Dave's Picks Vol. 47: Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, MO 12/9/79

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Who's ready to boogie with a little Brent-era Grateful Dead from the Gateway to the West? DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 47 features the complete unreleased show from Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, MO, 12/9/79 and you're going to need stamina because this one is high energy from start to finish.

By the time December 1979 rolled around, Brent Mydland had fully cemented his place in the Grateful Dead canon with his twinkling keys, harmonic tenor, and songwriting skills. No more is that evident than at this show boasting 25 songs including soon-to-be classics from GO TO HEAVEN like "Alabama Getaway," "Don't Ease Me In," "Lost Sailor," and the Brent-penned "Easy To Love You." It's also packed with whirling takes on fan-favorites like "Brown-Eyed Women," "Shakedown Street," and "Terrapin Station." And you've never heard a 2nd set quite like this with eight songs before "Drums" including an improvised "Jam" launching from the end of "Saint Of Circumstance." It doesn't stop there though, with a blazing finale of "Bertha>Good Lovin'" and perhaps one of the best versions of "Don't Ease Me In" the band ever did play. We've rounded out Disc Three with an extra nugget from '79.

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, this release was recorded by Dan Healy and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. Grab a copy while you can.

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September 13, 2023 - 9:28am

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JimInMD

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I'm with Oro on the snow, no bueno.. it's a terrible drug that ruined many a life of the people I grew up with. It seemed my high school friends that didn't go to college all got 'high paying' jobs (for our age) in contruction, landscaping, cable companies, UPS, whatever.. and all started doing blow... and all experienced serious problems. Going to school, we couldn't afford it that much. A friend in 87 or so turned me on to the idea that the stuff was no good.. stay away.. Danger Will Robinson. And pretty quickly I heeded his advice.

As to Chucks comments.. well said. I saw a few shows where I walked away wondering what could have been or what happened. One was that last show at RFK in 86. Well.. they got much better after that, then they got worse but still had their moments.

In the end we got what we got.. if I have one regret it's that I wish I would have gone to a few more shows. In hindsight, I probably went to as many as I could afford. A very positive experience on my life, I am grateful for that.. and grateful that I got to meet many of you here, and for those I have not met yet.. I at least get to read about your excellent stories, views on life and takes on music and all good things.

Oh, I really liked that interview with Whiz on recording Europe 72 and the most excellent 5/26/72, which they played on SiriusXM last night at 9. Serendipitous it comes up on these threads today. I will listen to it in its entirety very soon...

Be well people.. rock on. or as Mr. Burns said after his first dead show:
Excellent!
September 13, 2023 - 8:00am

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Gary Farseer

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Wiz

My memory fails as to his direct relationship. He was a technical type within the Organization. Now where placed I am not sure. Under Bear directly, maybe under Betty. In the documentary, he talks about the very last show of E72 and maybe some other things. He was the last tech in the recording truck, that is, recording switching tapes etc. This last show was pulling him in, blowing his mind. When Morning Dew came, he left and locked up the recording truck and went to go watch. He gives a deeply passionate discussion of that Morning Dew, that it was so incredibly emotive. That Jerry was crying, he began crying and was absolutely blown away with that version. He never went back to the truck and felt fortunate the remaining tape was able to record the whole show. That is my understanding, and from memory 4-5 years old, and my memory is not that great. May have to go back and watch Long Strange Trip, think it is still on Amazon. Might need to re-listen to that show as I became overwhelmed by the last years offerings and didn't make it through the whole E72 box this year. But can renew the listen as I am still digesting HCS and #47, and a lot of other stuff also. I also went thru the From the Vault 1-2.

Here is a direct write up over at rick turner. Anyone want reference website, DM me or look up Grateful Dead's Wiz.

May 12, 2020
Dennis “Wiz” Leonard’s Notes on Europe ’72

Here are my old friend, Dennis “Wiz” Leonard’s tech notes on the recording of the Grateful Dead’s great live album, “Europe ’72”. Most of my blog is my own writing, but I asked Wiz if I could share this, and he graciously said, “yes”. This is the clearest explanation of how Alembic did live recordings that I’ve ever seen. Wiz now works at Skywalker Sound…he went way big league!

Dennis Wiz Leonard Europe ’72 Technical Liner Notes By Dennis Leonard
“Less is more!” This was the motto of Alembic and many of the sound artists in the S.F. Bay Area’s growing community of folks trying to advance the state of the art in both “live” and “recorded” sound for rock ’n’ roll. One can hardly mention this philosophy to recording without touching on the Alembic PA system and its unique qualities.
The new paradigm for live sound: the Alembic PA. In 1964 The Beatles played at Shea Stadium using a circular array of Vox Grenadier Column speakers, a box quite similar to the Shure Vocal Master Column. This approach to sound for a stadium was doomed even if all the girls did not scream. Fast-forward to ’67-70 and things were not much better.
The Alembic PA was the first really hi-fi approach to a live system. It had direct radiator low-frequency elements rather than horn-loaded boxes, which were the standard. It was an electronically crossed-over three-way system using McIntosh MC-75, MC-275, and MC-3500 vacuum-tube amplifiers and Ampex MX-10 vacuum-tube mixers as the front-of- house console. It eventually evolved into the famous Wall of Sound. This was a philosophic approach, brainchild of The Bear, put together by some of the most talented engineers in the Bay Area, and the same philosophy was applied to the task of recording bands.
Alembic Recording did not have a truck to pull up to a venue. We had gear, and we often built a studio at the venue in a room somewhere backstage. Sometimes we would haul the gear to the gig in a rental truck, then unpack and build the studio for the gig in the truck, take it apart when we were done, and take it back home.
Recording Europe ’72 was a monumental task, and we came up with a great solution to building a truck which we could fly airfreight to and from Europe. A video-production company was letting go of a pair of cargo containers built for them to ship a portable video-production remote unit by airfreight. This was perfect—when set back-to-back, these two rode in the top of a 747 airfreighter. Each container was built around a reinforced floor, the sides and top latched on and off.
We moved all of the components of our Ampex MM1000 16-track into a video chassis that put all 16 sets of AG-440 electronics down below the transport which was then on a 45 degree angle. This was not only more robust, but it was also going to allow us to run 14-inch reels. This took place in an all-night marathon. When we started, Ron Wickersham was not sure all of the original cabling would work. We were lucky it did! At around 5 am, the new machine was rolling; no cables needed to be cut or spliced from the original wiring loom!

Another obstacle was that the capstan speed in an MM1000 was derived from line frequency. Ours was a 60-Hz machine and we were going to 50-Hz land. Ron came up with a solution which would also solve another problem down the road: He built a precision 60-Hz crystal oscillator; we drove a McIntosh 275 vacuum-tube amplifier and picked off a tap on the output transformer, which would give us 120 volts with enough current to run the capstan motor at our precise 60 Hz/15ips, also now immune to line-frequency fluctuation. The other problem arose when we tried to get Ampex to give us their 207 tape on 14-inch reels. Ampex 207 had a thinner backing; instead of the traditional 30 minutes one got out of a 10.5-inch roll, 207 would give us 45 minutes, so a 14-inch reel was going to run 90 minutes—very desirable when recording a band with long sets, like the Dead. Ampex would not build the reels; we had to do those ourselves. Remember, we were running the recorder’s capstan on an oscillator, so for building the reels we hooked up a variable-frequency oscillator. We would ramp the machine up to 60ips to pack the tape. Each of the 14-inch reels had a splice in it. Ron and Sue Wickersham and I spent a few nights at Alembic having a 14-inch- reel-building party.
The recording rig was quite simple: “less is more.” We recorded the Dead quite often, so a lot of what we did for Europe ’72 had been tested and proven.
We built the rig at Alembic. One of the newly procured containers had the 16-track and an outboard equipment rack, the other . . . a custom built cabinet which was our tape library, and this cabinet also had our monitor console, Revox two-track, cassette machine, and Orban reverb units mounted on top of it. A carpenter met us at Heathrow airfreight in London. When the gear arrived, we took the sides and tops off of the two containers (which were left there in storage for the tour) and had them forklifted into our rental truck for the tour. The container floors were about ten inches high, so after the two were in the truck, the carpenter secured them and built us a filler floor so that the recording truck would not have a split- level floor.
We wired the truck up and hung drapes and the 4310 JBL monitors, as well as many other things at the first show venue, Wembley Arena.
The flow of the rig, starting inside the venue, consisted of the following:
Two nine-pair snakes plugged into a custom Alembic split. AC from the stage ran to the truck with the two nine-pairs. Once inside the truck, the AC power was conditioned in an automatic, motor-driven variac made by General Radio. This was to, hopefully, prevent severe voltage fluctuation. The split plugged into the rack, which held a patch bay and minimal gear. We had a couple of Ampex MX-10 tube mixers and some limiters. The limiters, by the way, were used only on vocals for our monitor mix; we did not want to do anything to the vocals on the 16-track record master.

One of the big “less is more” philosophic bits of Alembic magic was the use of transformers in the input section of the MM1000. Ampex offered modules which plugged into an octal socket on the back of each 440 record amplifier. We used these sockets for the transformers, which would allow us to take microphone level right into the tape recorder, totally passive—no electronic noise added and no record console electronics to fail.
The MM1000 fed a very small, 16-track Alembic monitoring console built by Ron. Janet Furman was our technical engineer and not only fixed things, but also set up the 16-track to the custom equalization we were using with the thinner-backed Ampex 207 tape. We could monitor, solo, and build a two-track mix on this. We recorded to a Revox B77 and a Sony cassette machine, and we also had some pretty simple spring reverbs for our two-track mixes.
Shows seemed to generally fit on two 14-inch reels and a ten-inch reel or two. Tape changes were quite interesting: We did not have a lot of room and had practiced this quite a bit, and it took three of us to do this at high speed. In an effort to not run out of tape during a performance, we had an indicator-light system of communication. Under Jerry’s monitor wedge there were three small lamps mounted on a piece of wood. The lights could be lit from the truck. A green, yellow, and red light: Green = we are rolling and in record; yellow = if you can wind it down and stop, we need to change tape; red (if, in fact, the band did stop for us) = changing tape, not in record.
This, of course, did not fit in with the way the Grateful Dead worked. There were not going to be any rules. Early in the tour, I tried a “yellow,” asking for a possible wind-down of the jam so that we could change tape. Even though this had been an idea we had discussed Stateside, Jerry was having no part of it! As I switched on the yellow light, I looked at Garcia on our 13-inch B&W TV monitor. He looked up at the camera, knowing I was watching, and simply smiled and nodded no in a very friendly way. Don’t fuck with the music!
We did some tape changes while the band was playing. We really did not want to interfere with the flow of the music.
I was in the truck for the tour, parked in front of the Ampex 16-track. Since we had no record console in the path to tape, the 16-track itself was actually the only place to make any level adjustments, so with our custom MM1000, all 16 of the AG440 record amplifiers were clustered together in two stacks of eight, easy to keep an eye on. Betty Cantor did our live two-track mix in the truck; she was around eight feet away. The band really had no set lists in those days, so as the show went down, I would write one on each of the tape boxes. Bob Matthews was at front of house. We would chat on our intercom after songs, and he, Betty, and I would decide how many stars to give a song: Three stars meant it was a really good performance! The star system was used when we got back home in order to focus on candidates for the Europe ’72 album.
Twenty-two shows in two months (57 days) is a vacation tour. The current tour-booking standard is to average 4.5 shows a week, and the Grateful Dead Europe ’72 tour was booked at around 2.5 shows per week. It does not get much better! Although it was an amazing time, with many days off, we took recording this tour very seriously and there was no relaxation on a show day at all.
It was a high time for everyone. The music was just amazing and for me not seeing any of it except on a small B&W TV was OK. I did, however, get inside on the last night. Due to circumstance, I was alone in the truck. We had, only minutes before, put a fresh 14-inch reel up and had 1.5 hours before the next tape change. A microphone onstage needed attention and I had to go inside. I did this with a bit of trepidation; I really did not want to simply leave the truck, but no one else was available and the mic needed to be fixed. The band was in a spacey jam and was very unlikely to produce levels which would be a problem on tape.
I locked the truck, went inside, and quickly fixed the bad mic, which was just a bit loose on its stand. As I went for the stairs to leave, the band dropped into “Morning Dew,” which has always been a favorite tune of mine. I decided to stay. Dynamically, the levels in the truck—which was now “running itself”—were going to be fine, and I had to stay! I parked myself behind Jerry’s rig for the song, a time I will absolutely never forget.
Fast-forward to Alembic Studios, 60 Brady Street, San Francisco. The band is choosing the final songs for the album. I am walking down the hall towards the control room. Jerry bursts out, very animated as he catches me, “Hey, Wiz. Guess what? ‘Morning Dew’ from the Lyceum is for sure going on the album.” (Big smile from Jerry.) He says, very emphatically, “And no one was in the truck!” (Bigger smile.) The Grateful Dead’s music was built on taking chances, embracing the unknown, letting serendipity have its hand. So the fact that, while no one was in the truck, a true pearl was recorded was not unusual at all! It was just an affirmation that we were letting the muse guide us in an invisible and mysterious way.
The tour was a truly magical time. It changed my life forever! If I were to be marooned on an island with only one piece of music I could ever listen to, “Morning Dew” from Europe ’72 would be it. Jerry’s solo says it all!

Oh… One more anecdote, I got back to SF after a quick trip to Vermont to get my dog Zach… Got back to Alembic in time to meet the gear, we were now at 60 Brady street… Big M (Bob Matthews) grabs me and says, “Hey remember we had to fast wind some tapes off, so I want you to play the tour, the whole tour, so all the reels are playback packed at “Tails out” the control room is yours” So I said, “hey I’ll just live here till it’s done, ok?” Big smile from Big M… What a drag, I had to play the whole tour, update thoughts (Star System) on quality and I put another pair of 4310’s in the back of the control room and played the room miss through them… (Surround sound) sat and did a live mix for I am not sure how long, I would play and sleep, sleep and play… But it was pretty constant… Stop every show to clean the heads….. Then I moved up to Fairfax and really slept..
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September 13, 2023 - 7:51am

#493

Gary Farseer

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Sixtus

I have been dabbling in Goose's pool this year. Definitely very enjoyable stuff!
September 13, 2023 - 7:44am

#494

Gary Farseer

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Wow

In the mid 80's we a had massive gak parties. Some lasting several days and going thru massive amounts of cocaine. My last dalliance was summer 1986, sort of lines up with other events of 1986. I was born with a heart condition, thought I should stop as the heart palpitations might lead to an arrhythmia. Just before that, Crack started to come out. Remember being in a friend's friends house that had turned into a Crack lab. Man were they a factory. Started to change my views about Coke. Trying to put puzzle together on 86. Only time I smoked crack was in Manhattan, August 86. My brother and I had just left the Blue Note watching Dizzy Gillespie. We were already high on white lightning (name for blotter - and yes there is that deeper connection to Bear and The Human Be-In). We were walking the streets around 2am and we come across a cat hanging out on the front of a brownstone. He was smoking and we started talking. We ended up buying bag of pot from him. He also pulled out another joint and fired it up and then passed to us. After smoking it he told us it was laced with crack. There was only one other time that I was that high and that is the show I wrote yesterday saying I would write about it next year on anniversary of show. We were so incredibly high, that at 3am on a packed subway, New Yorkers were freaking out watching us. It was a ball. I have posted about that night a couple of times here with a lot more detail. So somewhere summer/fall 86 was my last ride. Not sure of timing, remember the party but not the time. Know it was shorty after NYC August 86, but then when was the crack house event...timing of Jerry getting sick. It is all a big blur now. But dang, that feeling of doing two quarter gram lines up each nostril was absolutely amazing. That is, a buddy of mine took a gram divided into four lines and each took two.

Hmmm, I do remember an ear nose and throat doctor soaking my throat with cocaine before she sent a camera up my nose and down my throat. That was 2004, so I guess that counts too.

Everything has its purpose but all things in moderation. Guess that is why I never crossed the line and became an addict to anything.
September 13, 2023 - 7:43am

#495

Sixtus_

Joined:
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Goose at the Boston Pavilion

...headed to Goose the next two nights at the seaside pavilion in Boston; looks iffy with thunder expected for most of this afternoon/evening, but tomorrow looks good. Will be the start of their Fall tour here before they head to Europe in November for the first time. I've been on this ride for the past 18 months or so, and I have to admit it's been amazing so far with no limits in sight. Each show is literally the best show you've seen, until the next one. Where have we heard that one before?? They are on a true roll. For any who may be skeptical, this is a full-hearted prompt to go and dip that toe into the waters to see what its all about. A lot of stuff on The Tube with a U, and Bandcamp has all of their shows and albums to listen for free (it's all also on Nugs).

Also saw that Phish announced their first festival in many years, holding a spot for next summer already.
In Delaware of all places!
Hey Garth, we're in Delaware....

Be Well People!
Sixtus
September 13, 2023 - 7:20am

#496

Gary Farseer

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Proudfoot

check DM.
September 13, 2023 - 7:05am

#497

Oroborous

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Toot toot totsie

No Bueno!

It was around, luckily we were too poor for that. (It was expensive then)
Occasionally, maybe for special occasions, or weddings or NYE etc, but fortunately only rarely.
If you’ve never, don’t bother.
September 13, 2023 - 6:58am

#498

Oroborous

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Sheik

My understanding is the Fillmore 71 tapes were chopped up to use for Skull Fuck and other things.
Supposedly that’s why they did Ladies and Gentlemen: to use the best of what was available…
September 13, 2023 - 2:25am

#499

daverock

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When your day is done..

Cocaine never appeared in my orbit when I was young, so I never took it either. I'm sure if it had appeared during my teens I would have had a dabble - I believed in living adventurously. I suppose I could have had a go later in life, but I never felt it was worth it, all things considered. I am not sure what the characteristics of a coke inspired jam would be.

I would watch a biopic of Jerry if it was on the telly. But I would have very, very low expectations.
September 13, 2023 - 2:02am

#500

sheik yerbones

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multitracks recordings

Recently listening to Three from the vault, St Louis 71, and Europe 72, I am just asking about the multitracks recordings if there is anything about Fillmore East 71 (a full show 27 or 29) or the final run at winterland in 74 (full show) - St louis is a good show but the sound is not as shining as the others. I return to the capitol 71 shows, they are so good, great shows as a quintet.

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Who's ready to boogie with a little Brent-era Grateful Dead from the Gateway to the West? DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 47 features the complete unreleased show from Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, MO, 12/9/79 and you're going to need stamina because this one is high energy from start to finish.

By the time December 1979 rolled around, Brent Mydland had fully cemented his place in the Grateful Dead canon with his twinkling keys, harmonic tenor, and songwriting skills. No more is that evident than at this show boasting 25 songs including soon-to-be classics from GO TO HEAVEN like "Alabama Getaway," "Don't Ease Me In," "Lost Sailor," and the Brent-penned "Easy To Love You." It's also packed with whirling takes on fan-favorites like "Brown-Eyed Women," "Shakedown Street," and "Terrapin Station." And you've never heard a 2nd set quite like this with eight songs before "Drums" including an improvised "Jam" launching from the end of "Saint Of Circumstance." It doesn't stop there though, with a blazing finale of "Bertha>Good Lovin'" and perhaps one of the best versions of "Don't Ease Me In" the band ever did play. We've rounded out Disc Three with an extra nugget from '79.

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, this release was recorded by Dan Healy and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. Grab a copy while you can.

Oh Mike....

.... you just cost me money with Marching Flower Children. On the Pros,,,, cheapish at 30 bucks for 3 cd's,,, Con's coming from England,,,, will take as long as a Dave's Pick coming from Merica :-).

You further complicated things,,,,, I checked the list and my eyes locked on the Vanilla Fudge doing You Keep Me Hanging On. Ran upstairs to hear, because. While checking found the stock versions was 3 minutes,,, on boobtube they had the uncut 7 minute version. Stop the presses,,,, had to download that copy and label and add to Vanilla Fudge's - Psychedelic Sundae - The Best of Vanilla Fudge. Hard to believe it wasn't on that album? But now my copy has 19 cuts instead of 18 :-)

Speaking of money,,,, Joni released Vol 3 of the Joni stuff (The Asylum Years 72-75),,, since I have the first two....... guess I got the cd's and vinyl coming.

Oh what the hell I throw this on the pile,,,, they want to start me on Humira,,,,, my end after deductible 8K!!! Why make drugs no one can afford? Also it seems their selling smack,,,, once you start, you can't stop!

Ok, sorry rant off

Well Proudfoot.....

... you probably want Kenny Rodger's Quick Pickin' and Fun Strummin' music course.

....singing mussels and cockles alive, alive-O

Mike

My apologies for the oversight. I should have included you as well. After all, RJ was one of yours. Buffalo only adopted him.

Reprise

Jack - I prefer to think RJ was “Ours”, the best of both sides. I’m sorry he will be missing his team this year, because they are my definite Darkhorse in the East this year. Going to be watching this Bedard kid in Chicago closely, too.

Dennis - I’m glad to hear your Mrs’ credit card is still working great! I’m going to be ordering that set, too. You can never have enough Vanilla Fudge. Sorry about the cost of the meds, wow! Come to Canada, much cheaper.

Proudfoot - Full marks - “ March of the Flower Children” is a Seeds song. My favourite of theirs is “Pushing Too Hard”.

Grapefruit

There's a real treasure trove of psychedelic compilations that have been released in Britain over the last few years. This "March of the Flower Children" looks good, and I noticed there is another U.S. one called "We're An American Band" which features heavier bands ( I would think) from 1967-1973.
A lot of these comps are on the Grapefruit label - 3cds, nice informative booklets and not to large in size - about as big as a single cd. Top stuff!

Mike

I am excited about Bedard as well. The Blackhawks need to become relevant again.

On the day of the draft, some of the fine folks Chicago called it CBD. Connor Bedard Day. Let's hope so.

Motfc

Looks like a nice compilation

GD Golden Road

Cool

It's too bad they can't include some "listening enhancements" with the collection. Wink wink, nudge nudge.

'83 NYE at the SF Civic...

BTK, knew you had to have been there! With all the fantastic releases we've all collected (Dicks, Daves, Road Trips, Boxes, 30 Days of), I rarely take the time to dip into some of the shows collected in the old taping days ... and for sure haven't seen video of any of it (except may the US Festival) ... thanks for the u tube tip... I'm on it!! thnx much............tcc

Hurricane Hilary....

....yup. Tropical depressions aren't something you see every day in the southwest. Expecting anywhere between 1 1/2 and 3 inches of rain, which is a lot for here. SoCal expecting up to 5. Today's high was 103. Sundays high projected to hit 77. '77 was a grate year.
Edit. Just dropped like 15 degrees here in an hour. Dewpoint is 66. Humidity also 66. Now I ain't no meteorologist, but thats some unstable atmosphere.
Anyone got some choice Weather Report Suites to recommend?
Edit. Nevermind. Found one! Seattle 5.21.74 from the outstanding PNW box. I turned 6 that day! 🥳
It's already coming down hard here. Massive thunder and lighting. I doubt I'll see my female pittie for a few days. She hates loud noises. Camped under the computer desk for now.
My male dog could care less lol.

WRS

I really like the one from 10/17/74 Winterland.. but in truth, there isn't a WRS I do not like.

Hang in there Senator. A Hard Rain's......... Gonna Fall.

Wishing the best for all, but especially those in the high country in Southern California. The terrain is not well suited for this type of storm. This could prove to be a big event and a big disruption for that part of the Southwest. ..and it's not like we have absorbed what just happened in Hawaii.

The street I live on slopes down a bit....

....I've lived here for all of my 55 years except for 4. Elko called me.
But yeah. This forecast ain't no joke.
But some idiots will think, "What? It's only 2"!"
Yeah. You don't understand rain in the desert. Storms roll in and pop up extremely fast. Good luck.
I do know my geography.
And what Jim said.
5.21.74 is nice.

Wake of the Flood??

I'm in SoCal too Vguy ... out in the desert where the rain doesn't soak in much ... had a pretty good gusher 10 years ago (almost to the day) but expect this could be worse... batten down the hatches and strap in .... it's gonna be an interesting couple of days...........tcc

A hard rains gonna fall

having lived in Florida for 38 yrs I am very aware of the destruction a "2" hurricane will cause, and that's in Florida, which is basically a sand bar where back in the day you could set your watch by the afternoon 4 pm rains.
Now I never could read no roadmap and I don't know what the weather might do but if I was in the path of a "2" I'd be stocking up on water ( to drink and to flush and wash a few dishes too) we usually just filled up the bathtub. Power will most likely go out so one should have perhaps a camping stove (propane) and a radio with plenty of batteries. Don't forget about the 4 legged loved ones either, they will be scared and looking for shelter too.
In the past we used to just say "a little wind, a little rain" until we were hit with a direct hit of the eye wall during hurricane Charley in 2004. Trees 40 to 50 ft tall snapping off about 10 ft above ground, crashing all over the place, rain that appeared to go straight, not down, and the worst thing, the howling wind that takes pieces of roof off, a shingle at a time and it if gets a good hold, the entire roof.
Be safe all who is in the path of this, it could be pretty hairy.
Perhaps some good old Grateful Dead to help get thru this, in the past, they seemed to have some sort of ability to effect the weather, so play it LOUD.

Thanks PT

Was raised in the Midwest and survived a direct hit by a tornado, lived through a few less direct hits of earthquakes, but never a hurricane, so thanks for the advice .... the bathtub is now full!! Stocked up on water & food, gassed up the beast, cleared anything that could fly through the air (just short of cutting down trees!!), everything's charged, flashlights at the ready, emergency contacts contacted, "go-bag" ready and am about as ready as I am able. Once again thanks for any tips..........tcc

Hilary's Power

Radar showed a band reaching all the way up here in W. Colo. last night.
Fabulous lightning show then a quarter inch of rain in like 25 minutes.
That's a drencher for us and we haven't had anything like that since May-June.
Good luck to all in her path.
Cheers
Did a full focused listen at high volume of DaP 37, Wm. & Mary 4-15-78. Total new respect for that one. Felt like I was there. Apparently I need to get up and dance around more while listening to earn the whole effect!

Slacker

I went from tapes, to archive, to official releases, as many also did. I now realize, I never went back to find/listen to the boards of shows I saw. So that is something on my radar for the next time being, maybe 1 per weekend.

Hopefully Hillary will down grade fast as it enters cooler waters in the next 24 hours or so. (?) When it comes to hurricanes, watch barometric pressure. If pressure dips in to low 29's look out. I think Andrew that hit Miami 30+ years ago had pressure into the mid 28's. But of course, for the desert sw it is all about flooding/flash flooding. Hope all are as prepared as TCC. Overkill is better.

We have had a mild summer for where I am. Sure hope we dont have a 100 degree Christmas/New Year's.

And the wind …begin… to

HOOOWWLLLLL! (Cue Jer bear on the shredding machine)
Yeah similar here last night 1stshow. Huge lightning, first heat lightning all over, then the real stuff bombing the valley.
It’s pretty impressive when the big thunder booms through these valleys and canyons! And very intense but short deluge. Hopefully no fires from all that lazy lightning.

SPRING: 78: yeah that DaP was a real fine surprise. Sometimes you get shown the light…Spring 78 wasn’t really on my radar until that one dropped. Now I wish he’d drop a box from that tour. Really sweet Betty’s too!

Yeah PT I remember being in SoFla and those “lil” 4 pm downpours…tropical thunder mate!
That’s some rain!

Hang in there boys and girls! and remember…
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro!

Oh, RJ

How could I forget.
One of the all time greats, May the four winds blow him safely home…
Old school, didn’t need to chatter incessantly like they all do now. Like Collingsworth et el that even after decades, still seem compelled to force you to know every damn thing that’s in their thick sculls and prove how smart they are…gag!
With RJ, Always felt like you were sitting with a buddy watching a game, all relaxed and sorta mellow, until WHAM something would happen and he’d weave his magic with one part entertainer, one part emotion.
Yep, unfortunately they don’t make em like that no more : (
Damn, what’s next? No more Anchor beer, no RJ, DTV NFL, women’s rights, etc, etc, etc, oh well, nothing lasts as the pranksters say…
Thanks for the decades of fun and memories, gonna have to dust off the ole RJ Top Shelf video disc tonight.
He was a great guy, “Top Shelf Where Mama Hides the Cookies” to use his famous quote.
Hopefully Tim Horton has a hot coffee waiting for him in the big press box in the beyond!

La-La-La-La-La Oro

La-La-La-La-La-LaFontaine!!!! RJ was quite a character, Oro.
I got to playing some Seeds last night and I forgot how fun these early bands were, including the Zombies and the Blues Magoos, a favourite of my older brother back in 67-68ish. He used to belong to that Columbia record club back then where you would get a batch of albums for a penny, and signed up for a year’s subscription. Then he got hip, and got way into The Doors and some others, but those early psychedelic band albums he bought were a hoot.
I hope everyone in the SouthWest stays safe through the inclement weather. Up here, it seems like half the country is burning with forest fires really bearing down. Stay safe, all.
PS - Jack: I’m glad Bedard went to Chicago, and can hopefully turn that storied team around. This kid should do for the Blackhawks what Patrick Mahones did for KC - make them relevant again.

Good luck for those in Hillary's path

Growing up in the Carolinas, I well remember my mom driving us to our grandparents through Hugo, and we rode out the storm at their log cabin, which actually had less trees around it than our house at the time. I believe Hugo was still a 3 or 4 at that point. Was surprising to see so many people on the road, especially after watching it tear through Charleston the night before. One of my biggest memories is all the wonderfully strange sea creatures that had been taken on a very, very long journey inland, mainly little bugs, but most still wriggling and writhing. More recently, riding out Matthew, Dora, and some others. We came through unscathed, excepting limbs and leaves. Power went only briefly, which, during Matthew, my dad actually went on oxygen the day before it hit, so we were glad it came back on pretty quickly. But flooding and power outages persisted in town, and even Waffle House closed due to Matthew. My wife, from Jamaica, knows of hurricanes as well, and takes it more seriously than I do, filling tubs with water, because she lived through Gilbert, which knocked out power for 3 weeks I think she said. Something unprecedented like a hurricane hitting California, Utah, and Colorado could conceivably do greater damage due to the unforeseen threat. Another reason we need that new power grid in the East and West.

But hey, it's perfectly normal phenomena, right? Also, I agree with Jim, I like all the Weather Report Suites. DiP 14 features two of them that are excellent, DaP 19 7/19/74 has a really good one, Winterland '73 has two excellent ones and a good one, DaP 13 2/24/74 is really nice, especiwlly the segue to Row Jimmy, and the king of them all is DiP 12 6/28/74 a fantastic one followed by a 29 min jam that features MLBody becoming a proto-Music Never Stopped jam, Dark Starish jam, and then out of nowhere becomes US Blues. Sonically, one can never go wrong with DaP 34 6/23/74, my favorite Wall of Sound 2 track, and everything is played exceptionally well, including this WRS> China Doll. Think 6/23/74 will be my soundtrack for working on my music room today...

Non-Dead

Never knew I would love streaming (Qobuz!) so much, but it gives me a chance to sample TONS of stuff . . .

The Wake Outtakes are on there, but while mistyping a search for K'naan, I stumbled across this band, and I had to check them out just for their album covers--turns out their moody rock music is very cool, too!
Kanaan--Windborne

Then I listened to someone named Grace Potter, who dropped an album yesterday--quite tasty blues rock!

And Zakir Hussain (who I saw in concert this past winter) from Bear's Sonic Journals, which led to a bunch of Ravi Shankar listening. I'll have to check out his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival . . .

R.I.P., Robbie--that first solo release of yours is an all-time classic.

Finally got around to showing our teens "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" last night--still terribly clever and hilarious! R.I.P., Paul. I remember renting the VHS of that (and "Children of the Corn") for my 15th or 16th birthday sleep-over.

And of course, stickered on every VHS cassette was a good life motto: Be Kind . . . Rewind . . .

T. Swift

A friend just revealed to me that at the last minute she decided to take her daughter to a Taylor Swift show here in the Twin Cities. The afternoon of the show she paid $1000 per TICKET ($400 "Service Fee" to someone) to sit in the absolute worst seats in the 75,000-person stadium! Their backs were literally against the wall, as they were in the top-most row, behind the stage by about 15 degrees, so there were no more seats behind or to the side of them.

I have always had mad respect for Taylor Swift, as she keeps it classy, writes good tunes, and REALLY looks out for her fans, just like the good ol' Grateful Dead did. Those two, Pearl Jam, and Garth Brooks stand out as musicians who always tried to keep tickets cheap and available. Garth in particular just kept adding shows in a town until people quit buying tickets, so as to appease every fan who wanted to hear him.

I don't really listen to three of those four, but do give them all credit for actually giving a darn about the fan experience.

DHBrewer

Funny you mention Grace Potter, DMCVT was talking about her recently (and talked TO HER and Bernie Sanders, too). Also, funny you mention Zakir Hussain, he and John McLaughlin have reunited Shakti, put out their first album in decades, and are doing their first US tour in decades, just began in Boston a couple nights ago with John Scofield opening. Bela Fleck joins the tour as opener soon. Sorry I missed that.

I've never listened to Taylor Swift (knowingly, anyway), and don't really plan on it. Wish she would use her ticketing clout to call for a revamp or destruction of Ticketmaster. The fees are absolutely astronomical, and the higher your ticket cost, the higher the service fee, yet it's the same exact service, for the exact same event, being processed by the exact same people! They lost a lawsuit a few years back and I got emailed some worthless free ticket vouchers that magically never were available when I tried to redeem any of them. Not sure how they could just blithely raise those very fees that got them in trouble, and the new system with ticket exchanges and the killing they make off every single transfer is ridiculous. One of my favorite things about String Cheese Incident is their lawsuit against Ticketmaster over monopolistic practices. They won, Ticketmaster settled, but Cheese had to find funky non-Live Nation venues for some time. I only wish the bigger artists who could effect a change would try it. Pearl Jam spoke out and didn't take a hit, but that was 30 years ago, and this Sisyphean Rock keeps rolling back downhill, with more and more expensive undertakings to roll it back up. I yearn for the days of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and a Teddy Roosevelt to wield it.

Gary! (and other gearheads)

Check out the geek fest on Meyers D&C Panther system at Light Sound Journal dot ya know…
I haven’t read it yet, but it looks mighty tasty!
PROPER!

Paying way over price re events....

....let's just say, I paid a little bit more than that Taylor Swift ticket price re the Golden Knights Stanley Cup winner game. Worth it? Yes. You either want it or you don't.
To be fair, Swift plays for over 3 hrs and her shows look top shelf.

More Dead Head TV

DTV released today on dreamswedreamed dot com:

Fall 1989: The Dark Star Tour
Dead Head TV Host Open Episode 016 August 1989
Dead Head TV Credits Episode 016 August 1989

Wake Of The Flood....

....Angels Share outtakes now "streaming". Impeccable timing.
And incredible stuff. I Am The Rain. Early title for WRS? Pistol Shot.
Early title for China Doll.
I absolutely love learning new dead shit.
Light rain occurring now. Watching the Dolphins/Texans preseason game.

TS and others

Grace Potter. Saw her for the first time a few months back at a very small theater. Very cool. What a great voice.

Bernie. He was the mayor of Burlington when I was at UVM. You would never know it. He was always walking around town dressed in blue jeans and would speak to anyone. Vermont is like that. People are down to earth and approachable. At least they used to be. I was at a good friends outdoor wedding at Stowe. They are big croquet players and had a court set up to play. After dinner I grabbed a mallet and started whacking some balls around. This guy walks up and asked to play a match. Just the two of us. About half way through I asked him what he did. Oh, I’m a Vermont State Senator in Washington. Jim Jeffords.

So Taylor S. Good Lord. If her Eras tour didn’t open people’s eyes to just how despicable Ticketmaster is, nothing will. As someone else said. Their fee is a flat percentage, so the more you pay for the ticket, the higher the fee. Plus the seller pays a fee.

Deadhead is correct. I went to Cincinnati. Ticket prices the day before the show, behind the stage with no view. $900. A few hours before the show, $1,000. Many of those went unsold and you had thousands of young kids (and parents) outside unable to attend. Forbes did a study and the average aftermarket ticket price paid was $1,605. Before fees. That puts you at $2,000 a pop.

Vguy - I would have dropped that kind of cash to see my team win the Cup without even thinking twice. Well done.

12 28 83

Yes

Gooood stuff

I listened today while driving to Oregon. The post-Drums is especially special.

Time Has Come Today

Angry Jack is right - I would have paid the same to see my team win the Cup, like VGuy did.
But hypothetically, if we could go back in time (using Jim’s Time Machine) to see one concert that stands out in history as significant to you, what show would you pay big bucks to see knowing what you know now? The Dead at Barton Hall? Would it even be a Dead show? How about the Beatles on Sullivan? Dylan going electric at Newport? (Or in Manchester, for the “Judas!” show?). The Last Waltz? Bowie’s last Ziggy show? The Stones with Brian Jones? An artist long since passed? (Gram Parsons’ era Burritos would be one I’d consider)
Which show would be “The One” that you would go Swift for, and break the bank?

Initial Thoughts

I might have some other choices when I’ve thought about it but here are a few places I’d like to have been:

SF/LA in the late 60’s - early 70’s as several of you were
Jamaica mid to late 70’s
Watching The Beatles in Liverpool in the early 60’s as my brother did.
I’d like to have seen Robert Johnson live.
In Bristol in 1927 to see the sessions recording Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family.
The premier of Stravinsky’s ‘The Rite of Spring’

Hard To Pick Just One

But here's a few:
- Grand Old Opry, in the Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs era
- My almost cousin "Cousin" Kenny Vaughn taking lessons from Bill Frizell
- Allman Bros. with Duane, I didn't catch them until 6-23-74
- The Will The Circle Be Unbroken recording sessions
- The first time Leftover Salmon played together, with my good friend Joe Jogerst on accordion. I'll bet they amazed themselves.
Cheers

Great gigs

Confining myself to England, three that come to mind are the Jimi Hendrix Experience during the first 6 months of 1967, The Dead at The Lyceum on 5/26/72 and that infamous Iggy and The Stooges gig at Kings Cross in 1972.

Robert Johnson might just be my favourite musician - without question my favourite blues man.I think it might have been a bit dangerous seeing him live, though. But in a perfect world..

British Columbia

I hope Dave is ok and not anywhere near the BC wildfires!

Anniversary show 8/20/83 Frost

40 years ago today I was at the Frost for another fun day with the Dead.

The BC Blazes

Frank - Dave L is in the Victoria area of BC, on Vancouver Island, at least 500 kilometres from the heavy fires in a place called Kelowna, and across a body of water, so he should be ok. One of my kids lives in Vancouver, BC, which is roughly 400 Kilometres from the fires, and he says the skies his way are extremely hazy with smoke.

DaveRock - Hendrix would be hard to pass up, no doubt.

Hilary veered west....

....minimal damage here.
To quote Mississippi Half-Step, I prayed for better weather.

BC

Thanks Mike. Hope your kid is ok too!

5.1 earthquake....

....in SoCal. Ventura area.
Felt it here.

Wow.

Heavy wildfire smoke here in Salem Oregon and the NW (blame Canada)

Rains in the SW

and now an earthquake?

Shazam....

We live in the SE area of the LV valley....

....not too bad. The west side has been getting pummeled though.

pray for better weather...

cheers to our canadian friends, all fires won't help to improve the carbon balance.
agree with you Daverock for Robert Johnson, just a few songs that sounds so right still in 2023. I reconsidered jimi Hendrix with the mid tempo songs, most of them in Axis and new rising sun. Hey Baby and 1983 a merman...are big favorites.
I eventually download the digital HCS box. as we say here, just matter the wine, not the bottle, even if I miss the usual beautiful boxset art. The issues with cd and taxes took me out of the game. Little boxes like may77 june76 july78 seems right for shipping and taxes. Pacific NW is the gem to me.

Hilary was a pain in my %#*

.. but made it thru fine ... estimating 4-5 inches in 3 hours (based on pool level), winds only got tp 35-40mph so minimal tree damage (had to snag a couple of screens that were doing the Dorothy thing). The sand bags around key areas helped alot, given all outside drains were overwhelmed. Have a bit of clean up but otherwise intact. How about my other SoCal friends? Vguy? ...........tcc

Shock of the new

Sheik Yer Bones - maybe that's the way to go, buying these box sets as digital downloads. Buying these enormous box sets was alright when I only had about 5, but it's got a bit out of hand over the last year or so. I've still ordered the upcoming "Memphis Blues" 20cd set from Bear Family, though. No...I can't see myself buying digital downloads - although it does make sense.

With Jimi Hendrix, I tend enjoy the music from the last 12 months of his life most now. From Woodstock on, when he was moving into a funkier direction. But it must have been amazing to see him during those first few months after he arrived in Britain in 1966. There is a clip of him playing at Chelmsford on 2/25/67 included in the dvd of Monterey later that year. Nobody in the audience can have seen or expected anything like it. He must have seemed like he came from another planet. David Bowie did in 1972. But David Bowie was just pretending.

Robert Johnson's recordings are immaculate. I've been trying to play some of his slide pieces this afternoon - and although I can play the same notes, more or less, - I sound nothing like him.

Re: FrankPerry/DLemieux/Fire on the Mountain

I can only imagine David Lemieux is preparing for the next release video as I write this. It's a good thing he has that new recorder with the remote control. This way he can pause it as he moves the camera shot to escape the flames in the next British Columbia fireside chat release video.

Anniversary show. 8/21/83 Frost

40 years ago today I was at the Frost for another great day with the Good ole Grateful Dead. They kicked off the 1st set with Cassidy and Dire Wolf, very cool.

PF - Smoky Skies, Dear Mr. Fantasy

Ten wildfires currently in WA state?
That tropical system from Hilary is completely changing the wind patterns all over and will bring CO some of the monsoon from the next system colliding into TX tomorrow. Early fall weather next? It ain't the doldrums, that much is clear. On the bright side all our snow last winter has made my little local creek out in the BLM near us have a waterfall we haven't seen in years.
Cheers
- Doing some of Alvar's choice WRS selections mentioned recently today.
- And after listening to the first Dear Mr. Fantasy from the Brent era on here last week I went looking for a good version of that as it was lame. I came across Steve Winwood himself doing DMF with The Dead on 6-20-03 and it and that whole show were great! Steve has the guitar chops and did it justice. (and he knows the lyrics, lol)That show also just blew away the one I saw at Red Rocks only 18 days later at my 25th anniversary show 7-8-03. Jimmy H. was superb and Joan Osborne killed it with her Lovelight duet with Bob. Why was she not in Dead & Co.? I think it would have helped.

To go back in time......

Very hard to pick one date, so Ill pick more then one. I would like to go to Chicago in the early fifties to see the likes of Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Little Walter, Elmore James, and all the Great Blues men . I would also like to be in Binghamton NY on 5/2/70 and at the Fillmore West on 3/1/69 to see the two greatest Dead shows ever played.

Phuc wildfire smoke

Getting better but still plenty thick.

Booooo!

40 minutes later...

Friday looks like smoke again

Blech

A week of rain would be very welcome

Go back in time?

Leipzig in the 1720s to watch JS Bach conduct his cantatas. For me nothing has come close since.

Son House in his pomp. I've never understood the hoo ha over Robert Johnson.

Elvis at the start.

Neil Young at the Fillmore in March 1970.

Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue.

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