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    18,000 happy Dead Heads could not be wrong. Deer Creek, my how you deliver.

    We're closing the books on DAVE'S PICKS 2021 with not one but two - nearly - complete shows from Noblesville, IN 7/18/90 & 7/19/90. Yes, we've packed it all on four CDs, save for that second night encore which we promise you'll get to hear in the very near future. Sometimes there really is just too much good stuff.

    For now, we'll invite you to cozy up with two exceptional back-to-back shows, shows with precision and clarity, shows with more than a lion's share of exploratory jams, and most importantly, shows that were simply a damn good time for all. Highlights from night one include the bookends of a spectacular "Help>Slip!>Franklin's" and an epically intricate "Morning Dew" followed by a classic cover of "The Weight." Night two, is the sleeper hit, with flawless playing from start to finish, the set list inviting you to find new favorites in top-notch renditions of "Foolish Heart" or "Victim Or The Crime," and if that's not one of the finest versions of "Desolation Row" Bobby ever did do! We would be remiss if we didn't mention that these shows were among Brent's last and they are some of his finest of the era at that.

    Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOL. 40: DEER CREEK MUSIC CENTER, NOBLESVILLE, IN 7/18 & 19/90 was recorded by Dan Healy and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman.

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  • Vguy72
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    The Beatles suck??....

    ....da fuq?
    On a side note, Watching the Dolphins/Panthers game, and Fox just played Estimated Prophet into commercial. 👍

  • daverock
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    The Beatles weren't that bad

    Sorry for kicking dirt in your face there Mr Ones. Very unintentional, I can assure you. Obviously, it's very much down to personal choice what music we like. I am sure more people would agree with you than me about post 1967 Beatles - which is fine by me. I always listen and watch with an open mind though - and it's doubtful I knew that "Get Back" had a poor reputaion when I saw it. I just found it - and the "Let It Be " album a bit depressing. I am sure I wanted to like it when I firts came across it. But I don't feel like watching it again now - how long do you think I'm going to live anyway? I always liked the second side of Abbey Road - but again, it doesn't sail as high as the mid 60s records in my estimation. But that's a subjective statement, not an objective one.

    Incidentally, the blu ray film of The Beatles In India looks more like my cup of tea. There was a great documentary on televsion over summer on this subject, presented by and including music by Donovan. Now there's someone ripe for re-discovery.

    That "Other One " jam at Paris 5/3/72 is something to behold. Amazing how they could so completely and succesfully re-invent this after they had already been so succesful exploring it from 1968-1970. This version is almost a different song from how they played it in the earlier years.

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    The Beatles Suck??

    Alright, huge disclaimer upfront: I am a Beatles fanatic. Bought my first Beatles record 56 years ago. Having said that, I would like to say this:
    A narrative became a fact shortly after Let It Be was released to theaters in 1970. And that narrative was that this was the Beatles breaking up on film, and was full of unpleasantness. And that(based on 1 review?? 2, 4??) whatever the case may be. I had not seen the film myself between say 1996 and 2005. A friend sent me a nice print on DVD(it had never been officially released after a brief exception on Laser Disc & Video Tape). So before watching the movie in 2005, even I was prepared to see this horrible example of a beloved group breaking up. After viewing the movie, I was astounded to come away with the impression that I saw mostly joy in the film.
    I believe ALL of this negativity was down to the 1 minute of film where George acts very snarky to Paul for trying to tell him how to play guitar. And yes, I think Paul was a pushy, opinionated ass sometimes, but he also drove the band forward when no one else was willing to do so.
    And I don’t think anyone can honestly say that their final piece of work, Abbey Road, was a piece of crap.
    So, the long standing negative vibes surrounding January 1969, at least as far as public opinion is concerned, is that it was a horrible time. It’s just not true. I challenge you to watch Let It Be, honestly, and say you came away with a negative vibe.
    So yes, I am a little sensitive about this issue, and biased(as I stated upfront), but it’s amazing how a couple of negative reviews can become a fact of life for millions.
    I have not seen Get Back yet, mainly because the Holiday weekend foiled all my plans to get together with friends and watch it together. But I am super excited to see it. I don’t believe Peter Jackson(NOT Disney!!) had to do any manipulation to create a false impression. He showed what the footage showed, plain and simple.
    If you don’t like the Beatles, I am fine with that, to each their own(kind of like with the Dead and “eras”). And if you want to comment on the Get Back movie, maybe try watching it with an open mind first(can you do that?).
    I really don’t care if people hate the movie, it just shows that nothing is loved by everyone.
    Just please don’t dismiss something based on 51 year old reviews(which I believe are distorted) and try to either watch it with an open mind. Or how about this: Don’t watch it if you don’t want to. No one is being forced to watch this film.
    Whew, I feel(a little) better!!
    Peace to all, we like what we like and that’s definitely OK!!

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    A great among the greats. It's been in rotation for more than a decade now. The key moments in the second set probably get four or more hits a year.

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    Cnkd - I don't know if " Get Back" has been out dvd/video before - I think I saw it on televison in the mid 70's. Already, at that time, it felt like watching a documentary on ancient history. I used to watch and listen to everthing I could find on The Beatles ( among many, many other bands) at that time - but that one did seem like a monumental downer - the overall vibe, the mawkish songs..no, not for me - especially at that time with that mindset. Could have been my age when I saw it. If you have never seen it before, and you like The Beatles, it's probably worth watching though.

    Crow-coincidence - I am half way through listening to that Olympia Paris show from 1972 on vinyl too. A great show with no filler. Even the less celebrated songs - Tennessee Jed, for example, are beautifully played. Whatever you pay for it, it's worth it.

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    I am quite enjoying this. No, it's no Revolver or Rubber Soul, but it takes a peek into the creative process of a creative band at the end of a great creative streak in a way that's not typically shown. Warts and all.. there's something there that's better left said than locked up another decade or five in a vault somewhere left unsaid and unseen.

    Just my point of view, I could be wrong.

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    You lived through it and already know the story.
    Has this video been released before?
    It’s not as disneyfied as you would expect, swearing and off language was not edited out.
    Yeah, they smoke A LOT of cigarettes. I was wondering if they were smoking weed when the cameras were off.

    I think that it is interesting to see this this footage of them, even if it is presented in a positive way.
    Is it not accurate? I don’t know because I was still wearing diapers when it happened. But it’s interesting to see them read the reports and gossip about them in the newspaper and the story about them is an exaggeration from what was shown in the video. Maybe it really happened and the cameras didn’t record it.

    I’m not a huge Beatles fan but I like watching vintage concert/studio video of them. I have Ron Howard’s documentary on BluRay. Interesting tidbit of info from there, at the Hollywood Bowl concert one of the screaming girls in the crowd is Sigourney Weaver, they interview her for the documentary.

    Anyway, part 3 tonight which supposedly contains the entire rooftop concert which I want to see because I’ve only seen portions of it before.

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    34 years ago tonight, I was at the Warfield Theatre to hear Garcia kickoff the show with a great version of Swing Low Sweet Chariot. This was the 2nd show of a 3 night run, one acoustic set and 2 electric. Fun city!

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    memories light the corners of my mind

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    I really need to watch the movie before I pass judgment, and I will watch it, eventually. But I have to say I'm suspicious of what seems like a pretty blatant rewriting of history to give us a nice, family-friendly, Disney version of the Beatles break up.

    Let It Be was Paul's baby, and it failed--by Beatles' standards, anyway. And the film that was issued at the time showed the reason why: the Beatles were barely speaking to each other, they could barely play together anymore, John and George had one foot out the door, nobody but Paul thought it was a good idea to try to write songs and record an album with a documentary team filming every cigarette and cup of tea and petty argument, and the music shows it.

    Now here we are all these years later, John and George are dead, the footage gets sold to Disney, and now we get the Disney-fied version, where it's all sanitized for maximum profitability, and golly gee, now it looks like everybody was actually having loads of fun and everything was going great, and the Beatles story now has a happy ending! Yay! And look, Paul was the real leader of the group, just like he's often implied!

    It's funny, but if the original film was such a horrible misrepresentation of what the whole experience was like for the band, nobody said so at the time. But Paul outlived John and George, so we get this Disney version of the latter day Beatles, something that probably would've never happened if John was around. Ah well, it's still probably fun just to see those guys in their prime, so I probably shouldn't be such a grouch about it. But like John said, just gimme some truth. No need to sugar coat it 50 years later.

    Anyway ... on a cheerier note: I finally got my hands on a copy of the Olympia '72 vinyl thing via discogs. As much as I complain about GD stuff selling for astronomical prices on the secondary market, I finally found a copy that was only a few bucks more that it would've been if I'd managed to score one on Record Store Day, so I jumped on it. I think everybody here knows that show so I suppose there's no need to ramble on about how great it is. But it's really fucking great!!! EVERYBODY is playing well, everybody is in good voice, Pig's still a force, the audio is excellent, it's just fantastic. I wish it wasn't a limited edition so everybody could have this.

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18,000 happy Dead Heads could not be wrong. Deer Creek, my how you deliver.

We're closing the books on DAVE'S PICKS 2021 with not one but two - nearly - complete shows from Noblesville, IN 7/18/90 & 7/19/90. Yes, we've packed it all on four CDs, save for that second night encore which we promise you'll get to hear in the very near future. Sometimes there really is just too much good stuff.

For now, we'll invite you to cozy up with two exceptional back-to-back shows, shows with precision and clarity, shows with more than a lion's share of exploratory jams, and most importantly, shows that were simply a damn good time for all. Highlights from night one include the bookends of a spectacular "Help>Slip!>Franklin's" and an epically intricate "Morning Dew" followed by a classic cover of "The Weight." Night two, is the sleeper hit, with flawless playing from start to finish, the set list inviting you to find new favorites in top-notch renditions of "Foolish Heart" or "Victim Or The Crime," and if that's not one of the finest versions of "Desolation Row" Bobby ever did do! We would be remiss if we didn't mention that these shows were among Brent's last and they are some of his finest of the era at that.

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOL. 40: DEER CREEK MUSIC CENTER, NOBLESVILLE, IN 7/18 & 19/90 was recorded by Dan Healy and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman.

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Hard to believe that Root Boy was a frat brother of to be President GWB at Yale and was thrown out by him at a house homecoming party... very strange character there, and the songs, Mood Ring, Used to be a Radical, Christmas at K-mart. Why not when Tricia Nixon invited Grace Slick to the White House and Grace tried to bring Abbie Hoffman in with her. Too political? Danny Gatton was low key way back then, a known D.C. talent, though overshadowed by Roy Buchanan and Nancy. They played around town in several bar/club locations, DuPont Circle, Bethesda, Georgetown. I did not grow to appreciate Danny as such a gifted master of the telecaster until later on, then he seemed all about rockabilly. Now Bill Kirchen, another telecaster master... caught him with Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen, outdoor concert American University in D.C., 1972. Lost in the Ozone Again...

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was the title of Root Boy's last lp, and I have a signed copy of it. We were fortunate enough to catch his last performance in the good old USA at a place called the Junkyard in Altamonte Springs, Fla. He was fat, sweating like he was in a sauna and wasted to the gills but he could still sing in that gravely voice and he could still move about on the stage. We went backstage and I saw his latest lp laying there on a table, I picked it up, ripped off the plastic wrapper and stuck it in his face for his signature. He looked at it and said" where did you get this?" I told him "right over there" he gave me a wink and signed the lp and stuck it in my hand and said "you've got balls man" He had a chunk of hash that night that was as big as a baseball. He was looking forward to his trip back to England, little did we know it would be his last trip.
The first time we met was in 1986 or so at a performance at the Great Southern Music Hall in downtown Orlando, the romantics opened and they were literally booed off the stage after my then good friend (since deceased) took off his boot and threw it at the lead singer, hitting him in the chest, which ended their performance. Boy, was he pissed, we laughed and laughed. Back stage, Root shook my friends hand and said, "That guy is such an asshole, good shot" Good times indeed, loved his band and those Rootets were hot. Mood ring was a good tune, along with "He's not too old for you", "My wig fell off", "In Jail in Jacksonville" and the classic "Boogie till you puke"

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Go to gdsets-dot-com and there is a page with some of Dick’s hand-written notes from his tape trading days.

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Bust out your credit card (if you haven’t already), Johnny Cash Bears’s Sonic Journal is coming out on colored vinyl.

Saw it on elusivedisc-dot-com

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Thanks Ice Cream Man. I already had ordered that when it was first announced,,,, I see the date has been pushed back to January now.

All the house comments reminds me of Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House. When Cary Grant and Myrna Loy are working with the architect, drawing all over him plans. They end up with an upstairs twice the size of the downstairs. The architect finally says " Perhaps what you need is not so much a house as a series of little bungalows."

DaP 40 Glass coming today, yeah!

Unsure about the whereabouts of the last 2 45's !!!

Oh yeah, and that Johnny LP should include a comic book!

DCMVT - it's actually his rockabilly playing that turns me on, although the recordings I have could be from a few years after you saw him.There's some great clips of him on youtube - one I really recommend is titled Elvis Medley from 4/10/89. You might think that sounds a bit dull if you don't like Elvis, - but man alive, Danny Gattons picking on this is incendiary!

There seems to something about a telecaster that brings out a certain type of virtuosity you don't tend to find on other electric guitars. Doesn't work for me, mind.

I've never heard of Root Boy, but he sounds like the ticket too.

I seen the name go by on these boards I believe, but still didn't know him.

I have 3 of his albums in stock though,,, Cruisin' Deuces, Live with Robert Gordon - The Humbler and Redneck Jazz.

On redneck jazz , very nice cover of Ode to Billie Joe and the Andy Williams classic, Canadian Sunset.

Thanks for the pointing out, will have to take to work to play.

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And Happy Build-Day to the Proudfoot robot.

I'm listening to Listen to the River in order, and finally made it to D3 of 12/10/71 for the first time; whoa. THAT'S what it's all about!

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Dennis -I've never heard Redneck Jazz - I think that was his first album. Crusiin' Deuces has a "Sun Medley" on it which pops the cork...but "The Humbler" is the one for me. One of the best live albums I have ever heard. Robert Gordon is only so so, and it's his show - but Danny Gatton plays out of his skin.

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The late, great Evan Johns played guitar and sang on "Redneck Jazz". Danny Gatton returned the favour by joining Evan Johns and the H-Bombs on "Showdown at the Hoedown".

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Thanks a bunch Daverock for pointing that clip out, had seen something from the same era, Gatton interviewed on Nightwatch by Charlie Rose, that clip also up on utube... Danny shows Rose different stuff and makes it all look so damn easy... it was me that did not appreciate rockabilly back in the day, now we have seen rockabilly with Albert Lee, Jeff Beck and even a little more with Billy Strings. Check out Johnny Hiland, he takes Danny G as a mentor. Now for something almost completely different, every time slide guitar comes up, noting that Derek T is such a great player, there's a clip up of Sonny Landreth playing with John Hiatt on "Riding with the King" live from Basel... Sonny is amazing.

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"Blazing Telecasters" by Danny Gatton and Tom Principato is another album worth checking out if you like, er... blazing Telecasters.

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Magnificent

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Pleeeeeeeeeeease

Pick something from 1969

Pleeeeeeeeeeease

Pick something from 1968

90 87 is nice and all

But

1969 1969 1969

1968 1968 1968

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does anyone have any shows in their immediate future? Next month I'll be headed to Tucson & Scottsdale for a pair of Los Lobos shows...I might do a swing through Northern New Mexico and Colorado for them too in March...being in Las Vegas last month for the Stones & Santana got me pumped up for more after the last 20 months of mainly stayin put...I also just checked the Tedeschi Trucks Band website and still no info on tickets for their pair of Red Rocks in late July...damn I need to go to those...

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Hoping for a speedy recovery to Brother Carlos after having a heart procedure done last week...Get Well Loco, we need you here still.

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Blazing Telecasters looks worth checking out. I notice that you can get it on dvd, too. The title and description put me in mind of another sparring tele cd-"The Return of The Hellecasters"-the Hellecasters being John Jorgenson, Will Ray and Jerry Donohue. Fiery.

I still don't feel inclinded to go out to gigs yet though. I'm still waiting to see what happens next before I venture out. One of my friends went to see Mary Poppins in London last month, though - and she's not dead yet, so maybe I'm being over cautious.

I came across this show while digging into one of my external HD's...gave a listen to this Charlie Miller Remastered SBD and really enjoyed it...The Big Railroad Blues in the middle of the pre-drums 2nd Set knocked me out...if you have it give a listen today

Grateful Dead
Market Square Arena
Indianapolis, IN
December 5, 1981

--Set 1--
Alabama Getaway ->
Promised Land
Friend of the Devil ->
C C Rider
Cumberland Blues ->
El Paso
Ramble on Rose
Passenger
Bird Song ->
Let It Grow

--Set 2--
Shakedown Street ->
Lost Sailor ->
Saint Of Circumstance
Big Railroad Blues
Playing in the Band ->
Drums ->
Space ->
The Wheel ->
Playing in the Band ->
Stella Blue ->
Sugar Magnolia
--Encore--
One More Saturday Night

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Okay, I'm sure most of us have watched as UPS takes days and weeks to move an item one state. (Big Brown does have logistics) So after waiting a week for the final Dave's Glass to come from gnarlywood, email says delivered!!!

Run to front door, no glass,,,, look all around the porch, nope not here.

Check online, says delivered to door and signed for by "Spencer". Problem is no Spencer here.

After many a frustrating attempt at contact, finally someone call me. Tells me it's been handed off to the USPS. I'm like so you're telling me delivered to door is the post office and someone named Spencer signed for it? I asked about a tracking number, she tells me it's their number (1Z..........)

I check PO and no it's not their number (duh)

Call UPS back, a lot of bullshit, but they will call me back. Acted like they were going to find the driver and make him go back to where it was dropped off, pick it back up bring here. HA HA HA HA HA HA

Needless to say, no further word from the folks at UPS (short for up yours?)

Sent in a form to dead.net, hoping for the best. Hoping that where ever it was dropped, that person will see my address and bring here. (further ha?)

Jim, as I said, at least with the axe there was only one and you either got it or didn't. Four random things, you're hoping for the best.

That delivery system is called “mail innovations”.
Not very innovative.

I have the UPS and USPS apps and when used together you can actually keep pretty good track of packages from Gnarlywood. But, you can’t speed them up.
It’s the alter ego of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.

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My reCRAPTCHA on another page said ‘buses’, and it was one big picture of a UPS truck.

I think it’s a sign……

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Too big to care.

Dane!
Another beaut, that whole run up to 12/9, DaP 20 is hot!
That pick still really puzzles me?
IMHO, Once again he picked a good city and street/neighborhood, but went to the wrong house.

Still say Dane box would be fun.

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Short answer, glass came today via USPS,,,, yeah.

Longer answer - though I had a tracking number for the item, it was only a UPS number.

UPS said they dropped at the Post Office, so shocked they said "inside delivery", and that Spencer signed for it in the delivery status online. I would have thought when I talk to UPS and they told me that, that they would have had a tracking code for the Post Office. Odd too because the package itself had a USPS tracking number on it!?!

So I was wrong, there I said it. Still say UPS sucks. Post Office brought the damn thing today (SUNDAY).

Why I love my Post Office! Now I have the complete set!!

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Anyone else keeping up?

I like the artwork he's using for the "cover".

He appears to be (at least after 5 days) to only be using "official release" stuff.

I always view these as just a nice playlist someone else put together.

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Dennis I've been trying to find this. Any clues?

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I hope this works,,,, that is the info without the back slashes. He is not posting the songs since they all have been official releases, but once I see what song he picks I add to a folder.

BTW - once december is over I will post all the songs in order on my g drive, there they will numbered and labeled correctly.

Hope that helps

This was a good one to bring back; I do feel like it could have been offered some more breathing room to begin to resemble the jammy gem it once was during it's original '73 - '74 stint. In fact I was just listening to a top two version from today's date in 1973 - you know, the show with the monster 45 minute Dark Star. That HCS ranks up there with Dick's Pick's 1 Tampa IMHO. Fight me!

The Eugene show from '93 of which Proudfoot speaks is also fantastic.... and a rebooted HCS kicked it off; also included is a really long & jazzy Bird Song and tight peppy China > Rider in the 2nd. In fact that two show little run would make a fine release one day, it's all hot.

Be Well and Merry, People.
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Sigh, alas, one of the biggins (and one of my favs) that I didn’t get to see : (

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You can have the one I got to see... but I'm not complaining, they tossed in a the last Comes a Time which made up for it a bit. The early ones were definitely better..

Edit: I would have liked to have seen an Unbroken Chain and how about another Visions of Johana (although I did catch the lesser version performed in '86). That's my late era song I wish I'd have seen. I guess I should be more grateful about my Here Comes Sunshine as I only saw a couple shows post 91.. if only Kermit the Frog didn't sing it. It's such a beautiful tune and the harmonies are a big part of that. In hindsight.. perhaps I am a bit too critical of the later era shows, when they were on, they could still bring it and they brought happiness to so many people right up until the end, I am grateful for that. It was a great community service they performed.. the gift that keeps on giving.

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KF and Doc were over on Listen to the River comments and wondering where we all are. Da40 of course, we're always on the most current release. This is a little harder to get to without going through Community, then Dead Store Product. But this AM it wouldn't let me sign in to comment on The River tab even though I was already signed in to the home page. More weirdness. Fitting for us misfits I guess. I do need my daily dose of Doc's pearls of wisdom and esoteric thoughts so glad he posts far and wide. (and DR, I know they are quotes but I love how perfectly poignant they are) Cheers

Edit: Still having issues signing in to comment today. Took three tries for this round. The site trying to tell me something?

I saw the first and last ones. Just listened to them both again.
I kinda like the first one?
Don’t recall the second one though I know I’ve heard it?
The last one was actually decent considering the time.
Don’t think I’ve heard the others?

Saw the 7/9/95 Chain. Also decent, actually listened/watched that show the other night.
Weird, there’s only video on utoooob of part of the show?
Certainly not mind blowing but not that bad a show really.
Its certainly better sounding then I remember it, though some of that was situational etc.
You can tell Phil and Bob are trying hard to compensate and playing hard.

It’s funny that none of the shows I thought were bad at the time, now don’t seem too bad?
Certainly not great, but worth a listen. Not terrible…

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How does this happen?

I dreamed last night that 1971 Bob Weir was sitting at a piano and made a comment something to the effect "Keith doesn't play with much soul."

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I think you're right.. When I pop on the soundboards of some of the shows I thought were a tad stinky and give them a listen, they usually sound much better than how they went down in my mind.. especially the ones that were recorded well. I have not listened to Visions side by side before, but I really like the one from the rectum on 3/18/95. I am happy I caught the Hampton '86 one though.. and the last Comes a Time at the Crap Centre in 94. Stand-out memories from some less than stand-out periods in GD History. I do have some regrets on some of the shows I let slip by.. Augusta 84 being one of them. I had a ticket offer for that one. D'OH!

Speaking of dead dreams.. I had a weird one last night and it definitely referred to my show seeing period. I ran into this guy I didn't recognize but who remembered me from back in the day. He got into this side bar about old times and the woman he had married that apparently dated me back then. So this guy goes on discussing fond memories and things that went down that we both shared (I guess). He called to his wife who walked over and gave me a hug, she hadn't aged a bit and still had it going on (why didn't I marry her?, the one that got away).. anyway, as me and her husband had a jovial conversation walking down memory lane he casually said I've got some doses, want some? At which point I immediately woke up thinking but not able to say yes and poof, he was gone and I'm staring at the ceiling. I had this vivid visual of this woman and I never dated her but she looked like a composite of all the women I knew back in my early college years. Weird I know, but sort of GD related.

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I was at Compton 12.6.92 for the big HCS comeback. Christ that venue sucked. Anyway, it's probably my best live Dead memory, along with the 2 RFK Dark Stars (91 and 92 I believe) and the Casey Jones comeback on 6.20.92. Dead & Co does a mean version if you haven't checked it out yet you should.....

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Lol, wow, cool dream!
I don’t really dream much, but I’ve had similar where there’s some awesome gal seems hot on me and just about when we’re going to find out, Dooooaaaahhh, I wake up lol.

Casey Jones, that’s the other “old” song I didn’t catch.
Can’t complain saw many of the “musts” and many rare, firsts, lasts etc.

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....I'm partial to this one. "Count your age by your friends, not your years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."
Also, "Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
TURN OFF YOUR MIND, RELAX, AND FLOAT DOWNSTREAM

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In reply to by Dennis

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Dennis thanks for the clue. It's interesting Ed is choosing officially released music this year.

We finished the Beatles three parter last night and the rooftop show was exciting. Interesting they agreed they had seven songs worked up but only played four, with two repeats.

Earlier I posted that this longer doc couldn't possibly hide unpleasant moments. How silly of me, I realized when I understood that they had over 64 hours of footage.

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