Grateful Dead

Yes on You tube!! both sets

Keithfan your relisten today beats my memory, but I recall a brief DS tease somewhere before or after the Mind Left Body Jam (both?), which is, to me, more of a proto-Music Never Stopped Jam, they definitely hit the MLB theme, but it seems to move to a waltz feel, that makes me think of MNS. I wouldn't label it a Dark Star Jam, but I would track the Mind Left Body if it were up to me. What a fantastic jam and release! That release is one that's a pastiche that I love. Still my favorite Eyes, mainly for Phil's wonderful solo. And gotta be everybody's favorite China Cat. I have a promo cd for DP 7-12, and it hasthe China Rider representing DP 12, and it was my introduction to live China Cats. I had Aoxomoxoa, and loved it there, but this was a revelation. Not fair to every other China Cat that that was my first. I guess kinda like a virgin who meets John Holmes, gonna be hard to find another one to measure up.

Bob T, there is video of this show?

12/31/76, will be on tap for the ride into work tomorrow. Love this show, one of my all time favorites.

Good call

Note on 4 23 77

During tuning prior to SF

I hear Bobby playing a bit of Beatles Blackbird

Set II of 12/31/77 Sugar Magnolia opener... Scarlet/ Fire... watch Bill Graham arrive via motor cycle and watch the boys get hit on stage with a giant bag of balloons!!

Wooooow...

Time machine...take me first to Europe 72

Then to Spring 77

I was listening to

GD 1973-10-21 sbd.8191.fishman

from the torrents.

If you're just getting tuned in, I'm having a conversation with myself about the validity of calling the Jam on DP 12 a Dark Star (as most set lists would have you believe). There's some top shelf Mind Left Body early on that ranks up there with 10/19/73. Only 15 minutes in....doesn't matter what you name it, it's face melting quality. I did not, however, hear even a smidgen of the Dark Star theme (and certainly no lyrics). I think the set list sites have it wrong. Is this something in Dead Base? I'm not a Dead Base guy.

This conversation started when I saw that Jai Alai was slated for DaP 34. It quickly devolved into an unnecessary analysis on how many officially released Dark Stars are still yet to come from 1974, and it gets worse with every post I put up here. Lucky for you guys I'm only at work another hour and a half.

Ouch, full fledged meltdown at 25 minutes. Garcia clearly tripping his balls off - and why shouldn't he be - it's summer '74 and he's playing in front of the biggest stack of speakers known to mankind in an enclosed arena that seats 15,909. I know the seating capacity because the internet told me. It also told me the Dead didn't play the Garden for a number of years after an incident in which they were caught grilling lobsters on a fire escape before a performance. wtf?!? How do you even get into a situation like that.

Also of interest, the internet says of The Who at the Garden:

In 1973, The Who were scheduled to perform at the Garden and nearly didn't perform due to the band being detained by police after destroying a hotel room in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where they'd appeared the previous evening. The band was eventually released from jail and managed to arrive at the Garden in time for their show and took out their frustrations for being arrested the night before by delivering a blistering set and taunting the Montreal police, dedicating their performance of "Won't Get Fooled Again" to them. Who drummer Keith Moon (for the rest of the Quadrophenia tour) changed one of the lyrics to the song "Bell Boy" from "remember the gaff where the doors we smashed" to "remember Montreal at the hotel we trashed" or variations of the band being arrested.

And for what it's worth, I spent the coldest night of my life one New Year's Eve in Montreal. I'm a seasoned Buffalonian, and this shit was cold. Just walking a block or two from one bar to the next physically hurt the face and lungs. I spent the better part of the next morning and early afternoon vomiting from a 12th floor balcony.

P.S. - icecrmcnkd, where are you listening to that worst Loser from, archive.org? Just wondering if 10/21/73 is on one of those unofficial soundboard release CDs.

Cant get enough of that giants box Eyes.

One of my first downloads from the old archive, back when you could still grab 'em.

Good choice! Now if they'll only follow through with an Ark box set this year.....one can hope!