What Are You Listening to RIGHT NOW? Version 13

Post reply Log in to post comments

January 16, 2017 - 8:58am

3,052 replies

marye

Joined:
May 26, 2007

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

Comments

sort by

Recent

Recent Oldest A to Z Z to A

Reset

December 15, 2024 - 8:36am

#81

jonathan918@GD

Joined:
March 15, 2019

10/10/76

Nice choice man!

DiP #33 sounds fantastic!!

How's the vinyl version treating your ears, Icecream?
December 15, 2024 - 7:58am

#82

icecrmcnkd

Joined:
October 20, 2015

10-10-76 vinyl

And some super dark roast Columbian Supremo.
December 15, 2024 - 7:39am

#83

jonathan918@GD

Joined:
March 15, 2019

7/7/78

This show keeps pulling me back in, time again!

Really, really great stuff here!

Love the late 71 talk as well

Rock on, gang
December 14, 2024 - 7:22pm

#84

bluecrow

Joined:
September 21, 2015

American Beauty

The Mickey Hart remix released as a DVD-A ca 2001. I was straightening up the music collection and after that task was done this release said pick me. Many a year since I listened to this one!! For those unfamiliar with it, this is very much Mickey's vision and all sorts of alternate vocal and instrumental threads are brought forward and woven into it.

edit - not without frustration (I was tech challenged) but still a very cool listen. Was playing this through an external disc drive on my Mac. The disc can "in theory" be played 3 ways - Advanced Resolution Stereo, Adv. Res. 6 channel surround sound, DVD Video Compatible Dolby Digital, but I was unable to bring up any menu to choose one or another. Which of these it played I'm not sure. Everything present but the sound stage didn't seem balanced. Still all those crazy musical threads that Mickey brought in or brought up seemed to be there and I loved that. There also are interviews with Mickey and Bob - audio portion would play but the video was messed up. Oh well. Not sure if this mix is available for streaming (I don't subscribe to any streaming service right now) but if so highly recommend.

edit 2 - taking a look at that clunky interface again this morning and realized that this time when the disc first loaded it brought up a surround sound playback, but after clicking back through the main menu it brought up the Dolby playback and now its just stuck on Dolby with no apparent way to choose (sure thing boomer).

edit 3: looks like the DaP 52 comments page got taken down around noon. Curious.
December 14, 2024 - 6:46pm

#85

proudfoot

Joined:
August 2, 2020

Currently

8 26 71

Nice rich sound
Hot stuff

It's got a Cumberland

GBtGD

Dave and pals, please release this show

Edit: yes, release this

GD71

Mighty tasty
December 14, 2024 - 9:50am

#86

proudfoot

Joined:
August 2, 2020

11 11 71

Not a legendary show, but interesting in its own right

Apparently one long set

Worth at least a one time listen

"Pigs off the stage!"

"We just flew in about 10 minutes ago"

Other unique stage banter

Doc-umentary about this show? You did that day by day back in '21 (which was awesome)
December 13, 2024 - 11:19am

#87

bluecrow

Joined:
September 21, 2015

LA Forum 12/89

Vguy was there. So was bluecrow : ) Enjoy!

Right now some more April '71 - Pittsburgh 4/12/71 DaP 51 Disc 3
December 13, 2024 - 9:18am

#88

Oroborous

Joined:
June 19, 2007

12/8&9/89

The sixth was ok, good but nothing special…

Onto these beauties today. Heard them mentioned over the years but have never checked em…

BC, definitely spend the time with 12/31/80, “a really beeg shoe”
Glad I finally got to it.
You’ll Definitely dig the Bear tape on that sweet can set up you got going!

Yeah things were so different back then. Until they got the hotline and then GDTS it was like the Wild West in the wilderness. So many shows that might have been if we’d only known : (
Mail order was heaven sent as trying to get out of town tics before was next to impossible.
Edit: yeah BC POTDWD was just the ticket during those days of uncertainty.
Yes big thanks to Bolo and Marye, but GOGD really was the high point for me. I’ve “met” so many cool cats here, but something really clicked for me with GOGD. It’s like he was some kind of mysterious spirit that came and went with the pandemic. Things just ain’t been the same…
And that was my gateway drug for shows lol. It got us all listening to tons of shows and many we might not of heard otherwise, and eventually I realized I’m listening to all these shows, maybe I should try and hit em all? And that of course doesn’t work very well on a forum requiring different people to do a group thing. So I realized that that path is for my steps alone lol
So I love POTDWD, but can’t expect a group of more “normal” DH to try to keep up with my madness lol…
Fortunately I’ve got the time to keep on Truckin’ Onward!..through the fog lol
And fortunately we have this fun board to talk about em!

The interviewer gets interviewed lol
So Mary, did you know anything about the dead before or was it just something to do?
I bet growing up in the Bay Area everybody at least had heard of the GD, but perhaps not many “KNEW” the GD? Perhaps thought of negatively by the normal masses of John Q Publics? Interesting sociologically.

I had been steadily indoctrinated lol, so had been impatiently itching and waiting for about a year before I got my chance, seems maybe it was all complete unknown serendipity with you?
If so, I can’t imagine going in a blank slate, especially NYE!
Quite the baptism by fire eh!
Did ya dance, twirl, do the boogaloo, melt in the last row, or just stand agape with your jaw on the floor lol come on, inquiring minds want more! Lol ; )
December 13, 2024 - 8:59am

#89

proudfoot

Joined:
August 2, 2020

in the car

11/11/71

such a shift in overall sound from the final show in August 71

GBtGD
December 13, 2024 - 7:57am

#90

bluecrow

Joined:
September 21, 2015

April '71

Yeseterday had a hankering to hear Dark Hollow and reached for Ladies and Gentleman. It sounded so good that I"m back with Disc 1 in the predawn, this time listening on the Senns. That early '71 Skull and Roses sound is bliss. Those early Bird Songs are such jewels. Now skipped to Disc 4 cause I want some of that Alligator jam for breakfast.

Oro - you're the hardest working man in show business!! Still waiting for a cryptic Almanac reference to you and a "DHB" - aka a "deadheadbrewer" - the hat trick of GD show listening. Ah, those heady early days of POTDWD when we had so much time (thank you Bolo24 and MaryE for that gift!) Nowadays I feel lucky to get a solid full show deep listen once or twice a week.

Definitely need to borrow the time machine for 12/31/80 . Don't think I've ever heard it, certainly not in its entirety straight through (reported.) I remember my first listen to Reckoning, it was very late night summer of '81, and it just blew us away. Still wasn't that tuned into the GD world and I had no idea. Just checked and the LP release date was April 1 - pretty funny! Closest I probably came to an acoustic set - with close being a relative multivariant concept - was probably that Rambler Room one-off on11/17/78. About 10 miles from the house but probably not back on Turkey Day break yet, and also that Uptown run was not on my radar at the time so yeah not quite that close. Anybody looking for a banger Fall '78 listen try Set II from the next night (Uptown 11/18) - it kicks ass and it needs to be released.

As for Indy 12/5/81 - when Dave finally releases it I'm pretty sure he's gonna say it was originally being considered for Dave's 20 ; ) I mean dropping a Big Railroad into the middle of that killer Set II pre-drumz?? Wat is happening?! That Space > Wheel is so very fine. Sweet sweet show.

John Perry Barlow

John Perry Barlow

Forums

Currently Listening To...

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