Brent & Keith
Well, Keith's last and Brent's first show that this band is still Truckin'
Pretty amazed at how quick Brent assimilates into the band, but then again Keith did that too.
Musicians!
If you listen to the 4/19/79 rehearsals, it sounds to me like the band is stoked to be playing and changing things up. Lotsa clowning around and jamming.
And 4/22 is solid. Killer Other One and yeah that Passenger is on fire.
Might have to dust off DaP V23 on it's anniversary and head down to Eugene ala '78.
Unless somebody got another Pick to kick.
When's that DaP V37 shipping... should be soon, no?
Dave's 37
Yes, GOGD, we are a week out from the released on date of next Friday. Given how the shipping went last year, I won't predict when we will receive it. I am hoping by next Friday, but not counting on it. I would think Dave's video will be released next Friday when the individual copies go on sale.
Let's do Dave's 23, it is a great release.
Stay well.
Eugene 1.22.78....
....i just listened to this show the other day, but I'm game for a revisit.
This means something. This is important.
Roy Neary - [contemplating the lump shape]
Sweet!
I don't think I've given this much play since I got it.
Maybe a quick once through.
I should probably watch Close Encounters again.
Don't think I've seen that since I was a kid.
Thanks VGuy for taking one for the team and DeadVikes for the refresh on the new release deets, getting excited!
Twist my arm...
I'm in. Getting a late start, but taking an unplanned half day from work and loading up the truck for an adventure. We have good temps and good snow, heading for the backcountry for a day of solitude, music and unbelievable scenery.. plus I will be getting a good workout which is hard to do in the winter of covid. If I see another person where I am going, it would surprise me.
Good thing and thanks to you guys.. I will have some good tunes (and more than a healthy buzz)
Be good all.
One last comment.. it's refreshing how we just breezed through the last show with Keith/Donna and the first show with Brent without anyone making some ridiculous or offensive comment. Productive and sane comments about two great periods of Grateful Dead music.. and no one caught there hair on fire and no one stunk up the room in stupid incendiary comments.
Thanks all.
my first pick of the day is 7/13/84
I had the incredibly good fortune to be there
I still have a piece of paper I wrote on after the show. it reads:
I WAS THERE
MAGIC STRUCK!
7/13/84
Documented!
I WAS BEYOND
I SAW!
Misc replies
Plangent/Norman, for sure, but let’s get the multi-tracks out! Those capital shows are a good example of how (FOR ME) good multi track sources take shows I wouldn’t necessarily consider, and make them go toos!
CARLO: 😀
Yassss....release it ALL!
GOGD: it’s called practice, that and being enthused! That was alooonnng show! You could tell they were itching to play, but seems like anytime they rehearsed regularly, good things happened. I was at Vince’s first show and was surprised how integrated he already was. All three had what?...a month to learn enough to do gigs....yeah, that’s called practice!
DV: hey, as long as it arrives...
JIM: so it was you up in NW merry land who got the magic ticket!...this is just your cover story for disappearing!
But before you go buying that Elmondo-grosso water bed, barko lounger with magic fingers, and the Jensen turntable with the Pickering cartridge, or the leather bond edition of the entire playboy collection featuring Hugh Hefner.....shmuck....with that kinda cash you could probably buy the vault! Just saying....; )
7/13/84: yeah really need that, 12/31/81, 1/10/79, and 1/20/79......but I’m sure no tapes : (
Abort, abort....
.....I stopped Eugene and going with Proudfoot's pick.
If pronouncing my b's as v's makes me sound Russian....
....then soviet.
7/13/84. 1st set
Great 1st set. The only reason I can think that this show hasnt been released, is because they are saving it for a Greek Box set, because this show should have been released along time ago. I dosed at this show and washed it down with a bottle of Bergungdy, that was the progam back then. On to set two.
7/13/84 2nd set
Sounds just as good as it did 37 years ago, Im glad I was there. The show pretty much speaks for itself, it was definitely fun. Great pick Proudfoot.
7/13/84 and my Magic Ticket
I finished McArthur Court, I should be able to squeak in at least the first set of 7/13/84.
Ha.. no, OroB. I do not have the magic ticket, but I know the town the ticket was purchased at quite well. It wasn't far away from where I went to college. Back then it was a dry on Sunday county (that changed decades ago), but we used to go to this rundown bar in Lonaconing called Truly's. If you knew the secret word they would sell you beer on Sundays. It is a tiny, dirt poor town in the Appalachians. If you blink.. you will miss it and the people there have been dirt poor ever since they shut down the coal mines about 100 years ago.
My mind is spinning knowing someone that was more than likely way below the poverty line is now walking around town with 3/4 of a Billion Dollars in folding money in their wallet.
My advice.. don't spend it all in once place.. or better yet, Californy is the place you aught to be so load up the truck and move to Beverly (Hills that is..)
Edit: For anyone with interest, some history. Look for The Big Vein, and for VGuy, it's got a Cumberland (or two)..
http://www.miningartifacts.org/Maryland-Mines.html
Lot a poor man got the Cumberland Blues..
Who was it that mentioned Stockhausen?
I had my virgin listen just now
Woooow man...
It wasn't me..
...who mentioned Stockhausen, but I have got a few albums authored by him. Of the music I have got "Gesang Der Junglinge" is the most startling. Quite scary if you are feeling sensitive.
I actually saw him live once. He made the single most offensive comment I think I have ever heard at a live concert. And I speak as one who saw numerous punk gigs between 1976-1978. People seemed initially stunned , then started booing. It was an odd concert all round - the music off one of his albums-"Hymnen" was played.
Stockhausen
If you like vocal music I would recommend ‘Stimmung’. A fascinating piece for six voices.
Stockhausen
On the DVD ‘Dawn of the Grateful Dead’ TC says that he and Phil were into Stockhausen.
I called up stockhausen on youtube
and gesang der junglinge came up first
I heard elements of Zappa, Revolution 9, and Seastones in there
Gesang der junglinge
Bear in mind that this piece is from 1955 - 56.
Stockhausen-Beatles-Dead
I always thought Seastones, more than most electronic music recorded by rocks groups that I have heard, seemed to be influenced by Stockhausen. And lest we forget, he was on the cover of Sergeant Pepper.
Pick of the Day
Pick of the Day?
Who has one for today?
You still out there Bob t?
Today
I finally just did 3/20/92. Was @ but hadn’t gotten around to it, or much of boxilla...
I remember this being a good show and it was ; )
1/22/78: hadn’t heard this one pretty much since it came out. Played it a ton then as I was home liquidating the folks estate for 2 months and only had limited number of shows with me. Yeah, that show helped me through many a long day!
Berkeley - Roses for Breakfast - 8-25-72
Love that release!!
Was just swimming in another excellent Other One meltdown from 7-1-73 Universal Amphitheatre -
https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1973/07/01.
Earlier this morning was listening to some Stockhausen. New to me and I was blown away at how completely out there it was. 1950s??!!
Thanks Deadvikes still here
I was lucky to start a new job in the middle of December. So busy being a new guy and learning the ropes!!! I did listen to 2/22/74 Winterland and the 7/13/84 show but only set II... I have to agree they missed the boat by releasing 2/24/74 as a stand alone.. Bob t
Berkeley Community down the hatch....
....it delivered.
That Friend Of The Devil is pure butter.
Congrats on the new gig Bob T. You sound positive, so now I do too.
First measurable rain occurred yesterday in Vegas since 4.20.20. It was a welcome deluge.
Makes sense. Snow flurries forecast next week.
Cold Rain and SNOW!!! Lol
Dave's 24
I am a big fan of this show. I listen to it a lot and it never disappoints. This was part of the ABCD transaction as well as the three previous nights. Black Peter, Birdsong and Truckin never disappoint in 1972. Nice work Vguy!
Good to hear from you Bob t and congrats on your new gig. Did you tell your new employer you need time to listen to the Dead?
Hopefully next week we will all see a new show in the mailbox.
Shamelessly Stolen
(which is not beneath me).
Stolen from the other thread (the subscription page?). It's doc inspired. I see no reason not to let the sun shine on the 50th anniversary of this date in GD history.
1-24-71 Seattle Center Arena
11-6-79
Looks like there isn't a show up for today yet. There's been a good amount of '79 lately, and I propose continuing the Brent era party with a fall show at a long time favorite venue, the Spectrum.
https://archive.org/details/gd79-11-06.sbd.miller.29735.flac16
This one is noteworthy to me because of Phil's relative volume in the mix.
This was Road Trips 1.1 that i missed on the first go around. I'm hoping to pick it up from Real Gone when they re-release it.
Eagles Auditorium
There was something magical happening 53 years ago in Seattle.
Epic Alligator
1/26/68 is worth a spin.
Would have loved listening to these shows with Dick Latvala!
Anybody got a line on Dick talking about the PNW '68 shows shoot it over.
He had to have something to say about them.
Eagle
They played there and some (all??) of it was recorded on early multi-track 8 Track tapes. It would be wild if any of this surfaced in a full show format.
Or, since GOGD is the only known person to have 1/26, he must be the one sitting on these master reels.
Cough them up GOGD, rumor has it an angry mob is gathering at the Piggly Wiggly's down the street.. They want your tapes, give them to us before it's too late. We need more 1968!
If you get confused...
Listen to... this :)
Yeah, I forgot that show circulates as 1/22/68, I thought the date had been changed in the listings.
There's speculation around the date and they've always been confusing.
I'm pretty sure those shows happened on 1/26 & 1/27/68 based on the posters that exist.
So 1/22 or 1/26/68, give it a spin. Alligator!
And... no missing master reels.
However, I'll tell ya a story....
My kid's friend's Dad (say that a bunch) saw the show on 2/4/68 in Ashland that doesn't circulate.
Can't even imagine Ashland in 1968 with the GOGD!
Must've been a riot.
Super small town at the base of Mt. Ashland & it still felt like it was off the map in 1995ish.
I used to live next to the College campus back in the mid '90s.
It was an awesome party house and it's there that I threw the biggest Halloween Rager ever one year!!
It was off the hook, this guy fell off the roof a riot broke out.
Ashland had a party vortex going on, probably still does.
Ah youth.
Good times, great oldies.
I'm going to forgo the '68 pick....
....and back track to Doc's January 1971 recommendations. Playing ketchup.
1/22/68. WOW!
What a cool show, start to finish. This one should definitely be an official release. 3rd Dark Star, 1st China 🐱 ever. Excellent pick GOGD, I've never heard this one before. I would love to see the whole The Great Northwest Tour released, I know people say that not all the tapes are there, but the only people that really know are the people that work in the vault, so hopefully these tapes will all show up as other tapes have that were supposed to be missing. Again, killer show, all the releases from 1968 have been compete knockouts.
The Quick & The Dead '68
BTK - one of my favorites!
Stoked to turn you on to it.
Agree that the PNW '68 tour would be a cool release.
I'm partial to '68.
As for the tapes in the vault, I'm pretty sure what circulates came from the "Honeymoon Tapes".
Which, if you don't already know about, I'll tell you.
Lay it on me.
From what I've read, the tapes were swiped from Gans' hotel room while he was on his honeymoon.
I believe Gans had made copies of them from the Vault to review for the show.
And that's how they began to circulate.
Happy to hear otherwise, or more deets if anybody has them.
But that's what I heard / read.
I always liked that story. Not because of the theft, but just because I find it interesting how these tapes get out.
Anyway, Glad you got to hear it BTK, that pick was for you!
11/6/79
Nice show Slow Dog. A lot of great shows in 79 and some not so hot. .....
Always interesting to hear those early versions of Easy To Love You. Man, Brent's voice went through a lot of changes throughout the years.
And the sound quality on this one is fantastic. Love it.