"Basketball and music have always been alike for me, the celebration of life and all other good things. These two art forms represent the best of teamwork, constant motion, creativity, leadership, communication, focus, execution, friendship, loyalty, cooperation, hope, opportunity, purpose, sacrifice, discipline, honor, and fun. Fun to play. Fun to practice. UCLA and the Grateful Dead embody the highest levels of this celebratory joy. At UCLA, it was endless fun, every day, in every way. We couldn’t wait to get there, to get going — though it was never as much fun as when the Grateful Dead came to play with and for us." - Bill Walton
Is there anyone who knows the acoustics of Pauley Pavilion better than Bill "Grateful Red" Walton? We think not, so we signed him on as a liner note scribe for DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 48, the complete previously unreleased show from UCLA's Pauley Pavilion 11/20/71. He was there, after all, "driftin' and dreamin'" as the Dead shape-shifted through a first set of Americana classics from WORKINGMAN'S DEAD and AMERICAN BEAUTY into their second one featuring truly primal psychedelic jams (a 23+ minute "The Other One"). They peppered in hot takes on tracks from the recently released SKULL & ROSES ("Bertha," "Me And My Uncle," "Not Fade>GDTRFB") and road-tested tunes like "Ramble On Rose" and "Tennessee Jed" that would make the cut on the following year's EUROPE '72. It's all delivered with such precision that we've had to come up with some overtime for disc three. There you'll find 75+ minutes of music from the Kiel Opera House, St. Louis, MO, 10/24/70, with the rest of the show due sometime in the near future.
Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 48: PAULEY PAVILION 11/20/71 was recorded by Rex Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering.
Meaningful Tripe
The dictionary definition of trip is "the first or second stomach of a cow or other ruminant used as food." Pretty interesting, eh?
Hey Now!
I give up....
I tried to keep it simple by only posting my last five listens. Seems like that was too radical.
This really sucks now!
No...
..I mean yes - they cobbled my last 5 too. Maybe it's the choices that are too radical. Here's the last one -
A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind - volume 3 - Pagan Love Vibrations by The Amorphous Androgynous.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Deadnet!
New Year’s Performances!
.. speaking hoping everyone is having a grateful new year so far, I would Love another News Years Release from the Vaults! Way over due! So many primo shows! in my deadhead !
I Love Everything they released so far! I listen to a lot of new years gigs every now a then. You always get something special. My last was at Oakland Coliseum arena! Special guests WithBranford Marsalis on tenor sapransosax! & Hamza El Din on Percussion! 1990! What a Rock’n Show!!! Or did they release this, I can’t remember? I’m getting old from my head to my cowboy boots! ;) Phil is playing awesome tonight! Really primo stuff!
Sadly Brent had passed away by this Tim. So they has keyboards and piano tonight
"And now for something completely different..."
Man, I'll probably never get that feeling I used to get watching Monty Python's Flying Circus. Or Fawlty Towers. English humor is... different, absurd, hysterical.
I had managed to never hear Taylor Swift (or know it was her) until this past Christmas Day at the in-laws. The wife and teenage daughter had Swift on in the kitchen while the lads watched football in the living room. The food was in the kitchen, so I was exposed to it a fair bit. I knew, in my mind, before I asked that it was her. It just had to be. A lot of acoustic, bland, dispassionate... I could go on and on with the negative adjectives but it wasn't like I hated it, like, say, Bro Country or Gangsta Rap, it was just mildly annoying because Taylor Swift music is so void of energy it can hardly alchemize into anything else.
Most people here are passionate enough about music to probably not be Swifties. I harbor no ill will at all toward her for her incredible industry success, she's a pop culture phenomenon and now with the Travis Kelce thing it's just taken it to the next level... beautiful girl, handles herself well in public and I do believe she has a large hand in creating her music, unlike, say, Britney.
Last 5:
Pink Floyd - Pulse (currently on next to last song on disc 2, Comfortably Numb. DG never gets old).
Montrose - Montrose
Van Halen - Women and Children First
John Mellencamp - Strictly a One-Eyed Jack (check this out! It is so far from Jack & Diane it'll blow you away)
Soundgarden - Down on the Upside
Be well, all of you.
\m/
The official Gamehendge video....
....is up on the toob.
🥳.
Tela, Tela.
The 42 minute mark. Lordy.
If I ever want goosebumps, I'll play that.
Thumbs up to the production crew. 👍
Unsung heros.
Edit.
I tried to edit this with Swift/Football/Dolphins vs Chiefs and got hey nowed.
It was a good rant.
Folk in hell
Great triple cd of John Lee Hooker on Ace records - "The Sensation Recordings 1948-1952". These sides have never sounded better.
Daverock & The Hooker
Thanks, that post just cost me 30 bucks! :-)
Sixtus-billerica-beer cat
The Billerica forum tape was given to me from a guy named BJ in1987 who lived in Natick. We met somewhere and had a few beers, and a bone while hanging at his apartment. He was a die hard deadhead. I was pretty happy, because this was the first time I actually started to listen the dead. The set list was so great that we poured a beer over his cat. The cat didn't really care much. Maybe we did it since we popped a purple micro-dot.
30 bucks well spent
Dennis - foundational. Check out "Burnin' Hell" track 22 cd 1. There can't have been many other records made in 1949 that sounded like that.
Music is the best !!
Someone should remind my neighbour of that when she hears my guitar playing. She can be very judgemental. Ears like a bat.
Burnin’ Hell
The last 40 seconds alone is worth the price of admission!!
re: Beercat / Carlos
Gettin' Hey Now'd on my reply but wanted to acknowledge how awesome a story that is!! If I can get my initial thoughts into this here 'puter without rejection, I will.
I know Marye is on it.
Sixtus
Slopeside chat
Makes me want to go skiing.
Sounds like DaP51 filler will be the rest of 10-24-70 (at least that’s my interpretation).
Phish dropped a new archival release today....
....Sacramento 11.30.96. A show I happened to attend and it's a scorcher and the mix is spot on.
In fact, the last two releases were ones I was at.
Thank you Kevin Shapiro! (Phish's Lemieux).
Negative 30 degrees in KC for tomorrow's game....
....frozen fish sticks anyone?
Faulty towers
The funny episode where they had German guests, and basil took their dinner orders while making references to nazi Officers like one "eva prawn," one "herman goring", and two Colditz salads.
Negative 30 is no joke
That's some serious cold rain and snow.
Any favorite shows with Cold Rain and Snow out there? Love the phat chords in the 12/26/79 show in Oakland, for example. Show's with great Weather Report Suites fit nicely in the days when "Seasonal" weather goes a bit too far.
Edit: Notice posts with the work "Negative" flow right on through the crackpot evil algorithms developed by Dr. HeyNow.
VGUY/Phish
It’s always fun when a show you attended gets an official release. I was at the Brooklyn show in (2004??) and an Atlantic City show in (2010-2011??) I’m not sure if it’s drug/alcohol related but I can’t remember shirt anymore!!
Two previous Dark Stars are great
1 20 79 meanders and then disappears
I recommend
Listening on that u t oo b
To Led Zeppelin
Live
r n r into celebration day
Yummy
Anniversary show 1/13/80 Oakland
44 years ago I was was up in Oakland for a show with the Grateful Dead. Also on the bill was Santana, The Beach Boys, John Chipollina, and Joan Baez, it was a Benefit show for Cambodian refugees. The Dead played great!
Paste - Best Dead Songs
Check out the list of best Grateful Dead songs in the most recent Paste newsletter. Just give Paste a Google, enjoy the list and let the controversy begin...
I still like Wharf Rat the best!
Funny kind of question
When I think of best songs, I tend to think of the studio versions - of which "Box of Rain" and "Ripple" shine very brightly indeed.
Because The Dead's songs were so fluid, a more interesting question might be -which is the best version of songs.
A more informative list
Studio songs that are better live.
Probably all of them.
I personally cant choose one best song
Listening currently to 1 17 79
The recording starts with Bobby saying Garcia is sick and on a respirator and the show is cancelled and will be made up later. (From the cancelled Fall 78 shows )
Then the recording switches to 1 17 79.
Interesting.
Studio v Live
For the most part I would agree - Live Dead is where it is at. But for me there are a few exceptions - I can think of 4 from American Beauty - Box of Rain, Ripple-Brokedown Palace and Attics of My Life. I don't think I have ever heard any live versions of those songs that I prefer to those studio cuts.
American Beauty as a whole is amazing, of course!