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You can listen to Grateful Dead records over and over again and never understand the attraction they have for certain people until you attend one of their concerts. Sometime during the Dead's usual five-hour set, it will all click: Jerry Garcia's Indian bead string of notes on the guitar, the ozone ooze of the vocal harmonies, the shifting, shuffling rhythm of bassist Phil Lesh and drummer Bill Kreutzmann, and the distant echo of the oldest of American folk music. - Columbia Flier

"Certain people" will know that we're coming in hot with one that's got all these things and more, DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 41: BALTIMORE CIVIC CENTER, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 5/26/77. Yes, there's still plenty of spectacular May '77 to go around. Nearly chosen for Dave's Picks Vol. 1, 5/26/77 delivers three-fold. There's one count for the energy - all the precision of the Spring tour conjuring up the raw power of the Fall tour that was to come. There's another for the setlist which featured beloved songs from WORKINGMAN'S DEAD and soon-to-be favorites from the freshly recorded TERRAPIN STATION. And a third for its element of surprise (or shall we say surprises) from an astonishingly peak 15-minute "Sugaree" to new delights ("Sunrise," "Passenger," "Jack-A-Roe') to a rare first-set finale of "Bertha" to the second set's "Terrapin>Estimated>Eyes," traveling leaps and bounds towards the improvisational journey that is a nearly 17-minute "Not Fade Away."

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 41: BALTIMORE CIVIC CENTER, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 5/26/77 was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. Grab a copy while you can.

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January 23, 2022 - 10:38am

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daverock

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Who he?

I was confused by the names of blues authors too. Who was this "McDaniel"? If they meant Bo Diddley, why couldn't they say Bo Diddley. He did. Often. Also curious that Robert Johnson's " Love in Vain" was credited to "Payne" on my old "Let It Bleed" album. It has been credited to Johnson on the most recent ( and definitley last) version of the album I got-the 50th Anniversary cd.
January 23, 2022 - 9:38am

#1262

deadegad

Joined:
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Go to Nassau 1980 tapes?

Any Dave's picks is good news to me so another 77 is welcomed and the sound samples sound great to my ears; but, I do understand the clamoring for more 80s/90s or even 60s. With the quality issue of the 1980s tapes in mind I do wonder What's become of the three night 1980 Nassau run? I think all three were recorded for the King Biscuit Flower Hour Radio. Did The GD, likewise, record them -- or other shows from that time period.

Perhaps an expanded Go to Nassau with all three nights could be released? They were strong shows as the excerpts on the official Go to Nassau demonstrate. That could scratch 'The more inclusive years' itch. I would buy it despite already having Go to Nassau which I love. If there are other shows of similar sound quality from that period. . .. Spring 1980 Selections Boxset!!! A compromise could be a matrices of boards and tapers copies? Go with what you got to include more years.

And Dave if you are reading a Fall September 79 New York City @ Madison Square Garden would be a great official release! These were Brent's first N.Y.C. shows and solid were those shows. It's a sell-out mini box waiting to happen.

I dream of Radio City/Warfield tapes being rediscovered in that Raiders of the Lost Ark Warehouse for complete box sets. Let's manifest these dreams.

Melkweg 1981anyone w/Grugahalle??
January 23, 2022 - 9:06am

#1263

carlo13

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Stellablue

I like the new artwork. I think it is a lot different. Stella, if you want to surround yourself in Hendrix, and the slew of 60s icons, along with the dead playing viola lee, I would highly recommend the complete Monterey pop fest 67' on criterion dvd box. It is chock full of beautiful music and hot chicks too. It also contains the full dvd 'jimi plays Monterey' with 49 minutes of hendrix. If you are younger than the rest of us on this site (sorry guys) you may not have seen it. This will put to rest the whole 'trey' fiasco to bed. I love fish, but only the haddock, and tuna variety.
January 23, 2022 - 8:23am

#1264

hendrixfreak

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I was walkin' through the woods......

So, like many, I got my first Beatles album in about 1964 and my first Stones album a year later. On the latter, I could see on the credits that "(Jagger/Richards)" meant that Mick and Keith had written the song.

But what the hell was "(Chester Burnett)" or "(McKinley Morganfield)"??? These "names" seemed so foreign, I didn't understand that these were people's names. (How stately, how dignified: "McKinley Morganfield"!)

But I decided, based on the blues sound, that I had to find out. So in my teeny bopper years (say, 10-13) I sought out the truth: the basic blues I loved was written by Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters. Major discovery. Even while I turned on the Hendrix and (yes, sadly) Grand Funk Railroad, (better) Ten Years After, and Janis, I began my journey to the blues. At first, the R&B and soul on the radio: James Brown, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin. Then BB King, Albert King, Freddy King, Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin, finally Robert Johnson and Lonnie Johnson.

I feel privileged that I got to see BB several times (his call-and-response with the audience, powerful horns!), Freddy several times and Albert just once (but in Chicago from the lip of the stage).

Without 400 years of oppression, torture and murder, no blues. No blues, then no jazz, no rock 'n roll. In short, no blues, no nothing. Nothing to move the soul or the feet. And it's global, in the context of world music. Would that we could have gotten there without those 400 years and their crimes against humanity. But that stretch will reverberate on this Earth until humans die out. Which may not be all that long, the way we're going. OMG! Best put some world-weary Lonnie Johnson on and sing along.
January 23, 2022 - 6:26am

#1265

Dennis

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crow told me and innovation

My buddy summed it up years ago for me, 2 types of musicians.

Refiners and definers.
January 23, 2022 - 4:11am

#1266

daverock

Joined:
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blues and blues rock

The first time I saw a real blues singer/band /guitarist, as opposed to a rock band that played blues songs was B.B. King around 1980. It was, not put to fine a point on it, a revelation. I'd only heard a couple of his 1970's albums by then-"Midnight Believer" was one-and although it was alright - it was only alright. But live it was a different world.

I saw a few after that - Albert King, Memphis Slim, John Lee Hooker and Buddy Guy come to mind. The most recenet I can remember seeing was The North Mississippi Allstars, about 3-4 years ago. Well worth checking - quite trance inducing.
Also Catfish Keith. He is an American who came over to England quite regularly in pre-pandemic times, bringing with him his trusty National Resonator. Mainly blues/gospel in the Blind Willie Johnson style. The singing might be a bit ropey - but he's got the guitar style down pat. Nice guy ,too.

Must have been something to see Big Mama Thornton live.
January 22, 2022 - 5:59pm

#1267

kevinbrandon

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Green Bay game and The Grateful Dead tonight

going into the commercial a 70's? One More Saturday night....very nice
January 22, 2022 - 11:21am

#1268

billy the kiddd

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Introduction to the Blues

The first time I heard Blues music, was in 1969/70 when my brother bought the Chess l.p. Bummer Road by Sonny Boy Williamson. The first time I heard Blues music live was at a Blues festival at U.C. Berkeley in the early 70s, Sonny Terry & Brownie Maghee, Big Mama Thorton, and George Harmonica Smith were all on the bill.
January 22, 2022 - 10:47am

#1269

daverock

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Introduction to the blues

For me it was listening to The Stones - and Keith Richards in particular. In interviews he gave he would name check Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson - and where he went, I was sure to follow. Not always the best policy perhaps - but alright in this context.
Seeing the film "Performance" turned me on to Ry Cooder and slide guitar. That's probably the best soundtrack to any film I have ever heard.
And then seeing Rory Gallagher live - he was wild.

Just going off the records, I didnt really pick up too much on The Dead's blues roots. My favourite interpretation of theirs that I heard - hands down - was "Death Don't Have No Mercy" on "Live Dead". Incredible.

Also in 1974, I saw an English band called Dr Feelgood, featuring the extraordinary Wilko Johnson. No lengthy guitar solos here - they played r'n'b fast and punchy, with the emphasis on rhythm, not virtuosity.
January 22, 2022 - 10:31am

#1270

Crow Told Me

Joined:
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Jimi Uber Alles

Hendrix is beyond comparison. He changed completely the way people play electric guitar, and what he did was so powerful it also changed other instruments, and music in general.

Listen to electric guitar playing prior to Hendrix and you realize that nobody was taking advantage of the full potential of the instrument. People played it the same way they played acoustic. There were lots of great players (especially in jazz) who could play fast, but nobody was taking advantage of the unlimited range of tones offered by an electric instrument. With Hendrix, everything goes from black and white to technicolor. The guitar can sound like a flute, or a thousand cellos, or a set of bongos, and it can even sound like a helicopter, or wind, or an explosion, or lots of other things that weren't usually considered music. That's pretty revolutionary.

One problem with musical innovators is that, after they show everybody how it's done, their innovations become the new normal, and people forgot how incredibly different they were when they first appeared. Once people saw and heard Hendrix, they copied him. His sound became part of mainstream, and people nowadays generally don't get how incredibly ahead of his time Hendrix was.

I don't mean that as a put down on anyone: it's not anyone's fault. This is just how music evolves. There are a few people who come along with something new that changes everything (Coltrane, Hendrix, Dylan) and they there's lots of great players and singers and songwriters who take what they did and bring it to the masses. In my mind, we can't compare the two. But that's just me.

FWIW, I think the GOGD belong in the class of innovators, as a group, because they came up with a style of ensemble playing that nobody had done before, and which became widely copied once it was heard. Just like you can't really compare other guitarists to Hendrix, you can't compare other jam bands to the GD, even though those bands can be very enjoyable.

Standard disclaimer here: this is all just my opinion, your opinion is just as valid, blah blah.

No shipping notice for me yet on #41, maties. I did, however, pre-order the vinyl 3.1.69 from Amazon, so we'll see that goes. I am in the midst of a major '69 bender, pulling out Two from the Vault and DiP 16 and 26 and whatnot. This is all YOUR fault, all youse who keeps demanding a '69 box. And I'm with ye if you want storm the vault to get one. Nothing like '69. Huh huh.

John Perry Barlow

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You can listen to Grateful Dead records over and over again and never understand the attraction they have for certain people until you attend one of their concerts. Sometime during the Dead's usual five-hour set, it will all click: Jerry Garcia's Indian bead string of notes on the guitar, the ozone ooze of the vocal harmonies, the shifting, shuffling rhythm of bassist Phil Lesh and drummer Bill Kreutzmann, and the distant echo of the oldest of American folk music. - Columbia Flier

"Certain people" will know that we're coming in hot with one that's got all these things and more, DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 41: BALTIMORE CIVIC CENTER, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 5/26/77. Yes, there's still plenty of spectacular May '77 to go around. Nearly chosen for Dave's Picks Vol. 1, 5/26/77 delivers three-fold. There's one count for the energy - all the precision of the Spring tour conjuring up the raw power of the Fall tour that was to come. There's another for the setlist which featured beloved songs from WORKINGMAN'S DEAD and soon-to-be favorites from the freshly recorded TERRAPIN STATION. And a third for its element of surprise (or shall we say surprises) from an astonishingly peak 15-minute "Sugaree" to new delights ("Sunrise," "Passenger," "Jack-A-Roe') to a rare first-set finale of "Bertha" to the second set's "Terrapin>Estimated>Eyes," traveling leaps and bounds towards the improvisational journey that is a nearly 17-minute "Not Fade Away."

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 41: BALTIMORE CIVIC CENTER, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 5/26/77 was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. Grab a copy while you can.

right on, Lemmy

thank you for the story Nappy

Phil Lesh , June 4th, Frost Ampitheatre

Phil Lesh and his son will be playing at the Frost Ampitheatre on June 4th.

Mummy

As fate would have it, 2/19 also is connected to the poor soul found at Kaiser. The Dead played there on 2/19/1985. I know - freaky.

There was a rumor floating around back then that "Shorty" LeBlanc, who manned the popcorn machine at the concession stand, went backstage that night during the break to deliver some popcorn goodness to Jerry. There was a purple haze in the air, which disoriented him as he sought his way back to his stand (think Spinal Tap backstage in Cleveland). Last anyone saw of him.

Anyway, it is now speculated that ol' Shorty went left instead of right, tripped and ended up lodged inside a wall under construction.

He was a good dude, but at least we finally got some closure. Rest In Popcorn, Shorty.

R.I.P. "Sister" Bobbie...

Bobbie Nelson passed at 91...she had been playing piano for brother Willie since 1972...saw them many a time...Sail on Dear Soul...Sail on

Have A Gas

Hi there,
off topic but a bit shocking today when I was filling up the car.
One Liter was 2,19 €.
Converted it'd be $ 9,05 per gallon.
Prices tend to increase.
A new box soon please, any year!!!!!!
G

Consider yourself lucky, Gerd

Here in the Netherlands the average price for a litre of gas is € 2.48. That works out at $ 10.24 for a US gallon at the current exchange rate.
More than half the price here is tax but the government are going to reduce the taxes on april 1. I hope that isn't an april fool. If you hate taxes, and who doesn't, then don't come here.

popcorn synchronicity

I work at a school

every Friday is popcorn Friday

a kid delivered some popcorn to me

I'm noshing on said popcorn and here comes Bolo going on about popcorn

LOVE these kind of moments

I made a belt out of old wrist watches....

....only to find it was a waist of time.
Nice avatar simonrob. 👌

Gas prices are getting ridiculous....

....I went online to check the value of my car and it asked if the tank was empty or full.

Gas

Yeah it’s going up but:
A) it’s tge least we can do to support the cause. If you know anything about what many folks had to ration, sacrifice, and endure during WWII, it’s really not so bad is it?
B) we all need to be more efficient and mindful of overuse/wastefulness anyway

Remember: we can run, but we can’t hide!

Ok, sorry, Friday buzz kill PSI over, and now back to yer normal scheduled programming/happy hour…

We can run....

....but we can't hide from it.
Brent was cool.

Old Angel Midnight

Today marks the 100th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's birth date. I've got my old copy of "The Scripture of the Golden Eternity" here to guide me through the day.

Incidentally, I don't hate taxes. Depends what they are being used for, of course.

purple haze in the air

no wonder I could not figure it out. I have experienced that haze, it was in a field right after an afternoon rain, floated about 2 ft off the ground, buzzing with promise.

Kerouac house

Lots of good things happening today for Jack's 100th, look them up in Lowell and in Winter Park. We went to see the original scroll of On the Road back in the 90's. The Kerouac family had it on display at his abode where Jack lived in Winter Park, Fl. Touchstone for me and a whole generation.

Rockin' The Rhein, Dark Star, Part II

Coming after a 26 minute Part I, and then a Me and My Uncle interlude, I do declare this is a special improvisational jam piece, clocking in at 15 minutes. What sets it apart from most two part Dark Stars....hmmmm. Good question.

For one thing, it's pure improv jamming with no meltdowns. The first five minutes I guess I would describe as steady melodic Space. It starts off with this really cool intro I won't even try to describe. In the first 6 minutes they trade off little bits and pieces, as though it was all written ahead of time. This opening segment is slow tempo, smooth, and cohesive. They explore ideas independently and it meshes nicely. There is a never a moment when they stall out and fill the void with noise or silence. And Pigpen plays the maracas - always a sign of good things to come.

Phil does flirt with meltdown indicators as they approach the 6 minute mark. Jerry had begun to pick up the pace, but Phil seemed headed for Dark Dreamville (he throws in a few one note bombs during this minute, but nobody took the bait). I think Keith, Bobby, and Jerry walked him in off the ledge.

They continue to explore for the next 10 minutes, but at a much faster tempo. Billy holds it together with some fast hard hitting that is more rock than the jazz, with lots of ride symbol for emphasis; while he's doing this, Keith and Jerry go in and out of several different melodies they discover along the way.

Keith comes in with a nice little piece around 7:00 and another around 8:20; Jerry develops a couple of catchy phrases around 9:20 and just before 12:00. The jamathon continues... Bobby and Phil have been low in the mix during most of this, but Bobby does develop a nice theme of his own around 13:40 and goes on for a minute or so.

Approaching the 15:00 mark, Billy finally takes his foot off the gas and Jerry comes in with the Dark Star theme, which is notably the only time we hear it during Part II - but only for a 15 second wind-down preceding the seamless transition into Wharf Rat. There is no second Dark Star verse; in fact, if not for this brief moment when Jerry plays the main theme for a couple of bars, there is no hint they're even IN a Dark Star. Bobby picks up on the main theme and continues another bar or two after Jerry kicks off Wharf Rat's opening chords; Keith plays a few repeating notes on the pinky keys (to great effect), and the whole thing is bliss. The Wharf Rat is fantastic, and runs straight into Sugar Magnolia, which is one of the best IMHO.

So why all the fuss over Rhein Dark Star, Part II? Well, it's appealing to me because it is100% un-recycled improvisational playing. There is no reliance on themes like Feelin' Groovey, Tighten Up, and Mind Left Body - or Dark Star for that matter. They just get up there and do their thing for 15 minutes of pure synergy.

There are no meltdowns. I have a feeling the cacophony-laden wanderings they often indulged in were much better to behold as a live audience member. I can deal with short durations, as they sometimes enhance a more melodic theme that rises from them; but for the most part I'm looking forward to the day when I have time to replace my defunct Roxio software with something that allows me to edit those atonal sections, and neatly cross-fade "the normal parts" together. Then I will make a Dark Star that goes on for 21 hours and 12 seconds.

And I guess the last thing that does it for me is its uniqueness and duration. 15 minutes is a long time to carry on like this, and they keep it interesting by starting at a slow tempo for the first third of it, and then kicking it into high gear the rest of the way. None of the themes they conjure up last longer than a minute, but they fill the space between with well-crafted leads and runs. I haven't come across too many jams that fit this profile.

And how about The Other One from the Paramount 7/25/72??? I demand this show be released at once.

Last Five....

Jane's Addiction - Nothings Shocking
JGB - Cats Down Under The Stars
Donna The Buffalo - Positive Friction
Trey Anastasio - Mercy
Def Leppard - High 'N' Dry
Hope everyone has a grate weekend.

Lasts

Robert Plant: Lullaby and…ceaseless roar
Bonnie Rait: The BR collection
Norah Jones: Come Away with Me
Natalie Merchant: Ophelia
Hamp & Getz
p/o Bill Evans: Everyone Still Digs Bill Evans

But that was last night, now Dave’s Picks 9 5/14/74 Rollin!

Last five

Melvins Stoner Witch
Germs GI
X Los Angeles
X Wild Gift
X Under The Big Black Sun

X rox

No GD for an oddly long time

Every time I think about what to listen to, I feel "not now"

I figure to reenter the GD universe I should start with 2/13/70 Dark Star

Inspiration...

Kerouac

PT - there was a good exhibition at the British Library about ten years ago, in which all manner of original artefacts were on display. Sadly, there doesn't seem to be much recognition of today in England - not that I have come across anyway. The one woman I mentioned it to yesterday had never heard of him-and her a poet at that. Maybe that's the way Jack Kerouac would have wanted it - "I insist on your freedom" it says here.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.....

Hey rockers!!

Last 5:
4/8/72
10/9/72
10/2/72
Hendrix-In The West
Traffic-Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

Still no 71s, yup gettin' painful, not sure how much longer I can hold out..............

Rock on,

Doc
If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.......

Wot’s…Uh,The Deal

Last 5:
Doors-Live In Pittsburgh
Doors-Live In Detroit(disc 1)
CTI California Concert(disc 1)
Grateful Dead-Dark Star/Morning Dew 9/21/72
Dreamies-Auralgraphic Entertainment

Weird, I almost ALWAYS play entire albums/cds but today, I’m in the mood to hear as much different music as possible. It’s amusing to me how my brain decides what to pick next to listen to. I just start flipping through stacks, and where I stop, nobody(except me) knows.
I’m feeling old and decrepit, yet still young at heart. I’m pretty sure I’ll play disc 2 of the 50th anniversary of Skull & Roses next. I could go on.

Music is the Best!!

Stay Away, Covid

Recent live shows:

Richard Thomson, two weeks ago
Taj Mahal Sextet, last week
Kenny Wayne Shepherd, tonight

Small theater for all three...no masks required.
Maybe things ARE coming back to normal.

Billy Strings in April, outdoors...psyched.

Mr Strings....

....gonna catch him in April as well Big Brownie. Third trip around the son.
Gonna try and get really close this time around.

Lasts

‘Twas a big music day!
GD: 5/14/74
GD: 3/8/70
GD: 3;31/91
Robert Plant Alison Krause: Raising Sand
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant: No Quarter
Rob Wasserman: Trios
Beck: Morning Phase
Melody Gardot: My One and Only Thrill
Bill Evans: Everybody Still Digs BE disc 4

Good night John boy, Good night Mary Ellen…

More last 5

David Bowie "Heroes"
X More fun in the new world
Melvins Hostile Ambient Takeover
Melvins A Senile Animal
David Bowie Scary Monsters

"I lit out from Reno", 3/13/82. Anniversary show

40 years ago today I was up to Reno see the Good Old Grateful Dead, what a blast of a weekend! Stayed in South Lake Tahoe at a friend's place, with a bunch of friends, we really cut loose. Fun city. 1982, great year to be a Deadhead in the Bay Area, Frost ,Greek, Ventura, and December year end Oakland shows.

All The Haunts Be Ours

Last 5 -

My People Were Fair, and Had Sky in Their Hair - Tyrannosaurus Rex
At The Beeb cd1 David Bowie
The Magnificent...... Charlie Parker -pressed on egg yolk coloured vinyl
Bootleg Series 15 cd 1John Wesley Harding-Nashville Skyline outtakes Bob Dylan
and last but not least...
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched - which isn't music at all. It's a documentary on the first blu ray disc in a fascinating looking box set called "All The Haunts Be Ours - a compendium of Folk Horror". Two of the twelve discs are Region A, so I can't play them - but as I've already got the films on those, I ain't too fussed. Actually, I think there is a cd in all this with music on - but I doubt I'll get there before Midsommar.

@BTK...Reno '82

Did you also go to UC Davis the following night? Great weekend, I'll post more later...am in Sedona at the moment showing some out of towners around...one thing though...do you remember Jerry sounding like he was starting Dear Prudence before finally playing Black Peter?

X and the SoCal Punx

I'm also a big fan of X. They're one of the few really great bands I can actually I saw their earliest gigs. I was an Xhead early on, following them from the Masque to the Whiskey to the Starwood etc. The SoCal punk scene was so interesting in the early days, such a variety of styles: avant-garde stuff like the Screamers and Black Randy, hardcore from the Germs, Middle Class, Black Flag, poppy stuff like the Go Gos (yes, they played the punks clubs early on), uncategorizable bands like the Minutemen and Suburbans Lawns. And X was the best of them all: they could really play, they wrote great lyrics, they looked super cool. Ah, those were some days. Punk was great, until it became a formula, and suddenly you had to dress and sound a certain way to be "punk." Much more wide open in the beginning, when the Patti Smith Group and Television and Here Ube were "punk.".

I always thought the whole "hippies vs punks" thing was a myth, btw. At least in SoCal there was a lot of crossover. Whether you were a hippie, or a punk, or surfer, you were probably on the same drugs and you probably shared the same contempt for mainstream rock and normies in general. The guy across the street, who I used to get my L and my speed from (yeah, I know, I shouldn't have done speed, but I did, then) was hippie, until one day he went to a punk show (can't remember who or were) and the next day he buzzed his hair, started wearing thrift store clothes, and started a punk band that sounded kinda like Social D, Seriously. Stuff like that used to happen.

Last five:

Grant Green and Stanley Turrentine; Complete Recordings (nice 2 CD set0
Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen (wish it was better recorded, but still a hoot)
AZIZA Quartet (great band with Dave Holland, Chris Potter, Lionel Louke, Eric Harland, only made one record)
Funkadelic: Hardcore Jollies (Eddie Hazel ruuuuuuulezzz!)
GOGD: DiP 11 (now THAT was a show!)

I enjoy everyone's last fives....

....turned me onto X.
That's it. That's the post.
Regarding earliest gigs. I saw Slayer in 1985. Haunting The Chapel tour. Maybe 200 people there. Small space on the corner of Spring Mountain and Decatur Vegas. Six bucks.
Was sixteen and impressionable. Parents worried about me at the time lol.
Don't panic mom and dad. The kid was alright.

keithfan

Thanks for the Dark Star Rockin the Rhein recommendation! Most enjoyable!

Nappy/ Reno 3/13/82

Yeah Nappy, Garcia did start Dear Prudence before Black Peter. I had a blast that weekend, I didn't make it to Davis, it was my Dads birthday that Sunday, I heard it was as a great show; I'm glad you made it there.

Just got back from seeing The Batman....

....for the second time.
I'm a Batman snob, and this rendition delivers the goods.
Most excellent.

RIP william hurt

Altered States, baby

RIP

I noticed that too.

RIP

Bobby Nelson, long time to be gone and a short time to be there. Been a bad couple of years for Wilie, first Billy, then Bobby. RIP sweet soul

last 5

always love your last 5's Daverock, such classics and some I've never heard thanks for the recommendations.
Tangerine Dream Legend soundtrack
Spirit Cosmic Smile
Roger Waters Amused To Death
Blind Faith remastered 2 cd set with live jams
Peter Gabriel Secret World Live Alive and Bumping' Italian import this was one of the top 5 concerts that I ever attended. 1994

UC Davis 3-14-82

So today is the 40th Anniversary date for the UC Davis show, it followed the previous nights Reno show...I was with a rather large group of folk and of course we were in a VW bus....this bus started acting weird and sputtery as we crossed over the Sierra...we finally had to pull off of the interstate at a rest stop so one of the more mechanically inclined guys could try and figure out what was wrong...of course it was snowing lightly so we threw a tarp over the back end of the van to keep the snow off of the two trying to get the van going...I made a PB & J sandwich and walked over to a historical marker at the far end of the parking lot...as I munched my PB & J I read (of course) the story of the Donner Party...I hadn't realized we had stopped at the Donner Pass rest stop...gave me a mas creepy feeling...in about a half hour's time we rolling along to the show...

Rockin the god damn rhein

Black throated wind, loser, pitb, dark star, love light. There really is no comprehending the dead in areas such as this or that song, it really only matters in the aspect of the Now. There is no making sense of it. It just smokes. The dead is like beer. You can't get enough...... I'm not making sense am i?

Re: Nappy

Did you make a PB&J for everyone? Or were the less fed ones beginning to give you the eye?

Funny story, stuff like that cracks me up. Evidence of a misspent youth perhaps...

2,066 years ago today Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of his own Senators. Perhaps history should repeat itself? Beware the ides of March - #FU Count Vlad.

i can wait

I can't wait
to see these guys tonight! I caught the Dead when they toured a few years back, but to see Billy or any of the boys in a small club is a treat we should all seek out.

Nappy,great story

Those people in the Donner Party, sure could have used those PB&J sandwiches.

Happy Birthday Phil

Happy Birthday Phil. It's mine as well - cool to share it with a Dead member. I wonder if half of his Birthday cards also say "beware the Ides of March". I have an Aunt who is kind of witchy and always leads off with that one when she calls. Typical freaks.

Anticipation/sandwichs

DBACKKY: the waiting is the hardest but sometimes best part. Have fun!

SANDWICHES: yasss, being the considerate guy he is, Nappy made a stack of sandwiches, but while everyone was focused on the repair etc, a flock of pesky Magpies and a Raven stole em, bastardos!

Happy, happy, joy, joy!

to Keithfan, oh yeah, you too Phil lol
Many more to you both!

So, Pearl Jam is coming to town in May....

....some friends of mine might go and I may tag along. I'm admittingly not too familiar with them other than their first release. Checked out Vs. last night and was surprisingly impressed.
Any of you even seen them live? And if so, thoughts?
Last one. Vs. - Pearl Jam.

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