Grateful Dead

Yo! Rockers!!!!

Set 1: Big River-Brown Eyed Women-Beat It On Down The Line-Scarlet Begonias-Black Throated Wind-Row Jimmy-Mexicali Blues-Deal-The Race Is On-Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo-El Paso-Ship Of Fools-Weather Report Suite>It Must Have Been The Roses

Intermission: Seastones

Set 2: U.S. Blues-Me And My Uncle-jam>China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider-Beer Barrel Polka-Truckin'>major jam>Wharf Rat-Sugar Magnolia

Encore: Eyes Of The World

A high school graduation present from my brother, my best friend and I attended the seastones show at Providence on June 26, 1974. Lightning in a bottle, life changing event. Don't really recall the seastones segment, but the rest of the show was a major mind boggle, especially the China/Rider, the big jam sequence, and of course, the super rare Eyes of The World encore. I had been to one Dead show previously (12/1/73), but Providence 74 was when and where I officially got on the bus.

Ten years before we chased Augusta 84, we chased Providence 74. And what a fun pursuit that was!!

Rock on!!!

Doc
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.....

They remind me of free festivals from the second half of the 70s - Deeply Vale, and maybe the least attended Glastonbury on record in 1978. Where I achieved the distinction of being busted. I can remember having one in Amsterdam once, and a mind blowing truffle at WOMAD in 1999. I never knew what was in these confections-but the effects were pretty hefty.

Never heard of goo balls on this side of the pond but a quick Google was revealing. So goo balls seem to be grain based snacks with added ganja. I have always thought that ganja is the prevalent form of cannabis in America whereas charas was predominant in my part of the world in the '70s. As such, charas was the magic ingredient added to space cakes rather than ganja. The cakes themselves were just standard bake-in-the-oven jobs. However one ingests their cannabis, the problem is knowing how much to consume and how much effect it will have. At Ally Pally I think I consumed one cake more than the optimum. My cat was a big fan of space cakes.

Anyone have a series 2 glass they’d be willing to swap for a brand new in package series 1 Dave’s picks glass?

I cannot believe they are only running 1000 of each. I want the full set and wish they’d just offer a subscription package with the glass or some other cool LE only for subscribers thing (yes the discs are great, but setting up my adulting bar, I need some cool bar wear to go with it and I just missed the series 2 due to poor internet connection)

Please let me know if you’re up for a swap I need series 2 and I’m crossing my fingers someone else has an extra series 2!

Thanks!!!
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Like Simonrob, I saw Seastones at one of the Ally Pally shows, at this distance in time I cant remember which 2 nights of the three I saw, but only one Seastones, so I was probably at the first night, and at a guess, night three. Unlike Simonrob, I really liked it.
Curious aside, I had a friend, Keith, who is no longer with us, swore he had a conversation with Banana, of the Youngbloods, backstage... Keith and another friend Paul, also no longer with us, were also at the last shows before the hiatus, I used to have his ticket stubb with ' the last one' printed on it. Paul moved to Israel and founded(?) the Israeli bluegrass scene, played a great deal with Grisman on his sojurns in the country. RIP both old pals.

Lonnie Smith: in my opinion his best material is on Blue Note. Afrodesia is a mixed bag ,some good some less so, we are getting pretty close to disco here. And he has a very curious singing voice, an aquired taste...but then again this is Dead Net, weve got Phil, so maybe you have a high tolerance of , shall we say, less than stella vocals.
I have never been able to get through an album by Lonnie Liston Smith, but if you are so inclined I understand his best records are on Flying Dutchman records.

Mr. 1's =

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funny about album you mentioned Martin Denny has a album called afro-desia.

....is that the 70's equivalent of 90's goo balls? If so, I'll take three. I have cash money.

I was on the road in '74 and had to leave San Francisco in the 2nd week of Sept '74 to get home for school. So I missed Seatones shows and, yes, the "last 5 nights." So close, but no cigar. And, based on the tapes I've heard, I did not miss out when it came to Seastones. The '74 version of "Eyes"? Yes. But not Seastones.

Perhaps an acquired taste, like Ouzo? (Got a story there.....)

Guilty as charged. I saw Seastones performed at Ally Pally in London, September 1974. They played three nights and I think Seastones was performed at the second and last shows. I have no idea which of those two nights was graced with my presence but I did witness Ned and Phil in action between sets. I was totally unimpressed by their electronic noodling. A compilation of the three shows was released as Dick's Picks Volume Seven. I have previously documented my subsequent efforts to get home after the show on here so I won't return to that now. I blame the space cakes.

(humans and animals/insects/etc. coexist in a society where the animals have human bodies but animal/insect heads...just go with it...)

In an episode last night, a stagehand with a goat's head is wearing a goat skull steal your face Tshirt that reads "Goatful Dead"