Grateful Dead

That wasn’t the Leafs best effort. You can pin that one on the Samsanov. That soft second goal seem to deflate them. Vasilevskiy, on the other hand was outstanding. Now things start to get tight.

Anyone know what's really up with Billy sitting out the "final" tour? Playing drums in a rock band is an athletic pursuit, and often the drummer is the first to go as guys get into their sixties and beyond. U2's Larry Mullen, Jr. is currently unable to go, Aerosmith is going on without Kramer, etc. Which is why Charlie Watts, gentleman drummer, is one of the greatest rock drumming legends of all time. Charlie pushed 80 behind the kit and never missed a beat.

I don't believe the tripe about "creative differences." Even with old new blood in the band like Burbridge, Mayer and Chimenti, the D&C repertoire and style has been well established now for several years. There's really not a hell of a lot of room for creative differences in this context.

They certainly slowed things down enough for Bill to keep up... if the tempos had gotten any more leaden they would have called it, "Wolf Bros."

It must be something else... could it be money, or a deep conflict with another band member? I doubt it. Bill the drummer sat out shows last time around and Jay Lane filled in admirably. I think he's just run out of steam and they didn't announce his absence until 2/3 of summer tour was sold.

Or maybe he's changing teams and joining back up with Phil. Stranger things have happened.

Last several hours:

Eric Clapton: "Give Me Strength: the '74/'75 Studio Recordings (Deluxe)

Greatest, most amazing Clapton set ever. Ton of live shit included as well which makes the title somewhat misleading. Excited to be seeing Clapton one more time in Denver this September, and one week later he's bringing his Crossroads Guitar Festival back around to L.A. The man is going out with fire.

\m/

....thats a fact jack.
Fingers crossed the Knights close it out tonight.
No email/shipping here yet.
Apologies if I brought up a certain band from Vermont ad nauseum. But I was, obviously, very excited and wanted to share my enthusiasm with the awesome peeps here.
Scroll on by if it's not your cup of tea. Just don't be a dick. Thanks!

DAVEROCK, I laughed my ass off when I read:

My mother bless her soul, was a great advocate of what she called "the art of conversation", which basically meant not talking about anything that might cause unpleasantness. The subjects she mentioned were politics, religion and sex. Funnily enough, she didn't mention hockey.

I realized that there are times when I read this thread only, and feel no need to comment. I still like reading everything though.

When it comes to music, I think there are certain bands/genres that don’t go over generally as well on the opposite side of the pond.
As an example, I never quite cottoned on to ‘pub rock’, ‘NWOBHM’ or ‘Northern Soul’. It just seems much more popular on the East side of “the big pond”. However, I never mind READING about these, or any other types of music. I’m quite pleased that we have so many Heads in Europe, and I love hearing from all of them. Keep it coming lads!!

Differences, that’s what make threads like this one great!!
Go Leafs, go Orioles, go Reds from Anfield, go everybody!!

Think I might get my #46 this weekend?? Hoping, but not expecting.

HF here, and clearly I haven't been reading the posts on this release, because all I want to know is:

Has anyone explained why this 3-CD set is $38.98? And why no talk of the bonus disc?

Don't tell me I have to listen to the Seaside Chat!!

....icy dead people.

nyuk nyuk

It seems to me we have gotten much better and offend far less often then we used to.

This is a Grateful Dead thread, but topics vary and conversations naturally stray.. I pass on things that do not interest me and chime in on the ones that do.. for the most part it all starts and evolves around the music, the band, the life and times of we intrepid travelers and all that comes with it. We are all connected but our interests vary..

As long as things are polite and don't stray too far i.e. into another orbit.. the world spins merrily along. This latest divergence got away from us because at it's core.. the post that threw us off was not particularly nice, not polite and it soured the moods of a whole lot of people reading it. The pox on bad manners..

A little beer, a little wine, a little sports, a little window pane is alright with me. Sometimes someone loses their car at a show it doesn't find it until the next week.. makes for a great story. I do like hearing and checking out some of the non-GD music ideas that spawn from these threads, they usually circle back to the core conversation pretty quickly. In this world of trouble, what you guys and gals post here is almost always interesting and moves the conversation forward. Keep it coming folks, just don't piss on somebody else's parade.

Hope that's ok to say.. really.. there is stuff to learn here in between the drums, space and mayhem. That's all I've got.

Dicks Picks 18.. goodness, that is one great release.. the first one that really opened my eyes to 1978 Grateful Dead.

They both can be spiritually pure, but usually suffer from dogma

It is in Texas!

Bless their hearts.