Grateful Dead

....yeah.

I'd like to have seen them in a club-or at least indoors, I should have said.
The only Jefferson's I saw were Paul Kantner and David Frieberg, with various Jefferson Starships, between about 2000 and 2010. Solo set from Tom Constanten at one of them, too.

Good choice Proudfoot! Can't go wrong with 9-11 and 9-12 either. Would have made a perfect box set, but the shows are not in the vault as far as I know.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hsL9UL9qbv8

I hereby declare that the Greek run in 81 counts as an example of "the good old days"

9 11 is great
9 12 is phenomenal
9 13 is excellent

Listen to 9 13 without looking at the setlist

and listen deeply

It has a special energy

Greek me out

1981, my favorite run at the Greek, 9/11/81 one of my all time favorite shows,, you kinda had to be there.

10 1 94

Sounds really nice

Ah. It is the representative show for the year on 30 Trips

Thanks for the vote! I'm going to re-read the first two chapters of V in one sitting each, then decide whether to continue. I think part of the problem is that I've been reading just a few pages each night before turning off the light, and it seems like I need to roll through a chapter all at once while I'm fully awake.

My Dead hiatus continues, but here's a new Last Five:
Stockhausen: Aus den sieben Tagen
Varese: Various works with Kent Nagano conducting
Bob Seger: Night Moves
Television: Marquee Moon
Patti Smith: Horses

Too bad about Sylvain Sylvain; that first New York Dolls album is killer.

Stockhausen
I have heard some Varese (Chicago had a track called "a hit by Varese", btw)
Television MM is awesome
Patti Smith Horses...I remember something about a parking meter...

A super cool and super spacey recommendation for any out here looking for a palette cleanser......I cannot recommend highly enough Les McCann "Invitation To Openness". The Lovers, the 26 minute track on side 1 should be required listening for any fans of live Dark Stars. The 2 long tracks on side 2 are also recommended listening. It is available on cd on the Water label, but not sure just HOW available it is. Anyway, I'm just killing time until Dave's 37.

Music is the best!!

I'm sorry I didn't see your post earlier. I don't visit Dead.net as often as I used to. As for me wanting to get a rise out of people, that's actually never been the case. Don't get me wrong, I will get down in the mud with anyone if they attack me personally, but the real purpose of my posts has always been to affect change by trying to get the attention of the powers that be. I think it's safe to say it never really worked.

As for me picking shows from the 80's & 90's, I'm not really knowledgeable enough to fill that role. I only listen to officially licensed Grateful Dead releases, but I once had a 3/30/89 Greensboro, NC bootleg that I thought was great. Although a friend once told me the audience recording that I had was much better than the soundboard recordings.

The reason I said I'm bored with the Grateful Dead is because I am. I own close to 2500 albums, EP's & box sets. 149 of those are Grateful Dead, not including JGB and other side projects. I've just reached the point in my life where I'd rather hear something new than something I've heard before. It doesn't mean I don't like the Grateful Dead. It just means I'm not the same person I was when they were still touring.

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Quite the delayed reaction..
All is good, thanks for the reply.

Virgin listens today

30.5 years ago

Wow

7-21-90 was a Shakedown Stream this summer.

https://youtu.be/C9vKc1VlTPc

:)))

He's gone, he's gone and nothin's going to bring him back, he's gone
Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile

AGREED

can you listen to 7/22's Knockin' on Heaven's Door without getting verklempt?

...for THE WIN!!!

here here

ONWARD!!!

Sixtus

This is one of those rare times when you do really hope ain't nothin gonna bring him back. I hope you're right.

What are we talking about here anyway? 😉I'm just here for the music. Carry on, carry on.

Nothing in his office became him like the leaving it.

Mr Ones-thanks for the recommendation-I'll check that out later.

Gonna take years of therapy to get over the last four years. Already getting better tho. Bob & Wolf Bros playing at the Clean Energy Inaugural Ball tonight: https://relix.com/news/detail/bob-weir-wolf-bros-michael-franti-and-mor…

Cheeto's now a hot potato – nobody wants him 'cept for a few 'losers' and 'suckers'. He's not even welcome in his new hometown in Florida tonight . . .

Onward.

I was there for the first and second shows. Well played. Brent was playing in peak form then all of a sudden he was gone. Been a while since revsiting those recordings. The venue was brand new and kind of sucky. The pavilion was like the band playing inside a hollowed out skyscraper with terrible acoustics. The show's were good though. T

The next shows I caught after those were Compton Terrace the following December. The second night of that was pretty darn good too with Bruce onboard.

Incidentally, I hope to never see or hear another cheeto....if you know what I mean.... ;)

50 years ago today…………….

January 21, 1971
Freeborn Hall, University of California, Davis, California

Set 1: Cold Rain & Snow-Me & My Uncle-Smokestack Lightning-Truckin'-Dire Wolf-Hard To Handle-Sugar Magnolia (missing from circulating copies)-Black Peter (missing from circulating copies)-Mama Tried-Around & Around-Cumberland Blues-Casey Jones

Set 2: That's It For The Other One >Cosmic Charlie-China Cat Sunflower >I Know You Rider-Uncle John's Band (missing from circulating copies)

One of the great unknown shows of 1971. Oh, to be stuck between the end of 1970 and Port Chester! Considering the taping technology available at the time, the longer (but still not complete) circulating version is a “not bad” audience recording that is actually “somewhat listenable”. The highlights include the coupling of Smokestack Lightning and Truckin’ (with Pigpen blowing some harmonica on both—a very rare occurrence), a typically hot 1971 Hard To Handle, a strong (and rare-for-early 71) complete Cryptical/Other 1/Cryptical suite, nicely transitioning into the only Cosmic Charlie of 1971. Plus rare performances of Dire Wolf and Around & Around (both played only three times in 1971).

A short soundboard portion (Mama Tried-Around and Around-Cumberland Blues-Casey Jones) does circulate. Wonder what happened to the rest, is it hidden somewhere in the vault? Worth a quick listen………….

For a more detailed analysis, see
http://deadsources.blogspot.com/2012/07/january-21-1971-freeborn-hall-d…

OK, I don’t listen to it often, but I’m glad I have it…….

Rock on,

Doc
Patience is passion tamed

simonrob, thanks for the clue,
really hope so too: gone for good or so

1/21
1/22
1/24

yes

I've been listening to a lot of Garcia/Saunders lately and seems like many of the shows in the first half of 73 have a second guitarist. I know Tom Fogerty played with them sometimes. Was he the only one?

I really like his aggressive rhythm approach. His tone blended well and seemed to urge Garcia to be more muscular as well. Just curious if someone else played in there, as well. Historians?

I had my first cheeto in 20 years the other day, my teenage some brought some home. Nasty, can't get that damn orange stink of you for days.

Someone mentioned 10.1.94, that might be the best late show out there. 3.17.93 also good, any RFK show satisfies as well.

Nothings lasts. No man ever steps in the same river twice. Etc.

I’ve been on the bus and off the bus at various points in my life. Because people change, and life changes, and that’s how it is with buses: there’s always another one coming.

There was a time when I could just drop everything and drive 200 miles to see the Dead at the drop of a mushroom. Then life changed. Since then, I’ve gone through periods where I listened to the Dead quite often, and periods when I was mostly interested in other things. I’ve never been bored with them, but I have gone through times when I just didn’t have time. Especially since, for me, it’s all about full shows. I’ve never been all that interested in the studio recordings, and don’t even own some of ‘em, to be honest. And while a live comp like Europe 72 can be great in its way, there is nothing like hearing the full ebb and flow of a complete show. Which takes Time.

One good thing about 2020: I had time. “Working from home” means I can put on put on music while I’m “working,” and I can manage to listen to complete shows a couple times a week. Which brought me back on the bus in a big way.

This, too, shall pass, eventually. It’s predictable that, like the Fox said he done did, I will eventually shelve the Dead for a while and binge on Ornette Coleman or P-Funk or Bulgarian folk singers. Wouldn’t have it any other way. Because, isn’t music great?

Nicely put.

50 years ago today………….

January 22, 1971
Main Gym, Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon

Casey Jones-Beat It On Down The Line-It Hurts Me Too-Me and My Uncle-Cold Rain and Snow-Hard to Handle-Brokedown Palace-Johnny B. Goode-China Cat Sunflower> I Know You Rider

Benefit for the Eugene White Bird Clinic. Fifty years on, the clinic is still functioning. If you can, support their work………….

If you like sonic challenges, maybe this is the one for you. This looks like first set material, and all that commonly circulates. Is it even in the vault? Badly damaged/degraded soundboard, did somebody spill their electric kool-aid on it?

Attention, Chuck Berry fans. The first documented version of Johnny B Goode by the Dead was on 9/7/69, although that gig may not have been a full Grateful Dead band performance. Following that, it apparently was not performed again until this gig in 1971.

It appears that a big chunk of this show is missing, so hard to judge based on only what we have here. There are a few bright moments, but “sonic issues” make it a very difficult listen. Unless you’re a completist, you should probably skip this one…………………..

Rock on,

Doc
As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate

Sound quality isn't pristine, but you can hear and feel the good energy.

I would love love love for the 2nd set "to come up soon for air", so we can fill the air with it.

Probably one of the ones that got away. Sigh.

Just a week away from the official release and it still seems not a single person has so much as gotten a shipping notification, putting us again in the awkward spot of "let's hope it'll come by Friday...or sometime anyways". I can't wait to hear this show and all the bonus material on it as well but let's just hope that Dave's Picks 38 won't be treated the same way *knock on wood*. I need me that bonus disc :)

Hammerin Hank, may the 4 winds blow you safely home.

One of the greatest i ever saw...RIP Hank Aaron...Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Roberto Clemente...my all time faves and my personal Mt Rushmore of non Dodger players...

Just looked at my receipt for DaP subscription & in regard to vol. 37 it says it will be released on 1/29/21. Usually at least a couple of weeks before the release date, we get an announcement, the Dave video gushing about the release.... But thus far: nada.

Did I miss something here? Maybe an update on the release date? ...

Just curious or anxious about this release ... or both!

Nappy,I was a huge Dodger fan back in the 1960s. I used to listen to the Dodgers on KFI at nighttime when I was a kid, radio station came in later at night. Sandy Koufax was my favorite player, when he was at his best I think he was the greatest pitcher of all time.

HAGIZMO

Read the introductory comment. They are releasing the non-subscription sales on 29th January, this is a change from previous years. I’d expect the video introduction to come out then. Who knows when they’ll start shipping the subscription copies?

may the "44" winds blow you safely home

Aw man RIP Hank. Still the home run king in my book. Wish he didn't spend his twilight years knowing a cheater took away his mantle. After all of the crap he had to tolerate while breaking the record, he deserved better.

Did Will Farrell pass?
(couldn't let go of the Old School reference..)

....the internet is divided .
Love Hank.
Strange daze.

Cause of death has not been disclosed. Think of the internet as a multi-headed, multi-assed serpent when it come to truth or reality.

Just my opinion, I could be wrong. I do, very much, believe in the science and effectiveness of vaccines.

As for his cause of death.. give it two or three weeks and we will know. ...and the internet will still be divided.

I think it is the other way around. Subscribers (Dap 37) will be released on or before 1/29 and non-subscribers can order on the 29th and get them according to the mail service. Subscribers will get them first.

50 years ago today…………….

January 23, 1971
Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada CANCELLED SHOW

The exact circumstances of the cancellation remain unknown at this time. A handbill for the show does exist.

Rock on,

Doc
Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note

I think we agree. I said that the non-subscribers can order from 29 Jan and the opening message which I referenced does say that subscribers should see their orders first. My final, perhaps, poorly expressed sentence was to indicate that we don’t know when the shipping will start.

I’m getting a little stir crazy because we are not allowed to leave the house except for essential purposes so I might be less capable of people interactions than usual. Stay well, stay safe and listen to lots of music.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qaP0QuW5KOw Garcia's slide playing was great on the Dead's cover of this song.

"It's so good... once it hits your lips it's so good..."

The methodology is described at the top of this page.

Exact dates not provided.