Daily Double
Hope the streak keeps going and I win Mega Millions tonight.
Box me with
9/17, 18, 19, 20/70
My sense is that that won't happen, though
I hope I am incorrect in that judgment
he hands you...
...a nickel, he hands you a dime...
Shoreline May 10th 1991 tight, wonderful interplay, sweet mix
...he asks you with a grin, if you’re havin’ a good time!
Peace for All!
uncle_tripel
FILLMORE EAST 2-11-69 TRIPLE GATEFOLD 180 GRAM Vinyl LP
Experience Vinyl is finally mailing these out!
Mine should be here Monday.
The album looks nice!
3/9/81 & 1968
Hit this one a lot lately myself. An under-rated box, don't tell anyone, it's our secret.
Today for me was 1/17/68. When it ended, I found myself sucking my thumb and holding my blankee.
...and we're gonna go ahead...
...and get weird
Amsterdam May 10th 1972
what more needs to be said
Peace for All!
uncle_tripel
Two steps forward and one back
to 8/21/72 first night of the run at BCT - very muy bueno
Uncle T - night after Amsterdam, Rotterdam 5/11/72, Dark Star through end of show is a foundational personal all time favorite.
enjoy the music everyone. day off after nine day session. enjoying a Pecan Beer from de las Vegas in Las Cruces. the "weekend" is here in bluecrow land
Kind Of Blue
well sorta - truck cd player (yep I have one and use it - cd player in vehicles) went patas arriba in Artesia shell station yesterday on way back - shut vehicle off to gas up and when I turned it back on the cd player (Pioneer aftermarket console) couldn't read a disc. Tough. this afternoon did a hard reset disconnecting the truck battery. Reconnected and car started and loaded Kind of Blue and up came Track 1 and the opening notes of So What which I got to hear jerry tease out at Hampton in 88. Nice minor victory. Couldn't read this disc among many the night before. And true foundational music for me and I chose it specifically for the test because it didn't allow for any excuses from the electronics. But now its 5/13/73 Des Moines and the Eyes > China Doll > Sugar Magnolia.
Also 3-9-81 playing now
I had it on cassette and thought it was great.
Never had 3-10 on cassette.
2/11/69 on 180gm vinyl
Dennis - thanks for mentioning this release. I've just ordered a copy from Experience Vinyl too, as it doesn't seem to have been released in Britain. Should help keep the evil spirits at bay as the nights draw in.
Dave and 2/11/69
It's out for delivery, will be here today.
Triple gate album looks nice,,, I like the cover.
2-11-69 vinyl
Seems way overpriced for just 3 LP’s.
The description says it’s “Audiophile”, but no description is provided as to what makes it more Audiophile than the vinyl version released in 2015.
Let us know how it sounds once someone listens to it.
Amsterdam '72. 2/11/69. And Dave's 38
I love that 5/10/72 show @Uncle_Tripel. I know Rotterdam tends to soak up the attention but whenever my hands hovers over the two it typically picks the former for my listening pleasure. Maybe it's the quality of the recording itself.
2/11/69 - I'll get running-off-at-the-mouth-disease and start spouting superlatives if given the chance. But for anyone who reads the liner notes (assuming Gary Lambert's work from the CD is brought across to the LPs), might I respectfully suggest you take a gander at Bill Graham's autobiography. The passages on how he got into the Fillmore East, and the memories from the guys who built it out for him, are worth the price of the book itself - which is not to say the rest of the tome isn't worth your time.
Dave's 38. It's 9/7 today and I find I tend to listen to that material more than to that of the main release. But what a surfeit of riches. God Bless the Grateful Dead.
Happy Saturday, folks.
Steppin' Out With The GD - England '72
Wanted a Cold Rain & Snow to start the day and found this on first blind random pull from the cassette collection. No clue what show as I didn't take notes from the CDs it is from and not bothering to look it up today. Fills up three 90 minute tapes.
Cheers
Having some fresh zucchini bread with my coffee. As the old line goes, lock your car doors, it's zucchini season. Someone might lay one on you when you're not looking.
2/11/69- 9/21/72
I didn't get the 2015 version of this album, so this is doubly attractive to me. Value for money is very subjective. I would rather buy a single cd from 1968, for example, than a 4 cd set from 1988- even if they were the same price.
Another case in point - I have been listening to Dicks Picks 36 on vinyl today - 9/21/72. I have no idea what I paid for it, but I am sure if I told one of my friends round here, they would think I was nuts (not that they don't already). But to me - whatever I paid - it was worth it.
Unmarked DVD
turns out to be Space thru end of show from 10/31/80
Pleasant surprise
Maybe this will be MUATM?
a man can dream
9/21/72 - Dicks 36
Brushed over a bit in my last post, this is a great show. Many things stand out - one of the things I like about Fall 1972 is the way they would start jamming early on in the show. The second song is a 13min 39 second version of Bird Song. A run through El Paso then they go into China Cat-Rider. Quite a way to kick things off.
The highlight though, is the second set, Truckin' to Morning Dew. After which they play Beat It On Down The Line. Of course. Actually a red hot take, but the show seems to end in a way after Dew - the remaining 8 songs sound a bit like add ons to me.
Man in the Marquee ?
The pictures too titchy on the cd cover to tell.
Rock on TN John
Wishing you good health
Heart failure is obviously heavy stuff
Y'all be cool.
On a more mundane note
It is indeed Bill Graham with his "more cowbell"
Marquee Moon
Yes I know he isn’t mooning. I don’t guarantee it but the picture looks like contemporary pics of Bill Graham from the internet. You have to fight through many photos of Billy Graham and an apparently pro wrestler Bill Graham. The hair style looks right. Anyone know for sure?
Edit Posted this before I saw the PROUDFOOT reply.
Like PF Said
Marquee photo is Bill Graham playing cowbell after being dosed (I think a Fillmore West show). Search Bill Graham Cowbell and a red dit thread comes up that has a cropped photo with Pigpen singing and Bill on cowbell on side of stage. Edit - now I'm reading that at 2/11/69 shows Mickey gave Bill a cowbell to commemorate the earlier dosed show event (exact date unknown). And that the photo could be Bill playing the gifted cowbell on 2/11/69 and not a photo of him at the show where he was dosed. An enigma wrapped in a mystery.
One year on from TN John
10/19/73 for me - the mighty Dicks Picks 36. One highlight you don't hear much about is Jerry's guitar solo on "They Love Each Other".
Dave’s 2023 bonus disc …
Dave’s 2023 bonus disc (Folsom Field 9/3/72)…decided to shake up the listening by only listening to September shows this week. Truckin still #1 in Turlock
X Marks the Spot
"Smoke & Fiction," the evidently final album from X. And it's the best thing they've done since "Under the Big Black Sun."
I've loved those guys (and gal) since I first saw them back in 1977. They were already unbelievable then. Great to see that they managed to write an excellent batch of songs for this final record, and play with every bit as much fury as they had back in olden days.
Stay away and
don't get taken
we knew the gutter
and the future
An X fan!
I havent tried the new album
Their first three were in heavy rotation back in the day
Saw X at a local festival in 85, methinks
Then they played at the zoo across the street a couple to three years back and they rocked
And a few years before that
4th album took me a while to warm up to
Love X (well, the earlier stuff in particular)
#1 in Turlock California
Yea.. Turlock, per Wikipedia, has a population now (2024) of 72,000 people.
I'm going out a limb here, but my guess is the town does not document nor publish any sort of top 100 radio / pop song list. Bob clearly had (has) a good sense of humor or perhaps inhaled at least once in his life. Of course I could be wrong how would I know..
Turlock's a big agricultural crossroads, lot's trucks with California produce driving in, then driving out and then there are the through trucks. So Truckin', yes certainly, perhaps it's still #1 in Turlock California and the truckers cannot get enough of it. Perhaps Bobby still inhales. Who knows for sure, either way, we win.
10/19/73 is from Fairgrounds Arena - Oklahoma City, Dicks Picks 19. DiP 36 was Philly 72 (9/21 I think?), one of the other Best Eva Dickus Pickus so the two are easily confused, but alas there were so many that fall into the category best ever. Again, win / win.
10/19/73 most certainly changed my life for the betta. That mind left body, that one (and perhaps the one from Dozin' at the Knick) is (are) truly special. So good, so good. And then, just when you let your guard down the left over gnarly discord from the Dark Star crashes and melts peacefully into one of the most gorgeous Morning Dew's ever performed. Practically perfect in every way. Great, upbeat They Love Each other too.