Grateful Dead

I got the subwoofer more than 50% off. Had to do it.

6-10-73 vinyl right now.
Had to turn Phil down on the sub during Morning Dew, but now he’s too low.
Small adjustment of main volume and subwoofer volume, and just exactly perfect.

It’s 46% off right now.
Klipsch R-120SW.

Vguy has one too.

Nice cover too. Practically encouraged you to roll a joint on it.

11/15/71

...in the Saddle, after some time away;
Long Distance Runner Son
graduation in Ithaca this past weekend
fun family-party time
his 81 yr old grandfather really enjoyed the festivities,
parents just smiled at each other ALOT over the weekend,
and the best part, could well be, that he is off of our payroll
with full-time employment

looking ahead to the new year, anniversary and all that...
12/15/86 would be highly preferred
over 7/9/95,
and it's just one knucklehead's opinion

for all my friends
who have been FREAKING out
over the last week or so
about drones...

...today's selection
is deadicated to y'all,
so listen-up

12/6/73 set 2
at public hall in cleveland
on the archive identifier #102750

...roll yourself a big ol' bone,
take a big ol' hit,
RELAX,
and enjoy the TRIP

if this one doesn't
capture your imagination

PEACE for ALL!
uncle_tripel

Keith Richards 81st birthday today. Good day to have a blast.

still alive?

Only background listening today, but smoooooth…like budder!

Rut roh Checkers! Bad kitty…you can take the cat outta the alley, but ya can’t take the alley outta the cat! Be cool out there Mr Checkers!

Listening now, didn’t finish the show last night.

Looking forward to DP1 vinyl.

...may 16 1972

on the medium wave 208

I can remember being
9 years old
stilling in the parlor
of my grandparents house
less than 5 miles
from the border between
East & West
Germany
looking at a large square box with large ivory push-buttons
with strange names written across the display
names like
Helvetia
Luxembourg
Telefunken
Munchen

yeah, so this show does hold
a special place
in memory
of those summers (68, 69, 74, 75, 77)
at my grandparents
with that old Telefunken radio

PEACE for ALL!
uncle_tripel

Ha! I have rolled so many joints on that album!
Good to see people are liking it - Caravan were an important part of the'Canterbury music scene' which spawned Soft Machine, Hatfield And The North, National Health, Gong etc but Land Of Grey And Pink is probably the pinnacle.
Richard Sinclair being I think one of the great vocalists and bass players
If you like that check out Camel - especially Mirage and The Snow Goose and there is also a Cantrbury connection in that Sinclair played on Rain Dances and Breathless
I also saw them on the Breathless tour in of all places Canterbury!
Enjoy!

This release, along with Dick's vol 2, is my favorite from 1971

Stellar!!

Forgot to say - re-listening to Friend Of The Devils at the moment!
Dicks 2 was great!
Also I still think that the best album to get stoned to is Future Games by Spirit

Speaking of 1973, anyone review John Hammond's You're Doin' Fine from Bears Sonic Journals? I recall listening to John's country blues way way back in the early 70s... thrilled to hear and meet him at the North Atlantic Blues Festival in Rockland Maine a few years ago.

Gong, and then Steve Hillage were the Canterbury linked bands that meant most to me. Possibly because I saw Gong live in early 1974. To this day, the trippiest event I have ever witnessed without actually tripping myself. You didn't need to with Gong - it was all in the music and presentation. I hadn't taken anything at that time, but it was immediately obvious that they were emanating from a different dimension. A real sign post to otherness. Of their albums, the highlights for me are "Camembert Electrique" and "You" - but anything with Daevid Allen on really.
Steve Hillage's solo albums from the 70's are also great. My favourite of his is one called "L".

I also remember " The Snow Goose", which I thought of as being more in a Pink Floyd circa "Meddle" type vein.
As for "Future Games" by Spirit - yes, I agree 100% !

12/20/09 Stork Club, Oakland, CA, sbd (via relisten, show presented by Tom the Nurse)

A couple days ago spun their 2000 release "The Amazing California Health and Happiness Road Show" and it really really hit the spot.

Love their sound - instrumental psychedelic surf, long jam style.

edit - Honeybomb!!

I’ve played the Sonic Journals CD once through and will revisit it. On first hearing the guitar playing is very good ,the vocals are mainly good although they occasionally drop down in level on the recording. The between song stories/introductions are inaudible through my speakers, presumably he didn’t talk close enough to the microphone. I’ll have to listen on headphones to see if they can be heard. I enjoyed the shows but it’s probably the least essential of the Sonic Journal releases IMO.

4-6-78 in the car today

at home started 11/20/71

Tuxedo Cat Listening to Jerry and the Other Ones

My 15 yr old Tuxedo Cat Moses still LOVES listening to the Dead
Thinking about Forensic Doc and Wishing LOVE to ALL
FYI Moses has a cat door, no litter box
Looking fwd to next years Dave's Picks and China Cats >>>
WOW and that solo Rider ...

My 15 yr old Tuxedo Cat Moses still LOVES listening to the Dead
Thinking about Forensic Doc and Wishing LOVE to ALL
FYI Moses has a cat door, no litter box
Looking fwd to next years Dave's Picks and China Cats >>>
WOW and that solo Rider ...

...Listening Party :)
gonna start real early with

3/31/73
buffalo memorial auditorium

and get the entire show in
before meeting-up with a good buddy
for our annual holiday lunch

at lunch last year he said "my god what a version"
he had just heard
PITB from 11/9/73 on sirius
for the 1st time,
had I ever heard it..?
BIG smile w/ a HIGH-five

today's lunch will again be filled
with laughter & an a celebratory tone

everyone enjoy your weekend!

PEACE for ALL!
uncle_tripel

He's Gone > US Blues > Weather Report > Spanish Jam > Eyes > China Doll

Seabird - thanks for sharing photo of Moses the tuxedo cat grooving on the Dead!

1stShow - has Checkers returned??

ConeKid - I've been checking out the subwoofer for awhile. Just not sure how to pull off the whole enchilada.

Uncle T - Cool Telefunken story.

Peace everyone! The weekend is a coming!

No, but a possible sighting this morning a block away. She sounded like she had seen his wanted poster and it looked like him but... didn't find him.
Trail camera has seen 3 others coming to the "community" bowl the gal has two blocks over but not him. Having trouble getting the camera to cooperate and take those 7 second motion activated pics all night. Back to the instruction book. Thanks for asking. May have to go the trap route.
Yes, Moses is a cool-cat!
Cheers

Probably more essential for me... John Hammond(Junior)'s father was an essential and incredible music source/producer, impossible to cover briefly all the music he helped bring forth, including Billie Holiday, Springsteen, Dylan, Aretha, even SRV. Jr. grew up immersed, hearing so much great stuff and being around eventually famous musicians, but he stuck with the simple acoustic blues. Dave's 54 announcement made me drag out the B&W photos I managed to make that night, stage set up looks pretty minimal, no tie dye speaker covers, short stacks, Jerry is on Alligator.

That sub is the older model, so it’s discounted to get rid of the remaining inventory.
Get it while you can. The current model isn’t discounted that much.
Sounds spectacular. The vinyl siding of my house vibrates. Fortunately there’s not a house next to me on that side.

Keeping with the foots ball theme:
DaP 31 vs DaP 47!

12/3/79
12/4/79 p/o
12/9/79

Hey, sure as hell ain’t gonna listen to over caffeinated Jocks in love with the sound of their own voice all day!

Before I have to hit him, hope he’s got the sense to run…

30 Trips Around the Sun which led into listening to all of the 30 Trips shows before the New Year. Gotta have goals!!

aka - Dave's Picks 1 : )'

And here we are some 13 years later. A grate start to the series! Glad I got in on the ground floor.

Like I am want to say, it's been awhile, and I can forget some things. I was looking at the set list and Disc 3 is Other One > Wharf Rat > Other One > Wheel > Around??!! Damn - play that show post haste!!

np - Peggy-O - gorgeous sound . . . .

Y-33 congrats on the 30 trips!

edit/major edit/omfg the whole show but disc 3 no freaking way. Jerry is feeling it - jam out of Other one pt 1
Wharf Rat!! > jam into Other 1 part dos > The freaking "WHEEL"!!!!

Killer Around and then JGB to take it home. Amazing show . . . .

The Mosque, yaaas!
My new favorite vinyl.
Great pressing.
Killer show.
Nuf said.
Cheers

is outrageously fantastically k!ck a** amazing

10/21/71 Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL - DaP2 - disc 3

Keith's second show - WGLD Oak Park radio broadcast back in the day

edit if you want professionalism you need to pay another buck

edit 2 - a touch of frozen logger in Keith's second show - that and the first Dark Star - breaking out all the big hits.

No stereo here so getting my GD from archive

2/17/73

Happy little show

HCS into China Rider....so good

Listening again this morning and I'm suddenly thinking about the St. Stephen encore (having a "??" moment) and sure enough, this is the first of only 2 times they played it with Keith pre-hiatus, which also means (for those of you playing along at home) it is the penultimate performance pre-hiatus. The second and last time was 10/31/71 in Columbus (DiP2). Curious how it dropped out of the rotation right at the beginning of Keith's tenure and only making it's way back in June '76.

now the Penultimate Edit - oh drat, my old deadbase let me down (as in my research wasn't thorough enough.) DB IX was lacking the set list for 10/24/71 Detroit and turns out they played it at that show, again as an encore into JBG. So 10/24 is the actual penultimate pre-hiatus performance. Oh and its got a big ole Dark Star also. I'm sure Doc has talked about this one but new to me.

Yet another edit: at ~13'15" of the 10/24 Dark Star Phil begins playing a base line that basically is straight out of opening of Eyes of the World?!

That 2/17/73 HCS > China Cat > Rider is sweet!

Gotta take a shot.
This early better go with Bailey's or Kahlua.
Or HF's recipe for success, Jameson in my coffee.
Don't have any of those so going with Indica, close enough.
Cheers
Edit: second hit req'd. as that word has been said again

This is a ripping show!! Nice Miller sbd transfer available.

1stShow - the penultimate pre-hiatus performance of St. Stephen is a good un ; )

with some fut bul chaser…

Y33…complete Boxilla by New Years…yaaasss, it isss good to have goals lol
A freak after my own heart! I only have a mere bakers dozen to finish off my quota: The seven final 79s, the last 3 84s, and first three 85s.
Then maybe a little free range freakin, perhaps start poking around 1970,
But…then onto all/most of 85, few remaining summer 90, dip my toe into 95, perhaps a pinch of Fall 80, with more 1970 sprinkled about?
But first things first, nice Dancin happening here/now on 12/10.

DaP 1: just got a copy thanks to one of our favorite folks here ; ) and so have only heard it once, but it did get my attention lol

2/17/73…first 5 or 6 shows of 73 = best 73 box eevveerr, and depending which way your pleasure tends one might argue GOAT? Ok, maybe that’s pushing it but ! Good Sheet Mon

10/24/71 is mos def a rrrripper!

Mr BC, tearing it up lately! You go Son!
And “if you get confused, just listen to the music play” 12/10/79 woo who!

Poor PF…Xmass hell?…perhaps the outa state in-laws lol
Hang in there son, and thank the baby Heh Zeus for the archive!
Hey, think of all the joy your bringing and karma your building! ; )

Dbl Edit: easy firstshow, HF is a trained professional. Warning: this should not be tried at home without professional oversite chilrens.

1st set goodness with a sweet To Lay Me Down and that whacky-doodle '74 style Playing - which I SWEAR has the genesis of Shakedown Street in the middle when Jerry gins up that funky groove/phrase and they all play with it for a bit ... Some technical issues skew the start to the 2nd set (moisture everywhere, Phil says) but I think Seastones 'unbalanced' the speaker/sound setup
Once they get it figured out though, the Eyes is d*mn strong - and the China Doll that follows is as delicate/pretty as it gets (outside of a missed vocal note or three). All that, and there's still the big Jam with Caution! to go ...
Have a good afternoon everyone!

DaP 6 - Disc 1- This was one of those early returned reels miracles. That Dark Star was a favorite long before DaP series was a twinkle in Dave's eye. Blew me away when they announced this one. And as an added bonus this release has yet another Dark Star (DS > Stephen > Eleven) 12/20/69 Fillmore Auditorium, San Fran. Oh and it's got 2 Mason's Children. And wait there was even more for subscribers - a bonus disc featuring a big chunk of 12/21/69 Fillmore Auditorium (if you're keeping score that makes 3 Mason's Children. And 2 New Speedways. A couple of Cumberlands. And an Other One. Lots o' Pig.

Getting ready for a long drive to the snowy north to spend Christmas with some of the family. Might even get in a ski run or three. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!

...this AM
time to get warmed up
turn-up the heat

june 19th 1989
at shoreline

yeah, this will do just fine!

PEACE for ALL!
uncle_tripel

The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album

reissue cd that includes Christmas With John Fahey Vol. II

We've had his Xmas Vol.2 on vinyl since BITD. Our favorite "non-traditional" Xmas album. I've stopped collecting the old hardware store, tire store, and the every big star on on their label type of Xmas records now that I've got about 20 or so. Some real gems in there and always available in the used pile for peanuts. Most have very little wear as they were only played one week a year. All the best to everyone here for happy holidays.
Cheers
Edit: Checkers came to eat but is hesitant to come in yet so we are developing trust again. Must have gone back to his feral roots. We'll get him back though I'm sure. Thanks again for the support.

Nuff said…

Fingers crossed firstshow…ya can take the cat outta the alley, but ya cant always take the alley outta the cat! Maybe he’ll be a Christmas miracle!

Happy/Safe travels BC!

Uncle T needs to fire up some feat: Cold, cold, co o old…

JF: need to check em out as he sounds like he’d fit in our eclectic holidaze jukebox.

I saw him play at the tiny Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, maybe 100 people there. He was incredible! It was in December and he played Silent Night. Fun Times!

5.13.1972 - Lille
It warmed up a bit, and the skies cleared - offering a bit of inspiration, visually. So France was the place to stay.
The sound, especially once they get it all sorted (w/funny banter at the beginning) is great - Jerry rings out all over the place, Keith is very well represented/recorded here, and Billy's drums are super clear. I Really like the BTW and Loser + China-Rider, the Playing and the lovely Other One excursion into He's Gone - as opposed to the reverse order that frequently goes down ...
It's fairly well a stunner of a show, as Phil identified fondly in his book. His playing throughout indicates he was 'feelin' it'. So, even if it might be a bit shorter and therefore deemed one of the 'lesser' E'72 shows, it's still way up there for me.

Sidenote: Aarhus, Denmark is similar - not in tone though, as it has a much warmer (indoor, all wood) ambience - in the manner of being both exploratory and chock full of excellent versions/songs - it's another great listen.
Cheers!

...Must Be The Dead in Wonderland"

june 21st 1984

@ Kingswood Music Theatre
in Ontario, Canada

always an enjoyable listen

especially good laughs
with the FM broadcast Kesey's comments
and the band's promo's between tunes

everyone enjoy your holidays
will catch-up with y'all
in the new year of 2025!

PEACE for ALL!
uncle_tripel

PS: so it's the 1965 - 1995
porch crusher box
60 shows
and ALL from cali :)
woohoo!
DREAM-ON!!

Aarhus
Is a very very very fine hus

E72

Yeah...

Going with the Wiseman as I believe that’s Nitecat!
Sounds good!

PF, yuck yuck

Wonderland…yeah it was lol.
Being locals familiar with the border scene, we dropped exactly on the international border figuring one way or another we’d be through customs before the power came on, but that ment we were already fully powered when we hit wonderland, which in my minds eye looked and felt like we were in a life sized Flintstones episode. You had to enter through the amusement park filled with scared civilians and kiddies everywhere! It’s a miracle we didn’t get the fear lol oh, and I can’t remember which year as this happened both times!
Great White North eh! Those were the daze…

Happy Happy whatever your into, hope it’s filled with Dark Stars, cold frosties, and Dennis’ cheesecake; )

The Six Triple Eight

WOW. Never heard of this event.

Great movie.