Grateful Dead

Thank you Mr. Gans!_____________________________________________ Will you come with me? Once in awhile you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right!

Jerry slips in some pretty tasty licks towards the end of Lucy. You can tell he was warming up to the thing as it went along. The first half of '93 has a lot to be said for it where '90's Dead is concerned, IMO.

far out!!! thank you d gans!! I guess it doesn't really matter...anyway...

Another great Dead hour post David...Thanks for doing what you do!!! That Days in Between was sweet!!! Love that song... Need to go get rest now... I think I am getting that flu that is going around.... "Well, I was feeling so bad....." as the story goes... Take care and stay in touch... Woody www.myspace.com/woodyinthebasement

I kid you not Mr. Gans that I was thinking of this very episode on the subway ride home today . . . this has always been one of my favourite dead hours - thanks for posting. "Blow Boys Blow" has an eerie feel to it that is captured fabulously in the jam out of space, with the help of some fine MIDI work. And I agree about this version of Days Between - for whatever reason I enjoy the song much more listening to it now then I ever did when I heard it live. It was always hit and miss, especially with the lyrics. That song had so much unfulfilled potential . . .

The handsome cabin boy jam is just fantastic . They should ve brought it out more . I had never heard this program DG , and also has a powerful encore , dark star etc .. and as we speak im listening to the band jamming the O1 nicely as they did in the spring of 1093 . Hint hint vault release . I could heartily enjoy a road trips w the best from March 1993 . That month was just ripe and pregnant w Really strong GD . I mention this , as GD productions seems to be shy releasing something from that great year ( like golden west said , the 1st half is really good ] . Id say rivals a year like 1988 quite strongly ; and usually the earlier years are supposedly more ' on ' or something . I have a really deep respect for 9993 Well , dead.net thanks again for a really potent GDH from its great and very plentiful archive p.s. In selecting material from that tour , you must chose moments when the band wasn t rusty , as they were at certain points - as i and many - ve heard in interviews g nite all

There was some great stuff from summer 93 too - witness the massive and awe-inspiring Playin' (and surrounding material) from Cal Expo, 5/26. Also I've been listening recently to my first show (first time I've heard it since it happened!), Palace 6/09/93 and it's actually really hot. I had kinda forgotten that 93 definitely has it's gems, certainly under-rated. Road Trip-worthy I'd say for sure. Vocal effects on the Other One here - weird and creepy! I like it!

From summer 93 i cant get over the great June 19 show in Chicago - under the rain . I heard it was a strong one . Theres a cool Schoeps mics aud floatin around , where you capture the whole feel of being there , soaked etc . And the band relates and plays along to that vibe . It s cool when that can be sensed in a gd tape . Sort of an eery , lysergic type of setlist comin at you Reminded me of Saratoga 6.27 1985 ' I say phil my dog has no nose , no nose !! ........... Im thrilled w this week s reflective program Great job Sr gans on the current program s 1969 choice - gdh 1065. A greeting from Chile ( where the Pacific ocean and the Andes mtns meet and can be seen in the same place , nice eh ? ] cheers Jaime G

Glad to say that I was at this show, and memories abounded before I listen to this GD hour. Great choice. Despite the disrespect shows from this era tend to generate, I remember being happy to be there dancing and jamming my ass off at every show. I would have wept openly if you had told me it would all be gone in a couple of years. Jerry was melding nicely into the abilities of the MIDI, as were the others, and taking us places we'd never been.I do particularly like the intro to The Other One, but I have to comment on the Days Between, here and in general. This song, when first brought to us, may have seemed clunky and over prose. Like all great GD songs, it needed time to mate. It is terribly unfortunate that it never really had the proper time to marinate and stew. It would have been the kind of dead-anthem that could bring you to your knees as an end cap to a furious night of twirling. Indeed. When Jerry passed, I found a great comfort in the lyrics of the song. In ways it was as if he was playing a retrospective of all our years of traveling together, and foreshadowing the emminent loss that was to come. Like all great GD songs, it finds a way to move us from the dark and into the light, giving us hope to continue. Dance on!

I loved "Days Between" for the first time I heard it. Yeah, I can imagine how much deeper it would have gone with some more time to mature. Gans/GD Hour blog
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