Grateful Dead

Agree with Rogue and Led.. Caution!

My favorite of the Primal era show has to be 11/8/69 at the Fillmore Auditorium. To make a long story short.. graduating from college, poor and on my own was a shock to the system. I reacted with the silly inclination that I needed to pursue a career.. so off to work, grad school at night I went.. about the time Jerry really began to decline. And I had little time for GD.

Fast forward to my reemergence. Beyond From the Vault, Live Music Archive, Charlie Miller and the Dicks Picks series.. I took a hard tack and decided to work less and enjoy more. One day.. stoned beyond belief.. I put 11/8/69 on my iPod and started on a 14 mile road bike ride in the mountains here and that second set jam changed my outlook on life.

Rarely does a single moment do so much to change the trajectory of ones life.. that was about the time I decided to move out of lurker mode here and made my first post or two.. Prior to that.. I always thought you guys were much more informed and didn't think I had anything to add. That could still be true.. but it gave me the inspiration to at least start writing here.

To be clear.. I was really stoned and riding my bike on the roads with loud (as loud as it could go), lossless music on headphones no less.. what could possibly go wrong? That day everything went right. I love that show.. my favorite Primal Dead show, no offense FW 69, but there is 90+ minutes of music so urgent nothing could stop it.. ending with

Good Lovin'
Cumberland Blues
Dark Star
The Other One
Dark Star
Uncle John's Band Jam
Dark Star
St. Stephen
The Eleven
Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)
Feedback
And We Bid You Goodnight

Amazing stuff, the Caution in particular. I wouldn't say it changed my life.. it just solidified what I stumbled into 20 years prior. Get back home where you belong... Since then, my life has had much better balance. I still work hard and for a purpose. The purpose to allow for a better life. No more, no less.

https://archive.org/details/gd1969-11-08.sbd.wise.17433.shnf

One edit: Don't ride bikes with headphones!! but if you do, listen to life changing music at high volume while pleasantly mood enhanced, be careful and understand it is an assumed risk. Just my opinion I could be wrong.

Just one man's opinion, but I don't believe it was ever truly primal past the 60's, or without Ron. Peace. \m/

9/3/67

:)))

Yes

I'll see your Viola Lee Blues and raise you a Caution Jam. Bookends of 11/10/67 from 30 trips.

What about FW 69? Its the primal era, but would you call that specific run primal?

Would love some more early stuff.....fall 89 box would be good too, but with the Aoxomoxoa bonus disc presumably being a 68 show, and Working Mans with a 69 show, you’d think Dave’s been sniffin’ round in the old stuff?
It’s also been a while since they released something that old so....?

Just thought of something; if they seem to be releasing bonus shows from the year before the albums release, and Working mans and Beauty were both released in 1970, how will they handle that? Working Mans with a 69, Beauty with a 1970 since the next “Album” would be what W.O.T.F. from 73.
Wonder if they’ll do anything for E72, Live Dead etc? I know it’s supposed to be studio Albums but E72 was sorta like a studio album; many new songs, some not on Dead studio Albums, with some vocal sweetening redone in the studio etc...
Hell being 50th for Live Dead maybe that will tie into this years box?
Bring it! Whooo who Primal Dead!!
Viola Lee, one of my all time favs!

..to me emits that primal ooze. A swirling, molten, psychedelic eruption of sorts. 31 times played, the first on 03/12/66- Danish Center - Los Angeles, CA and the last on 10/31/70- Gym, S.U.N.Y. - Stony Brook, NY.

You guys are helping me make my next selection... :D

Good Box that Estimated from the July 4th show is truly special Wow - my box is numbered 6254 and I ordered it the first day of the presale...

Coincidence-I was listening to the 3rd cd of this when I checked in-only to see it referenced. A truly exceptional box set-an overview of much that was great in American music in the late 1960s and early 70s. Duane seems to be mostly revered for his playing in the live concerts recorded of The Allman Brothers - understandably so - but his session work, and playing on the two studio Allmans albums he played on, is also superb. Incredible tone on his solos-Goin' Down Slow and The Allman's Black Hearted Woman on this third cd of the box.

The vinyl edition looks as though it would be great....but so is the price, so I think I'll stick with the cds.

...I would consider some performances during the 70’s, concedering the so called, ‘Dead Sound”, of their recording. and the bands playing show a great amount of primal early Dead with a primo squeeze of new 70’s mixed in this release... I love it!!! ; )