Grateful Dead

Hey rockers!

Dr S has an ocean of blood on his hands, the world is a better place with him gone.....

On a lighter note, for my morning commute I had the urge to listen to 2/14/68. Powerful stuff. Now THAT is some good old Grateful Dead!!

Rock on,

Doc
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity......

Hey again rockers!!!

50 years ago today I was in the absolute last row in the balcony at the old Boston Music Hall for my first Grateful Dead show. LOL for better or worse, guess that changed my life.........

If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.......

Rock on rockers!!!

Doc
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.......

Just discovered that Alphonso Johnson and Billy Cobham played in that band. Any recomendations? I'll have to look them up. (and Jazz Is Dead too)
Cheers
And happy anniversary Doc!

FZ said:
"Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny".

Ahhh Doc what a very fine show to see for one's first! Some beautiful jamming in that 2nd set. And iirc this one had great "clear the aisles" banter

on the archive dot org 1982-06-14
Bobby and The Midnites - June 14, 1982
Garden Pier - Atlantic City, NJ

got to see them in AC - outdoors band shell with our backs to the Atlantic Ocean, we were 1st row standing on the seats with a direct view of the band over the 20 deep pushed up against the stage. even brought along my SLR camera. Brent on keys, Billy C. on drums, Alphonso Johnson bass, Matthew Kelly harmonica, Bobby Cochran lead. Lil Red Rooster was cool with harmonica

two recommended Billy C. recordings to check out are glass menagerie (1982 live montreux jazz) & warning 1985

edit - jazz is dead doing some blues for allah is also good listening (1998-01-17 or 1998-01-22) besides alphonso and billy c , you get jimmy herring also

I'll check those out.
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
Any Geo. Duke as well.
Cheers

....of Phish's first show.
Set 1
Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress
Proud Mary
In The Midnight Hour
Squeeze Box
Roadhouse Blues
Happy Birthday To You. Who? No clue.

Set break. Someone in the dorm tried to drown them out by playing Michael Jackson's Thriller.

Set 2
Scarlet Begonias ->
Fire On the Mountain

They used hockey sticks for mic stands.

Guess who I'll be listening to all day.
Thanks for all the fine memories you guys. 💓

Working on disc 4 of DiP 14 which is the night before and after Doc's first show. What a wonderful Phil-heavy recording from Kidd Candelario, and what a performance from Phil to match being so upfront in the mix. Wharf Rat melts into a left turn into Mississippi Half Step, which itself melts into a fantastic jazzy 1973 Playing. Gonna enjoy the rest of this bliss. This would be a great Real Gone vinyl...

Forgot to make the obligatory mention of this being the release that begins with a Morning Dew, and then closes with another Dew.

This afternoon settled into 12/02/1973 (DiP 14). What a fabulous show. Learned that they had much of the Wall of Sound up on stage with them, which explains why it sounds more '74 than '73. Not sonically, but in style. Spacey that way. The second set Wharf Rat opener really sets the tone for everything that follows. I guess the Cold Rain and Snow as well. Not unlike Tivoli '72. Also a beautiful show.

And can't go a Saturday without a Phish show. Still stuck in November/December '97. Going with Salem (plugged in as I type this......). Such a wicked Black Eyed Katy! Stash too.

....and I also love Godzilla.
The new one is fantabulous. Good job Toho. 👏

So I finished uploading all eighteen episodes of Dead Head TV to our website,

dreamswedreamed dot com

Our John Cipollina Tribute has been very popular...practically 78,000 views!

Now I've dug into my DTV archive for videos that never made it to a DTV episode. The first one is a

World Premier of "A Conversation With Robert Hunter - November 1990".

And there's more to come! All good things in all good time....

Hey Señor! in your vast video collection do you have an MTV special from the mid 80's called "The Sounds Of San Francisco"? It has our boys plus The Residents and others I can't remember...I ask cuz I have brief cameo in it being asked questions at The Greek etc...

63 years ago today, first time the Grateful Dead would play live as the Grateful Dead.

Congratulations, you passed the Test! As you seem to be posting from the future. 58th anniversary of San Jose Acid Test by my calculations. Still pretty darn momentous.

Last 5: 11/10/67, 10/20/68, 2/22/69, 4/15/70, 9/24/72 from 30 Trips. 2/22/69 is sublime. I've enjoyed it before, but not as much as this listen, this time, having just feasted on Fillmore West again recently, 2/22 would probably be the 3rd best of that set of 5 shows. Don't think I would have said that before. 4/15/70 is a weird, weird show, but so very good (one detraction, not enough Phil in the mix). That Soul Sacrificish Jam is a whole other level of Dead, but then you get It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World AND Hard to Handle and a smoking Lovelight> Not Fade Away snippet> Lovelight, and a Dancin' with a Tighten Up jam. They should release more 30 Trips on vinyl. Think it's been just 7/29/66, 11/10/67, 4/25/77. That '74 show would be a dandy vinyl release at some point

after their gig at the San Jose Civic Auditorium, right around the corner, Keith Richards and Brian Jones would stop in at the Acid Test. During the Dead's break someone asked Pig Pen if he could play his organ, Pig Pen said "go ahead, just don't touch my beer". As he was wailing away on the organ another guy came up and said " get the f..k out of here" it was Garcia.
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10/31/69 & 4/22/79, both would make great releases.

I lost a big chunk of email, does anyone know the original cost of One from the vault and Fillmore 3/1/69. Both in vinyl. I have extra copies of each and one of our own would like. I don't mind selling for cost + shipping, but I don't want to lose money either :-) and for the love of god, I can't find original cost.

thanks
(will this make it thru?????)

Seems like it was $75, when I got it. I have seen it available for $55-65 quite often. But think retail was like $74.95 or something.

Sorry, no I don't recall that video. I think I would remember the boys sharing a video with the Residents. It's possible I recorded it and forgot about it. I'll keep my eye out for it as I peruse the archive for new things to release.

trying to post vs reply.

alvar, I thought the same number

nitecat - was joke meant about keeping an eye out for the residents

Alvar-that's a great idea. I had forgotten about 2/22/69, and having been blown away by 3/2/69 on vinyl, I went back to 2/27 to listen to them in order. Maybe I'll back track to 2/22 today. There is something about vinyl that makes me want to turn up the volume - and these 69 shows really come into their own doing that. I don't think any other band utilised 2 drummers as effectively as The Dead did from 1967-1970. A real power house.
One thing though - just to show I'm still awake - that 7/29/66 show that came out on vinyl wasn't actually the 30 Trips show, it was on the bonus disc to the re issued first studio album that came out on cd a few years ago. 30 Trips was 7/3.
Those shows form 1967 - 1974 are the cream of the crop from that box, for me. But I played 10/27/90-Paris, yesterday, and that is really good. Roof raising China Cat/Rider. Not so much digital dialling in to make guitars sound like oboes or whatever.

You were right, Daverock, 7/29/66 was the bonus disc to the first album's 50th anniversary. I honestly skip the '66 show in 30 Trips. I listened to it when it came, and pre-primal Dead is not the same as primal Dead. Even with Cream Puff War and Viola Lee. So, even more interesting that only 11/10/67 and 4/25/77 have been released on vinyl.

Less rehash!

Alvar - yes, I feel like that about them concerning shows from 1966. I like them well enough, but to me, they didn't really become The Dead, as such, until Micky Hart joined. Up until then, they were still The Warlocks, in spirit if not name.

54 years ago me and 300,000 of my closest friends were at Altamont for a little shindig....

....Rhino is having a sale. First six records vinyl remastered for $90.
Note. Not Van Hagar. The REAL Van Halen.

....also, RIP to those who lost their lives at UNLV today. Dammit.

"Gimme Shelter" remains one of the most shocking films I have ever seen. Fascinating to have attended an event of such historical importance, though. It probably didn't seem like that at the time. All things considered, I would definitely have rather attended any of the indoor shows played by The Stones in 1969 prior to Altamont.

VGUY72, won't be purchasing any of that vinyl, but thank you! I attended the Black Sabbath show at the Spectrum in PHL '78, turns out this opening band (Van Halen) literally blew Black Sabbath out of the arena and almost the roof off of the venue. The crowd was booing The Sabs, they were so awful, no way they could match the energy and youthful enthusiasm of the opening band which many in the crowd had not yet even heard of. Rock On!!

....1978, Van Halen were brand new and full of spit and vinegar.
Black Sabbath were coked out and Ozzy was on his way out.

They were many years past their peak by 1978. 1972's "Volume 4" was dedicated to "the great COKE cola company of Los Angeles", according to the cover. It was all a blur after that.

I JUST played Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 2 days ago. It is still a fantastic album (to these ears anyway)

I'm past ready to get info on Dave's 50. I hope it comes soon.

Mr Ones - there's a lot more going on, musically, on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath than the earlier ones. I didn't actually get that one till I was a bit older, so it never quite sunk into my body and mind like ones before it. I loved the bassy rumble of the first three. Amazing live around that time - riffs that could destroy a factory.

32 years ago tonight, the Warfield Theatre was the place to be and that's just where I was at.. Seeing Garcia play banjo was worth the price of admission, but the whole show was a knockout! These shows are a must release.

Have several days of reading to catch up.

Dang Nappy being at Altamont, what I wouldn't give to hang out for an hour or 2 just to hear that story. Awesome/Difficult?

VH first show December 1980. On Fire!

What I would give to have seen Jerry play Banjo.

Had to be awesome...hope they release.

Not the best anniversary to remember, RIP John Lennon and thank you for all your contributions to music. It was a black day back in 1980.
I recommend everyone check out twelve twelve nineteen eighty and let's raise a glass to John. His favorite quote of mine..."Give peace a chance".

A very sad day that was. Hard to believe 43 years, my first VH show 43 years. Damn, where does the time go? Definitely, rolls into one.

Anyone who enjoys poetry might like to mark that the fact that Benjamin Zephaniah sadly died today. He preferred to speak his words rather than write them down, so that might be the best way to experience him. An advocate for racial equality, he looked forward to a time when black people all over the country would play golf.

On November 8, 2016, election day in the US of A, I woke with a feeling of dread. I had plans to cast my vote on the way to work. I jumped in the care, plugged my iPod into the car stereo (as was my custom in them days) and hit the shuffle mode. Out comes the chugging guitar intro of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.

Where can you run to?
What more can you do?
No more tomorrow
Life is killing you
Dreams turn to nightmares
Heaven turns to hell
Burned out confusion
Nothing more to tell

And we all know what happened next.

I know what happened next. One of the greatest presidents in our nation's history was elected. The same one who will be elected in 24. I love the Dead and I love my country and am not some doped lib hippie believing what my friends or Bobby tells me to. Who gives a f what you believe. Yea, Black Sabbath's lyrics really have any connection to the election. Smoke another one dope. At least talk about the Dead and their music chump.

Verbal Diarrhea.

....yeah. I'm going to bite my tongue re that topic of conversation. I haven't in the past, but I'm trying to do better. If for nothing else, my blood pressure will thank me.
I will say this though. My personal opinions regarding elections are not swayed by my friends or Bob Weir.
Nice try though Tom.
"Doped lib hippie". 🤣
You owned me with that one.
You know who else gets off calling people names like a middle-schooler? Guess.
RIP John Lennon. I watched it live with my dad during the Dolphins/Patriots Monday Night Football game. Howard Cosell announced it. I had discovered The Beatles a couple of years earlier at the tender age of 10 and was just getting into the Dolphins/football.
I went to my room, put on Rubber Soul and cried my eyes out.
My mom brought be a candle.
"Vince. I am so sorry. Light this and play them".
Thanks mom.
She knew the feeling because of Elvis three years earlier.
My dad was trying to be stoic, but I saw the pain in his eyes.

32 years ago tonight we were back at the Warfield Theatre for another fantastic night of music. These shows were gems from start to finish, Garcia was really tearing it up on guitar. These shows are a must release, I believe that they are also on video.

....Neil Diamond's Beautiful Noise.
Yup. That's a good one.

A timely reminder of the terrible consequences of not smoking dope. It's not just the individual who suffers - it's those around them too.

hysterical, shot coffee right out my nose, afraid deedee got that completely and entirely incorrect. Third from the bottom, check your information again. So, found a forum that you think you can come on and spew your lies and hate? not here bud, get off our lawn.