Grateful Dead

priceless

9/26/81

I recently said the 2nd set feels a bit underdeveloped (e.g., pre-drums is energetic, but needs just a liiiittle more material, and NFA feels short)

but...Morning Dew is magnificent. I felt about 14 different emotions listening to it on the way home yesterday.

as the protagonist in the GD movie (John?) sez: "Grateful Dead forever"

Awhile back I was playing a jam mix that somebody have made on YouTube on my surround sound system, sometime on a weekend I guess with it turned up really loudly. Lo and behold the seven came on, and I recall thinking it was part of a dark star or something that I've never heard before. I went into the family room to see what it actually was, and it was that September 29th 1969 version. I think I have the date right on that. I'm driving and I can't check but it was the longer one that I posted over the weekend. The audio isn't terrific, but it gets the job done. It is a little bit of a mystery why they dropped it, but they dropped a lot of good songs over the years. When your band is that good you can get away with it. It is a little bit one-dimensional, so playing it for 8 or 9 minutes probably isnt optimal, but you would have thought that it would have showed up in some of their other jams for two or three minutes at a time. If I had to guess, I'd say they just forgot about it. We hang on every note of every concert as if they knew exactly what they wanted, but I think they sometimes just wung it without much thought or preparation, and without looking back . I can just imagine them in Bobby's studio in 1975 saying, hey does anyone remember how the seven went? No? Well fuck it, I suppose we could look for the tape . Does anyone remember when we played it? No ? Okay well we'll just throw the 11 Jam on the end of trucking instead. Referring of course to Lindley Meadows.

Sorry about the spelling, I'm talking into my phone to write this.

You guys got me checking it out winterland 1973 again. I forget who recorded this but sounds awesome.

Jimbo - I'd like to borrow the Wayback machine and follow the dad for 10 or 15 years. Maybe even whack ramrod over the head and take his spot. Oi! Maybe I can take Keith spot. I'd have to learn the piano first. That would take years of Groundhog Day like repetition. Nah, what am I talking about. I don't want to alter the music. I just want to hang on every note of every song that I know they're going to play as they play it live.

Is there a better 1972 version of The Other One than the Hundred Year Hall? I came late to the show. 4u long-timers, just how awesome was it when they released hundred-year Hall, ladies and gentlemen, and Rockin the rhein? Was there general knowledge at the time that the entire Europe 72 tour have been preserved on Multi track tapes? In hindsight, it's a little bit curious that it took until 2011 to finally release at all. Especially when you consider that one from the Vault came out in what 91?

This week I'm giving a listen to a couple picks not normally as high in my rotation, 19 Honolulu and 24 Berkeley. I've only listened to discs 1 and some of 2 so far for each. But what I've heard has been very good, and sounds great. How about the set opening China>Rider and a set list that includes the entire Other One suite AND Dark Star on 19?

...$440 is way to much money for this collector & fan... :(

....and found myself watching Laurel & Hardy and The Marx Brothers for the last hour. My sides hurt....😂
$440 for Pauley? 😂😶🤤

https://www.ebay.com/itm/GRATEFUL-DEAD-Daves-Picks-Vol-5-Pauley-Pavilio…

....you had me at Ween.

...i wanted to ask everyone if anyone could assist me in trying to get a Copy of the Daves Picks #5 in the series. I’m not having any luck finding one and it WILL complete my collection. Any help of any kind would be gratefully appreciated from this true fan of the band, the Grateful Dead to another...peace be with you all. :)

Catching up on old posts. Keith Fan seriously where the hell did you find The "Seven"? I didn't know there WAS a Seven, let alone that something that obscure would rock so hard. I did some research and they only played it four times. Twice as Mickey and the heartbeats. I'm stumped why they stopped playing it. Did everybody else catch that post from the weekend?

You surprised me again with your mushroom story. No offense, but I had you pegged for straight laces. I got what you meant when you said horcrux. Fell right the fuck off my chair I did. I've been there man. You trip and you feel like that part of you will always remain behind in the place that you tripped. Unless you trip a whole fuckload. Then I suppose you feel like you've left reality off in some distant place in the past. But I only did it a handful of times myself.

You surprised me a third time talking about 1981. I don't think I've ever heard you pay homage to anything past February 17, 1979. I must say I was disappointed ;-)