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    You can listen to Grateful Dead records over and over again and never understand the attraction they have for certain people until you attend one of their concerts. Sometime during the Dead's usual five-hour set, it will all click: Jerry Garcia's Indian bead string of notes on the guitar, the ozone ooze of the vocal harmonies, the shifting, shuffling rhythm of bassist Phil Lesh and drummer Bill Kreutzmann, and the distant echo of the oldest of American folk music. - Columbia Flier

    "Certain people" will know that we're coming in hot with one that's got all these things and more, DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 41: BALTIMORE CIVIC CENTER, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 5/26/77. Yes, there's still plenty of spectacular May '77 to go around. Nearly chosen for Dave's Picks Vol. 1, 5/26/77 delivers three-fold. There's one count for the energy - all the precision of the Spring tour conjuring up the raw power of the Fall tour that was to come. There's another for the setlist which featured beloved songs from WORKINGMAN'S DEAD and soon-to-be favorites from the freshly recorded TERRAPIN STATION. And a third for its element of surprise (or shall we say surprises) from an astonishingly peak 15-minute "Sugaree" to new delights ("Sunrise," "Passenger," "Jack-A-Roe') to a rare first-set finale of "Bertha" to the second set's "Terrapin>Estimated>Eyes," traveling leaps and bounds towards the improvisational journey that is a nearly 17-minute "Not Fade Away." 

    Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 41: BALTIMORE CIVIC CENTER, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 5/26/77 was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. Grab a copy while you can.

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  • #211
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    I don’t remember not listening to music. Mom was the music person I guess in our family. She owned records, she sang in the house and every morning the local AM station would be playing the top 40. Top 40 back then 60-62 ish would be a real mix of music. You would go from Johnny Horton to The Platters to Frank Sinatra to Peter, Paul and Mary. Radio didn’t/wasn’t so pigeon-holed then. Though when I moved to Texas a few years back I was surprised at the number of top 40 (regional?) songs I never heard and never made the playlist in the NYC market.
    We were young when Mom got us record players for Christmas, I was maybe 7. For the youth, record players were wood boxes that you took the lid off and there be a turntable, the front had a 4 inch speakers, driven by maybe 1.6 watts that when turned to 11 you could hear in your bedroom!
    My first records were “kids” records, they were the size of a 45, but had only a small hole in the middle and you played them at 78. The only one I remember was Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee from Pinocchio. All of these bit the dust when me and my brother threw them like Frisbees. Mom started getting up kid lps. Great songs, like on Top of Spaghetti and The Cat Came Back.
    Mom had old 78’s that I listened the shit of out until I was maybe 11. Had a good Al Jolson collection and a slew of pop hits from her day. Songs like The Coffee Song by Sinatra. Silver Threads Among the Gold (Crosby), Red Silk Stocking and Green Perfume (can’t remember), The Woody Woodpecker Song. It was a golden age!!! Records spinning away at 78 RPM with the constant hiss,,,,,, ahhh.
    When I turned 13 I got a REAL stereo for Christmas. TWO SEPARATE SPEAKERS!!! First two albums Mom gave were both live! Johnny Cash San Quintin and Ray Stevens Guitarzan – LIVE! First I bought Andy Williams greatest hits. I continued to buy, I like “greatest hits” albums because I generally knew most of the songs. Like Dylans greatest hits 1, the Peter, Paul and Mary one. I know I was a boring boy!
    First show, maybe the first live show was in 8th grade, the school took us to the local amphitheater and we saw the New Seekers (I like to teach the world to sing). First show I paid for was Andy Williams at the same venue.
    I was big into disco in the late 70’s, listened to the local “black” station out of NYC. WBLS (stereo in black),,,, night show hosted by Frankie Crocker. Opened his show with King Pleasure’s, Moody’s Mood for Love,,,, great cut!!!
    In 78 met my wife and we moved in together. She was a deadhead and more of a rock person. Learned a ton of new music from her.
    Now all these years later I have a collection that boost over 7,000 artist covering over 750,000 songs. All stuff I listen to, no. I really, really, really don’t like metal or punk. We won’t even talk about German metal! (my kid listened to that shit) ( I’m sorry was that judgemental?). I’m more like a Libarian,, I read all the books, but I keep them in order and make sure they’re complete and labled correctly. (I think that’s enough .) I have all my records (except for the yellow 78’s), I have all of Mom’s 78 (about 600 of them), I have about 20 feet of lps, about 16 banker boxes of cd’s. And yet my wife doesn’t believe the limited edition vinyl is a GREAT investment for our retirement! Oh what fools these mortals be.

    Sorry about the length, sorry if I’ve I covered this before, thanks Oro for the first show shout out, don’t know how you could remember what show I”VE been too  I have no real memories of first show,,,, it was all way to new to me.

    Extra sidebar,,, caught a tube vid of Billy and the Kids in Hawaii at Bill’s house. WOW, what a house, huh!!! Hard to believe any of the other guys have digs that nice!!!!

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    Vinyl LP Pricing

    I have about 150, maybe more, that I picked up as a kid from age 5 - 15. Bought a few recently and they all seem to produced on the 180 Gram vinyl, which is much heavier and sturdier than the flimsy stuff we used to get. That's a plus. The pricing seems comparable when inflation is considered. The inflation calculator I looked at places 1 dollar in 1980 at $3.44 today. The last LP I bought back then was Rush - Hold Your Fire. It has a $7.99 sticker on it. So the 5 LP Dave's Picks Vol. 1 that I pre-ordered would have cost $27.52 for each LP, for a total of $137.60. Dead.net only sold it for $99, so I suppose we're doing alright if the inflation calculator is correct.

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    Genesis 1973 - Days of the Underground

    The show I saw was the one that was recorded and released on a live album the following year. It had a dramatic start- Watcher of the Skies intro, and all you could see on the stage were Peter Gabriel's eyes, illuminated by florescent paint. Everything else was black. I remember thinking the gig had an Alice in Wonderland quality to it. It was a bit like the David Bowie show in a way- everyone sat rivetted watching the stage. It was my friends who really liked them - I tended more towards heavy rock, where everybody went nuts. Black Sabbath and Hawkwind were the ones for me. It was good - but not quite to my taste as much as the other bands I saw. I never saw Genesis again - although I carried on seeing Hawkwind up to 2019. God help me.

    Simonrob - I got a very strong sense in the early - mid 70's that I had arrived just as the party was ending. Which proved to be the case, unfortunately. Most of the bands I liked had released their best records by 1973. In fact, I think they all had.
    Although I really liked the punk records and gigs from summer 1976-1977, I really didn't like the emerging punk culture - everybody walking around with cropped hair, spitting at bands, looking for a fight with anyone who didn't conform to the new dictat. Bands that copied The Ramones - all a bit rubbish by the end of 1977.
    What I really liked - although I didn't recognise it at the time - was rock n' roll. It was there, hidden in plain site in the music of both the heavy rock bands of the early 70s and the punk ones from 1976-77.

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    Quiet music

    Anyone got any suggestions for quiet early morning music? Gorecki's 3rd, Labradford- Fixed Content, Mark Hollis -ST, Larmousse, that sort of thing. Stuff that won't wake anyone else up 🙂. I'm one of those appalling larks, up at 4.30, I love the early day.

    Thanks.

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    The first band I ever saw…

    The first band I ever saw were Genesis at our local venue for 2nd string artists in autumn/fall ( take your pick 😀) 1972. I remember that I didn't much care for the music, still don't, and that the singer dressd up. I was 13 and these were warm up gigs for the next night at the Lyceum I believe, about 40 miles west of here. Alice Cooper, Bowie, Roxy Music, Stones, Zeppelin etc were much more my thing then. I met a friend in 1974 (he sold me my first acid on my 15th birthday) who turned me on to the Dead and I reciprocated by getting him into my stuff. Europe 72 was my first Dead album.

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    So long ago.

    The first song that made a big impression on me was "Apache" by The Shadows in 1960 when I was 7. After that it was the Beatles in 1962. I guess things really got serious around 1969 when the San Francisco sound became readily accessible in record shops and on the radio thanks to Radio Luxemburg (208m medium wave). BBC radio got in on the act with the John Peel show. Unfortunately by the mid 70s it was as good as finished with few new bands of any note coming to the fore. Disco, punk, new romantics etc. were never interesting to me and my circle of friends and British progressive music became so self-indulgent as to be virtually unlistenable. Of course there were still points of light in the darkness but the golden age of music had sadly passed into history.

    PS: First time I saw Genesis was at the Reading Festival in 1972.

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    You saw Genesis in '73? I was 9 when Abacab came out, and then came the Phil Collins tidal wave. I only ever heard two songs on FM radio from Gabriel Genesis in those days: Watcher of the Skies and Lamb Lies Down. In my early 20s I began buying up the Genesis back catalogue, as an extention of my taste for prog rock. I thought Supper's Ready was magnificent, and still play it regularly.

    I've seen a lot of youtube footage from '71 - '73. There's a great show from the Rainbow. That must have been a transcending show. And to see Gabriel's on-stage persona in his prime. Wow wow wow wow wow.

    Would love to hear about that experience. I may go see Steve Hackett - he's going on tour to play Seconds Out. I may see if that fits into my schedule.

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    Alright Manchester - lets go!

    My first gigs were when I was 15, in 1972. They were T.Rex in the summer - at which there was a riot of teenage girls who temporarily stopped the show. Then David Bowie in the December. This was at a venue called "The Hardrock", and it featured what they referred to as "festival seating". This meant everyone sat on the concrete floor in as close a proximity to the lotus position as they could manage. Everyone stayed down, too. Older people at this one than T.Rex.

    1973 things gathered pace - I saw Hawkwind, Black Sabbath, Genesis, Uriah Heep and The Rolling Stones.

    Records were really important too, of course- and going to record shops. Which could account for why I still like vinyl today over other formats.
    And television-I never saw Alice Cooper live - but I saw a film of them on the Old Grey Whistle Test, and in summer 1972 he had the big hit - "School's Out"
    And the music press-the N.M.E being the fount of all knowledge. Iggy and the Stooges didn't have a record out in 1972, and they only played one gig in England - in London, which I didn't go to. But it was well written up and photographed, so that it assumed mythic proportions. I snapped up their first album from the bargain bins - and "Raw Power" the day it came out in 1973. When Iggy Pop finally came to the these shores, in 1977, it was like a visit from the Messiah. Unfortunately, The Stooges were no more- David Bowie played keyboards, and people in the audience flocked to his side of the stage to watch him rather than the Ig.
    But those years 1972 - 1973, when I was 15-16, were magical times.

  • #219
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    The new Red Hot Chili Peppers record is fun....

    ....as you were.
    I discovered music when I was 12.
    The year was 1980. Ergo, my influences. Started with The Beatles.
    Then new wave and heavy metal.
    Used to make fun of Duran Duran back then. High school cliq shit.
    Now, I realize they kick ass.
    Headbangers Ball anyone? MTv Gen here.
    Music is indeed the best Mr. Ones.
    Edit. The Scorpions are doing a residency here. They also put out a record recently. It's pretty good.

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    First, it's the drummers...

    All Spinal Tap kidding aside, the drummers are always the first to go. Keith Moon. John Bonham. Ginger did outlast Jack, but not by much. Of late, Taylor Hawkins... Charlie was preceded by Brian Jones but that was lifetimes ago. Joey Kramer has bowed out of the upcoming Aerosmith Vegas residency, and Peter Criss could never play 90 minutes with KISS again. Let us not forget Neil Peart, Nick Menza... the list is endless. Lars won't be able to play like he does now in 20 years - maybe ten. Metallica will reinvent themselves.

    I am excited to catch the D&C shows again as Summer tour arrives. Without Billy. Will he ever return? Does it matter? Not to discount him - I love the man, and to me the best and tightest the band ever was was when he singularly owned the drum chair. But the show must go on.

    I love Dead & Co. Yes the tempos are leaden, but my god Wolf Bros. makes D&C sound like Ministry on methamphetamine. Someone tell Bob to stop dumping a bottle of Log Cabin over his fretboard before taking the stage. John Mayer, Oteil and Chimenti are so goddamn good. Bobby hangs his hat on them and it all meshes beautifully. Last summer at Red Rocks, Jay Lane ably took up for Kreutzmann and you could hardly tell, except there wasn't any coke on the side cymbal (heh-heh).

    The vibe at D&C shows is so goddamn good... all across the country. I have had some of the best times in the parking lots, Shakedown Street and in the venues with like minded brothers and sisters who carry the spirit of the Dead onward.

    I had to stick up for them. Be well everyone.

    \m/

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You can listen to Grateful Dead records over and over again and never understand the attraction they have for certain people until you attend one of their concerts. Sometime during the Dead's usual five-hour set, it will all click: Jerry Garcia's Indian bead string of notes on the guitar, the ozone ooze of the vocal harmonies, the shifting, shuffling rhythm of bassist Phil Lesh and drummer Bill Kreutzmann, and the distant echo of the oldest of American folk music. - Columbia Flier

"Certain people" will know that we're coming in hot with one that's got all these things and more, DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 41: BALTIMORE CIVIC CENTER, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 5/26/77. Yes, there's still plenty of spectacular May '77 to go around. Nearly chosen for Dave's Picks Vol. 1, 5/26/77 delivers three-fold. There's one count for the energy - all the precision of the Spring tour conjuring up the raw power of the Fall tour that was to come. There's another for the setlist which featured beloved songs from WORKINGMAN'S DEAD and soon-to-be favorites from the freshly recorded TERRAPIN STATION. And a third for its element of surprise (or shall we say surprises) from an astonishingly peak 15-minute "Sugaree" to new delights ("Sunrise," "Passenger," "Jack-A-Roe') to a rare first-set finale of "Bertha" to the second set's "Terrapin>Estimated>Eyes," traveling leaps and bounds towards the improvisational journey that is a nearly 17-minute "Not Fade Away." 

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 41: BALTIMORE CIVIC CENTER, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 5/26/77 was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. Grab a copy while you can.

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Submitted by PT Barnum on Sat, 03/19/2022 - 11:19

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saw it on facebook, so cool, a 55 min. Alligator>feedback indeed.

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Submitted by daverock on Sat, 03/19/2022 - 11:38

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It always feels a bit barren to me, this time of year, due to them announcing two Dave's Picks at the same time at the end of each year to whip up a bit of interest. I can't remember when the last box came out - but I am guessing October, so if we follow the same pattern, there will be a bit of a wait before that is announced too.

A 66-68 box tickles my fancy. I seem to remember Jerry Garcia saying somewhere that they became the Grateful Dead at the acid tests. But it doesn't sound like it to me. To me they only really became The Dead in Fall 1967. What's in a name - I agree it would be great to hear their evolution during these years in one box.

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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Sat, 03/19/2022 - 12:10

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A 1968 box would be very cool. I wonder what the dates are. I have a nice poster with the Dead & Charlie Musslewhite from 5/30, 31 & 6/1. 68 from the Carousel Ballroom, I wonder if it could be those shows. You can see the poster online, just type in Grateful Dead memorial 1968 poster. Hopefully they will include 10/12 /68 and any shows from the tour of the Great Northwest if its a 1968 box set. I also hope that the Charlie Musslewhite stuff gets released by O.S.F. If that was recorded. This is great news!

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Submitted by Crow Told Me on Sat, 03/19/2022 - 13:49

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Actually, I think St. Dilbert's Day is April 1. Today is St. Joseph's Day, now that I check.

(It's good that saints get days, isn't it. And it's nice, as I think Jim Gaffigan said, that saints get to be in charge of things. Like St. Patrick is in charge of Ireland. St. Joseph is in charge of aspirin. St. Vincent in charge of indie rock. Etc.)

But seriously, a previously unheard full set from June '68? Recorded by Owsley? Brethren and sistren, let us fall upon knees, burn ye the sacred herbs, and let us rejoice and sing and dance and ring in the new. This does not happen every day. I am beyond stoked.

Last five:

James Brandon Lewis: Jesup Wagon
Tom Harrel: Light On
GOGD: Anthem of the Sun
Wagner Overtures: Szell/Cleveland
King Crimson: THRAK

GD played Eagles Auditorium in early 68

Went to a play in Eagles Auditorium last evening

I'm sure there have been renovations in there since 68

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Submitted by snafu on Sat, 03/19/2022 - 15:43

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F Z has just released 2 vinyl 3 lps. An expanded Fillmore East and same wiTh Rainbow Theatre and 8 cd all 4 Fillmore shows. The vinyl is perfect. So far Joe Travers et al have done a fantastic job

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Submitted by Oroborous on Sat, 03/19/2022 - 15:44

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No, other one, big dude, took care of Jer, now believe it or not recognized as a modern philosopher on premium TV!
Check out the last episode of Billions on Show Time from 3/14. None other than the U.S. AG for the southern district of NY, played by none other than Pig Vomit himself (sorry Paul, that’s an honor that’s not going away) quotes Steve, while calling him a modern day philosopher!
At the thirty minute mark he quotes our beloved Mr Parrish and not just a one liner, it goes on for a bit!
Must viewing for any long time DH!
Congrats Big Steve, Showtime baby!

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Submitted by nappyrags on Sat, 03/19/2022 - 17:42

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Billy I have s a show I recorded off of my radio from the Long Beach Blues Festival. early 80's...Rod & the band kill it for a bit and then they welcome George to the stage to play...great stuff...I sent my cassettes to a buddy who has the equipment and the joy to get the best possible sounds out of things like this...he also did a Hollywood Fats Band show from the Monterey Jazz Festival for me...so good to hear this 40 (^#":##!!!) year old stuff sound this good....

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Submitted by JimInMD on Sun, 03/20/2022 - 06:13

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If I was front, center and (ahum, "centered") on one of the 68 brain roasters, I bet I would have pooped my diapers too.

The setlists were not always inventive but the playing was a explosive. ...And they played it loud to make sure the point got across. Can't wait for more 68. How does the song go, Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun? Bring it.

Whether we'll see the day that the OSF puts out a GD show, as opposed to them turning the '68 tape over to the GD vault. In either case, even were the organization to move "quickly," it's gonna take time. OSF has an April announcement for an upcoming June release. (I'm guessing its Dxxx Sxxx, but I actually have no idea.) So even if they bumped their own schedule to get this out, it'd be fall at best. As for Dave L. and M. Pinkus, I tremble to consider how they view a double-CD special release of a '68 show... In my dreams, I'd be checking my mailbox every day from now on. But when I woke up this morning I realized that moving that tape into production, with the two parties' plans already in place, might take an excruciatingly long time. ("Excruciating" being more than, say, 72 hours...) My only hope is the historical fact that, nine years ago, Lemiuex realized the uniqueness of that 4-18-70 acoustic tape that Mtn Grrrl returned and valued the surprise factor that could gin up excitement for a somewhat predictable (timing-wise) release schedule. According to Dave's liner notes for 4-18-70, Mtn Grrrl called in mid-2013 to say she had some reels of GD. Lemieux characterized that batch as "performances we'd never heard or even knew had been recorded." (Note the plural, "performances." More '70-'71 to come?) So , literally within months, Dave & Co. previewed the tapes and moved a single disc to market in November 2013 with the most unique thing he heard. Maybe our best bet is to have OSF cook up this little best-seller-in-waiting. If OSF tackles the job, the GD would be the "biggest" band they've done a release on besides the ABB. Perhaps the OSF's willingness to divulge their find (they typically do not discuss their vault holdings) bodes well for them or dead.net to release this show. No doubt they've discussed this find with Lemiuex & Co. prior to a public announcement. (I'll say this: I sponsored preservation of a single reel of a multi-reel NRPS show.) Does anyone know if the Rhino Records deal with the GD vault is for only what's produced from the GD vault or whether it covers any and all GD releases, period?

Hmm. It's not like I want to experience an Owsley tape of the band in June '68 or anything... And clearly, as I approach 65 this year, I have no concern that "maturity" is suddenly going to rear its ugly head.

Edit: Oh, and Vguy, thanks for the visual!

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David Bowie the man who sold the world
DB Space Oddity
DB young americans
Melvins Nude with Boots
Sex Pistols NMTBHTSP
DB ziggy stardust

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Submitted by proudfoot on Sun, 03/20/2022 - 09:52

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David Bowie"s best albums according to me

The Man who sold the world
Ziggy Stardust
Hunky Dory
"Heroes"
Scary Monsters
Low
Station to Station

Great single tracks
Diamond Dogs
Rebel Rebel
Watch that man
Jean Genie
John Im only dancing

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Submitted by icecrmcnkd on Sun, 03/20/2022 - 11:05

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In celebration of the OSF reels announcement.

2-24-68
2-23-68
2-14-68
10-20-68
3-17-68

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sun, 03/20/2022 - 11:41

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Pearl Jam - No Code
GOGD - 1.22.78 Eugene Dave's 23
Medeski Martin & Wood - Friday Afternoon In The Universe
Duran Duran - Notorious
Phish - 9.29.99 Pyramid, Memphis
Avatar changed to my classic acoustic. Calluses formed.

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Submitted by Oroborous on Sun, 03/20/2022 - 18:51

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So Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail, and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath.
This, according to Ms, Mary Poppins of Sussex England, made him…a super callused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis!
; )

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....is practicing past the pain.
Pretty much unanimous.
Also learned when not playing, use your thumbnail to press against the fingertips throughout the day.
Goal is to learn to play Brokedown Palace. 👌
Oro with the sublime joke.. I love it!! Good one dude.
But don't get me started with Mary Poppins. Early crush 😍
And the chimney sweeper dance scene is one of my earliest memories of media. Classic. My mom told me that Mary Poppins absolutely enthralled me as a six year old.

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Is learning how to tune the darn thing. Back in the 70's I can remember trying to do this with what was called tuning pipes - a model of little plastic tubes that sounded a bit like a bee farting when you blew into them-and nothing at all like the Spanish acoustic I also had at the time.

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Submitted by KeithFan2112 on Mon, 03/21/2022 - 05:18

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Vguy this is probably their most underrated album. Solid and diverse. Bought this one and its kick-ass follow-up the day they were released. Was lucky enough to score tickets for the No Code Tour at Randall's Island. This was the first tour since they became outrageously huge that they came anywhere near me. The whole Ticketmaster debacle was going on, so it wasn't easy. Resellers were asking $500 minimum. I don't know what kind of craziness they were expecting (probably the Woodstock '94 type), but there was a massive police presence there - at least 50 on horseback in a row and as many on foot. That was the show where you bought beer tickets at one booth, and then got in another line to redeem them. My cousin and I found a strip of maybe 20 laying on the ground. Ah the good 'ol days.

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Submitted by Colin Gould on Mon, 03/21/2022 - 06:52

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‘The Voltarol Years’ - Half Man Half Biscuit
‘Warfield Theatre Feb 2 1972 - ‘ JG and David Grisham
‘Live at The Other End Dec 1975’ - John Prine
‘In My Own Time’ - Karen Dalton
‘… but I’d rather be with you’ - Molly Tuttle
This is album of covers including a beautiful version of ‘Standing on the moon’. I could have filled the last 5 with Molly Tuttle since I’ve been watching as many YouTube clips as I can find. She is a stunningly good guitarist. Highly recommended.

But I can’t be mayor and senator ; )

Yep, the first days are the hardest fo sure. Can be truly painful.
Besides the calluses, I remember trying to learn bar chords being really uncomfortable.
The carrot to get me to do so was the promise of learning Hotel California.
My guitar teacher knew every kid back then wanted to learn that and a couple others, so used them to force us to torture ourselves making our hands do things they didn’t want to lol.
But it worked!

i have those bonus discs I would be happy to burn WAV files on data discs for you. If Road Trips discs weren't so rare/pricey I would trade them.

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Submitted by KeithFan2112 on Tue, 03/22/2022 - 05:45

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Does anyone else have shows you listen to sparingly, so that it doesn't lose the magic? I have a few:

Winterland 1973 Box Set
DaP 13
DP 12
DP 8
3/23/75 Blues For Allah performance from the Beyond Description bonus disc.
Crimson White & Indigo

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Submitted by proudfoot on Tue, 03/22/2022 - 07:20

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I keep hoping it will be released, but that doesn't seem to be in the cards.

I have had it in my on-deck circle for months. It really needs full attention.

one of these days....

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Submitted by hendrixfreak on Tue, 03/22/2022 - 07:27

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but every release gets only one listen, then it goes on the shelf. Especially shows I attended, where some memory nodule gets nudged and I recall a detail from the show experience.

That way, every single show is pretty darn fresh by the time, months or years later, I select it for re-listening.

I also like following someone's suggestion not to keep checking the setlist as I listen; let the sequencing be a surprise. Just pssst on the vaporizer, sip that beverage and melt into the couch, unless I absolutely must get the flaming high-heeled boots out of the secret closet and dance around to the cat's utter dismay. Rinse and repeat.

Looking over my top shelf just now -- 1965-1976 is upstairs, 1977 to 1995 is downstairs -- it looks like I'll have to quit work and go on a permanent road trip to get caught up. Dang, though, it's hard to drive the pickup with those flaming boots on.....

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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Tue, 03/22/2022 - 07:29

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I have shows that I listen to constantly, because they are so good. 2/27/69, 3/1/69, 5/2/70 , 5/15/70, 2/14/68 , 8/13/75, just to name a few. That Blues for Allah performance is fantastic, I saw the Dead do Blues for Allah at Winterland, on 6/17/75, hopefully that show will be released soon.

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Submitted by Oroborous on Tue, 03/22/2022 - 07:40

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A musician AND a comedian!
New kinda smoked meat!

6/17/75: you’d think that would be the Blues For Allah 50th Bonus show, but with Dave, who knows?

...interesting topic, KF.
I am more of a 'gimme what I want when I want it' kind of guy, what with the archive and all; it's all literally right there, very little effort required other than an inspiration. And since I have the archive available on the house-wide Sonos, it's literally scrolling through to find a gem with the flick of a finger and in a moment's time it's booming out everywhere. I just got a Sonos Sub (half-off $$ from a relative who works there) and man OH man does that thing pump Phil out like nobody's business (I digress).
All of this to say that in fact, I have the opposite hankerings - as others have mentioned - more of the 'go-to-shows' to fit that inspiration or other mood that may strike me. One example of a show that just makes me happy big-time is 4/27/85 (The Frost) or of course 6/11/76. I also find myself gravitating often toward Spring 90, as well as peAk Bruce, '91 to early '92.

The one show I suppose I won't listen to.... is the one that is not in the vault.

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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Tue, 03/22/2022 - 09:51

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I was there, great show, Frost Box : 10/9, 10/82 & 4/27, 28/85. Garcia's voice is a Little rough on the 85 shows but all 4 of those shows are a knockout and would make a great box set combined, the 4 best shows at the Frost.

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Tue, 03/22/2022 - 10:16

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....to take care of each others gardens.
This means Roger Waters Robert's Plants and Robert Plant Waters Roger Water's Plants.

You were AT 6-17-75, a true gem! I've told this story before, but that fall an old friend showed up from California with a large reel of tape, said we had to hear it. So we found a reel-to-reel player that would do the trick and I hooked up my cassette deck and we heard Blues for Allah for the first time from a glorious audience tape of 6-17-75. So that became a huge tape for us when we'd been starving for new GD since they "retired." (I.e., shed the Wall, Heard, and other staff and costs.) I'm too old to get the jealousy gene going, but like Oro I'd sure like 6-17-75 with the BfA 50th and I don't wanna wait til 2025 for the freakin' thing.

Still wondering what's up Dave's sleeve for 2022. I guess we can count on WotF + for next year. I do hope Dave drops the Watkins Glen soundcheck on us. That's a two-disc 130 minutes. Don't cut it up!! I still easily recall laying on my sleeping bag right in front of Jerry maybe 20-30 yds away, a cool gallon jug of water for a pillow, snorting mescaline and smoking Numero Uno as the GD blasted away. A pretty unique situation for a Dead show. The next day got a little crowded.....

And Vguy -- are you going for Comedy Gold or are you learning the guitar?? Uh oh, maybe you'll do both, as Oro suggests.

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Submitted by daverock on Tue, 03/22/2022 - 12:00

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I'm more likely to just listen to the parts I like out of specific shows now rather than the whole lot. I've been, listening to the shows from Europe 1972 again recently, and I am picking and choosing. I am not going to listen to every note from every show. Sometimes - Rocking the Rhein I am.

Shows I play most tend to be the ones I have on vinyl 11/10/67, 2/27/69, 2/28/69, 3/1/69, 5/2/70. With those shows the highlights are...all of it. Though I may miss the acoustic set from time to time on 5/2/70. Paris 5/3/72 and Spectrum 9/21/72 will get played several times a year for some time to come too I suspect.

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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Tue, 03/22/2022 - 12:18

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Like you, the Crazy Fingers is my favorite version.

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Submitted by PT Barnum on Tue, 03/22/2022 - 12:40

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The Police - Message in a box, the complete recordings
Sting - The Soul Cages
Gov. Mule - Live in Ft. Lauderdale
Moody Blues - Long Distance Voyager
GOGD - October 9th and 10th 1980 Acoustic Sets

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Submitted by 1stshow70878 on Tue, 03/22/2022 - 12:57

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Jerry's 80th birthday is being celebrated with songs from Garcia done with the 65 piece Colorado Symphony and guests Melvin Seals, Jacklyn Labranch, Dave Schools, Tom Hamilton, and Duane Trucks. Limited pre-sale tickets available March 24th only from 10AM-10PM MT from redrocksonlinedotcom. My notice came from the Jerry Garcia Newsletter which I'm getting because I ordered some Jerry CDs from The Family I guess. That would be fun but I'm committed elsewhere that week. Maybe we'll get reports on it from Oro or HF, our Denver gurus. Have fun y'all!
Cheers

....to Iron Maiden's Number Of The Beast. I was twelve when that bad ass record came out and it literally changed my life.
Last One. That One.
Still holds the fuck up 🤟
Mom & Dad were skeptical, but let me purchase it at Tower Records with my allowance.
See, I turned out pretty much ok.

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Submitted by KeithFan2112 on Tue, 03/22/2022 - 22:47

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Vguy, your Number of the Beast comment got me thinking. I was more into classic rock in the 80s than hard rock and heavy metal. As it were, I was at the mall with friends and walked into the CD store with the aim finding something I had not heard before. I was a big Yes fan and had been telling myself for years that I should try a Peter Gabriel Genesis album. The only songs I knew were The Lamb and Watcher of the Skies. Well, Foxtrot had Watcher, as well as this 22 minute diddy called Supper's Ready. An album side track was certainly progressive-rock enough to earn its spot at the cash register. My buddy came up with some choices, and one was Iron Maiden, who I'd never heard a lick of. They were already legends (it was Spring 1993 at the time), and my buddy said it was one of their best.

So those were the two I took home that day on a warm breezy day in MD. It was odd pair because I had unwittingly ended up with two completely different visions of the Apocalypse, both referencing 666 and the Beast. I have over 400 albums and CDs (not including the Dead) and as far as I am aware these are the only two songs with 666 in them. It's too bad that classic Genesis lineup never reunited.

Aphrodite's Child had an album called 666-released 1972 - but it didn't have a track with that name on it.

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Submitted by nappyrags on Wed, 03/23/2022 - 05:27

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I meant to post this yesterday but I was a little under the weather due to GI issues...anyway it was 53 years ago yesterday that I went to The Rose Palace in Pasadena to see headliners The Butterfield Blues Band (The "Keep On Moving" line up)...2nd billed, Grateful Dead and opening was a new group from England called Jethro Tull...it was $4...had a chance to buy a poster for the show 30 years ago or so for a $120 but I passed...now the durn thing goes for about $1,200 if you can find it....

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