Grateful Dead

Three Feet High and Rising

A treasure to me

I listened to that on tape in a hotel room after "a very special" GD show at Cal Expo in '90. Lots of fun, knowwhutimean :)))

A raise of the glass to you, Trugoy

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If the Dark Star from this show doesn't give you psychedelic wood, then...uh...

have played at the Super Bowl? Maybe 3 or 4 songs at the most. Chinacat/ I know you Rider, Greatest Story, Bertha, Promised Lannd. Probably not Death Don't Have no Mercy.

....and check out the new Yo La Tengo record. There is a I'll steal your face lyric on the second track Tonight's Episode.
Solid from front to back.

I might be wrong, but I get the impression that having a first set with short songs, followed by a second set with longer jams started about half way through 1969, when they started to break out the "Working Man's" and more country based material. They played the newer songs to kick the show off, and then, in the second half reverted to music they had been playing for over a year - all the Live Dead/Anthem material. Not only were they more familiar with the older songs, they also lent themselves more to jamming - a winning combination.
Although they played 2 sets at FW69, the split between the two sets doesn't then seem as pronounced to me. Good Morning Little School always sounds like a bit of warm up tune, but it didn't seem to take them as long then before they were ready to jump of the high diving board.
Whatever - it was an unusual approach. I can't remember seeing any bands in the 1970's who played two sets apart from Tangerine Dream. The first of which I missed, it being so unexpected . The normal routine was one support band who played for about 45 minutes, followed by the main band who played for about an hour and a half. And that was your lot. Home on the last bus. Deaf for the rest of the week.

Now there's a seventies band! Great name and great songwriting and don't sound like anyone else. Seems to me a lot of music these days sounds the same... back in the day, no one sounded like the Doors or Pink Floyd or many others. Seems some of that unique creativity in bands achieving broad commercial success has gone by the wayside unless I'm looking in the wrong places.

I'm taking the CHIEFS today for a variety of reasons, even with a hobbled Mahomes, but the main one is experience. The Chiefs have been on the big stage before and so has Andy Reid (the old lady calls him Wilford Brimley). How ironic he is facing his old Eagles team.

There is usually an arc with NFL teams where they get close and closer and finally get there. This is only the 2nd year for this Eagles coaching staff and I haven't bothered to research it but I don't believe too many key players have Super Bowl appearances.

The moment could be a little too big for them. They might come out tight and make mistakes. I also am amazed at the way Mahomes plays the game... a little like the riverboat gambler, Brett Favre, without the interceptions.

Everyone who is watching the game today good luck and I hope you get what you want.

Last five:

R.E.M. - Monster
Aerosmith - Honkin' on Bobo
The Alan Parsons Project - The Essential Alan Parsons Project
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs

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....and they played all the songs you mentioned PT. Including Shambala, Mama Told Me Not To Come, Black And White and Never Been To Spain (personal favorite). Three Dog Night covers quite of few different musical styles, which is what I like about them.
Short show. 1 hr 40 minutes, but they sounded pretty good. The keyboardist was especially impressive. At least to me. Small room. Capacity 850 but sold out and drinks were reasonable.
Spoiled by jam bands I am regarding longer shows.
Next up. Umphreys McGee in a couple of weeks. Never seen them, but I've been getting familiar with their catalog.
Off to the sports book to place a few prop bets on the Super Bowl.
I used to bet sports a lot, but now I just toss money at this game. Makes it more interesting to me.
Go Eagles!

That's cool. back in the day, 3 Dog Night was BIG everyone played their songs, One, Liar, Joy to the World there are so many hits from these guys. There was a song on their Naturally lp called Heavy Church...Light my way with incensed candles...Heavy guitar, hits on that lp were Liar, Joy to the World and One-man Band from 1970. Have fun mate, I bet you and your babysitter will know most of the words to the tunes.

Mr. Ones, I could barely handle an hour and a half with Oroborous in Eagle, Colo., one random day last fall! We were gibbering away in a parking lot for way longer than I imagined. Think if there had been refreshments...

KIDDING! Actually, Oro is a great cat and my too-brief hang with Vguy and Nappyrags at Red Rocks last summer was a total blast.

As for liking or not liking Dark Star, to each his own. But I will say that the Dark Stars on the Euro 72 box blew our minds. No other band can take it apart and put it back together in such an interesting way, and generate such thoughts in my mind. So, um, I guess I'm one of those folks who love Dark Stars.

But here's an interesting point (in my mind) about first and second sets: no first set, no second set. These guys enjoyed playing their music and a first set can be real tight, it can be jammy, but it is essential to prepare for launching the second set. No humans could possibly just step out and crank a second set as captured on tape.

Having said that, the FW69 sets came close to a major launch on the first notes of each set, but that was a deliberate launch-from-the-get-go strategy. Still, it does show that I have no idea what I'm talking about.

So where's this hotel that is going to tolerate us for an entire weekend? And whose shows will get us out in the evenings?

I would be great with a HUGE '69 - '70 box set. Ark, Boston Tea Party, the shows Forensic Doc mentioned, and of course the September Fillmore shows, maybe as pre-order bonus shows or fragments, since I assume the audio wouldn't be much better than what circulates. That's the era I'm craving, although Fall '72 is always welcome.

Dark Stars are the reason I keep coming back to the well. There are still many to release from '72 - '73.