Who's up for a revolutionary evolutionary ride? DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 30: FILLMORE EAST, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 1/2/70 captures the Grateful Dead as they make their first foray from the experimental 60s into their early 70s acoustic Americana period. Yes, this one is a little bit country and a little bit (psychedelic) rock and roll.
When the "Magnificent Seven" - Pigpen on percussion, T.C. on keys - first took the stage on 1/2/70, evidence was clear that the trip was about to take a turn. From their western wears to the twang in Jerry’s “broken-string blues,” it appeared they'd brought the Bakersfield sound to the Big Apple. They worked through much of what would become Workingman's Dead, stunning the crowd with laid-back numbers like "Uncle John's Band," "Casey Jones," and "Black Peter." Just the same, they satisfied 60s stalwarts with magical versions of "Dark Star," "St. Stephen," and "That's It For The Other One." Sonic alchemy, indeed!
DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 30: FILLMORE EAST, NEW YORK, New York 1/2/70 has been rounded out with a bit of 1/3/70 (the subscribers-only bonus disc features the bulk of 1/3/70). It was recorded by the great Owsley "Bear" Stanley and has been lovingly mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman.
DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 30 is limited to 20,000 individually-numbered copies*.
*Limited to 2 per order. Very limited quantity available.
HF: ah, seasick sailor, you were
I avoid alcohol as much as possible.
drunk on a waterbed
ugh
I thought your story would end up as a clusterbunch worthy of Penthouse Forum.
I was seasick as a kid, crossing on a ferry from Norway to England. An experience I DO NOT want to ever repeat.
I have never hitchhiked.
Box announcement coming soon!
We need a new series Dave. How about a Dead Video Download Series(DVDS)?
*Re/ MUATM 2019 - 48Track
...I was correct, Dave just stated/ confirmed that the second 45 track concert was recorded from the same run of shows as this MUATMs filmed concert release in 2019...the second show recorded is the night before performance! Primo!
🙏❤️😎
Hey Stolfutz
So I never drank tequila again... until, literally, about five years ago. The 40-plus-year interval seemed, um, judicious.
As for the potential of three-guys-meet-two-women-in-a-waterbed alternative reality, basically, back then, we were actually sweet young people who wouldn't have dreamed of groping each other.
On the other hand, I have never been in a bed with four other people since then. I swear!!
spacebrother:
road trip!
road trip!
road trip!
people drive or fly for hours or days to get to shows.
this is a show that just happens to be on a screen.
road trip!
road trip!
road trip!
C'mon, man! it'll be Jerry's birthday!
ROAD TRIP!
make it special, my man!
Lovemygirl
Where did Dave talk about the recording of MUATM?
Can you provide the link?
Thank you.
Apologies, stoltzfus
Bro, I have never been able to wrap my spelling mind around your 'tag,' and I knew I had it wrong, but was too lazy to go look it up before posting.
s-t-o-l-t-z-f-u-s ... It's not that difficult, if one tries.
And I was the one who wrote [use ridiculous, comic voice]: "And 47 years of consistent psychedelic use has been good for me."
Yet, evidence shows that the gears are getting a bit creaky!
So, I'm off in the morning to an extremely remote plateau in the high desert, reachable by 6 hrs on pavement, 2 hrs on very rough dirt track and 5 hrs via backpack, to spend three days and take a stem-and-cap refresher course.
By the time I'm back mid-week next week, I expect the box will have been announced. Magic!
Multi Tracks
It's on Jambase.
https://www.jambase.com/article/grateful-dead-meet-up-at-the-movies-201…
Looks like this isn't being offered anywhere close to where I live either. I was afraid this would happen after last years offering, which most of us had on DVD anyway.. oh well, I saw that coming.
Hope everyone is looking forward to the weekend. I know I am. Where fore art thou Bolo with words of twisted box set wisdom?
Stem and cap.. mmmm…
my name has been butchered in many ways, HF
so no sweat.
even though I am sweating profusely right now in an 80 degree room (no AC in public schools, y'all.)
*Re/ Deadvikes
...Dave L. Posted it on his twitter account, I don’t have the link on hand but you should be able to find it without any problems my brother. Have a grateful day ! 🙏❤️💀
...hello Spacebrother, it’s grateful to see your still around, welcome back old friend...🙏
Box Set
Maybe it will be a collection of New Years shows over a decade.
12/31/71- Winterland Arena - San Francisco, CA
12/31/72- Winterland Arena - San Francisco, CA
12/31/77- Winterland Arena - San Francisco, CA
12/31/79- Oakland Auditorium Arena - Oakland, CA
12/31/80- Oakland Auditorium Arena - Oakland, CA
12/31/81- Oakland Auditorium Arena - Oakland, CA
Re: No air.. tsk tsk
How can you think and learn in that heat. We have that here too (no AC in schools), but jeeze.. the kids can't be learning when they are half asleep and dripping in sweat. 6/13 is pushing pretty far into the summer too, what's up with that? A travesty I say!
A tip of the hat to educators and the school system. Made a big difference in the lives of many including me. Give the kiddies a window unit or something. How much could that cost?
Fourwinds???? You left off 12/31/82! A bigger travesty I say!!!
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12/31/1982 Oakland Auditorium Arena
Set 3: (w/ Etta James and the Tower of Power Horn Section)
Turn On Your Love Light
Tell Mama
Baby What You Want Me To Do
Hard To Handle
In The Midnight Hour
Edit: HF.. (similar to Mexican weed) the Tequila of the 70's does not compare with what makes it into the country today. Some of the extra anejo I have had blows away the best bourbons and cognacs.. (in my humble opinion). "Tequila, it's not just for blowing chunks anymore.."
MUATM Multi-Track Information
The email announcement that I received today announcing the MUATM stated that the 6/17/91 show is one of only two in the GD archives recorded to 48 track analog tape. Didn't say what the other show was.
here's to all the public school teachers! (except the meanies)
Stoltzfus, my man, I didn't grasp until now that you're in public service. Thanks mon!
As someone else mentioned, all my early teachers had a huge influence on my life -- except, of course, the parts of my life that I tell stories about. That part's all on me.
I did have a couple meanies in middle school. Our typing teacher, Mr. Garducci, would walk up behind you as you tried to navigate one of those giant, already antique typewriters with the tiny round keys attached to long metal shafts and he'd smash his yardstick across the machine and yell "Posture! Sit up straight!" For the love of God! So I never learned to type until I was out of college, hunkered down in a cabin on the Colo-New Mexico stateline, cultivating up on the hill and teaching myself to touch type. After a few prosperous years putting my biology degree to profitable use in the MJ biz I got busted and went into journalism (if done well, another form of public service).
Someday I'll share my escape-on-foot-over-an-11,000-foot-pass story as the bust went down in late '85, with only the clothes on my back, an aspirin bottle to store water and a pair of LL Bean slippers on my feet. Oh, and the greatest dog who ever lived, my beloved Genaro, a husky-collie mix and a great conversationalist. May he RIP. Never got another after he passed at age 12.
I offered to endorse LL Bean slippers (they worked great!) but I think the company wanted to go in another direction....
Hey MDJim: to my cap-and-stem refresher course, did you mean to say "yum," not mm?
I should say that trips are not about "fun" for me, at least not the past 40 years. Seems like I need to be ready to face the harsh truths about myself and the world as I work it all out in the backcountry, amid inspiring and sometimes daunting landscapes. I treat it like soul medicine -- tough to swallow, but ultimately good for me. I always return to civilization (if that word's still operative) working to be a better person and smiling more. I need that adjustment a handful of times each year just to stay human (if that term applies to me, some say I might be from Uranus).
At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
due to snow days in February,
this school year goes until June 27.
June 27 1969...Slewfoot
"high on a mountain"
a theme for HF's mycology expedition
hendrixfreak....
....that cabin wouldn't have been anywhere near Chama or Eagle Nest, NM, would it? Stoltzfus is a teacher? Very cool. Guessing ubereats is a side job. Ever try and turn your students (if old enough) onto the Dead?
Mini-Box Perfection...
... my good ol' head friend just asked if I'd listened to 7/18,19/90 Deer Creek. I had not, so I checked em' out. 7/18 is an all time barn burner, and the often overlooked 7/19 show (because it's companion is such a gem,) is stellar as well... maybe the best Desolation Row... Victim>Foolish>Playin>ChinaDoll>UJB 2nd set pre-drums... all played with passion and fire, just before Brent's demise, when he was arguably playing his best...
Whew. It's been a fun past two days of listening - Stoltzfus, I'm giving final exams here in the city, (though thankfully, I'm one of the few in the school with decent AC units...) Anyway... these two shows would make a perfect mini-box, a la RFK 89.
https://archive.org/details/gd90-07-18.sbd.wilson.12760.sbeok.shnf
https://archive.org/details/gd1990-07-19.sbd.miller.32354.sbeok.flac16
These are really some fantastic 90 shows... I wish Brent would have made it. We'd have a totally different opinion of 90s Dead if he would have lived.
RIP Brent
Peace
Crosswalks got me... as they usually do...
*Re/‘Charlie3’/ the other 48 track recording
...the other performance captured/recorded was from the night before folks!!! 😉 🙏❤️😎
Seuss on the Loose
Poems everyone! Poems laddie!
New car, caviar,
Four star daydream,
Think I'll buy me a football team.
Money get back,
I'm alright Jack,
Keep your hands off my stack.
Moonshine, washing line,
On the loose,
Dr. Seuss -
In his new
potato caboose.
(boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew)
When you were young,
You shined like the sun,
But it ain't all over
Baby Blue,
It's all just psychedelic to you.
There's criminal inflation
at the Terrapin Station,
And Castles of Sand
For You-Know-Who's Band.
So sleep on your toes
with Ramble on Rose,
And when the Pigs bleat,
Tight lips, cold feet -
The time has come
for everyone,
To pick out the easy meat -
With their eyes closed
here on Shakedown Street.
(to Isengard, to Isengard - they're taking the Hobbits to Isengard!)
Laddie reckons himself a poet.....poems everyone....poems....
Last Five....
....btw. the first one you mention was the last one you listened to....
Elton John - Madman Across The Water (current)
Elton John - 17-11-70
Phish - 11.3.18 Grand Garden Arena, Sin City (was present. And it was good)
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
GOGD - Fox Theatre 3.18.71
.
.
Bonus Fives. The first two Elton John records. You see, I saw this certain movie recently, and I'm committed to listen to his entire catalogue. So if I seem redundant over the next few weeks, that is why 😉. Im like the moon. Phases....
Madman ended while I was typing this. Cue Honky Chateau. Imagine putting Honky on an album title these days. Oh Lordy!!
Te-Kill-Ya
The discussion of tequila reminds me of my drinking days in college. One night I was drinking with a couple girls and one other guy. We were drinking Jose Cuervo, with the worm in the bottle. The idea was that whoever got the shot with the worm in it had to consume it. By the time we got close to the bottom, we were all pretty sloshed. And when the girl who poured the shot with the worm falling into it saw that thing, we all roared and she shrieked, “I’m not tucking that fouching worm!” True story.
Ongoing psychedelic drug use
Very interesting that there seems to haver been a lot more research done with psychedelic drugs over the last five years or so - and that the results seem to be so positive. Earlier this week, in one of the main national newspapers-The Guardian-there was a double page centre spread on how tests with psilocybin suggested that it was possibly the best antidote to depression yet identified.
This was definitely my experience. Between 1987 and 1993, I found myself living in a flat surrounded by fields in which mushrooms grew between September and November. Consequently, during those years, I would trip once a week, maybe into December, and then nothing until the same season the following year. They were great years on every level, far and away better than the preceding ones had been. I always took them on my own, and then joined friends later in the evening. It all came to an end when I got a professional qualification in 1993, and had to leave the area to take up my new job. Which is where I still live. I never bothered looking for them here, although I was tempted to at first. In any case, it felt inappropriate, given the new role I had taken on. I haven't taken them since 1993, and although I no longer feel tempted to, I have no regrets whatsoever about taking them at that time.
As ever, the biggest risk with illegal drugs, as I understand it, is rooted, in their illegality. With acid, in my late teens and twenties, the massive contrast in potency-and in what was actually being sold as "acid" seemed to vary wildly. It felt a bit like Russian Roulette, to me. So I am not so chipper about all that.
My two cents
To say that psychedelic use is a great cure for depression it's kind of like saying cocaine is a great cure for depression. I'm never depressed after a line of coke!
I have two friends who microdose acid everyday to help deal with anxiety. Buddy one, he says it helps, and I'm not saying lithium makes people any more coherent than psychedelics, but he is a completely different person now. I think he's actually become manic. And very forgetful. He told me twice in the same 3 hour get together that he had begun micro dosing. He completely forgot that he told me the first time and started the story fresh about two hours into a poker game. The other day he texted that his car was stolen so I called him to make him feel better and to hear his story. We spoke about it for 15 minutes. The very next day he texted me that I was never going to believe it but his car got stolen. The manic part I spoke of his that he just comes up with these crazy ideas that he gets fixated on and goes on and on in a nonlinear fashion about it. Like an invention to replace windshield wipers. LOL he is a dear friend but he is greatly changed. When he was on real depression medicine he did very well but complained that it made him tired and required a nap in the day. This all transpired in the last year. He was on the Xanax for 6 months and now he's been microdosing instead for 6 months. I miss Xanax guy.
Special message to Hendrix freak. I am not at all criticizing you or your use of recreational psychedelics. I trip once or twice a year, or at least did before I had an accident last year. I like tripping. I just don't think that it can be used everyday without changing a person. And I am not saying that it has changed you for the worst. I don't even know you so it would be ridiculous for me to make any kind of judgment like that. I just want you to know that my comments above relate to my buddy. A case study if you will.
Then there is his partner in crime, buddy number two. We now refer to him as mr. Paranoia. I think he's a little bit beyond the micro part of microdosing. He's not even depressed. He just likes to do drugs. He has run his business into the ground so badly his wife came to me for advice. Just to give you some perspective she hates me. She's the kind of gal who believes if you criticise women you're a misogynist. So for example, I once mentioned that my girlfriend and I had a funny miscommunication due to her inability to write neatly. I literally went to the wrong airport because I couldn't make out what she wrote. She admits this freely and blames the constant use of typing on electronic devices as the reason her writing looks like spaghetti now. Buddy number two's wife laid into me about that story. The point is that these drugs they are doing on a daily basis I really turning their brains into mush. They both have families and children and I think the more responsibility you have the easier it is to get carried away on this stuff. Sure it sounds like there's an article that supports they use for fighting depression. I don't know what that authors political slant is. I don't know what the studies political slant is. Maybe they're talking it up or maybe in some severe cases of depression it's better than nothing.
Sorry for the long post. Haven't used just about every kind of drug under the sun, I am well aware of the flipside dangers to mind and health. When I was using regularly I made excuses for it and quoted the first study I could Google that seemed to support my habit. Looking back I know that all of the recreational drugs harm us if used daily. Cocaine, marijuana, shrooms and acid, opioids, etc. I believe most of us recreational users who begin using recreationally everyday kind of hide behind the label of recreation and cringe at the word addiction.
I tried changing my username to Minas Ithil but had technical issues. Minas Ithil was the White Tower before it was taken over by evil forces, becoming the Fortress of the witch King and being renamed Minas Morgul. A man with a dark streak always has a dark streak, at best he can shine enough light to keep the dog at Bay. You want to talk about a trip? Try fading in and out of fevered consciousness for a couple of days with no way to get help or even move your body without pain you never thought yourself capable of having. The thing about trauma and being close to death is that the cover of protection that you put up around your psyche to get through the days is lifted forever. You start to see things as they really are and not how your psyche wants them to be.
Box Announcement
So, no box Announcement this week. 😡
Looks like we will have to wait at least another week!
Been Listening to Dick's 28 from early 1973 the last two days, just love this one. 73 was such a strong year for the boys. Have not come across one that I don't love.
Drug box
I don't care what the next box is I'm looking forward to it. It'll have cool packaging and be old (new) live Dead music that I don't already have... what's not to love.
I've done as many drugs as anyone here. I'm sure of it. Not that it's a contest, but I used to live for that shit. Now, I can say without doubt that the best one can ever feel is fresh out of bed early in the morning, or just after exercise. But to each his own... just don't get lost out there. Peace everyone.
Moderation
I recall in a toxicology class learning that the poison is in the dose - in other words most things can become toxic if taken to excess. Don't believe me? Google what can happen if you drink too much water at one time. Spoiler alert, it can kill you. Minas is correct to the extent that excessive use of psychedelics can cause some crispiness to ensue, however, moderate use did not seem to have the same impact, and use of other substances may complicate the issue. There was a period where I was probably tripping a couple times a week and I was crispy, although I was also high 24/7. At a frequency of dosing approximately once per week I was not crispy and did pretty well in my calculus class, a good indicator that I had not suffered any real damage. After regular consumption, lets say an average of once per week for a period of several years, my scores on standardized testing for post-bachelor degree education still came out in the top 1-2%, again, support that no real damage was done.
With regard to the treatment of depression and anxiety and the administration of psychedelics, mushrooms or ketamine for example, the dosing regimen that I have seen involve administration of a low dose, talk therapy for a couple weeks followed by administration of a higher dose of the psychedelic. That's it, two doses, and the depression and anxiety is alleviated for months or longer. Unlike cocaine's effect on depression, which is to briefly alleviate and then exacerbate it, the impact of psychedelics is persistent from one or two doses. How many Xanax do you have to take in that time? Also, Xanax is no joke, it is a benzodiazepine with some serious potential side effects, including negative impacts on cognitive abilities, the fact that you are physically dependent after a period of use and will have severe side effects if use is suddenly stopped. It is not innocuous.
Use what works for you at a frequency that works for you, but be aware that whatever you are using can probably be overdone. Sorry to ramble, but I could talk about psychedelics and the current research all day.
Moderation
What Charlie said, well done.
Doing anything everyday is probably not good for you, whatever it is! Yin/yang etc., Balance is the key to life. Compounded over many years/decades will most likely lead to health issues, or worse.
Also, everybody is different, and so every substance wether asprin or whatever, can effect people differently. That is one reason why I feel the methodology employed by law enforcement to determine a persons ability drive is unconstitutional........I’m not for a minute suggesting that there is no regulation needed there, only that the current methods are not right!
We old timers talk crazy about the old days, but it’s a much different world now. “Law come to get ya when you don’t walk right”....So have fun, but get to know your body, know what your taking, be safe, and more importantly be responsible!
This public service announcement brought to you by old burned out freaks, convicts, recoverers and others who’ve been there. 😉
Psychedelics
I was going to reply, but Charlie stated pretty clearly what my understanding is. I still do psychedelics from time to time, but not very often. I do not think they had an adverse affect me, in fact quite the opposite. Sometimes a mind and soul cleanse is good medicine.
Anyway.. back to your regularly scheduled drums and space.
Fox with a box... would you, could you at the fox?
John Lennon / Jerry Garcia
They both have uncanny similar quotes on frequency of the use of psychedelics.
From the final interview of John Lennon that appeared in Playboy (1980); interviewer asking about drug use, "Acid?' John Lennon, "Not in years. A little mushroom or peyote is not beyond my scope, you know, maybe twice a year or something."
Jerry Garcia from Portrait of an Artist as a tripper, published 8/8/14;
Interviewer, "When was the last time you took psychedelics?"
Garcia; "Sometime in the last year, maybe mushrooms because I think its milder, easier to handle. "
Interviewer You've slowed down to to what? A couple times a year?
Garcia "Yeah, irregularly. Its not something I plan for. Its something that Im likely to do on impulse. I like to have DMT around."
Fascinating interviews. They both "knew". Check out those interviews.
6-14-76 anniversary
I’m doing 82308.GEMS.
Wish I was spinning a Plangentized Vault Release.
Dave?.....
Dave?.....
Dave?......
June 76 Box
June 76 Box
June 76 Box
I’m a robot
I’m not a robot
Future box idea
Tour de France Box
Released at the beginning of July to coincide with the Tour.
Consists of the 5 unreleased shows from France.
And then I get a bicycle reCAPTCHA for the post below
I might be on to something.....
(I had logged out after the 6-14 post).
Dumb Question
Did the boys haul the Wall Of Sound to Engkand / France for that short September run in '74? Any of the venues outdoors?
LMG check your PM. Ba'gok!
The Dead & Co opener at Wrigley was 🔥....
....John's got a beautiful axe.
Wall in Europe '74
They did indeed use the Wall in that Europe run. They sent it by ship, and inside the speaker cabinets, they hid their stashes.
Foolish Heart / View From The Vault II
Very good, possibly the best live. Bonus track July 12, 1990.
psychedelics
drugs aren't for everyone, especially LSD, had some good times on the chemical and some not so good times, it all depended on the situation and the dose. Back in high school, we would dose a small portion before going to school, usually 50 or 60 mics, but sometimes a quarter hit was more like 100 to 150 mics and it was off to the races for that day (orange sunshine and yellow sunshine were very potent) I remember some times just sitting in study hall laughing my ass off at nothing, good times. The looks we would get from students and teachers both was classic wish I had it all on film, it would make a great movie. Living in florida for 35 plus years we did a lot of shrooms, every weekend during the season for years. The season runs from some times May till October, but mostly June till September. Back in the day (70's) almost every cowfield had shrooms growing out of the cow pies, but, due to law enforcements efforts to stop it, it became harder and harder to find them in most cow fields. Also, the owners of the land would sometimes enforce no trespassing signs by gunpoint, which was a bit scary. I remember one time the owner and his 3 sons had us pinned up against our car, all 4 tires flat, at gunpoint, telling us to never come back. Didn't stop us tho, we would come back at night or just have a driver drop us off and come back and pick us up 30 mins later with the goods, there was always a way to get around rednecks and their offspring. Some of us had our own private secret fields, which would produce every time it rained, and we took advantage of it. During the summer, it was nothing for us to have a crisper full of shrooms in the refrig and a pitcher full of juice on the top shelf. Those days are gone now, as most bovine owners add orange pulp to their feed which stops the production of the mycilen that is essential to production of the flowers, or the caps we all love. The best part of picking shrooms was the actual picking, going out into a natural surrounding, walking along and finding a bunch growing, it was a beautiful thing. Nevermind the mosquitos, or snakes, or spiders or other wildlife you might encounter, they were basically harmless and it was so worth it to receive the reward, which was always an evening in heaven. We picked the same field for 20 years and it never had an adverse effect on us or any of the countless others we turned on, every weekend during the summer. It was the best of times. I remember in 1995 or 6, there was a tropical storm named "Jerry" that hit the peninsula in July and went out into the atlantic turned around and came back, both times the bounty was plentiful and very potent. We saw it as a sign from God (and Jerry) Love you Jerry, miss you dearly. Once in the 70's we found a field that was at the end of a stream, the stream basically ended in a cow field, we hit the field just after an afternoon shower and when we approached, we could see a lavender haze floating about a foot off the grass, never had we seen anything like it before and we were struck by the beauty of it, primeval, ancient, god like. As we entered, fungus was everywhere, some small some very large (picked some that day that were as big as pancakes, 6 inches across and 10 inches tall) 22 lbs picked in 35 mins. The beauty of it all and the reward was a night of enlightenment that I will never forget. Sorry for the long post, back to the music.
22 lbs of shrooms?....
https://youtu.be/yicbvWwQ_MA
....it's been way too long.
Re: Ask Tim Skully
Sort of on topic.. a conversation from a couple years ago on reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5r2wn7/im_filmmaker_cosmo_feildi…
6/15/95 Highgate Worth A Listen
Listening to Highgate 1995 on its anniversary. Attended when in high school. In beautiful northern Vermont, visited by a miles long caravan of vehicles on a perfect summer day. A show that kicked off the eastern run of their (infamous) last tour, with many signs that things were going downhill during the summer. Jerry's struggles are well known. But a blind listen brings out some gems. Only have an audience recording, but its a great listen. Some missed lyrics -- of course. But Jerry and Bobby and the boys really sound into each song with some great playing throughout -- I'd head out to that show again tonight in a heart beat if given the opportunity :)
A few highlights:
First set -- Peggy-O, El Paso, Ramble on Rose, Black-Throated Wind, and Loose Lucy.
Also Jerry seemed laid back and happy talking to the audience "Phil isn't ready yet. You'll have to think of something really really nice to say to him :)"
Second set -- Here Comes Sunshine, cool Jerry medley of Rollin and Tumblin > That Would Be Something > He's Gone, Standing on the Moon
Recall coming out of Space, Phil standing on stage and making a box with this hands before going into Box of Rain.
Also, interesting factoid about this show. It is the last show where the Dead played a song for the first time -- Rollin and Tumblin.
Anyway some recollections from 24 years ago. Any Dead show could be special for its own reasons, but some were more special than others :)
Next up today 11-21-73 Denver . . .
Thanks Alvarhanso
That makes sense (ship). I'm not the brightest but I can see through a brick wall if you give me enough time. I didn't even think of a ship, I just thought man how the hell are they going to fit all that on a plane, they would need one of those c-160 military cargo planes. I forgot about the sea.
I wonder how today's sound systems compare to the Wall?
Speaking of the wall, I got a kick out of your "poems laddie" KF. Looks like half Pink Floyd lyrics half Grateful Dead songs, and a spattering of Keithfan. Do I get bonus points for picking out the line from Arnold Layne?
Blind Fresca Listens....
....I get it, but by that time, Jerry would turn his guitar down so low....but I digress. sigh....he knew.
First Music
OK I'm a little late to this conversation, but the idea of what was the first music I heard was intriguing. I wasn't sure, so I looked up singles in wiki. It seems my awareness of music began when i was 9, in 1963. Mind you these weren't the first singles I bought, these were songs I heard, probably on my first radio. In the bay area, the AM pop/rock station was KFRC. I don't know if FM was really hip yet. So I heard all this great music on AM radio. These were great years for lots of interesting music to hear on the radio.
Return to Sender - Elvis
Surfing USA, Surfer Girl - Beach Boys
Walk Right In - Rooftop Singers (Kind of a novelty song)
Walk Like a Man, Big Girls Don't Cry - Four Seasons
Blame it on the Bosa Nova - Edie Gormet (this was a big hit)
Puff the Magic Dragon, Blowing in the Wind - Peter Paul and Mary
Its my Party - Leslie Gore
Another Saturday Night - Sam Cooke
Louie Louie - The Kingsman
Wipe Out - The Surfers
Soon the Beatles would hit the Ed Sullivan Show, and everything changed. I think the first albums I bought were Beatles, and the Mama's and the Papas. Another early album was East West - the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
@Nitecat....
Walk Right In is more than a novelty song...it was written and performed by Gus Cannon & His Jug Stompers in 1929...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4mGH_3lzhw
Gus also recorded Viola Lee Blues, Big Railroad Blues & Minglewood Blues...check 'em out good stuff