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marye

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January 30, 2025 - 10:29am

#91

Colin Gould

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September 15, 2009

Trippy

Dave Rock
Don’t forget ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’
January 30, 2025 - 9:39am

#92

daverock

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September 1, 2014

Trippy lyrics ?

Dennis - seen through a certain lens nearly everything from the mid - late 60's could be seen as being about tripping. The BBC tied themselves in knots trying to work out which ones were promoting drug use, so they could ban them and save the youth of the day. Songs like "I Can Hear The Grass Grow" - was that because he had taken drugs? And "A Whiter Shade of Pale" - was that about drugs too? It must have seemed like the whole world had gone mad if you were over 30 at that time. And to be sure, it nearly had.
January 30, 2025 - 9:32am

#93

1stshow70878

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BC

Check msgs.
Cheers
January 30, 2025 - 9:24am

#94

bluecrow

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September 21, 2015

4/16/83

Okay Dennis - it's now on my short list! Thank you! Been ages since I've heard it so essentially it will be fresh listen. I remember hearing/reading that a whole lot of folks preferred 4/16 to 4/17.

!stShow - Three Rivers is very compact - hiking trail can't be more than a mile and a half total along a low, easy walking ridge line. 21,000 petroglyphs is what they say in that short distance. I've heard of one very cool glyph that is outside of it - would dm that if you were headed down there. Probably would want to tie it in with a visit to world famous Hueco Tanks (haven't had to visit that site yet.) Alas I'm only down in southern NM for work and not so much play.
January 30, 2025 - 7:28am

#95

Dennis

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April 83, Meadowlands

All the talk about 4/17/83 and Steve Stills doing Love the One You're With.

How bout a little love for the night before 4/16. Steve also there and we got a Black Queen. (I had no idea what the song was that night!) But you also get a Bob Star.

But the best part is you get the GREATEST Looks Like Rain. At least for me this is it. The last 2 minutes of it are incredible. Bob is really belting out "looks like rain, feel like rain, can't take no more fucking rain", but Jerry's is just ripping it up with a series of staccato notes that make you feel the rain. Brings tears to my eyes everytime!

Extra - Daverock and Mr Tambourine Man. I wouldn't have gone with celebration of trippy, just a good poetic description of falling asleep. (Maybe my favorite Bob song. So many great lines) I always thought Eagle-Eye Cherry had a great cover of this concept with Comatose (In the Arms of Slumber). (now there's a great album, Desireless. Always loved the double meaning of "Shooting Up in Vain".
January 30, 2025 - 7:26am

#96

1stshow70878

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Thanks BC

Nothing to be sorry for. I usually listen to the GD Hour every week and I love the tidbits he throws in as filler. Keeps me up to date, lol. When I started listening in the early '90s in PHX he always had fresh shows. Some only weeks old which was pretty cool. Not sure why I was skipping that 4-17-83 series but glad I went back to it. It was an "on" night. It's all about the energy and it is there on this one.
Thanks for the recommendation on the glyphs. Already working on this year's road trip schedule and will look that one up for sure. Love the inside info from pros in the field.
Cheers
I'll be finishing up Monday's Taper's today then see what DV's Pick-O-Day from EU72 ends up being.
January 30, 2025 - 5:44am

#97

bluecrow

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Sorry about that 1st Show

Yeah the vocals on Love The One Your With are not just exactly perfect lol. Listening to it on my lo-fi system on drive back it seemed a bit more crazed than I remembered, had to turn it down a couple of notches (I tend to listen loud) and the backing vocals by Bobby? and Brent? are also a tad out there and just serve to reinforce that. Reminded me a little of Bobby shredding his voice in the old old days on rave up finale of some Pig Lovelights and Not Fade Aways. Back in the day I figured the 4/17 vocal thing was a surfeit of Bolivian marching powder and the wave of insane energy of a New York/ Meadowlands crowd/vibe but yeah Stills probably couldn't hear himself also. It didn't spoil the show in any way for me back then when I didn't have many tapes and it doesn't now. It just was what it was - a vocal rough spot in an otherwise stellar '83 show IMO and yeah an historic one-off performance of a classic song from the old days. Also want to add that along with that killer H > S > F, I love the Playing and the extended jam into drums. And listening to all this last little bit it struck me that Brent is throwing in some unusual keyboard sounds - like the "marimba" in the Help/Slipknot transition. I'm not a student/scholar of '83 (that would be Oro, among others) but really dig Brent's keyboards on this Set II. And yeah Phil is kicking it throughout and Jerry too his guitar is fire on that Slipknot. And right now listening pre-dawn with fresh coffee to H>S>F on the Senns to the Candace Brightman source on the archive and it is awesome! And going back to the GDH - one thing I enjoy is that along with the live shows, Gans is always serving up some relatively deep cuts from the greater GD catalog. Plus as a fan of Dead and Co he serves up the occasional killer D & C live SBD source, like in episode #1884 there's the Althea from 7/8/23 The Gorge which was coming out of a post -drums Dark Star! A little while ago he played the Cumberland from Oracle 7/16/23 and it was an absolutely ripping version, simply fantastic! His comment at the time was how D&C were really jamming out Cumberland in Set II and that was exactly what I got experience at Boulder 7/1/23. BTW - on a personal note we've been working down by Three Rivers Petroglyph National Monument north of Tularosa and had a chance to do a quick walk of the first section of the trail on a break. So much cool stuff packed tight and much of it different from the rock art up here. Need to visit there with some real free time - there's a nice campground I've heard at the base of Mt. Blanca.

ConeKid - That vault tour sounds cool. I think the winner should be able to liberate some uncirculated show of personal significance as part of the deal.
January 29, 2025 - 4:43pm

#98

icecrmcnkd

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News flash

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January 29, 2025 - 10:53am

#99

1stshow70878

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GD Hour

Had avoided this one until BC's post and going back for the H>S>F but the Stills sitting in on Love The One You're With was a train wreck, lol. Stills clearly cannot hear himself and the boys try their best but it's a bit rough. (as often happens on first attempts of covers) Yet a cool historic moment nonetheless. And not the first guest appearance to go astray so I enjoyed it "for what it's worth". Now there's a tune I wish they'd cover.
Cheers
Edit: Yep, that H>S>F is a good one. Tight, and I like Phil's work on this one.
January 29, 2025 - 6:20am

#100

uncle_tripel

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October 2, 2023

onward and upward...

...best weekend in a long time
without my digital leash
tugging at me...
look at me, read me, and down the rabbit hole,
no no no didn't happen!

what did happen
I only gained 4 pounds,
and
FLY EAGLES FLY
to N'awlins

today's listening party

oct 9th 1989 with the warlocks

hampton roads coliseum (yup, that was it's name on the map when we first drove down in '83)

PEACE for ALL!
uncle_tripel

PS - luv those Aug '91 shoreline shows

John Perry Barlow

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New year, new update. Tell us of your musical adventures in real time!

7/9/77 JGB Early Show Asbury Park

Sitting in Limbo (Voodoonola2 video source) (with the Senns)

head across the pond today...1981-10-16 OOPS @ melkweg club Amsterdam NL
I can hear Garcia saying to Weir thru the thick cloud of hash smoke,
"Hey Weir, we don't have our guitars" and Weir says, "No worries Jer, we'll just rent some" lol

everyone enjoy your weekend, if you can

Peace for All!
uncle_tripel

Dave’s 34

6/23/74 I believe
PROPER!

Sing Out! - Kate Wolf set

Let's Get Together (just played) and now the jaybirds calling on Like a River

Fell in love with Kate's voice and music back in late '80s. Great to have this live set as part of a SEVA benefit concert that includes other favorite musicians of mine (thank you Bear).

And now - Electric on the Eel 1991

8/10/91 - a five-star-give-it-ten-if-i-could favorite from the tape days back in the mid 90s. Awesome that it got released in that box - beautiful sound and show. Shout out to Proudfoot for mentioning that box and steering me here.

7/13/84

Last night.
I’ve heard it before but not sit down listen.
Though didn’t get the best listen last night due to aaaa, “extra curricular” activities/noise in the world.
But it’s an interesting show that you just kind want for it to get released, especially because ya know…AND, it’s Pinkus first show, etc
But I’m not sure it’s good enough, orrrr, tight enough for a Dave’s.
Specifically, the beginning of the second set. Yeah it’s fun sneaking TOG in between S/F but the transitions are a bit sloppy etc, enough, along with other sorta normal what I call Cali laid back looseness lol to perhaps keep it getting “Daved”
As we know, he likes to try and pick the best representation or presentation of the band/music on a specific tour etc, and not necessarily what some might consider “the best show” of the tour.
BUT!
After this Reno show getting out, and as Jim often suggests, sometimes these kind of shows work well to round out box sets, so I could see it as part of a Greek box! Curious what others think of this show?
Think I need a redo, and gonna hit the rest of the 84 summer Cali shows asap.
Onward!

Don’t lend yer hand, to raise no flag, atop no ship of fools!

Sing Out/ Kate Wolf

Sing Out is a great Owsley release, but all the Owsley releases are worth picking up. I was at Sing Out it was a cool show. Kate Wolf was a favorite of mine, I used to go see her play all the time here in the Bay Area.

Currently

JGB

Warner Theatre
3 18 78

Nice

Currently

JGB

Bay Area 78

Good stuff

Currently

5 22 81

Acoustic benefit show

interesting

Were you there, BTK?

Just Finished

Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die (a favorite from way back in the formative years)

and now - David Gilmour - Live in Gdansk

BTK - very cool that you got to see Kate sing time and again including the Sing Out! Seva Benefit. I was introduced to her music right around the time she died (I was Midwesterner then). Guessing a dubbed cassette copy from a friend of the double LP Give Yourself To Love. I in turn shared her music with many others. Such a remarkable, beautiful voice. Streamed the video for her performance of Green Eyes from the Austin City Limits show (don't own that yet) and my goodness how amazing it is. (Edit - originally wrote that it was a performance of Give Yourself To Love when it was in fact Green Eyes.)

Further follow up - 8/10/91 JGB Electric on the Eel right up there with Warner Theatre 3/18/78 (Set II specifically) as an absolute favorite Jerry Band release. So good!!

Currently

JGB

Don't Let Go release
May '76

Very pleasant

7/15/84

"Many Thanks, and God Bless You All" from Phil before JB Goode,
of the 3 nights, I always for some reason return to the 15th, it might be the heavy Phil & Brent mix that clinches it for me...fun stuff; even a couple of nice Garcia teases during space...

Dave's Picks 17

7/19/74 Fresno

Again. :)

I like that JGB 5/21/76, that one is nice I thought.

On the boobtube..

Grateful Dead Manor Downs, Austin, TX 9/13/83 Complete Show

Fun too watch Jerry dancing on Fire On The Mt

Currently

JGB

2/22/80

7-08-78

I'll have mine "on the rocks" please.
Doing a tape of the mid-90s bootleg CD.
Got to run the tape deck now and again to keep everything running smoothly. It keeps the belts and the grease on the mechanism from getting stiff.
Cheers

1976...

...is real, and JGB is good, but...
5/21/76 orpheum is REAL GOOD!

2-19-71 vinyl

Spinning now!

7 7 89

Nice

Rum Runners

Great couple of discs in the new edition. Full of rustic charm. Who plays on what isn't too clear, but it all rolls along very nicely.

Time to walk the dogs...............

Not right now, but on my commute you all know----and expect---that I will be cranking Scranton this morning...........

Rock on rockers!

Doc
Woof

7/15/84

Soaring through Birdsong!

Disc 3 of 7 9 95

Emotional and eerie

3/18/71

I know 3/18/71 St. Louis was included in 30 Trips, but I didn't buy that box. However, in preparation for Dave's Vol 51 I figured I ought to give it a listen. To date I have only ever heard the tail end of the show, the NFA->GDTRFB->Caution etc. So I've just had a listen to the opener (Casey Jones) and am about to get into it properly, but decided I need a sangwich and some water first. Figured I'd make this short post first.

Side note: only Caution of 1971! It would be a full year until it was again played live - at the Academy of Music in March '72. After only 5 documented performances of Caution in 1970, that must have been exciting as heck for the crowd in St. Louis to hear them launch into it.

7/21/84

Finito bonito!

And

Onto 7/22/84…

Going for the DHB today!
Can I make before TOO gets home 🤞

5-9-77 vinyl

Spinning now.

7-13-85

And a cup of super dark roast Columbian Supremo.
Roasted the beans myself.

Summer ‘85 Box next year please Dave.

8/4/74

Never done the whole show….until now ; )
PITB, holy crap!, and an excellent Phil/Ned, and, Good Sheet!

Re: 7/13/85, awesome first set! You’ll need that D roast!

Ask me no questions

I’m streaming ‘Ask Me No Questions’ by Bridget St John at the moment. I own it on vinyl and cd but streaming was the easiest way to find it. This is a wonderful album and she deserves to be far better known. It originally came out on John Peel’s Dandelion label a very long time ago.

1 from the vault

8-13-75
Great American Music Hall S.F., CA
Some say in their top 10.
Cheers
Sage & Spirit has a Lost Sailor riff.

And onto 8/5/74

I mean WTHN!

The sound of thick air…

Shhhhh, it’s early still…

6/19/76

Capitol Theatre
Passaic, NJ

The High Time on this one always hits me in the feels.

Peace

And a one a and a two a…

8/6/74

Re: “ hits me in the feels”
Proper!

Supremo

wow, had a memory flash when I saw Columbian Supremo, reminded me of back in the 70's. That's what the guy called it, supremo. :)

8/4/74 - I think

I think I played some of this last night - the first cd of Dicks Picks 31. If so - I agree - the first track, Playing, doesn't just open the doors of perception, it blows them off the hinges.
It's a bit of of a hotch potch, though, Dicks Picks 31. 4 great cds, but it would have helped if they had said which show the songs came from. I should make my own notes really - every time I play it, I end up sitting here squinting at Deadbase, trying to work out what's what.

Phish, last night

The first taste of live Phish, excellent concert, seats down front right above the pit, direct sight lines, in front of Mike and Jon. Quite the venue, spin around to see 20,000 above us. With an old friend who has been to many Dead shows, we had fun checking out the scene. Loud and clean, Trey's voice lessons paid off, sang well. My 72nd birthday. Next up, John Jorgenson's J2B2 bluegrass band, then JRAD on Jerry's birthday. Looking forward to April, 71 #51, thanks Dave, love those fully packed discs.

9/21/82

Madison Square Garden

Excellent Looks Like Rain.

Peace

9/9/74

First time for complete show

Edit: interesting show.
Perhaps a tad uneven, plenty of moments.
Another cool 74 Playin though perhaps not quite in step with some previous?
Guessing this run gets even better as they settle in etc…?
Let’s find out…

Music Hall

Right now? Boston Music Hall April 8 1971..............

Couldn't help myself................

Rock on,

Doc
In the worst of times, music is a promise that times are meant to be better.....

9/10/74

Onward!

The Stones 1st album

Released as "England's Newest Hitmakers" in the States - with a few changed tracks. 60 years old, and the best of their pre freak beat/psych albums. Maybe the best of all their albums outside the classic 1968-1973 years.

7-25-74

152954.gems

Sounds pretty good.

We are bits of energy floating about in various guises.....

Morning, rockers!!!

Listening to right now? Why of course it's Bucknell, just because. This is one that truly requires no explanation. Unless it does, of course.............

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with, I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic......

Rock on my fellow rockers!!

Doc
Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology, in other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem......

What a loss. The band must have been shocked. Or maybe not.

Stay away from that shyte, kids.

Glad I knew my limits and knew not to stick my hand into the path of the table saw.

Easy to love you

10/29/73

Kiel Auditorium
St. Louis

I'll check that one out Dennis. Thanks for the tip!

Peace