Grateful Dead

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Listening to the tail end of Set I in the predawn before heading out to the field.

Now playing New Speedway Boogie . . . .

... which was so odd for Sacto. 34 years and counting now. So, yeah, somehow I got those two runs reversed in my mind.
All I know is I had a great time at both.

Highway 61 Revisited

Took a spur of the moment road trip down from Seattle to the May '91 Cal Expo run. Friend of a friend (we had met at '87 Red Rocks) hooking me up with tickets. Lot of fun - especially enjoyed 5/4 and 5/5. My only shows of the Bruce era and he wasn't there. The funny thing being I'd seen him as a guest twice (Buckeye '88 and GWF '89) before Brent passed away. The 5/5/91 Terrapin > Spanish (sounding) Jam > Terrapin apparently was broadcast on the GDH. It's been uploaded to the archive (and available on relisten) but not with an attached 5/5/91 date. Rather, its at the end of the Set II pre-drums of a GDH?/SBD upload of 5/24/95 Memorial Stadium, Seattle, the only part of that show that circulates as a SBD source (really really need 5/23 and 5/24 SBDs released - 5/24 was the final Wheel and Drum > Space > Wheel was freaking amazing.) So I was on the rail for 5/23. And that too was truly a good show - the Want To Tell > Estimated in that upload is excellent. Felt like Jerry played I Want To Tell You for me or rather as an expression of where I was at - I was going through a break up and was in a place where I was at a loss for words (at the time I didn't even know they occasionally covered Want To Tell). During the Estimated jam Jerry locked eyes with me and "asked" what I wanted him to play and I replied I didn't know and so he kept jamming out Estimated - missed opportunity. He seemed in good spirits and relative health during that run. When I saw him 7/9 from 16th row center (by chance back in Chicago area visiting family and brother had extra ticket) Jerry was a different man, seemingly much heavier and very weary, bearing the weight of the world. . . . My apology for the repeated digressions from the simple fact that Cal Expo ' 91 was fun times!

... having attended all three. : ))

However, the Archive element at this site lists these Rex Foundation shows as "without" Bruce, as opposed to "with".
IIRC, it was the August trio (my last three attended) for which Bruce was not present. Those are also excellent - and any amount of either run that could be released as a DP would be most welcome!

Dick's Picks #22

Kings Beach Bowl

Like a variety pack box of Krispy Kremes

GBtGD

5-3-91 109233.sbd.miller >
5-4-91 109234.sbd.miller >
5-5-91 19181.sbd.hinko

In order, just started the 5th.
It’s not a miller but says the source is:
DSBD>CD>EAC>SHN.

Sounds good.

Dave,
We need more Bruce releases. Video too.

#1 2 3 4

A few tracks into disc 1

GD!!!

:)))

That original album, Europe 72, is a great record. I've been listening to Wembley 4/8/72 this afternoon - on vinyl as part of the box set that came out a few years ago. If this is still available I would highly recommend it.

As a counter point I have started on the David Bowie box set " Rock N' Roll Star" which focuses on his recording of "Ziggy Stardust" and the BBC recordings from 1972. Excellent - but so different from what the Dead were playing around the same time in Europe. There's a beautiful hard back book in the Bowie box, and in one of the printed interviews from 1972, Charles Shaar Murray quizzes him about being camp, and says "No one ever called Jerry Garcia camp". To which Bowie replies, " No, right, but he's a musician. And I'm not a musician." Then.. " I have a creative force which finds it's way through into a musical form".