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  • Kate_C.
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    BlueCrow, you're Dead right of course re: Waldron; still no reason for interested parties not to checkout either title.

    Today: a magnificent sounding Axis/Bold as Love. Is it me or is this one of Jimi's most unique & exquisite sounding albums (I've got the JPN SICP 30822 release and the production value matches the amazing sonics).

    Of note, my homepage feed was populated w/ a slideshow re: 10 seventies acts that have cult followings. Like most of you, I've either got the bulk of discographies for most of the listed acts OR at least heard of the remainder, except one: Gnidrolog (!?). Brit Prog outfit from '69-'72, absolutely amazing stuff that I've never heard mentioned across diverse forums or acquaintances 'in the know'.

    After some sampling on Dcogs I quickly ordered the twofer release of their freshman & sophmore albums, as well as the Live '72 release. Check it out on your streaming service or, like me, who doesn't stream, numerous uploads on Utube. Be safe all.

  • proudfoot
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    While stuck in NASTY traffic

    11 1 90 disc 3
    Then 4 29 71 disc 2

    Truly horrific traffic

    Thank goodness for GD

  • bluecrow
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    12/4/73 Cinci

    Phil meltdown coming out of Eyes into "Space".

    Edit - and followed that up with the 12/6/73 bonus disc with "that" Dark Star and it was crazy good with some extended passages with Phil going full Godzilla / proto Seastones and I loved it.

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    Didn’t finish the amazing 12/31/90 yesterday, so fired up much of it again, and besides Jers tired voice in spots, this show kicks ass!
    What a night it was, though I won’t go into lured details lol
    What a year, almost in spite of Brent’s passing!
    I think the consistency, spacey/jammy, and all around playing stands with any year!

    So, I’ve previously hit 2/19/91 via Bolo POTD, so just rounding the 2 remaining out until spring tour…which I’ll prolly do in 2026?

    Next trip I’ll hit all the end of 1980 post RCMH etc…
    Then 12/89 & first 3 of 90, then a few from the end of 79, then end of 84 and early 85.
    Perhaps I’ll start digging into 1970 a bit early next year?
    Onward!

  • strat-wolf-bean
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    It's been too long since I heard Tangerine Dream

    High School days to be precise ... Seems the ethereal is lately (much) needed to cleanse the dust of the mundane, or something like that.
    In that spirit +/-, I first put on 'A Love Supreme' this morning, and am ensconced in the amazing DP 36 Philadelphia, 09.21.1972 - approaching the ethereal Dark Star / Morning Dew on disc 3.

    (Edit) Note: I guess I'll have to save the incendiary / explosive (Other One) filler from 09.03 for another day ... when a more cranked up mood comes around. ; )

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    Kate - yes, that's another good one. On my playlist for later. I also have it in the the Official Bootleg series - Volume 1. along with Mannheim 1976.
    I didn't get it, but this also came out on vinyl as RSD release. Various versions - some were pressed on picture discs of stained glass windows, which look amazing on the photos. What they sound like may be another matter.... they look more like something you could dangle in front of your window on a thin chain so the sun could catch them.

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    Live from the Kate Wolf Music Festival 1997 - 2003

    love the music of Greg and Kate

    np - I Want My Country Back

    earlier - funny as hell to me that Tequila and Me (and the wall) is a Kate Wolf song.

    earlier still - Paris Moods was a chill late night listen - thanks Kate. Jacky Terrasson on piano though, not Mal Waldron. It was reversed, Mal is on French Story (which I couldn't find on utoob - not a spotify person.) I still have several Mal lps (of the 100+ he plays on) on the Enja label from way back in my Jazz Record Mart days which was part of reason I focused in on that.

    for the tech heads here (looking at you Oro) there is the first of a 3 part interview with Jamie Howarth, the man behind Plangent Processes, in issue 212 of Copper - The Journal of Music and Audio (at PSaudio dot com). Also a piece with Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlins.

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    Dave, I was waiting for inspiration to strike! Excellent call on the band & era ... just pulled TD's Bootleg Series 1. That ominous ambient intro to the first Reims set (12/74) is apropos of the Gothic venue. That one would make rank on the Time Travel Wish List.

    Earlier, the punky hard rock sounds of Rocket from the Tombs seemed the right antidote for some work-related production stress ("The Day the Earth Met...", "Rocket Redux", and "Barfly"). The more difficult things become on that front, the louder, faster & more strident the music from my speakers tends to be.

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    12/28, 30, 31/90

    The 31st I’ve heard but giving it the once over again.
    The 30th things pick up with a different, noticeable energy versus the previous 2 shows. A fine show and similar to earlier in the fall.
    The 27&28 are good shows, perhaps just not as much juice?
    CAT, Hamza Drumz, and Baby Blue stood out on the 27.

    28 had a nice Muddy, Stella, fun Victim>FH to close first, with one of the show highlights being the sweet jam out of FH! In fact, where they maybe don’t always rock as hard here, there’s many cool jams during the fall/winter, which lends to a different kind of goodness! Think Bruce was into getting Jer to loosen up and explore these tours? The jam outta He’s Hone is a good example and another show highlight.

    The 30th opens with an up Bertha, and SMOKIN’ Stranger! Sweet Candyman, High Time, boogieing Bobs, and fun, unfortunately last Valley Road.
    Second we’ll played, with another big Playin/jam/Drumz to be dug. Whole set is good but ole Jers voice is starting to ware at the edges a bit, which doesn’t bother me.
    31st has a good personal story, but a bit off color, so we’ll just give this fine show and fitting end for a (sans Brent’s passing) awesome year a ride, one mo time!
    Onward!

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    This Black Friday release of the Glasgow 11/20/74 is great. A double album - the last side featuring excerpts from another show in 1974. In the same space as Phaedra and Rubycon, but the whole shows were improvised at this time, from beginning to end. This a really good one.
    Best get a pal to hold on to your ankles if you play it...you may end up floating up and away.....

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Hey y’all
I have a cassette of a show that doesn’t have a date on it. Brent is singing, so it’s in the ‘80s and the crowd cheered loudly when Memphis was mentioned…maybe held in Memphis, TN??? Can anyone help me ID the show for my collection? Set list is below:
Set 1
Touch of Grey
Walkin Blues
Candy man
Queen Jane Approximately
Loser
It’s All over Now
Far From Me
Cassidy
Don’t Ease Me In

Set 2
Feel Like a Stranger
Franklin’s Tower
Box of Rain

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Looks like you might have 3-24-88 The Omni set I, with some of 3-28-88 Hampton set I as filler. I just cracked open my trusty DeadBase to check. It's a fun game, guess the show... :-)

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The compilation matches the style of the taper I got them from-he tended to combine shows!! Thank you so much!!! It’s a fun game! Do you know anything about the Terrapin from the Omni Show? I love a good terrapin!

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Have you ever heard of the site called heady version (all one word)? It's a deadhead generated ranking of all the Grateful Dead's catalogue. According to the site, it lists the top 3 versions as: 2-26-77, 5-17-77 and 1-22-78.

-edit- Looks like Terrapin from 10-22-83 gets some high ratings from the 80's.

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I was listening to the sound of the ribs sizzling on the grill....

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CD by Martin Taylor and David Grisman's Acoustic Jazz Quartet, called "I'm Beginning to See the Light.," 1999.

Taylor and Grisman go at a bunch of true standards (Autumn Leaves, Cheek to Cheek, Lover Man, Willow Weep for Me, Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered...etc.) It is good because it does focus Grisman a little, like Garcia used to do, and bring David down from his free form "Dawg" jamming. It's nice, like at a Dead concert, when the riffing resolves into a recognizable song and melody. On the other hand, maybe you can say that Grisman is excessively disciplined and sticks too closely to the melody here rather than riffing and improvising as much as many jazz players do - could have been a happy medium with his Dawg somehow - maybe he felt a little more free to do that in his collaborations with Jerry. But this is good. Great music for dinner or reading and you raise your head every once in awhile at a nice riff or return to well known swing melodies. And danceable if you know your Lindy. That's probably what was intended. Jerry would have appreciated it, I think - Jerry himself in his last interviews said he was going to see Steffan Grappelli doing this sort of riffing on standards before both of them unfortunately passed on. And of course Jerry was named after Jerome Kern, or so I heard once upon a time, so these standard would be right up his alley.

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Don’t miss this title from bassist Cleveland Eaton from 1974: Cleveland Eaton, Plenty Good Eaton.
This record refuses to get off my turntable deck.
Sorely underappreciated…

Shwack in NH

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I'm listening to Roy Kim's "Only If" right now and it makes me sleepy coz it's a ballad song.

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Haiduk - Morph [blackened death metal]

youtube.com/watch?v=uNQ1-hyWLxo

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Listening to Mason's Children and New Speedway Boogie, 2 Dead songs which were largely overlooked by both band and fans for quite a while.

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any recommendation? what are people wanting to snag? im looking at.....

-muddy waters woodstock album
-sun ra
-howlin' wolf
-alex chilton
-ABB

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I'm off to get...

Gong Live in Lyon 1972 as a certainty. Mind your head!
Charlie Parker as a maybe.

Can't think what else I saw - those are the ones I remember when I had a look last night.

Well, I'm not off anywhere - I'll be poking around online.

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Currently listening to and learning Deep Elem Blues ... i noticed there are 2 dominant versions, live at harpur College version, which is a slowed down real bluesy version, and then the more classic and common "bluegrass" version as heard in the acoustic and JGB shows...

wondering if anyone knows what these two styles are called in the dead/music world, as I'm trying to learn the Harpur College version and having trouble searching for lessons on that specifically that version ("real bluesy version" and "harpur college version" isn't working in the searches)

Much love!

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i am listening to the Doors break on Through Center Coliseum, Seattl 1970

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This is one of those shows where we're so very lucky to have the tape that we have. Mike Tannenbaum's recording gear was supposedly concealed inside a wheelchair. Once your ear gets used to the recording quality, though, this show has some ferocious passages that are absolutely worth hearing. I come back to the Cryptical->Other One->Cryptical->Sugar Mag time and time again. Garcia is just a demon dancing across Other One. And the Sugar Mag... a song that would go on to be played hundreds of times, but here has barely been done a dozen... Garcia's solo is effortlessly rockin' right out of the gate, just so assured. And beautiful harmonies from the boys.

figured I'd post here since someone had revived this thread

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The new Matrix 1967 release is a good one.

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A great box set of David Bowie's demo and live recordings from 1971, leading up to the release of Hunky Dory. It's surprising how tentative he seemed performing live at this time. Come the beginning of 1972, an inspired make over and change of outlook - hey presto - Ziggy played guitar. This box set is really good, charting the path from nowhere's ville to the stars.

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1981 european tour munich west germany.
my first crispy maxwell xl2 found at street fair in greenwich village new york.
best ever opening jack straw….perfect

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This has to be the most random bit of folk/singer-songwriter material I have ever stumbled into. The artist is someone I'd never heard of: F.J. McMahon.

McMahon's album, "Spirit of the Golden Juice", had a limited pressing in 1969 and McMahon tried touring to support it, even eventually doing the tourist circuit in Hawaii, but the album got no play. He finally found himself uninspired by playing covers, so he joined the navy and soon forgot all about playing music for a living. (I tried to say more but it was at this point that I got hey now'd)

(trying to edit my post) try the song 'Early Blue' if you just want to see what the fuss is about

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the Cleveland 12/4/73 show ( I was tryna say more but something kept getting me hey now'd) <sigh>

Wow, what got into Phil Lesh that night!? Somewhere I read that he was ticked off with the promoters and that's part of the reason set II is short. I wonder if Phil was trying to bring the ceiling down on those miscreants. Whatever his motivations were, it's just marvelous the things he does with his bass. He just takes over on Eyes and drives things into one ferociously weird bit of feedback. And that Stella Blue, too...he's playing behind Garcia instead of being way out in front, and yet Phil just goes thundering along. Intense. I've spent the last 90 minutes just grooving to Phil and replaying those two songs. Good stuff!!

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Fillmore East 12/31/69 - 1/2/70. The photo in the book of this box, of the Fillmore East advertises The Dead's shows for 1/2-3/70. Which isn't a bad idea for the New Year.

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JGB 12/31/75
Dead 12/31/76
Dead 12/31/78

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Allman Brothers 12-31-73

This one should be cleaned up and released.

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They were ripping it up and loving it in their first visit to Red Rocks.
Rumor has it that rocks were jostled loose from the walls by Phil's bombs, but that may have been some illegal climbing up there.
Cheers

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9/16/90

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5/26/77
Love me some '77 "Sugaree".

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From the wonderful HCSS Box

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11/30/73

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7/17/76
Amazing "Comes A Time"

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I'm thinking of getting a cat. I'm not - but I keep getting hey now'd when I mention The Dead.

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Tried but got the hey now.

Downhill From Here last night. Meh.

Cheers

Jan. 8 doing DiP20 because I woke up hearing Cosmic Charlie in my head.

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Fall '77 from a bit of everywhere.
Just finished 5-21-77 from DiP 29.
Cheers

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yup 1981-05-02

Peace All!

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of healy, latvala, norman, cutler for Nassau 1981-05-06, it is
hard for me to grasp that this 13th version of dick's picks has been in my GD treasure chest for 25 years!
Rock On Today and EVERYDAY!

Peace All!

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TODAY with a listen to 1981-12-09 [daP 20] CU Events Center in Boulder, CO; it's been five weeks of some very COOL music from 1981 and "tripping the light fantastic", wow:) and THANK YOU for a real good time!

Peace All!
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Starlight Theater
Kansas City, MO
An excellent Chris Chappell matrix over at the archive.
This is one smoking show!

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Bonus songs on “Don’t Look Back” Blu-ray

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1974-02-22 (bonus 2022 disc) crank up the HEAT and bring it on china>rider & ujb!
everyone enjoy your saturday
Peace All!
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Due to hey nows. It's mentioning 1974 that seems to be the problem.