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  • icecrmcnkd
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    Playing now.
    I always thought it was the weaker of the 3, but I could be biased since 7-17 was my second show and I got it on VHS when Downhill From Here came out and played it extensively. Eventually got the DVD, and am now waiting for all 3 nights to come out on Blu-ray.
    Note: still a terrible decision to replace the end of 17th set 1 with end of 19th set 1. Unless there’s a legit reason like the video doesn’t exist.

    I got 7-19 set 2 on VHS at the end of the 90’s. It was a few generations and grainy, but I played that a lot too.

    7-18 sounds pretty good tonight though.

    So, in conclusion, yes Dave, I’m (im)patiently waiting for all 3 nights to be released on Blu-ray.

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    Dave's 51 disc one

  • Oroborous
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    Set & setting PF

    Yeah, it’s crazy how much what we’re thinking/doing etc can effect the show we’re listening to…

    I’ve been back and forth with parts of this for years, but this time I did em in order etc and think I’ve got a good handle now lol.
    Onto Cal X today…

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    That was a great show! Nice Weather Report Suite.

    Took a break from the GOGD yesterday, and spun a few Steely Dan albums.

    Currently giving 50 another run until 51 arrives in the mail.

    Peace

  • proudfoot
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    If Alpine 89 gets the treatment and I listen to it again, I might see the full light of that run.

    5 7 89 I avoided that show for a long time because my first listen back in the day had me thinking "meh". Then a few weeks ago I listened again and it was blissful.

    I haven't given up on Alpine 89...I just need to hear it again at the right time.

    Currently listening to 12 29 77

    Ja, gerne

  • Oroborous
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    Wellll?
    Short version: doesn’t hang with the big boys.
    First sets good, and Box O, then as is often the case, FH is strained and ole JG has perhaps lost his edge? Flubs a bit of LLR which is not a top shelf version anyway, then Terrapin (I’m mind missing?)
    TOO is ok but nothing special, wheel gets flubbed, but then, aaahhh, lol, like I told my Other one, “watch, he can stumble half the night, but if he nails this Dew, all will be forgotten, and the poor shlub who was miserable in the rain all night…40 years later, he’ll only remember that Dew”, and so sure as your born ….lol. Man I miss Jer!
    So not a bad show, by the high standards of this tour, perhaps below the bar, certainly not RJ. Seemed like another last show of the tour, where like athletes, they just ran outta gas a bit.
    Be interesting to see how this run shakes out?
    Ok, mañana onto Cal X.
    Onward!

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    Pigasus and the Daley Center - and 7/25/1974

    Good catch on that detail, Bluecrow - you are quite right about the location of the Pigasus nomination. Not sure how I got that confused with the Int'l Amp, but I'm sure it's from going down wiki rabbit holes and losing track.

    I've finally got a copy of 7/25/74, all ready for listening while I do some work tomorrow. At last! I'm excited. I had disc III of 5/14/74 still in my car's CD player when I picked up my brother yesterday. We got to our destination but we were 10 minutes early and he said, "ok, park, but don't turn this off... this is SO good." (It was the NFA->GDTRFB closer) If you do manage to track down the mystery taper for this one, I'm sure I'm not alone in saying I will eagerly be listening as you relay more details. Cheers.

  • Oroborous
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    “Burgers, we don’t need no…

    stinkin burgers” lol, yep, totally transported me right there lol.
    Remember my “first”, folks older, experienced folks I was with took us to late night burrito place, used Togo late night all the time, like clockwork. That night, food? Couldn’t fathom it or why you’d want to? And the florescent lights and GIANT fish tanks almost freaked me out lol. Of course eventually I learned that food could be good too lol
    Man, just looked up, what a ride!
    Might as well travel the elegant way!

    Those were the daze my friend, we thought they’d never end…

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    Music fathoms the sky......

    Hey rockers!!

    Right now? Properly sequenced 10/24/70. You know why..............

    Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music......

    Rock on!!!

    Doc
    Music is an outburst of the soul.......

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    Follow up:
    And I was designated driver, lol. I guess I was the Capt. trips because it was well known I could keep it together no matter what. Tim's (CA Deadhead who got me on the bus in the dorm at Colo. State in 1975) '66 Mercedes 200 batwing no less. He trusted me on ski trips with that too. Likely my favorite car to drive of all time. I remember laughing hysterically with the people still in the car while the others were getting some food. We couldn't imagine why they would want to eat food. We don't need no stinking burgers! A good time was had by all. Appreciate the props bro.
    Cheers

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...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...

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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!

Dark Star just started.

12-18,19-73, and the other chop jobs from that Fall tour (11-20, 11-30, 12-4, 12-6) should be Plangentized/Normanized, Boxed up, and released.

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...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

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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!

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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.

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Edit: just heard Phil passed : (
May the four winds blow him safely home!
Thanks for everything! So much, I can’t even begin to comprehend…

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Phil’s birthday.

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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!

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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.

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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

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...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

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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.

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When my wife texted me the news I listened first to Unbroken Chain and then Box of Rain

Verklempt? Oh yes.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Dark Star 4/8/71

Hard to Handle 4/29/71

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Nice cover of’Brokedown Palace’ by Gillian Welch & David Rawlings on Utube.

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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.

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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!

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.

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Listening to Postcards of the Hanging & comparing it with Dylan & the Dead.
The Dead recording is really crisp while the Dylan one sounds very muddy, & the lyrics of I Want You are almost impossible to make out.

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Aagh. Thats what they sing at the end of the 1973 Wickerman.

Not a happy moment

That movie haunted me for weeks afterward

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Dark Star on the drive to work today

Awesome

From Ladies and Gentlemen the Grateful Dead

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...house of blues
december 10 2005 set 2
P & F

shakedown>jam>new speedway>jam>candyman>cryptical>
TOO>jam>feedback*>caution*>feedback*>fire>gimme shelter>
Donor Rap > Band Intros
us blues>brokedown

* with BIG BROWN

Friends are:
chris robertson / larry campbell / john molo / mookie siegel / barry sless

PEACE for ALL!
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PS: 52 is in the house

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do a boob tube search of - My new musical invention - The ResoLute! Patent Pending Synth Lute

My kid sent me this. I know we have a goodly number of pickers out there.

Thought this might interest you.

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and then 10/27/84, both nice!

Glad to hear Ckid!

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december 16th 1992 set 2
oakland coliseum arena

...they're ON and
it's a beautiful thing!

PEACE for ALL!
uncle_tripel

PS - 10/18/84 thanks for the nudge, I remember the drive north on the NJTPK
with Chumpweed [he passed out in the park before the start of City Island
(thnx DL for this week's Taper's Section) in downtown Harrisburg,
and he was hell-bent on staying in control for the Meadowlands Arena],
and I was very happy that I didn't write the boys off
after the 10/6 Richmond show as two friends had done;
yet for some reason the UJB clearly sticks out...
...maybe, yes, ah now I know, it was my 1st live ujb.

I haven't heard this show since attending it,
but will attempt to stream it in the very near future...thnx Oro

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Going to make a great release someday!

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Finally getting to this one while 52 waits in the mailbox. Will Duke be the best of the box? I'm guessing Dave thought so or it wouldn't be the break-out single show release. Rare day when I should be able to hear a whole show in one sitting. Thanks Honey!
Cheers

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Chumpweed lol, now thhhaaatt is a moniker!
Dug 10/18: Nice Stranger Candyman, Big RR, Dancin, etc, but the Playin sandwich was the shizzle. Pretty good tour, perhaps not so much of the go go juice as earlier in the year? Forgot how good 10/20 second set was…

1stshow: I thought Duke was good, but not top dog…but from the 11th onward their all so good it’s hard to choose! Enjoy!

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As good a night as any for mentioning the above British label. I notice they have started selling cassettes now as well. Very groovy.

I dipped into the Box yesterday from where I left off - which was 4/11. As Oro said - top drawer. That's a great Fire-Scarlett and the first set is good. The only downside was neither the 1st or the 3rd cd would play on my hi fi. They both played on my portable one though, so I am hoping now I have broken then in they will play on the main one.

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What a great 2nd set!