Grateful Dead

I am quite pleased with all the shows I have seen. Still an acid test would be great, especially the one at Big Nig's house. Reading about that one over at (jerrygarcia's brokedown palaces) makes me wish I could have been there. Stones the same night, city on fire, (although Stones near San Jose?)!

1st Show - The Rolling Thunder tour would have been great to see. A high school pal got to go and said it was awesome, for all the reasons you listed. I know film of the show you saw exists, but I’ve never seen it, and I’m not sure it is commercially available, save the Hard Rain soundtrack.

Nick's choice led me to look up my Hughes Stadium Ft. Collins, CO show.
Apparently I have been conflating my two shows seen a year apart at that venue for years. I thought I had seen The Beach Boys and Bob Dylan on the same day. Turns out that Chicago/Beach Boys show at Hughes was 7-6-75 and Bob's Rolling Thunder (aptly named as it rained for that show) was 5-23-76. How in the world I ever thought Bob and the Beach Boys were on the same bill is laughable. But I have read that Bob claimed to be able to sing any Beach Boys song from memory and was a fan of Brian Wilson so maybe not that far fetched.
The Rolling Thunder Review was panned by some for the different arrangements but that's just "Judas" talk. He was always mixing it up and admired the GD for never playing a song the exact same way twice. My memory of the show is obviously a little mixed up but at the time I thought it was very cool and hip. Very long show with a helluva set list. I had just turned 19 and caught a ride with a neighborhood classmate from high school who was a cute little cheerleader and way above my pay grade and social group but she had a friend we could stay with in Ft. Collins and was willing to drive so away we went with three others. We camped in a side yard and were harassed at midnight by cops who said there was no camping allowed on city right of way (which we were not on) so we all packed back into the party house on the floor. It rained later so it worked out OK. I guess I can check out the show on video as it was filmed for the Hard Rain thing. Not sure I've ever watched it so thanks Nick for the reminder. Highlight for me at 19 was that little cheerleader riding on my shoulders so she could see as we were back around the 50 yard line. The rain had stopped, sun came out and a girl is riding my neck. Not bad!
Cheers

It is hard to nail down just one must-see show, so:
- Dylan goes electric at Newport
- Gram Parsons’ era Flying Burrito Bros
- Garcia & Saunders at Keystone
- Hank Williams (sober)
- Dylan & The Band 1974 Tour

Some great suggestions have been previously listed.

It was decades past his peak - one of the last performances he ever gave, I think - but I would loved to have seen Son House at the 100 Club in London during the summer of 1970. He was joined on harmonica by Alan Wilson on a couple of songs. Mesmerising. a great cd of this called "Delta Blues and Spirituals" came out twenty odd years ago.

To me Robert Johnson had more sensitivity, and a more highly developed sense of rhythm than earlier country blues singer/ guitarists. But there are many, many wonderful musicians from the 1920's and 30's that are worth checking out.

Charley Patton

Robert Johnson

Leadbelly

Beatles at Cavern

GRATEFUL DEAD AT MAGOO'S PIZZA PARLOR

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.

Getting better but still plenty thick.

Booooo!

40 minutes later...

Friday looks like smoke again

Blech

A week of rain would be very welcome

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.

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.