Grateful Dead

did anyone find anywhere, how many the purple vinyl set was "limited" to?

.... you cost me a fortune today with your Joni post!!!

Thanks for the head's up.

I did see a Canucks game when I visited my son shortly after he moved to Vancouver. It was a blast, I love seeing games in other towns. Seattle will make for a great double header with the Kraken, in that I can easily see a game in BC then head down to Seattle for a game.

Speaking of Squamish (pretty town) - the Dead were supposed to play a music festival there shortly after Woodstock, but bailed based on their performance at Woodstock. And your daughter is so right - Whistler is way way too touristy. Great for skiing, and mountain biking in the summer, but crazy expensive.

Oro - I’m glad to hear things are safe your way. I was reading you guys have been cursed with all kinds of wildfires, most appear to have been caused by lightning, so here is hoping for rain and lots of it, out your way.

Have you seen the movie Strange Brew with Bob and Doug McKenzie?

Bob drinks an entire tank of beer and then puts out a large fire by peeing on it.

Just saying……

Good luck!

Dave, spring that seaside chat on us tomorrow.

Saw him perform once in early June 1984 at the Line Camp in Pojoaque , New Mexico when he was a member of the Dinosaurs. 🦕🦕🦕🦕. The liberty caps were just exactly perfect. The bass player Peter Albin and I talked some. He was interested if any communes were left. I remember Hunter sang Wild Bill (loves diamond Lil) . A few days later I went to Red Rocks for my first time. Three nights of good ol’ Grateful Dead. 1984 was a good year. Robert Hunter was the gnostic key of lyrical brilliance that made so much of the music of the Grateful Dead “glow with the gold of sunshine”.

It’s the little things like Gallagher busting his ass down the ice to nullify an icing call that the casual fan may not appreciate.

Funny you mention seeing a game out west. Our family did the Seattle-Vancouver run last year. The Canucks were only in town for one night. It turns out that the Sea to Sky gondola had just reopened after being closed for a year due to vandalism. So we chose to head up to Squamish. It was spectacular and I am glad we made choice. Unfortunately, we made the additional drive up to Whistler since it was so close and missed the game. Just yesterday watching the game my daughter turns to me and says, “I really wish we saw a Canucks game. Whistler was too touristy.”

Daverock - Great point. Jerry was a better interpreter of songs because he, unlike Hunter, has a melodic delivery. Hunter would write the overall structure but not always with the melody. Jerry is good with the melody.

Hunter and Dylan are similar that way - great songwriters, but others had a more melodic delivery on their work.

I remember and interview with Jerry about Dylan songs, said something like "Dylan's songs have great melodic sense but Dylan doesn't always sing it."

Cant wait for Gary and Dave and another great show I’ve not yet heard!

PF, sorry bud, of course only kidding, shamelessly always going for the laugh.
I know your a good sport so didn’t think you’d mind...

Gary & Mike, thanks. It’s about 10 miles from us. Not in danger currently, but close enough to get ya thinking. Saw flames reflecting off the clouds first night. Nearest closure is about half way. Think it’s only about 4K acres so far but shifting (waiting on updates)...they called in one of the best national teams and more big hardware. So far the winds been mostly good, but if it shifts, there’s a ton of fuel and a clear path back to town, so I think their getting more serious about it...possible rain tomorrow night and Friday, let’s hope!

NHL playoffs, crazy how fast things can change.
What ever happens there’s been some great games!

Ok, show time!

I think you may have it backwards when you write that "Jerry Garcia ... seemed most in tune with the words he was singing... it seemed he was expressing his own world view in song, rather than someone else's. I guess that is the mark of all great interpretive singers."

Moment, please. No criticism, but a few thoughts... I would suggest that the effect you cite is actually proof of Hunter's songwriting genius: that he could pen the words that would sound like Jer's worldview when Jer sang them. I say this because Jer was Hunter's first "puppet singer" (coined a phrase!) and songwriting collaborator of any note. Hunter could write in a universal manner and, yes, Jer made the sentiments sound universal, but Hunter also wrote specifically for the man, Jerry Garcia, and from that man's view of the world. THAT is Hunter's genius and genesis, not Jer's. I mean Jer rightly gets his due, but at the spark of creation, the thoughts and words are Hunter's. I believe that, at times, Jer has said as much.

Maybe splitting hairs or turning things inside out, but these thoughts occurred to me as you indeed lauded Hunter.

And remember, Hunter essentially was a solo artist, versus Garcia, who had one band perennially surrounding him. Hunter, like Dylan, merely assembled the cast he needed each time he entered the studio, in order that each effort would sound unique.

That is all.