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  • bluecrow
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    Set II - 8/20/87 Park City

    Great show and there is an excellent Healy Ultramatrix source mastered by Charlie Miller. Sweet spot mix to my ears - Phil loud and clear. Crowd just bit there, more of a hint then feeling like you're actually in the audience (except during Drumz where it feels a bit more out in the crowd but still just about exactly perfect.) I've said it before and I'll say it again - this should be released.

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    Fallout From the Phil Zone ...

    In Celebration -
    Because today would have been/is Phil's 85th Birthday.

    (4.27.85 crowd)
    We want Phil! ... WE WANT PHIL!

    "Hey, we all want Phil ...
    (elicits several chuckles)

    Mickey, I think: "Well you can't have him - He's ours!!"

    ... Jerry: "We're gonna hang onto him for a while. "
    We love you, Phil

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    Did somebody say AARHUS?

    Aarhus
    Is a very very very fine hus

    🫠🫠🫠

  • bluecrow
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    5/14/78

    Providence, RI - another show from the 30 Trips Porch Crusher. The night before at the Spectrum is part of the 60 Years Box.

    Very very fine Let It Grow to close Set I. Unusual jammed out intro into Samson to start Set II - cool beans! Edit - a seriously fun Set II!! Wowza!! Edit 2 - had so much fun last night I'm circling back at dawn to Disc 2 with Set II through Rhythm Devils. The boys are lit - a firing-on-all-cylinders show. Jerry had an extra couple of sips of root beer. The delicate Jerry outro for Eyes > Rhythm Devils is very cool and I dig this early iteration of "Drumz".

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    Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen 04.14.72

    Great sound and performance, from the start to the finish - as are all three of the DK shows from this tour.

    Note: I was fortunate enough to visit this venue, albeit briefly, some 9 years on from this show - along with the amusement park around it more extensively, while on an exchange program. I stayed with the family (of Lars) Rasmussen, and a man of that name eventually became the prime minister of Denmark (!) ... But visually he bears just a passing resemblance to the young man I knew there. It's a common name; I guess it's possible that it is/was him.

    I recall it was an amazingly happy and calm, free and safe place. Many folks welcomed me into their home and took gracious care for my good experience/s. We two teenagers could ride the train into Copenhagen and explore really - anywhere - at that time. He showed me all the standard tourist spots of course, along with the less heralded (cool) locales. We went to Aarhus and out to Odense by bus as well. And so, I will always have a fondness for most everything/everyone Danish, and all the good things they bring to the world.

    I like to think that a bunch of their fine spirit shines through (channeled by the GD) greatly in both this show and in Aarhus, along with the 3rd date that features the television broadcast.

    Prost!

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    5/20&21/95

    More of the same: it’s not fall 73, but mostly pretty dern good and JG has been consistent and more energetic than some previous from the year!
    So far, only the atlanta shows would have been a disappoint.

    Will do Joey. Though it may be a bit as I may switch gears for while and do the final death tour later…chever way, I’ll try to report back asap!

    “Joey, Joey, what made them come and blow you away”
    Unfortunately there can be some tribalism within our culture just like elsewhere. And I’m sure you can understand some of this just from hanging out on dnet. etc…it’s cool folks dig what they dig, but some seem obsessed with proving what THEY like is best! I don’t compare apples to oranges so I find good sheet everywhere, I mean it is the dang nam GD!
    Don’t let anybody influence what you dig! My advice is always to not read online crap until after I listen, if at all, “if you get confused just listen to the music play”, not the “noise”!
    Ok, onto 5/21…

    DaP 16, CD 3…most definitely in my top ten single best discs of all time!

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    Dave's 16 disc 3

    :) that's what I got right now.

    Oro,
    Can you give us a rundown of your favorites of '95 when you are done?
    I only got to see the Grateful Dead in '94 and '95, I have always thought that the tapes aren't all that bad and a lot of people never bothered to listen to them, some of it is quite nice.
    There was a time when a few older heads would be down right mean to me about it, telling me "you didn't see the Grateful Dead"

  • bluecrow
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    2 Meter Sessions & 5/16/81

    A couple weeks ago friend linked 2 meter Sessions #461 with JJ Cale - good stuff!! Will have to take a deeper dive in what's available.

    Listening to 5/16/81 (Disc 1 - Barton Hall from Porch Crusher #1). Edit - fun listen - had forgotten that SBD source ends after the Nobody's Jam and its an audience from Stella Blue through the UJB encore.

  • Dennis
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    Found something new to me

    Stumbled across something/place/show called "2 Meter Sessions". Looks like a Dutch tv show with musical people.

    Anyhow, youtube had a playlist of 476 cuts from this show. All studio quality. I grabbed them all, but I thought this would make a nice background sound when people are over.

    I think i searched for 2 meter sessions.

    Throwing it out there.

  • Oroborous
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    Thought these shows were supposed to be terrible?
    Not so so far. More consistent than Atlanta, and JG even speaks/jokes to the crowd. Auds not full frequency response, but clean and not much crowd.

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Hey y’all
I have a cassette of a show that doesn’t have a date on it. Brent is singing, so it’s in the ‘80s and the crowd cheered loudly when Memphis was mentioned…maybe held in Memphis, TN??? Can anyone help me ID the show for my collection? Set list is below:
Set 1
Touch of Grey
Walkin Blues
Candy man
Queen Jane Approximately
Loser
It’s All over Now
Far From Me
Cassidy
Don’t Ease Me In

Set 2
Feel Like a Stranger
Franklin’s Tower
Box of Rain

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Looks like you might have 3-24-88 The Omni set I, with some of 3-28-88 Hampton set I as filler. I just cracked open my trusty DeadBase to check. It's a fun game, guess the show... :-)

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The compilation matches the style of the taper I got them from-he tended to combine shows!! Thank you so much!!! It’s a fun game! Do you know anything about the Terrapin from the Omni Show? I love a good terrapin!

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Have you ever heard of the site called heady version (all one word)? It's a deadhead generated ranking of all the Grateful Dead's catalogue. According to the site, it lists the top 3 versions as: 2-26-77, 5-17-77 and 1-22-78.

-edit- Looks like Terrapin from 10-22-83 gets some high ratings from the 80's.

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I was listening to the sound of the ribs sizzling on the grill....

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CD by Martin Taylor and David Grisman's Acoustic Jazz Quartet, called "I'm Beginning to See the Light.," 1999.

Taylor and Grisman go at a bunch of true standards (Autumn Leaves, Cheek to Cheek, Lover Man, Willow Weep for Me, Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered...etc.) It is good because it does focus Grisman a little, like Garcia used to do, and bring David down from his free form "Dawg" jamming. It's nice, like at a Dead concert, when the riffing resolves into a recognizable song and melody. On the other hand, maybe you can say that Grisman is excessively disciplined and sticks too closely to the melody here rather than riffing and improvising as much as many jazz players do - could have been a happy medium with his Dawg somehow - maybe he felt a little more free to do that in his collaborations with Jerry. But this is good. Great music for dinner or reading and you raise your head every once in awhile at a nice riff or return to well known swing melodies. And danceable if you know your Lindy. That's probably what was intended. Jerry would have appreciated it, I think - Jerry himself in his last interviews said he was going to see Steffan Grappelli doing this sort of riffing on standards before both of them unfortunately passed on. And of course Jerry was named after Jerome Kern, or so I heard once upon a time, so these standard would be right up his alley.

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Don’t miss this title from bassist Cleveland Eaton from 1974: Cleveland Eaton, Plenty Good Eaton.
This record refuses to get off my turntable deck.
Sorely underappreciated…

Shwack in NH

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I'm listening to Roy Kim's "Only If" right now and it makes me sleepy coz it's a ballad song.

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Haiduk - Morph [blackened death metal]

youtube.com/watch?v=uNQ1-hyWLxo

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Listening to Mason's Children and New Speedway Boogie, 2 Dead songs which were largely overlooked by both band and fans for quite a while.

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any recommendation? what are people wanting to snag? im looking at.....

-muddy waters woodstock album
-sun ra
-howlin' wolf
-alex chilton
-ABB

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I'm off to get...

Gong Live in Lyon 1972 as a certainty. Mind your head!
Charlie Parker as a maybe.

Can't think what else I saw - those are the ones I remember when I had a look last night.

Well, I'm not off anywhere - I'll be poking around online.

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Currently listening to and learning Deep Elem Blues ... i noticed there are 2 dominant versions, live at harpur College version, which is a slowed down real bluesy version, and then the more classic and common "bluegrass" version as heard in the acoustic and JGB shows...

wondering if anyone knows what these two styles are called in the dead/music world, as I'm trying to learn the Harpur College version and having trouble searching for lessons on that specifically that version ("real bluesy version" and "harpur college version" isn't working in the searches)

Much love!

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i am listening to the Doors break on Through Center Coliseum, Seattl 1970

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This is one of those shows where we're so very lucky to have the tape that we have. Mike Tannenbaum's recording gear was supposedly concealed inside a wheelchair. Once your ear gets used to the recording quality, though, this show has some ferocious passages that are absolutely worth hearing. I come back to the Cryptical->Other One->Cryptical->Sugar Mag time and time again. Garcia is just a demon dancing across Other One. And the Sugar Mag... a song that would go on to be played hundreds of times, but here has barely been done a dozen... Garcia's solo is effortlessly rockin' right out of the gate, just so assured. And beautiful harmonies from the boys.

figured I'd post here since someone had revived this thread

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The new Matrix 1967 release is a good one.

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A great box set of David Bowie's demo and live recordings from 1971, leading up to the release of Hunky Dory. It's surprising how tentative he seemed performing live at this time. Come the beginning of 1972, an inspired make over and change of outlook - hey presto - Ziggy played guitar. This box set is really good, charting the path from nowhere's ville to the stars.

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1981 european tour munich west germany.
my first crispy maxwell xl2 found at street fair in greenwich village new york.
best ever opening jack straw….perfect

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This has to be the most random bit of folk/singer-songwriter material I have ever stumbled into. The artist is someone I'd never heard of: F.J. McMahon.

McMahon's album, "Spirit of the Golden Juice", had a limited pressing in 1969 and McMahon tried touring to support it, even eventually doing the tourist circuit in Hawaii, but the album got no play. He finally found himself uninspired by playing covers, so he joined the navy and soon forgot all about playing music for a living. (I tried to say more but it was at this point that I got hey now'd)

(trying to edit my post) try the song 'Early Blue' if you just want to see what the fuss is about

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the Cleveland 12/4/73 show ( I was tryna say more but something kept getting me hey now'd) <sigh>

Wow, what got into Phil Lesh that night!? Somewhere I read that he was ticked off with the promoters and that's part of the reason set II is short. I wonder if Phil was trying to bring the ceiling down on those miscreants. Whatever his motivations were, it's just marvelous the things he does with his bass. He just takes over on Eyes and drives things into one ferociously weird bit of feedback. And that Stella Blue, too...he's playing behind Garcia instead of being way out in front, and yet Phil just goes thundering along. Intense. I've spent the last 90 minutes just grooving to Phil and replaying those two songs. Good stuff!!

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Fillmore East 12/31/69 - 1/2/70. The photo in the book of this box, of the Fillmore East advertises The Dead's shows for 1/2-3/70. Which isn't a bad idea for the New Year.

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JGB 12/31/75
Dead 12/31/76
Dead 12/31/78

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Allman Brothers 12-31-73

This one should be cleaned up and released.

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They were ripping it up and loving it in their first visit to Red Rocks.
Rumor has it that rocks were jostled loose from the walls by Phil's bombs, but that may have been some illegal climbing up there.
Cheers

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9/16/90

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5/26/77
Love me some '77 "Sugaree".

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From the wonderful HCSS Box

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11/30/73

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7/17/76
Amazing "Comes A Time"

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I'm thinking of getting a cat. I'm not - but I keep getting hey now'd when I mention The Dead.

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Tried but got the hey now.

Downhill From Here last night. Meh.

Cheers

Jan. 8 doing DiP20 because I woke up hearing Cosmic Charlie in my head.

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Fall '77 from a bit of everywhere.
Just finished 5-21-77 from DiP 29.
Cheers

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yup 1981-05-02

Peace All!

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of healy, latvala, norman, cutler for Nassau 1981-05-06, it is
hard for me to grasp that this 13th version of dick's picks has been in my GD treasure chest for 25 years!
Rock On Today and EVERYDAY!

Peace All!

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TODAY with a listen to 1981-12-09 [daP 20] CU Events Center in Boulder, CO; it's been five weeks of some very COOL music from 1981 and "tripping the light fantastic", wow:) and THANK YOU for a real good time!

Peace All!
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Starlight Theater
Kansas City, MO
An excellent Chris Chappell matrix over at the archive.
This is one smoking show!

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Bonus songs on “Don’t Look Back” Blu-ray

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1974-02-22 (bonus 2022 disc) crank up the HEAT and bring it on china>rider & ujb!
everyone enjoy your saturday
Peace All!
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Due to hey nows. It's mentioning 1974 that seems to be the problem.