Grateful Dead

Decent ventura 1987 board

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7ZrE49wH6c

real easy for me to get on the BBS.

Is there a 1972 shortage in the Vault? Let's get this Box Set rolling with '72 Dreams.

Like the corners of

Screw That!

34 years ago right now...(well 1987/06/13) I was on Ventura Beach, Beyond High but the most relaxed I have ever been. Cool westerly breeze, palm trees dancin with bolts of lightning in the fronds .At this point they would have been maybe around Estimated as it was a 2pm start. Second Set Shakedown opener was sweet, as it was slow and slinky and funky, but what really made Ventura a special place was that it was small venue and Phil Bombs made the sand we were standing on vibrate under our feet. As this date was a Saturday, it was an intense party. The fellas had a huge night time bondfire for the freaks and at midnight they showed Refer Madness and other goodies on the big screen. That was outside the venue on the beach proper. Never saw such a powerful small group of heads and absolutely no law enforcement any where that I saw. Only downside I heard, was some youngsters that came to the party and got drunk, and threw objects thru the local liquor store window. And not even sure about that as it has been days gone by.

....my wife is a truck driver and is currently in Spokane.
She won't let me slap a Dead sticker on her rig.

So it’s June 1980. I’m in Kalispell, Montana near where I used to live and work and I look at the newspaper box holding the Spokesman Review out of Spokane. 237 miles or just under four hours away, a stones throw ( throwing stones ) in in the mountain west. “ Shit is that a photograph of the Grateful Dead on the front page”. They played the night before in Spokane. “Well fuck me blue”.
I made up for it a year and a half later and went to six Dead shows in the Bay Area in December 1981.
I get a feeling I’ve told these stories before.

....water. Lots of water.
Go Islanders!!

On 5/14/78. This was about the period that 78 really warmed up to me in general.. and then not too far away we got the July 78 box which to me is simply killer. This was also about the time I seemed to notice Jeffrey Norman fine tuning his craft. Except for a few one-off's, for the most part the sound in Boxzilla is quite good. Glad I got that box.. I should revisit some of the lesser played shows one day.

Onward.. so little music, so much time. Scratch that.. reverse it.

Nice to hear you touting the 5/14/78 show from 30 Trips Around the Sun. I was pleasantly surprised with that one, especially considering I didn't like DP 25 too much. I recall being excited for the first officially released Mississippi Half-Step of 1978 on that one. First 3 songs are super solid. They Love Each Other has some great Keith stuff going on in there. Looks Like Rain & It Must Have Been The Roses slow things down a bit, but I've never been one to let a setlist ruin a good performance. It also has that super long Let It Grow. I keep meaning to compare that one to other post-hiatus versions.

For Alaska! Did those shows somewhat recently (Covid time so I’m not sure when lol)
A couple old tops here say Portland’s good too? And Folsom...hmmmm,, sounds like a box lol.

TRIPPING: I found that if you’ve built a tolerance and trip while doing something you do a lot, which for us was playing music, but I can see pitching being similar, in fact the weird thing would be when you stopped....like when you were doing “what ever” you were fine, but as soon as you stopped THEN you realized how high you were lol.
Of course I’m talking shrooms or lower doses, not 400 of high test.

ROUND THREE starts today, who we rootin for? I think I’m going islanders as I’m assuming their the underdogs and Tampa’s too same old, same old, let’s get some new blood on the cup!
Like the Kiniggits! I’ve enjoyed the Habs because I love rootin for the underdog, kinda like being a Deadhead, but tge Habs have won it a lot and Vegas has not, and they (team and fans) have got the fire in the nuts, so it’d probably be more fun getting on that train...man, what a slam fest Isles and Knights would be. Makes me sore just thinking about it ; )

Strider the jokester!

I know you're used to the heat being where you are but take care this coming week...Living at Altitude we will have low 90 degree temps and all kinds of heat warnings are popping up everywhere for here...down at Phantom Ranch along the Colorado River temp forecasts are calling for up to 120 degrees by mid week...I always tell folk on tours that temps at the bottom of the Canyon correspond with Las Vegas & Phoenix...worst of all because of high heat, drought and no humidity Park Service has put a ban on open campfires and Charcoal BBQ usage for the time being, so no Asada for me...be well my friend...