Dave's Picks Vol. 40: Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN 7/18/90 & 7/19/90

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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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November 18, 2021 - 9:06am

#551

hendrixfreak

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GarciaLive 17

Is turning out to be a delightful sample of Jer's band with K & D, Kahn and Tutt (RIP) circa '76.

While the rockers really rock, and the Motown tunes have the pulsing rhythm they need, I just listened to an initially somnabulent Friend of the Devil that turns out soulfully slow, not plodding as it did with the GD. Now, Russian Lullabye, a real low-dynamic treat that features Jer / Kahn interplay.

The Motown tunes don't have the huge sound characteristic of the early '90s Jer band juggernaut, but rather a spare and sweet sound. Donna Jean's fine vocals really complement Jer's, especially in such a relatively low-volume setting. Keith, JK and Tutt are in fine form as well.

A most welcome addition to the Jer solo shelf. FWIW, recommended by HF.

Now I'll have to look for where the chronological gaps in my Jer collection exist, just to place future releases in my mind. His camp has only released one clunker -- the New Year's disaster with Nicky Hopkins, GarciaLive 5, 12-31-75 -- so they're batting average is considerably better than the GD's, though that's to be expected with the latter's far greater volume of releases.

Folks, don't forget the OSF releases. I'm unflinchingly buying every Jer solo release and OSF release and ~75% of all GD vault releases. And a jillion other archival releases. No wonder I'm a little short at the end of the month..... short, but happy. Just imagine Yosemite Sam laying down his pistols for a relaxing glass of firewater in the recliner with a pipeful of dine-o-mite.
November 18, 2021 - 7:07am

#552

hendrixfreak

Joined:
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keeping 'phrases of the day' alive

My tribute to "in your pants loud" and "bludgeoned by heavy metal."

Both excellent band names..........
November 17, 2021 - 6:01pm

#553

icecrmcnkd

Joined:
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Best, worst, loudest, etc

Loudest was probably bar bands because the venue is small and when you’re drinking you’re dumb enough to stand in front of a speaker.

Worst sound quality from a ‘professional’ band was probably Van Halen 2007 Philips Arena. Volume was way too loud (sound guy had to beat Spinal Tap and go to 12) and all the instruments blurred together. And I was on the floor to the right of the soundboard. Then to pour salt on the wounds, the sound system failed for Eddie’s solo and we could only hear the speakers on the stage. At one point Eddie stopped playing and threw up his hands in frustration.
Can’t blame Philips Arena for Van Halen’s poor sound quality, I saw Roger Waters there 3 times and D&C 2 times and the sound quality was excellent for all of them.

GD 5-12-74 Reno
I wasn’t there but was told that the Wall of Sound could be heard quite a ways away and people complained.

2017 Rolling Stones played GA Tech’s football stadium. My house was 6 miles away and I could hear music, not clear enough to determine what was being played, but you could tell it was music and not industrial rumble.

Simonrob with phrase of the day: chemically compromised.
Was it Simon? Can’t scroll down and check while typing. An old version of this site did allow you to do that.

Gary Farseer,
I saw The Who July 89 (a week after I saw GD at Alpine) row 32 floor of the Pontiac Silverdome. That was awesome!! It was the greatest hits show which I actually wanted to see more than a complete Tommy. There are several of the PPV shows from that tour on utoob.

Doing my first spin of Garcia 17 as I type this. I prefer complete shows rather than compilations and chop jobs, but I’ll take all the ‘76 JGB I can get.

I believe that early bird pricing for DaP 2022 subscription ends today.
DaP 42 + bonus should be announced before the full price subscription window closes.

Deep thoughts with Jack Handy:
Why would you pay full subscription price when you could have gotten early bird pricing?
November 17, 2021 - 5:41pm

#554

deadfeat1

Joined:
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First->Last

First Show - Beach Boys 11/23/66 Baltimore Civic Center with Chad and Jeremy opening. We all wore ties and sports coats and the ushers wouldn't let us stand

First Dead - Capital Center 7/29/74 w/ Phil and Ned at intermission

My wife's first Dead- RFK 1973 and second Watkins Glen - I think she got off to a good start!

Loudest show - The Guess Who at Loyola College in Baltimore around 1970 while I was in high school. Ear blisteringly loud and uncomfortable for a smallish gym.

Last show with major acts The Peach Fest in 2019
November 17, 2021 - 4:51pm

#555

nappyrags

Joined:
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oh and mas loud too

was a show I didn't go to but friends did...Blue Cheer, Pink Floyd & Jeff Beck late July '68 Shrine Expo Hall...$3.50 at the door
November 17, 2021 - 4:39pm

#556

Gary Farseer

Joined:
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Who?

Speaking of the Who, my favorite production so far is the PPV of 1989 with Patti Labelle singing Acid Queen. I paid for the PPV and still have the VHS tapes but I also bought it on DVD when it came out. Really thought Simon Phillips on drum brought back the missing spark. Sounded incredible live thru the smaller BBS I had at the time.

Speaking of 1989 wish Dave would remaster the Summer Solstice show from 1989 PPV, including the whole video footage of crowd, an internal shakedown with artists and the whole intermission break. Ha, One can ask. I also ordered that PPV and it was a great night at home doing some dosed cranking...
November 17, 2021 - 4:19pm

#557

LedDed

Joined:
February 16, 2017

Loud Funk Railroad

Or is it Great Loud Funkload? Grand Farner Loadloud? I give up.

I'm not sure why, considering the occasional barrage of cheese from even the finest of the 1970s rock dinosaurs, that GFR get shit on so much. Perhaps most are only familiar with "We're An American Band," and the like, but the band were capable of some really good R&B covers and originals, such as "Bad Time," and "Some Kind of Wonderful."

At any rate, modern live sound has advanced SO much in even the past 10 years. Having seen both Eagles and Dead & Co. on their 2021 Fall tours, both had impeccable live sound that carried magnificently from the first row to the last (and D&C was outside at Red Rocks, mind you) with great clarity and punch - without being overly loud.

The technology has just gotten so much better - you can get a quality bang your head rock and roll experience up front, closer to the banks of PA speakers as well as backline if you want it - without blowing your eardrums. Roger Waters hands down had the best live sound I have ever heard both on The Wall tour as well as the Dark Side that preceded it - flawless, impeccable live sound that I could not imagine being any better without coming from inside my head.

I have residual tinnitus that comes in and out all the time from a lifetime of musical enjoyment. The weird covid shit floating around everywhere seems to have exacerbated it for me as well as many others I know. I don't have it as bad as many and I refuse to let it affect my quality of life. I try to ignore it when it comes on until I forget it's even happening, and then for all practical intents and purposes, it isn't. Zen Jedi mind over matter.

It was also at Red Rocks in the early 1990s when I totally blew out the hearing on my right side. I was more of a metal dumb ass then, went to see Scorpions, Great White and Mr. Big. Nothing wrong with that kind of party, but we got there late and made the ill-fated decision to get up into the first couple of rows.

First couple of rows all the way to the right. So we spent the show facing due left and were literally bludgeoned by heavy metal PA for hours on end. Now it was nothing new to leave a venue with my ears ringing, but it was entirely new to wake up the next day deaf in my right ear. Not totally deaf, but everything sounded like when you put a seashell up to your ear. People's voices sounded out from under a wet blanket. Day two after the show, the hearing started to come back, and to this day my right ear has fully recovered and is just as good (bad?) as my left one.

My buddy had the same experience. While sustained hearing damage may have been justifiable to see Jimi Hendrix or the Who back in the day, seeing this ho-hum metal triple bill was surely not. Thank God we persevered.

Cheers!

\m/
November 17, 2021 - 4:03pm

#558

proudfoot

Joined:
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Captain Beyond

Captain Beefheart

Captain Sensible

and

Captain Trips
November 17, 2021 - 2:53pm

#559

simonrob

Joined:
June 7, 2007

Captain Beyond

Now there is a name from the distant past. I saw them at Bickershaw Festival in 1972. They played on the Saturday before Captain Beefheart. They were just average as I recall. Do they really still exist? It seems that they may have improved with time, lots of time.
November 17, 2021 - 2:32pm

#560

Gary Farseer

Joined:
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Wish I had the time

I am so far behind on posting...

Loudest ever The Steve Morse Band in really tiny club. Stood maybe 3 feet from left PA stack. I still like to crank my BBS but have started to have some tinnitus in left ear, where my head was next to the stack. The Who, and I know the Who in 1976 set the Guinness World Record for awhile, was loud but Yes 1976 on the crab nebula tour was really loud as they were in my home town arena that holds 11,000 but only had about half attendance. They had basically the same PA as the shows they would do the next week at RFK and JFK. Even a song like Wonderous Stories was loud. Was a awesome show. Other times seeing Yes was more balanced and in my opinion the only band that had a sound anywhere close to matching what Bear, Healy, The Meyers, and Don Pearson (and others) created. The 1976 tour was with Patrick Moraz and included Sound Chaser and the Gates of Delirium. Then right there with them was Blue Oyster Cult in 1977 and 1981. For these shows we learned to sit in the back of the arena dead center to get the full force of the PA. Have a lot more to write about this and how it relates to Dead releases.

Wanted to say Thanks to Doc for including me last week in a Deadication, always feels good to be accepted.

Hopefully more tomorrow.

G

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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.

9 10 83

At the end of that show, Bob W makes a comment in essence "on this date in 19??, in (somewhere), it rained fish".

I just now saw on a news source that it rained fish in Texarkana today or maybe yesterday

Well, that's odd....

....I listened to the second set of that Santa Fe show yesterday!
I interpreted it as "raining Phish."

it's raining Phish

hallelujah, it's raining Phish

Mount Rushmore. of Country Music.

1). A.P. Carter, 2). Hank Williams., 3), Merle. Haggard, 4). Johnny Cash. My last choice was a tough one, I was going between. Johnny Cash , Buck Owens, and Dolly Parton, all 3 of them could have been there in that spot. "Drink all day, and rock all night"!

Mount Rushmore of Country

Good idea ! Jimmie Rodgers made some beautiful records too. I remember reading somewhere that Howlin' Wolf was so impressed that he attempted to imitate his yodelling. He came nowhere close, but in missing the mark he created his own inimitable sound.

Mount Rushmore of GD shows

6/10/73
8/1/73
6/9/77
2/27/69

"we're gonna need a bigger mountain"

there is NO WAY to cite best four GD shows. It's simply impossible.

Country music?

Hank
Merle
Johnny
rotating 4th spot

Last 5 tracks

1.,Folsom Prison Blues, 2). Cocaine Blues ) 3). Ring of Fire), 4) A11 5 ). Tomorrow is Forever. Johnny Cash , Buck Owens , Dolly Parton. "Drink all day and rock all night".

No Love for Willie

I'd find a way to fit Willy and Trigger in somehow.

What about Reba McIntyre??....

...she's top 5 for sure.

Forgot about Willie

Country Mt Rushmore has five figures instead of four

Reba i know only as an actress

...

Is Johnny Cash really considered country?....

....the Man In Black can't be pigeonholed in any definite genre.

Got Gram?

I don't always listen to country, but when I do it's usually Gram Parsons. Burritos, Byrds, solo albums, it's all great, even the lowest of lo fi boots.

Not sure who else would be on my Rushmore. Johnny Cash, I reckon. Merle fer sure. Beyond that, a lot of the "country" I like is stuff most people probably consider bluegrass. Bill Monroe. Tony Rice.

Last five would be approximately something like:

DaP 17

ABB: Raleigh 2003

Ty Segall: Harmonizer

Roy Hargrove: The Vibe

Christian McBride: Live at the Village Vanguard

Also some Dvorak symphony, can't remember wut number but it was pretty pretty gud.

Good Gram

I like the Gram Parsons albums, too. Which for me lead on to the first 4 or 5 Emmylou Harris albums. Part of the attraction of those, for me, is the guitar playing of James Burton and Albert Lee. A lot of the country music I have I got by accident - tracks cropping up on what I thought were rockabilly compilations. In terms of categorisation, I guess these would be called hillbilly. A lot of crossover between those two.

It seems its impossible to listen to one record, from any genre, from any period, without it leading on to further records-and so on, without end, into infinity. Which could be why I don't go out much. That and Covid.

Re: Burritos

Oh yea.. Talk about a band that ended too soon, and Graham Parsons, what was and what could have been.

Love the Burritos, too bad they couldn't have put out more music. And Tony Rice, when I first heard him I was floored. I went down that rabbit hole for about a month without coming out. As we know, Jerry liked him too and we've got the vinyl to prove it (technically the clear polycarbonate plastic substrate that is a CD).

Jam of the Week

Longtime traveler (10/1/76 the first}, and still hear new stuff (to me) that surprises me. Brent's "Don't Ned Love" on this week's JOTW. That is why I love that section and the Taper's: these snippets are nice, short interludes to break up the day, and from shows I've mostly not attended nor have heard. Good training for 30 DoD also !!

Dick's volume 3

Just finished listening to this release several times over the last few days. Whew, what a monster!
First set just bristles with energy. That Suguree is one for the ages.

77 Sugarees

77 Sugarees are bristling with energy, and that 5/22/77 is one of the best in the lot.

re: DP 3 Sugaree

I am 69,000% on board with that Dick's Pick's 3 Sugaree...it is absolute, pure near-banjo pickn' bliss; it is definitely my all time favorite. What's interesting is if you go and listen to the version they played just before that version (it was on a later Dick's Pick's double feature...can't remember which number), but THAT version of Sugaree is a clear prototype to the 5/22/77 version, just not as spot-on and tightly played. You hear several similar runs from Jer, just slightly tweaked so when they go and do it on the 22nd it is like the pure, polished version. I love that shit.

Dick's Picks 3 is perhaps the greatest setlist of all of 77, if it were indeed released as the full show. We've debated this many times before but it always sticks with me now that I am familiar with that entire full setlist; it had never occurred to me it was a chop job but that's the benefit of this here team, keeping everyone on top of this important, life-altering knowledge.

Be Well People.
Sixtus

Guess it's time....

....to bust out Dicks 3 and see what all the hubbub is about. Been a while.

Ok. Now I remember 5.22.77....

....it's the show with four (five) Garcia tunes in a row. Eyes -> Jerry interlude -> Wharf Rat -> Terrapin -> AM Dew.
Priceless.

Good country?

David allen coe.

5-22-77

The only criticism I have of this show which amounts to revisionist history is I wish they had played the Lady with a Fan segment of the Terrapin earlier in the jam and made a sandwich out of it:

Estimated>Lady With A Fan>Eyes>Wharf Rat>Terrapin Reprise>Dew

Just a little fantasy of mine. I always thought a little interlude in the "his job is to shed light not to master" jam there would be way cool.

5-22-77

Doesn't the Eyes of the World on this one have a decent amount of distortion, wow and flutter at some point? I'd love to somehow get rid of that if it's even possible. There's a bunch of these older Dicks Picks (and Warlocks 89) that would probably benefit from a remaster. Jeffrey Norman has gotten better over the years...

77 Sugarees

To Terrapin: Hartford '77 was my first "monster Sugaree", clocking in at around19:30. Didn't think they could top that, but years later I picked up DP 3, and Jerry just rips through the solos, as advertised. That's really the X factor in my mind, because all of the solos are great in those '77 versions (basically); but there is definitely some extra rocket sauce on DP 3. I just gave them both a re-visit to make sure my story checks out. Yep, DP 3 still has more cowbell. Thanks for the reminder guys.

For a different take on Sugaree I really really like the 7 minute E72 versions with Pigpen's Hammond (4/17 is a good one). As Elwood would say - Strong stuff!

Totally with you on the remasters Jim. I would especially like to hear Dick's 7, 19, 24, and 31, (and 35, although I'm not sure how much they can do with those houseboat tapes - I hear distortion on a lot of those tunes). Here's to wishing.

Shake it, Sugaree

I prefer Hartford to DP3 on that Sugaree. Not sure why, but it just hits the spot for me a bit more, maybe the slower pace. And who would expect 20 min of Sugaree as the longest song of the night? But as May '77 wound down, that's what happened on a few occasions, and in a few weeks, we get another one of those with DaP 41 Baltimore 5/26/77, though it's "just" 15 min in Baltimore and NFA beats it out by almost 2 min, though completely different beasts as NFA is its typical rock rave up, where Sugaree is such an oddly swung song that just lopes along until it explodes at the end, though Jerry is absolutely killing the first extended solo before the power chords of May '77 come into play. Just reinforcing why I love May '77 so much. Songs that were good, solid songs just had a new intensity. I love Jack Straw '71-74, but after a year off, it gets more intense as May trucks along. Tennessee Jed is another one that gets some extra oomph as the tour goes along (my favorite is probably 5/21/77 from DP29 where Jerry employs the MuTron to spice up the solo). Also, so glad we get yet another Terrapin, never enough of those. And High Time. And Jack a Roe. We're a lucky bunch, even if some complain about the wealth of May '77 releases. I'm already more pumped about the first two Dave's of this year than all four of last year's Picks.

And if they were able to re-release DP3 (and some others that were partials) as a full show, I'd happily grab it up.

Edited to add: Funny enough, the only Terrapin Station I've caught with Phil and Friends or other Dead offshoots was the Inspiration part as on DP3, which, I believe, is the only time they did that, and I'm not sure that Phil and Friends ever did just the Inspiration part again, but it was fantastic and so unexpected. Even moreso as it had a Spanish/Arabic feel to it, perhaps transposed to a Phrygian mode?

12/28/79. Sugaree

12/28/79 Sugaree, opened the show with it , hands down my favorite version,. The whole show was a knockout!

This site needs more Billy Strings....

....if Jerry was still alive, he would give him a standing ovation. Then join him onstage. I marvel at that possible alternate timeline. Thang.
And regarding Sugarees, no one has mentioned 10.18.83 Lake Placid first set opener? Shame.

Hiya folks...

Well been sitting here thinking...ouch...about eleven days ago I took a bad spill on some ice on my driveway...did a half split and ended up flat on my back with my right leg straight out and unfortunately my left leg pinned under me...the top of my left foot was on the ground and i was laying on top of my heel...For the first minute laying on the ground I was like a turtle on it's back...I finally was able to roll over and get up...got back in the car and drove (about five minutes) to our local medical clinic...x-rays showed no breaks anywhere but I had a lot of soft tissue damage...my toes are purple. my leg from just above my thigh on down was pretty much beat up from being stretched way out of shape...still pretty sore, especially my knee...if it doesn't get better by next week I'll have to go into Flagstaff and get an MRI, see if anything got torn...I've had two surgeries in the past on that knee (Miniscus repair)....the Mrs condemmed me to my LazBoy where I've beenb happily listening to various goodies...I don't mend as well as I used to of course...ok back to our regularly scheduled programming....

Nappyrags, I hope you are ok

Nappyrags, I'm sorry to hear about your fall, that sounds like a real bad fall. I hope that you'll be ok.

@BTK

Thank you Billy...I just have to take it nice and slow...I don't bounce like I used to...

Nappyrags

Sorry to read about your fall, and I hope you make a hasty recovery. A least with interests like ours it's possible to continue while we are layed up. Must be a lot worse if you have to go jogging every day !

Best Wishes And Positive Vibes

to you Nappy. You must be made of rubber with that description of how you ended up laying there. Sounded quite contorted. I can't believe you didn't hurt your back too. It brought back memories of my knee dislocation in my 20's hitting a tree skiing at speed. Knee replaced in my mid-50s and doing great now. Best of luck and double mask if you go to the hospital. Just got through a round of that with the wife.
Cheers

RIP

Michael Lang and thanks for the memories. Woodstock was the one that started it all for me, before woodstock, I was a am radio listening kid who had been kept in the dark about rock music. After Woodstock, I could not get enough and had to hear it all and see as many of these great bands as I could.

Michael Lang

Please excuse my ignorance

Who is he?

One quick search later...

OH.

Three raisings of the glass to him. Salute!

I want the motorcycle he rode in the movie.

Nappyrags is Unhappyrags after fall

Please recover quickly, my good man. We need you in the march on the vault.

"Dropped four flights and cracked my spine"....

....get better nappy. Between you and hendrixfreak, it's a race to mend.

Nappy!

No disrespect, but aren’t you a little old to be auditioning for a stunt man role ; )
Be well amigo, HF too!

Look at the silver lining: enjoy that recliner and catch up on yer dead!

Ouch

Tales of injuries. Rest up, rehab safely.

I've fallen on ice. Anything goes on the landing and rarely is it pretty. I can't say I've had my leg in a boot, but it's only a matter of time.

Great 49ers win

Garcia would be happy, he was a huge 49ers fan.

Rolling Stones

If there are any philatelists out there you might be interested to hear that in the UK the Royal Mail are issuing a set of commemorative stamps celebrating 60 years of live performances by The Stones. The earliest concert depicted is the free Hyde Park show from 1969 and the latest is from New Jersey in 2019.
They come out on 20th January.

Get well Nappy! Country?

Time heal all wounds, may yours heal quickly.
Thought this DaP 40 board was gone, missed a ton of stuff the last few weeks apparently.

Country, you said? Too many, but here's a few: George Jones(greatest Country vocalist imo), Connie Smith, Sara Carter, Anita Carter, Delmore Brothers, Roy Acuff, etc
Regarding the Burritos, their first LP after they fired Gram is a classic from start to finish.

Happy New Year's

I hope everyone is good. Sorry for your Fall nappyrags.

I am also looking forward to 5/26/77. Never heard that one. Truth be told I am just now getting to Listen To The River 10/30/73. Has anyone been talking about the Playing in the Band? This is what it's all about.

I saw some Rolling Stones talk on here from a couple weeks ago. Live early 70s from Brussels and Texas. I will also suggest picking up the Sticky Fingers Super Deluxe box for live '71. It comes with Get Yer Leeds Lungs Out, Live at The Roundhouse,, and Live at the Marquee. Micky T is the best. Speaking of Taylor, I had the most incredible experience listening to his last studio record, Only Rock and Roll. I always thought it was an average album compared to its predecessors. After all the Stones talk I listened to everything from Beggars Banquet onward and Only Rock 'N Roll never sounded better. I probably have heard this record100 times over the years, but I downloaded the remaster and gave it a go. Side one does not have a weak song. If You Can't Rock Me, Ain't Too Proud To Beg, It's Only Rock 'N Roll, Till the Next Goodbye, and then the side ends with Time Waits For No One, which has some of the best lead work on a Stones record. Even the title track caught me like it was the first time hearing it. Taylor does not play on that song, but shit, listen to Keith. He's always credited with being the riff master (as he should be) but Keef had some great solos too. Anyways side 2 loses some of the magic, but Dance is a hot rock with blistering lead by Mick. I may like it as much as Goats Head Soup now. Will check back in next month.

Country with Attitude

Bear Family's 6cd "The Sun Country Box" features some gems. Well known names are featured almost as an afterthought, and then with unissued takes -it's not a "best of". As it says in the excellent book enclosed in the box, " An unissued alternative take of a vintage SUN recording is worth many times it's weight in Hot 100 mush." Amen to that. But its the unknown,or little known names that shine brightest. Welcome to the world of Harmonica Frank Floyd.
2022 marks the 70th annivrsary since SUN opened it's doors for the first time, too.

That "Sticky Fingers" box is great, too. The Leeds University gig is up there with Brussels and the Ladies and Gentlemen set from 1972 in my eyes. The bonus disc, featuring outtakes from the parent album and a few songs from the Roundhouse in March 1971 is one of my favourite single Stones cds. Great "Brown Sugar" with Eric Clapton, and extended "Bitch" on here.

And lest it be forgot,country music was a vital ingredient in The Stones gumbo.

Thanks all for the kind words

On the mend, doing ok...slow and easy does it...the pains in my knee are almost gone...Yay! again thanks...oh, also having troubles with my PC....on it's last legs...took me forever to log in and post here....

Nostalgic Last 5

I turned on my old iPod today for the first time in a while and listened to:

‘Bubblegum’ - Mark Lanegan
I particularly like the track ‘Methamphetamine Blues’.
‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo’ - The Byrds
For an old atheist I do enjoy ‘The Christian Life’
‘Burial’ - Burial
Wikipedia describes this as dubstep and who am I to argue. I just know I like it.
‘Exile on Coldharbour Lane’ - Alabama 3
Their first album containing what became the theme music for The Sopranos. This also has an idiosyncratic take on the John Prine song ‘Speed of the sound of loneliness’ and this led me to…
‘Other Voices, Other Rooms’ - Nanci Griffith
… for another version of the song. She had a great voice. I have the John Prine version, but not on the iPod.

The Last Five

The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies
Bobby Timmons - This Here Is Bobby Timmons
Ronnie Earl - Blues Guitar Virtuoso Live In ERurope
The Lovin' Spoonful - Hums
Taj Mahal - The Natch'l Blues

Last five commercial office spaces...

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A belated Happy New Year to all and my everlasting thanks to the good doctor eleven way down there in the sunshine, whose magic goes way beyond music... it has not gone above zero in the last few days here in Vermont. This is when I hover near the woodstove, listen with good headphones, music room cooler than cool.

Christian McBride Sci-Fi
Billy Strings Home
Larry Coryell Shining Hour
Dave Holland Quintet Extended Play Live at Birdland
Dave's Picks Bonus Disc 2021

Hey is it really only a couple weeks before we get to hear Dave's 41 in full Norman? Yahoo!!!

Office Space is a good movie

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Bring on that 7-19-90 encore filler

And the show to which that filler is attached.

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