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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 - 4:20pm

#1251

proudfoot

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Trivia

"yours truly on public saxophone"

Who said that, and where were they?

Answer correctly and win a smile
January 23, 2022 - 3:02pm

#1252

Crow Told Me

Joined:
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That was Rich

Wow, great story, Rich! Really nicely written. I could almost smell the back seat burning.

Pretty sure I was at 7.13.84 along with Proudfoot. We used to call those early summer shows at the Greek the High Holy Days. I still wonder why there has never been a Greek box. Tape quality issues, maybe? I sure remember those shows fondly.

I think maybe that particular show was the one where we decided to get a room at this motel on University Ave maybe a mile from the Greek. Which was convenient cos we were none of us in especially good shape for driving after the show. We had like six of us staying in a one bed motel room. We couldn't really sleep, for various reasons, but fortunately a party started up in the parking lot. The whole hotel was filled with Heads, evidently, because some guy started playing tapes out of his van, that night, but instead of complaining everybody just started hanging out in the parking lot, passing around beers and whatnot. I still remember this one couple, they might've been the owners/managers, they were older, the guy was wearing turban, and they were watching us all with wide eyed amazement, wondering who the hell were these crazy people and what was that music?
January 23, 2022 - 2:02pm

#1253

nitecat

Joined:
November 1, 2010

Third Listen - Dave's 40

Ok I gave this Dave's release a third listen over the last few days. I really like it. I think Spring 90 was more together and energized, but Summer 90 is pretty damn good. I'm finding I like the second day, 7/19 a little better. It has a Foolish Heart, one of my favs, and some really great guitar work by Jerry throughout. The jam after Playin is really cool, as is the jam out of Uncle John's. I found myself playing those jams a few extra times, they were so good. Jerry sings with passion on all the ballads, even if his voice isn't as sweet as it used to be. The crowd singing the NFA chant at the end gave me shivers, and reminded me how much I loved to see the band with a crowd of deadheads. With such excellent playing, I even look forward to hearing the US Blues encore when we get it in a couple weeks. No shipping notice for me yet.
January 23, 2022 - 12:34pm

#1254

PT Barnum

Joined:
December 2, 2009

gr8 story Rich

had an olds delta 98 that was as big as that biscayne, that back seat was literally a couch on wheels.
January 23, 2022 - 12:24pm

#1255

proudfoot

Joined:
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And now

I think I heard Airto on 4 22 79

Probably cant be released

Hot show. Ignore the sfb review in the compendium.
January 23, 2022 - 12:21pm

#1256

proudfoot

Joined:
August 2, 2020

The Great Trek To The Greek

1984
Drove from LA to Bay Area on 7 13 84

Mike's 69 Ford LTD

big ol' thang

AC didnt work

But it got us there and back
January 23, 2022 - 11:29am

#1257

icecrmcnkd

Joined:
October 20, 2015

Good story Rich

Detroit Land Yachts.

I’m not familiar with the Biscayne but in the mid-80’s my friend had a 67 or 68 Oldsmobile Luxury Sedan that could easily fit 8 teenagers comfortably.
January 23, 2022 - 11:25am

#1258

Vguy72

Joined:
June 29, 2007

Awesome story Rich....

....slow burn lol.
January 23, 2022 - 10:52am

#1259

Rich McManus

Joined:
January 23, 2022

Remembering Baltimore '77

Burnin' the Seats of the Biscayne
or
Leavin' Town a Quart Fuller
by Rich McManus

The trip to Baltimore from the District of Columbia is virtually a straight run up the neck of a guitar--almost as invariant as a string. You get on I-95, point the car north and let about 30 minutes go by.

My brother Tom was the wheelman for the ride up to catch the Dead at Baltimore Civic Center. He was then in his first year of law school and, with proceeds earned from pumping gas, had bought a 1962 Chevy Biscayne, which is basically a living room on tires.

The bench seats, front and back, were full of guys. There was a cassette player, but it was one of those $89 models plugged into the cigarette lighter, with speaker wires trailing into the rear of the car where they attached to tinny speakers free to wander the car's rear deck as the vehicle pitched and rolled up the highway. At several points, the speaker wire was spliced by hand; once in awhile someone had to reconnect errant strands.

The tape for the ride up had to be one I had just scored in Chapel Hill, where a kid named Ivan Spector had allowed me to dub cassettes from his reels. He had permitted me to copy an April 1977 WNEW radio performance including a song I had called "Inspiration," and another I labeled "California."

So we had recent Dead to enjoy as we rolled up 95 on May 26, 1977. Somewhere along the way, a pipe was filled and passed across the expanses of the Biscayne interior. Hand to hand, to mouth, and front to back, crossways, frontways and oops, it fell into the crease in the back seat.

"A prophet on the burning shore..." Ten minutes after the pipe had made its rounds, reports of the scent of smoke reached the driver. Some in the back seat complained of warm bottoms. But there was no smoke or visible flame, just a persistent odor of burning leaves.

Tom pulled the Biscayne into a gravel lot near the Civic Center and we all hopped out, more curious now about the source of the smell than about the impending concert. We pulled the rear bench out, flipped it upside down and discovered an ever-expanding black circle in the straw matting that formed the interior of the seat: the thing was on fire, albeit a slow burn. The only thing with which to douse the sleepy blaze was cold beer. It seemed a shame to spend beer on the little fire, but that's what we did, then reloaded the bench in the car.

On the walk up the ramps inside the Civic Center, I wondered if such a secret fire would outwit our attempts to extinguish it. Would there be just ashes when the show was through?

We were in the balcony, on the left side as you faced the stage. Jerry was on the far side. All I really remember from that night is Bobby chastising the crowd for arriving late to the show, and Jerry grinning broadly as he rocked back and forth playing, the music rising out of him and his bandmates. They seemed like happy spectators at a circus they had called forth.

The pipe came with us on the trip inside. There was a girl sitting by herself in the row in front of us. The custom in those days was to pass what you had around. I leaned over to interrupt her concentration on the show, but she declined. She couldn't take her eyes off the stage.

Walking out after the show, I was convinced I'd just seen the best Dead show of my life. Which is exactly what I thought after leaving perhaps a dozen previous shows. "How can they play any better than that?" we wondered, worn out, giddy.

"Roll on up, gonna roll back down." One of the guys in our group, Dan, was from Baltimore. He knew of a corner bar nearby where the bartender would fill any container you had with beer, call a price, and you could walk out the door.

From somewhere within the acreage that is the trunk of the Biscayne, Tom produced an empty glass Tropicana jar. He disappeared into the corner bar, which on that May night was wide open, not even a screen on it, and emerged moments later with a frothing jug that the barman guessed was worth around $2.50.

"Took a whole pail of water..." The seats were mercifully cool as we whisked down 95, passing the glass from mouth to mouth. The dirty little six-banger under the hood was purring that night, past exits and overpasses and open spaces that are no longer there. It would be almost 20 years before we learned that people taped the show that evening, and would share that show (thanks Rick Wurster and Tom Melvin!) with whomever showed an interest.

Back then, it was as likely as your pants suddenly bursting into flames that the world's greatest rock and roll band would roll all over the world for 30 years, amaze everyone, and preserve performances--for that broad bench seat that is the future--that burn, unextinguishable, like a secret fire.
January 23, 2022 - 10:39am

#1260

1stshow70878

Joined:
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Blues Interpreters

Not my favorite interpreter but a Muddy & Wolf Joe Bonamassa at Red Rocks show is on PBS next Saturday. Probably an old one recycled for begging. I find him difficult to watch but there's no denying the skill of the once child prodigy. Virtually all the true blues legends have said speed doesn't equal soul, starting with the "British invasion" blues interpreters. But influencers they are and thankfully many of us did trace back the true roots eventually. Give me a Stevie Ray any day.
Cheers

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.

@Mr Ones and all: re 4/26/69

There already is a complete show available and it's a Charlie Miller remix to boot ... since the archive made soundboards unattainable as downloads you can find it at shnflac dot net...if you're new to this site look at the top of the page for the search bar...under project use the drop down and enter GD 1969...under kind enter CM-Gems...after that hit the search button and pages of 1969 shows pop up...all you have to do is scroll and look for 4/26/69...I think it's on about the 2nd page...the other show from the Chicago run is available along with The Boston Ark shows just prior to the Chicago run...

Re: nevermind

I have it too, but it looks like other kind people here beat me to it.

Anniversary show 3/26/83 Aladdin Theatre Las Vegas

39 years ago today I was at the Aladdin Theatre for another great night with the Good Old Grateful Dead. My friend and I sat at the craps table after the show and he won $500 dollars, he had never played before, I didn't fare so well. Big fun!

Nevermind...4/26/69

Mr Ones - the positive note is surely being sober for 8 years, especially after what went on before. Congratulations!

3 26 83

My friend Mike attended

Said it was good

I had 2nd set on tape

Tasty lil show

Hey BTK...I was at that Vegas show too!

We started the weekend with The Compton Terrace show the night before...then after that we drove directly to Vegas getting slightly lost on the way...we did see the sign for "The Dead Mountains Wilderness Area"...kinda scary in a "haha are we tripping or what way"...that Compton Terrace show had the first Help >Slipknot >Franklin's since '77 I believe...what I remember most about the Vegas show was that the "regulars" weren't used to rock 'n roll madness yet and our being shadowed by casino security...I think...

Last 5

David Bowie the man who sold the world
Nashville Pussy Rockpalasst 2000
Nashville Pussy Bogota 2016
Motorhead Kiss of Death
Neil Young Arc

and

FUNKADELIC

George Clinton and Funkadelic is playing here....

....on 8.13.
Unable to attend. That's my granddaughters wedding day. I'm walking her down the aisle.
Maybe next time George.
Regarding 3.26.83 Aladdin, I was into metal then.
The Aladdin theater has great sound. Saw my first concert there in '84. Iron Maiden.
It's still there. Now called Zappos Theatre. Don't you DARE tear that building down. If that happens, I'm grabbing my pitchfork and torch.
Phish crushed that venue on 12.6.96. Claypool and LaLonde sat in for the encore. One of the best shows I attended. Swoon.
Officially released.
To see the Grateful Dead there would have been incredible. I was apparently born three years too late.
RIP Hawkins. Damn.

Luddites R Us

I must chuckle, for it is quite obvious that I am NOT a technically savvy person. I grew up with physical product, and I will die with physical product. Quite hilarious to think I may have something unique.
DAVEROCK, thanks for the supportive response. Life can be good , sometimes it just takes time and effort to figure things out.

Last 5:

Cuong Vu 4 Tet-Change In The Air
McDonald And Giles-S/T
Grateful Dead-Hollywood Festival ‘70 highlights
Queen-News Of The World-Disc 3
Fleetwood Mac-S/T + bonus tracks

Ya think i be jokin when i talk about

Nashville Pussy

Blunt name
Blunt lyrics
Blunt imagery

But boy oh boy they rock

Higher Than Hell album
RAW POWER

I enjoyed 2 13 70 Dark Star yesterday

It sounded reeeeal good

4-26-69

Nappy,
What’s the ID # of that Miller?
I was at etree and losslesslegs last night but didn’t see anything new.
I have
sbd.gmb.96449
sbd.unknown.13390
sbd.yerys.71

Thanks

4-26-69

This is an old transfer that Miller did in 2009 info as follows

gd69-04-26.sbd.miller.97393.sbeok.flac16

on the info page it says he used 96449 as a patch source

Thanks Nappy

I’ll track it down.

R.I.P. Dear Friend...

My Car Deck died yesterday...or at least the CD player did...I can still hook up my Hi Res player through the Aux input and use my iPod Touch as well plugged into the USB Port, but what's the fun in that?...actually I've been listening to audio books and podcasts in the car but any excuse for shiny new toys right? I'm looking to get a CD player that has the capacity to play 24-96 bit Hi Res files via flash drive and gee golly, guess I'd have to upgrade my speakers while I'm at it...I have a Subaru Forester (2014) so we shall see...Oh Honey!

Re:

Nappy, it was your cat.

That...

Darn cat!!! he got mad cuz I wouldn't play any Cat Stevens...He's partial to Moon Shadow...

Good Anniversary Show Today

DaP 16 was 49 years ago (cover looks like a Scooby-Doo House) Great show IMHO. Disc 3 gets a lot of attention because it IS truly a monster (WRS Prelude => Dark Star => Eyes of the World => Playing in the Band). I think it's very strong and energetic right from the opening of Cumberland Blues (although it's a bummer that Jerry's guitar drops out right as he starts cooking through a solo in Cumberland; it sounds like it was a real scorcher). Otherwise the recording is fantastic and the band cooks. What else could I ask for? A Loose Lucy, that's what. Oh - what do you know, it's in there.

Anniversary Show 3/26/83 Aladdin Theatre Las Vegas

Billy & Nappy, I was at that Aladdin show as well ... not too big a deal to get there, living in Santa Monica at the time ... it was trippy to see all the heads (in fully regalia!!) invade the casinos ... the regular guests were perplexed, at best! The show was great fun and typical of the 82-83 time frame.... I was fairly new to the scene, having see the boys at Red Rocks, OK City, the US Festival, Frost, etc ... this was another completely new (and somewhat bizarre) experience!

Nappy

just as long as Mr Jinks doesn’t start Rockin Cat Scratch fever…that’d be scary on multiple levels!

Oro...

Should I be worried that I can't find my Leatherman???

Rut roh

Perhaps sleep with one eye open?

Gripping your pillow tight....

....Metallica 🤘

Last few....

The Supremes - Love Child.
Pink Floyd - The Wall.
GOGD - 1973 I think. Got a little high.
The Scorpions - Rock Believer.
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Changeup.
Elton John - Madman Across The Water.
....time for bed. Think I'll play some more Supremes to lullaby me.

Pearl Jam tickets confirmed....

....let's do this!!

Anniversary show 3/29/83. Warfield Theatre

39 years ago today, I was at the Warfield Theatre for another great show with the Good Ole Grateful Dead. These 3 shows would be the last time the Dead would play at the Warfield. Garcia would still play here with his electric and acoustic bands, also with David Grisman several times over the years.

Wolf Bros

Hi All, I hope everyone is doing well. I happened to stumble across Bob Weir 's page in my news feed on Facebook. There is a free stream of the Wolf Brothers show happening right now. Its on the Nugs.net YouTube channel.

I have found Bob playing with the Wolf Brothers accompaniment interesting and refreshing especially when compared to Dead & Co. - I am not putting Dead & Co down as that is not my intent. I just think it is neat to get a different musical perspective on classic GD and related tunes and Bob does that quite well with this group.

Anyway for those that are interested you can go check it out.

Re: Wolf

I tried to stream this.. but they wouldn't let me unless I signed up for the 30 day trial. Maybe I will do this later, but it's not in the cards tonight. Oh well

zzzzzzzz...

Asleep in GD land

Last....hmmm....fiiivvv.....zzzzz....

Ramones
Ramones r2r
Motorhead Inferno
Nashville Pussy High as Hell
Yes Relayer

Broken record

2 Boxes per year Dave.
2 Boxes per year Dave.
2 Boxes per year Dave…….
.
.
.

If we were allowed to have 2 Boxes per year, then we would probably be getting a new release announcement around now.

Dave?
Dave?

Dave’s not here……

Real horrorshow

Killer Alice Cooper
Rock N' Roll Queen Mott The Hoople
Unicorn ( mono vinyl - sounds lush) Tyrannosaurus Rex
Slow Death The Flamin' Groovies
Focus 3 Focus. The sort of album my old friends would describe as "good music."

I read an interesting novel by David Mitchell called "Utopia Avenue" earlier this week. Its a fictitious account of a rock band in London during 1967, but it interweaves real characters into the plot. So when they go to a party, Brian Jones and Syd Barrett are there. And when they go to San Francisco - they meet The Dead, and one of the characters has an acid trip with Jerry in Golden Gate Park! Beautifully described over about 8 pages. It sounds a bit preposterous, and it is - but I really enjoyed this book.

Dicks Picks 19 coming out on vinyl here next week. As ever, it costs an arm and a leg, and as ever I will probably buy it anyway. I do like these vinyl reissues.

wolf?

I tried to listen to The Weir(y) Wolves last night on that nug.net feed and i thought it sounded terrible...come this A.M. and I'm reading a page from Lossless Legs about it and folk who are more tech savvy then I am were talking 'bout how bad it sounded because it was out of phase...how do sound folk allow that to happen? Or how does that happen?... I just caught the Wharf Rat > Good Lovin' end and wasn't that impressed, bad sound or not...too laid back and slow for me...people's comments on the sidebar were hilarious...so gushy goo sweet and lovin' it (More power to 'em) you'd think they were talkin' about a newly unearthed '68 board or something...

P.S. My fave wolves are Mexican Greys.... ;)

so...

Daverock's mention of Alice Cooper brought to mind a couple of strange billings involving Alice...first at the Hollywood Palladium it was headliner Alice, then Howlin' Wolf (No shit!) and opening was Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen...who thought up that billing I wonder...I was out of town and missed it but I remember friends who went telling me Wolf was not looking that good and did his set sitting in a chair...the one time I did see Alice was in '77 at Anaheim Stadium...Alice, The Kinks second billed then The Tubes and Nazareth...we went for The Kinks...we were down front and when The Tubes came back out for their encore (White Punks On Dope of course) they had a great surprise...just before they came out there were whistles blowing and heavy snare drumming...lo and behold a marching band & drill team from a predominantly Black High School came out and performed with them...crazy funny....this was the tour that was billed as "The Alice Cooper Show" and that it was with the guillotine and all....

Nappy/ my favorite wolf

Nappy, my favorite wolf, is Chester Arthur Burnett, hands down. I agree 100% with you about the Wolf Brothers, they put me to sleep.

It's ok to not like everything....

....didn't watch that live stream, but I youtoobed a Wolf Bros show from last year at the Greek. I lasted two songs before I started nodding off. I mean, they're great musicians but agree. Too slow.
I finished The Peacemaker TV show instead. Funny stuff.

Go Ask Alice Cooper

Alice is, to me, a real interesting figure in rock history. From what he says, he realized one day that rock stars were all playing Peter Pan, but nobody wanted to be Captain Hook. And so he took that on, and made millions. Kind of brilliant, really. He also made a kind of rock and roll that was expressly “for the kids” at a time when rock critics wanted rock to grow up and be “serious art.” He made some killer records with his original backing band: Love It to Death is a classic, IMO.

I got the DaP vinyl from Real Gone, glad to hear it’s going to be available via deadnet. I’m glad I got it, although I must say it does show some of the limitations of vinyl when it comes to Dead shows. It’s six lps, and some the running times are pretty short: a 9:42 version of Sugar Mag get its own side, and one other side is about 12 minutes, which is not super convenient. And Dark Star-Mind Left Body gets split in the middle. Still, it’s kind of a Cool Thing to Have.

Wolf Bros is just too slow and sleepy for me. God bless Bob for staying alive and well enough to keep performing, and I hope he keeps going and going and going. But there’s a lot of other stuff I’d rather listen to. Such as:

Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
ABB: Cream of the Crop 2003
GOGD: Warfield acoustic thingy
Van the Man: A Night in San Francisco

Go ask Alice, I think she'll knooooww!!!

Gov't Mule is coming to town....

....hmmm.

A Month Away

For the release of DaP 1 vinyl April 29. Getting antsy.
Daverock, who is the vendor on that DP19 vinyl over there, and if I may ask how dear is it?

Last 5: (all vinyl)
Tull - Thick As a Brick
Gentle Giant - Self titled
Yes - Fragile
Lenny White - Big City
DP 19
Cheers!

Alice Cooper, Alice Cooper

Best lp's Love it to Death, Killer and Schools' Out. Saw Alice twice, once in 72, great show, Schools' Out had just been released and the stage hands and Alice thru out panties into the audience. Had a couple of hotties dancing in cages on the sides. Did all the theatrics. the guillotine, the straight jacket during The Ballad of Dwight Fry, the blood all over the stage, the fake chicken that it looks like he cuts into pieces, it was all there and that band was so tight, 72 was a great year for rock and roll. In fact, the peak of rock in my opinion was 69 - 72. Also saw Alice in 78, pretty much same show, but different musicians, a different band for sure. There was this new guy on lead guitar who looked like a body builder or a wrestler or that ilk. He played a guitar in the shape of an M 16 rifle. He could actually rock even with those bananas that he called fingers. Alice was another of those bands that I played to drive my old man nuts, he would literally turn red and start screaming at the top of his lungs, he really did hate rock and roll. May he rest in peace.

Caught in a Dream

Istshow- DP19 is for sale on Amazon UK at £160.91. Expensive and some very short sides. Still...

Crow - that's how I perceive Alice Cooper, too. I liked them when they were a band, and not an individual, and Summer 1972 was when I got into them. They seemed like a poke in the eye to everyone- society, the Woodstock Generation, my friends who liked "good music" - and at the age of 15 they were right up my street! In fact I have just played my 50 year old copy of "School's Out"-and uncannily it plays alright, with hardly any clicks or crackles. They were one of the bands who had great singles in 1972 who I have mentioned before - Mott The Hoople, David Bowie, Hawkwind, Roxy Music, T.Rex.

In fact, I read another book this week, about the music of 1972 focussing on these bands. "Pin-Ups 1972 Third Generation Rock N' Roll" by Peter Stanfield. It suggests the above bands represented the third great era of rock n' roll, following on from Chuck, Elvis Little Richard etc in the 50s and The Beatles and Stones in the 60's. What he writes doesn't exactly tally with my experiences - but it's close enough.

It's a bit of a coincidence that my favourite year for The Dead may well be 1972 as well They were obviously operating from within a different dimension to these other bands I have mentioned. The Dead became more my cup of tea when I got to the grand old age of 19. Although I also saw countless punk gigs then, when it was in it's early days-summer 1976- summer 1977. Sorry for going on a bit!

another comment about Bob and the wolves

Nappy, you are so right, a lot of the folks who were at the show last week were loving it, me, not so much. I agree that it is good that Bob is still out there playing, but this could be his final year of touring. I remember back in 14 or 15 Bob saying that he thought that he had 7 good years left, which would put him at 75. Bob will be 75 in October so this could be it as far as tours. He could go the Phil route and just play limited engagements at his favorite venue or maybe just retire. It's hard to say but he really has turned some of those dead tunes into lullaby's. Don't know if there will be a Dead and Co tour this year, saw that Mayer is on tour solo. Plus Billy has been told not to tour and Mickey has gotten Planet Drum back together so I don't think there will be any Dead and Co. this year. Not that I would go, also way too slow for me.

Dick's Picks 19 vinyl

They are releasing Dick's 19 vinyl again? I bought it a little while back. I don't remember them releasing DP 36 vinyl twice. I missed that the first time around and had to get it off ebay for quite a bit more. Hm....

DP 36 vinyl

I've just had a look, and I bought that one off Amazon UK in March 2021. I don't know if it came out in the States before then.

And the rest...

Maybe I should also say that the VAT for Dp36 was nearly £30.00 on top of the asking price. So although DP19 is listed on Amazon UK at about £160.00 - the actual price will be closer to £200.00. Cripes.

never could read no roadmap

and I don't know what the dead might do. Saw on facebook that there will be a Dead and Co. tour this summer.

Last Five

Dead - “Best of” PNW Box - Believe It If You Need It (Keith’s playing is sublime throughout the whole box, and the band raises their game in the PNW)
Ry Cooder & Ali Farka Toure “Talking Timbuktu”(Ry was into World Music long before it was a thing!)
Eagles - “On The Border” - i wish they stopped after 3 albums, before going Hollyweird
Soundtrack to the movie Afterglow - Mark Isham and Charles Lloyd at their best
Cowboy Junkies - “Songs of the Recollection” - a version of Gram Parsons’ “Ooh Las Vegas” with stunning fuzz guitar and ethereal vocals that ole Gram would have loved!!

PNW

Coincidentally, I have been listening to 5/19/74 from this box over the last day or so. It's the album, though - so just one record at a time, then I'm off. Side H has just played, which leaves I,J,K and L to look forward to tomorrow. A beautiful recording. Such a spare sound with great separation between the instruments. What you miss in crunch is more than made up for in clarity. Both Jerry and Keith shine. In fact, I might play the rest of this later on tonight.

Greed is Not Good

Vinyl prices are so out of hand. It’s great that DiP 19 is available again on vinyl, but it’s outrageous that they’re charging $199. For comparison, the 3/1/69 vinyl, also six discs, was (I think) $74. So why is this reissue of a reissue $125 more? Or to look at it another way, the initial Real Gone release of this set was $119 (which was bad enough). Why the extra $80?

My guess is somebody looked at what these reissues go for on the “secondary market” and decided it was OK to start charging scalper prices from the get go. Not cool. I realize nobody’s putting a gun to anyone’s head and making you fork over $200 for vinyl DiP that you can buy on CD for $50. But it still seems greedy. Hope this trend does not continue.

The Cowboy Junkies have a new release out?....

....I know what I'll be listening to tonight.
All covers?
There's a track called Ooh Las Vegas?
To my knowledge, they only played Vegas once (I was there) and said they would not return because the crowd was too loud/rude (which I would agree with).

Junkies et al

VGuy - Yup, an album of all covers. I have the Vegas tune on a tribute album to Gram Parsons they played on from maybe 10 years ago, but I forgot the song, so when I heard it again - wow! Really love that fuzz guitar, great tune!

Dave - I think the PNW was a bit of an overlooked gem in the Dead Box Set canon. I had bought the 3 CD set for one of my sons who lives in the PNW, and he said he and his friends played it constantly while camping. I love the box set, but if I have some driving to do, the 3 CD set is perfect. That mega PITB is something else! Geniuses, these guys were geniuses.

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