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The buyers remorse will wane, but the Dark Star will remain.

....I like it! 4.20.84 is a very nice show. Even with a Day Job encore. Bruford is mesmerizing.

Illustrated Trips book is fantastic. Amazing pictures, facts, etc. Great timeline through the years tour by tour, day by day in some cases. It's kind of a bible of sorts to me being that my Deadbase is online only & I don't know how to use it all that well. Illustrated Trips is a must own. Crimson. I bought tickets in 1984 to see them on the Pier in Manhattan. They blew my mind completely. I was expecting the mellotron driven 70's era sound. I owned the 69 LP with the cover of all covers and the young persons guide LP. I had no idea the 80's version was a completely different band. Like the Talking Heads on angel dust. Actually they are very hard to describe but Vegas Knights guy nailed it. Funny how Belew rocks the Pee Wee Herman look. I usually hate electronic drums but not when Bill Bruford is on them. He is hands down one of the best drummers of any era. What a refreshing band to find at the time when all I listened to was 60's 70's and a bit early 80's rock off the radio station. I had no idea such radical stuff was going on. Of course they ceased to exist a couple months later but then I discovered Live Grateful Dead and the great American underground indie rock scene of the Meat Puppets, Replacements, etc Last night the NBA put me right to sleep

The Earth is Life. The Grateful Dead is Love. 4/20/84 Good Show. Over time RSD to release all four Fillmore '69 shows yes! Thank Allah.

....after watching that King Crimson video last night, I proceeded to auto play youtube videos of them. Stayed up waaaaay past my bedtime then fell asleep in my chair. Woke up at 3 am with a sore neck. All your fault Jim!....

What have we seen from the returned tapes from 76. Is this year the year we see a 76 box set to go with the returned 77 and 78 boxes. I don't know why 76 gets a bad rap. I think it is a year we have not seen the best of. 7-18-76 is just a monster show as well as 8-4-76. Those june and july shows are very underated.

Yes Yes YES. This is a great show for sure. The Scarlet > Fire is off the hook and hits multi- peaks. Worth a listen for that right there alone. I shall plan to cue this up for my 4/20 listening later today. Also VGuy very glad to see that Schumer article too. Although where we are it's not an issue, even less so for you (aka totally available and legal; we have only to wait until July and you'll find me waiting in that long line too....) Happy Day DeadFreaks Sixtus

For those interested the RSD Fillmore show IS widely available immediately from many stores through Ebay. I don't have the time tomorrow to get to the local store and it is too far for me to spend a weekend morning driving to Northampton to come up empty, since last time there was a line of heads out the door and people walking around with armfuls of all the best stuff, somewhat frustrating. I had to pay double what it will cost in store I would imagine, cheapest I could find was 140$. I already have buyers remorse but oh well, don't tell the wife!

From RSD website: "The Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA 2/27/69 show, along with 3 others from the same year was released in the limited edition CD boxed set, The Complete Fillmore West 1969 in November 2005. The box, which was limited to only 10,000 units sold out quickly and the coveted shows have been unavailable physically ever since. We plan to release all 4 shows on vinyl over the next 4 years. This will be a Limited Edition, 4 LP (8th side etching,) on 180 gram vinyl."

First, a very merry 4.20 to all, tonight's celebration will be with Deadgrass, performing in a little college town just across the river... Thanks LedDed, I think, dangerous stuff for anyone with G.A.S. and $20+K to spare. Not me but I had to look and without a drool cup... gorgeous instrument. Mayer is nailing it. Long admired two PRS players, Carlos and the other JM, McLaughlin. Went to see that John last fall at The Egg/Albany on his farewell tour, still blazing fast... he was on at least 2 maybe three different PRS's... Then had a great PRS experience in December, a house concert over in New Hamster. Maybe thirty people gathered to hear Tony McManus in a living room. Sat five feet away from a world class player and his exquisite guitar... as house concerts offer unique opportunities, hung out afterwards with host friend Dan, sipping a reserve cask Talisker, talking music with Tony. He offered the guitar to play... right, yeah, sure... after two hours of great talent, I noodled for two minutes. What a guitar... like the below, except on steroids, custom one off job. http://www.prsguitars.com/index.php/acoustics/privatestock/private_stoc… http://www.tonymcmanus.com/?page_id=197