a day on the green...
...with some unbelievable dry sunny weather
(82 degrees in these parts) in the mid-atlantic for late october,
I'm putting on my boogin' shoes for
oakland coliseum
june 8th 1974
can hardly wait to get started...
PEACE for ALL!
uncle_tripel
Uncle Trip and 7/4/86
I was there, I recognized the t-shirt Jerry is wearing :-)
Second set opened with a great Cold Rain & Snow intro that stretch until the first raindrops started down, then, "I married me a wife.....", and the cold rain poured down!
And poor Dennis in only a t-shirt!
and so I decided...
...to build upon #52 and continue the 80's theme 'til delivery day
(order confirmation "check!")
turn-on, tune-in, and veg out (that was the 80's, right?)
october 22 1983 carrier dome syracuse ny
jerry noodles set 2 opener
crazy->tease->fingers->china cat
PEACE for ALL!
uncle_tripel
Glorious Quiet!
After 2 1700 mile RTs and all that road noise and not much sleep, I’m basking in glorious quiet!
Did catch a nice 12/30/81 I don’t believe I’ve heard before, on the XM around 2AM Wednesday!
Maybe Not Right Now...
But in 12 hours I'll be listening to, and seeing wit mine own eyes, Los Lobos, for the umpteenth time, at the beautiful Lobero Theater. World Series game 1> Los Lobos.
This will be a fun evening.
Ha, great minds ; )
After a emotional Phil centric playlist we also fired up 3/15/90!
Man that sounds good!
And popped a Fremont Dark Star Stout in his honor, SALUTE!
I'm in for 3/15/90
I was always a Phil guy. Jerry and Phil, no offense to the others. After Jerry passed, I was on the Phil side as close as I could get.
I'm sad beyond description. Phil made a difference. With all the trouble in the world, when I think of bombs, they are always Phil Bombs.
Again, sad beyond what words can describe. May the four winds blow you safely home Mr. Lesh.
There's a weird emptiness here tonight. A well-earned void.
Edit: I changed my mind and went for Augusta 84. Phil denotes and destroys the final jam in Morning Dew. The Phil and Jerry combo was just exactly perfect. I'll do 3/15/90 tomorrow.
Phil was Jerry's counterpoint and his bass runs beyond compare
In a conversation with CNN in 2006, Lesh reflected on the feeling of performing with his bandmates.
“It’s paradise. At that moment, I’m not really there. And no one is. We are the music, and our personalities as such really cease to exist at all. We’ve been subsumed into the greater personality of the group mind, that’s what’s been created. That’s what’s created when we are creatively improvising, and the flow is really happening. When we are actually channeling, we are opening that pipeline to another reality that speaks to us. And we are acting as transformers, and we have to step that down into musical thought. But this is not something you can do consciously, learn how to do or be taught. It’s just something that happens to you when the stars are aligned properly and when your individual consciousness is open enough.”
"November and more, as I wait for the score,
They're telling me forgiveness is the key to every door.
A slow winter day a night like forever,
Sink like a stone, float like a feather.
Lilac rain, unbroken chain, Song of the sawhet owl.
Out on the mountain, it'll drive you insane, Listening to the winds howl
Unbroken chain of sorrow and pearls, Unbroken chain of shy and sea.
Unbroken chain of the western wind, Unbroken chain of you and me."
- Robert Peterson
"You who choose to lead must follow
But if you fall you fall alone
If you should stand then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home"
- Robert Hunter
deepest condolences...
...to the Lesh family
and to the extended family members,
and to the GD community at large.
will begin a tribute to Phil today with
3/19/90 box of rain
Terrapin Station: passenger
3/15/90 set 2
10/12/07 Camden NJ
12/03/05 Buffalo
Fallout From The Phil Zone
RIP Phil
such a long, long time to be gone
and a short time to be there
Update
I was at the Los Lobos show last night.
When the guys took the stage, David Hidalgo
stepped up to the mike and said:
"This is for Phil Lesh."
They proceeded to open with "West L.A. Fadeaway."
There were quite a few heads in the audience, and we got
Evangeline, Not Fade Away, Bertha, La Bamba>Good Lovin>La Bamba
plus ALL the great tunes Los Lobos is known for. Bitter sweet. What a day it was.
Phil…
2FTV CD 2, that New tator jam is prime Philski!
11/7/85: Let It Grow>Space>Gimme Sum
6/30/85 Shakedown
Live Dead
12/6/73 RT bonus disc
Warlocks Pedromix; H/S/F, Attics, Dark Star>space>Death Don’t>Mr F. Gimme Sum>Dew. Bid U
5/11/72 discs 3&4
11/5/77 set 2
BOR 3/20/86
VIola 5/2/70
11/8/69
Ramble On 6/22/83
Jack Straw 8/27/83 (Aud!)
7/9/95 Unbroken, BOR
2/10/01 Phil & Phreinds
Rock & Roll Blues P&F
New Potato Caboose
From Two From The Vault is one of my all-time GD moments. It has that soothing melody that feels so good after a "My nerves are shot, and I can't take it anymore" section of music like That's It for the Other One. Exactly perfect.
I wish they would have found a way to keep it in their repertoire a little longer. On the sunny side, I was able to see them perform it both with Phil's band and Furthur in the post Jerry years.
One of those great, quirky songs. Thanks Phil, you are missed.
11-10-67 vinyl
Volume and subwoofer turned up.
Phil’s rockin’ the house.
11/10/67
Gary Lambert played That's It for the Other One as an homage to Phil from this show today on Sat Radio. I caught it on a mini road trip. On the way home they not so coincidentally played New Potato Caboose from the same show about two hours later.
Phil was hot that night. Perhaps the most special show in Boxzilla, with many contenders.
Latest listen
Nice cover of’Brokedown Palace’ by Gillian Welch & David Rawlings on Utube.
Sumer is Icumen In
Subtitled "the pagan sound of British and Irish Folk 1966-1975" this is another excellent compilation released by Grapefruit a few years ago. Typically 3 cd sets from the above timespan, there are now quite few excellent compilations released on this label. This particular one follows on from one called "Dust on the Nettles" - also recommended, that came out a few years before this one.
Climax (Chicago) Blues Band
Earlier LP titled C.C.B.B. - A Lot of Bottle
(EMI import from England)
Later just C.B.B. - Sense of Direction
Bought used in the '70s for $2.50 and $2.75.
A little nostalgia to start the day.
Cheers
Hey Daverock - I never realized these guys are British, lol!
Climax Chicago Blues Band
1stshow - they are one of those bands I've heard of, but never actually heard. I always imagined them to be in the same bag as another band I never heard - Chicken Shack. Of course, not having heard either, it's impossible to tell.
Sumer is icumen in
Aagh. Thats what they sing at the end of the 1973 Wickerman.
Not a happy moment
That movie haunted me for weeks afterward
Sumer is Icumen In
The original song dates from the 13 Century, apparently. "Sing loudly, cuckoo ! "