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"To my ears, the best Dead shows are those that not only fit the criteria that make them amongst the best of a year, but that are also completely unique for their era—shows that fit perfectly into their year of performance, but also fall somewhat outside of the norm for that year. Harpur College, Veneta, Cornell, Cape Cod, and Augusta are all shows that are objectively excellent, and if they are not the best from their respective years of performance, they are certainly unique. Miami 6/23/74 falls into that category: not only one of the very best shows from this outstanding year, but also one of the most interesting and unique. It’s certainly worthy of many, many deep listens." - David Lemieux

¡Ándale, ándale! ¡Arriba, arriba! We're back with a hot one from Miami, F-L-A. DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 34 features the complete show from the Jai Alai Fronton, 6/23/74, one with unparalleled sound quality due in equal parts to the Wall Of Sound and the beautiful sonic clarity of Kidd Candelario's tapes. The first set is chock full of dynamite takes on classics like "Ramble On Rose," "Mississippi Half-Step," and "Cumberland Blues." The second set delivers on the JAMS - one leading into a gorgeous "Ship Of Fools," one rare instrumental version of "Dark Star," and a "Spanish Jam," this is Miami after all! The show also offers up a "first" and an "only" - the former, a Seastones set featuring Phil and Ned Lagin and the latter, the sole Grateful Dead performance of Chuck Berry's "Let It Rock."

Limited to 22,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOL.34: JAI ALAI FRONTON, MIAMI, FL 6/23/74 has been mastered from the 7.5 IPS reel-to-reel tapes to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman. ¡Agarrarlo mientras esta calientito! (Get it while it's hot!)

*Limited to 2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

Subscribed to Dave's Picks? With this release, you'll also get a bonus disc with selections from Miami 6/22/74. Excellente!

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June 3, 2020 - 12:36pm

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Dennis

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Dogs

How Dogs Became Man’s Best Friend

A story told by some Native American peoples is that the Great Spirit decided to divide the worlds of animals and man.
He gathered all the living beings on a great plain and drew a line in the dirt.
On one side of the line stood man and on the other side stood all of the animals of the earth.
When that line began to open up into a great canyon and at the last moment
Before it became too great to cross, the dog jumped over and stood by man.
– Unknown -

Give a man a fire and he’ll be warm for the day.

Set him on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life
June 3, 2020 - 12:03pm

#872

stoltzfus

Joined:
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luckily...

I have had next to no interactions with police.

One speeding ticket when I was young and dumb
one pullover for ???
one pullover because I changed lanes too fast.

"so much things to say right now"...but dead.net isn't really the place.

just BE KIND and respect your fellow human beings, my people.
June 3, 2020 - 11:54am

#873

stoltzfus

Joined:
January 13, 2010

my sense is that the blackout...

is to halt business as usual and think deeply about current affairs, and keep thinking, and act.
June 3, 2020 - 11:02am

#874

Oroborous

Joined:
June 19, 2007

Blackout, Dogs, and Cops

BLACKOUT: had no clue....it was fine, just wish they would have announced it. Hopefully it helped make a difference!
It did inform me that perhaps I’m obtaining a bit of a addiction here lol.

DOGS: love most animals, especially Dogs, it’s people I tend to have problems with. Some Dogs people will say “careful, their not nice, or their not friendly”....me, they love me! Go figure...real unconditional love, loyalty honesty...always glad to see you...amazing.
I’ve had a Irish setter that was really smart and well trained, a Lab/Husky, and lived for 5 years at a place with the best, smartest, mellowest Golden Mutt ever. This dog would look at you and you felt like perhaps they were a person last go round and now their stuck in this dog body lol. The dog would basically telepath it wanted to go out. Living where we did that meant just opening the door and letting her go. When she wanted to come back in, she would bark once. Then she would wait patiently. If no one let here in within five minutes, she’d bark again just once. Amazing dog! Oh, and she loved the Dead and music in general. I Played music with her owner and she loved to come curl up at your feet on stage while the band was playing! Owner was tight with LOS and she would do that sometimes at their gigs too!
Labs and Golden’s are awesome, but they need room and a lot of exercise. Both are fun and can be great partners and both usually have good personalities. Their usually really good with kids. But dogs, like people, definetly have personalities so it’s usually best if you can spend time or get to know them before you have to choose. My last Dog was a lab/Husky mutt and I immediately liked him out of the rest of the large litter....because the crazy little guy was already slipping away from mama and getting into stuff at four weeks old, lol. You could tell right then and there he was going to be a handful, named him Aiko because he had that vibe..hey now! Here i come, wuff!
He was a handful when he was young, but eventually became an awesome well behaved companion.

TIPS: get them fixed ASAP before they know what there missing etc, I didn’t for over a year and it was a big mistake....since he was fully mature by then and had “gotten some”, so it took years for him to calm down that way even after he’d been fixed. Be prepared to spend A LOT of time that first year. If you wait too long it’s much harder to get good results. You’ll thank yourself because there is nothing better than a life with a cool, mellow, behaved happy dog, and nothing worse than a bad untrained dog. Preferable to get your pup after they’ve been wormed.....
Insurance. Currently don’t have any pets but my understanding is nowadays you really need insurance....
Chewing: they do like to chew stuff up. I used crochet balls and old 2x4s. He’d instantly chew anything else up (until older) he couldn’t get enough jaw on the crochet balls and the 2x4s it didn’t matter that he’d shred them, at least they’d last a little while and were free so didn’t matter.
All dogs can be overprotective and act out. Every dog I’ve ever lived with or known for long has done it at least once, Usually it was just a weird situation and often not all the dogs fault, but it can happen.
Also, poop! You will be dedicating the next 10-15 years to endless poop; worming, cleaning up, walking, sickness etc.
In other words, it’s a big decision because it’s a big responsibility! Unfortunately that’s why we don’t have a dog anymore; our lifestyle is not organized and scheduled for the proper care of a dog, and Pedro doesn’t pick up poop, so though I miss not having one, it’s because it wouldn’t be fair to the mutt and I just don’t want all that responsibility these days. Sounds like you have a family to help which can make a big difference and it can be great responsibility learning for a young person. A life with a good dog can be one of the greatest experiences in life, but man is it hard when they go. I’ve lost my folks, all my grandparents, most of my aunts and uncles, even a few friends, but I think losing a good dog that you were really tight with and had a good life with can sometimes be harder. I still get pretty upset if I start thinking too much about missing those guys. I’m getting misty just talking about it...

COPS: I’ve had a few good experiences with reasonable, polite, and respectful ones, but unfortunately I’ve had more terrible experiences. Leddead your Denver buddies being some of the worst!
Years ago after a Phil and Phreinds show at the Philmore, I had 4 or 5 beers over the course of several hours, but stopped more than 3 hours before leaving. This is a system I’ve used based on science for years. Basicallly, get a little buzz early, then stop so by the time you leave your totally fine (legally and otherwise).
So I take the back street behind the Philmore to avoid all the lights on Colfax, and then cut back over near DT so I could get to the expressway etc. Well as I’m not familiar or good in the city, and my night vision sucks, I made a right on red at a place I wasn’t supposed to. Cop is sitting there hiding in an alley just waiting for this. So she pulls me over, and of course asks if I’ve been drinking. Since I knew I was legal etc I said I had a few, a few hours ago. I know, that’s what everyone says, but it was true. So next thing you know there’s a half dozen cops most of which are trying to mess with me and get me to do something stupid so they can mess with me. One even stepped on my toe while getting so close to my face he was spitting on me while he screamed at me. I was never so scarred in my life. Luckily, I know how to act around wild animals so I just stayed calm and was overly polite the whole time. So I take the so called sobriety tests that I can’t pass if it’s first thing on Tuesday and I’m more sober than a baby. It’s a proven fact these tests are designed for failure.
So of course I fail and they arrest me even though I’ve still not taken a breathalyzer which I’ve been asking to do the whole time. Now I’m pretty beat up for my age, and I’ve had reoccurring shoulder problems, and it’s extremely painful for me to ware the jewelry behind my back which is standard practice for officer safety. So I try to very calmly and politely explain this to the Women cop who originally pulled me over as she was the ONLY one of the posse that wasn’t being intimidating, obnoxious, rude, or trying to violate my rights. But as soon as I did, the brutes slammed me up against my truck and hurt me so bad putting the cuffs on I was crying out in pain. Luckily the ride was short as I was in severe agony.
So we get to the compound and go into an armored door underground garage. So before we go in the officer has to put her weapons etc in a locker in the garage area. So now she starts getting nervous about taking her hands off me while she attends to this protocol (they don’t want you grabbing their weapon after they take the cuffs off inside).
So since she’s now alone she’s not comfortable etc and has me stand on the other side of this fortress garage and says don’t go anywhere....so I’m like Mam, im over fifty years old, mostly broken, I’m in extreme agony here cuffed behind like this, what am I going to do, some acrobatic Kung fu shit and fly over there and bite you in the neck because I made an illegal right on red? Kinda like Arlo Guthrie LOL, but it helped reassure her and she actually smiled a little.
So next it’s this whole long convoluted process to book you and get mug shots etc and I’ve still not had the test. Meanwhile there are now new Neanderthals circled around trying to get me to give them any reason at all to mess with me. At some point they tell me I have to sign shit which lawyer friends say never sign anything! So I politely mention this and before I even finish they start telling me I’m now failing to comply and refuse the test (which I never did) and how I just lost my license and all kinds of other screaming and carrying on until they finally shut up enough so I say, look, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to know what your asking me to sign. So he takes the paper and jams it in my face so close it’s touching my face. Another inch and he would of basically hit me. Now I’m even more scarred...finally, after more threats, screaming, insults, intimidation etc, I get to take the test. Now I’m still not worried about DUI cause I know I’m not illegal etc, but I am worried about getting beat. Again this whole time I’ve never raised my voice. I’ve only spoken when asked to, and I’ve used only Sir, Mam, Officer etc and been extremely polite and respectful. So I take the test and of course barely register any alcohol like less then .001, .08 is the legal limit....but this nut doesn’t believe it so recalibrated the machine and made me blow multiple times, including putting his face next to mine and screaming at me that I’m not blowing hard enough (like a drill Sargent) even though I’m literally out of breath and panting etc...
Finally the original gal that stopped me (who’s been totally proffesional the whole time) says “enough, he’s good, I’m letting him go and taking him back.” We’ll they have to go through the whole convoluted process in reverse to sign all my stuff back out including my tour laminate (was not looking forward to notifying my cousin that the cops now have full access)...so while this is happening, they take one last run at me trying to get me to give them ANY reason to mess me up and lock me up, all because I failed to obey a traffic sign I never saw...
This is just one story, I have several others where I wasn’t as worried about being beat, but I did have my rights totally violated, so my 2 cents is that I’m scarred shitless anytime I have to deal with cops. It didn’t used to be as bad, my experiences have gotten worse over the years and I’m white, I’ve never done anything bad (I don’t believe minor drug stuff is bad) and I’ve never actually been convicted with anything except speeding, yet in the last ten years or so anytime I’ve been pulled over I’ve immediately become extremely scarred, nervous, anxious and worried for my safety. If these cops are all so good and there’s only a few bad apples, why should generally law abiding citizens be scarred for their life during even a routine traffic stop (last time had a company truck with tail bulbs out)? Another example, car searches: they rarely did them in the old days, now, it’s almost like standard practice...they used to have to follow the constitution....
Imagine how our brothers and sisters of color feel....
We have a serious systemic problem with the recruitment, training, and oversight of our law enforcement in our police state of a so called free democracy. Be careful out there folks....like Kerouac said “avoid authority, go through life like a ghost”
June 3, 2020 - 10:47am

#875

Dennis

Joined:
November 1, 2012

Colin

you made me check on Robb Johnson, I have none, I want. Amazon has a 5 cd set called "A Reasonable History of Impossible Demands". (I'd want it just for that title!) Used, it's an ok price. Anyone familiar with said album?
June 3, 2020 - 10:41am

#876

daverock

Joined:
September 1, 2014

Website closure

Simon-no I had no idea what was happening on this website yesterday until someone told me in an email. I am obviously following what is happening on the news, but I never came across any references to social networks-or whatever this is-closing for the day. It almost felt as though they were stopping discussion on the subject by their action. So...an act of protest. I would never have known it if I hadn't been told. I'm not sure what "going black" for the day is supposed to achieve.
June 3, 2020 - 10:40am

#877

Dennis

Joined:
November 1, 2012

Colin - PERFECT!

Thick, Rich, White!!!

Still laughing, but will work that bad boy in, somewhere!
June 3, 2020 - 10:40am

#878

carlo13

Joined:
April 26, 2017

T.I.H.

Dead-Shoreline amp. mountain view 6/3/76. Max creek-Capital theater 6/3/89. You could almost find as much acid at max creek gigs as the dead in the 80s. Whew, is it safe to come out now?
June 3, 2020 - 10:02am

#879

Colin Gould

Joined:
September 15, 2009

Quotes

Two that I like, both from Half Man Half Biscuit lyrics:

“You’re the reason that Paradise Lost”
“The light at the end of the tunnel is the light of an oncoming train”

Perhaps a little simplistic but a lyric from Robb Johnson about an earlier Tory government
“They’re the cream of the nation. Thick, Rich, White”
June 3, 2020 - 9:24am

#880

Dennis

Joined:
November 1, 2012

Quote a Day Board!

I just read somewhere further down someone suggested a quote a day board (sorry forget who), but I thought what a great idea!

Here's an mean one to start off

I kept it in a cage, watched it weeping, but I made it stay. - Kate Bush

:-)

John Perry Barlow

John Perry Barlow

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"To my ears, the best Dead shows are those that not only fit the criteria that make them amongst the best of a year, but that are also completely unique for their era—shows that fit perfectly into their year of performance, but also fall somewhat outside of the norm for that year. Harpur College, Veneta, Cornell, Cape Cod, and Augusta are all shows that are objectively excellent, and if they are not the best from their respective years of performance, they are certainly unique. Miami 6/23/74 falls into that category: not only one of the very best shows from this outstanding year, but also one of the most interesting and unique. It’s certainly worthy of many, many deep listens." - David Lemieux

¡Ándale, ándale! ¡Arriba, arriba! We're back with a hot one from Miami, F-L-A. DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 34 features the complete show from the Jai Alai Fronton, 6/23/74, one with unparalleled sound quality due in equal parts to the Wall Of Sound and the beautiful sonic clarity of Kidd Candelario's tapes. The first set is chock full of dynamite takes on classics like "Ramble On Rose," "Mississippi Half-Step," and "Cumberland Blues." The second set delivers on the JAMS - one leading into a gorgeous "Ship Of Fools," one rare instrumental version of "Dark Star," and a "Spanish Jam," this is Miami after all! The show also offers up a "first" and an "only" - the former, a Seastones set featuring Phil and Ned Lagin and the latter, the sole Grateful Dead performance of Chuck Berry's "Let It Rock."

Limited to 22,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOL.34: JAI ALAI FRONTON, MIAMI, FL 6/23/74 has been mastered from the 7.5 IPS reel-to-reel tapes to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman. ¡Agarrarlo mientras esta calientito! (Get it while it's hot!)

*Limited to 2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

Subscribed to Dave's Picks? With this release, you'll also get a bonus disc with selections from Miami 6/22/74. Excellente!

???

In no order...originals only...

Dark Star
Caution
Born Cross Eyed
Cryptical
St Stephen
The Eleven
Here Comes Sunshine
Weather Report Suite
Loser
Candyman
Morning Dew
Wharf Rat
Stella Blue
New Potato Caboose
Candyman
Shakedown Street
Scarlet Begonias
Help/Slip
King Solomon’s Marbles
Victim
Blues for Allah
Mountains of Moon
What’s become of the Baby
Attics of My Life

Ok, that’s stream of consciousness, so only 10...

Dark Star
King Solomon’s Marbles
Help/Slip
Here Comes Sunshine
Weather Report Suite
Wharf Rat
St Stephen
The Eleven
Loser
Cryptical Envelopment
BONUS: 73-73 Eyes

Alright Daverock

Since you left out Rider, you can't have the jam in between! And, what's a live version without the jam in between! :-P

-edit- oops, I was reading older posts first LOL Sorry, Daverock just saw your message about the jams...

Wilfred

I didn't leave out Rider in my second list of favourite music.

Ha - no problem!

*RE/Top 10 Grateful Dead songs

...this is a whole lot harder than I thought LOL I Chosen these top ten songs from the Grateful Dead complete musical songs and live performances! 🙏❤️💀🌹

Ok, I'll play this game

The Dead played covers so unfaithful to the original versions, they absolutely became their own.

Top Ten:

The Same Thing
Brown-Eyed Women
Death Don't Have No Mercy
Loser
Me And My Uncle
You Win Again
Mr. Charlie
Jack A Roe
Big River
Don't Ease Me In

It's pretty hard to have a top ten. When I first went over songs, I started with 40.

Top 10

INPO

Jack Straw
Scarlet>Fire (Scarlet if I can only have one)
Help>Slip>Franklins (Franklins if I can only have one)
Wharf Rat
The Other One
Dark Star
St. Stephen
The Eleven
Here Comes Sunshine
Mountains of the Moon

Rubin and Cherise would be on the list, but it really is a JGB song.

Top 5 covers

Morning Dew
Peggy-O
She Belongs to Me
Visions of Johanna
Rubin and Cherise (That way I am covered)

Top Eleven dead songs....

....Cumberland
Caution
The Eleven
Still pondering. (I'm sneaking in an extra)

Wifey tossed Brokedown Palace in the mix....

....happy wife, happy life.
With everyone disagreeing these days, can we all just agree that Dark Star, PITB, Truckin' and The Other One are givens?? Serious question. Look deep in your Grateful Dead lovin' soul, and you know its true.

Top 10 Dead Songs

Dark Star
St. Stephen
The Eleven
Playin' in the Band
Eyes of the World
Ripple
Two Souls in Communion
Sugaree
Help on the Way > Slipknot > Franklin's Tower
Althea

Really all of the rest of them too...Honestly it would have been easier to pick my least favorite songs but I am not sure I would have 10.

This One Goes to Eleven...

Help>Slip>Franklin
Brown-Eyed Women
Sugaree
Scarlet>Fire
Jack Straw
He's Gone
Bertha
The Other One
Dark Star
Wharf Rat
Loser

Snark alert

Wave to the wind
Easy answers
I fought the law
Samba in the rain

Ok enough snark

Need help with posting videos

I can paste the link into my comment box, but when I press save to send it to the forum it doesn't cross over.

Delivery issue

I have not made comments here for a while. Just wonder if there are other folks in Europe that still has not got their Dave´s 34 delivered? On April 30 I got an upbeat "Good news! Your order is on the way!" Since then 47 days have passed and no sign whatsoever of my order with bonus dics. I hope other people have been more lucky.

Delivery issues

Bjornindia….I get the impression a lot have now been delivered-I got mine here in England about a week ago. Hopefully yours will arrive in the next day or so-but if not it might be as well to contact Marye

Top 11

Dark Star of course
The Wheel
Stagger Lee
Althea
Bertha
Estimated-Eyes (but mostly 73/74 Eyes)
Throwing Stones
Scarlet-Fire
Help-Sliplnot-Franklin's Tower
Truckin-The Other One
China-Rider

So many more!

Top 10

Impossible!!

Like others, I am including covers and medleys.

Morning Dew
Eyes of the World
Dark Star
TOO
PITB
China>Rider
Help/Slipknot!/Franklins
To Lay Me Down
Comes a Time
All the Dylan Covers (Desolation Row floats to the top)
All the other Garcia Ballads

I left so many off!!! Impossible.

Edit: Adding Scarlet>Fire. Something up there must have to get bumped..
Correction: Replace TOO with all songs on Anthem of the Sun, and somehow add in Viola Lee Blues.
Edit#2: Adding in all songs from WMD and AB, and Brown Eyed Woman + Jack Straw. These songs are true classics and should be granted a waiver from counting towards a top 10 list.

This is one of those impossible riddles that's impossible to solve.

bjornindia

I'm still waiting too
G.

My Top 11 Grateful Dead Songs 💀🌹

...this exercise/Game makes my brain twitch! Lol ha ha!
Top 11 Dead Songs-

1. "That's It for the Other One"
2. Cryptical Envelopment
II. Quadlibet
The Faster We Go, the Rounder We Get
3. New Potato Caboose"
4. "Born Cross-Eyed"
5. " Alligator"
"Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)
6. St. Stephen"
7. Dupree's Diamond Blues"
8. "Doin' That Rag" 4:41
9"Mountains of the Moon"
"10. China Cat Sunflower
11. "Cosmic Charlie
& if I’m allowed, 3more...
*#12Morning Dew
*#13Cream Puff War"
*#14"Viola Lee Blues"
...I’m melting., melting
M
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T
I
N
G
Y

Have a grateful day everyone, take care my brothers and sisters! 🙏❤️💀🌹🤠pigpen RIP Fat Man RIP😔

Friend of the Devil

I can't believe no one included this in their top ten. A perfect song, and I don't think I've heard Garcia give it an uninspired performance.

*Re/ friend of the devil

Great song! The music was written by Jerry Garcia and John Dawson of NRPS and the lyrics are by Robert Hunter!
The final song arrangement performed in the studio is quite different than the original composition if I remember correctly.

Friend of the Devil

The most played Grateful Dead song around campfires across the United States for going on 50 years.
-BAR/NONE-

I need to add to this. The most played song of ANY song played around campfires in the United States for going on 50 years , period.

Re\ friend of the devil

I concure with strider88 , good Ol campfire music, much like the two albums ‘American beauty’and ‘working mans dead‘ both scream out Americana!
Primo good Ol’Grateful Dead sing along songs!

Re: Friend of the Devil

I think we have to assume all the songs from American Beauty and Working Mans Dead were grandfathered in, add in the never released on Studio LP songs from E72.

Yes, how could we forget FOTD? Perhaps because it's one of those rare songs were the studio version is the classic, best version and it never really climbed as high live (my opinion).

Brown Eyed Woman, Jack Straw, Attics, Brokedown Palace, Cumberland Blues.. goodness, what a treasure chest.

Friend of the Devil

"You can borrow from the devil or you can borrow from a friend, the devil give you twenty, when your friend got only ten".

Favorites?

Need I say, ….as well to count.

Really ANY song on SOME night can be a exploding head moment. What might serve the community better is a definitive list of EVERY song and what is the BEST version of that song. I'm sure as a family we can come to together and create one list we all agree on, right? Lets say for instance, "The GREATEST Looks Like Rain, EVER, is from 1983-04-16". I think that is a statement we all can get behind. Next, Day Job, I KNOW I saw one, somewhere, wow! Probably still picking pieces of my skull off the ceiling!.

So what's funnier, 10 favorites or BOAT list? :-)

Songs (as written), or best LIVE songs?

The more recent comments got me wondering: are we listing the best songs, as they exist in their pure construction, or are we listing the songs that we enjoyed most in a live setting? Friend of the Devil, as mentioned, is a perfect song, but perhaps was not always the best song at a concert. On the other hand, The Eleven might be the epitome of a Grate concert song, but would likely not have been that interesting on an album.

Top Five Concert Songs:
The Eleven
China-->Rider
Eyes
Scarlet-->Fire
The Other One

(Plus Let It Grow as a sixth. Whoops!)

Bad Apples

This started as simply “your 10 favorite original GD songs“ (I think?)...but of course any time you ask a bunch of bolos and bozos to complete a task your gonna get more than you bargained for! Lol 😉

EDIT: I don’t know Dennis, that 10/10/82 LL Rain is a real dazzler! And what are you thinking....we can’t even put a favorite song list together and there’s only a few hundred of those, how the hell are we going to chose a best version lists from the THOUSANDS of versions....there’s always one folks! LOL

Looks Like Rain

70's: probably from 78 imo, 5-14 or 7-5? Jerry loved to rip the solo in 78.
80's and beyond: 10-3-87

FOTD

Best version that I have heard so far, the version from Dead Set. Jerry and Brent kill it on this version.

Love the way this song changed in 1976, with the extended versions.

Continuing my top eleven list....

....Shakedown Street. Added to
Brokedown Palace
The Eleven
Cumberland Blues
Caution
That's five. I'm getting there. Reminder. I'm not including Dark Star, PITB, Truckin' or TOO. Those are no brainers IMO.

Right Outside

...this Lazy Summer Home....

Sixtus

Robert Hunter's Favorites

Relix Magazine 1978

Which are your favorite songs, the ones you are proudest of?

I like Ripple a whole lot and It Must have Been The Roses, Cumberland Blues, Dupree, Ramble on Rose is a particular favorite - there's something funny about that song.

Friend Of The Devil "I thought that was the closest we've come to what may be a classic song."

- Robert Hunter

Looks Like Rain

I've said this before, the best Looks Like Rain is Frost Amphitheatre, October 10, 1982. Bob's speech and then his and Jerry's outro is simply perfect. "They say into each life a little rain must fall. In my life, it's coming' down like a big brick wall".

that's 2 for 10-10-82

I'll have to tune that one in again later. Thanks!

P.S. Nice work Sixtus if that's your gate :-) What does the plaque say?

Yesterday’s homework

Personally, I can only complete this 10 favorites list in the following manner:
Studio-not in order
Truckin’
Uncle John’s Band
Casey Jones
Friend Of The Devil
Terrapin Station
Estimated Prophet
Ripple
St. Stephen
Brokedown Palace
Crazy Fingers

Live-kind of in order
Dark Star
Viola Lee Blues
Turn On Your Lovelight
Caution
Cold Rain & Snow
Wharf Rat
Morning Dew
Here Comes Sunshine
Bird Song
Blues For Allah-yeah, I know, but all 3 versions are SPECTACULAR!!

So now, it’s time for y’all to rip me a new one!!
And don’t forget......Music is the Best!!

I Get A Kick Out Of....

First.. great conversation, I need to look back to the origin.

Second, I love that none of us (a couple exceptions, bless their souls) can follow the rules. Bend them perhaps... I get a kick out of that, and in a benevolent way.

Back to your regularly scheduled St. Stephen>The Eleven.

Edit: Includes the William Tell Bridge.

10.10.82 you say?....

....make that three.

Favorites (may change at any moment)

1. Eyes 2. pitb 3. Tennessee jed 4. TIFTOO 5. Bird song 6. Dark star 7. LIG 8. St.stephen 9. Cosmic Charlie 10. Morning dew P.S.- not in order and may change due to state of mind. Bonus- Mr.charlie.

Wilfred, A Fine Inquiry

It seems fidelity might be lost, unfortunately...
...it reads, upon close inspection:

'The Lazy Gate'

Surrounded by Familiar, Happy Icons of Grateful Lore.
Covered among rampant roses, pink.

The current and existing entrance into the Gardens of Sixtus; this being our first exposure to the joys of nature it being our inaugural summer here; we truly have no idea What will pop, and When. Each jaunt among the gardens delivers newly found joys of nature's bounty and immense offerings - coupled with opportunities for reflection.

Be well, All!

Sixtus

P.S.
The Eleven:
Eyes; H>S>F (is that one or three? (I'm calling One)); Estimated; TMNS; Crazy Fingers; Bird Song; Dark Star; Peggy 'O; Terrapin; Scarlet>Fire; Wharf Rat

What sixtus said

And peggy-o, Estimated and Help/slip/frank. Wow, this is not easy.

Peggy-O

Love their take on that tune..

From some google searches, I think that song might have originated in the 1500's (could be wrong, would love some fact checking).

A personal favorite.

I have never met a Peggy-O I would not Marry-O.

Dead Reads....

So I've read the usual suspects:
-Long Strange Trip
-So Many Roads
-Deal-Kreutzman
-Cornell 77
-Searching for the Sound-Lesh (my vote for the better of the five)

Next, I think I'd like to read the "Bear" "Steve Parish" or "Bill Graham" bios...anybody read them? Any suggestions for some interesting Dead related/or loosely Dead related books you've enjoyed?

Reads

I have read them all.

Phils book was quite good.. McNalleys and Blairs were equally good. Long Strange Trip was perhaps the hardest read, but rewarding.

Parishes, although perhaps the most entertaining, had it's drawbacks.

I like them all. I did not read the dis't book that came out in 2015. I have no interest in gossip, but history is fun.

Of the unread, the Bear book is certainly the most fun. Rosie McGee wrote a book that was fun too, as did I think one of Bears GF's, but that might be the Bear Book you speak of.. great fun.

Also, highly recommended are the two Orange Sunshine The Brotherhood of Eternal Love books (yes there are two). Great reads.

Edit: The two Owsley Books are (I think)
Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley and
Owsley and Me: My LSD Family: Stanley, Rhoney Gissen

Really both must reads. Great books.

Carlo13..PM & Time

Check yours...

& always, time distorts

-Sixtus

I've read them all...

I've read every goddamn rock biography I've been able to get my hands on. The Dead ones you've mentioned are all good. I'm currently 2/3 way through the Ted Templeman autobio. Just before that was John Entwistle's first - ! - though boring and slowly written, the man was hands down the best bass player I ever saw.

I am highly intelligent and an extremely fast, voracious reader with a photographic memory. On the surface, a statement like that may come across as egotistical, fantastical, or just arrogant, but in reality it's just true.

So like scenes in real life, I can vicariously place myself into the situations of the protagonists, rock heroes in these books I devour. Having done all the drugs and had all the sex and endured slight flirtations with the law, I have soaked into my being all of these shared experiences, of our collective bad ass conscicenceness. I am he as you are we and we are all together... that was from memory, either mine or someone else's, did I get it right?

Lennon, porn, insanity, drugs. The one your mother warned you about.

Ever been thinking a thought and wanted to spit it out before someone else said it first? Felt like you fed it to them when they did? Yes, of course. Ever been tripping and had the same shared feeling wash through the room, invisible though tangible, with everyone making eye contact and laughing and locking in, together, though for an indeterminately brief and instantly lost period of time?

We're all as connected as those groves of Aspen trees they call the world's largest living organism. Or whatever the fuck. When you glance at the clock, how often is it 12:21 or 3:03 or 2:22?

Just words. Be well and carry on.

\m/

Sixtus

PM back at you. I'm going to get workingman's dead now before I forget.

Book of The Dead

The first one I read was by Hank Harrison, and my edition was called simply "The Grateful Dead." First published in 1973. Apparently Harrison was the bands manager for about 5 minutes around 1966. But there is very little mention of him in any books apart from his own-which are actually more about him than the band. He wrote a follow up, and a third was promised, although I don't think that ever materialised. As the first two were shameless exercises in self promotion, this might not have been a bad thing.

My favourite was "The Music Never Stopped" by Blair Jackson, that came out about 1983. It opened with a great review of them playing Ventura, and the appendix had a review of tapes. This was the first time I had ever read about tapes, and I used to read his review of them and wonder how on earth you got hold of them. Little did I know what was just round the corner..

I haven't read many of The Dead books that have come out over the last 10 years. Rosie McGhees is one that interests me. A really good book that refers to the Dead throughout, "Heads -A biography of psychedelic America" by Jesse Jarnow.

On blowing your own trumpet

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool". Shakespeare-"As You Like It".

Another book...

"The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound" by Ralph J. Gleason (Ballantine Books, 1969)

Subtitled "The story of The Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Fillmore Auditorium, Bill Graham, The Family Dog and the coming of age of rock 'n roll in San Francisco"

That covers pretty much everything one could wish for. Of course the venerable Mr. Gleason was there right in the thick of it so he knows as much, if not more than anyone. It also contains 16 pages of photos and a 22 page interview with Jerry Garcia, the guru and a pretty comprehensive 10 page list of San Francisco bands.

This has been out of print for decades and is probably incredibly hard to find now, unless it has either been reprinted or published in digital form. Well worth seeking out.

https://www.dead.net/features/blog/literary-underground-grateful-dead-r…

There are used copies out there but they are not cheap.

And another

Yes, the Ralph Gleason book on San Francisco bands is another good one. I have just remembered the Garcia one-"A Sign Post To New Space," which I thought was excellent-although I seem to remember reading that Garcia himself was subsequently embarrassed by it.

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