Grateful Dead

California 1978 tour...... zero scarlet>fires in 10 shows to start the year. 2 and half shows with no Garcia vocals.. Sound quality is awesome and so is the playing.... For some reason I have always sort of glossed over these... I like the 5 day mini Midwest tour withe the 2 Uptowns, Milwaukee and Madison shows and my favorite Scarlet>Fire ever 2/5/78 Cedar Falls.
Also listening last night to Sirius and Dave played 3 songs from end of first set from Madison 10/25/73... Can you imagine that in 8 months in 1973 that if you went to U of Wisconsin or lived in Madison that you could hear two awesome Dark Stars from 1973!!!!!! bob t

1) Parliament - Funkadelic / Mothership Connection era
2) Coltrane / Love Supreme era
3) Miles / Bitches Brew era
4) ABB original lineup
5) Dead FW 69 Live Dead shows . . . No wait FE 70 Dicks 4 shows . . . No wait E72 . . . No wait . . . Winterland 74 the GD Movie shows . . . No wait May 77 . . . No wait

Jimi Hendrix
Cream
The Doors
Country Joe and the fish
It's a Beautiful Day
Woodstock all performers

1. Jefferson Airplane
2. Howlin Wolf
3. Gram Parsons
4. Townes Van Zandt
5. Buddy Holly
6. Chuck Berry
….oops......reminds me of the Monty Python Spanish Inquisition sketch....

Traffic
Wilson Pickett
Van Morrison - early years
Little Feat - with Lowell George
The Wiggles - nobody can rival their lyrics. Other than maybe Phish.

Toot toot, chugga chugga, big red car.

3/17/70; thanks Kate and Company for shinning a little light on that mystery....I’ve wondered and longed for that one since I was a tenderfoot, especially growing up in those parts. Weird, but locally could never find even one Head who knew anything about that night, let alone attended.
Kind of Ironic that one of the most unique and cool things they ever did and wasn’t recorded by the band who recorded everything!

5 Bands with the Time Machine? Yeeshk, that’s just too hard! Definitely Orignal lineups of bands I saw later like The Band, The Allman Brothers, Little Feat, and The Airplane, perhaps the Last Waltz? Jimi for sure, Early Zeppelin, who I had a ticket for near their end, but they cancelled so never saw them....Chuck B?, I’d say the Beatles but from everything I’ve read seeing them live was not really a great musical experience due to the shitty equipment and rabid fans etc...Original Blood Swet and Tears?, 50-60s Miles, saw him later before he died, but I’m sure no where like those golden years. Old and In the way in their prime? Winterland 74. Egypt, The Glen....I could go on and on cause no way I could pick just five 😀

DAVES 33&34; 33 I have a tape of so I know it’s a hot show, but I’m not a huge 77 fan so I know I’ll like it, but probably won’t get a lot of plays.....74 Dark Star on the other hand, boo-yah, I’m down with Any 72, 73, or 74 Dark Stars!
In fact, that pre Dave’s list y’all posted is interesting in several ways, but mostly for all the Dark Stars in the earlier listings. Also interesting how many of those shows ended up in 30 Trips....

It would have been quite something to see Robert Johnson in Greenwood Mississippi circa 1937, playing on a street corner. Or in a jook joint-although I imagine that could have been quite hairy for a wimp like me.

These would have been quite cool too:
13th Floor Elevators 1966-1967
Bob Dylan on his 1966 rampage round Britain
MC5 1968-1970
Jimi Hendrix- London late 1966-mid 1967-surely the daddy of them all. It must have been so unexpected, walking into a club and witnessing all that. I prefer the music he played live in the last two years of his life, going off cds , but for the sheer shock of the new, walking into one of those first few gigs with the Experience must have been outrageous.

5 artists I wish, wish, wish I could have seen:
The Beatles
Cream
John Coltrane
The Doors
Gabor Szabo......I could add dozens more, but I won't
I hope I win a "home version of the game"!!

Listen 12-31-81 Oakland , Primo! Pick...💀🌹

If I could go back to the past and see 5 performers or groups ( not including the Grateful Dead) they would be: 1) Muddy Waters Blues Band in the early 1950s that included Little Walter, Otis Spann, and Jimmy Rogers, 2) Paul Butterfield Blues Band that included Mike Bloomfield, 3)Elvis Presley 1956, 4)Hank Williams 1950 or so, 5) The Beatles. There are many many more performers I would love to see , but this will be my first list of 5.