Grateful Dead

Well, another season of my Red Wings sucking. I can’t believe it has been 15 years since they won the Cup. Yes, I get they irony of that statement to a Leafs fan. Despite their woes, I decided to finally make the purchase. A custom jersey. The nice weather is upon us and I felt the need for some new gear as I resume my rollerblading. I went with the away white jersey. Both are nice, but I just think they look a little classier than the home red.

Name: EUROPE
Number: 72

Rocks hard. Always felt a bit of a ABB vibe off that one.
That song IS the shit!

I’ve got a great disc I made of Santana. I often will go through all of a artist albums I have and make a Pedro Mix: sorta a personalized best of, but not always just hits etc. here’s my Santana.

Jingo
Soul Sacrifice
Oye Como Va
Se A Cabo
Tousaint Overture
Corazon Espinado
Savor
El Nicoya
Africa Bamba
Guajira
Treat
Wishing it Was
Incident at Neshabur
Maria, Maria
Waiting
No One To Depend On
El Farol
Freedom/Celebration
A Dios

We always play this when the weather starts getting hot! 🌶
Perfect with cold Summer beer and brown rice burritos!

For the older unit live Live at the Fillmore rocks, Sacred Fire is a good later live one.

Nick1234 - I'm only familiar with Santana's earlier albums, when "Santana" was a band and not an individual. Of those, the third one, untitled, but usually referred to as "Santana 3" is a real barnstormer. It's got a track on it called "Toussaint L'Overture" , which is brilliant. The Tower of Power horn section are featured on some tracks, and they up the ante considerably. In fact, you've inspired to put it for the first time in ages - and yes, it still sounds great.
There's also a good live album called "Lotus", which was a triple album back in the day. That had one of those absorbing sleeves that folded in all sorts of directions. On one track, Carlos holds a single note for what seems like about 5 minutes. But the original band had folded by this point.

Any recommendations for up tempo Santana tracks? I've just got back from a holiday in Argentina and sitting outside a road side eatery wolfing down empanadas while getting it on to Carlos blazing away was one of the more unforgettable moments. I had no idea what the album/ tracks were but it went as a friend of mine likes to say. I love a holiday.

Anybody but Boston lol

The complete Winterland 74 recordings release has always been high on my wish list. The sound on the 5 cd release is remarkable. There is much written about how Bear & company hated the sound on the masters with one account claiming that he almost burned the masters after putting Steal Your Face together for release. While the old boots that circulated and the original SYF release did have less than stellar quality I thought the soundtrack sounded superbly inside the "mouth of the beast". I emailed Dave once asking him about why or how they were able to improve it so drastically but didn't get a reply. Norman does explain some of this on the DVD extras. He went to such lengths as feeding the bass drum track through a miked amp to make it sound richer. I think the technology is in hand to make those masters shine giving heads everywhere reparations for the professional indiscretions that Bear perceived about the original release.

The Leafs beat the Bruins - To dream…
We can certainly hope.
I agree with you on Seattle - now Proudfoot can catch the playoff bug. And LA snuck up on everyone! Dave Kloc, who did the great art work for DaP 32 to 36 inclusive is a big NHL guy, showed me pics of him with the Cup etc, and although he is from Michigan, and is a Red Wing die hard like you, is based in LA now, and loves the game.

I had that beautiful Traffic “Shootout At The Fantasy Factory” vinyl album with the oddly shaped rectangular cover, beautiful artwork, great record, but my friend’s brother chose it to use as a board to cut up his hash with a razor blade. One of the reasons I was never big on lending albums. I owned Spirit’s “Best Of” three times, by pals who took borrow to mean own/lose.
PS - Water Cooler trivia. “Shootout” had the great Muscle Shoals rhythm players on it, including David Hood, whose son Patterson Hood is now the main man in the Drive-By Truckers, a pretty decent band on their own. Some of the Muscles actually toured with Traffic for a bit.

Daverock, I'll bet your right, I bet they release those Winterland shows as a vinyl box set. I sure hope they release them on CD and video also. I would buy the records just like I bought the Fillmore West records, it such a great run of shows. I'd have to buy a record player..

I’m really counting on the Leafs this year. It’s well known that the presidents trophy winner rarely brings home the Cup. You need to take out the Bruins. Canadaland is not going to have many entrants into the tournament, so don’t let me down. It’s been 30 years.

It looks like the Kraken may make the playoffs for the first time. Maybe they can make a deep run, like the golden knights did in their inaugural playoff year. By the way, when did the LA Kings rejoin the league?

It’s nice to see Traffic get so much commentary on these boards. Great band.

Sign me up for Winterland.

.... Winterland 74, the more likely it seems to come about. It must be about 20 years since that 5 cd compilation came out. It's had a staggered history of being gradually revealed over the years.

"Steal Your Face" was actually the first live Dead album I bought, and the first one I bought at the time of it's release, in the middle of the heatwave in 1976. Great cover and photographs on the insides. I can remember that my copy came with a bonus album, which comprised of tracks from solo albums cut by Dead members around the time. The Diga Rhythm Band were sampled on it, among others. It got a rave review in the N.M.E. by Max Bell, resident Deadhead with the paper. "Sounds", on the other hand, said it should have been called "Steal Your Money".