Grateful Dead

There is little doubt in my mind that if the 4 minute passage had come before the 20 minute jam that it would have been tracked as a 24 minute Dark Star

... I was asked this question before right around the time before the shipments went out and I shared have the same opinion ,so did thedeads team before production. Whaat is the running time is it four minutes and 10 seconds is it four minutes and eight seconds four minutes and seven seconds or minutes and three seconds lol primo Post andbthinking sixtus &keithfan! ;)...Rock On my Brothers and sisters have a grateful day God bless 🙏❤️😎💀🌹

Jam and Dark Star are all one big Dark Star to me. There's even a Spanish Jam in there. I've taken things a step further than just crossfading the Baltimore Wharf rat on to the end of Dark Star. I have put Dark Star before and after Jam and crossfaded them into each other so it sounds like a normal dark star that has the beginning verse the jam and then the ending verse. Cheap thrills but it works for me. Sing Me Back Home then comes in after Wharf rat and also crossfades nicely. So I've added wharf-rat to the repertoire of this show. Kind of like I added Here Comes sunshine to Skeleton Skaters. Now if I can just find somewhere to Squeeze Inn that Birdsong from 3/16/73..... I usually dig it after Promised Land oh, like the way they open Dick's Picks 36. I know people are getting ready to help me with rotten tomatoes and desiccated eggs. I'm not even sure if that's a word but Keith Moon said it in the kids are alright so it must be cool. If I had to pick one rock and roller who I'd like to spend the day with it would be Keith Moon.

maybe it's about "the prisoner" feeling insane amounts of regret (yeah, shouldn'ta offed someone in the first place), as they see the big sleep approach.

anyway

I have been listening to 4/17/71 for the first time in a loooooong time (old copy has pops and distracting noises, new copy is clean). Classic April 71 GD.

I have a coworker who likes the GD. I have given him a bunch of my old shows that I have multiple copies of. The other day he expressed interest in more, but "no more 71". Ha.

So I gave him unofficial copies of 7/8/78, 7/5/78, 12/31/76, and some others.

PS: A tip of the hat to people who are braver than me, and can stand up on Veterans Day as veterans. My father-in-law was a veteran (missed being sent to Korea back in the early 50s, thank goodness). When we said farewell to him this past summer, he got a military salute before internment in the vault.

Y'all be cool, Bob.

....after like 5 or 6 listens to that ridiculously amazing Jam coming out of Truckin', I am pretty convinced in my own little world that the entire jam is actually a Dark Star in disguise. I can say this factually by noting that at 36 seconds into the track, you can ever so slightly hear Jerry play the Dark Star notes one single time...then at around 43 seconds there is another, even fainter reference to the theme (I couldn't quite figure out who it was though).

Based on this observation, I shall dub this jam 'Dark Star' in my mind. It then of course bookends quite nicely into an actual mini-foray of the spectacle itself, more than 22 minutes later.

Quite happy with this release and glad it arrived despite going off the beaten path a bit.

Housewarming Party tomorrow night, casa de Six. Who's around?

-Sixtus

Love this version. Long and a little grainy. For me however it doesn't top the version from 5/26/72, the last night in Europe. Venetta version, agree with Deadheadbrewer, is another top one for the band.
So many good ones, we are lucky to have all this great music.

KCJ, good to hear you daughter is absorbing your habit. Same thing going on at my house, my daughter likes to sing Brown Eyed Women, Bertha, Let the good times roll. So great!

Wow, now that's some heavy stuff. So sorry to hear this, senseless useless and devastating. Nothing good about armed robbery either but what your family went through is on a whole different level. I can't imagine how difficult that must have been for all involved.

Sing Me Back Home…. never heard a version like that before! Coming out of the astral netherlands and sung six miles high rather than the usual six feet under. A much, much different take on the song. I can’t help but think having it segued from an atypically short Dark Star was in honor of Pigpen, as he had just a bit too much salt in his blood to carouse with the band’s usual psychedelic sojourns.

As for the open improv after Truckin’, this is what I found on my flow pad this morning while eating my eggs:

Truckin>

Don’t Step on the Caution>
Keith’s Doorbell Jangle>
The Other… What?>
All Man’s Bass n Drums>
And Another Other… What?>
Jerry’s Sunshined Tomatoes>
Spiced Out Gazpacho>
Slow Waltz with the Glyphic Mayans>

Dark Star

I think your right,man. I sometimes come to conclusions on bad people. My sister was a victim of rape many years ago and I have a hatred of all scum since. It's made me bitter of all criminals. I listen to the dead to mellow me out and sometimes the memory comes back. Sorry for the grim story.

That’s the whole point. Summed up in a single word.

That's why we all love this band.

That’s why SMBH is such a great song.

That's why ice hockey is such a great sport and why squeakball is such bullshit.

Sorry for the rant. Just being honest.

By the way, put me in the fan category for China Doll and LLR. China Doll is a classic. And shamefully I must admit that I prefer the 80s versions of LLR with the rolling thunder effects and Garcia’s guitar mimicking rain.