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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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    All of these were streamed today, even though I own the albums it was easier than searching for them:

    ‘Chrome Dreams’ - Neil Young

    ‘… at Newport’ - Joni Mitchell

    ‘50 years of hip-hop BBC Radio1extra mix tape’ - Various Artists. This is an hour long mix of tracks from 1973 - 2023. In the UK it’s available on iPlayer if you have a licence.

    ‘Ask Me No Questions’ - Bridget St John, this is a great album from 1969 that originally came out on John Peel’s Dandelion label. Somewhere I have the LP.

    ‘The Big Huge’ - Incredible String Band. This is still one of my all time favourite albums.

    UPS tell me that my #47 is out for delivery. Since it’s said this since yesterday morning I’m not holding my breath. Hopefully I’ll see it early next week although it’s the hope that kills you!

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    Blues Traveler is releasing a new record soon....

    ....and everything was right in the world.

  • JimInMD
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    The Band and Rush

    Liked (and like) em both. Agree GFar on your comments. Read This Wheels on Fire years ago, a good read and gave me a much deeper perspective on their history and chemistry. Rush was one of my first concerts. I think I was 13 or 14 give or take. What were my parents thinking? I was lucky to see them early, they were hot, hot, hot especially in their early years.. and my ears could take the volume back then. High energy rock and roll.

  • Vguy72
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    RUSH....

    ....they transformed into a different band every four records.
    Fact check me on that, because it's not fake news.
    RIP Neil Peart.
    Paging keithfan2112!
    Did you know if you put a mirror in the middle of the 2112 cover, a devil appears?
    Badass.
    I grew up in the middle of the heavy metal = Satan Worshipping era.
    It was hilarious.
    My parents even had to have an intervention at one point due to my obsession with music. Esp the loud music.
    My bedroom was plastered with magazine inserts and tapestries. And I hadn't even discovered weed yet!
    Had to take them all down.
    I threatened to run away.
    I did. For five hours.
    I miss the 80's.
    Edit. Maui is burning. Bill The Drummer just posted on IG re it. Over 40 dead.
    I donated $20 to the cause.

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    Of course you deserve credit. Is it a band or not?

    I always look to RUSH: both the band and the feeling. Rush decided very early on that they would divide the royalties 3 ways. They were having some issues and they came together with that plan, as documented on one of their documentaries. Much easier to do with Rush because all three contributed pretty much equally all the time.

    So yeah, I always had issues with RR. That has mostly melted away. It comes down to the fact their was only one dirt farmer (cotton) and that was Levon in the band. Now maybe Hawk rubbed off on the others and gave them some redneck swag, but I doubt it. No disrespect, but how could a Canadian write "The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down?" when he was a far stretch from understanding what that was like. I watch The Last Waltz a couple of times a year. And once, always Thanksgiving Day.

    Speaking of Hawk...another Hawk, Taylor Hawkins, was contacted by Dave Grohl for an audition (going from memory on a few things) after someone contacted DG looking for a drummer. DG gave Hawkins a call to get him to go audition but Hawkins told him I would rather join Foo Fighters. Hawkins made it clear he wanted to be in a band, not the drummer for a solo artist (that artist being Alanis Morissette, who he worked for not auditioned for). So, I doubt that DG gave all equal rights like Rush, but I also doubt DG treated his band the way RR did. Just one guy's uneducated opinion.

    Edit: Rush's Geddy Lee said once we established equal royalty rights, that issue was over and never was revisited again. Harmony! What a great name for my new upcoming boy band.

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    PT - they sound like a nice couple who you met all those years ago. There were some very kind people about then, in the hippie world. The first time I tripped was with a couple like that. They seemed very caring, in a world that wasn't usually like that. Being a bear of little sense, I thought I'd try 2 or 3 tabs. I was given half of one, which seemed quite insulting at the time. Two hours later I was so high I couldn't speak.

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    Great arguments all, Amigo, and really great stories.
    Clarence Darrow had nuthin' on you!! :]

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    Go Deacons, Gary!

    I ask, as I grew up in Winston and Greensboro. My dad was a faithful Wake fan, which is sad given their long history and single Final Four. But I always gave him credit for sticking with them, rather than abandoning them. But, how do you not make a Final Four with Tim Duncan? Though, given your life experience, I'm sure the hardwood exploits were the least of your concerns in grad school. Glad it was a good experience, I have only heard it's a great school. I'll bet you got very familiar with Baity St and it's awesome Ziggy's, home of Roots, Rock, Reggae. If you were there until '98-99, we probably attended a lot of the same shows. A college buddy saw Aquarium Rescue Unit open for Phish there in '92. My dad caught the Ramones there twice, still have one of the ticket stubs.

    Awesome stories, Oro! Sad, too.

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    Good point about Dylan Mike.
    A lot has been written about the royalties too.
    I can understand both points: the old school record company gives credit to one person etc, versus the group band mentality. As a musician, I felt like I contributed to the original music by creating my part and other little tid bits, phrases, a word here or there, even though technically I did not “write” the song. Does that mean I should get credit or not? In RR defense, how did they not know, and when they figured it out, why didn’t they do something then?
    This is an old problem going back as far as modern recorded music itself. Not an easy answer, but from my perspective, I’d say they should have gotten more credit than they did, but perhaps not as much as Levon thought…
    But as you state, same situation with Bob D and I don’t recall ever hearing them complain there so?
    Yeah, good question Mike! Again, just too bad all the BS had to mess with the music.

    EDIT: yeah well when it came to abuse Robbie was no boyscout either. He just got his shit together sooner and moved on. I don’t doubt there’s truth to what he says, especially in the 70s, but again, I think some of that is him putting English on the ball to make himself look good, or not the bad guy anyway.

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    Pecan Lover's you can order excellent pecans from Priester's Pecans near Montgomery Alabama.

    I owned a house in the early to mid 90's. It had three huge pecan trees. Each tree was one of the three different pecans types.This house sat on land of an old southern plantation that had a pecan grove that stretched almost 15 miles. The trees were well over a hundred years old. Had years with heavy to no yield of pecans. Use to gather them by the bushel in the good year. Used to give a bunch to my grandmother who only lived a few streets away. What did I get back? Pecan Pie of course. Now, been decades since I had a slice.

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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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and a wink to Bear, Skully, Sands and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. Honorable mention to the Jimi Hendrix, the 13th Floor Elevators, the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, Monterey Pop, Woodstock,.. (this list could get long). It would have happened without Leary, once the CIA opened the spigot to the general public, it was game on.

I blame my brother and my friends.. but Mama Tried to raise me better....

True, Leary did not help psychedelic research one bit.. nor did Nixon, Manson or Altamont. For good or for ill, the War on Drugs was the nail in the coffin that closed the door for scientific research for more than four decades.

It seems to me that people who are 100% in favour of anything are a bit deluded. Most things have pros and cons. It pays to be wary of people who think they have the answer and try to influence other people to see things the way they do. There was an awful lot of that in the 60's - including people who were either in favour or against acid. As Charlie Watts once said - it's unfortunately very easy to con the young.

Mention of the 13th Floor Elevators - hugely entertaining if you like that kind of thing, but whether Roky Erikson would have been happier if he hadn't taken psychedelics in the way he did is a mute point.
In fact, thinking about it, Roky Erikson, and what happened to him serves as a chilling reminder of the negative effects of simple minded evangelism. He appears to have been used as a mouthpiece for non musician Tommy Hall, about 10 years his senior, to spread the gospel according to Tommy Hall. Which seemed to revolve around taking psychedelics 24/7. This had such a profound effect on Erikson, that by the end of the 60's he apparently took to the stage with a band aid wrapped round his head to close his 3rd eye, and dim the hallucinations. Enter what we used to laughingly refer to as "straight society" who incarcerated him and fed him a diet of their medication. Shocking mistreatment and manipulation all round.

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I'm listening to 47 again, it's better than I originally thought. The Black Peter> I Need A Miracle is quite something.

I see the Jerry people are selling Three Hundred Dollar photographs ? I usually credit them with not charging stupid amounts of money for stuff, like a hatchet for instance...

Leary is shit.

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I've been spending a fair amount of time with this one the last couple of weeks and to my ears this thing cooks!! I love the fact that DL and crew plan on hitting this era again when the time is right. 1979 GD has plenty to offer!

Also, I guess the fact that I didn't start getting tapes from my older brother and friends till 1988 has been a blessing and enabled me to "love it all"

I seen the band 17 times from 91-95 and loved every minute of it! I loved calling the hot line for set list of prior shows on a tour so i could try and call the openers or encores!

I know 94-95 was a real hard time for Garcia. I remember on night at Philly Spectrum, 3/19/95 (UNbroken Chain breakout) during Crazy Fingers, that I thought Jerry was going to literally fall right through the mic stand and off the stage!

As a proud member of Alcoholics Anonymous, I understand the abyss of addiction. It saddens me that Jerry was stuck in hotels and Persian was his refief.

He was trying to get clean but, it was not to be.

So, I hope I didn't get to heavy on that topic. Just sitting here drinking coffee and spinning Dave's #47

Hope all is well with everyone.

Rock on, gang!

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Whenever I take an excursion into some “World music”, as I did this week, I inevitably circle back to Mickey Hart’s discography, and I always gain a renewed appreciation for Mickey’s incredible talent and gifts to drumming. Not just his playing - first rate - but his contributions such as his field recordings, and his own wonderful releases featuring rhythms not often heard in traditional Western music. I played both RAMU and In The Groove, and just incredible the drummers he assembles on these recordings, and evokes this marvellous sound from. Usually any “drum solo” in a concert is washroom break for me, but Mickey really brings something otherworldly into drumming. Posters will argue forever if the Dead were “better” with just Bill, or just different, at a time when the stripped down sound of Beauty/Workingman’s called for less. To me, what always drove the Allmans sound was the duo of Jaimoe & Butch, and I think it more true in the Dead with both Bill and Mickey. He has an incredible catalogue, some really interesting stuff that sometimes is exactly what you need to hear. I could never imagine him just being a drummer in some band, playing a twenty song gig, rinse, repeat.
Recommended - “Drums of Passion” by Babatunde Olatunji, recorded in 1960, a favourite of Santana and Coltrane evidently. Excellent World sounds.

Closer to home, my “Next due”: Buddy & Julie Miller’s new release. An understated guitarist I saw once with Plant & Krauss, a fan ever since.

“Timothy Leary’s dead. No, no. He is outside looking in.”
And he was a poser, and did nothing for the psychedelic movement.

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Well written/well thought out essay. No one I’ve ever met has “all the answers”. And if someone claims they do, run, don’t walk away.
I suppose drug ingestion affects us all differently, what with our individual body chemistry. I will admit to being intrigued about drug use early on, based on stories of the “Rock & Roll” lifestyle. I feel lucky to have survived my (20 year long) “experimental phase”. For those who can moderate, God bless you. My favorite drug & drink were the same. MORE!!

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First, I enjoyed 47 the first time around.. after I finish 6/10/73 I'll give it another spin

Good points also, DR. I forgot Pink Floyd and who can forget Syd Barrett. Too much of everything... After my teenage years I never really thought of psychedelics as a recreational substance. So yes, agree.. many pros and cons and there is no substitute for good judgement and sound decision making.

There's time enough to give 47 another spin and it won't be long until we get 48.

I had some thoughts about 48 this week. It's an interesting time at Dead.net. For a host of reasons (production runs expanded to 25k, secondary market responding to ebay taxing, possible saturation as we enter the 30th year of vault releases and possible diminishing number of great shows in the vault), they are not selling out as fast as they used to. So I think either this is the new normal, or perhaps there will be some reaction on their end.

If this is the new normal, it seems Dave has been delving into the better shows from the 80's and 90's for the final slot. We have seen a string of 79's, 83's, 84's, 87 and some 90's. Thinking Boise, Philly, Deer Creek, etc. Santa Fe from 83 is something they might break out one year. Call it a VGuy special.

If Dave is going to mix things up for the 4th release this year, I can't think of two better examples than Dave's Pick's 43 and 8. If there are more like 43 then perhaps we are getting another Bannana Surprise, I would also love to see another collaboration like Dave's Picks 8, which I think turned out to be an excellent Dave's Pick.

It is high time to beat the drums, bang the pots and pans and begin to get excited about that last pick of 2023. Wishing you all a great weekend filled with whatever makes you the happiest, add some extra sprinkles of mind blowing, good time music.

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Michael Pollan’s book How to Change Your Mind (video series too) is a great objective look at the history, including how that nut Leary fucked it all up, and continues up to todays modern renaissance based on science and empirical evidence. Fascinating book with hints of promise for truly amazing therapeutic advances etc.

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They could release both the early and the late shows. They found some of the reels, and played some on the KPFA DEAD Marathon back in February., it sounded great!

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....Dave's 43.
The acoustic UJB from Dallas is on tap.
And dead net is tempting the state shirts with only "144" made.
Has anyone here purchased the previous ones? They all suck man.
To be honest, most shirts sold on this site suck and fade. Fast.
Except the Thelma one. That one was awesome. Sized a little small, but awesome.
I actually was looking forward to Nevada's, fingers crossed that they would break the trend of pathetic art, but deep down I knew they wouldn't.
Fool me once, shame on you. You know the rest.

Hope everyone is doing well...been a while since I've posted...wasn't a great Summer for us here in Nappylandia...but the air is crisper, the elk are bugling and one of the local mountain tops was dusted with snow the other day so as the seasons change I'm feeling better...La Señora Nappy spent three weeks in Arkansas tending to her Mom who passed at the end of May...around the same time we had to say goodbye to Mr. Jinks, my bestest fur baby ever...after losing his Sister Violet last December we weren't ready by any means to deal with his brief illness and passing...he was my buddy boy for nearly 14 years...harsh...love our fur babies...anyway it was 56 years ago today (I think, either the 16th or 17th of September) that I got on the bus...the Airplane and Dead had done a gig at The Hollywood Bowl on the 15th and in response to the Bowl staff keeping folk from dancing in the aisles they put on a free show at Elysian Park in LA, right by Dodger Stadium...a bunch of us from my neighborhood went and we had a blast...I remember the Viola Lee and Pigpen's performance on Dancing In The Streets...and the following Monday I started my senior year in high school....again hope you're all doing well and groovin' on...

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Nappy, sorry for your sad news, hopefully better times are ahead.

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What's worth more? 11 defective discs,from the latest box or a 144 limited edition Nevada Tee shirt, answers on the back of an upside down printed Dave's Picks Playing Card to you know where.

Thing about those, I tend to like the front designs but the back design is way too big and overpowers the front.

If they had put a smaller version of the back design on the front breast pocket and the front design on the back it would have been better imho.

$45, but I understand because the artists have to be paid...

Sydney Prentice LOL to keep from crying...

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However, much of the merch here brings out my cynical streak.

Plastic SYF water bottle $29 (I made that up, but still)

Gardening aprons!!! $??

Music, however....I'm in.

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Very sorry for your losses ... most of us from this cohort have by now experienced this profound sadness and there are few words that make it any better. Sometimes a soulful Brokedown Palace reflects the emotion, which helps me start the turn around. Hang in there man.............tcc

I bought the United States Of Dead sweatshirt, the store/warehouse screwed the whole thing up, long story...when I finally got it, it was crappy. The actual sweatshirt itself is just garbage. I thought the Oregon one was really cute, I almost got one. (I live in NY)

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I recently went through a week of INTENSE group therapy, and it was SO life altering. One day, we were acting out family of origin stuff. There were SO MANY losses in my life/family. It turns out I was trying to pretend all this death was no big deal. But it F**cking IS!!
So by all means, grieve as much as you need to. Only you know how much grief you need to unload. And don’t get me started about the loss of quadrupeds. It can be (and is) DEVASTATING!!
You have my 100% empathy, and prayers for strength to get through this storm. Yeah, death is a part of life, but knowing that does not make it ANY easier. Peace and love to NAPPYRAGS and all my brothers & sisters out there.

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Hope everyone is having a grateful weekend so far. Yesterday I started my day listening to the Dead’s performance on 3/27/88 at the Hampton Coliseum, Hampton,VA ! I truly love this show, the set list is amazing with some primo playing from the band. Everybody seems to have their gears locked & loaded for this show!
Also , after that I put on 9/7/85 !!! Primo performance! If you haven’t heard these two shows I would recommend giving them a listen, nothing left to do but Smile Smile Smile.
Rock on my brothers and sisters, peace be with you all!

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The wife and I caught Equalizer 3 this weekend. Those familiar with the franchise know what to expect, Denzel Washington as Gary Cooper, and this time it is an Italian mobster crime family. Fast paced, LOTS of action. 💀💀💀3 Skulls Out of 5
Nappy - Condolences on your losses. Brighter days ahead.
A NEW Rolling Stones album - Hackney Diamonds - coming late October. The very first LP in their long career without Charlie Watts.

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I believe there are a couple of tracks featuring Charlie Watts on the new album. Incredible attitude and energy these guys have. I won't be going to see them again, but I'm definitely going to get the album.

Mr Ones - that sounds like quite an undertaking. It can't have been easy. A very courageous thing to do, but it sounds as though it was worth it.

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OK; I will tell you that my Dad passed on 9/13/23. I am not looking for a pity party, just telling you like it is.

Four things: he was one righteous dude; he made it to 90; he passed at home; and he passed surrounded by family.

I found out that the Beatles have a lot of "good grief" and "good mourning" songs.

Let It Be
It's All Too Much
In My Life
The Inner Light
Blackbird
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
The Long and Winding Road

George Harrison:
All Things Must Pass

All of these have been extremely therapeutic and effective ways to get the grief out.

I do challenge you to listen to Let It Be (the album version) when you lose a loved one and not get completely verklempt.

Two bands that are in categories of their own in my opinion: GD and the Beatles.

Everything else to me is simply everything else.

Hearts out to all our friends going through the dark side of the circle of life. We were recently dealt a time released version ourselves, we all go through this, it's never easy.

Great advice and great vibes from all the good people here, which should surprise no one.

We are taking our news well and doing what is best meaning make the best of the time we have and make every moment count. Sort of how (I think) many of us live our lives anyway. We are all happy go lucky fun hogs at heart, right? Oteil just put a pretty heartfelt album

All good things for all good times.

On a related note, I had an incredibly busy day a couple days ago getting home quite late and worn out. I decided to take a soak and listen to some music with headphones. I thought the acoustic portion of Dave's Picks 43, 12/26/69 would fit the bill. It was absolutely perfect btw, but the next day as I was checking this thread it looks like I was listening to it at exactly the same time as dead nets favorite Senator from Vegas. A nice little coincidence and what a great release. Bananas are my new favorite fruit.

Many thanks to you all.

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I’m very sorry for your loss Proudfoot.
I prefer music without words at such times, because there is so little that can be said.

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So sorry PF, may the four winds…sounds like he had a good long life and a good transition.
It’s weird, as we get older and have delt with more loss over the years it sorta gets easier, except increasingly the folks leaving start coming more from our inner circles, thus often much harder. The cruel irony of death I suppose, sigh…
Hang in there bud, you know we’re all with ya!

And to good ole Nappy too.
Glad to hear your ok, we missed ya, and were starting to get worried about you, but sorry to hear of your losses.
Good the Other one was able to be there.
Not sure what to say about ole Mr Jinx. Never met him but I liked his style ; )
At least now I don’t have to worry bout him over running the place and starting a gambling/drinking/whoring emporium for kitties, though I bet he would of excelled ; )

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Less I missed something, there is no 9/7/88.
I was serendipitously at 9/8/88, good show, maybe not RJ?
9/3 and 9/5 are good, think maybe Jim was at those?
3/27/88 is mos def RJ!

Ok Vguy, those Fish of yours are starting to worry me!
AFC east is going to be a beast this year, though perhaps less so with the Rogers debacle…
Hopefully Josh just had a one off extremely bad day last week….

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Why was A. Rogers wearing grass cleats on a turf field?
I've sold them all and he was wearing a pair of long cleated grass shoes.
Maybe can't plant properly with turf shoes?
Cheers
Keep on truckin' Nappy and PF

I know I was not at 9/3/88. I never got to see the Grateful Dead play Ripple. I saw Jerry play it once or twice acoustic, but never the GD.

I am not sure which of the other two (if either) I went to. I know I have written about this before, but I was not a fan of the Capital Centre; bad acoustics and aggressive cops on horseback. DC shows in general had bad vibes for me, the last time I was at RFK, before the show someone in the crowd whipped a coke bottle and hit a cop very hard directly in the head, took him down.. and his partner immediately pulled his gun and said "Freeze or I will shoot you in the head." I was at the summer 86 shows at RFK too the last before Jerry went into his coma.

It could be I passed on the 88 Cap Centre or it might have been the semester I came down with a nasty and slow recovering bout with mono. Maybe I need to take one of those made from Jellyfish memory enhancement supplements. My memory of the 80's isn't what it used to be. Signs of a misspent youth perhaps...

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Could be, he's not running as much as the other players so he might have considerations that differ from the average player. I didn't know many teams still used turf in the NFL. A tragedy for him and Jets fans, nobody likes to see someone injured like that.

One of my show seeing buddies severed his Achillies Tendon back in the day. I helped cart him around to several shows during his recovery. Cheers, Michael!

Remember those commercials…we used to say “depends on how you waste it” of course not as funny now as way back then, kinda like playing tackle football in the street, Doah.

Yeah, the crap center, never heard anything good about the scene/place. Just figured being home field etc.
That’s why we never did any shows on the actual cost other than the Rectum and Hampton, well Merriweather in 85 I guess counts? Not sure what was up with Philly, but somehow saw more there (13 dead and 1 JGB) than anywhere else?
Yeah the big cities scared us away, Too much of everything: people, energy, cops, crime, and costly hotels versus cheap or free camping etc. Surely missed lots of killer shows because of, but always felt our methodology of trying to find the cool under the radar places versus the big city shows was sound. Though still can’t believe I didn’t do Roanoke 87, double Doah!

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Thank you lol getting older but still Rock’n!
The Setlist is Amazing for this old fan!

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The Frozen Logger
Mississippi Half-Step
New Minglewood Blues
Brown Eyed Women
My Brother Esau
Loser
Dupree's Diamond Blues
One More Saturday Night

Shakedown Street
Crazy Fingers
Samson and Delilah
Uncle John's Band
Playin' in the Band
drums
Dear Mr. Fantasy
Hey Jude Reprise
Dear Mr. Fantasy
Truckin'
Comes a Time
Turn on Your Love Light

Johnny B. Goode
Baby Blue

....to be expected I guess. It's cool. Of the other three AFC East teams, I detest the Bills the least. Great Marino/Kelly games back in the day. The other two? Dead to me. Dolphins looking pretty good. So Far.
Condolences to Mr & Mrs Nappy and Proutfoot. I'm admittingly a mommas boy. She turned 84 on the Veneta anniversary. Lost my dad in 2011. Alzheimers. But I've posted this before.
My female land seal pittie sleeps with us every night. But she doesn't take up too much Space.
Hell yeah Jim! Acoustic hot tub Dead.

makes me say....

More GD68, please, Dave.

There MUST be more in the vault. Full show or mosaic, more GD68 would be extremely welcome.

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…the Bills have been my home team for the past 46 years. Man, the’ Bills ‘ back in the day when I was growing up, they wereThe TEAM ! Kelly in the pocket and a list of names that would rattle like a snake. Only team to make four consecutive Super Bowl games (XXV, XXVI, XXVII, and XXVIII). The successful seasons by the Bills during 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1993 was Outstanding! I still remember watching every game!

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