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.
Always late with responding...
As far as music in my life goes, it's always been there...My Pop was a bass player for a Latin Jazz Dance Band from the late 40's to the late 50's...he also worked his day job...from about '48 to '56 or so he owned a record shop in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles...I have photos of him in his shop (with his bass in the background leaning against a corner) and also of him playing his bass...I came along in late 1950 and when my first Sister came along in '58 (to be followed by two more within a few years) Moms said no more gigging at night! As I got older my Pop went to work for a Record Distributor on the West Side...he was the shipping clerk and would be one of the first people the label salesman would see as they cam in the back door "Hey Johnny, how you doing, here, have a box of promo LP's" When I was Nine I remember being gifted the new David Seville & The Chipmunks LP, gold foil cover with red vinyl...a big mind blower was when the LP "Trouble In Mind" by Mance Lipscomb was in one of those boxes of promos...I was ten and had never heard anything like it...me and My bud John were blown away by it...we got a lot of Dean Martin & Frank Sinatra (The Reprise LP's) too...when my Pop closed his shop he stored all of his left over stock in our garage...my bud and I would go through it and found a lot of goodies on Chess, Modern, Argo & other rockin' labels....by '66 or so my Pop went into business for himself, distributing American Music to Border towns in exchange for Mexican label stuff that he would send to stores that specialized in Musica all over the state...my first gig would've been helping him with packaging and labeling orders, etc...one of my fondest memories was the first time I went with him to Nehi records in central LA...they specialized in cut out labels, stacks of LP's with the cover corner snipped...lot's of records on the Modern, Kent, Custom & United labels with artists like John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Johnny Otis....Pops would let me grab a few for myself...they were like $.50 apiece...wheee!!! another goodie was getting two tickets from a United Artists salesmen for a special sneak preview of "A Hard Day's Night" before the movie's general release...I think the first LP's I bought with my own cash would've been Canned Heat's first and of course Grateful Dead's first....
So...
38 years ago today me and a friend went to Vegas a day before the Aladdin show in '84...we went early because we had two tickets to see the Lakers play the Jazz at the Thomas & Mack Center on the UNLV campus...that's the game where Kareem broke the NBA scoring record held by Wilt The Stilt...great weekend! went from Vegas to Irvine Meadows afterwards...what a dump the Irvine Meadows venue was and with a heavy police presence too...
Last Five. And I plead the fifth....
Dead Kennedys - Bedtime For Democracy
Scorpions - Rock Believer....again.
Obscura - Akroasis (tip from my cousins son. Thanks!)
Edit. Emojis are now kicked out of here? Aww. And I had a good one.
No Dead since Friday night. I'll circle back.
Molly Tuttle - When You're Ready
Moe. - Wormwood
Y'all take care.
Short sides, back sides and dark sides of LP
@daverock yes they preserve the continuity of the show...
I received the JCB at Warfield, another beautiful 4 and half Lp, with sound and vision, the last side with beautiful art, like Olympia 72 and St Louis71. I suggest my wife to nail them on the wall, like old ladies did with plates in old fashioned time!!! surely the border is near between Lp an Ep, and It's surely easier to focus on music on short side.
first works weeding roses fields, cleaning planes in airport, collecting fruits (grapes and cherrys), waiter in trains.
first shows Mahavishnou Orchestra, Soft Machine, Genesis (foxtrot)
Billy the Kidder and 10 Faves
You can certainly move Morning Dew to the top of the cover list. One of the greatest songs I ever saw them do.
Huge jam into "guess it doesn't matter anyway".
Covers
They really took ownership of Morning Dew and Viola Lee Blues. So much so, they barely seemed like covers.
I always like "Big River" myself-'specially in the Keith era - great rockabilly licks by Jerry. As they say, size isn't everything.
For the sake of rarity - plus the fact that they play it really well, "Muddy Water" from 12/5/71 also deserves a mention.
Covers...and first gigs...
"Good Morning Little School Girl" & Viola Lee Blues" were what grabbed and sold me on the first Dead LP...I thought "Viola Lee" was similar to "Catfish Blues" from the first Canned Heat record...wild guitar, frantic build up and then release back into the original rhythm, just awesome...My first gig should've been The Stones at The Hollywood Bowl in '66...so the deal was on a certain Friday there would be an ad and an order form posted in the entertainment section of the LA Times that you would mail in...me and a pal (John again) made a deal with his Pop to strip and wax the floor of his barbershop for $10 each...we bought a postal money order and waited by a local news rack for the afternoon edition of the Times ...we grabbed a newspaper and filled out the coupon, threw in our money order along with a self addressed envelope, dropped it in a mailbox and waited...nothing after a week...nothing after two weeks, then I finally get an envelope from the dead letter office containing our original mailing with an insufficient postage due stamped on it...crushed!!! By then of course the show was sold out...four weeks later The Beatles played Dodger Stadium...a lot of my friends were going...there was a caravan of three or four cars with giggly girls, a few guys and some very understanding parents driving away from our neighborhood...I was still upset about the Stones show and chose not to go...principles can screw you up some times...
First real job
I used to work at the sealtest ice cream factory in Framingham MA.. the factory was in the Same neighborhood as the carousel (I think that was the name) near rt.30 where Jimi Hendrix and led zeppelin played, according to my mother. I made rum raisin ice cream in the late 80s.
Europe 72 50th is coming
Just saw the 50th anniversary of Europe 72 here at dead net. Includes a 24 LP all 4 shows at Lyceum ($550), Also has a 4 Cd of the 26th May Lyceum
Breaking News?
JRAD will be performing at the Frost Ampetheater on August 13th. Tix on sale tomorrow.
a look back
Done entirely without JimInMD's time machine, though I still owe him bigtime for past kindness... might be out your way this summer, Mr.F. Yes, regarding the Lyceum shows, no temptation for $549 vinyl. Please please please, release primal dead box from the 1960s, lets keep that drumbeat going... for the old timers here sake, speaking of which:
been a while since last post. Previously noted med issue turned into an ordeal, thankfully now history but that and the situation in Ukraine put me in a dark place too long. First job was delivering the Washington Post in the early 1960s to about 100 households in Maryland near DC. First concert previously noted, Jimi Hendrix, March 1968 at the Washington Hilton Hotel ballroom, opened by Soft Machine, age fifteen. The first of much music from then on out with a new drivers license. Recently have written back and forth a bit with Tom Principato who is same age, Tom is a great blues guitarist of the Telecaster persuasion from the DC area, played with Danny Gatton back in the day, recordings available, check them out. Tom knew some of my high school musician friends and sent me a photo from about 1968 of him jamming with a couple of them on stage at dive bar Cousin Nicks, where we teenagers used to go down to party in one of the absolute most dangerous possible sections of DC. Just now finally able to head back to DC to visit old friends and family, where I asked each brother his first Dead show. Turned out one was at the infamous RFK show with the Allman Brothers, the other much younger brother first saw them at the Cap Center Thanksgiving 1978. A nice reunion with my first high school girlfriend, had not seen her in more than fifty years. We went to a bunch of shows back in the day, late 1960s, notably Jefferson Airplane at the Baltimore Civic Center and Savoy Brown Blues Band at Shady Grove. One week ago she and I drove out to see the best trad Irish fiddler in the world, Martin Hayes at Berryville, Virginia (solo). Martin is an exquisite virtuoso who sells out Carnegie Hall with his group, The Gloaming. Oddly enough, the first time I heard him, about five years ago, talking with him after that show, he brought up Jimi Hendrix as a late influence. Two nights ago, Bela Fleck and his bluegrass group over in Lebanon, NH, sold out show. Bela is such a masterful player, was pleased to hear Sierra Hull on mandolin, the only one of that very fine group to go head to head in duo with him. Contemplating Jack and Jorma who will play in a few weeks at an old movie theater not far from here. Live music is the best, so good for the soul.
Time Machine
If you set the dials to the present time, Livestream.com/fans is letting you stream the Skull and Roses Festival for a modest and seemingly up to your own discretion donation.
It's a great distraction from doing your taxes, plus.. it's got a Cumberland. I was going to go this year just because seeing live music on the beach at Ventura seemed like it would be lots of fun. I might be getting to old to go to festivals though, so streaming it at home (whatever you decide to pay) is the next best thing.
Check it out if you're feeling adventurous. GDTRFB, sounds good to me.
re;DMCVT....
....good to hear you are on the mend.
Stay well!
Live music is indeed good for the soul.
First gigs...
My first rock concert was a freebie at Elysian Park (by Dodger Stadium) to see The Airplane & The Dead...they had played the Hollywood Bowl the night before and the Bowl staff had no idea what they were in for and had harassed the crowd for dancin' in the aisles etc so Bill Graham arranged the freebie to make it up to the crowd...The following Monday was the start of my senior year in high school...second was a couple of months later at The Hollywood Bowl...the line up was The Who, Eric Burdon & The Animals, The Everly Bros, The Association & Sopwith Camel...strange show....the promotion was if you went to a White Front store (a cross between Target & Sears) and bought an LP either from the MGM or Warner Bros family of labels you got a free ticket! The Who introduced their new 45 "I Can See For Miles" and at the set's end on "My Generation" Moon threw a couple of his drums in the reflecting pond in front of the stage...if you google image The Who Hollywood Bowl '67 there's a picture of him with a tom in his arms running to the front of the stage...the following night there was another show at The Cow Palace...I wonder if any of our Bay Area friends here went to that one?
Thanks JIMinMD
for the livestream info on Skull and Roses Fest. I'm just 30 minutes door to door from the Ventura beaches, but my plate is full this weekend, including Billy Strings on Saturday. I'll get back to yooz all if any S&R performers spill over as "surprise special guests" at Billy's show.
DMCVT: Cap Center 11/23/78. I just happened to have the double good fortune to be part of a group in one of the corporate suites for that show and with a freshly obtained visene bottle with 100 doses of not visene. I seem to recall that the takers to non takers ratio was about 70/30. And guess who shows up during the break...yep, Mr. Corporate Big Guy, himself. He was a very nice man known to all of us, so everything was cool. He had just popped in to see who all was there and if the catering was satisfactory. Not much memory of the show itself...the party in the suite was the thing.
Saw Electric Hot Tuna two nights later with same bottle in tow, another story.
Billy Strings....
....catching him next Friday bigbrownie. Enjoy! He's legit.
S.F. Giants. Opening day
A beautiful day in the Bay Area, for the Giants to kick off their season. I have the bbq going, rib eye steaks and tri tips. A case of Pliny the Elders delivered yesterday from the Russian River brewing Co. Got the Dead blasting right now, 2/27/69. "We could have us, a high time, living the Good life". Go Giants!
Mr. Cheerful sez
Baseball
30 teams
There is a 97% chance your season will end in disappointment
Play ball, y'all!
Hey Billy The Kiddd....
....I'm a Marlins fan. Gonna be a looong season with no legit closer. And it showed today.
Beat the Yankees in the 2003 WS though. I still relish that to this day.
Oh. And on a sidenote. Fuck the designated hitter in the NL.
VGUY The Marlins. / opening day memory
VGUY, the Marlins had great teams in 1997 & 2003 ,World Champions, they took down the S.F. Giants in the 1997 playoffs. I remember an opening day at Candlestick Park in the late 1970s ; the mayor of S.F. came out to say some words and the place erupted in boos, everybody was booing poor old George Moscone. Then, Jackie Gleason came out of the Giants dugout to throw out the first pitch and the whole stadium exploded in cheers, it was great, Jackie Gleason was always one of my favorites.
Marlins / Giants....
....sorry about that Buster Posey thing btw.
Drives me bats**t crazy...
How baseball's changes have driven me cuckoo...On opening day Yu Darvish had a no hitter through six and was removed...yesterday another Padre starter, Sean Manaea, threw 7 no hit innings and was replaced...And I too cringe now that the NL has adopted the designated hitter...guess I have to bone up on those rules along with the runner on second to start extra innings...another sign of the times...I went to check out prices for the July game vs The Guardians (WTF?) when the Dodgers will unveil a Sandy Koufax statue and hand out replicas...$101 for bleacher seats! What A difference 60 years make...as an eleven year old kid in '62 when the stadium opened bleacher seats for kids were fifty cents...Oh Well...PLAY BALL!!!
Right
Bleacher seats were $2 when I saw my first game ~45 years ago. I saw the seventh game of the world series in I think 71? Tickets were both attainable and not that expensive.
Today, you have to mortgage your house and that's after you give them a kidney for the deposit.
I've settled into college sports and hockey. Out of the stratosphere.
The Cleveland Guardians....
....if that wasn't bad enough, the new logo is Legos.
Sorry Cleveland....I'll miss Wahoo.
No ill intent meant
..but I'm right there with you VGuy. It's complicated.. but screw it, life isn't perfect.
1962 All Stars game at DC Stadium
Will have to get off this old timers thing... I pretty much gave up on baseball for a long time after the Senators left DC, so pissed off at that.... dear old dad took me down to games at the new DC Stadium (RFK) and when I was 9, we went to the All Stars game there where I was fortunate to have a ball signed by Don Drysdale. Other notables names at that game make a long list.... Berra, Mantle, Maris, Musial, Mays, Aaron, Aparicio, Koufax, Cepeda, Spahn, etc. OK back to our regularly scheduled contemporaneous era. A few years ago on an early morning flight on Southwest from Manchester NH to Orlando, found myself sitting next to Johnny Damon because of early seating. He said, WTF, no business class for me. Needless to say, seemed like half the passengers had to have selfies with him. He drank seven beers before 10 am, told me, no worries, I have a driver.
Since I hate sports, I'll talk beer.
I'm drinking MC2 double IPA from equilibrium brewing from middletown, New york. 8% alc.. this is one tasty stovepipe can o beer.
@DMCVT...
Awesome on the autographed ball...I'm a Drysdale man through and through...My fave story (whether true or not) was when Alston told him to intentionally walk the upcoming batter...instead he planted one in the batter's thigh and afterwards saying he didn't want to waste three pitches...
Koufax & Drysdale
Were my two favorite players when I was growing up in the mid 1960s. I rooted for the Dodgers in the 1960s, my brothers all rooted for the Giants. I remember when Juan Marichel went after John Roseboro with with a baseball bat, Koufax was pitching that day , what a wild game.
Getting my GD groove back
7 31 74 finally opened up
Dix 3: 5 22 77
Also in the car: 2 5 70
But that 2 5 70... hot jam in Masons fades, followed by a fade in to the 11 already in progress. Hmph.
Help me Jerry-wan...you're my only hope
Pet nasties
My dog has been having some....uh....problems recently.
Nothing like finding it the hard way.
I love my critters, but someday I will live in a household without the risk of nasties.
Slipknot! 5 22 77 sounds joyous, anyway
Pet Nasties....
....reminds me of a certain Beastie Boys record.
I jumped on the Buffalo 5.8.77 train.
Choo. Choo.
I'm surprised that the Skull & Roses fest hasn't made much of an appearance here.
Re: SnR Fest
Stream it for free. Phil's on in 10 minutes, the closing act. You can grumble noisily to yourself and won't have to visit a single porta potty.
lifestream dot com frontslash fans and click SnR Fest.
Baseball
My father took me to Game 1 of the 1977 World Series between the Yankees and Dodgers at Yankee Stadium. We sat 3 rows behind home plate. The Yankees won on a walk off single in the 12th inning. That game changed my early life. Yankees forever………plus the game ended so late that I didn’t have to go to school the next day.
Oh BTW……it was Don Sutton vs Don Gullett
Thank you Jim
Yall be cool
Ventura...where the long, strange trip began for me 40 years ago
Wooooooow
@BillyTheKid
go to youtube and enter "Sandy Koufax pitches to Mr. ED"...Hollywood TV Schmaltz at it's best
@PROUDFOOT...
Speaking of Hot Rats...do you have the Hot Rats Sessions Box? Amazing stuff...
Nappy/ Koufax, Mr Ed
Thanks Nappy , that's pretty silly. I see Willie Davis & John Roseboro are also in there..
BTK
I love how Roseboro panics when Ed comes home...on a more serious note regarding Marichal & Roseboro...what I think matters most is that later on in their lives they became good friends...as Marichal said at Roseboro's funeral...“Johnny’s forgiving me was one of the best things that happened in my life,” Marichal told the surprised gathering. “I wish I could have had John Roseboro as my catcher.” A lesson all could learn from...
And my fave Marichal moment was his 16 inning duel with Warren Spahn in '63...0 - 0 until Willie Mays hit a one out homer to left to end it...Marichal threw 227 pitches, Spahn threw 201...fuck....
Enough baseball, how 'bout a CANNONBALL?
Wake up to find out that ... the fall 2022 box will feature fall 1972 shows.
There's plenty of fall '72 shows left in the vault to do a box and only dent the supply. The time, obviously, is nigh.
Counterintuitive because last year's box had three '72 shows? I don't care and neither does Dave.
Hold me to it, I've never been wrong before... (Oh, and DP 42's four discs will certainly quiet the gathered for a couple months as E72 vinyl gets into your sweaty hands!)
Take Me Out to the Bowlgame
Went to the Giants game yesterday, first time I've been back to the ballpark since this goddam pandemic started. I got to tell you, if baseball is "dying" somebody forgot to tell San Francisco. Packed stadium, happy fans of all ages, shapes, and colors, lots of good energy. I was wearing my Giants SYF shirt, and got several shout outs from tie-dyed fellow fans. A beautiful day at the park, and the Giants won!
Yeah, it was kind of expensive. But what isn't these days? And it wasn't really that bad, or at least wouldn't have been if I could've bought a few less beers. Two tix cost me $88, fees included, to sit in the first row of the third deck right behind the plate: actually a very good spot, just above where they put the tv announcer's booth. I had a burger and fries for $17, and then three beers at $15 each. (Wife spent roughly the same amount on similar stuff.) $15 is definitely a lot for a beer, but at least it was Eysium Space Dust and Russian River Blind Pig, big pours of each. I suppose it was a little over $200, all in, but that included lunch, so ...
Sometimes I'm nostalgic for the old days at Candlesticks. I saw my first game there in 1967, with my dad and grandad. Mays and McCovey both homered! The Stick was a dump, and a frozen dump at that, but it was our dump. One "good" thing about it was that you could always get tickets. Crowds were small but vocal: you had to be hardcore to even consider freezing your ass off in that place for nine innings. Food and beer were a lot cheaper, but also a lot worse: an Oscar Meyer hot dog and some flat Budweiser was the best you could expect.
The new park (which has changed names numerous times since it opened in 2000, now called Oracle) is a thing of beauty, with wonderful views of the bay and the game. Great food and drink. It's such a nice place to go that it draws a lot of people who are there for "the experience" and hardly seem to notice the game between runs to the concession stands and selfie postings. But whatever. It's a little like a Dead show: you got your hardcore fans, you got your newbs, you got people who are just there to party, lots of people smoking weed, people buying and selling all kinds of official and unofficial merch. As long as everybody has fun it's all good.
I think I will start a punk band and call it Pet Nasties.
Last five:
ABB: Eat a Peach
TTB: Best of the Beacon
Bill Evans: Portrait in Jazz
King Crimson: Live in Chicago
GOGD 12.10.71
No hot rats box
Only the original
Pet Nasties has been trademarked and copyrighted
We tour in the summer
This is not directed at anyone here
This is only a primal scream directed at some lowlifes
Ahem...
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