Anyone who has ever seen the Dead can testify that one of its shows will add quite a bit of color to the environment here at Stanford. Anyone who has not seen one of these spectacles should have the opportunity to do so. The Grateful Dead are an important part of the Bay Area's cultural history. Those of us who saw them last week can testify that the Dead are alive and well. The Concert Network would be hard-pressed to find an act which would bring Frost Amphitheatre to life as the Dead would. - The Stanford Daily
As you know by now, we'd certainly have voted aye on this motion, so much so, that we've loaded up DAVE'S PICKS 49 with not one, but two complete Grateful Dead shows from the Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 4/27/85 and 4/28/85. The first shows from '85 in the series, these back-to-back hometown performances couldn't be more different while delivering the same level of passion and precision, five hours of it, in fact.
In 1985, the band were celebrating "20 Years So Far," a feat that found them on these particular nights confident with invention in terms of both setlists and playing. There are old songs renewed, rare covers revived, undeniably nuanced Jerry moments, and a few surprises from Brent Mydland too. While it's impossible to select highlights, we can say with certainty that the overall clarity of these shows is unparalleled, courtesy of Dan Healy's recordings.
Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 49: FROST AMPHITHEATRE, STANFORD U, PALO ALTO, CA 4/27/85 & 4/28/85 has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering.
Mars Hotel
I am really looking forward to Mars Hotel too! But It seems a better solution instead of boycotting would be to stop posting, just here. After that, move the party to a no hassle dead related forum. I ain't gonna little sweat the little stuff or waste time jumping thru silly hoops at my age. I'm going outside now. The birds are singing.
They love us?
They love our money, I know that.
in the immortal words of Squidward, "whaaaatever"
Anniversary show 3/26/83 Aladdin Theatre
41 years ago I at the Aladdin Theatre having a blast with the Good old Grateful Dead. Fun Times.
They don't love us?
Another illusion shattered ! It's ironic that a band that was anti-commercial and which stood outside the commercial dictates of "business", as far as they could and still survive, should be sold and promoted as they have been. The music will always be great - you just have to see through all the pap.
"Mars Hotel" 50th bonus discs: spoiler ahead
Someone over at the Hoffman forum found a screen shot with the details: Reno 5/12/74 on two discs, without "The Promised Land" opener.
Vegas '83
BTK... a lasting and profound memory for me, of all the heads with the blazing tie-dye shirts inflitrating every corner of the Alladin ... the tables, the bars, the slots, the sidewalks ... it was a crazy visual (and yes, olfactory) experience like none other...as a Vegas regular, I've never seen anything quite like it since then .....and the show featured some of my faves ... jackstraw, Althea, scarlet fire estimated eyes other one!!! .......tcc
Reno '74
Just got the e-announcement from dead dot net. . . Onethebus: The guy on Hoffman was right. Looks like the first road show with the Wall of Sound has only two songs from Mars Hotel. Nice show tho (and duly ordered w/ the green FTMH LP).
I think I finally figured out the Great and Powerful Hey Now: You have to humbly present the Wicked Witch of the West's broomstick on bended knee first. Onward.
Sales
Boycott is not necessary, sales are already hurting: last 4 DaP are still available, #49, 48 and 47 sell for as low as $25 new on Ebay.
Listen to the River box, from the classic 71 -73 period, is still available; so is the MSG box.
I'm guessing this forum is not one of their highest priorities.
Nice surprise
Getting 2 discs and m/o show.
Thought maybe rest of 6/26 or 6/22 maybe, or chopped up tid bits.
So maybe not a top shelf show, but another good 74, “which is nice”
Stop posting?
Proudfoot tried that a week or two ago.
He’s back…..
I had the solution to the Ney How Gestapo
I posted it here, but it got hey nowed.
Good Grief
This house of clowns seem to be non-caring and incompetent. (probably impotent to boot)
MaryE and Captain Dave excluded, without them we would be lost at sea
Fix the HeyNow nonsense already dimnet. I'm quite confident it's hurting sales
Gong sound
Truth is something you stumble into when you think you are going someplace else.
Jerry Garcia
Daily Zen calendar for 3-28-2024
Opening Day!!....
....Marlins are 0-1. Just as I like it.
Check out those new NFL kickoff and hip tackle rules. Also talking about extending the season another week and adding another bye.
Gets worse every year.
Anniversary show 3/28/84. Marin Veterans Auditorium
40 years ago tonight I was up in Marin to hear a great show by the Grateful Dead in the tiny Marin Veterans Auditorium . Fun Times.
NFL
Are nothing but greedheads!
Now their going to get you to purchase more apps just so you can watch a playoff game, AND, back in Bu faf, their now requiring a private license or some BS ontop of the exorbitant tic prices for season tix. Know a lot of long time season ticket holders that aren’t going to reup…
So for u T u b e sub plus package not including extra app games, and it’s like a grand and you have to listen to their blowhards.
NHL package is like $64 and you get every game, (81+ )either audio feed!
Sports & Concert Pricing
Oro - I read the (Dollar) Bills were introducing a seat licensing fee, and I honestly thought they already had it. The Leafs and Craptors charge an exorbitant Personal Licensing Fee ripped right out of TicketBastard’s book, that basically lets the owner of the teams control resale of tix. Gamgsters. This, of course, bleeds over to the concert industry, too, so that we get Taylor Swift pricing.
Why do they charge this Personal Licensing Fee? Because they can. Thankfully, there is enough decent sports coverage on TV to scratch my NFL or NHL itch, but when it comes to concerts? Woeful.
3.29.90....
....I'm all in on that good shit.
Shit apparently passes the hey now test. 👏
The Sky Was Yellow And The Sun Was Blue
Hello,
a heavy sandstorm (it’s origin is the Sahara desert)) has colored the sky today, here in Southern Germany.
It supposed to be a sunny spring day with blue skies, the weather forecast said, with temperatures up to 20 centigrade.
But instead the sky was yellow, overcast and no sun at all. Temperatures only made it up to 12 centigrade.
Happy Easter
G.
Wow
How many miles/km did that sand have to travel? If I took a shovel full of sand and tossed it as far as I could, it wouldn't fall that far from the shovel. I can only imagine the forces at work to carry that much of something as dense as sand so far. Note to self, do not breath that stuff in.
Sand castles and glass camels, unusual occurrences in Southern Germany.
Nice matching 3/29 Nassau Coliseum Avatar, VGuy.
Two back to back postings without getting rejected by the HayCow demons
Fantastic!! Raw electric…
Fantastic!! Raw electric Dead. Just part way into disc 1 and I'm enthralled. This ain't Dylan pluggin in at Newport. Plugged in band and plugged in home field crowd. You all will love it.
What's cooking? /Happy Easter
Rib eye steaks. Drinking. Old Rasputin. Happy Easter eveyone.
Happy Easter
Salmon for dinner BTK [heart failure diet]
Ending the night with a few Coors, a tasty bowl, and DaP 25.
Peace
Eclipse
So the 4/8/72 Dark Star will be on a loop. That’s a given.
Other than that, what a joke.
Oro, you will appreciate this. Hotels in Buffalo are going for $900 a night. Normally around $200. For three minutes of darkness.
Dave, did you get that reference? Release 9/19/70.
Easter/Eclipse/Fools
Interesting menus from yesterday, here: pork loin teryaki, brussel sprouts with onion confit, curried short grain brown rice, "special" chateauneuf du pape to go with. Burlington gets 3 minutes of total eclipse in a week, I know folks coming from as far as Boston heading there, a city of 45K will see another 50K plus visitors... ahem, will pass on that chaos and head up to the North East Kingdom where the word is Get NEKed and dance. Let's all get foolish today.
Foolish Heart
Definitely not trekking up to Burlington, but having a slow day at the office in Rutland, so out of totality. Should be able to go outside and peek at the magic of the cosmos. Enjoy the NE Kingdom, the one trek my wife and I made looking for moose, it was stunningly gorgeous. Looking forward to going back in summer.
Since Hank Kingsley allowed me to post that, will add, looking forward to Dave's 50, mainly since it will be a new release, and a new Betty for one of the nights. Thought I had SBDs of both, but was mistaken. The non-subscribers may hate missing the bonus this time.
El Mole del Molino
My sister hosted Easter this year and she didn't want to do the usual ham and potato salad thing so she got tamales and enchiladas from El Molino. Friends, if you're ever in Sonoma, check it. Best mole sauce I've ever had.
Weird footnote to Easter dinner: my other sister, the really straight one who never so much as smoked a joint, was asking everybody if we've had mushrooms. Um, who, me? Why would you ask? Apparently, psychedelics are getting a lot of positive press in the mass media these days, and now she's all curious. So I told her, yeah, shrooms can really be of benefit in the right situation blah blah. You might see the light. You might laugh your ass off. Both, if you're lucky. So now she wants me to score for her. Mind you, this is a sister who used to tattle on me for smoking weed.
Weird. Life is weird.
Drove home through a massive downpour listening to the Wall of Sound edition of Road Trips. It was a good day.
The Paramount
Mr. Hanso, You may not be a country music fan (slightly here) but the Marty Stuart Band soon come to Rutland Vermont's answer to The Capitol in Port Chester, The Paramount will be entertaining. He's a total show boat no doubt, but he came up playing with Lester Flatt and Johnny Cash. I came over for Les Brers a few years ago because I had met Bruce Katz master of the B3 who was playing with them, kindly invited me to sound check and show. I will get my bluegrass ticket punched soon seeing Tony Trischka doing an Earl Scruggs tribute, rumored to have Alex Hargreaves joining on fiddle. NEK is special, no doubt. Hill Farmstead, what can I say, one of the best breweries in the world. Holy Cow, no Nay How.
Fabulous Superlatives
Very aptly named band, all virtuoso(i?) musicians.
And yes, Kenny Vaughan is still with them.
Marty Stuart
Not a country fan. At all. Love bluegrass, but despise country. Exceptions are Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, some Waylon. But I love bluegrass, and I know how good Stuart is. I saw that on the Paramount schedule and thought about it. I like that theater, small, but decent sound. Railroad Earth was great a few weeks back. I also caught Bruce Cockburn there, and the intimacy of the place made that a really great show. Before that, found out hours before the show that my nephew through my brother in law was opening for Daughtry there, and so we got to see him, and left before Daughtry (who's from the same hometown, and now has a mansion less than a mile from where I used to live in high school and college). Will have to really think about Marty, especially if Tony Trischka is playing with him; he was one of Bela Fleck's early teachers/mentors. Let's survive the impending snowfall first. Another foot or so expected Wednesday after hitting 60 today.
Trischka Consciousness
Punful... oops, Tony not playing with Marty, sorry. Will see TT down in Maryland hopefully. That's exactly it for the Marty show, excellent musicians. Neither a huge fan of the genre generally, do appreciate Brad Paisley for his PLAY recording chops, Robert Plant hit some nice notes with AK, great players like Alvin Lee, Danny Gatton, even Roy B had some country twang. Bluegrass, newgrass, Billy, oh yeah. Next live music up, acoustic, Doug Perkins and Patrick Ross in a tiny old town hall Friday night, if it don't snow too much.
Doug Perkins
Haven't heard that name in maybe 20 years. Trying to remember the band I saw him with (Smokin' Grass?), but I remember because he used to play with Mike Gordon, when Gordon did bluegrass things. A buddy from school was a Kentucky bred fiddler, and he jammed with Doug and a couple others at setbreak on Wheel Hoss and Blackberry Blossom. Thanks for that blast from the past. Guess I misunderstood on Trischka.
John Sinclair was the man whom Abbie Hoffman advocated for during The Who's Woodstock set that led to Pete Townshend hitting Hoffman in the head with his guitar. Hoffman's ill-advised speech was at like 4am, and he said, "I think this is a pile of shit, man, while John Sinclair rots in prison for 2 lousy joints" whereupon Townshend tells him to get off the stage. John Lennon then took up Sinclair's case with a song titled John Sinclair. RIP to a counterculture hero.
country & bluegrass
I still love country, at least what we call country music in the 70s, bands like Poco, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, Flying Burritos Bros, New Riders otp sage, emilou Harris and Gram Parsons. Nearby we had Folk (Pentangle, Fairport Convention, Bod Dylan, Donovan, Incredible strings band...) wich still goes on with Gillian welch or billy Bragg;
To me the first jerry album with the new riders stays a classic. I never heard about blue grass before Jerry Douglas & Allison Krauss, Peter Rowan, and discovering Old and inthe way, then Grisman or Tony Rice.
Nowadays it seems like everything like Country music comes into what is called Americana.
Elvis Costello gave a great Tibute to country music, and George Jones with Almost Blue . Johnny Cash is more like folk for me. All american recordings serie can match a small box of the dead.
Lucinda Williams began with country folk albums, but she plays also RnRoll, and ballads.
Only Blues don't change.
Anyway whatever we feel with good music is better than words.
Great list there, Sheik; Perky
Saw Gillian a couple years ago with David Rawlings, outstanding concert. If we more broadly consider "country" as part of Americana, the tent is much larger. Vince Gill, good stuff, for example. The song that Plant and Krause covered, "Can't Let Go" is a personal hit, great lyrics, tune, put out there by Lucinda W on Car Wheels, a fine album. Doug Perkins moved up to Vermont years ago and performs locally and a little randomly, up in Burl and many other smaller venues, did gigs with Mike Gordon, adept on both acoustic and electric. He once tried to teach me "Good Bye Pork Pie Hat" but it did not take. Not your standard three cowboy chords...
Revisiting the '76 box currently....
....6.11.76 to be exact.
Mid second set Sugar Mags into Eyes is very nice. Book it Danno.
Last 5
The “June ‘76” Box just might be the most under-appreciated box in the Dead canon, IMHO. The Boston shows alone are incredible, an energized band.
I’m not the biggest Who fan, but sometimes Quadrophenia at 11 Volume is exactly what you need. I got playing it because Phish covers “Drowned” on their recent live release, and quite nicely, too!
Last 5
Who - Quadrophenia
Who - Who’s Next
Weir - Blue Mountain
Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers - Just Coolin’
Neil & Crazy Horse - Down In The Rust Bucket
Late condolences to the very funny Joe Flaherty. RIP Guy!