Grateful Dead

Hi all - thank you for the warm wellcome.. About 47; I found it to be "a weak rerun" of 31, but without the wonderful Wharf rat- Truckin setcloser. Also 31 has one of the best 1 sets of the era. A fun thing; Mr. Glasser did the mastering of 31, and the 3 bonus cuts, but Sir (we should call him Sir..) Norman did the ones on 47 - kind of strange.. Copenhagen.. I live outside the city, and rarely go there: nothing now but cheap bars and hotels - "Things aint what they used to be".. BW

....our AC went out last month. Only cost a cool 13k. Cheers!

I settled for the T-shirt rather than the speakers a few months back.

DaP43 still available? I am baffled as well. Easily in the top 3 of all the releases in the series.

Got stealies and bears on them.
Limited edition to commemorate the final D&C tour.
We have history with this brand. Wall of Sound!
High priced tech I don't even understand, wireless, powered?
Their $12K pair of the retro ML-1 speakers I do understand (and covet). Sweet!
Cheers

....The White House announced the Office Of Gun Violence Prevention.
I'll toast the shit outta that because its obviously not gonna announce itself!
Celebrating 🍾 with a gummy or two and St. Paul 5.11.77.

Because they were lost in the warehouse.
But still, it’s been over a week now and 11-2-69/12-26-69 has a few copies left (at least when the Bulletin came out today).
It would seem that there are less than 25,000 people who have to have every ‘69 released.

Dave, don’t let that discourage you from releasing more Pigpen shows. Most of us still want more.

Wow, needful, taking me down memory lane: at those and that 9/1/89 JGB Good Sheet Mon!
I’ve stated much bout 6/30/85, and that Shakedown is mos def RJ! I can still picture the swell of the crowd simultaneously peaking with the music, multiple times! Summer Tour 85 Rocks! WTF David?
9/8/90: hmmmm I’ll have to check that one out again? I recall me and the 20 year old had fun and thought the shows were good, but not RJ? It was a very emotional bittersweet couple of shows. I really dug Ole Brentski so it was very hard, but I remember distinctly feeling that yes, it was the end of one era and start of another, just like when Brent replaced Keith, and it was going to be all right.
Can still feel how I felt the first night: it’s gonna be awright, the Dead are still the Dead. As time went by I didn’t always feel that way about Vince, and I still have a hard time with Long WayHome, but over the years I’ve come to appreciate Vince much more, especially after Bruce left.
9/1/89: what can ya say, the music says it all! Great shows, great time, Cept fucking Bacon pulling us over on the way to Philly show simply because of profiling (what few stickers I had on the Orange Canoe were promptly removed after) and then unconstitutionally violating several search and seizure laws!! Young douche outta his league we us though. And fortunately an older veteran cop came along and basically shut the young prick down and let us go. Which was good as we’d done absolutely nothing illegal (well, at least not that they knew or had evidence of). Found out King George the first was nearby so they were out like rabid dogs that night.
Did have THE best vegetarian Chili in the lot the first night! I’ve sorta copied the recipe for all these years since!

DENNIS: hey Ooooo, cue rim shot!

Day job versus hobby…we’ll, I wouldn’t go that far but the music speaks for itself! Listen to all the extracurricular activities JG got into in the nineties: Ornette Coleman, Sanjay Mishra, Merle, Smoke video, several great things with the Dawg, AND, some of the best JGB shows ever….he seemed to really get into this other stuff and it showed…if only they would have taken another hiatus after Brent passed, sigh…

Al Michaels: guy always seems bored, and he bores the hell outta us. Thank goodness they split he and douchebag Collingsworth up. Always better watching Vguy style with the sound down and the tunes up! It’s cool watching high when the music syncs up with the action.

Mikey, right on, I think Keith and Brent were right guys for the times! Everybody gets all hung up trying to compare.
Why bother it’s completely different AND, in all cases it’s what their employers wanted!
After K they were burnt on just percussive piano, after Brent I heard they didn’t want Hammond’s/Leslie’s all over.
So next time someone want to dis one of em, remember they were doing what they were told. Same with screechy, just doing what the boss says…don’t like due to preference fine, but don’t dis em for being good soldiers just following orders…

Oh, Gary, Bassageddon, looks interesting, thanks for the heads up. Hope I get the time to check it out!
My Bass playing BFF and I used to goof in the bad old days of having a stoned marching band of nothing but bass players. Piccolo basses, six strings, you name it, all marching down along the ave wearing pajamas with little battery powered amps on back pack like rigs lol, ahhh, the hubris of youth ; )

Listening to PITB from DP 11 (9-27-72 Jersey City) this morning on the GD Channel is Exhibit A why Keith was exactly the right keyboardist for the band at that time. Sublime.

Dennis - LOL!

“Live your life, forget your age.” ~anonymous

.... bad enough to not remember why you went into that room,,,,, but when it's the bathroom......

9/1/89 Merriweather Post Pavilion

currently playing in the car for the past week, very enjoyable show