Grateful Dead

You gotta Be-Leaf!

Red Sox 2004

....time to check out my Amoeba Records haul. Gave myself a hundred dollar limit. Before I knew it I had seven records in hand. Narrowed it down to Yo La Tengo's I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One, The Animals Retrospective and King Gizzard's Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava.
The packaging is especially nice on the KG one.
VGK on soon.

Phuqem

man...that show was 41 years ago.

WOW.

my first GD show was also 41 years ago in July.

WOW.

"where does the time go?"

I was there for the Clash/English Beat too....my buddy and I were first in line for entrance and we made a bee line for dead center up against the barricade....during the show a bunch of surf Nazis barrelled their way through the crowd shoving and pushing people out of the way so they could get upfront...needless to say they had a little trouble trying to shove me and my pal from our spot...insults were traded (this while "London Calling" was blaring) and my pal dropped one of them which got the bouncers between the stage front and barricade involved...we told them that the guy slowly getting up off ground had talked a buncha racist crap (which he had) and that we were just defending ourselves...these guys were all Black and big of course like offensive linemen...they reached over the barricade and grabbed the offender and tossed him out of the building...they looked at his buddies and they all laughed and said no problem here ...it took all of three minutes or so...a couple of weeks or so earlier I had been at the Greek in Berkeley for GD so I had some refreshments left over for the Clash show ...

Friday, September 8, 2023
Walnut Creek Amphitheatre Raleigh, NC
Willie Nelson & Family
Tedeschi Trucks Band
The String Cheese Incident
Los Lobos
Particle Kid

....what a game! Evander Kane is a lil bitch though.

....but No Quarter is the exception. What an awesome couple of shows. Thank you guys.
Was in a higher up section tonight. More space and met a lot of incredible people. The air was heavy with mind-altering vibrations. Just the way I like it.
Oh. Got my Slave To The Traffic Light. See the city, see the zoo.

They look like the Leafs in game one. Zero effort.

Yes they are. 40 years in and that band can some how still do amazing and new things while still keeping it familiar. I caught the Set 2 opener last night - great stuff. I am still buzzing from the Berkeley show on 4/17. A second set with 4 songs highlighted by a Tweezer that clocks in at the 43 minute mark only to go into a 19 minute Simple. Now just because a song is long does not make good, but Phish can do a lot in a 43 minute or 19 minute space for that matter. The Rock and Roll to close that 2nd set was high energy too. They seem to be at the top of their game or close to it. I got Phish coming to my hometown of the Burgh for 2 nights this summer which I am going to both shows.

Plus Dead and CO will be coming by as well, which I am going to see simply because it is my home town. I think that band has been playing about 2 years or so too long. I appreciate the effort though and I don't think their playing is terrible. Yet I feel like they got too refined when compared to the earlier efforts. I feel like any semblance of an X-factor in their shows is gone these days. Just me feelings on it - things may differ with others I 'm sure. Oddly Dead & Co will be sans Billy this entire tour due to what has been labeled as "creative differences". Seems awfully fishy to me.

I am also making the trek to Blossom to see The Tedeschi Trucks Band. I think they are top notch. If anyone has not heard their recent shows, they have been playing some great music. This summer is looking to be a great one for shows for me.

Last 5 just because:
Pink Floyd 3/13/72
Led Zeppelin 5/21/75
Pink Floyd 4/29/70
Led Zeppelin 9/28/71
Phish 7/29/03