatles and Dylan was always telling me trivia.

Condolences Sixti Clan.
May the Force be with you.

Small venues and no-name bands.....
Some bar bands can turn out to be a lot of fun.
It just takes a few drinks....

I had an interesting one last week.

For some reason, I started looking up info/images on Ventura County Fairgrounds (site of my first GD show)

I saw a note that Jimi Hendrix played there in 70 (i think)

ok

so the next day I go to MoPop (a music/pop culture museum) here in Seattle

They have a specific reference to Jimi playing that show in...Ventura.

It was interesting to me, at least.

I'm at whole foods in Framingham and they are playing 'born under a bad sign'. I can't believe it.

Sixtus, you and the family have my sympathy and my empathy. Lost my mom in 2001, my dad in 2007. Funny, but no matter how old I get, I am still my parents' kid. I never stop feeling like an orphan. A good quote I read once stated-"My mother taught me everything I need to know, except how to live without her". :(

Peace and Love to all

I'm sorry for your loss of your father, losing a parent is really tough. Hopefully the passage of time will ease you and your family's sadness.

....just came across this in my inbox and thought I would share:

https://jambands.com/features/2020/01/07/ready-or-not-david-lemieuxs-ex…

Hope everyone is enjoying the New Year. On this end, 2019 ended as I thought it might, with the passing of my dad a week prior to Christmas who had a valiant battle with stage 4 cancer over the past 15 months. It was a difficult time but it was also positive in that family was all together for the end of the year and able to all pull together in a quietly shared strength. Each day is a new day, and my dad is somewhere free and having fun in his celestial gardens.

I am working to envision a bright outlook for 2020 all things considered - trying to keep focus on the things that matter but trying to enjoy each and every day as best as I can despite the world's relentless adversity. Coming here on a daily basis helps to ease my soul, as Jerry might sing.

Be Well Everyone.
Sixtus

Sometimes you get shown the light.....

So many shows, so little memory left, lol
From the biggest, Woodstock 94, where I worked the first few days at the original site, then up to Saugerties late Saturday night; Aerosmith, Allman Bros, Santana, Traffic, Jimmy Cliff. Dylan, breifly from afar, and same with Metalica. Still, to this day, after 42 years of concert going, the power and magnitude of that weekend blows me away!
...to small ones, opening up for Del McCourey at 4 eagle ranch, opening up and playing after set for DSO at State Bridge, seeing Garcia, Sitting cross legged on the floor, so close to Jerry we could of touched him, in the tiny Gym at Brockport SUNY 81, the Radiators at the Chance in Poughkeepsie, Winston Marsalis, Jorma, Bromberg, Chuck Mangione, Go Ahead and others at the Tralf in Buffalo, Many years VIP at Rocky Grass and Folks fest, and other, even smaller Blugrass feats. The Allman Brothers and Weir at the original, idyllic, tiny Darian Lake Amphitheatre, Al Dimiola in a small cafeteria at UB, Return to Forever, JGB, the ABB and my first Dead show at Shea’s Buffalo Theatre. Many small venues while doing merch with Ziggy Marley and the Band in the 90s.....one that really stands out is the Band at the Party tent in downtown Rochester in summer of 84, first row, tripping. After, the crowd wouldn’t stop, even after the crew started to tear down, so they ended up coming back out several times! One of the best shows I ever had the pleasure!
Hundreds, thousands? of small gigs playing or crewing. Played gigs on a raft down the Colorado, and on top of resorts via snowcat and gondola, including Marti Gras for the worlds highest Craw fish boil atop Vail Mountain....(that fucker was cold!)
Yeeshk, no wonder I’m tired 😉
I’m not sure I could list them all if I tried? But one things for sure, none of it was like seeing the GOGD on one of “those” nights. especially hangin with Lee Esdee in the front row on the rail joking around with the boys etc! Phew, still gives me shivers...

I have that show, great quality, if you want.

Shows or tours that if I could use the way back machine:

1. Grateful Dead 11/8/69 Fillmore Auditorium-- actually, just drop me in San Francisco in this time frame for one month so I could see so many amazing shows. I bet Hendrix played.
2. Muddy Waters anytime in the 1950s, preferably in a Chicago blues club
3. Rolling Stones 1972 tour of America
4. Miles Davis c. 1958 with John Coltrane-- so many amazing albums with that quintet.
5. Talking Heads Stop Making Sense tour
6. Derek and the Dominoes, 1971

Regrets
1. Tom Petty-- so many chances to see, but I never pulled the trigger. I bought the four cd Live Anthology about 6 months ago and have been regretting this miss ever since. That anthology rocks.
2. The Who 1989 reunion tour. That summer I did the Dead shows and Rolling Stones at Alpine, I just couldn't do The Who, too. Never have gotten to see them and without Entwistle, why bother.
3. I should have gone to more GD shows in 89 and 90, plus I never did see them indoors. I should have gone to some of those Rosemont Horizon shows or MECCA in spring 89. Alas...
4. I saw Clapton many times from 1988-98, but that 1998 tour sucked and I never gave him another chance. I should have gone to one of the shows on the 2006/07 tour with Derek Trucks and Doyle Bramhall III. That was the tour I wanted out of him when I was a full-blown EC-Head in the mid-90s. Resurrected some Dominoes stuff that he hadn't played since 1971.

Overall, not many regrets in the 30+ years of concerts. Generally, I have gone to shows that I wanted to attend. Big venue, small venue-- it is all good. Of course, a club or small venue is preferred, but once a band hits it big, forget the small venues. Loved seeing some of the older blues guys in small clubs in the 1990s-- saw Buddy Guy at a now-defunct club in Madison, WI in early 1991 that blew us away; Otis Rush at a tiny blues club in Milwaukee in 1998; and one of the best shows I have ever seen, Luther Allison at the Rave in Milwaukee 1998. Ratdog in the early 2000s at the Kalamazoo State Theater was the most intimate spot I have seen any Dead members and that show cooked.