Grateful Dead

Nice post-quite moving.

Not wishing to trivialise things, but I might as well jot down my last 5 - partly for the pleasure of being able to type -

A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind - Volume 1. Cosmic Space Music By The Amorphous Androgynous
From Western Swing to Rock Bill Haley
Legends of the Country Blues 1931 Recordings Skip James
Rock and Roll Music Cd2 - Bear Family Box Chuck Berry
The Trident Sessions 1969 The Rolling Stones

VGuy - I never understood why the Knights fired their first coach, Gerard Gallant, now coaching the New York Rangers, currently in the second round of the playoffs. He was a tough as nails player, and a tough but fair coach, got results, but Vegas just dumped him…!?

Crow - Nice story, thanks for sharing. Pets rock.

So, relaxing by the pool in Turkey this morning and after a several hour conversation, quite a few proseccos with somebody and his wife that Mrs Dogon and I met at breakfast, we started talking about music -I mean we had politics, already covered-this guy, a decade older than me, he had seen the Beatles in the Cavern for f**ks sake, best concert experiance? The Dead at Empire Pool!!!!! He couldnt remember the date, but he saw Dark Star, so second show....
Remarkable convergance of taste musically and it turns out, we were at several concerts together. My favourite album, Love Forever Changes, his,, Astral Weeks, pretty cool.
We will continue boring our respective other halves tomorrow...
Taxim!

Sounds good to me. Sitting in the sun, meeting interesting people. Ideal. Maybe a little boring for wives. Keep their glasses topped up.

....yup. Vegas fans still scratching their heads over that decision. It's right up there with trading Fleury away for basically nothing.

My lengthy treatise on cats and laps mistakenly posted over on the Pick-O-The-Day thread.
Oops. Too long to retype. Even had to do the Captcha which rarely happens to me.
Thank you Crow Told Me for reminding us how great that is and how lucky we are.
Cheers

first, so sorry for your loss. Losing a cat is hard, really hard. It took me a while before I could post about this subject as I too have lost my share of our feline companions. Had cats all my life, mostly strays inherited after some unkind soul has cast them out. We would put a bowl of crunchies out by the front door and sometimes the strays would stay, sometimes not. Sometimes they would be so feral that they would hide until no one was around. I had one for 20 years, when he passed he could no longer jump up on the counter which is where he ate, would not eat on the floor. When I had to help him to the counter, he looked at me, nudged me like a hug, I hugged him back and he went outside, never to be seen again. It was like he was saying good bye. Many time strays would come about to give birth and we would have a litter of 4 to sometimes 6 or 7. After giving some to friends the rest went to pet stores so that they could find good homes. Free of course.
I'm sure that if you have cats, you've tripped with them and know how sharp they are, they know, they see and hear the sights and sounds that we can't see until psychedelics are introduced. They can be such pranksters, it's like they know when we as humans perceive what they see and hear all the time. They can be so aloof but give unconditional love like no other.
We lost our last 2 cats 6 months apart a few years ago and are still not ready for another one. One thing about cats that go outside, one day they will just disappear, and you will never know what happened to them. We tried to keep the last 2 inside, and we did for 3 years, but one day, they just went crazy and had to go out, after that, there was no keeping them inside.

We lost our two dogs last fall about 6 weeks apart. We had to put them both down, both victims of cancer. Both rescues had 13 years of joy with us. Guess the only good thing about Covid was we got to lie with them on the grassy yard beside the vet's office on nice fall days and not in the scary sterile dr's room. My wife and I were both there comforting them, telling it was ok, looking them in the eye as they crossed the rainbow bridge. Not a day goes by I don't think about them. My daughter's still extremely devastated. We'll get her a puppy when the time's right.

Thank you for that eloquently stated treatise on the love between us and our quadruped family members. You reminded me of the joy cats bring when they have a routine. I’m not sure they look forward to these things ahead of time, but when some repeated behavior gives them the clue, their actions are delightful. If only humans could treat each other with the love and purity our pets do.
Surely we as a society can do better.
Bill Frisell once stated that if everyone played an instrument, there would be no wars.
I wonder……

Simonrob,It got interesting when we got to second favourite show attended, his was Roy Orbison, with the Beatles as support act! ( my contribution was Littlefeat, the Waiting for Columbus show). We covered a lot of bases, with some relatively obscure corners garnering significant, and surprising, mutual enthusiasm.
Oh, and dont worry about the respective otherhalves, they seemed used to it, and anyway had their own, less comprehensible( to us) areas of interest.
So, time to stroll down to the marina to get up an appetite, breakfast, with unlimited prosecco in about an hour.
Taxim!

I saw Little Feat at that time. My memory lacks accuracy so I can't remember whether it was 1977 or 1978. I also can't remember which London venue I saw them at. The Rainbow? Hammersmith Odeon? What I do remember was that it was great. What a powerful performance. Well up amongst the best shows I ever saw.
I wonder how many more shows or tours we both attended.

I was right there with ya BTK! (Happy Birthday Dan Healy!) ... all 3 of those shows were a blast .... did each of the 3-day runs for the next several years as well ... never a disappointment, good times had by all .... especially on 7/13/84!!!!

I'd liked to have seen him live. Clearly emanating from another dimension - the portal to which has long since been closed.

I was lucky enough to see him at the Bumbershoot music festival in...87?

What a voice

If you mean someone or something else...nevermind.

Phenomenal show

What year(s) will be revealed as the next Box Set?

Boston 1991

Yes, Roy Orbison. There's a great live cd/dvd of him in concert in 1987, called The Black&WhiteNight. 19 incredible songs sung to perfection - and with a stellar band. Not least of which is James Burton on guitar. Highly recommended to music lovers everywhere.

Lands in the maritimes in record time, on a day off to boot. Bonus disc lead to an enjoyable time (as possible) cleaning the fridge. Digging so far.

Didn’t want to go here, but so many have shared such personal stories, and got me all choked up, which then makes me think of my dog Iko, which gets me more choked up! He was crazy as a youngin, but eventually turned into a really good, well trained dog.

Got him in fall 82 when he was 6 weeks and just barely old enough to be taken from his mother. I picked him out of the big liter because even at like 3 weeks old, while the others wouldn’t leave momma, he was already wandering off and getting into trouble, hence the name.
Beautiful black lab/husky with white collar, white tips on tail and feet, with cute white nose.
Used to take him everywhere when he was little. Had a nap sack I wore backwards inside my jacket so I could shove him inside when I needed to go into stores etc since I didn’t have a car. On top of all his other wonderful qualities, he was a total chick magnet!
Mom wouldn’t let him in the house, or even look at him because she didn’t want to go through getting attached and then having to endure losing him etc. Eventually she couldn’t help herself, he was allowed in, and they became inseparable!
Anyway, I was constantly moving in and out and increasingly just plain gone a lot. When I moved out west years later he was so used to being there with the folks to give him regular care etc, that we decided it was best for him to stay there. It was hard for me, but best for him.
The sad part was as he approached the end. He had been going downhill fast when I came home for Xmass in 97.
My father said it was like he knew and was waiting for me. The vet had said he wouldn’t make it that long. After I got home, we took him to the vet again and they said that due to various reasons his temperature was so high he was burning up inside, his brain was boiling and his reason was spent.
Said the humane thing to do was put him down, so we made an appointment and did the difficult but right thing.
If only we could show such mercy on our peeps, but I digress.
It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do, but so glad he waited for me to come home and to be with him.
The thing that made me realize it was time, was that he barely touched his dog biscuit/bone. He lived for those milk bone treats, but the last one I gave him he barely touched so I took that as a sign. I still have that milk bone 25+ years later. Sits in my special cabinet with my box sets and other most personal items, including a picture of him and the beer I saluted him with after his passing.
Before, as we waited in the car, I held him and told him what a good boy he was and how much we all loved him, and how sorry I was that I had to leave him when I moved. When it was time, I held him and looked in his eyes while they gave the injection etc. Agonizingly hard, but so glad I was able to be there with/for him, especially since I didn’t get the chance to say goodbye to my childhood dog. Pops took that guy while I was away because he thought it’d be easier. I was so pissed and wasn’t going to let that happen again.
Ok, I’m crying now at a construction site getting funny looks, so what. Perhaps the deepest connection with anyone I’ve ever had!
Like the David Bromberg version of Mr Bojangles, after all these years I still grieve. I try not to think about it too much because for whatever reason it still just crushes me, more than all the other peeps and pets I’ve lost?
There was just something about him. But since you all brought me back to all that, figured I’d share.
Sorry for the Debbie downer.
So on a funnier note: lived with a cat at a friends house, actually several over the year’s. He had one black cat named Sable that was generally not a very nice cat. She used to go around the neighborhood and routinely kick the crap outta all the small dogs, forget about cats!
She and I got along ok because I left her alone, we had an understanding lol. She used to like to hang in my room so she could be left alone. If I went in there, she’d usually just get all hissy and leave, but she never attached me like some folks. People would come over to watch football or whatever, and of course try the usual “hey kitty kitty” and try and pet her etc. She’d have none of that, especially from interlopers, her housemates she tolerated because she had to lol. So after she’d spit and hiss, and tell ‘em to fuck off and leave her be, many folks would shit talk her and call her names etc. well she didn’t appreciate that and was so smart, and vengeful, she’d sit and wait and stew until the offender was probably half in the bag and long since forgotten the cat. So just at the right time, as the clueless offenders hand was dangling beside the chair, she’d strike and boy she could do some damage if you had really pissed her off! We used to warn people, “don’t try to pet, and don’t shit talk the cat” but they usually didn’t listen. After the retribution, we’d have to say, sorry, but we tried to warn ya!
Her favorite thing in life was racing cars. She’d wait on the side of the sorta busy street we were on, and try to run in front of cars at the last second. Pretty crazy but she loved it and was very good until Halloween night one year when she just wasn’t quick enough. Poor guy brought her to the house half dead and all upset. We told him not to worry as hardly anyone would miss her, but it was still sad, even a mean cat is still part of the family, and I never thought she was mean, just wanted to be left alone so we got along fine. In fact I liked her because she was so different!
Ok, sorry, back to your Drumz/space!

Ok Dave, you made me buy.

I appear to have the original cd. I just bought the re-release of the original cd, which is supposed to be re-editted, re-mastered and redone in general. Has all the songs from the tv show, put back in the order in which the audience heard them.

Hell, it was 14 bucks for a 2 cd set,,,, what the hell.

It was Dave recommended!

Hopefully something I dont reeeeeally want or need

Anything after 85 meets my definition of that

A lot on the last few Tapers. Not one I would think of for a box though. Sometimes you just gotta poke around.
Oro, thanks for sharing. Brought back hilarious scenes of my Japanese Bobtail who ruled the dogs. She was likely dumped in our trailer park and knew the whole place. Saw her a couple times by the dumpster and the wife tried to feed her. Eventually she figured out we had cats and did fence top traverses to get on our roof and look in the yard. The rotted overhanging rafter 2x4 broke under her weight and we found her lounging on the homemade cat condo. Decided we were OK I guess. This gorgeous beast had rear legs the size of a large rabbit and would harass the yippy little dogs a few houses away. You could tell she enjoyed it. She'd hear them yipping and jump over the 6 ft. wooden fence and then go and just sit in the middle on the drive right next to their house and stare at them until they went away. Total badass!
Cheers

Dennis - it seems to be available in all sorts of configurations. The one I have is called The Black and White show and has "30" embossed on the cover. It's got a cd and a dvd, with a "secret" bonus post show selection of songs on the dvd and available for download - just 5 alternative versions of songs from the main show. The main show has 19 songs, with Pretty Woman played twice.
I've just played it again to see if it's as good as I remember it. It's not...it's better!

I'm beginning to wonder if I should get a pet, reading some of the posts on here. The last one died about 45 years ago.

Didn't I see a version of that on PBS? Broken up by the usual begging?
The band was all legends.

Do it Dave. It's just not Our House without two cats in the yard.
Cheers

....the OG "power band".
"His reason was spent" - damn Oroboros. I never thought of that lyric that way.
And 1stShow with the Men Without Hats nod. Love it.
I tried a heart emoji there. Are those not permitted either?

Dave would tell us whether or not 6/10/73 is ever going to be released.

JUST TELL US, DAVE.

Please.

What is normally a 2 week wait, turned into 3. Oh well, disc 1 is spinning and the extra wait seems well worth it. I particularly like Jack Straw from start to finish. Great version!

Stay safe everyone.

DL indicated he likes this show and hopes it will be released some day, but it's a challenge to get clearance from all of the extra musicians. Sounds like he's working on it to me.

Just kicking back after a 13 hour day at work with an ice cold one (ah, the first sip is a slice of paradise). Listening to the quacking duck Scarlet-Fire on it's anniversary. Great one, no doubt. I like it better than 5/8; too much of that awful Polymoog on 5/8. Keith started getting away from it the week of the original May 1977 box set.

They could always release it and miss out the parts when the guests came on. Two guitars is enough for any band.
And where's this Dave's Picks there all talking about?

I told you last week, I’ll take Kucherov all day long over Matthews. He made those Florida defensemen look foolish. Sorry, but I gotta back Tampa in the East. Don’t like any of the other teams.

The Avs pulled out a surprisingly close one. Still the team to beat even though I want the Oilers. Good luck to them tonight in their battle for the Alberta Cup.

DaP42 - HCS is getting close to edging out DP1 as my favorite version.

It's got to get released one day... Not if but when.

I have to give props your way, Kucherov prevailed. I still have full faith that the Leaf's time is coming. Surprisingly, no one is that upset about their loss around these parts, believe they may actually be on the cusp.

No one having a worse week than Leaf winger Mitch Marner - his Leafs lose the series Saturday night, and Monday night he loses his (very expensive) Range Rover SUV in a carjacking, while going to a local movie with his fiancé. Luckily he is ok.

Colorado is still THE team to beat. Timing was off a bit against St Louis, but that could be rest rust.

While I still await DaP 42, I have got into this band Railroad Earth - like what I'm hearing!

PS - Oro: Thanks for sharing the story on your pup. I've been there, it is heart wrenching in ways non-pet owners never understand, but then they never appreciate the joy these wonderful animals bring to our lives.

As I’ve mentioned previously I’m really enjoying Molly Tuttle’s music. So I decided to get some of her early music with The Tuttles. Couldn’t get a couple of the early albums over here but I was able to order them directly from Jack Tuttle in Palo Alto. Placed the order on 5th of May and they’ve arrived today.

DaP #42 on the other hand disappeared to a international carrier on 9th May and has not been heard of since.

Edit: I just checked how the Tuttles albums were sent. They came via USPS.

Maybe they are more for people who live with a family - although I guess there are people who live alone who have them. Up until lockdown, I was always out and about, so any pet I had would have been left alone a bit - not really ideal. I can remember going out with a girl once who had a cat, and when we went away, her husband used to come round to pick up the cat and take it back to his place for a bit.
I have recently got quite attracted to French Bulldogs - plucky looking little chaps. Reading about them, I am not so sure about the way they are bred, though - and if I had one I am not sure I could cope with it. They look a bit of a handful. I think I'll stick with my guitar.

Glad to hear that the Leaf fans are taking this one in stride. They are close and should never have drawn Tampa in the first round. Just bad luck this year. They are a very good team and I think they will go deep in the playoffs next year. Sometimes you need to take your lumps before you actually break through. Just ask the 2003 Red Sox.

Please don't think I am banging away on you. I wanted the Leafs to prevail. Auston Matthews is a great talent. Big and graceful. It is just that Kucherov has unique skills that you don't see very often and he is fun to watch. Small and crafty. He reminds me a lot of Pavel Datsyuk.

I know it's a big rivalry, but Edmonton/Calgary is a disappointing seeding in the fact that one will be eliminated. At least the other one will make it to the conference finals.

Gotta bring that Cup back to Canadaland.

Good luck and enjoy DaP42 when it arrives. It's a good one.

Pets are the best. I feel for all of you who have lost one. It's just too depressing right now for me to share my own story.

I had avoided listening to this show for literally years in anticipation of Dave making The Big Announcement.

"shorter of breath, and one day closer to death", so I finally started up my unofficial copy yesterday.

If you could experience what I experienced listening to the show on my cassette Walkman walking around Green Lake back in the day...

:))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Finally got through my first decent listen to #42. Strong performance very nice recording. Some real high, high points.

For the three-show run, I cobbled together the best sounding recordings, re-ordered the songs from this dave's picks to match the setlist and have this all together in one place, ready to hit play. I'm pretty sure this is all we are going to get from Dave & Company from these three shows, so Mr. Miller is filling in for the missing songs on the 22nd. For my next listen, I am going to hit all three shows in succession and imagine the box set that coulda, shoulda would have been. Well, bygones, what we have is truly great stuff.

Enjoy your week folks like it's your last, shine kindness and thoughtfulness wherever you go doing whatever it is you do.

For UPS Mail Innovations it used to be that UPS passed the parcel to USPS but for Dave's 42 people here in the Netherlands had their copies shipped by Asendia - something to do with Swiss Post. If your alternate tracking number ends with CH, try tracking with Asendia.

Noteworthy is that punters in the Netherlands did not have to pay any customs fees, VAT etc. this time around.

My copy arrived yesterday and I'm listening to it at this moment.

My alternate tracking number ends FR so it presumably has headed to France. PostFrancais and Royal Mail say the number can’t be tracked. I’m sure #42 will turn up soon it’s just the comparison with the other purchase that is disappointing.

Edit: The Tuttles albums didn’t incur a custom charge and Jack Tuttle covered the postage ($17.85) so I paid only $30 for the two albums.

Edit 2: I had a look at Asendia, they track it up to 9th May and then it disappears.

Is coming to Grand Junction, CO? Wait, what? July 1st at little bitty Las Colonias Ampitheater for $48.50 lawn seating. We never get the big acts. I think he last came our way in 2002. In 2007 my wife was working at the Hampton Inn here in Montrose and helped Dylan with the internet which was acting up in the lobby. She didn't know it was him. The internet was down and he sat in the lobby writing postcards to his family, which he had her mail. She came home and said what does he look like. When we figured out it was his tour bus coming from Telluride I showed her a recent pic and she said she didn't think he was as old as that. Just some beat looking guy in a jean jacket she thought.

Coloradoan Maggie Peterson passed away Sunday at age 81. She played Charlene Darling on The Andy Griffith Show. She was always curling up around Andy and wanting to marry him. The episode with the Darlings were always my favorite. And the music was cookin'! Ernest T. Bass episodes were my next favorite. Or Otis the drunk.

Vguy, I was shooting for CSNY's Our House but I'll take the credit for Men Without Hats just as well. Thanks!

DaveRock, being home so much has been the best time for the pets but if you're retired just go for it. I've known some great little bulldogs. Mellow and self assured.
Cheers all!

Edit: Real Gone Music 20% off Dead sale. Restocked titles in Dick's and Road Trips too.

How Dogs Became Man’s Best Friend

A story told by some Native American peoples is that the Great Spirit decided to divide the worlds of animals and man.
He gathered all the living beings on a great plain and drew a line in the dirt.
On one side of the line stood man and on the other side stood all of the animals of the earth.
When that line began to open up into a great canyon and at the last moment
Before it became too great to cross, the dog jumped over and stood by man.
– Unknown -

Alert!

Real Gone has the mother load of GD drops right now, many many many Dick's Picks and Road Trips have appeared on their website.
These usually go pretty quickly...just wanted to alert the peeps.

Loving the feedback on DaP42, along with the touching, funny, heartwarming pet stories and impacts.
We love our 9 year old english sheepdog; he is certainly in his twilight years for a big dog breed, but he continues to maintain his puppy-esque personality nonetheless. Love your pets like family, as I know we all do.

Be Well People!
Sixtus

P.S> 6/10/73 = Sixtus' actual birthday-day....what a treat it would be to finally bring this one to The Masses! I say Yes.

And nice post, Dennis

And let's have a big birthday gift for Sixtus and all of us with the release of 6/10/73

Aaand...

God Bless the Grateful Dead

Cool story, I love native culture.

Hey, why do dogs love snow so much…they don’t have to shovel ; )

Damn, Tampa’s looking tough! I’m getting the vibe the league wants a three peat?
Not that it’s fixed or anything, just think sometimes they add a little English?
Agree love/hate but Tampa is the only team in the East I can abide.
AVs had to work for it last night. Second game I believe they needed over 50 SOG to getter done. It’s a shame that both Ingram and bingo played awesome then ended up losing. Though it’s not good for my stress lol, I think it’s good the AVs have been tested. I don’t think the out comes reflect how close some of the games have been. I always say there is nothing like a super hot goalie in the playoffs. Many times I’ve seen a mediocre team go far because of the goalie!
GAME ON!
Yeah Jack, would have been cool if the battle of Alberta was the conference finals?

You make it sound very attractive. I do seem to spend more time looking at frenchies online than I should do, so maybe I should branch out. It would change my life !

Not many people can claim to have met Bob Dylan. My ex partner told me she opened her front door once-maybe 25 years ago - and there was no one else about, but Mick Jagger was standing there, looking at her. She couldn't believe her eyes, but she did pull herself together enough to ask him if he would like to come in for a cup of tea - typical English girl. She said he laughed, and asked her directions to a local pub, which he was trying to find. There was a limo near by, and his father and a driver were sitting in it. Apparently his dad grew up in that area and Mick Jagger was escorting him to places he remembered from the past. He didn't come in for the cup of tea.

Dennis - That’s a pretty nifty story!

Jack - I thought the villagers would loot and burn the town after another Leaf let down, but everyone seems to be taking it in stride. Maybe it is resignation or surrender, but…

Oro - Tampa Bay is the team you just love to hate, but truth is, they are pretty good. Would the league like a three-peat? Next to a Cup in the Big Apple, they would like nothing more.

DaP 42 finally landed.

Riddle me this, Dead Heads: What is the LOWEST number you have ever had on a limited edition Dave’s Pick? Mine was 58, for DaP 39.

On DaP13. Actually my first DaP.
Most of my DaPs are 10k-20k numbers.
My jewel is the July '78 box, #36.
How appropriate since it contains my first show.
Cheers
Edit: Were Dick's Picks not limited editions? Not finding #'s on those.

Funny, my July 1978 box also has the lowest number I've gotten so far: #54.

DaP42 has finally arrived here in Gloucestershire in the UK. Aside from the car crash that was DaP31 in Europe, I've never had any problems with my GD subscriptions but have read have read many posts from people who have, so was wondering if this one was my turn. Thankfully not.

Dennis, also loved the native Indian story, one that will stay with me I think.

Simonrob, Little Feat in London; not '78 as I don't believe they came here then. Would have been The Rainbow in '77, but they also played the Hammersmith Odeon in '76, so maybe you still have the same issue, albeit with a different year.