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  • #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.

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    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…

  • #483
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    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.

  • #484
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    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

  • #485
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    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)"

  • #486
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    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.

  • #487
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    Being really close at the Dead....

    ....only twice. Vegas '91 and Portland '95. Sound sucks up there anyways.

  • #488
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    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.

  • #489
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    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

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    ....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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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Fri, 01/13/2023 - 11:31

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Your first show was my brothers first show, and it should be released.

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Submitted by 1stshow70878 on Fri, 01/13/2023 - 12:10

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Love the new artwork on the cover for DaP 45.
Much better than cartoonish skeletons.
Double dose of '77 is OK by me.
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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Fri, 01/13/2023 - 12:23

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43 years ago today, I was up in Oakland to see the Good old Grateful Dead, put on a great show. I imagine my good old buddy Cousins was there, along with alot of other fine folks on this forum. It was a benefit show for Cambodian Refugees and the Dead played one great set. The Beach Boys played with their full original band, Santana & John Cipolllina sat in with the Dead, and Jefferson Starship and Joan Baez also performed. Garcia sang " Shake the hand, that shook the hand, of P.T. Barnum, and the Shah of Iran". Fun times.

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Submitted by hendrixfreak on Fri, 01/13/2023 - 13:35

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Confession: aside from a '68 tape that inexplicably landed in my inbox fairly recently, I don't listen much outside the official releases and am content to listen to official Vault releases as they come out. So I have not heard 1 & 2 October '77 from Portland. But as we all know, that fall tour has some ferocious shows and I anticipate that two (relatively) short shows in one 4-CD release will fall into that pattern. '77 keeps on giving and I've never tried to quantify what we've got vs. what was played, or guess at what might be left in the Vault (though I suspect plenty) from that stellar year.

So, looking forward to getting this one in about a week or so. And then ...... (drum roll please) 4 CDs from fall '72, including the fragment from my first show.

Meanwhile, gotta twist a few. I've got tons of Dylan, ABB, and blues to enjoy. To quote the sages who dwell here: Music is the best. To which I'll add: life is inconceivable without music.

Yes, Happy Birthday and also, Holly Bowling. I was not familiar with her music, such a blind spot. A friend sent the linq to her seaside concert: The Wilderness Sessions, Casco Bay, ME 10.22.20 on utu be. Wonderful setting, the Dead's music as launch point, with dog. Not distracted by sea birds.... Probably many of you know her beautiful music in a beautiful place. Came to know Casco Bay fifty some years ago, fell in love there, sailing, fishing, hiking along the coast, exploring the islands.

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Submitted by Cousins Of The… on Fri, 01/13/2023 - 14:42

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Yes Billy, I was there indeed standing right of the soundboard; cheap tickets, considering the lineup, and not a sold out show if I recall, a lot of space on the floor. It was fun going to a show so soon after the of the 5-day Oakland run, talk about being spoiled in the Bay Area. Wasn't it the show where Jerry substituted PT Barnum for "the Shah of Iran"? 1980 was the year I saw the most shows, thanks in no small part to the Warfield run.
More rain the next 4 days here in Sacramento, it's getting old! Wife got me rubber boots so I can navigate the backyard and work our pump. Staying away from Wake of the Flood LP("And little change, the wind and rain" No thank you, Bob!)
Happy birthday Scott! Thanks again for turning me on to so many tapes.

You are going to love it Hendrixfreak. The return of Casey Jones to open the show, one of my favorite versions and Dupree's! Quite a few highlights. Looking forward to the full Norman of this Betty and 10/1/77.

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Submitted by LedDed on Fri, 01/13/2023 - 21:01

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Yeah, I have two Trouble cd's, Manic Frustration from 1992 and another one just called, Trouble. It says 2009 but I think that's a reissue? I could Google it but I'm lazy.

Mr. White and Come Touch the Sky are pretty cool hard rock tunes. I saw the singer passed just a couple of years ago. Mr. White is a funny fuckin' song about blow, which we used to call "ripper" and "gagger." I'll save coke stories for another time but I'll bet this bunch has got a few. ;-p

So many bands like Trouble - good enough to light up a bar or small club and, back in the day, get a record deal, but never actually touch the sky. Shit, Dr. Hook never did make the cover of Rolling Stone did they?

Still in full on Jeff Beck mode. Normally I am cycling through Zeppelin, the Beatles, the Stones, Aerosmith, the Dead (of course), the Doors, Pink Floyd, Van Halen, and lots of jazz and blues pretty damn regularly. Beck has a certain weight about him now that he's gone, but like when Mark Lanegan left us, I realize their spirit will always be alive, always 25 years old and healthy and strong. Like Jer.

God bless everyone. Carpe Diem.

\m/

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Submitted by daverock on Sat, 01/14/2023 - 04:01

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I'm going back listening to all my Jeff Beck recordings, too. Incredible range of music, and it occurs to me that even when he is playing a style of music I don't normally like, the way he plays it lifts it up. I normally prefer it when guitarists - any musician for that matter - serve the music and not the other way round. With Jeff Beck, he seems a bit as though he was the other way round - the music seems more like a platform for him to take off from. Possibly the only guitarist I like who did that. He didn't do that all the time - that Les Paul Tribute concert isn't like that- but he did it often enough for it to be noticeable.
A great one I played last night was "Who Else!" from 1999.

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Submitted by KeithFan2112 on Sat, 01/14/2023 - 09:26

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I was driving yesterday with my wife and kids, so we ended up doing round-robin song selection (uggh - sometimes you just have to compromise :D My selection was the Jeff Beck / Rod Stewart version of People Get Ready. I was 13 when it came it out, and it was a staple on the Philadelphia airwaves. Beck's playing is perfect (great tone and creativity in his playing). My wife fiddled around with Pandora and came up with the Jeff only version (which I guess he recorded sometime later). I said no, if I get one pick it has to be the '85 version with Rod singing. I hadn't heard it in 3 or 4 years, so it was a great listening experience. Aside from a few Yardbirds tunes, I don't really know Jeff Beck's work. If anyone has song recommendations, I'd like to compile a dozen or so to see if it all grabs me. Did he sing at all?

Happy belated B-day Nitecat - I am behind in the message boards.

Yeah, life is inconceivable w/out music. It takes us to a unique place. I think of it with a perspective Robert Hunter said about his lyrics, when a fan once asked him the meaning of a song; he tried to answer, but ultimately said something to the effect of (paraphrasing here), "I hope that helps, but honestly, if I could explain it in plain words I wouldn't have to write a song." I hadn't though of it that way before. Lyrics as non-linear form of expression. I think it's the same with music - you feel an intense connection that can't be adequately explained in plain language.

Well okie dokie, that's about as philosophical as I'm going today. I hope everyone is well.

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Submitted by Hey Pedro on Sat, 01/14/2023 - 09:37

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Here are my recommendations: Beck's Bolero (just incredible), Freeway Jam, A Day in the Life, Got the Feeling, Situation, Going Down, Morning Dew, I Ain't Superstitious. There are so many more

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Submitted by dmcvt on Sat, 01/14/2023 - 09:59

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So hard to pick things out, however... have long loved what he did with Mingus's "Good Bye Pork Pie Hat" from Wired. Somewhere Over the Rainbow, so well known, shows his extraordinary evocative skills. As a single disc (video too) intro and supreme example of how to triumph a live show in a tiny cramped venue, Live at Ronnie Scott's is pretty special with Tal and Vinnie there too.

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Submitted by 1stshow70878 on Sat, 01/14/2023 - 10:18

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Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow, by far my favorite solo album of his.
Jeff Beck - Wired, which led to more fusion...
Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior, four virtuoso players doing their thing. Lenny White is one hell of a drummer.
Billy Cobham - A Funky Thide Of Sings, clearly on a drummer thing here.
Jan Hammer Group - Melodies
All on vinyl and cassette.
Cheers for the weekend!

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Submitted by daverock on Sat, 01/14/2023 - 10:20

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Keithfan - Jeff Beck sang lead vocals on The Yardbirds "The Nazz Are Blue" on the album often referred to as "Roger The Engineer". He also sang on his hit single from 1967 "Hi Ho Silver Lining" - a song he always said he hated, although he seemed reconciled latterly, and even performed it live a few times. He also sang lead on "Tallyman" from 1967.

If you wanted to cherry pick from his career there is a great live blu ray disc out called "Live at the Hollywood Bowl" recorded in 2016. That features music from all stages of his career and features guest artists, which is fun. I'm not sure if it's available on cd - that might be a good place to start to get an overview.

Harry Chapin sums it up best

Old friends, they mean much more to me than the new friends,
Cause they can see where you are,
And they know where you've been.
Music, has been my oldest friend, my fiercest foe,
Cause it can take me so high,
(High...) Yes it can make me so low.

.... are going to perform the national anthem at tonight's Jags/Chargers game. Pretty cool.
Shakedown Street going into commercial during the Seahawks/Niners game!
I bet Fox plays some Phish too.

I'm always a little late here, but here goes...

I saw Gene Krupa when I was about eleven years old. Was with my family on one of our trips to the New York's World Fair. We were walking around at night and stumbled upon Krupa playing at the Metropole Cafe. Stood in the doorway and watched him pound it out. All I can say is wow - one of my all time favorite musical memories...

1/5/79 - The Spectrum - I remember that a good time was had by all and it snowed - only audience tapes of the show as far as I know

Last five-ish - The Dead - Closing of Winterland - What a fine performance and excellent recording!
Still listening to Dave's 43 and 44
Working my way thru In and Out of the Garden -
Non Dead - The Kinks - On the Road
Hendrix - Groovy Children
Africa 2 - A compilation that came highly recommended, but was somewhat redundant for my tastes -
good dance grooves though
Melissa Aldana - 12 Stars
Tom Petty - Live at the Fillmore

Still in a sipping, not chugging listening style...

Be well and enjoy the music!

And of course playing homage to Jeff Beck listening to a variety of his recordings - Always liked Beck-Ola

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Submitted by Mr. Ones on Sat, 01/14/2023 - 17:35

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Fantastic comments from everyone on here. Regarding Jef Beck, I always favored the trio of albums beginning with Blow By Blow thru Live with Jan Hammer Group. Of course, there are many, many more excellent releases, Who Else, mentioned by DAVEROCK, Live +, and Jeff Beck’s Guitar Shop to name just 3. As far as songs, I HAVE to put in a good word for ‘Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers, a killer cover of a great Stevie Wonder song, Led Boots, Diamond Dust and Big Block. Too many really, to choose just a handful.
This will probably come as no surprise to anyone when I talk about how much I love music and what it means to me. I guess the shortest way to put it, is that life before the Beatles was black & white. After the Beatles, my life went full technicolor, without doubt.
I can get goose bumps just from a well placed chord, a vocal harmony, or a well written lyric.
I don’t believe life for me, would be worth living without music. I feel blessed.

Excellent article on The Dead in Bob Dylan's recent book "The Philosophy of Modern Song". It's nominally about "Truckin'" but it also touches on why the Dead were a dance band rather than a rock band, and touches on the players various styles. If you want to know how different women looked from the stage when playing with The Stones and The Dead, he tells you that, too. He may not tell you anything you don't already know, but I have rarely seen it put so well.

Regarding the actual song, "The guy singing the song acts and talks like who he is, and not the way others would want him to talk and act." Way to go.

MR ONES - yes, both Live+ and Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop are top drawer. I think it was the way he played that was so magical, irrespective of the song or musical form he chose to unleash it in.

Deadfeati - that is quite something, seeing Gene Krupa live. I wouldn't think there are many around now who could lay claim to that.

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Submitted by hendrixfreak on Sun, 01/15/2023 - 08:44

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My folks had a vintage turntable and a large speaker encased in a piece of furniture my dad nicknamed "Lenin's Tomb." Shoebox shape, they had lamps on it. This is circa 1962. They had some classical albums, but it was the soundtracks to Broadway shows that I liked most, due to the catchy melodies. I remember Camelot among them. Also Herb Alpert. When the Beatles hit around 1964, I was six going on seven and the grocery store had bins at checkout with the first Beatles album. I begged my mom to buy it for me (even though we were taught to not want things - parents grew up in the Depression), $1.98 I seem to recall. At home, I put the sacred record on the turntable and put the volume low (a) to not bother anyone, but (b) also because this was powerful, radical stuff and I felt conspicuous for getting excited over it. Then I'd sit by Lenin's Tomb and quietly rock out.

A year or so later, they started coming out with handheld transistor radios and a Washington's Birthday sale had 'em for like $10. Again, I begged! I would hide it under my pillow when it was bedtime and sit up listening to AM radio stations out of NYC, dominated by Beatles and Stones but also Ray Charles, Temptations, Motown, Aretha -- the works.

By around '71 (now age 13) the Chambers Brothers were playing nearby and I got my mom to drive me to the show with two friends and pick us up afterwards. The Brothers played "Time" and other hits and I was hooked on live music. I later found out that Duane and the ABB had played there around the same time, but they were not on AM radio and I had yet to delve seriously. (Opportunity lost, like missing 6-10-73!)

Although, my entree to the blues (my real home) was looking at the credits on Beatles and Rolling Stones albums. I could understand credits like Jagger-Richards or Lennon-McCartney, but "McKinley Morganfield"? "Chester Burnett"?? Well, I figured it out and by age 14 was mixing my purchases between transient pop of the day with Chess records.

The following year, one month after turning 15, I went to my first GD show and, man, it was like some kinda crazy carnival that I marveled at but didn't quite get. Everyone seemed to be in such a strange mood... I knew drugs were involved (older brother) but was yet to be "experienced." (I think spring '73 began my "experienced" years -- hey, that's 50 years ago coming up!) As I've said before, after a couple hours of loud rock 'n roll by the Dead, I was good to go home, but the band kept playing and playing!! Good early training. Eventually, I caught on.

Like most of my posts, perhaps TMI. But it's Sunday morning and the coffee (w/Jameson) is good. Cheers!

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Submitted by 1stshow70878 on Sun, 01/15/2023 - 09:04

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warms the soul! Good Sunday morning to you HF.
Similar era, Dad made Heathkit power and speaker kit.
Massive 15" woofer for the show tunes, classical, big band.
Older sisters had the Motown etc. My first 45s were pop-rock.
Like Paul Revere, The Turtles Happy Together, and the song Western Union from ?
Then big and little transistor radios and table top units Mom & Dad won golfing.
Like a Westinghouse that had a removeable little radio, like a docking station.
Later a Panasonic that had a cassette tape recorder and was portable.
Had to rock & roll myself to sleep and still do but with classical.
Mom would always stay up late and come in to turn it off.
At least the equipment has gotten much better LOL.
Thanks for the memory and cheers.

Edit: Found a picture of the Westinghouse on line. Had a high intensity lamp on it too. Blast from the past!

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Submitted by KeithFan2112 on Sun, 01/15/2023 - 11:54

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Thanks Daverock & Co for the Jeff Beck recommendations. Jimmy Page / How Many More Times has that one arrangement that sounds very similar to the first half of Beck's Bolero. Obviously they were close from being in the Yardbirds - I guess the similarity has been acknowledged by them?

I also had a chance to get ìn Freeway Jam - another solid tune.

I saw a call out for the Closing of Winterland. I love this one too. It was one of my first Dead CD purchases and has a great mellow Dark Star, as well as what are in my mind, the best Miracle and Stagger Lee. Scarlet Fire is solid, From the Heart of Me, Not Fade Away, etc etc. Oh, how I wish they'd busted out Shakedown Street, but they played it the previous night (I'm so tempted to grab the one from Rocking the Cradle and drop into the Closing of Winterland folder).

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Submitted by daverock on Sun, 01/15/2023 - 12:14

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Keithfan-yes, you are spot on about Beck's Bolero and the Led Zep connection. Interesting that both Jimmy Page AND John Paul Jones played on it. The track "You Shook Me" appeared first on the Jeff Beck Group's "Truth" album, and then again, with very similar arrangement on Led Zep's First album. People used to say that Led Zep ripped of the Beck Group - and while I wouldn't go that far - they do sound as though they were influenced by them

Jimmy Page was always an admirer of Jeff Beck. Once when I saw him in concert, I spotted Jimmy Page in the audience.

.... anywho. I'm in a ska mood. Last five.
Sublime
No Doubt
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
The Interrupters
Madness
Just single songs from a playlist Spotify made just for me.
Practicing my shuffle dance.
Shuffling looks fun. The shufflers are always smiling. I think I could pull it off.
Music all day Sunday.
Edit on the fly. Small Axe by The Wailers. That's six.
Music is what keeps me sane.

Yes, you would have thought so. Bizarrely I have bumped into him on a number of occasions, and he seems to be a very humble man. He was at a WOMAD world music festival I once went to, and at a gig in a tiny venue in London called The Borderline, to see a band called The Pirates. Just standing shoulder to with everyone else. The last time was at a record shop, just flipping through album sleeves. A rock god amongst average Joes like me, acting like he himself is an average Joe.

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Submitted by proudfoot on Mon, 01/16/2023 - 09:26

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Niiiice

Daves 43
Niiiice

2/15/69
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Thelma bonus disc
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Whenz the new Davez coming out?

Madness
Haircut 100
The Specials

and weird MTv videos

The messages on this board trigger some (maybe repressed?) memories

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Submitted by proudfoot on Tue, 01/17/2023 - 07:45

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The Selecter? too much pressure
English Beat? I just can't stop it

High school year book: we could have one fun image along with our formal tux picture. One dude's candid was him holding up his ska records. (this was 1982.)

OK, to the cell phone/youtube.

Ska Tuesday (in addition to Dave's 43)

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Submitted by Colin Gould on Tue, 01/17/2023 - 08:37

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One Step Beyond was one of Prince Buster’s singles in the UK. I highly recommend the track ‘10 Commandments of Man’ by Prince Buster. It is particularly useful in enraging your female ( and right thinking male ) friends when they hear the lyrics.

On another tack, I notice in the Wolf Brothers show included with the latest version of ‘Ace’ that Bob(by) mentions some of his anecdotes will appear in his book. Does anyone have any info on this?

Edit: One more thing. Something I was reading a couple of days ago said that 17th Jan would have been Janis Joplin’s 80th birthday.

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Submitted by Mr. Ones on Tue, 01/17/2023 - 09:49

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So funny, I was driving a stretch Cadillac Limousine back in 1991. I drove 5 young ladies (dressed to the 9's) to the show, and as I pulled up to the old Baltimore Civic Center (can't remember the band, so let's say Motley Crue) all 5 gals, simultaneously pulled the biggest hair spray cans I had EVER seen out of their purses and began to spray in unison. I almost passed out!!
Anyway, it was so stereotypical that I always laugh out loud when I think of it.

Back to your newly created Dave's 45 thread.

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Tue, 01/17/2023 - 21:19

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....back then.
Watching Green Acres on Pluto TV. I love the characters. Good stuff. Especially Mr. Haney.
Pluto is pretty cool. And it's free.
And the commercials aren't that bad.
I usually mute them anyway.
Oh God. I'm becoming my dad.

....I pulled out Boxilla and dusted her off. Chose Augusta, ME. 10.12.84. Forgot how awesome the first set was.
Feel Like A Stranger
Roses 🌹
One The Road Again
Jack-A-Roe
All Over Now
CUMBERLAND!!
Music 🎵 Never Stopped....
Jerry was on 🔥

That is a great show. And as I have said before, if it hadn't been highlighted on here in the past it may well have slipped below my radar.

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Submitted by JimInMD on Thu, 01/19/2023 - 20:18

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Senator..

I'm rarely critical, but I believe you omitted the second freaking set.

edit: I love the first set too.

As you were......

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