This being the end November, we have a bit of music from 1972, and of course some terrific material from 1973.
Our first selection this week, which really should have been played last week, I suppose, is from Wichita, Kansas, and as mentioned last week, is one of the finest versions of the The Other One played in 1972, featuring a perfect blend of rock, jazz and psychedelia. I have no idea how to qualify that it is one of the best of 1972, as there were so many stunning versions played throughout 1972, but I sure do like this one. From 11/17/72, Truckin'> The Other One>Brokedown Palace. I can't get enough of this one, up there with 9/17/72 to these ears. Keith, Phil, Bobby, Jerry and Billy play some stunning parts on this night. It lands so smoothly into Brokedown Palace. And what a Brokedown Palace; they are singing their hearts out on the final part of the song.
Next stop this week will be Tempe, Arizona, at Feyline Field on 11/25/73 in the rain. From that interesting show, we have the ultimate, new from 1973 combination of Eyes of the World>Weather Report Suite. Now that's a pair of songs that always brings a smile to my face.
Finally this week, from a few days before the Tempe show, we have this outstanding second set jam from 11/21/73 in Denver, the second of a perfect two night run of shows that falls virtually right in the middle of one of the finest two month stretches in Grateful Dead history. From this magnificent show, we have Mississippi Half-Step>Playing In The Band>El Paso>Playing In The Band>Wharf Rat>Playing In The Band>Morning Dew. Check out those tones Phil is getting during the final segment of Playing In The Band. And what Jerry's doing under that. Whew! Only in 1973!
As you may or may not be aware, this installment of the Tapers Section is our 52nd weekly edition, one year strong, and we're very pleased to say we'll keep going as long as you keep digging it. Thanks for checking in every Monday, and as always, we really do welcome all comments, questions and suggestions. Please send them to the email address below. See you next week!
David Lemieux
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72 is my favorite year
well, so was 73
thanks David... great music as always!
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Congratulations ~ 1 year strong n sweet
that is definitely something to be grateful for this Thanksgiving. Thanks for the music. (I'll tell Santa you've been good)
round and round
Wow, can't wait to hear
Wow, can't wait to hear these selections!
Thanks :^)
GOT IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tj crowley
it was a marketing tool(ploy)..always rember 'the 1st bag is free'...king rhino let out a fewgems to see what the market was like re: snipet's as a lure.....when "WE" racted so strongly and they saw the #'s, they knew...put out pieces instead of whole shows..not everyone wamts to hear 'big river' but an estimated? scarlet? now i could listen to 18 versions back to back.,.....it all makes sense now...great move...i prefer the snipet's..still listening to the downloads i made from that gift you permitted...now if i could only afford the 'road' sets....
Feyline Field
A baseball stadium hard on the Interstate, this was the original spring traiing home for the Seattle Mariners. Then after the Mariners shifted their base of operations to Peoria, the Angels took up residence there. Which team used the place prior to the Mariners inception (1977) I've never been sure.There's a large butte that looms majestically from just beyond the left field fence. A resort has been built about half way up the thing since the Dead played there.
I think this was Donna's last show before maternity leave. There reportedly was a big chair on stage for her.
Some nice picks. I know
Some nice picks. I know you can't represent all eras, but the November '72 Texas run is another worthy mention in the "This week in GD history" story - perhaps a future Road Trip?
i just love Mondays anymore
and especially at the start of a grateful week - muchas gracias
Last weeks selection.
Last weeks selection was sooooo goooood that I can't get round to listening to this weeks yet. Still, I suppose I'll get down to it eventualy. I notice there is another Eyes of the World. Hmm, so nice. Thank you beforehand. And, emm, is there any way of paying for a download?
Great Other One!
That '72 Other One is very cool. The band brings us back to the earlist days by completing the song with that Cryptical riff. The jamming is quality. Thanks for the gift.
'any way of paying for a download'
tj crowley
derivative25...you will...i summize that they collect the #'s (hit's) that "WE" do for each song/seque listened to and then will package...maybe on 'the road II'
Trouble with the Weather Report
Is anyone else having trouble with the Eyes-Weather Report? I get about 14 mins in and then the system drops me.
John Leopold
santacruzleopold@hotmail.com
Happy Birthday TS!
Great day for a birthday ;-) Thanks for all the great music!
BTW, I'm having some problems as well but with the other tracks, jleopold. I posted in the Technical Difficulties section.
"Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision." - Norman Mailer
gratitude?
if iam grateful for the tunes,yes i am!! all that means is that i am willing to do whatever is necessary to maintain whatever it is that i am grateful for....
frustrated and happy-
i too am struggling to get mississippi-playin-el paso-etc to play! but the other stuff sounds great!
thanks for golden west for atmospheric details of feyline field! those sort of details add to the listening!
thanks for the tidbits! have a great week- thank you for all you do!!
happy birthday ts- and many more to you and to steve-o's little taper too.
caroline
Thank You for 52 great weeks!
David: 52-weeks? Already? Where does the time go? I guess I lost track of time by listening to all the gems you've been dropping on us ---- people tend to forget how much work was required "behind the scenes" in order for the band to go on tour to create the music. ---- and how much work is required to keep placing these gems on the web for us to hear every week. Really --- thank you for all your effort and work.
I appreciate your insight into your favorite versions of songs not placed here. In addition, other tidbits of info such as shows that are hidden gems from 1973 add tremendous value to this space. Thank You very much from the streets of Boston.
--- ThePilgrimShadow
eyes eyes eyes then ..... no more eyes
beenwaytoolongatsea
ditto w/ the eyes dropping in mid-jam, never reaching WRS, can this be remedied .. ?? such a cool eyes, too, up to the dropout, anyway .........
congrat's and thanks to all behind the scenes for a fantastic first (of many .. ??) year of t/s, downloads, streams, whatever, and anybody who really wants these streams can preserve them easily enough (granted not as easily as a right click download but it is do-able) i was recording that hot eyes when it dropped - ouchie!! but that early, live brokedown almost made this brokedown lover breakdown, wowie !!!!
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday to you!Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday Tapers Section!!
Happy Birthday to you!!!
We love ya David!!
Keep the music comming!!!
I deal with residual server meltdown daily...
but those years on tour were still worth it.
Great picks this week! Love the jam in the Other One, Jerry and Phil are taking it out there and knocking it down. The Brokedown is pure and sweet.
I havent had time for the Eyes>Weather Report yet, hope to listen later in the week.
But the Half Step clip is extraordinary....I luv how they slip in and out of the playin throughout...
thanks so much...and give thanks this week!
Thank You
Problem is fixed for the MHS>Playin'>El Paso>etc. Wow, great jam. I still remember how revolutionary it was for a band to just keep playin' from one song to another and another, etc. What a work ethic the band shared with us for passion. They defined my life in so many ways. After all these years, I'm still sorting through my emotions about what took place regarding this music and our beloved band and scene.
"Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision." - Norman Mailer
Fall 73
Keep the fall 73 tour coming...my favorite single era/tour of all time. Have you played a playin-ujb-dew sandwich yet? 11/17/73 is the epic version.
By the way the 11/18/72 Playin that you played on this day in GD history on sirius Sunday was outrageous. Those were kind of forgotten shows in my collection...I think b/c some of the old sbd tapes were a bit flat. Thanks for digging out that monster.
Nailed a re-tread to my shoe.....
I love the tapers section.......A+ Farewell to you old southern skies I'm on my way...On my way!
Phil me up.
This has to be one of the most satisfying segments of Dead I have encountered to date (11-17-72 I've never heard). Listen to the seething energy in Truckin>o1>Brokedown! Despite the minor (very minor) tentativeness of the vocal on Brokedown at the beginning, this has to be as good as it gets in the dead's live oeuvre. Even the feedback is impeccably in-tune! Very satisifying, thanks!
Now, on to the rest of the weekly offering.
I still love the TS But enough is enough!!
How about a nice video package for the new year!! I already have ROADTRIPS VOL 1 and it just created a jones for more!! Hey RHINO What's the deal we have waited long enough!!Rogue
why?
previous postings about bilo my retard brother is remove. why? in kazakhstan he so proud to be on glorious computers net. in kazakhstan he cannot say things because death punishments. he likes dead grapes and happy to be on sitings in u.s. and a. he likes all dead grapes song, especially "rock me like a hurricane".
something to take the chill off
Thanks David.
In the great, cold North this is a treat. I like the irony of listening to "right outside this lazy summer home" while the wind dropped an old spruce across the driveway. Here's to another year
Streaming doesn't like pausing
Now I don't like to interrupt the flow of what they were playing but I stream at work and have to pause in order to answer the phone/respond to my colleagues [hey I'm the administrator and I don't think my employers want an answerphone message that is "can't answer the phone I'm streaming the Dead].
Anyhoo I stream using windows media player and in the last few days every time I pause for more than a minute or so I get a Quicktime Internet authorisation window asking for a username and password. What's this about? It is very frustrating to get 20+ minutes into a good jam and then have to go right back to the beginning.
Can you help?
Many thanks
Keep the music coming.
Streaming doesn't like pausing2
beenwaytoolongatsea
you are correct, it does not, and this is not true of all streaming audio (go to archive and stream any show and you can pause all you like hit play and everybody is happy again).
for some (unknown/bizarre .. ??) reason t/s has chosen to make their streams "un-pausable." Your observations are correct, and unless they change this you are stuck with what you have, after more than a few seconds of pausing you will, every time, get "timed out" and yes your only choice is to go back to the site and click the selection again ..... your best bet is to observe closely at what point in the stream you are when you pause and when you hit it again try to forward to as close to that point again - major drag and the worst feature of the new set up - sorry to moan on thanksgiving morning but just trying to let TALLTAF up there know, you are not alone .......
happy thanksgiving to all {{ :: > ))
tall and been
I'll pass this along. Who knows, it might be easy to fix. (Might not, too, but worth a try.)
beware the tiger lurks
Somewhere after Wharf Rat the Tiger appears and just about takes a bite out of Phil. Jerry coaxes some curiously familiar chirping out of his git a few minutes before the reprise. Did I hear this in the in the GD Movie? hmmm...
I am so Thankful for the Taper's section. 'Gone are the days, we stopped to...' (dub our tapes). Life is definitely sweeter in the end! smiles, smiles, smiles...
Eyes to Weather Report still breaks off
Whatever was causing Eyes of the World to stop, it's still there on Friday. I hope there's a remedy -
Takes all you got just to stay on the beat . . .
NO ONES' got the time ....... !!
beenwaytoolongatsea
wow the 1/2 step et seq is so seamless and flawless and gorgeous ..... acroossss the rio graaaaannnndio ....... acrroooss the laaazzyy river .....
{{ :: >> )) bless t/s and the dead
Thanks!
very nice this week.
Hey naysayers, think about it this way:
If this is the virtual taper's section,
go find some virtual microphones.
Tapers always had to spend a little to "grab"
the shows, right?
The band always just played the music,
*we* had to find ways to bring it home with us,
it's not like you got handed gear on the way in...
It's the same now.
thanks again, David!
Eyes - Weather
I couldn't get the whole thing to play through earlier, but I'm halfway through Let It Grow, and it's all streaming fine. Don, let us know if it's still not working for you.
Still a streaming problem.....
Don't want to overshadow the fact that this is one of the absolute best TS's so far, but I'm still having the same problem Christian reported on page 3 with Truckin>Other One>Palace. I can get the whole thing to play using the qt version, but it stops after about 11 mins. on WMP, which is my preference. Thanks for bein' there through everything on this site izzie and marye. A belated, but never too late, Happy Thanksgiving to you.
Happy Monday All!
firin' it up
Checking on that Truckin.... now, lookatitright.
Are you guys sure this isn't a plan to get me to listen to more 70's stuff? (insert furrowed brow look here)
and coming back with an edit to say yeup, it's broke and a second request sent now to get it fixed.
truckin' ain't truckin'
I, too, am having problems with the truckin' selection. It stops after about 11 minutes and won't continue.
Any News On Broken Truckin>Other One>Palace
Anyone working on broken Windoiws media stream Truckin>Other One>Palace (yet)?