Grateful Dead

And you snatch your rattling last breaths
with deep-sea-diver sounds,

and the flowers bloom like
madness in the spring.....

(Locomotive Breath also a great one)

Awesome track

It is fireworks.. very loud on the aud. tape - love that it is also on the board.. a nice weekend to all from Copenhagen..

‘Eying little girls with bad intent’ probably hasn’t aged well.

I'm kinda glad there is no filler? This means 9/27, 9/30, and 10/1 will be released as full shows. 9/27 and 10/1 will fit on 4 discs...

Old joke,

Spent most of my money on drinking and chasing women, the rest I wasted.

Music collecting,,,, cheaper than guns, smaller than cars!

How else would you "eye" them? :-)

The sound quality is very good, the performance is workmanlike.

Haven't been on here for a minute.....as the young ones say. But as I was pulling up the site to check in with the current chat I had Aqua Lung playing in my head....and I was thinking you know there is a line here that probably didn't age to well, but great song....love the tempo changes. Above all I love it when these odd things occur. Reminds me that we are indeed all connected with each. Enjoy the weekend everyone. I'm cuing up this Dave's Picks right now. Can't wait!

Ozzy just announced he can no longer walk. He will likely be "performing" sitting down on some kind of Goth throne. I don't know if Bill Ward can even make it through a 90 minute set... it may be one of those things where he plays along next to Tommy Clufetos or another drummer on a second kit.

It reminds me of Genesis' last time around with Phil Collins. It is what it is, I guess... we all get old.

Last five:

Aerosmith - Live! Bootleg
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
The Replacements - For Sale: Live at Maxwell's 1986
Chuck Berry - The Best of Chuck Berry
Grateful Dead - Postcards of the Hanging

\m/

Have a post from yesterday that I will try to complete, mainly for Oro.

I like the Teacher. Have seen Tull 3 times '78(?-have to find which year, 77 or 78 or 79) The same personnel as the live album. Then '92 and then like '03. The reason I like the teacher is because I an older gentleman, I maintain appropriate height/weight dimensions. And it took after the appendix rupture, when not even eyeing little girls, I started to have young girls approach me. The first one was a young female at the rehab facility who was thinking of becoming a physical therapist. I was explaining how important it was to find good teachers in life and that I had been around 5 incredible teachers. She responded "I need a teacher." Game On. She was a college student at Auburn. Legally correct; morally?

Do luv Tull, some good live shows on the tube.

Make It Suntory Time - Maybe from Lost in Translation. Love the movie with Bill Murray. I worked in Nichinon, Japan in '96. Bill Murray is my favorite overall SNL alumn as it relates to movies overall. Eddie Murphy would be second due to outrageous stand up and movie work. Stand up primarily.

Edit: In USA the young males/females are really struggling with weight due to diet. Nobody teaching them how to eat and be satisfied, healthier. So called science is coming around. High protein with intermittent fasting.

This is a great release. Sound quality is fantastic. Five dancing bears. Best sounding show from the fall tour so far. Sounds a lot better than the Cobo show, which is good, but not as good as this show.
Will have to revisit Dave's #4 again soon for comparison.

Good first set. Love the It's all over now, BEW, Let it Grow Might as well finish.
Great It Must have Been the Roses, FOTD, TOO, Stella Blue, TOO.
A complete show with Bonus tracks from 1977. I will take it.
Great job Dave!

Had an ocular migraine yesterday. Do you guys get these? It's so weird. Your vision starts to distort, and you gradually start to get spots of light or colors. (Some people get horrible headaches, but thankfully I do not. Just regular headaches.) Yesterday I had a wild one, in which I could "see" a large rainbow crescent vibrating toward the left center side of my visual field. Went away after about 20 minutes, which is what normally happens.

But it got me thinking: maybe I finally had an acid flashback? Or maybe that's what happens to some people when they think they're having one?

Anyway, things are back to norbal. For now.

I get these too, from time to time. They are a pain in the ass the prisms. The prisms and "Dark Side of the Moon" type shit are the ocular migraines. They don't really make me feel high or good, they just piss me off and get in the way of my vision, sometimes worse than others. At best it's just a technicolor blind spot, at worst it temporarily debilitates vision completely. I can't literally do shit but sit, vape, & listen to music! {HooRAY!}
Now as for the 'shooting stars' THAT is what I believe is the 'flashback' so to say. I have heard this from other old trippers as well. I haven't had this happen to me in decades, but I haven't tripped or dropped halucenagenics in the same decades. The shooting stars are cool though, I remember a slight bit of spinal euphoria and the visuals don't impede your ability to see other surrounding things. Unlike the prisms which are sort of a tunnel vision except the tunnel ain't dark it's technicolored.

Anyways, Yeah Sabbath is cool, some months back I did a comment about them {on one of these threads} regarding their 1970s Ozzy era. Dio had some good years & a couple eras with them, I prefer the early '80s to the 1990s Dio~Sabbath stuff. Tony really kept it going all along, with Geezer right there for the most part. The Blizzard of Oz just kept his own hailstorm going. As for Bill Ward, I had heard decades ago that his arthtitus was the deciding factor over his appearing on reunion tours, though there really haven't been that many. Bill's drumming technique on the "Master of Reality" album is sublime intensity!

Let's go with Dave's 53 first - idk what it is but I've enjoyed this quite a bit more than the Cobo show. Deadvikes mentioned the sound quality - maybe I should run those two releases back-to-back. I skipped the 30 Trips box set bitd, but one of the first shows I bought from eBay was 10/3/76 and, well, it's mostly sat on the shelf. I gave it a few spins but soon went back to my go-to shows from June and July when I wanted to scratch that '76 itch.

Ocular migraines are quite curious. Apparently the term has been somewhat deprecated, and retinal migraine is now used more commonly for the type I've had, where only one eye is affected. I've only had a handful in my life, all back when I was in my mid and late 40s, but they were all basically the same.

It would begin as I was reading, be it a book or a screen, and I'd find myself having trouble seeing a certain spot or word or letter. The first couple of times it happened were confusing, and it took awhile before it dawned on me that there was a blind spot in my vision! As many others have reported, when I have one of these I can close my eye(s) and see a string of whitish triangles "tearing" across the darkness behind my eyelid. It looks rather like the bunting you'd hang for a party, and I can see why some describe it as prismatic. Over 15-20 minutes this string of bunting, this tear, gradually moves until it leaves my field of vision, but while it's there it is tremendously distracting - I can certainly still see, and with my eyes open I don't perceive the tear nor the individual triangles, but the blind spot(s) make it hard to work or do much of anything. Just gotta wait it out.

I did have one while driving but it was totally fine: this was maybe the second one I ever had. I had a dawning realization that something was wrong but since I wasn't reading or working with text I couldn't understand what was happening to me. By the time I deduced the likely situation and decided it was safer to get off the freeway, it was mostly over.

I think they are blood pressure related episodes for me but similar to what you describe and goes away quicker if I rest and relax than trying to power through. Vibrating rainbow crescent is accurate for me too. Don't know what the vessels in the eye are doing but that's my take. Had one start with glancing into glary sun outdoors recently. Weird but not scary.
Cheers

I get these a few times a year. They pop up out of nowhere; as described - they are totally visual, never any associated pain or anything like that; for me, it usually manifests as a jagged/vibrating/rainbow/kaleidoscope lightning bolt that appears in my left eye's peripheral vision as a small sliver, and then grows in a half-moon shape design around my eye(s) edge, where there is this pulsing rainbow kaleidoscope of color. It's pretty distracting, like if I am driving (happened once) or on a call at work trying to have a conversation when your eyes are essentially tripping out to a rainbow disco lightning bolt pulsating circumference around your vision. Just as soon as they appear, they tend to dissipate (at least for me). In fact, one of these hit last week when I was in a virtual work meeting; I just sat back and let it wash over me thankfully I wasn't required to be articulating anything important during those 10 minutes. These phenomena seem to be minimally understood but not really impactful beyond the potential intensity of the visuals in the moment.

The Mind; its weird.

We Well, People
Sixtus

....don't mind me. I'm just over here knocking on some wood.

Wow, this is the first i've ever seen folks speak of these.

I've had these 8-10 times in my life. Exactly like you guys are describing.....crazy stuff, the loss of vision! The dancing prisom....wow

Killer of a show, let s get this one released .

Please Dave. 2/17/79

I don't listen to unreleased shows all that often, mainly because I have hours and hours and hours of official releases. But I do sometimes listen to the Dead Pod, and recently spent a blissful couple hours hearing 1/20/79 on the earbuds while doing some yard work.

What an amazing second set! Estimated>TOO>DrumSpace>TOO>Dark Star>NFA>Sugar Mag>Sat Nite. Outstanding! Kind of enjoyed the ambient sound of the audience tape, where you can hear the crowd react to it all.

So c'mon, Dave. How is THAT show not officially released?

I don't think I'd even heard of ocular migraines until I had one about ten years ago. Scared the crap out of me then because I had no idea what was happening. Ran straight to the doctor and got an exam. Now that I know they're generally harmless and (for me) not painful, I just try to relax and enjoy the show. That one the other day was a doozy! Downright dosey. Like aurora borealis inside my left eye.

Last five!

Mendelssohn: Italian Symphony (cheery music for a Sunday morn)
Wilco: A Ghost is Born
Ty Segal: Manipulator
Grant Green: Quartet Sessions with Sonny Clark
Dylan: Basement Tapes

I had a bunch of those right when we went remote for COVID. I never get a headache after, but I do feel fatigued. Hadn’t had one for almost four years, then had a minor one a couple months ago. Your description is exactly what I had. Thought I was having a stroke the first time.

...

Taking just a half hit or a few micrograms too much or tripping on a workday or school night and then a call or text message from your mom, wife, one of your kids, your ex-wife, an ex-girlfriend, the FBI, or any combination of the above including their parents can raise your blood pressure and give you an ocular migraine headache. Serious stuff.

Your best way out is stay away from magnets (including your cell phone), and for gods sake do not look at your hands or look in the mirror. Listen to some grateful dead or the Allan Brothers (as a last resort James Taylor acoustic) and in a few hours hopefully your run for Senate will remain intact. If you start to tweak it's important to stay away from fireworks and firearms, I have heard howling at the moon naked can help, best of luck. Be prepared to have your lawyers draft language to pull any relating videos off YouTube post haste. This has always worked for me; procrastination is your weakness. Godspeed.

Feel free to share whatever has worked for you in the past, we get by with a little help from our friends.
As you were.

Shortly after I had a bout of them, I read online from a Cleveland Clinic doctor that specializes in migraine headaches that some patients had success with a daily supplement of Magnesium. I’ve been doing that since and only had one very minor episode in 4.5 years.

PS, I’m not a doctor, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once…

That was fun to watch

Another vote :)

LOVE 53 - now bring on Baltimore - and the box..

Listened to Dave's 4 from William and Mary again. Sound quality on this one is really good as well. #53 might be a tick better. Not sure why the Cobo show didn't sound as good as these two. All three used Healy's PA recording. Of course different sound quality on shows is a hall mark of listening to live shows. You never know what you will get. Most of the time we are a lucky bunch, sometimes not.

Will now have to go back and listen to Dicks #20. Always liked this release as well.

Betty was back for the Oakland shows and her and Bob Matthews recorded the Cow Palace show on New Year's.

Interesting to me when Bob Matthews showed up for some of these recordings. Would be interesting to know why. At the time they had no plans to release these shows.

Come on now, y’all be trollin’ me…
1/10/79 and a big chunk of 1/20 second set could fit on a Dave’s…but don’t think tapes are available: (
That is a good aud though, really captures the sonic signature of the old hall.
Beautiful place!

As in, how long do you people expect me to hang back when you're banging the drum for '79 shows or ... whatever the hell you think will make you happy?

So I'm gonna bang away -- as usual -- on 8-12-79, 8-13-79 and 8-14-79. Look 'em up Oro! (I bet you were there...)

On another forum (definitely not this one), foolish people keep asking "are there any more great shows left in the vault?" So let's examine that perspective, just for a moment, so we can clear the air, the mind, and, er, introduce another of my "suggestions."

Shows can become "iconic" and supposedly "great" or "A list" when someone decides for themselves -- and sometimes this catches on with the crowd -- that a show is "iconic" or "great." My personal example is Barton Hall '78. So I'd never heard a tape of that, despite being a cassette head from ~1972 into the early '80s. When I did get the beautifully mixed/mastered version in the box, I wondered what the fuss was about. A very nice show indeed, but "iconic"? Not for me. (As I think JimInMD once said he didn't think that was the hottest show in that box, with which I concur.) Yet there's no doubt that a) if I had been there and tripped (as at many another '78 shows, thank you Purple Dragon) I'd have had a real good time, and b) the setlist on paper is really sweet. I really enjoyed the tape.

Which, to your relief, brings me to my point. A buddy taped (in person, Nakamachi) 12-26-81. I believe marye once said she attended. Check out the setlist -- not necessarily exciting on paper... but the verve and joy in delivery gets me outta my seat every time. Some of it is searing and a lot of it is just good plain fun. In one show, searing, then fun, then searing, etc. Even a lull type tune that gives everyone a chance to catch their breath... but on tape 40 years later, it's "subdued" or "drags," according to some.

Everyone wants another brain/soul orgasm with a "great" show, maybe one that's always lurking beyond their reach. But in the GD continuum, the band had to have its own fun. Different flavors and vibes on different nights, some in the course of a five-night hometown run, sometimes on five almost consecutive nights on the road. Almost none of the released shows sit apart from the continuum (okay, ALL the '68 shows...). Many spark the comment that it was "the next night" that should've been released.

Bros (and sister marye), based on the verve factor, the fun factor, the reality of the ebb and flow of a GD show, I very much enjoyed listening to DP 53 (not my main point) and liked the craftsmanship as much as the jammy (Let it Grow) and the raucous (Might as Well). Full disclosure: I am not secretly Dave L or Mark P.... just a fan.

Closer to my point, there's a ton of fun, rockin', introspective, balls-to-the-walls shows in the vault or my name isn't HendrixFreak. (Unfortunately, for my thesis here, my name is NOT actually HendrixFreak...)

And I know that you know that I know that y'all know this jive inside out. So, there you have it: a break in the afternoon work and running my mouth again!

Paz, HF

P.S. Love and healing to those who are suffering or just lost someone. It's going around and someday it'll be our turn (again).

Thanks for it, HF

That’s why I try to actually listen to them all, and make up my own mind, never read about em on the net until after, if at all. NO TAPER BIAS! Lol

I have heard your “precious” (think Gollum lol) 79 shows, and though I unfortunately was not there, I have heard them.
And I found them good, but not necessarily top shelf picks…but as you say, I was not there etc, so, as usual, what I thinks is meaningless.
Definitely I killer Shakedown, but I’m partial to 6/30/85 ; )
If I was picking top shows from that fine year, I’d go with (in no order)
Besides my previous below mentioned/wish:
1/8, 1/15, 2/3or4, 2/17, 5/8&9, 9/5&6, 11/29, 11/30&12/1, oh, and 8/4&5…
But nobody’s asking me, so… ; )

PS, some of us have to get our perspective in, to counter balance the HF sampling bias lol ; ) JK of course,
Be well amigo!

You've got me nailed. (I wish SHE would...)

And now, Deep Thoughts, Volume II:

KIDDING!!

Paz

8/12/79 - Red Rocks

Listening to Eyes,,,,so far I think great cut, recording I have, ok (wish I got tapes this good back in the day)

Got a chunk cued up in winamp,, will be listening.

I'm not a Doctor either, but I played one in the emergency room one day!

There are many, but not everyone will agree on the same ones.

Whoever has the winning bid for the Vault tour will hopefully have a photographic memory because cameras are not allowed.

Did you mean ‘77?

I’ve had it a couple times, but have never had a migraine.
Most of the times it was during a cold with severe nasal congestion and pressure.

Any and all 79 would be welcome. I would have included the fall MSG shows in the MSG Box.
My favorite run of the year was the Tour that started on 10/24. So many good shows on that tour and Dave has released one of the Cape Cod shows, RT1.1 and the two downloads from that release. Would love more.

...along with HF at the other site users...
"all best of vault have been released"
...sorry youngins but
with over 2,000 shows
and roughly < 17% officially released
WEA / Rhino says “there's gold in them thar hills”

diP evolved / matured into RT & daP
but as we know these are ONLY the 2-track recordings from PA / SDBD

and sound quality is "SOLD" in irregular intervals;
are the "better/best SQ" released maybe 2X each sub? or 3X per sub?
and then subscribers bitch

when we DH "connoisseurs" BELIEVE a show should be released as a daP
it may not qualify or meet rhino standards,
maybe because it's a multi-track recording, (hence the lack of 1991-1995 releases)
or poor tape condition, substandard levels, poor saturation, etc, etc
and I'm no authority
but venture to conclude this places the TPTB "in a pickle"
aka "we've had this one on our radar for 20 years"

and btw how many multi-track boxes are DH going to buy annually...
but better yet,
how many multi mini-box releases would be acceptable
and at what production quantity
for WMG/Rhino to consider them a financial success

so MAN, how's about
2 show releases every 60 days
12 shows per year (mix of 2-track & multi-track)
rhino fills every sub with their 6 shows
and DH's choose their 6 shows from a list of 9 shows
(and yes, I realize this will get f'ed up by fulfillment team lol)

what doesn't get SOLD from the list of 9, well then
rhino uses those the next/following year
to fill their 6 shows, and a new list of 9 becomes available...
GOT IT?
meet your production criteria,
and LETS GET MORE MUSIC OUT OF THE VAULT
and the name of this sub series is, of course,
"FOR DEADHEADS ONLY"

You made us laugh and smile whilst pondering new perspectives and realities. Well done Mr. Robbins.

"What I try to do, among other things, is to mix fantasy and spirituality, sexuality, humor and poetry in combinations that have never quite been seen before in literature," Robbins said in an interview with January magazine in 2000. "And I guess when a reader finishes one of my books ... I would like for him or her to be in the state that they would be in after a Fellini film or a Grateful Dead concert." –USA Today 2/11/25

"Or a Grateful Dead concert" indeed. . . I think it's time to take Still Life or Jitterbug out for a spin. . . Onward.

Hadn't seen that yet. Tom Robbins' first three books were life saving for me. And I learned a lot about writing back then from his unique style. We don't all have to write like Hemingway to be good writers. I had exactly that feeling he described when finishing one of his books. Uplifted and feeling like I understood more about life and people.
Cheers to Tom

Fire up the peyote wagon, tell Sissy to dust off those rusty thumbs, just one more time, it’s time for THE big trip…
Onward!
Four winds…and tanks fer da mameries

Cool quote Jeff, tanks!
Ps, the elk keep asking how y’all doing? Been sleeping in the yard a lot this year.

Sold out..

I was relistening to ‘BBC Sessions 1968 - 70’ by The Howard Riley Trio only the other day. Great pianist. Recommended.

I think that is good that one finally sold out.

Can they make money if they don't sell out. Of course.

However, I think it is always better if they all sell out eventually. Then, there are less questions at Rhino on why they should continue releasing shows from our favorite band.

Bro, if you're asking me "what I mean" we're all lost. In that, I have no idea. Someone mentioned '79 and that triggered ... something. Memories of Red Rocks in '79, I guess. If someone mentions '68, I'll pop off in that direction as well! Mmm, I just mentioned '68, so ... here's a story:

I was only 11 years old that year and my family made its way through San Francisco that summer and I ended up with an older former neighbor who drove me and my brother to the top of Mt Tamalpais where we saw long-haired bikers and hippies. I had no idea what was going on.. Six years later I spent the night up there with long hair and a backpack under my own power. It was September. I think I knew that the GD would do a "last stand" a month later, but I'd been on the road for months, was due back in school, and had absolutely no way to stay a month for a few rock 'n roll shows, despite the fact that I was already a rabid fan. Crazy world...

Part of my fervor clearly stems from wanting to hear shows I attended -- with due respect to our neighbor, Oro, that's less "tape" bias than blotter bias. For instance, currently, I'm looking forward to the forthcoming ABB release of 9 June 73 from RFK Stadium. There's little question they burned it up that night as the headliners and I got pretty dang high on 4-way blotter and thought the band was amazing. Hey! Turns out the tape corroborates that experience. I haven't listened to 8-12-79/Red Rocks in maybe 20 years, so what the hell do I know?

Still, my logic is full of holes, because I always say the show in person was one thing, the tape decades later is whole 'nother thing. And here I am doing a jack-in-the-box for shows I attended. I'm consistently hypocritical! (Virtue or vice??)

But at least I got an incoming (cheerfully tossed) tomato from Oro with 'Amigo!' scrawled on it... I ducked.

I'd say I'm pretty happy with the releases -- as Oro says, no one asks me. I wasn't excited for this '76 release but, given my personal circumstances and the state of the world, I found time to relax and enjoy it. Four discs of spring '73 next is right up my alley. I have so much music of all stripes to listen to that I don't go to the GD tapes anymore. Just the official releases, and they come frequently enough that sometimes it's hard to keep up.

As for this year's box, I'm out of the mood for really big, expensive boxes, especially if they cough up the early years with later years tacked on for broader market appeal. But that box has been decided by now, so I'll be curious when it's announced.

Okay, 16 degrees in Denver. Back to work after babbling away here.

Just want to say, hope some folks are considering a trip to ophthalmologist. Might be a chance at cataracts forming. I have had very mild issues but DR still wants me to see Opth Dr. Have had some mild flashbacks, more like being in bathroom in old days and looking into a mirror. Just everything alive and pulsing. So flashback more like walls are pulsing some. Just to be safe.

What's the consensus {over~under} on which Volume of Dave's releases sell out next? This could be as fun as guessing the next picks! I'm a bit jealous of the casual newer fans ability to grab some older Dave's Picks, I only wish they had these kind of left overs back 10 years ago. This past September they must've found a box of 'em somewhere in the warehouse and sent out emails to interested buyers. I wasn't part of the lucky ones to successfully get to make the purchase. I had everything from 2021 on but there were goodies from 2018,`19, and '20.