Grateful Dead

We got tix for PJ at the Moda Center in Portland. Pricey tix. I guess the Jam isn't quite the advocate for the fans any more. Still looking forward to seeing them.

Bonnie's starting a tour and coming to Portland. Only single tix left. I guess I found out way after the regular sale.

There's a great salty video of Bonnie playing slide with John Lee Hooker on "I'm In The Mood".
I think I read somewhere that she was also influenced by Mississippi Fred McDowell.

Trying to keep word count down Requires generalities lol, for which I apologize.
Just trying to make a point about how influential the Feat guys were, but obviously I was not specific or accurate enough, thanks for straightening that out!
I just recall hearing her interviewed once where she makes a general statement about some specific stuff they taught her, but your right, not the same thing as “they taught her how” …

Spinning the vinyl edition now.

BTK’s leap year comment. My turntable has reverse, maybe I’ll spin 3-1-69 backwards for leap year.

I know nothing about playing guitar, so maybe that’s why Bob doesn’t sound all that bad to me.
Don’t know if this is true, but previously saw a comment on the Hoffman forum that Lowell taught Bob to play slide.

My Lowell teacheth Bobby slide comment got hey nowed.

I'm sort of glad, funny as it was, the comment was written in very poor taste.

The first time Hey Now actually worked. Perhaps they are working through the bugs.

(it was funny as hell)

:_(((

I'm serious.

Hey no!

check your messages

38 years ago yesterday, my brother and I were up at the Marin Civic Center to see Garcia & Kahn put on a knockout acoustic show. It has been officially released, and if you don't have it, get it. David Nelson & Tom Stern opened the show. After the show we went over to Berkeley to Everette & Jones BBQ. What a great time.

....found one of the first records I recall purchasing with my own money.
Zenyatta Mondatta - The Police.
I liked the cover and the name.
No skips.
Circa 1980. Checks out.
If they ever reunite, I will have five browsers open and hang out at the library down street. Just in case.
And if they play Canary In A Coalmine, look out!
My mom drove me to all the cool record stores.
Thanks mom!
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da.

The Police are best known to me for introducing The Cramps to Britain when they had them as a support band around 1980. The world took on a new promise.

Anyone have any words on the new picture disc Experience is offering? 1980 Dead, Jerry picture on lp?

Randomly put Blues for Allah on the turntable. Pretty sure it's the same copy I bought in the '70s,. Sounded great! Might even be my favorite studio album.

I'm going short here because everything I write that's over about 30 words gets Hey Nowed.

Suck it, Hey'ders!

I have the 2 Ritz shows from January BTK.
I'll poke around for the Marin show.
Thanks
Peace

What a show! The Dead at their very best.

Got tix for Tedeschi Trucks Band in Portland.

....a Dark Side Of The Moon double LP on clear UV vinyl on April 5th. Only playable on side A.
Looks pretty and extremely tempting.
The 2023 remaster.
"Suck it hey'ders".
I liked that one.
No 1980 Dead on Experience's site that I can find Dennis.

... found Introducing Lobo. On Big Tree Records.
Neat.
It has that Dog Named Boo song.

KPFA 94.1 FM Will hold their annnual Grateful Dead marathon today from 9am pst. to 12am pst. David Gans and Tim Lynch play live unreleased Grateful tapes, have in studio guests , for 15 hours, all for a great cause. Streaming on nugs.net, gdradio.net, kpfa.org, or listen on air at 94.1 fm.

Broke out my steamer trunk and have been spinning 5/25/72. Managed to get two solid listens in and on my 3rd this morning, with some fine green and hot coffee!

Excellent show!!

Is this the sleeper show of the Lyceum run?

Is there such a thing as a sleeper show concerning Europe '72? lol!!

Another gem of a show. The very best of the Dead.

....is the 40th anniversary of Spinal Tap. The mockumentary that goes to 11.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever".

Spinning now.
Phil sounds awesome on vinyl.

....currently sitting on the dress level at The Smith Center watching Shen Yun with my son.
Chinese dance is mesmerizing.

Dodgy business. Shen Yun is not quite what it seems. It is banned in China and is a supporter of the orange one.

Finally got my copy of Dave's 49. It is certainly better than I had expected. The only criticisms that I have are that for the first few songs of 4/28 the vocals are very low in the mix and Jerry sounds like he has been gargling with gravel. Fortunately later on the vocals are higher in the mix and Jerry's voice isn't as rough. These are two fine performances overall. A good start to this year's picks.

A new Nick Gravenites album, Rogue Blues coming in April on MC Records. With Pete Sears. This is long overdue and eagerly awaited.

.... you made me pull out Me & You and Dog Named Boo!

....makeup clown, but it was still a good show.
They admitted that they are not allowed to play in China.
Pete Sears you say?
Current listening? What's The Use into My Friend, My Friend. Phish. 12.29.23.
Yummy.
I've also been putting work into Hell Divers 2.
I've posted my penchant re; video games here before. If any of you play PS5, my username is mental_fulcrum. Hope to see you there!

....@ The Beacon. Nice.
The GDTRFB on this release is awesometacular.
Brent swirling on the B3 into Man Smart. Whoosh.
I'm tuned in.
Cmon Ronnie. One More Saturday Night. 🌙

Thanx for the tip on Nick’s new release I just preordered. Musslewhite Lester Chambers Jimmy Vivino Blumenfield and of course Thunder himself definitely looks like a keeper

Somebody posted a pretty good clip of TTB playing "Mr Charlie" on the You Know Where Tube. It's hoot. Check out Derek's solo: that repeated figure and then the loooong bend to start the second chorus: oh hail yeah.

BTW I did get tix for Berkeley (June 1) and Red Rocks (July 26). See yas there.

That's quite some time getting #49 to NL?
Was it from your subscription or a la carte?
Anyway, glad you got it!
I was positively surprised of both shows, musically and quality of sound!
Cheers G.
.....
Waiting for the 'Biergarten Season' to start (only about four more weeks for reloading).
Wishing all of us a 'never ending summer'!

It did take a long time to reach me, every step of the way. I think it crossed the pond in a rowboat. Once I had paid the Dutch customs it took another12 days before it got delivered. The whole world is going to shit.
I have a subscription.

I've been editing some old footage of Jerry at Electric on the Eel for Dead Head TV, and it inspired me to dig out my JGB Eel River Cd box. I listened to 6/10/89 set one last night while cooking dinner, what a great recording and performance! Stay tuned, I'm releasing some JGB at the Eel soon on dreamswedreamed dot com.

We just got Todd Rundgren tix for July at Revolution Hall in Portland. Psyched! Then the very next day kicks off the 3 day Riverfront Blues Festival. Woo Hoo!

FALUN GONG ONE CULT LOVES ANOTHER.

Coming to vinyl for RSD.

I think the bonus-disc with MH will be the "left-overs" from 6/22/74, that were not on the bonus-disc with vol. 34 (one of the great ones BTW..) BW from Copenhagen

....I finally got smart and took a PTO day. Afterwards, planning on heading the The Sphere and hope for a Phish ticket at a decent price. We shall see.

Good luck!

Hi All - I haven't posted here forever, haven't been keeping up with the dialogue but on a few topics....
- DaP49. Dig it. Jerry's voice is toast but MAN they could play, and I love all the quirky song choices and bust-outs. Fun stuff.
- Bobby on slide: Ouch. How can a guy who's so inventive and melodic be so bad on slide, and never seem to improve, at all? Duane became a virtuoso on slide after like 9 months. After decades, Bobby still sounded like... that.
- I have been playing "Guess the Year" on podcasts. They put on a show for a minute, then ya gotta guess the year. Very fun and a cool way to apply all that useless info we have in our heads from years of listening.
- Going to Vegas' phere for Dead & Co. Can't wait.
- Looking forward to DaP50 5/3&4/77. Setlist on 5/43 looks unremarkable, but those shows can be sleepers...
- What will the box this year be?
- Oh yeah, I got fat drinking too much beer during COVID. Recently trying diet and exercise return to form and live up to my handle. Getting there.

Hope y'all are well and that Space and RV3 (80's fans) are digging DaP49

Vguy good luck with the Phish tickets. Then you can tell us all about the Sphere.

today, harder than ever to post. does it hit different days for different people?

Stoked for Electic on Eel. Still one of my weakest touchpoints.

....needs to change his username. Ba-dum-dum-tssss.
Re RSD, it seems that there is going to be a 40th Anniversary Zoetrope picture disc of Dio's Last In Line. I had no idea what a Zoetrope record was, so I youtoobed it.
It's going on my list.

It has Vguy…..

George Bross of GDP merch, “Big Bross Man”.
I only met him a few times, but my cousins knew him well.
He seemed like all the crew folks: professional, good dude, unless you unintentionally mess up the merch semi at Shoreline on 96 Furthur fest tour and thus deservedly get summoned there for an “informative session lol. Actually, considering, he was pretty cool about it!