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December 10, 2022 - 9:42am

#481

hendrixfreak

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We have a winner!!

And the trophy goes to Oroborous for "fungal foxtrot" -- my gawd man, you should be a writer. Oh wait...

Another story: Roy Buchanan. We first caught Roy at Carnegie Hall in spring '74 and probably caught him a dozen times across that year into fall, most often in small theaters and clubs. (See: Roy Buchanan at Town Hall 1974...) At many shows, we had purchased "seats" and we sat in them -- for about the first 15 minutes. Then a half-dozen of us would emerge from our sometimes scattered seat assignments and basically make our way to the lip of the stage. It's not a Dead show and most folks remained seated while we formed a small cluster in front of Roy. He would smile to himself. His drummer later told me that the band referred to us as "Buchanan's rabbits," because we were always "popping up" at the lip of the stage. To this day, I've got more hearing damage from Roy's Tele and Twin Reverb (maybe 75 shows, 1974-1986) than from a roughly equal number of key GD shows (1972-1992). (Key shows: RFK '72, Watkins Glen '73, Capitol Theater/Passaic '76, Englishtown '77, Red Rocks '78 and every single subsequent GD Rocks show.) Not braggin', just happy lookin' back.

One such event featured a double bill of Roy and Boz Scaggs w/Les Dudek on slide. We were in the first 10 rows and it was so loud, no need to get closer! After both bands played, Boz, Les and Roy jammed at supersonic volumes...

Not to mention the many times we spent the day on the east stairs at the Rocks, then dashed in to actually cop front row (one behind the actual front row, reserved for handicapped) and at one ABB show realized that we had WAY better seats than the fairly large contingent onstage in the wings.

Basically, my life has been one dash for the front or a judicious stance near the soundboard when I wasn't working, going to school, chasing tail or poking around the backcountry. I'm semi-retired from the big shows and, looking back, pretty effin' happy with the way I misspent my youth.
December 10, 2022 - 8:20am

#482

Oroborous

Joined:
June 19, 2007

Up Front when it was cool

The first six or seven years we’d go up front any chance we could if it was GA and we got there early enough.
Half the fun was hanging out with the heads all afternoon waiting for the chance for the mad dash to the front.
We’re talking small Auds we’re up front you were often less than 10’ away from them and the stages were often only 4 or 5’ high, very intimate! And the stage sound was amazing.

Speaking of the dash: At the 7/1/92 show that we worked production, we were on the stage when they opened the gates and it was wild watching the throng come swarming over the hill and down toward the stage at Buckeye as Healy blasted the Horse race Trumpet Fanfare lol. Like some kind of psychedelic scene from Braveheart!

It could be physically brutal and grueling though, especially if you weren’t in the very front row on the rail, where you could sorta lean and push back against the throng. Better ventilation too. Basically, it was on the wall or nothing, with the wall being only about 4’ high.
If you knew what you were doing, and the circumstances were right though, there was nothing like it, but nothing comes for free so it was often a long grueling day, but we were young, prepared and it didn’t really phase us, especially once we got electric!
So early on it was all about up front. Yes the vocals weren’t as prominent but you got the golden pure unfiltered sound of their amps/speakers, and in 83 when they started using the Meyers stuff full time they’d put small monitors on the stage in a half circle pointing out to help fill in the vocals better.

But besides the sound it was like going to school to be able to see how they played things and to check out all that marvelous gear out up close! “Oh, Finger Ease, that’s the stuff Bobs always spraying on his axe”, like going to school!

Perhaps the best part was the eye contact. If you were really paying attention you could see them communicating non verbally and they’d pick up on if you weren’t just some stoned civilian, but could tell if you were really catching all the little things they were doing. It was like you were in the band and if they picked up on you, they’d watch you and see if you caught little things they’d toss about. They seemed to really dig folks who could properly pay attention to all this, especially if they made a mistake!
I can still picture any of them throwing some musical little tid bit out there, and watch your reaction, and then smiling because they knew you caught it, PRICELESS!
It was big fun to joke around between songs with them too. We used to pick on Bob about songs and Phil especially always had a good time with that!
Sigh, those were the daze!
BUT!!! learning the fungal foxtrot in front of the SB was pretty damn sweet too lol.
And aw those awesome summer nights outside with a big ole moon during a hot Terrapin…
Sigh, yep, those were the daze my friends, we thought they’d never end…
December 10, 2022 - 7:22am

#483

hendrixfreak

Joined:
February 26, 2014

Getting close...

So apart from Watkins Glen we had partaken of the GD/ABB gathering at RFK earlier that summer, the first day. The GD went on first, I think because Jer had an Old & In the Way show in Boston that night -- that's what we heard. (He 'coptered from DC to Boston with Peter Rowan, according to hearsay.

So a good friend who had not eaten the blotter said, "Let's go up front." Plenty of room to manuever that day. We got real close -- definitely whites of their eyes -- and several things unfolded, no longer sure the sequence. First, some Deadheads being assholes, a few miscreants were tossing fireworks around. Some genius lobs an M-80 onto the stage and it lands at Jer's feet. He used to do a little shuffle when he was jamming and, without skipping a beat, he kicks the M-80 (prior to explosion) back into the crowd with one smooth movement. When they started He's Gone, the crowd moans and boos -- the feral animals on acid syndrome. But Garcia carries it off and I think they closed the set with China-Rider. (Just looked at the Setlist Program, and that's backwards -- set closer with China-Rider, 2nd set opener He's Gone.) During China Cat I get acid-confusion. Bobby is playing a Gibson SG (I believe) and Phil is playing a big brown hollow body, but in my youth and ignorance I always associated the solid body with bass and the hollow body with a Gibson guitar -- so I'm like, wait, which one's Bobby and which one's Phil?? (I knew from photos who was who, but go figure in that "special moment"...) I said nothing, but I think my buddy realized he was leading a potential casualty around and we retreated. Also, when you're 15, although tall, you are rail thin and still getting initiated, so we did not make a habit of pressing forward. It was a foray only.

In 1976, during their theater tour, I had something like 7th row center, 3,000 people, I could the band quite well right in front of me and discovered for the first time the buzz of the amps in the back line. I was much closer in May '73 for Old & In the Way: 3rd row, audience left, right by Jer and his banjo.

If that's not a great way to grow up, I don't know what is.
December 10, 2022 - 7:19am

#484

1stshow70878

Joined:
September 11, 2014

About 20 rows up at red rocks

Is just exactly perfect. My first show 7th row middle was too close for the best sound. Got there early as HF suggested and had our pick. But it was so loud I had to sit some just to give my ears some relief. Next two times there we figured out, as Vguy notes, the balance and full bass effect was better about 20th row middle. A few rows in front the tapers section and soundboard (duh, that's why they put it there). For Brent's RR debut in '79 we got back closer to 12th row as we wanted to see the new guy and the sound was pretty darn good and it seemed the crew had figured out the Red Rocks by that third visit and how to bounce Phil off them. All my other shows were pitifully far back or to the side with McNichols '79 the worst sound of all, upper deck right side and an echo chamber. The Denver Coliseum, where I saw a few other bands, had terrible acoustics. College halls that were designed for good acoustics like C.U. Boulder's were ideal. Pin drop perfect for the Chick Corea/Gary Burton show. You could visually see the notes, no wait, maybe that was the shrooms.
Cheers
December 10, 2022 - 7:17am

#485

dmcvt

Joined:
April 4, 2013

close up Newcastle May 1970

Probably late to the party on this, just discovered on utube , lengthy (almost two hours) coverage of the Dead's May 1970 trip to England, rough cuts, casual interviews, a few tedious moments, loaded with inside looks and about 35 minutes of concert footage from 5/24: "Grateful Dead England 1970 (The Lost Film)"
December 10, 2022 - 4:22am

#486

daverock

Joined:
September 1, 2014

Seeing the whites of their eyes

As I remember it, it was quite easy to walk up quite close to the front of the stage when the Dead played at the Rainbow, London, in October 1981. It was standing room only down there.
I was even closer the first night on the October 1990 run at Wembley. Brilliant! Seeing people you have read about and listened to so much, for so long, at such close quarters. Prior to this night it was hard to believe that they actually existed. Nobody I knew had ever seen them, or even heard of them. Like living in a world of your own. Which, given the alternative, might not be a bad thing.
The last night I was up the balcony to the right, and that wasn't as good. I'll never know what was me - I was high as a kite - and what was really happening. The people around me appeared to be dancing and cheering before the band came on. It was like they could hear something I couldn't. When the band did come on, the only instrument I could clearly hear was Bruce's piano. I went bombing downstairs to try and get in to the stalls, but was easily ejected and went back to my seat. The balance improved during the show - but it was an odd sound. And as I have said before, drums and space was incredible.
December 9, 2022 - 8:59pm

#487

Vguy72

Joined:
June 29, 2007

Being really close at the Dead....

....only twice. Vegas '91 and Portland '95. Sound sucks up there anyways.
December 9, 2022 - 7:19pm

#488

Angry Jack Straw

Joined:
October 2, 2012

Getting up front

Was fairly easy early on. Then it became a headache.

Back in 93 or 94 we decided to go to the Spring shows on Long Island. You were still able to call in for tickets back then and somehow I got right through. To the customer service rep - I need tickets for Thursday and Friday, but purchase Friday first because that will sell out quickly. Of course when she reads the first order back it is for Thursday. Annoyed, but I got 6th row. By the time she put in the Friday order, we got the farthest section back in the upper deck. That was the last time we got up real close. Of course as any seasoned head would do, we brought our Thursday stubs to the Friday show. The usher gladly showed us to our seats right up front soon after the lights went down.
December 9, 2022 - 2:14pm

#489

Oroborous

Joined:
June 19, 2007

Up Front

Pretty much gave that up around 85-86. Combo of no more GA, getting a little older, and most of all…discovered the Lysergic shuffle which requires proper floor space lol
December 9, 2022 - 2:06pm

#490

Vguy72

Joined:
June 29, 2007

Phish fans....

....yup. They have changed a lot since I first saw them in 1994. People up front on the floor tend to get very territorial. Throw down huge tarps and will say they are "holding spots for their friends" and will get hostile sometimes. A lot of times I never see their so-called friends ever show up. Sad really. I don't go up front anymore.

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My eldest’s plane arrived at midnight a day late last night, as few flights could leave Vancouver due to snow, but due to high winds and crazy cold here, he sat taxiing until 2:30am, while my youngest waited to pick him up. I remember sitting on a plane for hours in Detroit for no good reason, and not much to do but smile smile smile.
Anyway, that’s all small potatoes to losing a family member, so condolences Nappy, and to all that lost a furry family member this year.
This month alone, we have lost a close family member (my bro-in-law/friend), one of my kids got laid off just before Christmas (working for Scrooge & Sons was likely a tip off), and a beauty fender bender in my SUV by my wife (no one hurt, thankfully, but the body shop is booked until APRIL!), so a fitting end to a really shite year (annus horribilis). However, we are alive, and blessed for home, family, friends, community, and music. Music is the salve for the wounds, and can bring joy from the first notes.

I wish my friends here a Merry Christmas, and a really amazing 2023.

Merry Christmas, everybody!

It's been a harrowing year for many, with intervals of incredible awesomeness, so here's to us all, to happy gatherings, and to a better year ahead.

MaryE and everybody else

Merry Christmas to all. Condolences to Nappy, losing a life partner pet is very difficult, especially this time of year. Love the one you have left and keep on keeping on. It will get better.
Good bye to a shitty year, hospital, car wreck, hospital again, but this next year will be a good one.

Nappy

Nappy, Im sorry for the loss of your pet.

Wassail For All

Ovenchkin overtakes Gordy Howe and is in the 800 goals club with him and The Great Gretsky.
Viks last second win with a 61 yd. FG. This is starting to get real.
Cheers
Condolences Nappy. That's how ours went too this year.

Nappy

Sorry for your loss. It’s been a brutal year all around.

5° outside. 20 mile an hour winds. And our furnace goes out. Those greedy bastards tripled the service call rates all the way through until Tuesday. Worst of all, the technicians actually going out on the service calls don’t see a nickel of it.

So what do I do? Anonymously pay for breakfast for a table police officers.

Congratulations to Ovy. Unfortunately I get the sense he’s sticking around just to break the all-time goal record. Which is too bad. He’s a tremendous player and I really like him, but he’s not in the same league as Gretzky. He’s got his Cup and should move on.

Favorite Christmas songs. . . Silent Night. Not even close. Way, way back in second place would be little drummer boy.

Merry Christmas to all you good folks.

Merry Merry MaryE

Happy Happy Holidays to all, these forums are most often a most wonderful gathering of kindred spirits with great sharing and love of music, my thanks goes out for many kindnesses, good stories, real life adventures. Briefly postponed travel to see family and friends in the mid Atlantic area due to this crazy weather, yesterday was bizarre for Vermont, flood watch, near hurricane strength gusts, very thankful the power stayed on through it all. Nappy, condolences for your loss. This year has been a tough one, yet the light and warmth of friendship has carried me and I hope all of us further. My pick for single most meaningful would be Carol of the Bells, because of its Ukrainian origin. Not to be political, just thinking of them. Strangers stopping strangers, just to shake their hand, everybody's playing in the heart of gold band.

Christmas Eve Dead Shows

The Grateful Dead only played twice on Christmas Eve, 12/24/66 Avalon Ballroom & 12/24/67 The Palm Gardens, Ny. They played a 3 show run at the Palm Gardens in 1967.

Christmas songs

"Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" by Joseph Spence is my favourite, hands down. Another good record is "Christmas Eve Blues" by Blind Lemon Jefferson.

Hymns, Death and Birth

My 3 favorite Christmas songs (hymns actually)
are:O Come, All Ye Faithful, Away In A Manger and Hark The Herald Angels Sing. I bet you can’t tell I grew up in a Baptist Church, going 4 times a week until I was old enough to decide not to go. I’m not anti-religion at all, just anti-dogma.
To Nappy Rags and everyone who lost beloved quadrupeds this year, you have my true sympathy, empathy and compassion. Pet ‘children’ have been a part of my life for over 55 years. And even though if I think too hard about the obvious outcome, I always choose joyously, to form that next magical bond, after mourning the loss of the previous one. I’ve heard it said that death is a part of life. And so it may be, but it’s certainly not the highlight.

And lest I get too morose, for those celebrating a rather Historical Birth tomorrow, Merry Christmas!!
And to all faiths, may this season of contemplation and devotion bring joy to all, regardless of which Holiday you celebrate, or even if you choose not to celebrate anything, we can all celebrate our beloved critters.
I don’t think Santa Claus is bringing me any gifts this year. Perhaps I was more naughty than nice.
Peace and Love to everyone out here in Deadland.

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Saw Garcia and Grisman play this at the Warfield Theatre , they really sounded great!

John Fahey Silent Night

I remember seeing John Fahey do an incredible version of Silent Night at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. You could hear a pin drop in the room,it was amazing. Merry Christmas to everybody, I hope everybody has a fantastic day!

Nappy - BTK

Nappy , so sorry to hear about your loss!
Billy, 12/24/1966 was released under the wrong date of 9/16, as the Vintage Dead LP. 12/24/67 is mia though.

Merry and Happy

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to ALL

Machine Gun

Band of Gypsys style. My favorite Christmas song. (It's a cautionary tale via sound collage.) Although there IS a recording of Jimi doing Little Drummer Boy...

I'm a pagan, so the holidaze mean Winter Solstice for me. A little of this (whiskey) and a little of that (Indica), an electric guitar and a couple of friends with which to make some noise to celebrate the Solstice. The good news: days are getting longer. Not-so-great-news: only by a minute and a half each day. Gotta focus on the trend! January and February can be a tough slog before March-April's wet snows and spring fights its way out of winter until the contest comes to a head in May around here; in the past, spring has prevailed each time, but the climate's getting weird, so ya never know.

Nappy, sorry for your loss. Truly. I put down my 20-year-old, Zoe, in May. Last night I dreamed she showed up as a kitten -- I recognized her instantly -- and I told my father (in the dream) that she was still alive. He looked me kind of oddly, but said nothing. (He passed away in June.) I woke up crying. I expect to hear from her again in the long goodbye. Life is a bittersweet place. Ya gotta love, and the price of love is loss and grief. Two sides of a coin. (Although my divorce was all upside... rimshot!)

Best wishes to all! 2022 was kinda rough. Here's to better times, as always.

Merry Christmas to all from Palm Springs

Back to Seattle tonight

Recommendations:
Anza Borrego state park
Joshua Tree NP
Indian Canyon

My own Christmas miracle: my daughter was able to get out of Seattle Wednesday and join us here even though many flights were cancelled. She's been going through her first big breakup and HAD to get away from her day to day. (We had left a few days earlier). I mean, she was in need of getting away.

A Christmas/Festivus/ Solstice / call it what you will miracle.

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

P.S. saw a hippie chick at ABSP with a really cool Jerry shirt.

Some favorite Xmas ditties

God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen (Dawg/Garcia)
Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer
Shake Your Christmas Butt (PussNBoots)
Piece of You (Big People)
Fairytale of NY (Pogues)
Run Rudolph Run (Pig Pen)
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies

Vintage Dead

I never knew that was 12/24/66. Makes me wonder what date Historic Dead was recorded. Both those albums are well worth getting.
A few more blues approved Christmas songs are "Merry Christmas Baby" by Robert Nighthawk and "Christmas Time Blues" by Black Ace. Elvis made some good ones too, of course. "Blue Christmas" is a beaut. Brian Setzer also has some cool Christmas cds and dvds out there. The dvds may be best, so you can gaze at his Gretsch's.

David Grisman's Acoustic Christmas, Greensleeves, Michigan glut

Released nearly forty years ago, Christmas music done Dawg style, fun listen. Mike Marshall, Bela Fleck, Darol Anger, Rob Wasserman, even Donald Duck shows up for one number. Darol's recent projects with Mr. Sun band well worth checking out. Greensleeves tune was hijacked for Christmas music, started as a ballad almost 450 years ago, noted by Shakespeare. Interesting piece today in Politico about the weed glut in Michigan, elsewhere.

Historic Dead

Don't have the exact date for this one, but it's earlier than Vintage Dead.

Christmas records today:

Leon Redbone: Christmas Island
Merry Christmas From Motown (Various artists - 1969)
Spinal Tap: Christmas With The Devil
Joey Ramone: Christmas
Elvis: Christmas Album
Wizzard: I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

Vintage & Historic Dead (& Happy Holidays)

Merry Christmas (and all similar return-to-the-light festivities) to everybody. . . And Nappy, so sorry to hear that Violet had to leave. Sounds like she had a great run in the Rags household. There's something special about those bittersweet smiles and remembrances of our furry companions that's uniquely special. Onward. . .

Hey Cousins, That's interesting about Vintage Dead actually being from 12/24/66. There seems to have always been some confusion, and 9/16 had sounded plausible from what little documentation I was ever able to run down. Where can I find Vintage Dead (and possibly Historic Dead) attributed to 12/24/66? THANKS!

[EDIT: Oops! I was pecking out this post after your last post had already popped up. Still, any further info from that mysterious and misty state of mind called 1966 will be appreciated.]

@Jeff Smith

If you listen closely to Bob's second line in Dancing in the Streets, you'll notice he says "it's the winter of the year"; back then he often adjusted that line to match the season. Jerry's guitar sound and the band's overall sound is much closer to mid-december/early '67, thank summer 66.
Also, Mike Dolgushkin(if you heard of him - he's on facebook) will confirm the Vintage Dead date; he's a reliable source.

Vintage Dead & Historic Dead

The Dead signed an agreement that this music was to be released along with the other S.F. Bands that played at the Avalon Ballroom and released as a compilation of S.F. Bands. The Deads music was the only music that came out, it came out to cash in on the success of Working man's Dead. Garcia said it was cool if you were there that night, but it aint what's happining now, he said that in 1971.

I got a turntable for Christmas....

....could be a blessing or a curse. Have a Merry Jerry Christmas everyone!

new turntable sounds alright ! Once you've set it up..

And a good time to go look for Vintage and Historic Dead, which I don't believe have ever come out on cd. I'd just check out Discogs and see if there are any reasonably good condition copies for sale that won't break the bank.

Jerry's comment about how the music on these albums sounded cool if you were there on the night, but ain't what's happening now, as quoted by Billy, is an observation that could have been applied to any live Dead album released during their life time. "Cool if you were there on the night" being an understatement in some cases.

Daverock/Vintage Dead

Daverock, you make a great point, that you could say that about any of the Deads live recordings. Garcia said that in that Rolling Stone Book about him. But he also said several years down the line, when somebody asked him about what he thought about that book, he said he wish he could just burn the thing , thats not a direct quote but basically what he said. So take it for what it is.

12/26/79. Oakland Auditorium

A great show to kick off a great run of shows. This whole run of shows would have made a great boxset.

Weed glut? Oh yeah!

Things do change, don't they? Coulda used a "weed glut" -- an inelegant but compelling phrase -- back in the day.

These days, seems like certain Michiganders could use gummies the size of a golf ball. Bon apetite!

Oro: how could I have forgotten Pig's 'Run Rudolph Run'? I'm slipping.......

Everybody loves the Michigan glut

That lovin' glut

(courtesy of that classic singing frog cartoon)

A Sign Post To New Space

Billy - I think that's the name of the book. I thought it was alright, myself - certainly nothing to be embarrassed about. I can understand why he would be though - just having a stoned rap with someone one afternoon, then what you say gets printed and it's there for eternity. The price of fame, I guess-people think you know what you are talking about. And worse...remember what you say!
I've just watched the first hour of the newish David Bowie blu ray "Moonage Daydream" - now that is embarrassing. Loads of out of context quotes on God, philosophy - you name it - overlaid on clips of him performing live. It takes the word pretentious to a whole n'other level. The only saving grace in the first hour is Jeff Beck playing "Jean Genie" onstage at that last Spiders gig in 1973.

Best film I've seen recently is "Last Night In Soho" - brilliant. Incredible cover of the old Petula Clark hit "Downtown" sung by Anya Taylor-Joy. You can see the down tempo version online - truly spine tingling.

Moonage daydream pic

I have been wanting to see that, but Daverock has tempered my enthusiasm a bit

Maybe I'll stick with the albums I am familiar with

‐-------------
A week in Palm Springs
We return last night
This morming at 645 a windstorm blows through and sends a lighting frame from the rooftop deck to the street below. I go out and get it off the sidewalk in high winds and rain
Welcome back to Washington, bitch!

Luckily no people or cars were hit
Lights are salvagable
Frame is not
I just got done ripping it apart and putting it in trash

last nite in Soho

gr8 flick, check it out when you can, takes you right back to the sixties and Anya Taylor-Joy is a delight to watch and the ending is awesome.
Christmas music
Kinks Father Christmas
Greg Lake I believe in Father Christmas
Eartha Kit Santa Baby
Elvis Blue Christmas
Robin Williams impersonating Elmer Fudd singing Blue Christmas
Sting Gabriel's Message
Bing Crosby and David Bowie Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth
don't forget Chuck Berry's version of Run Rudolph Run
Living up here in these mountains is beautiful except when it gets this cold, 2 degrees on Xmas eve, main lines here in the city froze and burst, nothing but a brown trickle coming out of these pipes here for 3 days now, still have power but no water pressure, so toilets don't work, have to be hand filled to flush, big fun.
I will be very happy when this year is over.

Where you at, PT?

You have my sympathy, cuz.

Vintage & Historic Dead

For the record, an Italian ‘collector’s’ label called Oil Well put both of these early live dead albums on 1 cd. Just under 69 minutes of music. Catalog # is RSC CD 088. I’m sure it’s not easy to track down but there have to be a couple of copies floating around. As far as Jerry’s quote (and someone already alluded to this), I’m sure it was great if you were there, but if you weren’t or couldn’t be there, than listening to the recording is DEFINITELY the second best thing to being there. Otherwise, Dick’s & Dave’s , Road Trips & subscriptions wouldn’t exist as a business, just a place for Heads to reminisce.
I don’t know about y’all, but I gave up going out on New Year’s Eve many years ago. Why even risk getting hurt or killed by a drunken butthole trying to drive while oiled to the gills.
Perhaps a good movie instead. Thanks for the tip DAVEROCK!!
Be safe everyone, because very soon we can start talking about #45!!

Monty Python

I received a full collection of Monty Python's flying circus episodes for x-mas. The post office dented the box a little. Stupid git.

I'm just here....

.... playing my "old" metal/rock albums on my turntable.
BOC - Extraterrestrial Live is up.
My last five will include random metal bands from the '80's. Give me a minute.

"It's..."

MPFC

Staying home

I'm with Mr Ones on that one - the last time I went out on New Years Eve was 1999 I think. Maybe an odd one since , but left to my own devices I'd rather stay in. Incidentally, I think you ( Mr Ones), in particular, would like "Last Night In Soho" being into mid 60's music.
Proudfoot - sorry If I put you off "Moonage Daydream". A lot of people rate it very highly. It does have great sound and picture quality. There are lots of great clips of him playing live with The Spiders, too - but they are all cut. One minute you are watching the band, the next he is being interviewed - then back to the live clip, but with Bowie talking over the top of it. What he says and asks seems irrelevant now as well. He didn't get on with his mum. He doesn't believe in God, but he does believe there is something out there. As Eddie Cochran sang.. "Who cares...C'mon Everybody".

Far be it for me to mention

the Grateful Dead, but I did see and snatch up one Dick's Picks reissue -- #34, 11-5-77 -- and that thing smokes! Just about every song on the first two discs is top shelf, even ones I'm not crazy about (er, Samson & Delilah). I was never taken with the revival of St. Stephen, it always seemed awkward, but this one works.

Classic case of "too much '77, but this particular show is killer!" Which can be applied to most of '77, the year that keeps on giving. I have a good feeling that 1-2 Oct '77 from Portland will catch fire as well.

Have a very Nappy New Year all!

Anniversary show 12/27/79 Oakland

43 years ago, I was at the Oakland Auditorium for a great night with the Good Old Grateful Dead. This whole run could have been released as a box set. Big Fun!

Oaklandia

1979 December run

Ja, gerne

12.27.80....

....just listened to it today at work. Good stuff. Onto the 28th!

Anniversary shows 12/27/80,81,82,83,86

12/27 was a busy night for Grateful Dead Shows. I'm sure alot of the people who post here were also at these shows. Fun times!

12/31/80

My first show, and look what happened. I don't think it's regarded as one of the all time greats, but it did the job... Acoustic set too. I still like listening to it and going oh yeah, that happened.

Happy New Year and Thanks Dave

Happy New Year and Holidays to all.

Thanks Dave - 2022 has been a great year indeed. The MSG box incredibly good as are the Dave's Picks this year.

Ran through DiP5 last night. Man, still a great show.

Want to congratulate Warner/Rhino on the Little Feat Waiting on Columbus box. What a great box. Feats put on a hell of a show a few weeks back. Although, I think Ticketmaster stole ticket sales from them in this scheme that have, which is now under investigation.

Govt Mule had a great show here, but their sound guy is horrible. Funny to see several 20 y/o's bitching about crowd noise as they tape. When the sound is that bad, maybe try a sound board patch. Still probably wouldnt be a very good tape. Maybe have to see if I can find a copy of that show to see if maybe I am wrong. Sound guy at the console playing around with his phone.

Joe Satriani put on an incredible show also and had some of the most advance line arrays I have seen in a long time. Made me realize the change in how bands are sold and marketed. The way our new Music Hall is designed backwords from traditional venues. That is, the expensive seats are up top with private bar (VIP type access) and then the line arrays put those seats with the best sound. Funny to see things flip.

2022 was the greatest one year of shows in my life, just a lot of great music around here.

Been 35 years since December 27, 1987 Oakland Coliseum. What an incredible show. The whole run was excellent and fun, well, except the weather. Lots of cold rain and (no snow) but wind. I have been listening to a good soundboard of it today.

Time keeps on ticking...into the future. Hope to write more about 1987 New Years run...

Again, hope all the regulars are well and ready for a great new year!

Happy New Year

And belated Merry Christmas.

PT Barnum, I also like Greg Lake's I Believe in Father Christmas (single version, because the one on Works Volume 2 is mixed differently and not as good).

2000 Miles by the Pretenders is great. Very sad to hear the true meaning behind it which I just found out last week. Chrissie Hynde wrote it about her buddy guitarist in the band James Honeyman-Scott who also cowrote a few of their songs with Hynde, and provided that cool guitar sound from Brass in Pocket. They had just had an emergency band meeting after their 2nd album. From what I gather it was pretty much Chrissie's band and she fired their bass player Pete Farndon for getting too heavily into drugs and negatively affecting the band. Two days later James Honeyman-Scott died of a cocaine overdose. Ironic since he wasn't the one who got fired. Then a year later Farnon died of a heroin overdose. Beautiful song that I enjoy every year at Christmas time, but will never hear it the same way again.

Now that I bummed everyone out Vguy has to tell one of his jokes.

I found a great newer copy of 2/15/73 at the Dane on the archive site. Look for the version that was added in 2020. It's one of the finest sound boards I've ever heard from the 70s before hiatus.

A Chinese guy and a Jewish guy are drinking at a bar....

....The Jewish guy turns to the Chinese guy and says, "Fu*k you and your people, for bombing Pearl Harbor!"

The Chinese guy is like, "WTF?! That wasn't us. That was the Japanese!"

The Jewish guy: "Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese... you're all the same."

After a few minutes and another beer, the Chinese guy turns to the Jewish guy and says, "Fu*k you and your people for sinking the Titanic!"

The Jewish guy: "Huh? They ran into an iceberg..."

Chinese guy: "Iceberg, Goldberg, Steinburg, you're all the same."
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I would love to see Joe Satriani live. Incredible guitar player.
I only made it to one New Years run. 1991. Only saw the first two shows though. Couldn't find tickets for the 30th and the 31st. One one the very few times I went to shows without tickets in hand.

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