Grateful Dead

I was able to attend three shows over the years
12/something/84 Seattle
1993 Seattle and Portland

fun in person

repetitive set lists
How Sweet It Is etc.
and slow AF sometimes

I rarely listen to JGB. GD takes priority.

that said...

there is some JGB that I dig
Midnight Moonlight from 78?
5/8/84!!!!!!!!!! now THAT'S a show I would love to hear all cleaned up. I still have it on cassette

blah blah blah

GD is my BAE

back to work, Proudfoot.

beware the Brown Acid, people. Some would love to dose the entire country with it.

blah blah blah blah blah

For what it's worth, I get the impression that in the latter years the JGB was a hobby and the Dead a job. It must be strange singing songs that were written, sung and played when you were young, but which you are still expected to play with conviction when the moment may have passed.

Great dialogue here, but a tough situation.

You have to give Jerry some credit for creating quite the world he lived in. He helped create or created the Grateful Dead. The psychedelic Juggernaut of a band. He said in an interview that they were too powerful and in the next sentence he said he often sabotaged them I think in a reference to hiding from any commercial success.

But early on, just a few years after the GD was formed, he began his solo projects that became the JGB. In the later years this was the shit.. the GD were in decline but the Jerry Garcia Band was his refuge.

Listening to this all these years later, it's obvious` the GD was a bigger thing than the JGB ever became. But for brief moments in time JGB floated ever higher than the GD, perhaps simply because he soloed more and at ever just the slightest higher temperature. It did seem he enjoyed himself more without all the machinery that was the GD.

It's all subjective though. It's a double dose. We got them both, how lucky were to get two great bands out of one performer. And the kick, for the most part somebody pressed record just as the curtains were lifted.

Just a moment of reflection, as you were.

38 years ago tonight, I was having a great time at the BCT with the Good Old Grateful Dead. Fun show to end a fun run of shows. It also had a Cumberland.

....this pre-drumz second set goes on for a long, long time. Uncle Johns Band snuck up on me. Badass.
I got sick and missed this show. Ugh!!

I was at JGB on 10/31/92 and it was one of those shows that really stuck with you. For many years I kept seeking out reasonably good recordings, but it seemed to trade heavily in poorly pitched and muffled copies. This recording is beautiful, and the playing and soul shine so bright. This release is a jewel.

Yes, latter era Jerry side projects were good, but I think the "strong" periods of solo stuff match up with what I consider to be good Grateful Dead too. For my tastes, 1989, 1990, 1991 were strong on either side. 1973, 1974 same. And I saw many JGB shows at the Warfield that were not very energetic or strong in 92, 93, 94, etc.

....is here. And in it goes.
Got the WS on mute.
Edit. There has been a Cumberland sighting y'all!

I just got my DaP 44 today. I am listening to it now. Man I love Brent... Honestly the connection between him and Jerry had was and is so good. I am only on CD 1 so I have a lot listening to do, but I am liking what I am hearing. I really do think these summer 1990 shows were great. Maybe not quite on the level of Spring 1990, but I am not dismissing these shows either. I feel like the music is looser in the summer than in the spring in 1990. Now this is not a slight, just cool observation and one to which I have come to expect with the finest band in the land. I would definitely welcome more shows from this summer tour to be released. It sounds like Dave has this show's counterpart on his radar for future release, which would be nice.

I am heading to the MUATM this Saturday. Where I live, I am within a mile radius (walking or driving) of a large county park, groceries stores, restaurants, and the movie theater that is showing the Tivoli show. It is nice that all of this is so close. My wife I am are contemplating walking to the movie theater so we can engage in some fun activities pre show. I have been working on my wife's understating of the band and Pigpen is huge for me. So for her to see this version of the band on the big screen will be nice. I know we get 3 Pigpen tunes so that will be the icing on the cake as the expression goes.

UPDATE: I am editing my post for the typos I saw, there may be more that I miss. However I am also on CD3 now and I must say this is a mighty fine show.

....but God Of War Ragnarok comes out Wednesday.
Any gamers here?
Dave's out for delivery.

In Da House!!!