Grateful Dead

given up on that post

Proudfoot, I'm with ya. Took two big losses last year -- father and cat (laugh if ya want, we spent 20 years together) -- and grief seems elusive, it comes and goes. Everything is a-okay one minute, the next the tears rain down at the irreparable loss.

As to "distant figures," meaning people I didn't know, I weathered Jimi, Janis, Duane, Roy, Jerry... then Gregg Allman's and Robert Hunter's passings really did me in.

Here's to acceptance... though it can be hard to achieve. Sometimes I want to tell my father what neat stuff I'm doing, but I don't have that area code to connect with him.

Thinking about emotions, and feelings of anxiety- or any psychological discomfort, reminds me of my own experiences of the same. 10 years ago, just after I retired, I learnt transcendental meditation from this teacher. Unexpectedly, at the same time, I started having slight panic attacks. I wasn't panicking about anything specific - but this wave of anxiety used to come over me with no warning and for no reason. Then it would go again - for no reason. I told this teacher about it, and he told me that I hadn't dealt with a lot of loss and grief in my life, and that because of this I had stored it in my subconscious. And it had been activated by meditating.
I don't know how true that was. It still happens occasionally, and I just wait for it to pass, which it always does. Sometimes after a few minutes, sometimes after as long as a week. Hasn't stopped me meditating.

I don't know when they came on, I'm afraid, but that show would make a great Dave's Picks. As would 12/5/71. As would 11/7/71 I'm slightly surprised that we have had a few Fall 1971 shows released, and yet those have fallen through the cracks.

Speaking of Keith's first show: does anyone know what time the band actually took the stage that night? I could have sworn that I read that they took the stage over an hour late, but I can't find a source

It's fun talking about 1971 and the Grateful Dead. I was baffled as a new head when I first started getting tapes from this year bc I didn't have the necessary knowledge to understand why their sound varied so drastically. In short order, I collected 2/18/71, what was labeled 4/29/71 (actually from two days of the run), 7/2/71, 10/19/71 and finally the show I always talk about, 12/5/71. I didn't realize this arbitrary span of selected dates included Mickey's departure... not to mention Pigpen's health and performance situation. I *did* know 10/19 was Keith's first show. And yet 12/5 was already an evolution, and it was only 6-7 weeks later. It still blows my mind thinking about how they created all of this ferociously distinctive music while undergoing all of this change.

A comfortable show

The Brokedown made me verklempt

Not looking for a pity party, but since my Dad's passing in September I have been hit by sudden, random waves of emotion. It's like aftershocks from an earthquake or like brief seizures. The human mind/emotion center is, well, mind boggling. Just out of the blue, about 15 seconds, then back to regular life.

Fun show, great Cumberland, but they all are. Some not often played tunes. Next stop S.F.. Civic, New Years Eve Shows.

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HF - I agree with that . From the moment Keith joined, the band entered a different era, and these Fall shows are more in line with the great shows to come in 1972 than the ones before in 1971.
A highlight of the first set for me is Tennessee Jed, with it's great middle section. The Truckin'-Other One is the centre piece though.Totally reshaped from earlier versions to great advantage. From rock and roll to the stars and back again.