Grateful Dead

Dylan is a personal favourite, and I always make a point to see him if he is through town, or the area, or upstate New York. A constantly fascinating figure to me, and always a great band, and some fantastic guitar players over the years - Charlie Sexton, GE Smith, Larry Campbell, Duke Robillard, etc. I see he is hitting town for two shows, and I see TicketBastard has got their claws into tickets, with resales for his shows over $2K in some cases. Taylor Dylan?! My wife says it is much to do with artists having to make their living strictly from show revenue now, because the younger generations don’t often buy music in the traditional sense that we grew up with (my 30-something kids don’t own CDs or even vinyl), and so much is available for pennies on line - or free.
Likely Dylan’s swan song tour, too, certainly by 2024. A pox on TicketBastard. Concerts are real special, but so hard to get tickets for a decent price. Taylor Swift really changed the landscape, and it was already a mess before her tour. Greed greed greed. Maybe I’ll stand outside the venue with the old tattered “I Need A Miracle” sign.

The original SACDs are very limited in what will play them, but the hybrids are great as they can be decoded by any cd/dvd/blu-ray player. The Blues For Allah was not a remaster and not a multichannel mix, but the MoFi UltraDisc. So it sounds really clean, very quiet, I noticed on that ride. The Wish You Were Here is a 5.1 hybrid, and I guess you get the High Resolution Stereo Mix, which sounds cleaned up, and seems to have a different separation in the stereo field. It does not replicate the movement of the 5.1 mix, but it sounds far better than just the 2011 Discovery/Immersion remix/remaster when played on the SACD to my ears.

I think I'm gonna get a soundboard that has Dolby Atmos in the coming months to really get the best out of the Dark Side Atmos mix on the 50th Box set (damn thing is almost as tall as GSTL placed on top of 30 Trips, and weighs 22lbs!), Who's Next | Lifehouse, Animals, and Wish You Were Here and Quadrophenia in 5.1. I gotta watch out that the living room doesn't become the spot for listening to music, though. The wife will kill me.

....saw that. Nevada got dumped on the past couple of days.
Sinkholes appeared on the west side of the Las Vegas valley. The Lake Mead water level rose 3' in the past week or so. 👍
Looks like Burning Man is getting some more rain currently.
Phish played a 42 minute 6 song encore last night at Dicks. The Mango Song was one of them. In my opinion, one of the Phishiest Phish songs in their catalog and a personal favorite.
Lucky ducks.

Oro - It was steady, all day, freezing rain, on a college football field - I would have likely stood through a blizzard to hear Levon & the boys, though. Not quite what the Burning Man crowd is experiencing this weekend with their rain & mud, but I was chilled to the bone for a week. So worth it.
It’s only rock & roll, but I like it!

Did the weather make the concert? That can happen.
Hellava set list! All them homeboys back in the hood, must of been something!
Ah memories, misty water color mammeries from the way we were….sigh

A short 49 years ago yesterday, I stood in pouring rain for an entire day watching CSNY on their 1974 tour. The Band was one of the openers, and I recall they killed it. While looking at the CSNY tour schedule for that tour, I see they did a set at the Troubadour on October 19, 1974, to wrap up the tour. The opening act? Jimmy Buffett.

Thank you for the information. I did see a Garcia/Grisman SACD somewhere, which is what got me looking into it in the first place....

I'm going to break out Dave's 38 (9/8/73) soon, which is one that I listened to more than any other when I first got it. I listened to 42 almost as much...

Yeeesh, where does the time go?
Skipped my first day of college (that was sign right there lol) to see the boys in ole Crotchfester, front row in front of Phil. He came out early to tweak his rig but people were carrying on so much he got pissed and left lol Heineken glued to his arm every minute the bass wasn’t. Killer show, and my first Dew!

Hey Joey,

You are correct. SACDs will only play in SACD players. Same principal with DVD audio. I have a Sony system that plays both formats.
There are some SACD Hybrids that will play in all players. When they are in a non SACD player they will play in the standard two channel and when they are in a SACD player they will play in Multi Channel.
I was a big fan of multi channel releases and own quite a few. The only problem for me, outside of a few studio releases, there are of course no dead releases in these formats.

Check out (or re-check out) the Rutles "documentary".

Brilliant comedy.

"Get up and go
Get up and go
Get up and go back home"