Grateful Dead

....just now.
And, let me tell you, it gets really, really grate.
That is why I do this.

Weather Report Suite> Jam> US Blues features heavily on DiP 12, the one with the amazing 12 min China Cat that has a great 3 min China Cat Jam to start it, as well as simply scintillating Eyes encore, with one of Phil's best solos. The WRS and Jam is like 48 min, with a Mind Left Body/proto-Music Never Stopped portion, a brief Dark Star excursion (much less obvious as 6/23/74, which is really a full Dark Star without lyrics, as it has the full intro from a dead stop), and other themes I can't remember right now. But it traverses quite a bit of territory. There may be one of the proto-Slipknots in there, too.

6/23/74 aka DaP 34 is one of my favorite releases. I think the sound on it is the best 2 track Wall of Sound there has been thus far. The vocals aren't as sibilant. And they were feeling it so much at those shows that even Black Peter has some life in it. The Jerry choices are top notch and fit in well, and the Bob choices complement them well. Not a huge Ramble On Rose fan, but they kill this one right out of the gate, and it gets better from there.

I remember that it's great...but not why. I'll find out all over again over the next day or so. One of the great things about memory loss is that things never seem old. Odd how it used to be considered a disadvantage.
They played some truly great music during June 1974.

New DTV videos released on DreamsWeDreamed dot com:
A Conversation with Dan Healy Part 1 of 3
Kaiser Convention Center 1989
LA Forum 1989
Henry Kaiser, Dark Star
The Dead News March 1989

Enjoy!

6-23-74 is good, but I like the transition into it from 6-28-74 better.

Speaking of 6/23/74, I listened to the 3rd cd of the Dave's Picks featuring this show last night. That Dark Star- Spanish Jam- into the final destination US Blues is one great piece of music. US Blues could have been written with this moment in mind.
I notice, looking at the date at the bottom of my laptop, that yesterday was 23rd June too. Fancy that.

On the Giants 6/17/91 the official release even says Dark Star before the Masterpiece whereas Dbase says Dark Star tease. So I guess tptb decided the DS tease must warrant calling it DS. I dont have a problem with that, I think it lasts a couple of minutes of weirdness. Since the 2nd set is also DS, of course, but Dbase thinking about statistics chart it like this: Dark Star theme during "Jam", "Jam" is after Uncle John's Band. The DS Jam prior to Truckin is the first one since 6/23/74 which is reckoned as 1,110 shows prior. That is quite the breakout.

First set Eyes since 8/13/75 (1,083 shows). Sure it has been posted before. Sure I will re post in future as a new post...ha!

Go Kniggets (Congrats VGuy).

One comment on Powell. My 401K is down since news broke that he's a deadhead :D

GFar, check your PM.

12/31/76, fantastic.

Yes it was a Dark Star Jam, a really nice one. Bruce suggested/teased DS twice earlier in the show, and they finally folded into it after a really nice post Terrapin jam. Jerry was singing well, and was especially soulful during the Black Peter.

Deadbase labels it a Darkstar Jam.

Like, Giants stadium box from June of 1991(?). That Blu Ray disk is amazing.

Think I am going to pull trigger on Widespread Panic on nugs.net this weekend. Three nights for them as they extend their massive lead of most sold out shows at Red Rocks. Not sure where they are now maybe 65-66 sold out shows there. Colorado always huge WsP territory. And was a big push behind the rebirth of the blue grass scene. Yehaw!

Then budgeting to pay monthly subscription to grab a few D&C shows in next month. Some Phish shows shows etc.

Anybody know much about Goose. There shows, this weekend, are included in monthly subscribers. And then will be there to watch in the FUTURE Future future

About to pull trigger, also, on Dweezil Zappa, as he has a $30/year fee and gives 10 free shows with subscription.

Still wrangling though, as I still have so so much Dead stuff to find out about.

Edit: Think Giants Blu Ray tonight. Then WsP, nugs lets you keep a PPV for 30 days or so after purchase, then 48 hours to watch once you start.

Whew