Not sure if good place....
.... anyone able to download 31 days of dead?
So far all official stuff, so playlist can be made from in house stock, but still curious.
Memory lane, and where were we?
Solo Pat sounds awesome!
Saw him several times but always with Lyle and band.
Been digging my new Off-ramp and Missouri discs.
Dead on the Rocks! There both 03 & 04, good sheet Mon!
Wonder how many folks here inadvertently ran into each other BITD?
And S-W-B elsewhere tells tales of Merriweather 85…sigh
But enough nostalgia…where TF were we?
Oh yeah, 12/14/90
And
12/27/90
DaP 15
4-22-78
Edit insert: Jeez, how many don't you let that deal go downs was that? Going for the record number?
Finishing up my mini-tour of April '78.
That dang 30 days thing sucked me in.
Then the DiP 3 vinyl showed up.
"But I'll get back on my feet again
The good lord willing
If he says I may"
Still have DiP 52 in the wrapper, lol.
A bounty of riches.
Cheers
That was us about 25 rows up, middle right side at Red Rocks in '03. The guy in the Shakedown t-shirt. Love that Gilbert Shelton of the zoot-suited invisible man swingin' his chain! Wish they'd bring that one back. I'd put the sticker on my car again for sure.
Everybody who was there raise your hand. Or post. HF, was you there?
on the way in today (started yesterday)
Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock
very nice
as always: if any artist died too young, JH is it.
Pat Metheny
Longtime fan - had all the ECM records/tapes (Travels is my favorite) and caught him w/Lyle and band in '89, IIRC, or perhaps it was '90,? at the Greek Theater ... Thanks to my aunt & uncle for the tix. It was a great show. Saw him at the Orpheum a few years later as well when he had morphed over to the (fairly cool, but not quite as great) angular Thai-like sound/album ...
Selections from Under the Missouri Sky was the 'soundtrack' for our wedding - music for guests while seated, plus both the procession in & exit out. I still love his pure jazz playing - when that mood strikes - with the many duets and players over the years. So glad Vermonters had a chance to see him in such an intimate setting. These days however, I listen to much more Dead (heh heh).
Sorry - Diverted from the proper thread topic
Road Trips vol 1, number 2 - October '77 & (later) the killer bonus disc material.
: ))
Edit: Just re-read the 'liner notes' for this one, by Steve Silberman. So sorry to hear of his recent passing ... Belated and fond thanks in memory of Steve i.e. for sharing all his love of the music/scene with us over these many years!
2003 The Dead
I saw the ATL show.
Sammy Hagar came out and sang Loose Lucy with Joan.
I thought that Joan was a perfect fit for the band and was bummed that she wasn’t included in 2004.
Joan was a backup singer when Cheap Trick played Sgt. Pepper’s in its entirety for a room full of record execs.
I have the DVD. It’s cool.
Cheap Trick also did a residency in Vegas playing Sgt. Pepper’s. I think that Vguy made it to one of the shows.
They also did it next to an ice rink with ice skaters as a benefit for Scott Hamilton. It used to be on utoob, not sure if it is still there.
Jazzy Day
Mosaic's Woody Shaw Complete Muse Sessions. Woody's like Fall '77, generally underrated and relatively unappreciated simply by virtue of the Spring tour's epic shadow (which, in this weird and perhaps incompetent analogy would be its consensus human equivalents of Miles, Dizzy, and Louis, or my fave Donald Byrd).
Tonight, moving on to a couple mellow titles involving different Barney Wilen quartets, Paris Moods & French Story, the former preferable solely for Mal Waldron's work on keys.
Happy B-Day PF!!
Sort of slipped by me the subtext to the 12/3/79 listen. Guessing you were living in Rockford or thereabouts? 12/3 was my second show. I think it was a great show, certainly we all had fun! Lots of kvetching over that release versus other shows from Fall '79 but that era had so many great shows and folks have their own favorites. Sound quality of the release doesn't do it justice, but there's a circulating matrix that some may think captures it a bit better. Outside of some of the versions in May '77, the Jack-A-Roe is my personal favorite - start is similar in feel to those early versions and Jerry's solo is sublime. I think Phil quotes/echoes the bass line for Love Supreme late in the Playing jam. The Trucking to end Set II is take no prisoners. I'm sure it was pandemonium in the balcony.
OK, no one else mentioned him
Sorry to see Earl Holliman pass. Truth be told I didn't know he was still alive, let alone 96.
I always enjoyed him in Forbidden Planet and The Rainmaker.
He had a good run.
Tangerine Dream
This Black Friday release of the Glasgow 11/20/74 is great. A double album - the last side featuring excerpts from another show in 1974. In the same space as Phaedra and Rubycon, but the whole shows were improvised at this time, from beginning to end. This a really good one.
Best get a pal to hold on to your ankles if you play it...you may end up floating up and away.....
12/28, 30, 31/90
The 31st I’ve heard but giving it the once over again.
The 30th things pick up with a different, noticeable energy versus the previous 2 shows. A fine show and similar to earlier in the fall.
The 27&28 are good shows, perhaps just not as much juice?
CAT, Hamza Drumz, and Baby Blue stood out on the 27.
28 had a nice Muddy, Stella, fun Victim>FH to close first, with one of the show highlights being the sweet jam out of FH! In fact, where they maybe don’t always rock as hard here, there’s many cool jams during the fall/winter, which lends to a different kind of goodness! Think Bruce was into getting Jer to loosen up and explore these tours? The jam outta He’s Hone is a good example and another show highlight.
The 30th opens with an up Bertha, and SMOKIN’ Stranger! Sweet Candyman, High Time, boogieing Bobs, and fun, unfortunately last Valley Road.
Second we’ll played, with another big Playin/jam/Drumz to be dug. Whole set is good but ole Jers voice is starting to ware at the edges a bit, which doesn’t bother me.
31st has a good personal story, but a bit off color, so we’ll just give this fine show and fitting end for a (sans Brent’s passing) awesome year a ride, one mo time!
Onward!
Tangerine Dream & stuff
Dave, I was waiting for inspiration to strike! Excellent call on the band & era ... just pulled TD's Bootleg Series 1. That ominous ambient intro to the first Reims set (12/74) is apropos of the Gothic venue. That one would make rank on the Time Travel Wish List.
Earlier, the punky hard rock sounds of Rocket from the Tombs seemed the right antidote for some work-related production stress ("The Day the Earth Met...", "Rocket Redux", and "Barfly"). The more difficult things become on that front, the louder, faster & more strident the music from my speakers tends to be.
Greg Brown
Live from the Kate Wolf Music Festival 1997 - 2003
love the music of Greg and Kate
np - I Want My Country Back
earlier - funny as hell to me that Tequila and Me (and the wall) is a Kate Wolf song.
earlier still - Paris Moods was a chill late night listen - thanks Kate. Jacky Terrasson on piano though, not Mal Waldron. It was reversed, Mal is on French Story (which I couldn't find on utoob - not a spotify person.) I still have several Mal lps (of the 100+ he plays on) on the Enja label from way back in my Jazz Record Mart days which was part of reason I focused in on that.
for the tech heads here (looking at you Oro) there is the first of a 3 part interview with Jamie Howarth, the man behind Plangent Processes, in issue 212 of Copper - The Journal of Music and Audio (at PSaudio dot com). Also a piece with Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlins.
Perchance to Dream
Kate - yes, that's another good one. On my playlist for later. I also have it in the the Official Bootleg series - Volume 1. along with Mannheim 1976.
I didn't get it, but this also came out on vinyl as RSD release. Various versions - some were pressed on picture discs of stained glass windows, which look amazing on the photos. What they sound like may be another matter.... they look more like something you could dangle in front of your window on a thin chain so the sun could catch them.
It's been too long since I heard Tangerine Dream
High School days to be precise ... Seems the ethereal is lately (much) needed to cleanse the dust of the mundane, or something like that.
In that spirit +/-, I first put on 'A Love Supreme' this morning, and am ensconced in the amazing DP 36 Philadelphia, 09.21.1972 - approaching the ethereal Dark Star / Morning Dew on disc 3.
(Edit) Note: I guess I'll have to save the incendiary / explosive (Other One) filler from 09.03 for another day ... when a more cranked up mood comes around. ; )
2/20&21/91
Didn’t finish the amazing 12/31/90 yesterday, so fired up much of it again, and besides Jers tired voice in spots, this show kicks ass!
What a night it was, though I won’t go into lured details lol
What a year, almost in spite of Brent’s passing!
I think the consistency, spacey/jammy, and all around playing stands with any year!
So, I’ve previously hit 2/19/91 via Bolo POTD, so just rounding the 2 remaining out until spring tour…which I’ll prolly do in 2026?
Next trip I’ll hit all the end of 1980 post RCMH etc…
Then 12/89 & first 3 of 90, then a few from the end of 79, then end of 84 and early 85.
Perhaps I’ll start digging into 1970 a bit early next year?
Onward!
12/4/73 Cinci
Phil meltdown coming out of Eyes into "Space".
Edit - and followed that up with the 12/6/73 bonus disc with "that" Dark Star and it was crazy good with some extended passages with Phil going full Godzilla / proto Seastones and I loved it.
While stuck in NASTY traffic
11 1 90 disc 3
Then 4 29 71 disc 2
Truly horrific traffic
Thank goodness for GD
The Wednesday Ether
BlueCrow, you're Dead right of course re: Waldron; still no reason for interested parties not to checkout either title.
Today: a magnificent sounding Axis/Bold as Love. Is it me or is this one of Jimi's most unique & exquisite sounding albums (I've got the JPN SICP 30822 release and the production value matches the amazing sonics).
Of note, my homepage feed was populated w/ a slideshow re: 10 seventies acts that have cult followings. Like most of you, I've either got the bulk of discographies for most of the listed acts OR at least heard of the remainder, except one: Gnidrolog (!?). Brit Prog outfit from '69-'72, absolutely amazing stuff that I've never heard mentioned across diverse forums or acquaintances 'in the know'.
After some sampling on Dcogs I quickly ordered the twofer release of their freshman & sophmore albums, as well as the Live '72 release. Check it out on your streaming service or, like me, who doesn't stream, numerous uploads on Utube. Be safe all.
Onward…to November 1980!
11/26/80 to be precise.
On the Road Again…sure as your born!
Gnidrolog
I can remember seeing their name about in adverts for albums or gigs, but I never actually heard them. Or anyone talk about them, for that matter. Possibly because no one was quite sure how to pronounce it. Something they might have been wise to consider when starting out!
Somebody smoking coconuts out there?
So earlier today on POTDWD Doc said that it was National Felt Forum Day(!!) - so 12/5/71 it is!!
(small side note) - interesting that Wash My Hands followed Brown Eyed Women - 2 Jerry songs back to back - def not the 1st set norm in this era.
And what about Gnigrologglog?
Goldring brothers
Rearrange letters and add one or two
A name like Goldring would have sufficed
Reaching for the gold ring down inside
3-9-81 vinyl
5-8-77 vinyl before that.
Hockey starting in about an hour.
09.03.1972
Finishing up this stellar bit, after feasting on DP 36 Philadelphia the other day ...
Four before that:
Miles Smiles (It had been a LONG time)
Bob - Blood on the Tracks
The Very Best of Jackson Browne
Santana - Abraxas (still flippin' great)
Wake 50th Anniversary - Bonus Disc
11.01.1973 ... What an amazing WR Suite and Morning Dew on this!! So sweet, w/ Phil bombs galore & then gently (and ultra smooth) into Playin - UJB sandwich.
Sound quality is Phenomenal !!! = Bliss ... 😉
GBtGD
Hooray for Dave's whatever with 11/17/71 and 12/14/71
Energy galore
Dec. 79
J918 - I hear ya - passions run high re Fall '79 - lots of fine shows to choose from. This week's Tapers Section has Set II opener from Indy 12/7/79 (show between Uptown run and St. Louis). Phil dialed up, could use a little more Jerry(?). Very nice slice regardless.
The Strange Odyssey of 12/9/81
BITD, the days of USENet, I looked over my list of tapes and realized I was really hurting on '80-'81-'82. I had started trading with some guy in Canada, and I saw on his list that he had a bunch of early 80s boards. So I asked him to select some of the very best. I remember one was the '82 "Raven Space" show; the second escapes me entirely now; and the third was 12/9/81 Boulder, CO.
Back then, tracking info wasn't what it was today, and in this case it was taking even longer since it wasn't a domestic mailpiece. I kept waiting for the tapes to arrive, but to no avail. Finally one morning a couple of neighborhood kids came to my porch as I was standing there looking at the day's mail delivery, a delivery that once again contained no packages. The kids said something like, "are you looking for your cassettes?" and with a sinking feeling I asked them how they could know that. Well, it came out that their sometime friend, a boy maybe 10-11 years old, had porch-pirated me and had stolen my package!
So I walked down to his house, one of the first McMansions on our block, and knocked on the door. His parents were sympathetic, and the kid was made to confess and apologize, but for some of the tapes it was too late - he'd found the music uninspiring, apparently, and had set about destroying the tapes by unspooling them and throwing them around. One was actually visible hanging from a nearby utility line.
The now-unremembered show was one of the casualties. So was tape II of the Raven Space show. I seem to recall that tape I survived with only minor damage (I was able to re-spool it). However, both sets of 12/9/81 were untouched. And what a show!
There are some good shows from this date - the Fox in '71; Kiel 8 years later; the LA Forum in '89. But this is my go-to show on December 9th. Thanks, Dave, for releasing this one! (And thanks to those kids for ratting out their 'friend')
swingin'...
...and stayin' within' the groove...
may 17 1977
@ the memorial coliseum
in tuscaloosa AL
I've had this one on CD-R for a long as I can remember,
and I can remember listening to it
on a flight home from FLA in '98
on a Sony DiscMan
with huge white billowy clouds
shimmering over the wing
PEACE for ALL!
uncle_tripel
edit: OBEAH a big time :)
edit 2: read both howarth plangent process interviews; way outside of my digital processing :)
12/9/81
Obeah's tale, anniversary date, and fact that close (lived across the street) high school friend from Chi-town area was at this show has me listening to Hunter Seamon's matrix (on the road now so my copy of DaP 20 not available.) Back around Christmas '81 mailed some tapes to Chris. He replied with tapes and a letter that included him being at the Boulder show - spoiler - it was freaking great. Side note - youngest brother and some friends and I saw the Rosemont show 3 nights earlier. That show had some cool moments - like a Set II To Lay Me Down and a Pearl Harbor Space - but it also marked the end of the Uptown Theatre era in Chicago and I think Boulder (plus Indy) smoked it. My personal feeling was that acoustics in the Rosemont sucked and what we lost was the mighty Uptown Theatre. That same high school friend wrote that he had heard rumors that a final run at the Uptown had been planned but fell through and that the Dead even considered buying the Uptown (latter seems a bit out there but ??). As it turned out the final Uptown concert ever was a Jerry Band show 11/17/81 ~3 weeks before the Rosemont show. That was my first of four Jerry shows, with youngest brother and Bill and Laura - we were in the balcony, it was crazy fun. So back to the point - listening to Boulder - np a ripping China - Rider to end Set I.
edit - i was mistaken that the 11/17/81 JGB show was the last concert in the Uptown. Zappa played 10 days later, there was also Rolling Stones simulcast from the Rosemont (of all places) in that span. J Geils Band w/ Southside Johnny and Asbury Jukes last show there{?} 12/19/81. A burst frozen water pipe in December '81 took the Uptown off line (so to speak). So my memory of the last days of the Uptown skewed by half baked memory and maybe rumor - but yeah it seems that for some reason the GD couldn't make it work/chose not to and that JGB show was sorta/maybe Jerry's farewell to what was a favorite venue for a few years.
Dave's #20
Another smash offering from DL and company. I didn't know of this show until it was released, and it knocked me off my feet!!!
I remeber sitting my buddy down and saying, "get ready dude!" I played him China Cat through the encore....when it was done, he looked at me, and simply said, "fuck man"
Fun times, only possible with GD, and some good smoke, preferably
rock on, gang
The Last...
...Night of Spring '77
let's just mellow out abit
may 28 1977
inhartford @civiccenter
on downloaded CD-R's
not the
"To Terrapin: Hartford '77"
version
PEACE for ALL!
uncle_tripel