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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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    Just to clarify...

    Jim, you may not have heard the phrase "cosmic yawn" before because I made it up on the spot as I typed that comment. Good one, though, huh? Now that everyone is growing mushrooms in their closet, the supply is bounteous. Denver recently decriminalized them, a wholesome development. Though that won't help me in the rural counties, so I try to behave.....

    Daverock, a pronghorn is essentially an antelope, but not technically speaking, I believe. These freakin' things typically rove in bands on the Colorado Plateau and you have to watch out for them. They can run 60 miles per hour for fairly extended distances. In Wyoming, highway signs warn you -- a band could be streaking across the prairie and cross a paved highway at any angle at high speed.

    I once was returning from a sojourn and spotted a band off the road. I watched them for a half a minute, at 100 yards, wondering what they might look like close up. Oh boy. As I returned my gaze to the road ahead I saw to my momentary horror a pronghorn just clearing my bumper as it streaked right to left across the highway. I'm doing 75 probably. I probably missed it by two seconds. I got a real good, close-up look. And promised myself I'd never again take my eyes off the road for more than a milisecond.

    Yeah, sitting around, staring at a candle, listening to some self-appointed "guide" sounds like serious BS! I get the visceral attraction of tripping with the original Pranksters, but personally, I seek on my own.

    Now that #41 is tucked away on the '77 shelf, I've been looking at the shelf with the 1965-1975 shows and man oh man do I have some listening to do while it's still winter and I'm spending the evenings inside. If a big storm crops up, I'll microdose, take a long walk in the snow, come home, make a fire, and plug in a guitar. Last time I did that, I played for about five hours straight and my fingers hurt like hell. When that's over, I have a couple hundred GD shows and a stack of Miles and Coltrane for the stereo. Life can be good!

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    What a show, especially that 1st set! I wish the Dead would have played China Cat Sunflower at these shows .

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    I have been interested in the recent scientific and public interest in psychedelics, and the increasing evidence of their positive effects. It certainly seems true to my experiences with mushrooms. I would never have said that I was depressed prior to my experiences, but looking back, my life changed in all sorts of positive and unexpected ways during and after my time of taking them. It seems a bit contradictory, but they seemed to straighten me out. I also wonder now if L.S.D use in the 60's and 70's may actually have set psychedelic culture back decades.

    With acid ,I never knew how strong the stuff was before taking it. The differences between the strengths of the few trips I had on it were massive. Like with most drugs, the biggest danger in it, to me, lay and still lie, in it's illegality. As far as I could make out, no-one - certainly as far down the chain as me - had the faintest idea what they were taking. I can remember when I was on the social work course in 1991, the police gave us a list of all the drugs they had picked up one recent weekend that had been sold in clubs as "ecstasy". Everything from caffeine to STP. I remember one guy who told me he sold dogs worming tablets as ecstasy.

    At the end of the day, I feel it is important to take care of ourselves, and of other people, in the best way that we individually can. I wouldn't want to be a part of any group that disregards the welfare and happiness of it's most vulnerable members.
    And driving - I am sorry PT, you are a prince among men - but I have known several people-I am sure we all have - who have killed themselves or others in motor accidents. Horrendous experiences all round - for the victim, the family and friends left behind, and the perpetrator. Any activity that increases the possibility of creating such a tragedy should surely be ruled out.

    Incidentally, what the heck's a pronghorn ? I think if I had seen one of them in Oldham in the 70's I would have thought it was the devil.

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    Re: Cosmic Yawns

    I've never heard that term used before, but it happens to me every time.

    There was a period mid-career where I did not indulge, plus it seemed hard to get for a while. ..but I still seem to dip my big toe into the cosmos at least once a year.

    In terms of place and setting, early on I found myself either wanting to be in a small group and away from phones and random people or in such a large group as to be ambiguous. So it became nature, camping, backcountry or frankly dead shows. That seems to work.

    The last decade I find myself liking to be alone, mostly kayaking/hiking/biking where I won't run into some unexpected situation where somebody needs me. Concerts too when I don't have to drive or the show is long enough to fit it in. I want no responsibilities whatsoever. Oh, and headphones, music is good - almost a must. So I still explore when I can find the time and tranquility to pull it off. I can't speak for everyone, but I find it helpful for me. It gives me a chance to reformat my internal hard drive and reorganize thoughts, priorities and who I am.

    Those are my tricks.. but I have to admit the HF approach is quite appealing to me. If you notice some unexpected rando behind you on the trail, I'm the one with earphones and a tie dye (and the bad orange hair and pasty white complexion). :D

    Cosmic yawns.. so true. That cracks me up.

    There's a lot of great research on micro dosing that's come out lately. Encouraging to me.

    As to tripping with the pranksters or at an acid test, be it a good idea or not, I would do it in a heartbeat. But alas, I was born too late. That ship sailed while I was playing in the sand box out back. Babs.. I am here, once you come out of your heart injury, if you want to have one last foray into the unknown, give me a call. I'm all in.

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    driving under the influence can be fun, and frightening. I knew a guy who wanted to drive, he said he could see so well that anything that could have collided with the vehicle he could see long before it would happen. He was a great driver and drove us all to and back many a show. We in the back seat could only jiggle as he navigated the roadways so gracefully, with a huge grin on his face (aka Neil like). The road always seemed to get away from me whenever I tried, like a ribbon that would unravel. On deserted roads, it was fun, on the freeway, not so much.
    Back in the day when I first started (69) it was the thing to try and freak each other out, aka pranksters, with double talk and echo talk and endlessly trying to get each other to lose it laughing, especially in a crowd of er...non dosed. After hearing about Leary and his way of spiritualizing psychedelics it just wasn't as much fun sitting around trying to concentrate on any one thing for very long. Pranking and laughing was way more fun.
    Not being a musician, never really wanted to hang out with bands, but I always wanted what they were smoking, drinking or taking in any other form. Would have loved to hang with Kesey and Babbs, what a trip that would have been.

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    My own approach these days...

    may be (probably is) just one man's approach, possibly idiosyncratic. First off, know your materials well (potency) and decide if you want a micro-dose, a medium but significant journey or a little over the top approach. Because I'm in the backcountry alone, I need to be confident that I can get somewhere and back in a day, handle the terrain, maintain my orienteering skills, and calmly apply my behavioral knowledge if I run into a bear or cougar. (Don't surprise 'em, talk, wave arms, don't look 'em in the eye, give 'em room to avoid you, take the guard off the pepper spray, be sure you're upwind, etc.) I get moving early in the day and have an objective before dropping so as the agent (psilycibin for me) comes on, I'm in my element in terms of orienteering, body and mind synch and thus avoiding the initial, potentially debilitating awkwardness of the limbs and thoughts that comes with the cosmic yawns at "onset." And make sure I'm actively striding and finding my way as the peak comes and goes. I usually don't stop for any length of time. Occasionally I miscalculate the powder at the bottom of the bag and get a little walloped. But an 8-hour hike through spectacular terrain where I won't see humans -- this is trackless country, no trails -- typically does the trick. And there's nothing like a shot and a beer and a toke back at camp or, if camp is the truck, then a chair and guitar. Last fall I did just that across a wild plateau called East Cactus Flats, returning to my truck in a forsaken place called Disappointment Draw. I cracked a beer and started fingerpicking when I heard a strange noise. A good-sized pronghorn, traveling alone, approached to within maybe 50 feet and kept querying me -- no mistaking that querying sound. Essentially, who or what are you? What the hell is that sound you're making? And, have you seen my peeps? I've noticed that wild animals, as well as domesticated dogs, totally key in to a person who is psychedelic. The other major part of this approach is what I'd call "digestion." Take the time to fully absorb the lessons of the day and seek ways to incorporate those insights into your ordinary reality and dealings with others. Be patient and kind. (I do not always succeed; this is a work in progress after 50 years.) Too much repetition of the experience without "digestion" and, to me, it's just repeating the high without drawing the lessons. Note that I did none of this the first ten years. We'd find out the LSD's potency the hard way. Lessons might be impressed upon us without our consent(!) The chaos and human interactions could be frightening -- usually to others, but sometimes to me. (Don't try driving!!) But over the decades I kinda honed an approach that essentially comprises medicine for the soul, for me. I think the currrent surge in interest by scientists and the general public is good up to a point, as psychedelics, used constructively, can help bolster our humanity and -- perhaps -- ease difficulties. But I could not recommend them. Either they work for you or they don't. And finding out can be tricky. Sure makes me a better-adjusted person -- and now I'm echoing Paul McCartney, I believe!

    That's all the blathering for today. As you were........

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    Leary or Pranksters?

    If I had to choose.... I would choose neither of them. While the pranksters now seem a bit ghastly, Leary seemed a bit over ambitious. I still have some of his books -that one which is a psychedelic version of The Tibetan Book of The Dead comes to mind. I think the idea was that you read it to someone who was tripping, as a means of helping them locate the light. I wonder if anyone ever did that. That idea of set and setting does ring true though - and I would say that advice has stayed appropriate down through the years

    Mr Ones - I still haven't got round to listening to Planet Waves. I always assumed it was a weaker one, but I read recently that it was very much a part of a trilogy, with "Blood on the Tracks" and "Desire", so I am hoping to check it out soon.

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    My sister lives in Mill Valley, and she used to see Weir around town all the time. (Not so much lately.) She’s not a fan, so it’s no biggie for her, but I’ve sometimes thought about what I would do if I saw Bob getting coffee or something while I was visiting her. I wouldn’t want to bother him, but I think I’d have to at least say hello, right? Say ‘thanks for the music’ at least? My other sister lives in Kauai, where Kreutzman lives now, and I’m going to be visiting her in a couple weeks. Wonder what I should say if I see BK grabbing a shave ice?

    I can definitely relate to what hendrixfreak sed: shows just got too big for my liking in the ‘80s. As a rule, I’d usually much rather see a decent band in a small club than go see some superstars in a sports arena: better sound, fewer assholes, fewer cops, room to breath. Throw psychedelics into the mix and the gap gets even wider. It’s one thing to be shrooming at the Warfield with 2,000 of deadicated Heads, quite another to try to deal with 50,000 people who seem like they just got bussed in from MTV’s spring break special. Not to mention all the security.

    In principle, I always thought it was cool that the Pranksters had such a wide open, “let’s get high and freak freely” approach to tripping, as opposed to the Millbrook thing of sitting silently in a room with a candle and saying Om or whatever. That said, I’m not sure I could’ve passed the Acid Test. My best experiences, aside from Dead shows, were always out in nature: a deserted stretch of shoreline on the Lost Coast, backpacking the Sierras, etc. I think if I would've had to try to simultaneously process Babbs' babbling, Cassidy's hammer juggling, the Dead, and 500 mics worth of Koolaid my brains probably woulda dribbled out my ears.

    Last thought: how lucky are we? The StL box continues to delight. Seven shows from three different tours, all in good-to-great sound. And the last two DaPs have also been great. I mean, millions of people love Zeppelin, the Stones, the Eagles, and other bands from back in the day, but nobody (well, except the ABB I guess) has anything like the Dead's archival release thing. Blessed be us.

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    Comus-First Utterance-Tip ‘o the hat to DAVEROCK!!
    Beatles-Get Back Rooftop Performance
    Elvis Costello-The Boy Named If
    Shuggie Otis-Inspiration Information
    Bob Dylan-Planet Waves

    It’s a crazy, mixed-up world, but Music is a consistent balm(for me at least!!).

    Dave’s 42 anyone?? It’s only about 62 days away!!

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    Billy - thanks for jogging my memory - Viola Lee Blues from 4/26/69 is included on The Phil Zone too . I didn't know they interpreted What's Become of the Baby at this show either. Bit of a missed opportunity there - if that had been included, then this show, as released, would have been unique. In a way then, Dicks Picks 26 short changes 4/26/69 a bit.

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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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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....

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...

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Submitted by sheik yerbones on Wed, 04/06/2022 - 00:24

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@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)

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Submitted by Dennis on Wed, 04/06/2022 - 07:10

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forgot my next favorite,,,,

Viola Lee Blues

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Submitted by daverock on Wed, 04/06/2022 - 09:00

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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.

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"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...

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C.C. Rider 12/1/79

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5 21 82

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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.

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Submitted by drpryan on Thu, 04/07/2022 - 07:37

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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

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JRAD will be performing at the Frost Ampetheater on August 13th. Tix on sale tomorrow.

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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.

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Submitted by JimInMD on Thu, 04/07/2022 - 19:08

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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.

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Thu, 04/07/2022 - 20:08

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....good to hear you are on the mend.
Stay well!
Live music is indeed good for the soul.

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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?

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Submitted by bigbrownie on Fri, 04/08/2022 - 09:26

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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.

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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Fri, 04/08/2022 - 12:54

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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!

....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.

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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Sat, 04/09/2022 - 05:47

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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.

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Submitted by nappyrags on Sat, 04/09/2022 - 09:22

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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!!!

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.

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sat, 04/09/2022 - 14:25

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....if that wasn't bad enough, the new logo is Legos.
Sorry Cleveland....I'll miss Wahoo.

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Submitted by dmcvt on Sat, 04/09/2022 - 15:37

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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.

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Submitted by carlo13 on Sat, 04/09/2022 - 17:08

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I'm drinking MC2 double IPA from equilibrium brewing from middletown, New york. 8% alc.. this is one tasty stovepipe can o beer.

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...

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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Sun, 04/10/2022 - 09:48

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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.

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Submitted by proudfoot on Sun, 04/10/2022 - 12:31

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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

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

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sun, 04/10/2022 - 17:03

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....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.

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Submitted by proudfoot on Sun, 04/10/2022 - 17:11

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too far away
too old and grumpy to try to go
too much effort

I am such a cynic...

Hot Rats FZ playz
sounds good after a few years

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Submitted by JimInMD on Sun, 04/10/2022 - 17:21

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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.

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Submitted by adedhed68 on Sun, 04/10/2022 - 17:46

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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

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Submitted by proudfoot on Sun, 04/10/2022 - 19:05

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Yall be cool

Ventura...where the long, strange trip began for me 40 years ago

Wooooooow

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Submitted by nappyrags on Sun, 04/10/2022 - 20:07

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Speaking of Hot Rats...do you have the Hot Rats Sessions Box? Amazing stuff...

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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Mon, 04/11/2022 - 00:41

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Thanks Nappy , that's pretty silly. I see Willie Davis & John Roseboro are also in there..

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Submitted by nappyrags on Mon, 04/11/2022 - 06:20

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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....

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Submitted by hendrixfreak on Mon, 04/11/2022 - 09:31

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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!)

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Submitted by Crow Told Me on Mon, 04/11/2022 - 11:14

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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

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Submitted by proudfoot on Mon, 04/11/2022 - 14:22

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Only the original

Pet Nasties has been trademarked and copyrighted

We tour in the summer

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