Grateful Dead

Brand X live…bet that was sweeett!

77 overkill: I know that’s my feeling. I mean I’ve enjoyed every great 77 show they have given us, (especially shhhwiiinnngg!) and I’m sure I’ll dig these 2 hot rods, but there’s so much awesome other stuff out there still and only so many releases left….
Hey, some folks are happy smoking the same brand of weed and beer day in and day out, some folks like to mix it up…
It’s all good, chever way your pleasure tends…
I think 25k is just the right number: they all still sell out eventually, but notice we haven’t heard anyone bummed that they missed out because it sold too quick.

PT, thanks for the intel! Lol, BITD I they were never around long enough to go bad!
I believe she said they were dried when she got them, so good news!
Think some “retired” folks might try a little bitty stem together and go play in the snow! Weeeeeeeee

Speaking of, shoveled yet another six inches (more up on top) over here on the western slope VGUY. We’re actually considered not in drought for the first time in…? course it’s still early so hopefully we’ll get more including the big dumps like we used to get in the spring 🤞

Mikey, how’s it going eh!
My Goodness what dicks: “ok, your not dead so we can sack ya now” Fuck Off greed heads!
Talk about a string of luck! Kinda like the Leafs ; ) teasing of course!

And Dennis, sorry to hear old sport. Just like the pranksters say “nothing lasts” and I will add “especially if it’s something you like” yaassss those old golden handcuffs are hard to shake! Good luck going forward…forward, never straight!

Yaasss, dug m/o GarciaLive 18 again last night, can’t get enough of jazzy Jer!
Proceeded by
2/19/73 second set
1/24/71
Fog Hat: Fool for the City
Croz: If I could Only Remember my name
Nora Jones: Till We Meet Again
P/o Charlie Hunter: Songs From the Analog Playground
P/o Laughing Bones 4/2/06
M/o GarciaLive 18

Have had no tune time lately, so nice to catch up.
Today will be dedicated to tunage!
ONWARD!

At least for me, I think I am simply trying to gauge it's popularity and am surprised when everyone else's likes or dislikes don't line up with mine. Which is silly really. If this site should teach me anything it's that there's room for all.
And in birding news there's a Sharp Shinned Hawk outside my window looking for breakfast at my feeders. This girl is a proven predator. Doves beware!
Cheers

Can anyone explain why it matters whether the item sells out? With any limited release it will eventually do so. If you want it you buy it and it doesn’t matter if it sells out. If you don’t want then you don’t buy it and why would you care if it sells out.

I can think of two reasons why you might care:

1. You haven’t got the money at the moment but will have shortly. In this case you don’t want it sell out quickly, but if your cash flow is that critical perhaps you shouldn’t be buying discs. You have known for several months when the release date was and could have saved enough to have it available when needed.

2. You have bought the item and you hope to make a profit by reselling it. In this case you are gambling on a future outcome. You win some and you lose some, this might be seen as capitalism in action.

25000 appears to allow enough leeway to allow everyone to get a copy if they want it. Presumably if they don’t sell so many the PTB will reduce the number they produce.

I’ll keep subscribing as long as they are issued, unless I run out of spare cash or stop breathing.

Dried shrooms will last quite a while. I still have some from the nineties that still look ok. Fresh, if not consumed or dried quickly, they will spoil and put off a rather pungent odor like rotting flesh. Even in the refrigerator, they will only last about a week to 10 days, then they will rot.
Peter Gabriel, what can you say about this man, his concerts are unbelievable, such a production. Incredible.
Saw him twice in the 90's, once in 93 inside in an auditorium and the second time was at Woodstock 94.
The inside show at the orena in Orlando was as close to perfect as it can get. The show opens with a moody little instrumental piece and then it turns into Come talk to me, with Peter rising up from under the stage in a phone booth, he's singing and starts to pull on the phone cord, it pulls and he pulls and tugs and drags the phone line out of the booth down this long ramp that juts out into the audience, he pulls and tugs and yanks that phone cord till he's at the very end of the ramp, which is right in front of where we were sitting, he is now almost in our faces and the phone cord starts to pull back, as the song is finishing, the cord drags him all the way back, slowly, into the booth. And that was the first song. There were so many props that came up, a giant tree with many limbs rises out of the stage, and Peter and Paula cling to its branches while singing Shaking the Tree. During Steam Peter walks right down that ramp and once again he is in our faces, almost right in front of us. At the end, a briefcase is brought out from behind the stage, as the show is ending each band member walks to the briefcase, opens it and jumps in, disappearing into the briefcase. The absolute pinnacle of the show was Secret World, as the song played, a giant screen above the band began to rotate, spinning slowly at first, gathering steam and spinning fast. Then stopping as the song ends. Of all the shows that I have been to, this is definitely a top 5 show, if not top 3.
Peter will be on tour in Europe and England this spring, Daverock, if you get a chance, I highly recommend catching one of his shows it will blow your mind. There is a US tour in the works for after the European tour, I will be at one of these concerts if they are not too far away from me. It's been 20 years since he toured with a band outside of WOMAD.
Not a fan of Genesis, I have 3 sides live and it's not bad, just not what I listen to, so much to listen to, so little time, stereo going 16 hrs. a day pretty much now.
Last bunch of listens:
Mahogany Rush - Strange Universe
Jimi Hendrix - The Cry of Love
Robin Trower - For Earth Below
Randy California and Spirit - Future Games
Traffic - When the Eagle Flies
Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two
REO Speedwagon - REO T.W.O.
Peter Gabriel - Alive and Bumpin'
Peter Gabriel - OVO
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - 1997 Fillmore concerts live
Santana - Caravanservi
Santana - Borboletta
Jerry Garcia and Sanjay Mishra - Blue Incantation On Jan. 5th Jerry Garcia Music and Arts Label will release Front Street Outtakes which has Jerry and Sanjay outtakes from Blue Incantation
David Crosby - If I could only remember my name - It's all coming back to me now
Crosby Stills Nash and Young - 4 way street
so many others

Dennis - Sorry to hear your business is closing. I got “downsized” after 32 years at my job a few years back (the VERY day I returned after being off 8 months recovering from cancer and all that involves - real pricks) and finding comparable income at a certain age is impossible. I hope it works out good for you, Dennis. I’ve been the same lately with buying music, I’ve bought only two things this year, the new Dylan (arrived yesterday), and DaP 45.
On that note, some have wondered why DaP 45 has not sold out. All good reasons listed, but may I also add the international shipping rate is likely a factor. Not a complaint, it is what it is, that is the cost of things, but a charge of $16.99 shipping for a la carte items is just beyond what some folks may pay. I did not subscribe this year, it just outpriced me, I’ll just bite the shipping bullet on select items, but it is what it is.
Love the Genesis chat, and it seems everyone is a Gabriel fan. When we saw him, I’m thinking early 80s, me and my buddy were sitting right beside an entrance to the seating area in the arena he played at. My friend is loading up his pipe with some hash, just as the house lights go out. Being Gabriel, he and the band couldn’t just show up on stage from the wings, no, it had to be theatrical. A very bright light appears from the entrance beside us, a hand held light, very bright, and at different entrances around the arena. My friend thought it was some cops thing and freaked, and dropped/threw his pipe and all this great Lebanese hash! It was a member of the band making their entrance to the show, where they would walk to the stage holding this incredibly bright light skyward! (Gabriel is a genius theatrical performer). I laughed so phucing hard at my friend, he was so pissed!! (He did something similar at a football game we were at one time, too!) Genesis has a great catalogue of music, with Broadway and Seconds Out highly recommended.

I have ordered that Genesis, Mike.

Most comments seem to echo my feelings. Saw Pete during the "Plays Live" tour and the Bicycle tour. The man puts on a hell of show.

Always thought Pete was the brains behind Genesis, never thought they were as good after he left.

Got Bob Dylan's Bootleg 17 in cds tonight. The LP's are lined up for tomorrow.

Just for the record Mike, my buying MAY (?) slow down. The store I work in is closing the location I work at. I will be looking for something new, but first my wife says I need to do some work around the house. Current job will be hard to match. Not too many jobs you can do the amount of substances we do and still have a job :-).

and its sold out immediately.

....when I played some Genesis.
Whodathunk?
She thanks you guys for the recommendation.

Love the word definitive.

As for NOT.. I'm not saying the flooded the market with the 25k limited edition, but this in combination with the box set model of sandwiches of great shows surrounded by ok shows and take years to sell out. Well, they have released a mountain of material and it doesn't seem nearly as limited as the paychecks that keep it afloat. As much as I like '77, they seem to overly rely on it this time of the year. So here we are.

Keep in mind the stuff they do release is mostly mind-blowing stuff, I don't feel taken or anything. There might just be some saturation competing with shrinking paychecks.

Smithers, release the hounds (sorry, just love saying that)

As you were.

Sold out after 10 days either people have '77 burnout or TPTB hit the magic number at 25,000 copies. Remember when the first 2 years only 12,000 copies were made? How times have changed.
Genesis
Selling
Fox
Seconds
Lamb
Trick
Just pulled out GG Playing The Fool start tonight finish tomorrow.
E-A-G-L-E- S--EAGLES!!!!!!!!