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    marye
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  • shwack
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    Listening to Eaton

    Don’t miss this title from bassist Cleveland Eaton from 1974: Cleveland Eaton, Plenty Good Eaton.
    This record refuses to get off my turntable deck.
    Sorely underappreciated…

    Shwack in NH

  • Summoner
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    Haiduk - Diabolica

    The new Haiduk album Diabolica [metal]

  • gemini mike
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    CD by Martin Taylor and…

    CD by Martin Taylor and David Grisman's Acoustic Jazz Quartet, called "I'm Beginning to See the Light.," 1999.

    Taylor and Grisman go at a bunch of true standards (Autumn Leaves, Cheek to Cheek, Lover Man, Willow Weep for Me, Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered...etc.) It is good because it does focus Grisman a little, like Garcia used to do, and bring David down from his free form "Dawg" jamming. It's nice, like at a Dead concert, when the riffing resolves into a recognizable song and melody. On the other hand, maybe you can say that Grisman is excessively disciplined and sticks too closely to the melody here rather than riffing and improvising as much as many jazz players do - could have been a happy medium with his Dawg somehow - maybe he felt a little more free to do that in his collaborations with Jerry. But this is good. Great music for dinner or reading and you raise your head every once in awhile at a nice riff or return to well known swing melodies. And danceable if you know your Lindy. That's probably what was intended. Jerry would have appreciated it, I think - Jerry himself in his last interviews said he was going to see Steffan Grappelli doing this sort of riffing on standards before both of them unfortunately passed on. And of course Jerry was named after Jerome Kern, or so I heard once upon a time, so these standard would be right up his alley.

  • Slow Dog Noodle
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    For something a little different

    3-12-92 - Phish - Flynn Theater

    Trey is just absolutely ripping here, even for the early 90s.

  • gr8fulgal77
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    On the road to terrapin

    I haven’t heard of that site but I’ll check it out! Thanks!

  • nappyrags
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    right now

    I was listening to the sound of the ribs sizzling on the grill....

  • wilfredtjones
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    To Terrapin

    Have you ever heard of the site called heady version (all one word)? It's a deadhead generated ranking of all the Grateful Dead's catalogue. According to the site, it lists the top 3 versions as: 2-26-77, 5-17-77 and 1-22-78.

    -edit- Looks like Terrapin from 10-22-83 gets some high ratings from the 80's.

  • gr8fulgal77
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    Thanks Mr. Jones

    The compilation matches the style of the taper I got them from-he tended to combine shows!! Thank you so much!!! It’s a fun game! Do you know anything about the Terrapin from the Omni Show? I love a good terrapin!

  • wilfredtjones
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    Hey Now Grateful Gal

    Looks like you might have 3-24-88 The Omni set I, with some of 3-28-88 Hampton set I as filler. I just cracked open my trusty DeadBase to check. It's a fun game, guess the show... :-)

  • gr8fulgal77
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    Lost Show

    Hey y’all
    I have a cassette of a show that doesn’t have a date on it. Brent is singing, so it’s in the ‘80s and the crowd cheered loudly when Memphis was mentioned…maybe held in Memphis, TN??? Can anyone help me ID the show for my collection? Set list is below:
    Set 1
    Touch of Grey
    Walkin Blues
    Candy man
    Queen Jane Approximately
    Loser
    It’s All over Now
    Far From Me
    Cassidy
    Don’t Ease Me In

    Set 2
    Feel Like a Stranger
    Franklin’s Tower
    Box of Rain

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Mai Mai Mai Track: λήναις / Lenais Label: Boring Machines Cat #: BM070
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Tropa Macaca Track: Balada Dos Que Já Nascem Mortos Label: Software Cat #: SFT 018
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75 Dollar Bill Track: I'm Not Trying To Wake Up Label: Thin Wrist Recordings Cat #: TW-J
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Beverly Copeland Track: Good Morning Blues Label: CBC Radio Canada Cat #: LM 86
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Monnette Sudler Sextet Track: To Be Exposed Label: SteepleChase Cat #: SCS-1087
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Just received my Dave's Picks Vol. 21!What a great show/recording!1973-That was the year of my very first Dead show in Buffalo,New York!For fellow New York State'ers,some may remember that was the year of Governor Nelson Rockefeller's new get tough anti drug laws going into effect...of which "Don't get caught holding the bag!''was the slogan on all the commercials!Anyway,me and a buddy hitchhiked from Niagara Falls to Buffalo's War Memorial Auditorium to see the Dead when, walking through the parking lot we were searched and busted with weed!The cops took our weed and then let us go with a warning-that almost blew the evening for us but fortunately the Dead and the wall of sound made us forget about the cops by the second song!(at least I think it was a wall of sound show-I know I saw it!)It was billed as two two hour sets-which it was probably more!Vol 21 is pretty much the same set list as that October show as I remember it.(without checking).Great memories of a life changing time in my life-I was 16 years old then and I turn 60 in April!I probably have heard some Dead or JGB almost every day since then!
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The Gerald Sisters Track: When The Sun Goes Down Label: HSE Records Cat #: HSELP-1433