Grateful Dead

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.....

And a Happy Happy Joy Joy to mr Stoltzfus!
May you’re day be Dark Stars and D’s cheesecake!

Edit: easy there D, don’t hurt yourself ; )

..... and did she EVER look better?

Forbidden Planet"

Here's to Earl.

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.

Beloit WI, to be exact

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.

You're too kind

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.

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.