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drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 3, 2009 - 12:07pm PT
Copperheads, Jerry Garcia.

We are in the middle of 9 days of Jerry. He was born August 1st and died August 9th. I pay extra respect during this time and remember many good times. I know there are plenty of Heads on here, so post up.

Also, this week there are probably big wall guys and gals dealing with small pieces of mashed up metal in granite. Discuss...

"Sometimes we live no particular way but our own..."




survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Aug 3, 2009 - 12:28pm PT
"We can have us, a HIGH TIME, livin' the good life!"

Dark Star Orchestra, out west for lots of dates this fall.
Look for a date near you in CO, OR, WA, CA, MT, ID, NV, UT!!!
http://www.darkstarorchestra.net/NEWSITE/HTML/dso.php?sec=tour&PHPSESSID=947f1ccd02ea718011444662fc101cb0

I saw them back east, and it is DEFINITELY worth the trip. Here's a link to a thread I put up recently.
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=915514&msg=915594#msg915594
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Aug 3, 2009 - 12:40pm PT
Slipknot!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZnqymw2Q3w

I'm with you Jefe.
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Aug 3, 2009 - 12:43pm PT
West High, Anchorage Alaska is where both of my older kids graduated HS, and the same stage that they both performed on many times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJHnCEFAj5A
Gobee

Trad climber
Los Angeles
Aug 3, 2009 - 12:56pm PT
"Deal"
Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing;

Since it cost a lot to win
and even more to lose
You and me bound to spend some time
wondring what to choose

Goes to show you don't ever know
Watch each card you play
and play it slow
Wait until your deal come round
Don't you let that deal go down

I been gambling here abouts
for ten good solid years
If I told you all that went down
it would burn off both your ears

It goes to show you don't ever know
Watch each card you play
and play it slow
Wait until your deal come round
Don't you let that deal go down

Since you poured the wine for me
and tightend up my shoes
I hate to leave you sittin there
composin lonesome blues

It goes to show you don't ever know
Watch each card you play
and play it slow
Wait until your deal come round
Don't you let that deal go down
Don't you let that deal go down, no
Don't you let your deal go down

drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 3, 2009 - 01:06pm PT
The Dead and climbing used to go hand in hand for me...

donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Aug 3, 2009 - 01:08pm PT
Does the term "deadhead" have anything to do with the lack of brain function?
Mick K

climber
Northern Sierra
Aug 3, 2009 - 01:11pm PT
In fact it is just the opposite.

Deadhead = extraordinary brain function
goatboy smellz

climber
लघिमा, co
Aug 3, 2009 - 01:14pm PT
Quixotes is have a 3 day dancing in the streets block party this weekend.

DSO, Steve Kimock, & Papa Mali are the main highlights.

http://www.quixotes.com/Dancin.html

You should drive on up for this survival.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 3, 2009 - 01:15pm PT
How bout the old bumper sticker-

THE ONLY GOOD HEAD IS A DEAD HEAD
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Aug 3, 2009 - 01:17pm PT
I thought that "good head" referred to something else.
Mick K

climber
Northern Sierra
Aug 3, 2009 - 01:20pm PT
Doesn't get any better than this

http://www.archive.org/details/gd75-08-13.fm.vernon.23661.sbeok.shnf
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Aug 3, 2009 - 01:45pm PT
Here's another great place to listen to whole shows.
WOLFGANG'S VAULT!!
http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/sa/grateful-dead/7413.html

PMB, just got back from a bball tourney in CO Sprgs.
This weekend it's all the way to OK, for a national bball tourney.

"Gotta go to Tulsa, first train we can ride. Gotta settle one old score, one small point of pride."
Peter Haan

Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
Aug 3, 2009 - 02:56pm PT
proof that Ed Hartouni was in on it all along and that Rokjok always knows best.
Doug Robinson

Trad climber
Santa Cruz
Aug 3, 2009 - 03:38pm PT
SEE That!

Peter's post proves that as far as the Atomic Broom goes, "DR did not act alone."

Like I keep tellin' ya, Jerry is behind me all the way. Anyone eavesdropping on my boom box below Temple Crag would have little doubt.

Like, HELLO... Dark Star. Get it?
bhilden

Trad climber
Mountain View, CA
Aug 3, 2009 - 03:42pm PT
The headline in the SF Chronicle announcing Jerry Garcia's death was a classic:

Head Dead Head Dead


Bruce
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Aug 3, 2009 - 04:07pm PT
The Bus came by and I got on ,
that's when it all began,
There was Dr Ed,
as the Head,
of the Bus to never never land, (Vedauwoo)


any word on those Shirts, Dr El jef?

Got the Deacal, the other day Btw, Muchos Garcias!

I sported a '94 Chinese New year shirt (year of the Dawg) to the last wide Wednesday. My family took mom (then 70) to that concert. She loved it, bought a shirt, framed it and had Chasbro get her a concert tape...
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Aug 4, 2009 - 12:30am PT
thank you for politely interrupting the silence gerry.


my girls are fans. i've sung them ripple, and friend of the devil since they were wee lassies

spiral light of venus shining first and shining best. from the northwest corner of a brand new crescent moon...

Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Aug 4, 2009 - 01:38am PT
may the four winds
blow you safely home
nita

climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
Aug 4, 2009 - 01:43am PT
Some very sweet memories ... smiling..dancing..bliss.

Love the sound of Jerry's guitar............;-)

Birdsong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYA16z2-xFg&feature=related
Doug Robinson

Trad climber
Santa Cruz
Aug 4, 2009 - 01:45am PT
No fair, Norwegian.

You've got yourself two Sugar Magnolias there.

Sweet, sweet.
Risk

Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
Aug 4, 2009 - 01:46am PT
A high school pen and ink effort, circa 1975

Greek, September 13, 1981, 04:59 – Jack Straw
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1981-09-13.sbd-set1.unknown.32132.sbeok.flac16

Peggy O - 6-26-94, Las Vegas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX9Vhv4akxc

Lately, I’ll find that while driving I’ll end up crankin up the sound for a Jerry song, and my two daughters (6 and 10) love it and want me to repeat it once it plays.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Aug 4, 2009 - 02:03am PT
"there is nothing like a ......."

RIP!
BBWolf

climber
Aug 4, 2009 - 10:55am PT
Pate
Thanks for the links. Particularly interested in your JGB shows but when i hit the link

[http://idisk.mac.com/marc_p_peter-Public?view=web]

I see idisk but no music.

Thanks for sharing

Hold on a minute....It is working. Sweet.
Doug Robinson

Trad climber
Santa Cruz
Aug 4, 2009 - 11:05am PT
It's contagious.

My 16-year-old son posted "Friend of the Devil" for his please-enjoy-the-music song on his cell phone.

We're going climbing today...
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Aug 4, 2009 - 11:34am PT
When Quinn the eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna dose!

nita

climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
Aug 4, 2009 - 01:44pm PT
Let there be songs to fill the air....

Ripple
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVdTQ3OPtGY

ripple in still water.
nutjob

climber
Berkeley, CA
Aug 4, 2009 - 08:54pm PT
My kids and I have a set of cruisin' songs when we're on the road... Pink Panther theme song and Friend of the Devil are at the top of the list.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 6, 2009 - 08:43pm PT

It's frikkin hot in Tucson.
Ice cream sounds good.

pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Aug 6, 2009 - 10:23pm PT
love the Garcia!

have it on my ipod 100% of the time!
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Aug 7, 2009 - 03:33am PT
thanks Tami, I always feel honored that I am in some way associated with him, what a musician!
EP

Social climber
Way Out There
Aug 7, 2009 - 11:46am PT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWfYew3s_Nw&feature=related

Jerry Garcia and Ruben Blades" Muevete"

Jerry solos at 5:45 and kills it, beaming from ear to ear. One of the best solos I have ever heard, totally in the pocket. Talk about a rhythm section and back up band!
nita

climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
Aug 7, 2009 - 12:16pm PT
Thanks EP! I've never seen that video before,most excellent! I used to own a couple of Rubens cassettes BITD..Brenda Lugo turned me on to his music .

Jerry looks like he is having a great time.
Melissa

Gym climber
berkeley, ca
Aug 7, 2009 - 01:20pm PT
The Dead have never been my thing. I got to a post-Jerry reunion concert of sorts once with the VIP passes and all b/c a friend did some work for some of the guys in the band. It was interesting for me in a sociology kinda way, but seeing how out of place I was, I felt guilty taking up a space there. My pass was actually good for the whole weekend, so I was glad to run into a stoner guy from my old lab who lived for that sort of thing and pass it on.

There is a Dead inspired symphony in Santa Cruz this weekend at the Cabrillo music festival. Don't know if it's sold out.
Radish

Trad climber
Seki, California
Aug 7, 2009 - 01:26pm PT
What did one Deadhead say to another Deadhead at a concert when they ran out of weed...........Hey man, dude, this music sucks.....................................just a joke for your friday my friends......
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 7, 2009 - 02:21pm PT
Hey Rad- that joke sucks! More played out than my favorite bootleg tapes from back in the day.

How many Deadheads does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

One to screw it in, and 10,000 to follow it around and around until it burns out!
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Aug 9, 2009 - 02:20pm PT
I was going to tell the one Drljefe just posted. Grateful day, today all.

"The Wheel keeps turning...
Rhodo-Router

Gym climber
crimping through the start of the Generator
Aug 9, 2009 - 03:29pm PT
I got the most random email from my stepmom (age:70-something) this morning. An excerpt:


"This evening the sunset was really beautiful and B. and I had dinner on the deck -- then I went inside and started making granola, mostly because I hadn't given a birthday gift to a friend (hi, Jill, I'm copying you). I put on a CD -- Workingman's Dead -- and I just want to tell all of you to pass on to your children that the Deadheads did not ever represent the Dead. They were just a bunch of stoners who followed the tours and didn't listen to the music. This is very important to tell your children! The Grateful Dead's music was sweet, almost gentle. In fact, at the time I was kind of dismissive because I liked things a little (as Tina would say) more rough.... but now that I'm um slowing down I realize I was being too dismissive. So listen to that album. "


Way to characterize about 200,000 people...who were apparently onto something about 30 years before you were!
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Aug 9, 2009 - 04:26pm PT
...honestly, I don't see the resemblance


except in quantity of hair...

but I'm happy if people think so
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Aug 9, 2009 - 04:30pm PT
It is possible that it is even more in the creative nature, than just in the photo image.
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Aug 9, 2009 - 06:07pm PT
Jaybro, that would be very high praise indeed. Garcia was unbelievably active in music, he seemed to be everywhere, all the time, working on nearly every genre of popular music, even making some music genres popular. A brilliant and accomplished muscian.

I thought when he died that it was more from his hyperactivity then the drug abuse. He just "emptied the tank" and coasted to a stop, too exhausted to find a filling station.

Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Aug 9, 2009 - 06:33pm PT
Yeah, we always wondered just how deep the tank was. Kept wanting him to cover just a little more ground.

Others promote physics, wyde climbing, turbo diesel retro-fits and, not unlike Jerry, harmony.

Each in their own way....
Indianclimber

Trad climber
Lost Wages
Aug 9, 2009 - 09:22pm PT
rmuir

Social climber
the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
Aug 9, 2009 - 09:37pm PT
I was up in the Mono Recesses when JG died; I didn't learn of his death until we got back to Shaver Lake. ...hit me hard, that one did. He really personified the Dead for me. Bob Weir and Garcia played some amazing sets off of each other.

In addition to his bouts of drug abuse/dependence, it's widely-reported that he suffered from sleep apnea. Do some research. That is one heinous killer! For me, that explains the "heart attack of natural causes."
east side underground

Trad climber
Hilton crk,ca
Aug 9, 2009 - 10:13pm PT
this week Jerry,next week copperheads
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Aug 9, 2009 - 10:15pm PT
I was driving the 14 miles to work, when I heard the radio play non stop dead music, ( they were never a band that got a lot of radio time) I knew what had to be up before I got the news. I still feel it today 14 years later.

I used to have that same poster on my college room wall, Indianclimber. 30 years ago it was retro, and today it's still a classic. Wonder what happened to it.....
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Aug 9, 2009 - 10:31pm PT
any new climbs put up today called 'Capitan Trips'?
EP

Social climber
Way Out There
Aug 9, 2009 - 11:56pm PT
It was the Dead all day.

1980, I am cross country skiing at Crane Flat, I think it was, and camped out in the Valley, maybe Upper Pines. The people across from me were listening to the Dead on the boom box.

Flashback to 1968: summertime at Curry Village. I hear the clank of metal on metal. I see a short, stout climber covered with pitons and bongs walk up and through the pavilion. First time I ever saw a real climber.

Grant Meisenholder

Trad climber
CA
Aug 10, 2009 - 12:44am PT
Friends- Jerry isn't dead. Really. It was just a big put-on to allow him to go back to a peaceful existence. Think about it: Back in '94 the concerts were out of control. People crashing the gates, starting riots, getting busted, couldn't hear the music for all of the people singing. What was the point of putting on a concert if no one was really there to listen? and they were getting banned from multiple sites. The whole drug aspect of the scene was front page news whenever a concert hit town, and the authorities didn't want that going on during their watch.

Jerry was in & out of rehab, but he had just turned a corner and was getting healthy.

My take is that the "powers that be" offered him a way out - Fake his death, go underground, & live happily ever after. I think he's living in the south of France somewhere near R Crumb & just laying low with a new identity. Think about it...
allapah

climber
Aug 30, 2009 - 10:18pm PT
anybody ever find the cassettes i dropped off 4th pitch of Mescalito in 1984?

early eighties girlfriend's father was a Dead-Med, never missed a show, would actually peer-pressure us to go to shows- once there, i resisted the collective consciousness at shows, would not submit to IT, though the jamming was miraculous, all these apparent zombies swaying in unison, resist, resist....

but then, at our first hanging bivouac on Mescalito, we heard a clattering in the night- 11 carefully-chosen cassettes slithering down the wall- gone were Hendrix, Yes, the Doors- we were left with only one cassette for the ensuing 7 days on the wall, the tape that was in the Walkman and so didn't get dropped- Workingman's Dead-

over and over in a continuous loop, bivvies and belays- it didn't get boring- it just kept getting better- Workingman's intermingled with El Cap in my brain- when we got to the top, i knew something had changed- i had joined the body- i was a Deadhead now ...
Bill Mc Kirgan

Trad climber
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Aug 31, 2009 - 12:29am PT
"If you please, don't back up the track this train's got to run today"

Love that speedway boogie, but Cumberland Blues is the first Dead song that hooked me. So many different styles all wrapped up in one band.
d-know

Trad climber
electric lady land
Aug 31, 2009 - 08:39am PT
i had some "legion of mary" bootleg on
cassette tape that was some of
the best j.g. collaboration i've ever
heard!

jerry garcia-guitar
merle saunders-keys
john kahn-bass
martin fierro-sax
paul humphrey-drums

gotta find that on disc.
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Aug 31, 2009 - 08:43am PT
Yeah Jerry and Merle!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvVHXUzbMJw
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 31, 2009 - 12:39pm PT
HEY NOW!
BillO

Boulder climber
Whittier, CA
Aug 31, 2009 - 03:30pm PT
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Nov 19, 2009 - 08:18am PT
so what speaker shared this warrior thought...
who was the original author of the words...
and whom was this tribute about:

'jezzus he was a handsome man.
he used to ride around on white horses,
shooting clay pigeons one two threefourfive justlikethat!
what i wanna know now mr. death,
how do you like your blue-eyed boy NOW?'

it all happened in a show.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Nov 19, 2009 - 09:16am PT
..buffalo bill.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Nov 19, 2009 - 09:30am PT
that is a great dark star, charged im sure by the fellas processing the loss of their friend bill graham.

and.. kesey's charisma during that reading. wow.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Nov 19, 2009 - 09:34am PT
did kesey's son fall off a cliff? as i recall...
BillO

Boulder climber
Whittier, CA
Nov 19, 2009 - 10:34am PT
Just to let you know Zane is alive a kicking in Eugene. That was his brother Jed that was killed coming back from a wrestling tournament, the van he was in crashed on an ice covered road.
Zanes site
http://www.key-z.com/

Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Nov 19, 2009 - 10:37am PT
pate,
10 point deduction for eulogizing wrong brother.

Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Nov 19, 2009 - 10:51am PT
Anyone have the Lyrics (or a full audio/video link) to 'Mama was a Deadhead', by the Rev Billy C Wirz, google search has been problematic....
rockermike

Trad climber
Berkeley
Nov 19, 2009 - 12:18pm PT
my first regular climbing partner was a dead head; and he owned a car. Every f*#king weekend - year round - we'd do a long road trip to somewhere in the Pac NW, and the whole way he'd be smoking pot and listening to Dead music on his 8 track. I don't smoke pot, and I never really got the Dead stuff. oh well. got lots of climbing done. ha

and all my friends these days are ex- dead heads.
Fletcher

Trad climber
Pasadena, CA
Nov 19, 2009 - 12:23pm PT
I just saw the title of this thread and thought it read the "Dead Horse Thread." But that would be about 1/3 of threads recently. LOL!

I've never been much of a Dead fan, but I do appreciate them. Had one back in the day who was (or at least claimed to be) in close with the band. What a crowd that was. You could always find their floor and room at trade shows by the huge billows of hippie lettuce smoke oozing out of it!

Eric
Senor Pinche Wey

Big Wall climber
OB
Nov 19, 2009 - 01:17pm PT
http://www.gdtstoo.com/GDTSTOONewYearsEve0910.html

this is going to be fun...
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Nov 19, 2009 - 02:33pm PT
rocker, "and all my friends these days are ex- dead heads."

ex-deadheads???
Toker Villain

Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
Nov 19, 2009 - 03:22pm PT
An ex dead head is better than a dead X head.




Man am I glad my brother never cut off my ring finger!
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 19, 2009 - 04:27pm PT
Norweege-
classic that you bumped this thread with that Kesey reading,
as Pate and I were JUST talking about that two days ago.
Now THATS some headly sh#t right there.

This is post #87, fitting.
I started seeing the Dead in 87 and climbing too.

The day Jerry died I was sitting in my van in Prescott when
a breeze could be heard whispering through
the pines.
When the zephyr neared
the windchimes on the porch started playing along with
the music in my van,
synchronized perfectly with Eyes of the World.
Maysho

climber
Soda Springs, CA
Nov 19, 2009 - 04:58pm PT
First concert (of any type) I attended was the last Winterland Show New Years 78/79. I was 16. My friend David and I drove down from our weekend/holiday job at Royal Gorge straight to the concert. It went all night, beginning with the Blues Brothers, and New Riders of the Purple Sage. In the morning they served breakfast, then bid us all farewell. Then the pleasant buzz turned sour as we started seeing a lot of broken glass on the streets, and sure enough, young and dumb we didn't foresee the obvious feast for thieves, came back to my car emptied of all our gear, skis, even my climbing pack and camera. Big bummer. Great show though!

Peter
Toker Villain

Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
Nov 19, 2009 - 10:51pm PT
They stole my box of 70 eight track tapes while at a Crosby, Stills, & Nash concert in Denver (the same guys??)
Probably did me a favor (still have my cassettes FWIW)
yosguns

climber
Durham, NC
Nov 19, 2009 - 11:06pm PT

I started seeing the Dead in 87, too. I was the baby in this pre-show family photo. Dylan and the Dead somewhere, some time in 87. Last show for me was MSG, September 1994.

The day Jerry died was the first time I saw my dad cry.

I caught the Dead this summer in Mountain View. It was...interesting to say the least. It reminded me of childhood a bit.

EDIT: Said hello to Zane there, too. Just to say, he is alive and well. Here's a weird one, from Kesey's friend, Ken Babbs: http://www.skypilotclub.com/

Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Nov 20, 2009 - 12:04am PT
A shot from the early days.

'Pass the Pitons' Pete

Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
Nov 20, 2009 - 12:10am PT
Those of us who aren't "in the know" - perhaps 98% of the readership - might be interested in knowing who is in the photo above....

Oh my gosh, this is frickin' hilarious:


Hasn't our own Dave Diegelman seen this??? I don't see a Double D post here! Someone tell him!
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Nov 20, 2009 - 03:53am PT
DD was perhaps skinnier in those days....
EP

Social climber
Way Out There
Nov 20, 2009 - 09:02am PT
Jerry, Pipgpen, Lesh, Weir, Kreutzmann from left to right in the picture.
Saw Pigpen's last show as my first at the Hollywood Bowl in 1972.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Nov 20, 2009 - 11:22am PT
I always think Kruetzman looks like Bill Murray in that photo.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 20, 2009 - 01:41pm PT
Hey Maysho-
Are you aware that the Winterland show you saw
is available on DVD? Classic stuff.

...the weather down here, so fine.

Nomad_Andrew

Trad climber
West Coast (usually)
Nov 20, 2009 - 01:48pm PT
Remember www.speedingarrow.net ? Is there a mirror site somewhere? I miss access to all those great soundboards.
Nomad_Andrew

Trad climber
West Coast (usually)
Nov 20, 2009 - 01:59pm PT
OK wow thanks. There goes the weekend!
d-know

Trad climber
electric lady land
Nov 20, 2009 - 02:14pm PT
miss the whole scene. preshow parking lot
gatherings were unique. reconnecting with
heads. saw some bizzare things.

at a show in seattle i never felt the ground
after i left the parkinglot.

at one show
some guy (i think) was skippin' around handing
out handfuls of fungus for free from
a backpack..

tho not a confirmed head, 15 or so shows,
was well on my way 'till jerry left
us for some other biz.

the only times i felt like i
was truly part of a tribe.

good times.
Nomad_Andrew

Trad climber
West Coast (usually)
Nov 20, 2009 - 02:16pm PT
I can only stream, can't download. Has it been this way for a while?
Nomad_Andrew

Trad climber
West Coast (usually)
Nov 20, 2009 - 02:20pm PT
Righteous! I really appreciate it.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Nov 20, 2009 - 03:32pm PT
What's the point in callin' shots
this cue ain't straight in line.
Cue ball's made of styrofoam
and no one's got the time ...


What's your favorite lyric?
yosguns

climber
Durham, NC
Nov 20, 2009 - 03:41pm PT
Lyrics for all sorts of days... I've liked this one recently:

Flight of the sea birds,
scattered like lost words;
wield to the storm and fly.



Sleep
in the stars
Don't you cry
Dry your eyes
on the wind



And, of course:

While the firelight's aglow
strange shadows in the flames will grow
till things we've never seen
will seem familiar

yosguns

climber
Durham, NC
Nov 20, 2009 - 04:25pm PT
I'm gonna go all hippie on you, sorry. Are there any older children of Dead Heads out there?

I was struck at the Dead show this past May when I saw all these young 20-something-year-olds, and felt like I had been reunited with a certain part of my family that had disappeared from my life. I'd imagine that some of those 20-something-year-olds were kids at shows in the 80's/90's and I felt like there was a real possibility that I had run around with some of them as a little kid.

Running around on a lawn in the dusk of a show seems like it would be idyllic for little kids (if you forget all the inappropriate things that go on at shows, which I know a lot of people who don't get the scene can't do, and that's ok).

I know for me, as a little kid at music festivals (not just Dead shows), it was so fun to jump around to music and find other little kids. My parents were pretty responsible once they had kids. I'm sure at least a few people here would question bringing a toddler to a Dead show, but I don't think it was inappropriate. For better or for worse, it controlled a really large part of my development in that the folklore perpetuated in many Grateful Dead songs (biblical allusions, rose and goddess imagery) became the foundation of a great part of my spirituality. (I almost feel like an experiment, actually.) I'd guess it would be hard not to incorporate those things into adult life if the music was the background of a lot of childhood.

I think somehow it's connected to having started climbing, too...since I see some similarities in the communities.
Rudyj2

Trad climber
UT
Nov 20, 2009 - 04:32pm PT


Some come to laugh their past away
Some come to make it just one more day
Whichever way your pleasure tends
If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind




BillO

Boulder climber
Whittier, CA
Nov 20, 2009 - 05:19pm PT
Delilah Jones was the mother of twins,
Two times over and the rest were sins.
Raised eight boys, only I turned bad,
Didn't get the lickin's that the other ones had.

Brown-eyed women and red grenadine,
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down,
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on.

one more

When I awoke, the Dire Wolf, six hundred pounds of sin,
Was grinning at my window, all I said was "Come on in".
Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me. Please, don't murder me.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Nov 20, 2009 - 05:32pm PT
I can show you
a High Time!



Garcia aiding some bad-boy (from the old J-Tree guide)
yosguns

climber
Durham, NC
Nov 20, 2009 - 05:41pm PT
Pate--

Mostly Northeast shows, and by the time I was around they had "real" jobs, so weren't touring. Parents are from upstate New York and I grew up in CT. I know I had never been to a show on the West Coast before this past May. But, if you were at shows on the East Coast '80-'85, your paths probably crossed. :)

Cheers,
Allyson
BillO

Boulder climber
Whittier, CA
Nov 20, 2009 - 06:14pm PT
Toker Villain

Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
Nov 20, 2009 - 07:58pm PT
7 Dead shows including Watkins Glen, 600,000 people (including the skydiver that biffed).
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Nov 20, 2009 - 08:35pm PT
I used to go on long backpacking trips and schedule things so we'd come out on the day of a Dead show.

Talk about weird culture shock!

Miss those guys...
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Nov 21, 2009 - 06:09pm PT
Even the comparatively mediocre Dead albums like Wake of the Flood have some really fantastic Hunter/ Garcia songs like Eyes of the World.

Right outside this lazy summer home
you ain't got time to call your soul a critic no.
Right outside the lazy gate of winter's summer home,
wond'rin' where the nuthatch winters,
wings a mile long just carried the bird away.

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world,
the heart has it's beaches, it's homeland and thoughts of it's own.
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the mornin' brings,
But the heart has it's seasons, it's evenin's and songs of it's own.

There comes a redeemer, and he slowly too fades away,
And there follows his wagon behind him that's loaded with clay.
And the seeds that were silent all burst into bloom, and decay,
and night comes so quiet, it's close on the heels of the day.

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world,
the heart has it's beaches, it's homeland and thoughts of it's own.
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the mornin' brings,
But the heart has it's seasons, it's evenin's and songs of it's own.

Sometimes we live no particular way but our own,
And sometimes we visit your country and live in your home,
sometimes we ride on your horses, sometimes we walk alone,
sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own.

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world,
the heart has it's beaches, it's homeland and thoughts of it's own.
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the mornin' brings,
But the heart has it's seasons, it's evenin's and songs of it's own.

Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Nov 21, 2009 - 06:16pm PT
I think that's the point. there's something to be taken from each and every one, of those.

From time to time I hear clips in my head from some of those songs that I used to think I didn't even like.

Sort of inevitable that 'Touch of Gray' keeps growing on me...
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Nov 21, 2009 - 07:42pm PT
Kinda' suits you, anyway.....
socalbolter

Sport climber
Silverado, CA
Nov 21, 2009 - 11:30pm PT
As someone who appreciates the Dead's music and has several friends who followed the band whenever possible, I'm curious as to how you all feel about PHISH?

Are they continuing what the Dead started, or doing their own thing?

Do you consider yourselves fans of them also, or are the fan bases of the two bands more segregated?

Just curious...

Gary

climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Nov 22, 2009 - 12:01am PT
Saw them in '74 at the old Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis. It was a great show, part of the Wake of the Flood Tour. They did a great job on Tennessee Jed that night.

They lost a lot when Pigpen died, though. They were never the same.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Nov 22, 2009 - 03:13am PT
He made the cover of the Laramie Boomerang, tragically.......
d-know

Trad climber
electric lady land
Nov 22, 2009 - 11:40am PT
yes pigpen!!!

not the dead, but mother mccree's:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4MZG8Hr6_Q

pigpen singin' and on harmonica.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Nov 22, 2009 - 01:55pm PT
I used to deny this, since I only went to maybe 30 shows, even though I pretty much know which lyric follows nother, or what song is coming up, from the intro.....


My name is Jay, I AM a Deadhead.....
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Nov 22, 2009 - 01:59pm PT
Or Maybe, "Hey now"....
Rhodo-Router

Gym climber
obsessively minitracking all winter at Knob Hill
Nov 22, 2009 - 03:28pm PT
Hartford, 1988. It was cold. I remember a tank..
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Nov 22, 2009 - 05:42pm PT
A couple of items on my bathroom wall...

Pie

Trad climber
So-Cal
Nov 23, 2009 - 02:18pm PT
seen 6 phish shows this year, they are rippin right now.
Heard cincy raged..
cintune

climber
the Moon and Antarctica
Nov 24, 2009 - 04:33pm PT
"Out on the mountain, it'll drive you insane, Listening to the winds howl."
Argon

climber
North Bay, CA
Nov 24, 2009 - 06:16pm PT
Mark Karan gave a great performance at a small club in Sausalito Friday. He has recovered from throat cancer and has a new CD out - and is playing wonderfully. Like the Dead of old, Mark and his band played till 1:30AM. Bob Weir showed up at midnight and played a few songs. He even brought his dad with him.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Nov 24, 2009 - 06:42pm PT
Got a link?
Tobia

Social climber
GA
Nov 24, 2009 - 07:30pm PT

The pictures above were taken before I saw the Dead in both New Orleans and Atlanta a few years after they quit using the infamous "Wall of Sound". If interested, there are some pretty cool articles floating around the net about the technology curve and expense the Dead went through to put on a good show. Something like 800 individual McKintosh amplifiers, JBL speakers and Phil Lesh's bass having a quadrophonic setup with separate channels for each string. Another interesting reason for using a system like this is that it was essentially distortion free and they heard the same sound the audience did (no monitors).
I think they quit using this system in 1974 about 4 years before I ever saw them perform. None the less this looks like a thread where someone might appreciate the pics.
BillO

Boulder climber
Whittier, CA
Nov 24, 2009 - 10:15pm PT
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Nov 25, 2009 - 10:23pm PT
real time dance party.

my girls and i just smiled while wiggling to a darkstar from another halloween show: 10/31/71 in Colombus, ohio.

here we is, aint they sweeet.


jerry continues to give and give.

thank you ol fella!
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Nov 25, 2009 - 11:14pm PT
Papa Dancing Bear!
cintune

climber
the Moon and Antarctica
Nov 28, 2009 - 04:09pm PT
Bound to cover just a little more ground.
Double D

climber
Dec 1, 2009 - 09:51pm PT
Dig the T-shirt...someone once gave me one. I'd probably still have it (as well as all my T-shirts from high school) but my wife kindly updates and discards on a regular basis.

drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 3, 2009 - 11:40am PT
No time to hate.

Rudyj2

Trad climber
UT
Dec 3, 2009 - 04:00pm PT


Shadow boxing the apocalypse
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Dec 3, 2009 - 04:38pm PT
"was it for this my life i sought?
maybe so or maybe not."

umm, or was that...

"let your life proceed by its own design"

Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 3, 2009 - 10:13pm PT
" Blues for ajjah,
In'shallah"

"one man gathers
what another man spills."
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Dec 6, 2009 - 02:15pm PT
when the first chords of the ripple hit your ears...

you just gotta smile. you just gotta because sometimes there is nothing sweeter that the boys playin in their band.

then jerry's vocals follow....

that path is for.... your ears alone.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 6, 2009 - 02:21pm PT
though sometimes I saw it through my crazy fingers.
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Dec 6, 2009 - 03:32pm PT


Stranger ones have come by here, before they flew away.....
cintune

climber
the Moon and Antarctica
Dec 6, 2009 - 03:36pm PT
http://addictedtovinyl.com/blog/2009/11/29/the-12-boots-of-christmas-how-about-sandals/
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Dec 6, 2009 - 10:14pm PT
Driven by the wind...

Like the dust that blows around....

Rain fallin' down, rain fallin' down....



HOLES IN WHAT'S LEFT OF MY REASON!
HOLES IN THE KNEES OF MY BLUES!
ODDS AGAINST ME BEEN INCREASIN', BUT I'LL PULL THROUGH!
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 7, 2009 - 01:24am PT
At what other rock concert would you ever see fans actually cleaning up the parking lot???
Once,in the midwest, I was doing my part cleaning up the trash in my immediate vicinty, when up putts Bill Graham on his bapper and hands me a ticket to the next show. Pretty cool.

In my later years seeing the Dead, I saw a dude get struck by lightning. That's Vegas for ya.
"If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will."
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 7, 2009 - 01:40am PT
That's the vibe, drljefe!

In the next incarnation of the armbar ranch, I'm plunking down a vintage wooden wagon wheel, and having american beauty roses twine through it. Wherever I, go, the people All, complain...
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 7, 2009 - 01:55am PT
I once walked from Shoreline to El Camino Real.
How far is that anyway?

Passin' me by
the buses and semis
plungin' like stones
from a slingshot on mars.
Tobia

Social climber
GA
Dec 7, 2009 - 08:48pm PT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vIlRY7277E&feature=related
It Hurts Me Too...
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Dec 7, 2009 - 09:26pm PT
"Shadow boxing the apocalypse"

Now there's a tune that just kinda disappeared! Not even on any of the box sets, My Bro.

After High School, I moved up to the Santa Rosa area for some schoolin'. A bunch of really great luthiers lived up there, including Doug Irwin. We used to go over to his studio to check out his stuff, totally incredible. That man could do inlays like a Japanese ninja. He showed us Pete Sears' bass, complete with a dragon snaking up the neck and red LEDs for the eyes. He said he was trying to figure out a way to make smoke come out of the dragon's nostrils, which was at the headstock.

I asked him how much it would cost to build me a guitar. He looked around and picked up a gutted out ax from his "in" rack and said "one like this would cost you about $1500." The thing had no strings or electronics, and I held it there for a second and looked down at the amazing inlay of The Wolf. Holy fcuk. I ran my hand up and down the neck, kinda wowed. Doug chuckled. He'd taken off the sticker ("it was pealing off") and inlaid a replica, it was absolute and beautiful. He said Jerry was gonna sh#t when he saw the work. I'm like .... a broke college student who couldn't find the scratch to have Doug build me one. Shucks. Alembic studios was up there too, as well as some other very talented builders.

drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 8, 2009 - 12:57am PT
Thanks K Man.

Doug Irwin"s personal story is really cool, as was his relationship with Jerry. After the Wolf Jerry wanted another guitar and told Irwin "don't hold back". The result was Tiger. Those were a couple of amazing guitars.

I named my dog Rosebud....
Rudyj2

Trad climber
UT
Dec 8, 2009 - 09:17am PT
Yeah, My Brother Esau definitely fell out of favor sometime in the late 80's. Great song, love the lyrics. IMO one of the best of the first set Weir songs.

My brother Esau killed a hunter
Back in 1969
And before the killing was done,
His inheritance was mine.
But his birthright was a wand to wave
Before a weary band.
Esau gave me sleeplessness
And a piece of moral land.

My father favored Esau,
Who was eager to obey
All the bloody wild commandments
The Old Man shot his way.
But all this favor ended
When my brother failed at war.
He staggered home
And found me in the door.

[Chorus:]
Esau skates on mirrors anymore...
He meets his pale reflection at the door.
Yet sometimes at night I dream
He's still that hairy man,
Shadowboxing the Apocalypse
And wandering the land.
Shadowboxing the Apocalypse
And wandering the land.

Esau holds a blessing;
Brother Esau bears a curse.
I would say that the blame is mine
But I suspect it's something worse.
The more my brother looks like me,
The less I understand
The silent war that bloodied both our hands.
Sometimes at night, I think I understand.

It's brother to brother and it's man to man
And it's face to face and it's hand to hand...
We shadowdance the silent war within.
The shadowdance, it never ends...
Never ends, never ends.
Shadowboxing the Apocalypse, yet again...
Yet again.
Shadowboxing the Apocalypse,
And wandering the land.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Dec 8, 2009 - 11:23am PT
My Brother Esau is also the B-side of the Touch of Grey single. The Studio version, of course. That's where I know it from.

Silly me, I didn't even realize they did it live much. I'll have to check my DPs for some satisfaction!
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Dec 13, 2009 - 01:56pm PT
"well, I say... my dog has got no nose!"


"oh, yea, well how does he smell?"








...

"bloomin awwwful."
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 16, 2009 - 04:20pm PT
Nice, Norweege.

"From now on we're gonna call ourselves "The Just Exactly Perfect Brothers Band"



Hey, let's not forget Brent.
Man, I loved that guys songs, voice, and the energy he brought.
It always seemed Jer felt the same.



Spider Savage

Mountain climber
SoCal
Dec 17, 2009 - 01:34am PT
... And a Grateful New Year!
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 17, 2009 - 01:43am PT
I have a red T-shirt with the Image that Pate posted that says "be good for goodness sake!"
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Dec 17, 2009 - 09:27am PT
those yungin's teaching me once again HOW to live,

they understand dance from the get go. they understand what jerry softly lays down under their feet:


Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 17, 2009 - 01:58pm PT
The front hood medallion on my 20 yr old Saab is hopelessly faded. I would like to cover it with a tasteful, understated, Lightning bolt Skull It is just over1.75' across, I just measured it it. any phots of where to get a decal that size, and how coat it to survive the weather (report)? suite!

I think I asked this before, and Drljefe did send me a really cool tour decal that I'm hanging on to. but this is a fairly narrow, specialized, search. RI've been to Rasputin's and Annapurna, on telegraph without finding exactly what I need.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 17, 2009 - 02:21pm PT
Jaybro- Official Stealies come in a few sizes.
http://store.dead.net/stickers/syf-circle-sticker

There used to be those metal ones that were bomber, but may not conform to a convex hood ornament.


Just in time for XMas- howz about a Stagger Lee.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJP7BKzu32M

This murder ballad has a long and rich folklore history.
And it just plain kicks ass.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 17, 2009 - 02:37pm PT
There is even a Clash (or is it Black 47?) Stagger Lee song.

Hmm, the 1.6" would probably be perfect, thanks for the link! and the thread.
cintune

climber
the Moon and Antarctica
Dec 17, 2009 - 02:40pm PT
It's an old blues standard, but Hunter gave it new life for sure; the version on Jack of Roses beats all.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 17, 2009 - 03:08pm PT
Wiki spray-
Lee Shelton (March 16, 1865 - March 11, 1912) was an African American cab driver and pimp[1] convicted of murdering William "Billy" Lyons on Christmas Eve, 1895 in St. Louis, Missouri. The crime was immortalized in a popular song that has been recorded by numerous artists.

William Lyons, 25, a levee hand, was shot in the abdomen yesterday evening at 10 o'clock in the saloon of Bill Curtis, at Eleventh and Morgan Streets, by Lee Sheldon, a carriage driver. Lyons and Sheldon were friends and were talking together. Both parties, it seems, had been drinking and were feeling in exuberant spirits. The discussion drifted to politics, and an argument was started, the conclusion of which was that Lyons snatched Sheldon's hat from his head. The latter indignantly demanded its return. Lyons refused, and Sheldon withdrew his revolver and shot Lyons in the abdomen. When his victim fell to the floor Sheldon took his hat from the hand of the wounded man and coolly walked away. He was subsequently arrested and locked up at the Chestnut Street Station. Lyons was taken to the Dispensary, where his wounds were pronounced serious. Lee Sheldon is also known as 'Stag' Lee.[3]

Hunters take-
1940 Xmas evening with a full moon over town
Staggerlee met Billy DeLyon
and he blew that poor boy down
Do you know what he shot him for?
What do you make of that?
'Cause Billy DeLyon threw lucky dice,
won Staggelee's Stetson hat

Baio, Baio, tell me how can this be?
You arrest the girls for turning tricks
but you're scared of Staggerlee
Staggerlee is a madman and he shot my Billy dead
Baio you go get him or give the job to me


Delia DeLyon, dear sweet Delia-D
How the hell can I arrest him when he's twice as big as me?
Don't ask me to go downtown - I wouldn't come back alive
Not only is that mother big but he packs a .45


Baio Delia said just give me a gun
He shot my Billy dead now I'm gonna see him hung
She waded to DeLyon's Club through Billy DeLyon's blood
Stepped up to Staggerlee at the bar
Said Buy me a gin fizz, love


As Staggerlee lit a cigarette she shot him in the balls
Blew the smoke off her revolver, had him dragged to city hall
Baio, Baio, see you hang him high
He shot my Billy dead and now he's got to die


Delia went a walking down on Singapore Street
A three-piece band on the corner played "Nearer, My God, to Thee"
but Delia whistled a different tune...what tune could it be?


The song that woman sung was Look out Staggerlee
The song that Delia sung was Look out Staggerlee
The song that woman sung was Look out Staggerlee
The song that Delia sung was Look out Staggerlee




cintune

climber
the Moon and Antarctica
Dec 17, 2009 - 04:04pm PT
Good answer. Posted this before, but a girl I know/knew claims to have seen Jerry passed out under the boardwalk at Atlantic City... with a bottle of Anisette in his hand... and a bodyguard-type dude just hanging out next to him, looking nonchalant. And gotta say that Sara-to-go show is pretty great;
http://www.archive.org/details/gd85-06-27.sbd.clugston.6104.sbeok.shnf
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Dec 17, 2009 - 04:15pm PT
jerry-me,

you probably just don't comprehend noise well.

maybe silence such as discord between two rocks sounds to you like the sun turning on itself, or

maybe darkness lights your path, or extinguishes your vital flame.

probably, i'll just piss my pants and keep on trucking.. right home to my sweeeet girls.

do ya get it now?


see,
it is not clear,
tho opacity is enlightening.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 17, 2009 - 04:49pm PT
That Was, a good answer Pate.

Jeremy you don't have to be so defensive, nobody is trying to make you be on the bus. Many otherwise reasonable people arent.If the music doesn't work for you, that's that. i'm sure there is some music in your own life that you'get' better than most of your friends, same deal.
You question is like asking what does a banana taste like.
Let it go.

Watching for that PM, Pate
Jay bro five one three at mac dot calm
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 17, 2009 - 05:23pm PT
It's not that we don't want to explain, it's just I don't think it can be done. If it works for you you don't have to task.

The rhythms, the songs, the guitar solos, the Lyrics, the drums, the second set experimentations, the jazz-like improvesational nature?
-does that help ? it's like trying to write a musical score in words...

"Sometimes we live no particular way but our own" says it as well as anything...

On to St Stephen
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Dec 17, 2009 - 05:23pm PT
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds do a great version of Stagger Lee especially on video!

There is nothing to suddenly "get" about the Dead any more than there is about a Motherwell painting...You like...you don't like...do what you like, that's what you're like!?! Capice?

Variety is good, even if you only end up with one Smurfette!
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Dec 17, 2009 - 08:16pm PT
Phil sez:

A funny thing happened to me on the way to the show...
I got picked up.


Tha-dump.


PS. Jeremy, what kinda of music do you like?
With the Dead, there's a certain attention that you have to give to appreciate it...At least that's what I've found.

My brother used to play them incessantly. I couldn't stand it, but I went to a show with him anyway (turned out to be Pig's last show...). I couldn't think straight for a week--and no, I was like 13 and totally straight for the show.

I have an idea. Check out this web page, and listed to the Hard to Handle...

http://www.archive.org/details/gd1971-08-06.aud.kaslow.smith.94261.flac16

Or, maybe not...
Peggy-o

Social climber
Kingsburg ca
Dec 18, 2009 - 01:09pm PT
So glad to see a Dead thread! When I hung out with my Bro and the some of the stonemaster's they ribbed me for liking the dead. As I recall, someone threw an 8 track of Dead out my car window as we sped down HWY 10 towards josh. Richard??? LOL!
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 18, 2009 - 01:15pm PT
One time in Camp 4 I was trying to interest Yabo in a spare pair of EB's I had, ( I needed gas money)
We sat down in my car to check 'em out, I had some live tape going.
"Here let me turn it down..."
"No, just turn it off..."
he didn't buy the shoes, either.
Peggy-o

Social climber
Kingsburg ca
Dec 18, 2009 - 02:36pm PT
LOL! I remember getting a letter from camp 4 ('74) and the author went on and on about the routes etc and closed with...well keep on riding those horses and listening to that %#@% music! Good times...
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 18, 2009 - 02:48pm PT
Too, Funny!
Peggy-o

Social climber
Kingsburg ca
Dec 18, 2009 - 03:06pm PT
I just showed this to my HS science kids who finished their final...they got a kick out of it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y3CafoJ2mo

They howled "old school hippies!"

That's right..."hippie chicks rule"
Peggy-o

Social climber
Kingsburg ca
Dec 18, 2009 - 03:23pm PT



drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2009 - 03:24pm PT
Thanks Peggy O!
Just one of many classic moments from "The Grateful Dead Movie.
Funny, when I was a grommet I dosed on the way to the video store to rent The Movie for the first time.
It took everything My friend and I took to get out of that store WITH the video. Funky night.
The Dead Movie set the standard for documenting a rock show, much less, the culture of heads. The way the sound is synched with the different cameras is still cool today.
And the animation! EVERYBODY remembers the animation!

Just a little reply to Jeremy who posted upthread about "not getting it".
Jeremy- you climb MUD, right?
THAT I just don't get. That's what makes climbing, music, art...the WORLD go 'round.

Same with OWs- which makes jaybro espescially demented...a widefetish deadhead. DUDE, issues!!!
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 18, 2009 - 03:31pm PT
Peggy, if I played that for my special ed kids over the years, I'd get the whole spectrum. Bunches of them would bob in their chairs, psyched for the input. Others would question my contemporaenity. Most of them would get a charge out of the fact that whatever it was, it moved me. it's rewarding to interact with others at this level.

Har! Deljefe!
and Joyeux (sp) Noel, all!

Peggy-o

Social climber
Kingsburg ca
Dec 18, 2009 - 03:44pm PT
Sp ED and the dead...LOL! Like me and my gangsters..yo!
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2009 - 03:50pm PT

Here's the animation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR7prgyEqZM
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 18, 2009 - 04:27pm PT
Thanks, Drlj, that was the miracle I, needed, today.

Show of hanz those that strolled past the Hotel Mars, BITD! I never went inside, ( Was Terry Gilliam involved in that animation?)

Youal realize we are alienating ourselves Further from Jeremy and others? Hopefully they can catch the next bus.....
Rudyj2

Trad climber
UT
Dec 18, 2009 - 04:34pm PT

What a long strange trip it's been........and still is.

http://www.furthur.net/
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 18, 2009 - 04:47pm PT
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own.
WBraun

climber
Dec 18, 2009 - 04:50pm PT
Dead Head

Means he has no brain left in his head?

Dead brain?
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 18, 2009 - 05:38pm PT
Werner, werner, werner....
BillO

Boulder climber
Whittier, CA
Dec 20, 2009 - 09:28pm PT
Slight OT note on Ken Kesey
On top of Mt. Pisgah is a monument made for Ken's son Jed Kesey and Lorenzo West who lost their lives in an Oregon Wrestling van accident. The bronze monument has two long vertical openings one of which the sun shines through on the Summer Solstice the other during the Winter Solstice. It took a team of professors from Oregon weeks to get the alignment just right....It is quite a thing to behold.
Rhodo-Router

Gym climber
obsessively minitracking all winter at Knob Hill
Dec 21, 2009 - 12:03am PT
Jesus, he was a handsome man!



http://www.archive.org/details/gd1991-10-31.mtx.haugh.gems.102251.flac24
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 21, 2009 - 02:26pm PT
Bound to cover just a little more ground.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 21, 2009 - 03:41pm PT
and it can't stop now
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 23, 2009 - 01:45pm PT
BIODTL
GDTRFB
FOTD
NFA
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Dec 23, 2009 - 02:17pm PT
i know a deadhead when i see one.

Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 24, 2009 - 09:15am PT
It doesn't look, like a china doll....
cintune

climber
the Moon and Antarctica
Dec 24, 2009 - 10:16am PT
That's a hurdy-gurdy?
I always thought it was the thing the organ-grinders with the monkeys had.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 24, 2009 - 10:22am PT
I hadda cheat,but would not have known, otherwise
aka a Wheel fiddle...
Gobee

Trad climber
Los Angeles
Dec 31, 2009 - 10:05pm PT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtvf2erbL-U&feature=related
Grateful Dead New Years Eve 12-31-85
Bill Mc Kirgan

Trad climber
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Jan 2, 2010 - 04:54pm PT
the compass always points to terrapin...

drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2010 - 10:10am PT
Check my pulse, it don't change,
stays 72, come shine or rain!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPBLfzTPCDc
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jan 16, 2010 - 01:06pm PT
high green chilly winds and windy vines
In loops around the twisted shafts of lavender
They're crawiling to the sun.

underfoot the ground is patched
With arms of ivy wrapped around manzanita,
Stark and shiny in the breeze.


Wonder who will water all the children of the garden
When they sigh about the barren lack of rain and
Droop so hungry neath the sky.

William Tell has stretched his bow till it won't stretch
No furthermore and/or it may require a change that hasn't come before.


No more time to tell how, this is the season of what,
Now is the time of returning with our thought
Jewels polished and gleaming.
Now is the time past believing the child has relinquished the rein,
Now is the test of the boomerang tossed in the night of redeeming.


Seven faced marble eyed transitory dream doll,
Six proud walkers on the jingle bell rainbow,
Five men writing with fingers of gold,
Four men tracking down the great white sperm whale,
Three girls waiting in a foregign dominion
Riding the whalebelly, fade away in moonlight,
Sink beneath the waters to coral sands below.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jan 16, 2010 - 01:16pm PT
What a great photo! -the first one-I don't remember ever seeing that one.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 16, 2010 - 01:18pm PT
!!!11eleven11!!!
Bill Mc Kirgan

Trad climber
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Jan 16, 2010 - 01:23pm PT
Dizzy ain't the word for the way that you're makin' me feel now
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 16, 2010 - 01:24pm PT
Anyone done Supplication?
Bill Mc Kirgan

Trad climber
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Jan 16, 2010 - 07:24pm PT
Tell me a lie and I will swear,


I'll swear it's true.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jan 16, 2010 - 10:02pm PT
i harness and explore absurd venues. physical and mental. in a domestic culture, only the absurd is worthy of our potential.

understimulated, our creative thrust is left dry-humping commonality.

you gotta go WAY out there to thrive.

that was jerry's golden attribute. he stretched expecation. his and ours.

walls in winter? sneider is there. and his soul thrives.

commuting from your lazy boy to your suv to your office chair.. you embody surrender. you are not thriving.

bring on the absurdity.

dark star - other one - st. stephen - eleven - uncle john's tease - ...does it really ever end? i mean the flow of forgiveness.

into your venue, introduce absurdity.

im there all ways. my pulse quickens and my journey to beyond hastens. but im there. trying to report..
Bill Mc Kirgan

Trad climber
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Jan 16, 2010 - 10:40pm PT
I'm gonna sing you a hundred verses in ragtime
I know this song it ain't never gonna end
I'm gonna march you up and down the local county line
Take you to the leader of the band

I miss the chill up my spine
sharing the experience with the heads
spinning, realing, oneness....

The kind veggie stirfry
the occasional blair of the freight train horn

They made us family and I still get it listening to the bootlegs
...which they always encouraged





Rhodo-Router

Gym climber
obsessively minitracking all winter at Knob Hill
Jan 16, 2010 - 11:28pm PT
I Supplicated just this afternoon, as a matter of fact.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jan 17, 2010 - 01:14am PT
I ran into Shipoop today, heard him call out my name then he come over and give me a hug. He is definitely grateful for, and moved by, the taco love of late.

"Inspiration!"
Watusi

Social climber
Newport, OR
Jan 18, 2010 - 01:50am PT
Jerry Forever!!
Bill Mc Kirgan

Trad climber
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Jan 18, 2010 - 09:41am PT
Luv that hippie kitten on the bus

ready to go furthur




Hey...check this out....

http://www.furthur.net/

They're playin TheEleven
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Jan 18, 2010 - 10:20am PT

It's only fractured.


Just a little nervous from the fall.................
D Shotwell

Social climber
Wanaka, New Zealand
Jan 18, 2010 - 02:58pm PT
Thanks Jerry,
Jefe, and all who've posted here.
.... continuing the journey..
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jan 18, 2010 - 03:12pm PT
what a cool Bass, even for a 'deadbase'
Rudyj2

Trad climber
UT
Jan 18, 2010 - 03:19pm PT
Went to see the captain
strangest I could find
Layed my proposition down
Layed it on the line;
I won't slave for beggar's pay
likewise gold and jewels
but I would slave to learn the way
to sink your ship of fools....
Bill Mc Kirgan

Trad climber
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Jan 21, 2010 - 03:17pm PT
Pate,

Just read your story about Alpina and it made me smile and broke my heart all at the same time: ..."mewing in the dust and dodging tires".

She looks great in that picture, and it sounds like she had a wonderful life.



Rudyj2

Trad climber
UT
Jan 21, 2010 - 09:07pm PT
Saw your first ship sink and drown
from rocking of the boat
and all that could not sink or swim
was just left there to float
I won't leave you drifting down
but woah it makes me wild
with thirty years upon my head
to have you call me child
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jan 23, 2010 - 09:56am PT
...with every bag comes a mystery pill.

oh. thanks.

gobble boggle.

dancing on the flanks of mt. shasta i'm.

then billy says over the mic, "i wanted to warn everyone out there of some brown acid that's said to be floating around." i stop in my tracks. then the boys begin a series of feedback sounds and i begin to worry a little, then a lot.

my girlfriend sees my grin being murdered and puts two and two together.

she tells me its a joke... the whole brown acid song. then im happy again on mt shasta.
Bubba Ho-Tep

climber
Evergreen, CO
Jan 30, 2010 - 01:05pm PT
For those of you who also like the poster art that went along with these shows:

https://www.fillmoreposter.com/search.php?pageNum_products=0&search=grateful dead

Some of the best art of the 60's and 70's was produced for Dead shows.



Disclaimer: I happen to own the website so if this is considered to be too commercial of a post, I will remove it.....
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 1, 2010 - 04:08pm PT
HE'S GONE




































...I wish
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 1, 2010 - 04:19pm PT
Do not use my real name here.

Refer to me now as Ice Cream Kid.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 10, 2010 - 04:30pm PT
Happy Chinese New Year!

No one's noticed but the band's all packed and gone,
were they ever here at all???
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Feb 10, 2010 - 04:56pm PT
Oh yeah, they were definitely here.

I've got the psychedelic scars to prove it!!

Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Feb 10, 2010 - 05:47pm PT
Ready for tooling!

survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Feb 10, 2010 - 06:10pm PT
Yeah Jay, that's definitely a please tool me sticker!

I trained a lot of L.E. guys back in the day and it was maddening that Dead stickers was actually part of their training and a "for sure bust."
Ricardo Cabeza

climber
All Over.
Feb 19, 2010 - 03:04pm PT
I just saw Further last night in Manchester NH.

It was a pretty cool show. Phil and Bobby are playing really well!
I forget the guys name, but the one who plays Jerry in Dark Star Orchestra was on fire as well!

Great show, good vibe, no hassle from security if you were smoking.
The scene on shakedown after the show was pretty funny, many tanks of nitrous on the street, next to the cops and the cops didn't seem to care! I don't do that hippie crack, but it was amusing to see.

The one thing I thought was odd was standing in the aisle, looking for our friends, we got yelled at by a couple of old guys to keep moving.
Sheesh, the nerve!

Seeing them again makes me want to head back out on tour.
EdBannister

Mountain climber
CA
Feb 19, 2010 - 06:14pm PT
Randy Hankins then in charge of US import and distribution for LaSportiva had my favorite response when asked about the dead:
" I'll be grateful when they are all dead."

I like Jerry's ties though.
Peggy-o

Social climber
Kingsburg ca
Feb 19, 2010 - 06:23pm PT
Either you like the Dead or not...38 years later I still like them. Never cared if the "population" did.
Can't stand at a Dead show?? When did that change...It use to be you stood during the show and sat at intermission!
Even when they are all dead...the music will never stop.
Peggy-o

Social climber
Kingsburg ca
Feb 19, 2010 - 06:51pm PT
LOL! I always worked and always bathed...I do remember becoming disenchanted with the "scene" when I heard some deadhead belittle a fellow concert goer for not wearing the standard dead wear...She had shoes with some heel and the guy bellowed when she stumbled "get some flats". Jerks in all walks of life.
72hw

Trad climber
Pasadena, CA
Feb 19, 2010 - 07:39pm PT
I quit jobs for shows but always had another lined up when I got back.

I got fed up with the scene at Deer Creek back in 93 when not once, but thrice in the same day, I was offered crack out on Shakedown. That and it just seemed like the party was the focus - one in ten thousand, huh?

Saw The Dead here in Los Angeles last year however, and it kinda kicked a whole lot of ass!

drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 19, 2010 - 07:39pm PT
Sportivas never fit me anyway.

During the "Mega Dead" era it became just as trendy to hate the Dead as it was to love them(or at least the scene)"

In the mid 80's I was the only Head in my entire high school of 3000 kids, but a few teachers knew what was up. I would ditch friday and power it all the way to the Bay area from Tucson, see three shows and power it home, in time to show up for a few monday afternoon classes. One teacher, knowing damn well why I was so frizzlefried and tiedyed made me sing Touch of Grey in front of the Whole class, just to make me pay.
I saw my first period PE teacher at a show on what was the second day of school. I told him I had seen him, he sure didn't remember(!!!), and gave him a wink. I never showed up for that class again and was never marked absent.
That school was a joke, learned way more on the road. Didn't miss a west coast show and graduated on time.
Then climbing took over.

Bubba Ho-Tep

climber
Evergreen, CO
Feb 19, 2010 - 07:44pm PT

Here's an old one from 1966!
Bubba Ho-Tep

climber
Evergreen, CO
Feb 19, 2010 - 07:44pm PT

How about 1967?
Bubba Ho-Tep

climber
Evergreen, CO
Feb 19, 2010 - 07:46pm PT

How about New York?
Bubba Ho-Tep

climber
Evergreen, CO
Feb 19, 2010 - 07:47pm PT

Or Egypt?

They played everywhere!
72hw

Trad climber
Pasadena, CA
Feb 19, 2010 - 07:56pm PT
BillO

Boulder climber
Whittier, CA
Feb 19, 2010 - 11:03pm PT
See on Hwy 101 Yachats OR
d-know

Trad climber
electric lady land
Feb 26, 2010 - 08:08am PT
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 1, 2010 - 01:40pm PT
March winds gonna blow all my troubles away.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Mar 13, 2010 - 10:09am PT
..scattered like lost (birds). (put) your wheels to the (stone) and fly.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPxeISlpFC0&feature=PlayList&p=F4AEFC462B48023B&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=21
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 17, 2010 - 11:53pm PT
I wish I was a headlight
on a northbound train.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Mar 22, 2010 - 05:53pm PT
boys had STYLE
cintune

climber
the Moon and Antarctica
Mar 23, 2010 - 06:28pm PT
Furthur Live at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium March 12, 2010

http://www.archive.org/details/furthur2010-03-12.flac16

1 Ripple (BW) 04:35
2 Lazy River Road (JK) 07:20
3 Peggy-O (CR) 08:04
4 Two Souls in Communion (CR) 07:57
5 Brokedown Palace (JG) 06:25
6 A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (BW) 09:23
7 They Love Each Other (CR) 06:44
8 Mountains of the Moon (PL) 08:56
9 Attics of My Life (All) 06:57
10 Scarlet Begonias (JG) 11:13
11 Minglewood Blues (BW) 09:58
12 Easy Wind (CR) > 04:30
13 New Speedway Boogie (JG) 11:03
14 Viola Lee Blues V1 (All) > 05:54
15 High Time (CR) 05:52
16 Caution Jam > Viola Lee Blues V2 (All) > 07:37
17 Hard To Handle (CR) > Viola Lee Blues V3 (All) > 10:58
18 Like A Rolling Stone (CR) > 09:59
19 Sugaree (CR) 13:21
20 Not Fade Away Jam (w/Parade of floats) > 04:41
21 Happy Birthday, Dear Phil! (w/Balloon drop) > Not Fade Away Jam 06:13
22 Playing in the Band (BW) > Jam > 10:26
23 St. Stephen (All) > 12:51
24 The Other One (BW) > 10:43
25 Elevator (SM lead jam) > 07:41
26 Unbroken Chain (PL) 16:35
27 Comes a Time (CR) > 08:30
28 Cream Puff War (CR) (w/two Go-Go dancers on stage) > 02:39
29 Franklin's Tower (PL, JG) 09:11
30 Donor Rap & Phil thanks the audience and band 02:05
31 Johnny B. Goode (BW) 04:16
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Mar 24, 2010 - 01:27am PT
"One teacher, knowing damn well why I was so frizzlefried and tiedyed made me sing Touch of Grey in front of the Whole class, just to make me pay."

-Now that's Funny! Is it it more ironic now? Now that maybe you do have a 'Touch of Gray'?
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 29, 2010 - 05:32pm PT
I'm still walkin' ...
so I'm sure tht I can dance.
...

Jaybro~ oh, the irony!
Mick K

climber
Northern Sierra
Mar 29, 2010 - 05:42pm PT
"If you plant Ice
you will harvest wind"
Spider Savage

Mountain climber
SoCal
Apr 1, 2010 - 12:28pm PT
Ship of Fools
BillO

Boulder climber
Whittier, CA
Apr 1, 2010 - 12:43pm PT
Everybody's dancin' down the local armory
With a basement full of dynamite and live artillery.
The temperature keeps risin', everybody gittin' high;
Come the rockin' stroke of midnite, the whole place gonna fly.
go-B

climber
This side of Heaven
Apr 1, 2010 - 01:18pm PT
http://www.dead.net/listeningparty-philly?CMPID=DN033110
For a limited time, we invite you to enjoy stellar audio and video selections from Crimson, White & Indigo: Philadelphia 07/07/89.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Apr 1, 2010 - 02:03pm PT
hey anyone on the bus here have the software to open those FLACC(?) flacid? files of that philbirthdayfurther show posted up a big back that I downloaded, onto a G-4 Mac. My Bro in Wyo said to do that format and he has the software to do this that he is going to send me any minute, for the last couple of weeks. But I am hitting the road this evening and looking for more immediate gratificiaon.

I need a miracle....
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 1, 2010 - 02:07pm PT
sorry jaybro- I'm still rockin cassettes!
I'm a digidumdum.

My friend's masters from 83 still sound crystal.

BIODTL jay
Mick K

climber
Northern Sierra
Apr 1, 2010 - 02:16pm PT



Try this for all the shows at your fingertips!


http://www.archive.org/details/GratefulDead


and this if you want to go FURTHUR.

http://www.archive.org/details/Furthur



drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 1, 2010 - 02:32pm PT
Seriously, Red Bear"s master tapes from the early 80's have a quality and ambience that put's you right back at the Pauly Pavillion.
I love SBDs, but man, a perfect 30 yr old audience recording...
as Jer would say "crackling with energy".

And they said tapes wouldn't last.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Apr 1, 2010 - 02:44pm PT
Yow Pate, that took three minutes, about three stiches between stonemaster knickers and speedysticher. Thanks and have a gratefulday







1
cp0915

climber
LV NV
Apr 14, 2010 - 01:50pm PT
That first photo is classic, Pate. Thanks for posting!

Unfortunately, my personal experience with Dead shows is much less exciting. Since I was imprisoned in the geriatric swamps of southwest Florida most of my life, I only made the Orlando '94 show, but it was canceled just as I pulled in to the venue. Couldn't make the following (?) evening. Then they played Tampa about a year later but I couldn't make that one either. Then Jerry left us all.

At least we still had/have The Other Ones, The Dead (last year's Inglewood show was solid), Ratdog, and of course, the upcoming Memorial weekend Furthur Festival in Angels Camp!
yosguns

climber
Durham, NC
Apr 18, 2010 - 11:13am PT
http://www.archive.org/details/gd88-09-12.sbd-matrix.wiley.8477.sbefail.shnf

I liked the setlist, and apparently it's a good show!

09/12/88
The Spectrum - Philadelphia, PA

Set 1:
Jack Straw
Althea
Good Time Blues
Dire Wolf
Cassidy
Dupree's Diamond Blues
When I Paint My Masterpiece
When Push Comes To Shove
The Music Never Stopped

Set 2:
Box Of Rain
Cold Rain And Snow
Man Smart-Woman Smarter
Eyes Of The World
Drums
The Other One
Wharf Rat
Around And Around
Good Lovin'

Encore:
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
ncrockclimber

climber
NC
Apr 18, 2010 - 11:29am PT
I have subscribed to two great podcast: Through The Years and The Deadpod. I archive all the episodes. Great stuff!
Rudyj2

Trad climber
UT
Apr 18, 2010 - 12:54pm PT
Nine mile skiddin'
on a ten mile ride
Hot as a pistol
but cool inside
Cat on a tin roof
Dogs in a pile
Nothing left to do but
smile, smile, smile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFKzk4C4jkI
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 18, 2010 - 04:02pm PT
The music is special, I play a fair bit of it. I like the counter culture economy. Shakedown street was like a band of gypsys. Kind of like as close as your gonna get to experience 3rd world liveing in the good ol USA.

The level of hypocracy on tour was absolutly stunning however. One look at the grounds the morning after and it was crystal clear how full of sh#t all the earth first hippy types are.... At the end of the day the experience was a lot more about getting f*#ked up, makeing money and listening to music than it was about peace, love and harmony with nature...
yosguns

climber
Durham, NC
Apr 18, 2010 - 05:53pm PT
tradman,

It is stunning to see the ground after thousands of people have gathered, isn't it? Crowds are very irresponsible. Having agreed with you on that, I'd also like to consider a couple other things.

First, in order to call Dead Heads hypocrites for the trash left after a Dead show, you would have to believe they were all "earth first hippy types," which I don't. Maybe you could call them hippies...maybe. But really, they were their own separate thing: Dead Heads, more likely linked by LSD (the original Acid Tests) and a search for collectivism and mind expansion than environmental activism. In fact, you were at Dead shows, but seem reluctant to label yourself an "earth first hippy type." Your reasons for being at shows were probably very similar to others', and I doubt you were there to pick up garbage. (But, for all I know, you were manning the Greenpeace tent; if that was the case, good for you!)

Second, we have no data to compare Dead Heads to any other crowd (say, Black Sabbath fans...of which I'm sure there was even some overlap), so who's to say they weren't more responsible? The ground after a Dead Show may have been comparatively cleaner than after a different rock concert. The data would have to take into account average number of concession purchases per attendee, venue management (number of trash receptacles and security [what was allowed in]), and historical trends in society's overall awareness of environmental issues over the course of the band's 30+ year history.

Cheers!
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 18, 2010 - 07:21pm PT
Pate's right, at least for the lot.
I think i recounted a story upthread about cleaning up my little zone in the lot and having Bill Graham himself cruise up on his moto and hand me a ticket.

In the late 80's early 90's there was a newsletter- Duprees Diamond News- which not only had recent setlists and upcoming tourdates, but also key things heads could do to ensure the Band would be invited back to town.
What other band did that???
I'll try and dig up an old copy.
yosguns

climber
Durham, NC
Apr 18, 2010 - 07:26pm PT
Well, well. Looks like there may be at least qualitative data that, for whatever motive, the Dead WERE more environmentally-minded than other bands. Imagine that! ;-)

tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 18, 2010 - 07:44pm PT
If you ever talked to the guys who ran the venues and worked in the citys near the venues they will all tell you that the dead fans leave more trash than any other event hands down....

Amazeing how so many of the fans wear rose colored glasses.

Albany the last summer tour from hell. Cops pulled off of horses and stomped, tear gas, bad ju ju in the streets.. This one cute blond and brainless friend of mine, rings on her fingers, bells on her toes,bringing her baby to shows and getting wasted the whole time... She looks at me and proclaims.. Wow.. there was so much love in the streets last week..

I am like, Huh? I saw a ton of husteling, people selling fake tickets to rip off other dead heads,drugs and alchohol abuse on chronic levels, raw sex, violence, crazyness but no love... The dead closed the set on the 2nd night with I fought the law and that felt just about right....
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 18, 2010 - 07:57pm PT
tradman- I'd send you a PM, but I tried that already a while ago when you were circlin' the drain so...
east coast...later years...different trip, man.
Did you ever come out west for a show? to climb?


OK people...
let's put our rose colored shades back on!

yosguns

climber
Durham, NC
Apr 18, 2010 - 08:09pm PT
Yep, all of that, too. With a set of shows spanning over 30+ years, everyone is bound to be right. But, tradman, you assumed all Dead Heads were environmentalists, which they weren't... I don't see any hypocrisy. People went to shows and got high. Some of those people were probably environmental activists...and a lot of them weren't. I WOULD bet, though, that a larger percentage of them than in other concert populations have done service work for the environment at some point in their lives. But again, NO DATA! Just opinion based on observation.

For every venue manager who says the Dead were bad, there's one who says they were better than everyone else. "I'd rather work nine Grateful Dead concerts than one Oregon football game," Police Det. Rick Raynor said. "They don't get belligerent like they do at the games." Brock, Ted (1990-06-26). "MORNING BRIEFING: IN OREGON, THEY'RE GRATEFUL FOR ALL EXTRA CASH THEY GET". Los Angeles Times: p. C2.

Weir's been active in recent years for environmental causes and I guess will be doing Earth Day in DC this year along with other invited celebrities. Not proof of anything regarding fans, but a positive thing to note, nonetheless. And an indication of band members' values.

Then there's the Rex Foundation, of course. http://rexfoundation.org/home/social-change/

There's also this interesting article:

(2007-12-09). "COUNTERCULTURE GREEN". The New York Times.

The Whole Earth Catalog, originally published in 1968, had one of the most arresting covers in 20th-century publishing: an image of the Earth as seen from space. The idea for the picture came to Stewart Brand, Whole Earth's publisher, in 1966, when, in the throes of an acid trip, he thought, ''Seeing an image of the earth from space would change a lot of things.'' Brand positioned himself on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, wearing a sandwich board and selling lapel buttons that asked, ''Why haven't we seen a photograph of the whole Earth yet?'' He mailed the buttons to Congress, and legend has it his lobbying goaded NASA into releasing celestial pictures from an Apollo mission.

According to ''Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism,'' by Andrew G. Kirk, the mind-blowing photo of our planet was a catalyst for the ecology movement. The Whole Earth Catalog itself became the voice of a new kind of environmental advocacy that, rather than shunning science as nature's enemy, embraced it as the key that could unlock the door to personal freedom and create a post-scarcity social utopia. Advances like pictures from space, personal computers, geodesic domes and even nuclear power were all part of what became known as the ''appropriate technology movement,'' for which the Whole Earth Catalog was both a resource and a summary. No tree-hugging Luddite or apocalyptic doomsayer, Brand, Kirk writes, had an optimistic outlook shaped by ''a love of good tools, thoughtful technology, scientific inquiry and a Western libertarian skepticism of the government's ability to take the lead in these areas.'' Brand wrote of his own publication, ''This is a book of tools for saving the world at the only scale it can be done, one hand at a time.''

...

That's not to say Brand and his comrades weren't wild and crazy. Brand enthusiastically described the Alloy Gathering in New Mexico in the spring of 1969 as ''outlaws, dope fiends and fanatics.'' They were ''doers primarily, with a functional grimy grasp on the world. World thinkers, dropouts from specialization. Hope freaks.'' Kirk notes that ''from a distance'' the Alloy Gathering might have looked like just another extended hippie party, but inside its domes was ''a remarkable collection of productive appropriate-technology innovators mapping out a tech-friendly environmental ethic decades ahead of its time.'' Among Brand's fellows in the movement were Steve Baer, who had designed the alternative energy structures at the Drop City commune in Colorado; J. Baldwin, the New Age hippie who was a Whole Earth writer and editor and a '''thing-maker, tool-freak and prototyper' for an inventive generation''; John Perry Barlow, a Grateful Dead lyricist and counterculture libertarian who referred to cyberspace as the Electronic Frontier; and Buckminster Fuller, the iconoclastic designer whom Whole Earth introduced ''to a new generation -- promoting him to the status of cult hero.''

...




tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 18, 2010 - 08:47pm PT
Like i said. The music is awsome, its cool to mingle with street people and eat 50 cent grilled cheese cooked on a camp stove in the dirt but don't kid yourself about the tour being nirvana. Its just a bunch of folks getting wasted..;)
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 18, 2010 - 10:28pm PT
400 shows.. thats about $12,000 in admissions. that's one hell of a climbing trip.......

The thing that disturbs me about tour is so many people putting so much time and energy into partying without much return on their investment in the way of bettering themselfs or society.. In 10 shows or less you can learn how to live on the street which is a good perspective to have but not something you want to make a real habbit of..
A climbing bum can also learn to be homeless while getting in superb physical condition and experienceing an amazeing ammout of natural beauty. Meanwhile the deadhead just gets fcked up and listens to the same 150 songs endlessly...

My advice to any young kid with the urge to go on tour is go to a few shows every now and then but save your money, buy an instrument and learn how to make music instead of just listening to it.... YMMV
yosguns

climber
Durham, NC
Apr 18, 2010 - 11:53pm PT
tradman, I appreciate this sentiment a lot more than passing Dead Heads off as hypocrites.

I've often felt this divide with my parents. They understand the appeal of a community of climbers because they relate it to their experience with the Dead. But, I always felt discomfort at accepting the two experiences as one in the same. As a climber, I always felt so much more productive even though the time commitment, bumming, and unemployment could be similar in both communities.

I think climbing gives me a lot more for my investment. Dead shows are an easy and quick fix comparatively. From there, I can't help but think young people would benefit more from climbing outdoors, choosing their routes...than spending all that time spinning around at Dead shows.

But...as you say, shows also also serve a purpose. :-) I'm not sure if the Dead Heads who didn't have the opportunity to climb are better or worse off for the time they spent at shows. I personally would much rather have more Dead Heads wandering around than not Dead Heads...and climber Dead Heads trump all.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 19, 2010 - 12:19am PT
tradman~ you make some valid points but many of your opinions seem to be those of a more casual observer.
Indeed, when climbing took over my life, travelling to shows seemed pointless. I had had enough of cities and crowds... but what a kid can learn about themselves, our country, self reliance, car repair(!)...is priceless. The memories and friends I have from traveling with the Dead will be cherished forever, just like my climbing experiences.

Tour was just a microdot, I mean, microcosm of society in general. Good and bad.
The sweeping generalizations you make about the scene and Heads are kinda lame, but common. Whatever...
At least you dig the music, which was and is what it's all about, for me at least.
Your comment about buying an instrument and playing is right on! My life became much richer when i learned how to play the guitar and comleted my first song, "Loser".
Last fair deal in the country!

Oh, and tickets didn't cost 30 bucks a pop.. not even New Years!!!
and you think Pate ACTULLY PAID for all those tickets???!!!!
Hahahahahahahahahahahaaha
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 19, 2010 - 08:43am PT
Early nintys tickets were 26- 28 but there was always tax and some other fee tacked on by the seller. I budgeted it at $30 when i was being honest with myself.. Unless Pate is a hot chick or a dealer there is no effin way he is getting miricaled.. that sh#t does not happen to guys unless they are the candy man... don't forget the quarters you wasted dialing 1-900 RUN DEAD to find out the date the tickets go on sale so you could do your mail in.. Or the days you wasted sitting on a sidewalk waiting in line to buy tickets..
Seriously unless you are a hot chick or a dealer, tour costs a shitload more money than you think...........

INMOP the tour is a neat semi usefull experience if you get out in time.. There are a lot of pitfalls allong the way that can seriously mess up your life in the long term....

These days I play a bunch of other stuff but my set list still includes..

Loser
Jack a roe
Dark Hollow
All arround this world
China Doll
Cassidy
I know you rider
Girl from the crossroad Bar
Bird song
Jack straw
Warf rat
Dire Wolf
Stella Blue
etc...

tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 19, 2010 - 09:30am PT
It is 17 years since I took this photo.. I wonder what these chicks are doing now. In their mid 30's? Are they productive members of society? did they fall between the cracks? It would bee very neat to find out....
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 19, 2010 - 09:39am PT
Both these guys are drinking the same beer. In one shot the drunk is pushing a cop car.. in the other he has just climbed a wicked cool boulder.. the photographer is buzzed in both photos..

The desert experience was hands down cooler and more of an influence on my life....
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Apr 19, 2010 - 11:06am PT
someone say grilled cheese?
Rudyj2

Trad climber
UT
Apr 19, 2010 - 11:20am PT



I know a little something
you won't ever know


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMePHT3dBPM

Doug Robinson

Trad climber
Santa Cruz
Apr 19, 2010 - 11:46am PT
Tradman, everyone comes into the game at whatever level (s)he can find to play it, and runs it out as best (s)he can.

The dude pushing on the cop car suffers from testosterone poisoning, pretty common in young guys. Some of them also happen to be Deadheads. He may have been constrained by so urban a horizon that he never found boulders to climb and wild country to soothe his yearning.

Lucky, lucky second guy. No fault to the limitations of first guy. But certainly an opportunity for first guy if he ever stumbled into a climbing gym or The Gulch.

Met an older chick yesterday whose life was totally changed by a single acid trip in her 20s. Can't speak for the two women in your photo, but this one is in later life a massage therapist so respected and in demand she sometimes works 12 hours in a day.

I never went to that many shows, but the Dead are on my iPod every time I duck into the woods or the mountains. Changed my life as much as the drugs did, as much as the holy stone did.

I grieve the t-shirt I once left on the ground at a show when I ecstatically ripped it from my body in the sunshine. But they -- the combination of the Dead, the Alpine, and the Drugs -- also inspired me to put up the Dark Star.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 19, 2010 - 01:52pm PT
Pate, what part makes me the moron? the part where i stopped going to shows when jerry died? the part where I questioned the validity of feeling special just because you hang out with a bunch of really cool people and get wasted a bunch, the part where i worried about the future of some of the young folks caught up in it? The part where I figured out that climbing was way cooler than doing drugs at shows? Yes it was a super cool experience if you got off the buss at the right stop. The right stop is deferent for eveyone but I do know a few who missed that stop..

One of the guys I worked with this winter got busted Again for distribution at further in Feb.. dude is way old enough to know better but still riding the same buss......
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 19, 2010 - 01:59pm PT
BTW, Fish sucks! Way to busy..
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 19, 2010 - 02:30pm PT
You know this space is getting hot.

or is it

you know it's gonna get stranger.

hey...

Let's get on with the show!
Mick K

climber
Northern Sierra
Apr 19, 2010 - 02:42pm PT
I dare you to try it....you just might like it...

http://www.archive.org/details/gd1968-10-20.sbd.miller.9071.shnf
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Apr 19, 2010 - 03:00pm PT
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 19, 2010 - 05:51pm PT
Ricardo Cabeza

climber
All Over.
Apr 19, 2010 - 06:03pm PT
OK, I have an addiction to electronic music, and it's due to the Dead and Phish.

I'll admit it, I like to fry my brains out and roll my head off ( the latter may not be your guys styles, but whatever.)

The source of my addiction was the Dead in the late 70's, when estimated came out and Donna screamed like the she-banshee that she was. That was growing up. Once I hit adulthood, the Dead were done and I looked for the next-best-thing.

I found it in Phish. In the late 90's, they were HOT! Deep jams, great lights.
I loved it when I was frying and the blue lights came up...magic!!!!

I continued my love of the Dead and Phish for years, until I hit my first rave.
It was DJ Lorin (bassnectar) of Burning Man fame.
I was sober at the show, and it changed my life.
The bass, the...everything.

I'm sure i'm not the first hippie turned raver out there.

It's not about drugs, but at certain times, they are worthy.

I could write for days about this, but I won't.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 19, 2010 - 06:25pm PT
Fish is just too nervous for me. It does not have the steady groove that the Dead has...
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Apr 19, 2010 - 06:51pm PT
Yes Doug, that was a stellar post.. We all are just trying to get by the best we can......
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Apr 19, 2010 - 07:03pm PT
Fish products™ is too busy.
Phish, sucks.

so to speak. YMMV
Ricardo Cabeza

climber
All Over.
Apr 19, 2010 - 07:15pm PT
Ashes, Ashes all fall down.

Blazin strong right now, brothers.
Rudyj2

Trad climber
UT
Apr 23, 2010 - 11:07pm PT
I started out on burgundy
But soon hit the harder stuff
Everybody said they'd stand behind me
When the game got rough
But the joke was on me
There was nobody even there to bluff
I'm going back to New York City
I do believe I've had enough.

New Furthur shows just announced in NYC.

http://www.furthur.net/
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Apr 23, 2010 - 11:22pm PT
water bright as the sky from which it came.
we can count the angels, dancin on a pin.
yosguns

climber
Durham, NC
Apr 24, 2010 - 01:55am PT
I am. I am...

(...studying, if anyone asks.)
yosguns

climber
Durham, NC
May 4, 2010 - 11:14pm PT
Omaha Civic Auditorium on 1973-10-21

Anyone know where I can procure a good recording of this one?
justthemaid

climber
Jim Henson's Basement
May 7, 2010 - 10:15pm PT
For a while I dated a guy that worked the shows. I pretty much attended every California show between 1989 and 1991. Fun times.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - May 8, 2010 - 05:45pm PT
http://www.archive.org/details/gd83-10-14.horvath-atm.dodd.16907.sbeok.shnf

This was my very first bootleg. The second set.
Wore it out.
Love it to this day.

This is one of my favorite Scarlet>Fires..
Spanish Jam is just unreal.

A little known fact- this was
Trey Anastasio's first Dead show.

yosguns

climber
Durham, NC
May 8, 2010 - 08:02pm PT
Got it on the archive, was wondering if there was a higher quality copy somewhere. Also, is there a way to rip archive sets onto CD?
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
May 9, 2010 - 01:05pm PT
As I was hiking through the mountains of stuff in my father's house, I came across this sweet graphic from 67.


Jefe- How the hell did I not meet you at Birdfest?!? I did get your e-mail about Maurice and it made me laugh heartily. My dear old dad was certainly "one funky dude!" as you put it. None Funkier in my experience! LOL

His response to the mention of the Grateful Dead was always "what about the Ungrateful Living?!?"
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
May 9, 2010 - 03:56pm PT
That "plate" is a Frisbee art disc, actually! Perfect for the bathroom because it is a little too nice to embellish with scuffs and dog bites! LOL
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
May 12, 2010 - 12:08pm PT
One man gathers what another man spills...
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
May 12, 2010 - 12:23pm PT
when there were no strings to play, you played to me.
when i had no wings to fly, you flew to me.
when there was no dream of mine, you dreamed of me.

-r.h. at his best.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
May 12, 2010 - 12:54pm PT
me an my uncle, went ridin' down... south colorado. west texas bound.
we stopped over, in sante fe. that being the point, just 'bout half way,
and you know it was the hottest part of the day.


.....

ashes, ashes. we all fall down.



old beas, i hope you travel far and free upon the mountain winds of the shasta.

edit,
btw, the overalls that dick is wearing in that first picture, i now don proudly:
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
May 12, 2010 - 08:22pm PT
how about that Spinach Jam stuffed between some drums and the Other One.
hartford!

10/14/83 dick's picks six.

donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
May 12, 2010 - 08:24pm PT
Not a lot of talent, but fans too stoned to discern.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
May 12, 2010 - 08:36pm PT
donini, please keep your uneducated and silly opinions silenced.
all due respect for you, indeed.

but i hear the dead sober often and they get inside my head and make me smile from the inside. eh?

the boys, they possessed talent that was not easily discernable by the...
well, by some.

Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
May 13, 2010 - 10:39am PT
Jim- Are you calling the Great Fred Beckey "too stoned to discern?!?"
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - May 13, 2010 - 10:56am PT
...Let the world go by
all lost and dreamin'....

as for donini~
I'm sorry that you feel that way,
only thing there is to say,
every silver linings got a
touch of gray.


HEY NOW!
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
May 13, 2010 - 11:40am PT
copenhagen, 1973

dancer.

1969.

mr. lesh.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - May 13, 2010 - 11:57am PT
Grossman~ Fred wasn't stoned, he was DEAF!
Phil,"Everybody take a step BACK"
Becky,"WHAT?.

And the only reason he would like the Dead was the girls!
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
May 26, 2010 - 04:05pm PT
reflect your inner flair.
steal your face right off your head.

cp0915

Mountain climber
LV NV
May 26, 2010 - 04:14pm PT
Pretty stoked to be heading to Furthur Fest this weekend. Forecast looks good, the music should be great, and I'm all smiles.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - May 26, 2010 - 09:00pm PT
it's been hot for seven weeks now,
too hot to even speak now,
did you hear what I just heard?

hey now~
check 5.7.77 first set.
(((smokin!)))
one of my faves.
Risk

Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
May 26, 2010 - 09:50pm PT
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
May 27, 2010 - 01:20am PT
If all you've got to live for is what you left behind . . . get yourself a powder charge and seal that silver mine

Lost my boots in transit babe . . . a pile of smoking leather . . . I nailed a retread to my feet and prayed for better weather!
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
May 31, 2010 - 09:42am PT
i got no quarter, but i got some time to hear your story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgHSk91RhL8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20dic8S3cWI
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
May 31, 2010 - 09:46am PT
Not a lot of talent, but fans too stoned to discern.


First time I've seen the man be that wrong.
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
May 31, 2010 - 10:40am PT
Jim's still mad because when we went to a Winterland show together in 75 he tried to pick up Donna Jean and it didn't pan out.

I ended up with Sugar Magnolia and he ended up with a toothless crone.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
May 31, 2010 - 11:22am PT
"..so long as it's wet and wiggles.."

-pigpen
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 4, 2010 - 11:22am PT
A box of rain will ease the pain
and love will see you through.


Bound to cover just a little more ground.


Healing vibes sent out to Survival and his mom Mildred.


drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2010 - 07:15pm PT
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 8, 2010 - 03:16am PT
Went back for a little reread...
This stood out-

Thanks Ed Hartouni

I thought when he died that it was more from his hyperactivity then the drug abuse. He just "emptied the tank" and coasted to a stop, too exhausted to find a filling station."

Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jun 8, 2010 - 03:55am PT
"knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door..."
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jun 8, 2010 - 09:14am PT
Jerry died from drug abuse, poor diet and lack of exersize. Trying to sugarcoat it is pathetic.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jun 8, 2010 - 09:24am PT
jerry's soul was exhausted thru several mediums.
poor health was only one of those venues.

in respect for jerry's passage thru our space, and then away from our space, it is not pathetic to recognize the other, more romantic mediums thru which he escaped.

one of those being that he poured out his inspiration for so many years, and so intensely, that he simply spent his chi.

much like other artists who passed thru this life with the gas pedal pegged: hendrix, morrison, cobain, kerouac, bachar, porter, fowler, and many, many others.

to negatively summarize a respectful eulogy for someone's passing is pretty pathetic, tradman.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jun 8, 2010 - 09:38am PT
There is nothing romantic about a rock and roll heart attack. I have lost 2 of my friends this way and it sucks. One of the issues is that fans, in this case dead heads try to justify their own drug habits through their idols. The thing I heard the most when Jerry died was that he shouldn't have gone to rehab. Dude, rehab killed him. He should have kept partying man...

If a few of those people had caught the reality bug and and said to themselfs, Self, you need to clean up and take better care of yourself then Jerry's passing would have done some real good in this world.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jun 8, 2010 - 10:09am PT
Pate you are so full of sh#t again. WTF??
I NEVER said that jerry died of a drug overdose. You are one lying sack of shit!

I said "Jerry died from drug abuse, poor diet and lack of exersize."

Nothing in that statement indicates that it was an overdose.

A lifetime of poor diet and drug and alchohol abuse is what put him in the poor health situation that overcame him. The diabetes was a direct result of poor diet and exersise habbits and compounded by the drug use. That is simple fact.

Annother simple fact is that many dead heads blamed rehab for his death rather than confront the reality of the life decisions that lead to his poor health.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jun 8, 2010 - 10:14am PT
Pate, you must be a fckin republican. You quote me as saying that jerry died of a drug overdose. That is a flat out lie! I never said that. You are a liar and a bully. Despicable.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 8, 2010 - 10:15am PT
Here's Hartouni's full post that I took that from.

Aug 9, 2009 - 03:07pm PT
Jaybro, that would be very high praise indeed. Garcia was unbelievably active in music, he seemed to be everywhere, all the time, working on nearly every genre of popular music, even making some music genres popular. A brilliant and accomplished muscian.

I thought when he died that it was more from his hyperactivity then the drug abuse. He just "emptied the tank" and coasted to a stop, too exhausted to find a filling station.


Can't believe it started a minishitstorm. Oh yeah I can.


Tradman-retreat! retreat! please?
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jun 8, 2010 - 10:26am PT
That is a beautiful post and I have no problem with it as such. It's a nice thing to say about a wonderfull artist.

Pate is still a liar and a bully.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 8, 2010 - 10:27am PT
At least pate isn't sugarcoating. That would be pathetic.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 8, 2010 - 10:30am PT
"That is a beautiful post and I have no problem with it as such. It's a nice thing to say about a wonderfull artist."
Tradman, why didn't you just say that in the first place?

I didn't really have to release the hounds, you know.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jun 8, 2010 - 10:47am PT
At first glance it flashed me back to when jerry died and all the heads were in the pool room at Uncle Sams Roadhouse and they were all crying about how he should never have gone to rehab and should have just kept doing the drugs. the same theam was repeted over and over again at the candle light vigils and concert that we held. A few years later the 32yr old bass player from that concert had his own rock and roll heart attack due to kidney failure brought on by alchohol and drug abuse..

Jerry brought a wonderfull light into this world and it was extinguished early due to a chronic lifestyle of drugs, booze and chili dogs.

It gets a bit sad when kids worship the vices of their heros. The music is special but the lifestyle ain't what it's cracked up to be.

Pate is still a liar and a bully.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jun 8, 2010 - 11:11am PT
And you are a liar and a bully.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 8, 2010 - 11:15am PT
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 8, 2010 - 11:21am PT
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 8, 2010 - 11:25am PT

420
BrianH

Trad climber
santa fe
Jun 8, 2010 - 03:44pm PT
The Dead Head Thread (OT and Not) drljefe Jun 8, 2010 08:25am 420

Ha, this is where I saw this thread.

My first show was Madison Square Garden, fall of '79. What were my parents thinking, letting me go like that? I traveled the east coast seeing their shows, the last was in Wash. DC in the mid-90s, one of their last.

All sorts of beautiful memories come tumbling out right now.

I was in Boulder when I hear of his death. One of my colleagues mocked my grief and I did tell him to STFU. I went and banged drums that night and very much enjoyed the energy there. It's the one and only time I've been part of a drum circle.

k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jun 8, 2010 - 05:32pm PT
Sat.
American Beauty -> Working Man's Dead -> Anthem of the Sun

Sun.
Blues for Allah -> Aoxomoxoa -> Terrapin Station

Bravo.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jun 9, 2010 - 12:42am PT
woof. woof.

jerry always had that jenius just beyond his finger tips. he grabbed it, yes and held on tight but the pursuit of which devoured the achievement.

that glorius moment which beckons us onward is still. we ramble on and diesel down and dance around the sun in admirable efforts to be, in that glorious moment. but it is still.

so in our hasty pursuit, we fly right by it, and if we're lucky we sneek a glimpse of that which we pursue and behold it's potential though then we coast on by to beyond the moment because no emotional brakes are strong enough to interrupt the momentum of our glee and, then, we're gone. and we cant find it anymore, because it is still. and we are not.

beyond the moment is grandoise in it's confusion and wonder. we are lost, and all of our screaming dreams are reduced to one, feeble wish, but it whispers and is caught up in the aimless breezes and taken to all places simultaneously but noone hears it except wall street and the boss cannot explain the sudden thousand percent jump in the dow.
cowpoke

climber
Jun 9, 2010 - 10:14am PT
Can't talk to you
without talking to me,
we're guilty of the same
old thing

Talking a lot about less and less
and forgetting
the love we bring.

cp0915

Mountain climber
LV NV
Jun 9, 2010 - 11:08am PT
Sat.
American Beauty -> Working Man's Dead -> Anthem of the Sun

Sun.
Blues for Allah -> Aoxomoxoa -> Terrapin Station

Bravo.

Indeed. And Friday night was better than either.
dr. juicer kaniglio

Trad climber
san diego, ca
Jun 9, 2010 - 12:15pm PT
I saw the Further crew (bobbi, and phil), in Angels Camp a week ago. Amazing venue, and close to the valley. It was my first Dead show and I was completely blown away. The scene was down and dirty, and there were some roughneck people about. I saw the sunrise all three days. One of the best three day shows iv ever seen. Those people definitely know how to party...
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Jun 9, 2010 - 12:17pm PT
I'm not now nor was I a Dead Head back in the day. I remember debating Workingman's Dead back in high school when it was released, whether or not that represented a step forward or a step backward... since I was a big psychedelic rock fan I missed the interesting direction the Dead were going in... many steps forward.

But when you look at the whole SF rock scene its hard to separate the players into bands... I remember a couple of years later, when a student at UCB, going by the Keystone on University Ave and seeing on the marquee: "Jerry Garcia and Friends" it seemed like it always was happening, so I never saw a performance there, assuming we'd always be able to...

...it was more fun, for me, to travel out to Golden Gate Park and attend a free concert at Speedway Meadow... and I liked the Airplane better, anyway, even though the bands mixed members for these sorts of impromptu performances... maybe it was Grace...

...but I listen to the Dead now, and marvel at their musicality, and especially at the quality of their recordings from back when some truly bad stuff was recorded... and the apparent ease of it all, and the fun.

Hard to be judgmental about the drugs, seems we all had fun with that back then, and paid the bill later in one way or the other. Part of the "thrill of living" when we had these great bodies and minds and anything seemed possible. Unfortunately we turned a deaf ear to the wisdom of our elders, "you don't need to experience everything, especially if you know what's likely to happen."

Who can regret the indiscretions of youth?

drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 10, 2010 - 01:18pm PT
A rare and different tune...


Ed, cool. You must be familiar with the PERRO recordings and Wally Heider Studios and that whole scene. The "cross polination" that has always seemed to exist in the Bay Area music scene is really cool.

I'm not able to provide a link right now, but a great, widely circulated bootleg of Garcia, Grisman, And Tony Rice was eventually released officially as the "Pizza Tapes".
Legend has it that a delivery guy lifted one of the masters of the guys pickin an grinnin on a boat in Sausilito. Great stuff with some funny interludes. Check it out!
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jun 10, 2010 - 01:39pm PT
i done f*#ked up already!
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 10, 2010 - 03:03pm PT
classic^^^^^
here's another
Appetizer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylx7akIbDiw&feature=related

Rosa Lee McFall!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8S9YkhDjWM&feature=related
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 10, 2010 - 03:06pm PT
here's some p.e.r.r.o stuff
http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2009/01/05/david-crosby-1970-outtakes-aka-perro-tapes/
Ricardo Cabeza

climber
All Over.
Jun 10, 2010 - 03:23pm PT
Nice! I dig Perro tapes.

An aside, I just saw Govt Mule last weekend and Warren is still crushing it! His Sat night set was almost all covers, done VERY well! I got to go backstage and hang out in the sound trailer at the end of the show, it was really cool to see how those guys make it happen behind the scenes, even if I was a little, um, nevermind.

Also saw Allison Krauss, Spearhead, Levon Helms, Derek Trucks,Les Claypool,Sam Bush, Steve Earle, many others. Such a worthwhile roadtrip.

Any east coasters should check out Mountain Jam next year.

Now I've got to get ready for Nateva Festival (sick!), Gathering of the Vibes, and Black Rock City. It's going to be a long, strange summer.

Fare thee well now, let your life proceed by it's own design...
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 15, 2010 - 12:28pm PT
just got a copy of this
http://www.dead.net/features/road-trips-volume-3-number-1

79 was an exciting time for the Dead-
Debut of "Tiger" for Jerry
Bobby playing his "Cowboy" Ibanez solid body
Phil on "Big Brown"
New house PA
"The Beast"- New drum set up developed for Apocalypse Now
Brent finishing up his first year

The sound is cracklin' on this one boys!
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Jun 15, 2010 - 12:46pm PT
Send me a bootleg copy....heh..heh....
Mick K

climber
Northern Sierra
Jun 15, 2010 - 12:49pm PT
Phil and Bobby are taking it Furthur at Red Rocks this Fall. Tickets are on sale now! http://furthur.net/

Anyone know if there is bouldering in or around Red Rocks?

Furthur 5/30/10 http://www.archive.org/details/furthur2010-05-30.nak300.gilmore.108032.flac16
cowpoke

climber
Jun 15, 2010 - 07:25pm PT
Brent finishing up his first year
this summer, it will be 20 years since his last.

whew. i miss him.

I had a lot of dreams once, but some of them came true...
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 16, 2010 - 09:54pm PT
If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine and my tunes were played on the harp unstrung,

would you hear my voice come through the music, would you hold it near as it were your own?
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 18, 2010 - 01:25am PT
It's a hand me down . . . the thoughts are broken, perhaps they're better left unsung . . . I don't know, don't really care . . . let there be songs to fill the air . . .
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jun 18, 2010 - 01:44am PT
Ripple in, still water...
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 18, 2010 - 06:15pm PT
On this day in Dead history...

I was in the Bay Area for the Summer Solstice run at Shoreline,'89.
http://www.archive.org/details/gd89-06-18.sbd.wiley.9053.sbeok.shnf

Kind of a sloppy show, but no ordinary sloppy show!
Things got a little heavy for me during the second set, but the boys brought me back like only they could. Jaybro will dig.
I ended up walking from Shoreline back to my hotel on El Camino Real in Palo Alto.
How far is that, really? Anyone?

And here's a legendary one from Freedom Hall
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1974-06-18.sbd.miller.89690.sbeok.flac16

Anyone else wear this tape out?
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jun 18, 2010 - 07:17pm PT
Get 'em while they're HOT!

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0B0044D1D8625A87?artistid=735200&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 18, 2010 - 09:19pm PT
That's quite a hike there Jefe . . . you should map it out.

I remember the same feeling of being pulled back in from the edge by the magic of the musical moment . . . sometimes you have to go all to pieces in order to put it all back together again.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 18, 2010 - 09:46pm PT
Mick K,

Yes there is bouldering in Morrison south of Red Rocks. Take State Route 26
past R.R. Amphitheater into the town of Morrison. At the stop light take a left and park on the right near the end of town next to the creek. Morrison Wall is above the road opposite the parking. The Black Hole, Wisdom Simulator, Lobby Area (Warm-up Wall), Hairy Scary Wall, Sailor's Delight, Cockpit, 5.8 Boulder, Tree Slab, Magnum Wall, Spike Rock, Bowling Ball Wall and Nautilus Wall are all found in this area.

Morrison South Side is 0.2 miles out of town then right on Soda Lakes Road and tends to be less crowded. Many problems will be found in this area.

Check out Philip Benningfield's "Colorado Bouldering" for complete details.
Kind of dated compared to some more recent publications.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jun 18, 2010 - 10:04pm PT
i'm sittin' with abraham and isaac,
waitin for a left hand monkey wrench to find me.

we finished my bottle and we're breakin' into yours...
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 19, 2010 - 12:38am PT
Half a cup of rock and Rye . . . Farewell to you old southern skies, I'm on my way!
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jun 19, 2010 - 01:45am PT
on my way,

If all you got to live for is what you left behind,

Get yourself a powder charge and seal that silver mine.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 19, 2010 - 02:47am PT
So grateful...
thanks brothers, for keeping this train rollin down the tracks.

Hot a pistol
but cool inside.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 20, 2010 - 12:04am PT
I have spent my life
Seeking all that's still unsung
Bent my ear to hear the tune
And closed my eyes to see
When there were no strings to play
You played to me . . . Peace brother Jefe!
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Jun 20, 2010 - 09:09am PT
I see the Gulf Of Mexico, as tiny as a tear, the coast of California must be somewhere over here...over here.


Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 20, 2010 - 10:16am PT
When all the cards are down
there's nothing left to see
There's just the pavement left
and broken dreams
In the end there's still that song
comes crying like the wind
down every lonely street
that's ever been . . . Stella Blue

Thanks to Pate and Survival for all the images posted to this thread. They really stimulate the memories.
Ricardo Cabeza

climber
All Over.
Jun 20, 2010 - 10:44am PT
Ashes ashes all fall down.

I get to see Bobby in Manchester in a couple of weeks!!!
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Jun 20, 2010 - 11:07am PT
Good stuff!


drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 26, 2010 - 05:48am PT
Terrapin stands alone
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 27, 2010 - 04:55pm PT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t7HVgeW2Kk&feature=related
I'd rather be with you.

I got a little emotional at the end there.
EP

Social climber
Way Out There
Jun 27, 2010 - 06:05pm PT
http://www.archive.org/details/gd1977-05-08.shure57.stevenson.29303.flac16
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 27, 2010 - 07:04pm PT
Nice intimate views of all the boys . . . We miss you Brent and Jerry!

I'd rather be with you . . .
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jun 28, 2010 - 09:46am PT
cowboy neal, stuckk, with mismatched shoes somewhere in never-ever land.
Ricardo Cabeza

climber
All Over.
Jun 28, 2010 - 01:22pm PT
Furthur in Lowell, MA this week.

Phish last week.

Life doesn't suck this summer!
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jun 29, 2010 - 11:54am PT
jesus wholly gesture, pigpen!

and dean,

thank you boys for obliterating my thoughtless stare into this world.
i wear a grin often, in your name.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jul 8, 2010 - 11:58pm PT
lay down my dear brothers,
lay down and take your rest.
oh won't you lay your head,
upon your savior's breast.

i love you,
oh but jesus loves you the best.

and i bid you good night,
good night,
good night.
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Jul 9, 2010 - 12:16am PT
Never were two words (dead and head) put together with more meaning.
pocoloco1

Mountain climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Jul 9, 2010 - 12:20am PT
Potato soup and nitrous balloons for sale, anyone remember this persons name?
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jul 9, 2010 - 12:32am PT
Why don't you go listen to your Tiny Tim collection Donini . . . there is an obvious generational gap in your appreciation of psychedelic music.
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Jul 9, 2010 - 12:36am PT
I was probably doing psychedelics when you were getting your first diapers dirty, that doesn't mean I have to appreciate what I feel is bad music. To each his own, tastes differ.
sempervirens

Trad climber
Trinity County
Jul 9, 2010 - 12:44am PT
maybe some haven't heard this one...:

what did one dead head say to the other when they ran out of drugs?

"This music sucks!"
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Jul 9, 2010 - 12:47am PT
Touche.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jul 9, 2010 - 01:06am PT
it's no bother if you miss the message jim.
it wasn't meant for your heart.

your ears and see'ers recoginze a different flavor of life than me.

for when i hear the boys properly express, there are few sweeter moments.
they have been my head passenger through and thru as i crossed the tracks despite their caution, as i woke the sleepy aligator.. as the mirror shattered and poured itself into ashes...as the space trembled and exploded i grabbed onto their wake and rode their tattered coattails to beyond.

and i never came back. for what the f*#k is back anyway besides a conquered exhausted horizon all wrung out of its charm.

go jim and flourish in your zeal. t-bone steak and 5.9 handcracks i muse.

one day i forgot my belt and i finally understood well, gravity.
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Jul 9, 2010 - 01:10am PT
Nicely said, I'm going to bed.
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Jul 9, 2010 - 11:03am PT
What's to love Pate? Sounds like a little ecstasy would help you to. Is a preference in music so hard to understand?
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jul 9, 2010 - 11:29am PT
A preference to music is completely understandable . . . it is the unnecessary derision spewed into this celebration of the Grateful Dead Experience that is objectionable. There are surely more appropriate places to vent negativity.

Norwegian has expressed the essence with clarity, elegance and grace.

One pane of glass in the window, no one is complaining though, come in and shut the door . . .
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Jul 9, 2010 - 11:35am PT
Is a preference in music so hard to understand?


So Jim, what's your music, so we can slam on that a little?


Midnight on a carousel ride, reaching for the gold ring down inside.
Never could reach, it just slipped away. But I tried....
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Jul 9, 2010 - 11:48am PT
Your anger is palpable Kalimon, sit down and take a pill. Lo be it for me to say anything negative about a group or person who has achieved ST iconic status. It seems to me that threads invite discussion pro or con about a subject. What you want is selective censorship. Speaking of derision- the posts objecting to what I said were ad hominem in nature.
Lambone

Ice climber
Ashland, Or
Jul 9, 2010 - 11:48am PT
Never been much of a Deadhead, although I enjoy them. I caught the last show when I was a senior in High School.

Phish has allways been my shtick and I couldn't be happier they are back on their game. So happy Trey didn't follow Jerry's self destructive path, it was close there for a bit.

Oh and nice post Noweigan!
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 9, 2010 - 04:08pm PT
Norweege, that was great..kinda reminded me of that "101 Grateful Dead Songs" poster.
Anyone remember that one?

Oh, Jim... pull that blue cam out of your bunghole, have some melba toast, and put on your favorite Liberace vinyl.
;~)
And dude, don't play with poopie diapers when you're tripping! Did I read that right?

Comes a time
when the blind man
takes your hand
says "don't you see?"
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jul 9, 2010 - 11:04pm PT
I am sorry if I have let my anger bleed into the purity of this ST thread . . . Donini is right, I am pissed off about a lot of what I see in this crazy world in which we live, I cannot help it.

I do not condone censorship either and was being hypocritical by not accepting your opinion for what it is.

Some come to laugh their past away, some come to make it just one more day . . . Whichever way your pleasure tends, if you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind . . .

Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jul 9, 2010 - 11:07pm PT
The wheel keeps turning....
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jul 9, 2010 - 11:18pm PT

if the thunder don't get you then the lightening will
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jul 9, 2010 - 11:35pm PT
The wheel in the sky keeps on turning...




[no,wait...]
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jul 9, 2010 - 11:54pm PT
A little bit farther than you been before.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jul 10, 2010 - 12:06am PT
Ain't no doubt about it, that Hunter sure can hunt the lyrics. And when Garcia put 'em to music, look at what happened. So many melodies, so many awesome visuals through the combos.

I head some dude say once "Yeah, that's all we need, another tune about women in the summer..." As if the only image the Dead ever sung about was Sugar Mag. Still, that's not a bad image (women, in the summer), but just a simple lyric...


Crimson white and indigo ...

sung by Jerry, and it feels like a barn door opening and closing at the same time.

KaBAMM!!

Not that I feel sorry for the folks who haven't been able to "hear" the depth of that trip, but...






Soul, baby. Soul.


!~!~!~!

Sometimes we walk alone...
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jul 10, 2010 - 12:09am PT
P.S. Nor, fuggin great post up yonder...
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 10, 2010 - 01:16am PT
Gone are the days we stopped to decide
where we should go
we just ride
gone are the broken eyes
we saw through in dreams
gone both dream and lie.
Ed Hartouni

Trad climber
Livermore, CA
Jul 18, 2010 - 09:46pm PT
St. Jerry's! (the unfinished)
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jul 18, 2010 - 09:50pm PT
"Steal your face right off your thread" . . .
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2010 - 10:16pm PT
K Man is right...
The working relationship between Hunter and Garcia is truly unique, amazing and beautiful.

I'm on a Crazyfingers kick right now...probably because it's finally raining here in Tucson.

And if anyone is curious about all the allusions, references and imagery in Hunter's lyrics(and Barlow's for that matter), check out The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics site~ a UC Santa Cruz.edu page I think. Cool stuff.

Reaching for the gold ring, down inside.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jul 22, 2010 - 10:20pm PT
and it's summer time, too!

(not really OT)
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Jul 22, 2010 - 10:40pm PT
Swing into Wake of the Flood if the rain keeps coming...
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jul 22, 2010 - 10:43pm PT
"Wake up to find out,
that you,
are the eyes,
of the world"




 now how cool is that?
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2010 - 10:43pm PT
Never could reach it
just slips away
but I try.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2010 - 11:02pm PT
500th post!

Well Grossman~ I'd rather be singing Row Jimmy than Here Comes Sunshine, that's fo sho!

Can't win for tryin'
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jul 22, 2010 - 11:09pm PT
..when it seems like night will last forever
And there's nothing left to do but count the years
When the strings of my heart start to sever,
and stones fall from my eyes instead of tears.

i will walk alone. By the black muddy river.
and dream me a dream of myown.
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Jul 23, 2010 - 12:30am PT
I heard the most amazing version of The Other One on the sattelite radio the other day.

And I thought I'd heard them all..........NOT!
EP

Trad climber
Way Out There
Aug 1, 2010 - 09:32pm PT
Happy Birthday Jerry!


Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Aug 1, 2010 - 09:54pm PT
The Occasion of this day reminds me of where i was fifteen years ago today; climbing the harding route on Keeler needle. We made some Jerry birthday jokes, and a little over a week later, he was gone.

The week following his death I saw both Lyle Lovett and B.B. King in Reno, Lyle started out with friend of the devil, B.B. worked a tribute into stormy Monday, ~" and then came Wednesday(?)"the day that made us all so sad..."

Somewhere in there a blue grass band played at that big park with the arboreutum as part of the ORCA show and played 'Friend' as a tribue.
sensi

climber
vegas
Aug 2, 2010 - 12:40am PT
HAPPI BIRTHDAY JERRY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr_zYS2ZzF4
Mtnmun

Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
Aug 2, 2010 - 12:49am PT
It's been a great couple of days of Dead radio around these parts. Happy Birthday Jerry.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 2, 2010 - 12:51am PT
If you go down to the woods today
You're sure of a big surprise
If you go down to the woods today
You better go in disguise
For every bear that ever there was
Will gather there for certain because
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic

Lyrics by JG.

Happy Birthday, Brother.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 2, 2010 - 12:52am PT
Went to see the captain, strangest I could find . . . laid my proposition down, laid it on the line.
I won't slave for beggars pay, likewise gold and jewels . . .
But I would slave to learn the way to sink your ship of fools.

Saw your first ship sink and drown from rocking of the boat . . .
All that could not sink or swim was just left there to float.
I won't leave you drifting down but oh it makes me wild, with thirty years upon my head, to have you call me child.

The bottles stand as empty, as they were filled before.
Time there was and plenty, but from that cup no more.
Though I could not caution all, I still might warn a few . . .
Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2010 - 01:33am PT
Fare you well my honey
Fare you well my only true one
All the birds that were singing
Have flown except you alone

Goin to leave this Broke-down Palace
On my hands and my knees I will roll roll roll
Make myself a bed by the waterside
In my time - in my time - I will roll roll roll


In a bed, in a bed
by the waterside I will lay my head
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul


River gonna take me
Sing me sweet and sleepy
Sing me sweet and sleepy
all the way back back home
It's a far gone lullaby
sung many years ago
Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come
since I first left home


Goin home, goin home
by the waterside I will rest my bones
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul


Goin to plant a weeping willow
On the banks green edge it will grow grow grow
Sing a lullaby beside the water
Lovers come and go - the river roll roll roll


Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul


Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Aug 2, 2010 - 01:53am PT
my body is a machine.
with few purposes:
to deliver my open mind up and down and across the absurd landscapes of our plain,

to harbor and process the adventurous toxins,

and to coach itself back to strong, enduring the challenges posed of said toxins.

my body is merely a medium of transport for my mind.
as such, i will exploit it unto the exhaustions.

 robert hunter??
Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Aug 2, 2010 - 03:15am PT
The woman that introduced me to my wife was on old hippie type from San Fran bitd. She lived across the street from Jerry Garcia and he would come over and hang out in her large closet when it got too weird at his place. Swear to Buddha.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 6, 2010 - 02:37am PT
Life may be sweeter for this, I don't know,
See how it feels in the end.

May Lady Lullaby sing plainly for you . . . soft, strong, sweet and true.

Cloud hands reaching from a rainbow, tapping at the window, touch your hair . . . So swift and bright strange figures of light float in air.

Gone are the days we stopped to decide where we should go, we just ride.
Gone are the broken eyes we saw through in dreams . . . gone, both dream and lie.

Life may be sweeter for this, I don't know . . . feels like it might be all right . . .

While Lady Lullaby sings plainly through you, Love still rings true . . .

Midnight on a carousel ride, reaching for the gold ring, down inside . . .
Never could reach it, just slips away but I try.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 7, 2010 - 02:42pm PT
Hey heads, and appreciators of fine improvisational jamming~

Check out the tryptic of Lovelight>GDTRFB>Not Fade Away
from disc 2 of Steppin Out~ London '72.
Out of Lovelight an epic battle ensues, with Jerry finally prevailing. The musical conversation and struggle is plain to hear, and the results are nothing short of HOT! One for the ages.

Goin where the climate suits my clothes...
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 8, 2010 - 10:49am PT
The heart has it's beaches, it's evenings, and songs of it's own.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 8, 2010 - 11:45am PT
One time when they were making things "perfect," Lesh decided to tell a joke.

"A funny thing happened to me on the way to the gig this evening ...

...

...


I got picked up."


DaDump.


For the closing of Winterland, my buddy Matt & I decided to walk to the show the night before and get in line early so we could get good seats (Winterland was a smallish joint with a ring of seats above the dance floor below).

We got to Post & Steiner at about 10pm on Dec 30. Little did we know, the line started 3 days earlier and was already wrapped around the building. I went across the street and slept on a small patch of grass, then foolishly spent the day in line. Early in the morning, Bill pulls up in his Harley with the side car to greet all the heads. Although known as a arse, Bill was a great guy. On the side of the building, Bill had painted the famous phrase: "They not the best at what they do, they're the only ones that do what they do."

In the end it didn't make a dime's worth of difference what time I arrived at the show--At midnight, I was sprawled out on the seats in the back of the auditorium, trying to catch some shut eye before the band came on. An angle (my old GF) spotted me and gave me a magic potion that gave me the energy to dance the night away. Ho boy, that third set...and then breakfast at dawn.


Anything funny happen to you on the way the show?
Rudyj2

Trad climber
UT
Aug 8, 2010 - 06:19pm PT
That is a hell of a good story Pate. One of many I'm sure.


Laguna Seca.....good times. One of the last great venues to allow camping.


Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 9, 2010 - 01:19am PT
Pate,

How about that Sugar Magnolia-Sugaree opener on the first night at Laguna Seca in 1987? I got my money's worth right then and there! What an awesome venue. Ry Cooder's "Chain Gang" was something else.

Nice mile high club story . . . was it right in the seats?
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 9, 2010 - 01:35am PT
Nice leather jacket there Jerome!

You stud.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 9, 2010 - 01:47am PT
I was there too, 88.
I had driven from Az to Minnesota helping a family member move. Payment was a one way ticket to the Bay.
My oldest friend, who wasn't a Head, picked me up and whisked me off to the lovely confines of his granny's Pebble Beach Estate. I'm talkin' old ass money. I woke up in the morning to a servant telling me breakfast was served. Then it was off to the dusty ,barefoot dancin, sun soaked scene.
How was El Rayo X...Classic!

Two words~ Goony Bird.

Going back to the mansion was a trip for sure.
I remember not being able to figure out the shower. Classic, right, the dirty hippie who can't work a shower! Well the hot and cold knobs were these ornate wings(for real, not Goony Bird wings). I scalded, I froze. In the end I got clean and repeated the process for the next two days.
That set with the China Crazyfingers Rider was a hot one. The Playin' is unreal~ oldschool style.

Good times pate, thanks for spurring on some fun funny memories!
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 9, 2010 - 01:51am PT
That pic with the SG is amazing....

I have copies of a set of slides a friend of mine had from '68 or so. Garcia has this Anthem tee shirt on, also playing an SG. The only thing, the band's out of focus in all the shots...at first I chalked it up to bad lighting, but then I noticed that the lettering on all the amps are in perfect focus...too funny, I bet the band 'looked' in focus through the eye of the photographer for those shots. Also too bad, they would be priceless if they were in focus. (I wish I knew how to scan slides.)
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 9, 2010 - 02:06am PT
Pate, great flight story, I wish my ride to L.Seca was as insane. Instead, I went with my pal Tom, who told me his car had a tendency to overheat. When it started, he had to turn on the heater to cool the engine. There we were, baking in 100-degree heat with the heater going full force.

Damn if I could remember a song list though....


Although, one of my most memorable shows was at the Swing in '77 when the band broke out Lady with a Fan. Opened the show with it, in fact. Yikes, that was awkward for a moment, the whole building kinda swirled around Phil's bass line, and these benos next to me were high as kites on reds, shouting in slow motion "Hey Garcia, play one for my sister..." Ah, what a year.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 9, 2010 - 02:14am PT
Album Covers! I had all but forgotten about those . . . classic stuff.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 9, 2010 - 10:08am PT
F*#kin K Man gets the first Terrapin AND the first Estimated. Good ol San Berdoo...

Umm, I got the first
Death Don't Have No Mercy (since, like, 69)at Shoreline 89..
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 9, 2010 - 12:09pm PT
In '77 Jerry was really excited about his new tune, and when he played Terrapin, he's actually do Pete Townsend-style windmills with is arm. I think he even jumped once.

One of my favorite Jerry photos:

k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 9, 2010 - 12:10pm PT


We miss you Bro.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 9, 2010 - 12:35pm PT
"I must turn down your offer,
but I'd like to ask a break . . .
You know I'm ready to give everything for anything I take . . .

Some folks would be happy just to have one dream come true,
but everything you gather is just more that you can lose" . . .

Thank you for everything Jerry G. and Robert H.!
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 9, 2010 - 03:22pm PT
Jeremy, sorry you are threatened by folks who have positive things to say and music to love. A wise man said we should smile at those with frowns, they are in need of a smile the most.

So here's a smile for you Bro!
Have a fruitful and productive day.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 9, 2010 - 03:46pm PT
That Jeremy's a classic!
Thanks for the bump, now go climb some mud will ya!

Just thinkin' about the road, finding fun in the uncertainty, knowing that when you reached the next city there'd be familiarity.

Things we've never seen will seem familiar...

Most of all, thinking about Garcia and the sound of his voice and guitar.
Those sounds have soothed my soul since I was knee high to a snake dick.

I miss Jerry. Just knowing that whatever the season I could drop everything and go...

Shine on, keep on shining!
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 9, 2010 - 04:52pm PT
72hw

Trad climber
Pasadena, CA
Aug 9, 2010 - 09:16pm PT
That story about the usher is classic - I recall being at shows where if you lit a cigarette they would be all over you like flies on sh#t, but they would merely give the finger wag and motion for you to hide it when you lit up the bubbler!

15 years... such a long long time to be gone...

Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Aug 9, 2010 - 09:41pm PT
the silence,

as humbly requested by the soul
is infinitely louder than the noise demands, as generated by a culture.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 9, 2010 - 10:32pm PT
Phish in Telluride tonight and tomorrow night . . . no I don't have tix, but it will be interesting to see if they play anything to commemorate Jerry.

"Ten years ago I walked this street, my dreams were ridin' tall . . .
Tonight I would be happy Lord for any dream at all . . .

All the things I planned to do, I only did half way . . .
Tomorrow will be Sunday, born of rainy Saturday . . .

There's some satisfaction in the San Francisco rain . . .
No matter what comes down the Mission always looks the same" . . .
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 9, 2010 - 11:16pm PT
Thanks for sharing that Pate, I'm glad the Bay Area is giving Jerome his due . . . kind of a strange coincidence though!

"Come Again"!

F*#k yeah Bobby and Phil!
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Aug 10, 2010 - 01:08am PT
tonight i will dream with jerry.
i will sit upon a picnic table along side jerry while he noodles some new chords out on his guitar.

as i hear the tune i will coax from jerry the lyrics to st. stephen.

meand jerry go a ways back, at least a few lifetimes.

sir, your stay here made better mine.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 10, 2010 - 02:05am PT
See here how everything
lead up to this day
and it's just like any other day
thats ever been.
Sun comin' up and then
the sun it's goin' down.
Shine through my window
and my friends they come around,
come around.


I guess it doesn't matter
anyway.

FireIntheCity

Mountain climber
from t'Hate-haunted canyon of human despair
Aug 10, 2010 - 10:36am PT

Pate

Trad climber
Aug 11, 2010 - 01:26pm PT
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Aug 14, 2010 - 09:55pm PT
Spent that dY on sph with an iPod took communion with lynnie and Yerian that night. Sent my own fire on the mtn Tuesday on Conness;
"Long distance runner what you standing there for?"
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 14, 2010 - 11:34pm PT
The more that you give, the more it will take . . .
To the thin line beyond which you really can't fake . . .
kbstuffnpuff

Sport climber
State of Confusion
Aug 31, 2010 - 05:59pm PT
What The Grateful Dead go best with:

yosguns

climber
Durham, NC
Sep 5, 2010 - 10:21pm PT
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 5, 2010 - 11:38pm PT
Breakfast with the Dead...

US Festival 28 years ago today.
Dr.Sprock

Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
Sep 6, 2010 - 12:38am PT
Owsley, 44 years today,

Liner notes for Rare Cuts and Oddities.


1966.

Year of the Fire Horse, a year said by the Chinese to be very unique, full of interesting, even disruptive events.

For me it was very much a unique and strange year. I met Grateful Dead that year and became their soundman. Of all the interesting and wonderful things that I have had an opportunity to do in my life so far, it ranks at the very top of the list. The Dead were young and raw, full of a special kind of energy. They had been a band for only about 6 months and most of their repertoire was covers- but what an eclectic and odd bunch of covers they were. I don't think there has ever been anything quite like them, before or since.

At the time I volunteered to be soundman there was no such thing as a dedicated music PA. Musicians either plugged their mic into their guitar amp, or used whatever was at the venue, usually nothing, but sometimes a church or stadium or small theatre might furnish the venue, and there was something. Most bands did not have soundmen anyway. I decided that we had to build a real system to furnish good sound. I asked a friend, Tim Scully who was heavy into electronics to come aboard and help us, He designed a central preamp and distribution system for all the instruments as well as the vocal channel, and we used McIntosh HiFi amps to power Voice of the Theatre speakers. At first the actual vocal system was my home Hi Fi, which happened to be Voice of the Theatre. At the time there were only really three kinds fo PA systems all primarily used for voice rather than music- there were small systems in churches, and in movie theatres, lastly in large baseball and basketball stadiums. Needless to say, they did no have either the power handling capability or the frequency range needed. The PA became a long term project which would lead over the years to such innovations as the Wall of Sound, and the founding of Meyer Sound Laboratories. The instrument struggles would lead to the creation of Alembic Guitars.

At the time, however the band were playing their instruments through this weird unitized system which was very horn heavy- each speaker setup had a bass cabinet and a small HF horn. The sound was thick and 'horny', which was (and is) like nothing else. Garcia at that time preferred a hollow body Gibson electric and coupled with the speakers it has a sound I have never heard any other guitars make. All this is very apparent on the tracks on this CD. For a while we had a bass augmentation speaker, called a 'Superbass', which we hooked up to Phil. it had an 18" dual voice coil Electrovoice speaker on the bottom pointing down and had passive moving sides made of stiffened styrofoam. We all felt this gadget made a huge effect putting out ultralow frequencies, but it may just have been our imagination- no one saved the box for us to measure later on when we got to the stage we were doing that sort of thing. We may have literally used it up, wore it out, it was intended for the living room Hi Fi..... In the beginning we were hanging on to what seemed like a rocket sled, everything needed work and no-one knew much about what to do. But we were determined to bring R&R music technology into the modern age.

From the very beginning I felt I needed to keep a record of what I was doing as I mixed the PA. I used a stereo reel to reel recorder with the (mono) PA signal in the left channel, principally vocals and drums and a few instruments, with the instruments which were not in the PA- that is, most of them- in the right. The PA was flat out just managing he drums and vocals in those early days. This resembled the Beatles first 'stereo' record, and had a lot of 'space' or 3d effect. I later had to put the vocals into both channels because, as the band started to listen more and more to my tapes, they wanted it to sound more 'conventional'. But panning the vocals destroys most of the space, unfortunately. Floor or ear monitors were still in the future, so the band had trouble keeping the vocals tight and together, and like most young bands, had a distinct habit of rushing the beat, both of which are evident on the tracks. But in my opinion the sound they made in those early days was very special and I am glad my oldest sonic journals have survived this long, so people who have come along recently can hear the sound which captivated my heart and soul close to forty years ago.


Track list for Rare Cuts


1. Walking The Dog - 5:38 (unknown location, early 1966)
2. You See A Broken Heart - 2:50 (unknown location, early 1966)
3. Promised Land - 2:31 (unknown location, early 1966)
4. Good Lovin' - 2:41 (unknown location, early 1966)
5. Standing On The Corner - 2:55 (unknown location, early 1966)
6. Cream Puff War - 3:37 (unknown location, early 1966)
7. Betty and Dupree - 5:35 (unknown location, 3/2/66)
8. Stealin' - 2:53 (unknown location, 3/2/66)
9. Silver Threads and Golden Needles - 3:00 (unknown location, late 1966)
10. Not Fade Away - 3:51 (unknown location, early 1966)
11. Big Railroad Blues - 3:10 (unknown location, Feb/Mar, 1966)
12. Sick and Tired - 3:19 (unknown location, Feb/Mar, 1966)
13. Empty Heart - 6:18 (unknown location, Feb/Mar, 1966)
14. Gangster of Love - 4:35 (Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, 7/3/66)
15. Don't Mess Up A Good Thing - 2:56 (Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, 7/3/66)
16. Hey Little One - 5:02 (Danish Center, Los Angeles, 3/12/66)
17. I'm A King Bee > - 6:01 (Danish Center, Los Angeles, 3/12/66)
18. Caution - 9:18 (Danish Center, Los Angeles, 3/12/66)


cool artwork from owsley>


Dr.Sprock

Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
Sep 6, 2010 - 12:52am PT
On Psychedelics


There has been a trip taken by many people over a number of years, starting in the 1960's. It is a trip to renew our connection with the planet we live on and its lifeforms. It seemed as though this journey was a natural and important one for our survival and the survival of the world as our home. We thought of ourselves as exploring new ways of looking at the universe, but as it turns out, the adventure is almost as old as man himself.

One of the ideas that developed throughout this period was that the psychedelics (I still feel most comfortable with this old term coined by Humphrey Osmund) were some sort important hormone -like substance which was necessary to the human race, like the various hormones which the body produces within its structure. Unlike these hormones, there are others, perhaps you could call them "planetary hormones" which the plant world produces for the use of animals, and are part of the Gaia or conciousness of the biomass of the whole planet. Healing plants are part of this category. The ones which alter our state and perception of the universe around us are no less important to our development as enlightened entities than those which heal our bodies. Research into the ethnobotanical practices of indigenous peoples around the world show that only the "modern" or western (ie. ours) cultures place any opprobrium on the use of these plants. In fact only the "west" is in the business of trampling on the environment with out regard for the conciousness of the whole or of its importance to us as a part of it. Indigenees almost universally hold that the planet is something alive and that their role is as the protectors of that life. The concept of "owning" the land is nearly impossible for these people to grasp.

I thought that we might just survive and the planet with us if we could manage to get enough people to experience the view which the psychedelics sacraments give. I know that some of you who will read this will object to the term sacrament, but the word is completely appropriate. With the advent of Christianity sacrament has come to be divested of the old meaning and to assume a more ephemeral definition. The magical plants used by folks for tens of thousands of years have been for the most part forgotten. People need to alter their perception of the world around them, in fact it seems to be something done by all animals. In the west there is only two permitted options Alcohol and tobacco. I'm not going to belabor the point, but this "choice" is not something which leads in any way to higher ground.

Shamanism and the use of plants to alter conciousness has a long and respected history in the development of human society. Today it is still found in parts of the world, coexisting with the modern forms of accepted religious activity. In fact, in places like the remote areas of Mexico some of the old ways are openly part of the worship rituals of the Catholic church. Not usually the plants, but the Native American Church in the US has certainly achieved a synthesis of sacred plant use and a form of Christianity. Perhaps this (the inclusion of aspects of Christianity) was necessary to be accepted as a real religion, although that seems odd, the scientologists have succeeded in having their organization accepted as a "church", and it has nothing even remotely suggestive of a spiritual nature about it. Or perhaps it's to do with the fact that the people are the dispossessed Indigenees of a land of colonial immigrants. Or with the fact that they are using the plants.

Today the followers of the Grateful Dead have been preyed upon by law enforcement at many of the venues the Dead visited. They could not peacefully practice what is to them a true religious practice without persecution. I guess it'd be the modern version of feeding Christians to the lions practiced by the government of Rome a couple of thousand years ago. So much for the rhetoric of "freedom of religion", so oft repeated nowadays. So what if the psychedelic of choice is LSD rather than peyote? Is it OK to eat peyote if you are a native American indigenee but not if you are a white or black or other native of America? Since when is there any difference? Why should there be some sort of barrier to joining any religious group? There is only one answer: you are not allowed to be different, to think original thoughts, to act as if you were really free. You are not supposed to experience the world in any way differently to the way those in power wish you to.

It is a fairly modern turn which has led us to this point in time. Plants have only in recent times been unlawful. Although there have been reactions to the introduction of various kinds of psychically active plants into social use...coffee caused a bit of a stir when it was first introduced, as was chocolate. Still, the prohibition movement is a phenomenon of this century. First the war against alcohol, which failed to successfully introduce laws through Congress outlawing booze (the Supreme Court declared that Congress didn't have the authority to do that), succeeded in pushing through an amendment to the Constitution. This was a terrible mistake, and the country still has a powerful Mafia as a direct result of the huge "money for nothing" fees people paid to have access to the drinks they wanted. Even the Volstead amendment didn't criminalize use or possession.

With the repeal, those used to the easy money, having acquired money and therefore power, set about to have introduced new laws which would recreate the money tree. This time they were able, by claiming that the drugs represented a "health and safety" problem, to get passed and approved by the court laws outlawing a variety of plant derived drugs from cannabis to coca and opiates. The inclusion of cannabis may have been the desire of certain industrialists to limit the competition hemp fibers presented to the emerging synthetic fiber industry. Funny thing the court actually said that a tax stamp created with the express intent of never being issued, therefore a defacto prohibition was constitutional! Harmless and joyful cannabis, the wonderful plant which has adapted itself so completely to the service of man, was depicted as a Killer of Youth, Creater of Madness, with all the power of a popular press in the full vigor of its prime. Whether Hearst was paid off to do this, or just thought that anything sensational enough to sell newspapers was ok, will probably never be known.

Today we are seeing a more moderate approach to the hemp matter. People are rediscovering all the uses to which this plant can be put, from making paint to paper. Still there is a weird aversion to the medicinal and recreational values so celebrated throughout history until recent times. "Drug free" strains are touted for the production of fiber and oilseed. What a load of nonsense, as if the conventional recreational drugs were safe and desirable? Even the opiates wouldn't be much of a problem if they weren't illegal, forcing a myriad of eager dealers into the streets for the money for nothing of the black market created by the laws.

Society should never intentionally create a black market. All black markets are a danger to the community due to the lack of controls and the high delivery fees that they force on the delivery system. Likewise there is a huge loss in revenue to the normal flow of commerce through the community. The amounts of money available leads to the inevitable corruption of all who attempt to interfere in the flow of goods in this black market. Black markets made fortunes to the entrepreneurs of the world wars. Tires, fuel and meat made fortunes for those who could divert supplies to their clients. Anything can be a black market. The only thing required is scarcity, or illegality, and a demand for the items.

The use of psychedelics as a part of the religious experience has forced literally hundreds of thousands of otherwise law abiding people into the black market for their supplies. Due to the dangers and costs many have had to turn to dealing to gain access. Within a community which is devoted to the ingestion of these sacred substances there are many who feel that it is a noble calling to be the source for their friends and fellow worshippers. Hold on, some may say, what about those who are merely thrill seekers? Well, maybe the first time a person uses LSD or the other entheogens, they may be motivated by such a motive. The nature of the experience is that of a profound union with the universal mind. This takes place over time, at first things happen one way, then they change with further trips.

The term, "War on Drugs" is a non sequitur. There cannot be a war on anything except people. The question is, why does the government want to wage a war against its own people%
Dr.Sprock

Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
Sep 6, 2010 - 12:57am PT
On Psychedelics


There has been a trip taken by many people over a number of years, starting in the 1960's. It is a trip to renew our connection with the planet we live on and its lifeforms. It seemed as though this journey was a natural and important one for our survival and the survival of the world as our home. We thought of ourselves as exploring new ways of looking at the universe, but as it turns out, the adventure is almost as old as man himself.

One of the ideas that developed throughout this period was that the psychedelics (I still feel most comfortable with this old term coined by Humphrey Osmund) were some sort important hormone -like substance which was necessary to the human race, like the various hormones which the body produces within its structure. Unlike these hormones, there are others, perhaps you could call them "planetary hormones" which the plant world produces for the use of animals, and are part of the Gaia or conciousness of the biomass of the whole planet. Healing plants are part of this category. The ones which alter our state and perception of the universe around us are no less important to our development as enlightened entities than those which heal our bodies. Research into the ethnobotanical practices of indigenous peoples around the world show that only the "modern" or western (ie. ours) cultures place any opprobrium on the use of these plants. In fact only the "west" is in the business of trampling on the environment with out regard for the conciousness of the whole or of its importance to us as a part of it. Indigenees almost universally hold that the planet is something alive and that their role is as the protectors of that life. The concept of "owning" the land is nearly impossible for these people to grasp.

I thought that we might just survive and the planet with us if we could manage to get enough people to experience the view which the psychedelics sacraments give. I know that some of you who will read this will object to the term sacrament, but the word is completely appropriate. With the advent of Christianity sacrament has come to be divested of the old meaning and to assume a more ephemeral definition. The magical plants used by folks for tens of thousands of years have been for the most part forgotten. People need to alter their perception of the world around them, in fact it seems to be something done by all animals. In the west there is only two permitted options Alcohol and tobacco. I'm not going to belabor the point, but this "choice" is not something which leads in any way to higher ground.

Shamanism and the use of plants to alter conciousness has a long and respected history in the development of human society. Today it is still found in parts of the world, coexisting with the modern forms of accepted religious activity. In fact, in places like the remote areas of Mexico some of the old ways are openly part of the worship rituals of the Catholic church. Not usually the plants, but the Native American Church in the US has certainly achieved a synthesis of sacred plant use and a form of Christianity. Perhaps this (the inclusion of aspects of Christianity) was necessary to be accepted as a real religion, although that seems odd, the scientologists have succeeded in having their organization accepted as a "church", and it has nothing even remotely suggestive of a spiritual nature about it. Or perhaps it's to do with the fact that the people are the dispossessed Indigenees of a land of colonial immigrants. Or with the fact that they are using the plants.

Today the followers of the Grateful Dead have been preyed upon by law enforcement at many of the venues the Dead visited. They could not peacefully practice what is to them a true religious practice without persecution. I guess it'd be the modern version of feeding Christians to the lions practiced by the government of Rome a couple of thousand years ago. So much for the rhetoric of "freedom of religion", so oft repeated nowadays. So what if the psychedelic of choice is LSD rather than peyote? Is it OK to eat peyote if you are a native American indigenee but not if you are a white or black or other native of America? Since when is there any difference? Why should there be some sort of barrier to joining any religious group? There is only one answer: you are not allowed to be different, to think original thoughts, to act as if you were really free. You are not supposed to experience the world in any way differently to the way those in power wish you to.

It is a fairly modern turn which has led us to this point in time. Plants have only in recent times been unlawful. Although there have been reactions to the introduction of various kinds of psychically active plants into social use...coffee caused a bit of a stir when it was first introduced, as was chocolate. Still, the prohibition movement is a phenomenon of this century. First the war against alcohol, which failed to successfully introduce laws through Congress outlawing booze (the Supreme Court declared that Congress didn't have the authority to do that), succeeded in pushing through an amendment to the Constitution. This was a terrible mistake, and the country still has a powerful Mafia as a direct result of the huge "money for nothing" fees people paid to have access to the drinks they wanted. Even the Volstead amendment didn't criminalize use or possession.

With the repeal, those used to the easy money, having acquired money and therefore power, set about to have introduced new laws which would recreate the money tree. This time they were able, by claiming that the drugs represented a "health and safety" problem, to get passed and approved by the court laws outlawing a variety of plant derived drugs from cannabis to coca and opiates. The inclusion of cannabis may have been the desire of certain industrialists to limit the competition hemp fibers presented to the emerging synthetic fiber industry. Funny thing the court actually said that a tax stamp created with the express intent of never being issued, therefore a defacto prohibition was constitutional! Harmless and joyful cannabis, the wonderful plant which has adapted itself so completely to the service of man, was depicted as a Killer of Youth, Creater of Madness, with all the power of a popular press in the full vigor of its prime. Whether Hearst was paid off to do this, or just thought that anything sensational enough to sell newspapers was ok, will probably never be known.

Today we are seeing a more moderate approach to the hemp matter. People are rediscovering all the uses to which this plant can be put, from making paint to paper. Still there is a weird aversion to the medicinal and recreational values so celebrated throughout history until recent times. "Drug free" strains are touted for the production of fiber and oilseed. What a load of nonsense, as if the conventional recreational drugs were safe and desirable? Even the opiates wouldn't be much of a problem if they weren't illegal, forcing a myriad of eager dealers into the streets for the money for nothing of the black market created by the laws.

Society should never intentionally create a black market. All black markets are a danger to the community due to the lack of controls and the high delivery fees that they force on the delivery system. Likewise there is a huge loss in revenue to the normal flow of commerce through the community. The amounts of money available leads to the inevitable corruption of all who attempt to interfere in the flow of goods in this black market. Black markets made fortunes to the entrepreneurs of the world wars. Tires, fuel and meat made fortunes for those who could divert supplies to their clients. Anything can be a black market. The only thing required is scarcity, or illegality, and a demand for the items.

The use of psychedelics as a part of the religious experience has forced literally hundreds of thousands of otherwise law abiding people into the black market for their supplies. Due to the dangers and costs many have had to turn to dealing to gain access. Within a community which is devoted to the ingestion of these sacred substances there are many who feel that it is a noble calling to be the source for their friends and fellow worshippers. Hold on, some may say, what about those who are merely thrill seekers? Well, maybe the first time a person uses LSD or the other entheogens, they may be motivated by such a motive. The nature of the experience is that of a profound union with the universal mind. This takes place over time, at first things happen one way, then they change with further trips.

The term, "War on Drugs" is a non sequitur. There cannot be a war on anything except people. The question is, why does the government want to wage a war against its own people? The simple principle of harm reduction dictates that all drugs should cease to be illegal. Very few people would become junkies without someone on the street corner offering it to them, with the added attraction to the young of defying authority. Likewise the widespread belief that advertising is a form of speech which should be protected, and therefore unregulated, is wrong. Advertising is a form of coercive behavior, directed at producing a response without regard to the real merits involved, as long as there is a profitable result for the advertiser. This has nothing to do with the value to the individual or to the community. Tobacco is an excellent example. Joe Camel has been implicated in the early commencement of tobacco use by children. Why advertise tobacco? Any one would not have any trouble knowing about the stuff as long as it was available. No coercion can be intelligently defended.

As well, what about the ads "You can win a million" promulgated by the usually government run lottos? Anyone with any knowledge of gambling knows that the odds against winning are around 50 million to one. You are far more likely to be struck by lightning, or even a meteorite than to pick the winner in a lotto. But the ads imply that it's easy...not one word about the odds. Somebody has to win, I hear it said, but the roll over to super jackpots should put paid to that one. Even so, it's the people least likely to afford it that wind up pouring their money into it in the vain hope of being the lucky one. I don't think such things should be outlawed, people want to gamble, take drugs, smoke tobacco and/or pot, and they should not have these activities criminalized. But neither should they be the subject of advertising.

The US Constitution directs the government to "provide for the general welfare" illegality of drugs creates a health and welfare crisis of immense dimensions. Unknown dosages, unknown composition, contamination both chemical and biological. Death and disease are the direct result of the laws, not the use of various drugs. So far as I know the Supreme Court has never ruled as to whether the laws on drugs violate the powers given to congress. Judging on the basis of the Volstead Act, it would appear that they should throw the lot out. But there is no mechanism whereby a case may be forced to the attention of the court. Perhaps in the current climate of illogic, where a kid who introduces a couple of people he knew, one who grew, and one who sold marijuana, can be given life in prison, although he didn't see the weed nor share in any monies, the electorate might pass an amendment to the constitution to continue the insanity.
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Sep 11, 2010 - 05:04pm PT
I was rooting through some stuff and came across this sweet old sticker.

survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Sep 11, 2010 - 05:13pm PT
Warren wants to join the thread, because he played That's What Love Will Make You Do, and The Other One a few nights ago for me!




Still miss Jerry every day.

Take up your China Doll. It's only fractured, just a little nervous from the fall.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 11, 2010 - 08:15pm PT
Now I don't know but I been told
it's hard to run with the weight of gold
Other hand I heard it said
it's just as hard with the weight of lead

Who can deny? Who can deny?
it's not just a change in style
One step done and another begun
in I wonder how many miles?
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 11, 2010 - 09:26pm PT
Cool link rrider . . . that guy is the real deal.


Now I don't know but I been told
in the heat of the sun a man died of cold
Do we keep on coming or stand and wait
with the sun so dark and the hour so late?

You can't overlook the lack Jack
of any other highway to ride
It's got no signs or dividing lines
and very few rules to guide


I always liked the symbolism in New Speedway Boogie; as with most Grateful Dead lyrics there are numerous angles, nuances and facets that lend themselves to many applications and interpretations. The life drama is constantly being played out aurally, physically, suggestively and visually. This is part of the strong allure and mysticism of the music.

Coincidence . ? . I think not!
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 11, 2010 - 09:29pm PT
Now I don't know but I been told
in the heat of the sun a man died of cold
Do we keep on coming or stand and wait
with the sun so dark and the hour so late?

You can't overlook the lack Jack
of any other highway to ride
It's got no signs or dividing lines
and very few rules to guide

One way or another
this darkness got to give . . .
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Sep 11, 2010 - 09:50pm PT
Ignore his singing maybe.

Nahhh, all the real heads grew to love that frail rail Jerry rode.
And he rode it as well as anyone.

Elvis Costello said something like "People put him down for his singing, but he had the perfect voice for those songs and those stories."

Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Sep 11, 2010 - 09:58pm PT
Very well put, Survival!


Was it thunder? Lightning? Or, other? That got
him?
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Sep 11, 2010 - 10:14pm PT
Example:
To Lay Me Down
Not the most popular Dead tune, but he put his soul in it.
I wish I could find a link to the original studio version, because if you listen close, the notes that he hit in the last few measures were really beautiful.

But this version will do, it's a good one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcvng9u7REE
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Sep 11, 2010 - 10:29pm PT
Quintessential Dead, survival.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Sep 24, 2010 - 04:32pm PT
The best 34 seconds of Garcia on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrYhRQZFWZQ








[It's too bad, there used to be the follow-up clip where Jerry did tell a joke, but I can't seem to find it just now.]
cowpoke

climber
Sep 24, 2010 - 05:28pm PT
Pate, is that clip from the festival express footage?

there is a fabulous scene in that film where jerry and janice et al. are together on the train jammin' and jerry says something beautiful and kind to janice

...or that's my memory...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Express

edit: here is the clip I was remembering...the jerry line of beauty to janice is at about 4:06 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_dkavLVcN0
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2010 - 03:48pm PT
Check my pulse
it don't change!

Like a song that's born
to soar the sky.

The omnipotent Grateful Dead.
Mick K

climber
Northern Sierra
Sep 28, 2010 - 04:54pm PT
Anyone else at Red Rocks CO this weekend? The boys were goin' off! Don't miss the Ryder, Terrapin, Dark Star, Unbroken Chain and Other one in the second set.

http://www.archive.org/details/Furthur2010-09-25.C-463

tuning
Help On the Way >
Slipknot >
Franklin's Tower
Alabama Getaway
Sittin' On Top Of the World >
High On A Mountain >
Viola Lee Blues >
Bertha >
Viola Lee Blues >
Cumberland Blues >
Viola Lee Blues

tuning
Mountain Song >
I Know You Rider >
Terrapin Suite >
The Eleven >
Unbroken Chain >
Dark Star >
Stella Blue >
The Other One

donor rap
One More Saturday Night
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Sep 28, 2010 - 05:18pm PT
Very cool buckle Pate ...
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Sep 28, 2010 - 05:21pm PT
Comin' up on
"six hundred pounds of sin"....
TwistedCrank

climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom
Sep 28, 2010 - 05:23pm PT
I thought Brett was pretty lame. Very lame actually.

You don't know sh!t about the Dead until you've heard Keith lead Jerry into the deep and dark where Jerry could really do his thing.

Having Vince show up was a welcome relief, especially after he went through the intership with Bruce.

But Brett? NF way. Tinkle tinkle tinkle went the plastic piano. Whah whah whah went the Hammond organism. 12 years of the Dead -- pfft. Toast. A sonic wasteland struggling to uphold a vague tradition.

All my boards end in February 1979. The Vince RTs have some of the goods but Vince AUDs are pretty lame, what with all the faux tripping going on.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2010 - 05:50pm PT
To each his own...
Didn't much care for Vince myself.
And Keith, well he brought along Donna.
Each player in the "hotseat" had his ups and downs.

Too bad Vince went all fatal attraction on the band after Jerry died, and then the way he chose to leave the planet...truly horrific.

One of my favorite 'mini eras' was in 73 when Donna was out prego and Mickey was gone.
Pretty much a stripped down, well tuned 5 piece.
Check the Garden shows.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Sep 28, 2010 - 05:56pm PT
I believe there was a brief period of time when the dead actually played as a quartet.

And dude, sorry to hear your distaste for Brent. I personally loved his playing. Too bad you have the need to dis. And yes, I was there for all of the Keith years ...
TwistedCrank

climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom
Sep 28, 2010 - 06:06pm PT
Yeah, the Vince exit was pretty sorry.

Brett could get to some high places but it came at the expense of some weak first set material and overwrought 2nd set closers. Bobby's choice of new material during that time was pretty questionable as well. When I cycle through Brett-years DPs, RTs and vault releases I'm always feeling the "this is good but not great", and when they were great, they were beyond.

For my money (and many others) they were firing on all cylinders as a big lineup in May 1977. All 7 of them. Even Donna fit in so nicely on numerous outings during that month.

The turn-on-a-dime lineup in 73 and 74 was pretty impressive, especially considering how consistanly huge they went and how clean the sound was.

There was never a deadicated lineup of 4, but there was some pretty incredible material that came out when it was only the core of four on stage. 71 and maybe 73 come to mind.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Sep 28, 2010 - 07:30pm PT
I personally love the years when Garcia played with a clean sound. That ol' Travis Bean--love it! Later, he started to put a lot of effects into the loop, perhaps he could be "messier" that way.

And yeah, one month in '77...or a couple of runs here, or there. Shucks, we all have our favorites.

I'll have to dig through some stuff, but I believe there were a few shows where Pig wasn't feeling so well and Mickey was absent ... Still, when they were the quintet, they Blasted! Certainly some of my favorite stuff.

I put in the latest Road Trips today (from '80). So far it's been a rough listen. & the DP with Vince? woah.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2010 - 09:42pm PT
Check out Duke University with the Bean~ whoa!

Gems in every era. Some of the mid 80's trainwrecks are awesome. Jer's voice toasted from chaisin' the dragon, Bobby skreechin cuz of the painful mammaltoe, crazy setlists...
example: Richmond 85 second set~ it's a DP. Unreal.



it's breNt dammit. BRENT.
N.
...and I dug Brent. Jerry liked him too, you could see it. He added energy, a killer voice, songwriting. Loved that guy. Saw his last show in fact.
I was skateboarding down the street in Milwaukee in full deadhed regalia, after the last show of the tour. Someone shouted from a passing car that a member of the Dead had died. Bummer day.
Luckily I made it home with more money than I left with! Left a few braincells along the way though! Woohoo! Good times.

K man rocks!!!
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 28, 2010 - 09:59pm PT
Brent brought a whole 'nother dynamic to the band, playing and singing with all his heart and soul . . . "Hey there little red rooster, well you ain't sh#t to me . . . while you're away, I'll take care of your hen house . . . I'm just bein' neighborly"!
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Oct 1, 2010 - 06:21pm PT
a treasure.
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 3, 2010 - 01:43pm PT
Put this in your pipe and smoke it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBUF3UoOvoI
TwistedCrank

climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom
Oct 3, 2010 - 02:06pm PT
Um. Distill it down to its purest essence and suddenly it's so much easier.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHRRjt2lU_4&feature=related
drljefe

climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 3, 2010 - 02:54pm PT
Tiger wins!!!!
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Oct 7, 2010 - 02:01pm PT
About the GD archives:

http://tinyurl.com/24lje6f
cintune

climber
the Moon and Antarctica
Oct 12, 2010 - 11:36am PT
http://io9.com/5661561/exploding-dark-stars-could-be-the-answer-to-the-universes-accounting-problem

Dark stars are something of a misnomer - unlike dark matter particles, they would be visible and actually quite bright because they would still mostly be made of regular matter. In fact, the dark stars would have been the brightest bodies in the young universe, as the constant annihilation of dark matter particles would release massive amounts of energy. The star would burn through its dark matter nucleus very quickly, and then a new nucleus of normal matter would form, starting up the more familiar nuclear fusion process inside the star. It's possible these former dark matter stars are still around in the modern universe.
yosguns

climber
Durham, NC
Nov 11, 2010 - 12:31am PT
We used to play for silver, now we play for life.
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Nov 18, 2010 - 12:01am PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/the-grateful-dead-scarlet
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 18, 2010 - 08:45am PT
Everybodies braggin and
drinkin that wine
I can tell the queen of diamonds
by the way she shines.
Come to daddy
on the inside straight
and I got no chance
of losing
this time.
Mick K

climber
Northern Sierra
Nov 18, 2010 - 12:29pm PT

Try a little of this. First hit is free....

http://www.archive.org/details/furthur2010-11-14.AKGmix.toaste.flac16
yosguns

climber
Durham, NC
Dec 12, 2010 - 01:09am PT
Good to know you got shoes to wear when you find the floor...why hold out for more?

http://soundcloud.com/raymondkurzeka/here-comes-sunshine
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Dec 17, 2010 - 06:45pm PT
And now for a little treat.

Lost for ages, stuck between the pages of an old songbook, I found this old print out of Hunters explains Franklin's Tower.

From the top of the printout, you'll see that this is Hunter's response to an essay that claims GD lyrics are meaningless.

It's a thick read, but well worth a Dead Head's time.


Oh, when the Net was young:





drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2010 - 05:44pm PT
nice find K-Man. Classic stuff.

Rockin' K
Mick K

climber
Northern Sierra
Dec 27, 2010 - 06:47pm PT
Don't shake the tree when the fruit ain't ripe
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Dec 27, 2010 - 09:06pm PT
three trees stood astride.
the winds they blew;
the gales were borne.

the three trees remained and swayed while the wind-song played.
and they interjected their's input into an understanding.

as i stood in the wee forest of my curiosities, rutted and de-paved my path thru became.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Dec 27, 2010 - 10:14pm PT
"Doin' That Rag"
Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing; used by permission

Sitting in Mangrove Valley chasing lightbeams
Everything wanders from baby to Z
Baby, baby, pretty, young on Tuesday
Old like a rum drinking demon at tea

Baby, baby, tell me what's the matter
Why, why tell me, what's your why now?
Tell me why will you never come home?
Tell me what's your reason if you got a good one

Everywhere I go
The people all know
Everyone's doin' that rag

Take my line go fishing for a Tuesday
Maybe take my supper, eat it down by the sea
Gave my baby twenty, forty good reasons
Couldn't find any better ones in the morning at three

Rain gonna come but the rain gonna go, you know
Stepping off sharply from the rank and file
Awful cold and dark like a dungeon
Maybe get a little bit darker 'fore the day

Hipsters, tripsters,
real cool chicks, sir,
everyone's doin' that rag

You needn't gild the lily, offer jewels to the sunset
No one is watching or standing in your shoes
Wash your lonely feet in the river in the morning
Everything promised is delivered to you

Don't neglect to pick up what your share is
All the winter birds are winging home now
Hey Love, go and look around you
Nothing out there you haven't seen before now

But you can wade in the water
and never get wet
if you keep on doin' that rag

One eyed jacks and the deuces are wild
The aces are crawling up and down your sleeve
Come back here, Baby Louise,
and tell me the name
of the game that you play

Is it all fall down?
Is it all go under?
Is it all fall down, down, down
Is it all go under?

Everywhere I go
the people all know
everybody's doin' that rag
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2010 - 10:42pm PT
Fitting selection, kalimon.
Thanks bro, needed that.

Like a hjghway sign
leaving no doubt.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Dec 27, 2010 - 11:00pm PT
Yeah Jefe! What a killer song . . . awesome lyrics and the goofy circus like, yet extremely complex sound the boys wove around them. Everything promised is delivered to you!

I really love Pate's pedal steel Garcia photos. Whew! Everyone's doin' that rag . . .
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Jan 2, 2011 - 12:11am PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/grateful-dead-beat-on-down
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Jan 13, 2011 - 08:29pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/grateful-dead
yosguns

climber
Durham, NC
Jan 13, 2011 - 09:28pm PT
k-man, thanks for the post. Good stuff.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jan 13, 2011 - 11:15pm PT
Thanks pocoloco 1, nice video link. What a treasure to see vintage footage with high quality sound . . . Neil Young at Massey Hall too!

Peace.
cintune

climber
the Moon and Antarctica
Feb 1, 2011 - 09:41pm PT
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/search/song?q=jazz%20is%20dead
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Feb 1, 2011 - 10:35pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/the-grateful-dead-chinatown
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Feb 5, 2011 - 04:57pm PT
PigPen BUMP!
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Feb 5, 2011 - 05:12pm PT
I agree Kalimon

http://www.nodepression.com/video/grateful-dead-it-hurts-me-too
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Feb 5, 2011 - 05:24pm PT
Classic pocololo 1 . . . the elemental Dead: Billy, Bobby, Jerry, Keith, Phil and Ron.

GUD stuff indeed!
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 14, 2011 - 03:10pm PT
The weather down here, so fine...
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Feb 20, 2011 - 10:20pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/the-grateful-dead-ripple
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 20, 2011 - 11:03pm PT
KW-
Nice.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 26, 2011 - 10:19am PT
Ooh hoo, where's the dog star?
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Feb 26, 2011 - 11:18am PT
Drifting and dreaming . . .
can't say

Social climber
Pasadena CA
Feb 26, 2011 - 12:09pm PT
I saw the Dead and the New Riders of the Purple Sage at Pauley Pavilion in 72. The girl I went with loved the Dead so much, she found a way to get back stage. Being the passionate, frisky girl she was, somehow an incident happened in the bathroom that got the band in some trouble with UCLA, I never knew until just recently that it became a rather infamous incident in the bands history.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 26, 2011 - 01:11pm PT
Hey k-man
34 yrs ago tonight at the Swing Auditorium...
Care to share your memories on this show, famous for the debut of Terrapin Station and Estimated Prophet?
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Feb 26, 2011 - 03:18pm PT
@Can't Say, I heard about that Poly Pavilion escapade, funny. A good friend of mine was in the front center for that show. I'm not sure it was good for him. {wink}

I just listened to the first disc of Dick's Pix #26, 4/26/69. This is a couple of months after the wonderful (Live/Dead) Filmore West shows. Truly the Dead showing off their turn-on-a-dime charms, many cool song changes--check this out if you can. [The second set isn't quite so hot, seems the Electric Theater was juicing the band a bit.]


And...

Hooray!! for the Swing!! Whoa, that long ago, eh? Jeeze...

The place was pretty small. My cousin and a couple of his friends were visiting us from Chile and we all got tix. I think that was actually my first "enhanced" show, I remember feeling pretty good. And my cousin? What can I say, they were no innocents. But they were unprepared for what took place.

I'd followed the Dead pretty tight, and knew their song lists. So when they opened with Lady with a Fan, whoa, the hole place seemed to lift up off the ground a bit. Lesh's base line just sounded so unusual, unlike anything we'd heard before. And the inter-twining of the guitars, the magic was complete. Garcia was so excited about his new tune, and I'd never seen it before (or since), but he actually was doing Townsend-style windmills with his picking hand. Garcia: how I like to remember him, black hair, black beard.

There were these two chicanos right next to me. We were dead center, about 5 or 6 folks back from the stage. These chicanos, they were stoned to the gills, on reds was my guess. Anyway, the guy right next to me would shout in between the songs "Hey Garcia!" (imagine Cheech's accent, but toasted on reds), "Garcia, play one for my sister. Hey Garcia." He wouldn't stop. I had a hard time not laughing, but I found it pretty funny.

When they broke out Estimated Prophet, I literally thought the room was spinning, slowly. Now that is one F'ed up bass line!, and Wier's guitar.

My oh my, my poor cousin.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Feb 28, 2011 - 12:38pm PT
My buddy raves about a flick he once saw titled Sunshine Daydream, it documents a '72 show set in Oregon. Odd, there's just not that many films of earlier GD shows. For some reason this film was never officially released (copyrights?).

Anyway, he told me you could find segments of the film on YouTube. Here's the China Cat Sunflower.

Wow, what a time, what a place. I love the early days when Garcia played with a clean, Strat sound... Here, a Sunburst Stratocaster, never seen that one before.

Ah... Jack Straw

And the Beautiful Dark Star
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 28, 2011 - 01:26pm PT
K man-
I have SSDD. I'll dig it up and burn it.
It is awrsome.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 12, 2011 - 10:31am PT
Even a blind man knows when the sun is shining
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 12, 2011 - 10:43am PT
Fitting pate got post666.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Mar 20, 2011 - 02:06pm PT
Well everybody's dancing in a ring around the sun . . .
nobody's finished, we ain't even begun.
So take off your shoes child, and take off your hat . . .
try on your wings and find out where it's at.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 21, 2011 - 12:42am PT
Just did 70 minutes of deadaerobics
to
Dane County 78
Estimated Eyes Playin Wheel Playin
Johnny B Goode


Hey Now!
Leggs

Sport climber
El Presidio, Tucson
Mar 21, 2011 - 01:04am PT
^^We're gonna have to make that a regular "thing" at home...my kind of workout..
JerryGarcia

Trad climber
East Coast dreaming of the West Coast
Mar 21, 2011 - 02:22am PT
Just in case no one has said it before archive.org has free shows for download.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 21, 2011 - 09:34am PT
677 posts and Garcia finally chimes in!!!
Brandon-

climber
Done With Tobacco
Mar 21, 2011 - 10:06am PT
677 posts and Garcia finally chimes in!!!

6/77 was a good time to be Jerry.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 21, 2011 - 10:14am PT
I think you may be on to something brandon. . .
TwistedCrank

climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom
Mar 21, 2011 - 11:15am PT
07-18-76 on the drive to work today. A royal sequence of:

Lazy Lightning> Supplication> Let It Grow> Drums> Let It Grow> Wharf Rat> Drums> Other One> St. Stephen> NFA> St. Stephen> Wheel> Other One> Stella Blue

My favorite Donna flub ever is on the first line of St Stephen.


Haven't listened to that one for a while.
Elcapinyoazz

Social climber
Joshua Tree
Mar 21, 2011 - 11:27am PT
Cape Cod '79, best Phil bomb ever on the run into Other One. Careful with your speakers, neighbors might think an earthquake is going off.
cintune

climber
Midvale School for the Gifted
Mar 21, 2011 - 12:20pm PT

Zipped Folder: Ron “Pigpen” McKernan :: The Apartment Demos

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2011/03/18/ron-pigpen-mckernan-the-apartment-demos/
Brandon-

climber
Done With Tobacco
Mar 21, 2011 - 01:18pm PT
Pate, thanks for pointing out that show, I'm more of a late '70's fan, but that was fun.

A big thanks though, for reminding me about sugarmegs! Somehow I'd forgotten all about it, great resource!
Mick K

climber
Northern Sierra
Mar 21, 2011 - 01:31pm PT
Wow, that sample of Pig Pen is amazing!

Thanks for sharing.
JerryGarcia

Trad climber
Seattle
Mar 21, 2011 - 07:42pm PT
Yeah sorry I took so long, was on hiatus from the forums.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Mar 21, 2011 - 10:23pm PT
"You said you was hurtin', almost lost your mind;
'cause the man you love, hurts you all the time.
But when things go wrong, wrong with you... it hurts me too."

Thank you all for the many insights!
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Mar 21, 2011 - 11:47pm PT
reality is shamed by my magnificent imagination...
in the face of impending though glorious poverty
i dream and create and stumble my way through,

the artist just might untie infinity.

neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Mar 23, 2011 - 08:32pm PT
hey there say, the warbler....


as to your quote:

Spring, 1973, I was walking from Camp 4 out into the meadow to with Mark Chapman. We had guitars in hand, and I was going to show him some chords as I had a bit more time on the fretboard than he.

Well, a white sheet of paper came blowing through the tall green grass and crossed our path. Thinking it to be litter, I picked it up, and was pleased to find the words and chords to "Ripple" there for our music lesson


wow, how cool, a very nice chapman thread, thanks for the share... :)
what a neat way to have a music day... :)
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Mar 23, 2011 - 09:02pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/the-grateful-dead-mountains-of
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Apr 8, 2011 - 07:15pm PT
Shake the hand that shook the hand
Of P.T. Barnum and Charlie Chan

http://www.nodepression.com/video/the-grateful-dead-us-blues

http://www.nodepression.com/video/the-grateful-dead-deep-elem
cowpoke

climber
Apr 8, 2011 - 07:51pm PT
JGB Sugaree

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxM8_p2TqvM&feature=related
cowpoke

climber
Apr 8, 2011 - 07:57pm PT
and part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9BrZ6QqNA0&feature=related
go-B

climber
Sozo
Apr 11, 2011 - 08:51pm PT
http://www.dead.net/road-trips/road-trips-vol-4-no-3?eml=dn/041111/rttext1
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Apr 14, 2011 - 07:44pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/the-grateful-dead-el-paso
Brandon-

climber
Done With Tobacco
Apr 14, 2011 - 08:10pm PT
I've always had a love for Bobbys cowboy songs.

'Out to the back door of Rosa's I ran, out to where the horses were tied, I picked a good one, looked like a good one.'
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Apr 14, 2011 - 09:11pm PT
I liked them too...they were all covers.
EP

Trad climber
Way Out There
Apr 14, 2011 - 09:58pm PT
I picked a good one; it looked like it could run...
Brandon-

climber
Done With Tobacco
Apr 14, 2011 - 10:12pm PT
they were all covers.

That made it more cool.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Apr 14, 2011 - 10:34pm PT
"She said her name was Billy Jean and she was fresh in town . . .
I didn't know a stage line ran from hell.
She had raven hair, a ruffled dress, a necklace made of gold,
All the french perfume you'd care to smell."

Bobby was into western wear back in the day as well . . . seems like a lot of hippies adopted elements of this fashion in the early to mid-seventies.
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Apr 22, 2011 - 09:52pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/grateful-dead-row-jimmy-egypt
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Apr 30, 2011 - 08:53pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/jack-straw-veneta-oregon
go-B

climber
Sozo
May 3, 2011 - 08:46pm PT
Listening Party: Road Trips Vol. 4 No. 3
http://www.dead.net/listeningparty-v4n3?eml=dn/050311/listeningpartyimage
Here Comes Sunshine
Weather Report Suite


pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
May 5, 2011 - 12:35am PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/the-grateful-dead-next-time
EdBannister

Mountain climber
13,000 feet
May 17, 2011 - 05:25pm PT
My Favorite Randy Hankins quote:
"I'll be grateful when they are all dead."
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
May 17, 2011 - 05:28pm PT
This thread keeps coming back like a bad acid trip flashback.
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
May 17, 2011 - 09:37pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/grateful-dead-she-belongs-to
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - May 17, 2011 - 09:48pm PT
The great thing about music is that it lives on forever, long after the players are dead and gone.
And the unfortunate thing for Randy is that he'll have to die, one day, and when he arrives in heaven( or wherever) guess what...the Boys'll be there pickin an grinnin. Not to mention drum circles, patchouli, etc,etc.
The music never stopped!
Donini. Walstib. Sorry you ate the brown stuff. Didn't get the memo?
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
May 17, 2011 - 10:25pm PT
Attics of my Life
Lyrics By: Robert Hunter
Music By: Jerry Garcia

"In the attics of my life, full of cloudy dreams unreal.
Full of tastes no tongue can know, and lights no eyes can see.
When there was no ear to hear, you sang to me.

I have spent my life seeking all that's still unsung.
Bent my ear to hear the tune, and closed my eyes to see.
When there was no strings to play, you played to me.

In the book of love's own dream, where all the print is blood.
Where all the pages are my days, and all the lights grow old.
When I had no wings to fly, you flew to me, you flew to me.

In the secret space of dreams, where I dreaming lay amazed.
When the secrets all are told, and the petals all unfold.
When there was no dream of mine, you dreamed of me."


They did not get the memo Jefe, they cannot see beyond their own self importance. Heaven help the fool.



k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
May 29, 2011 - 11:56pm PT
My Favorite Randy Hankins quote:


Doesn't exactly speak well of either you or Randy.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
May 30, 2011 - 12:09am PT
Road Trips Vol. 4 No. 3.
Disc #2: Whoa, hold on!
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - May 30, 2011 - 05:49pm PT


That's my buddy Red Bear's Mountain Stealie sticker spotted in JTree.

WE ARE EVERYWHERE.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 3, 2011 - 09:27am PT
Seasons will end
in tumbled rhyme.

Edit: Spotted that trailer upon arriving a Ryan. The owner was obviously curious why I was taking pics.
I explained that he must have bought that stealie from my bro and that it was a reissue of a sticker he used to sell on tour in the early 80s.
He invited us in for a smoke, I tuned his guitar, and busted a little Loser >I Know You Rider.

Cool welcome to Josh.

His one man drum circle for the next few nights weren't too popular lol!
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jun 3, 2011 - 09:42am PT
nothing left t do but smile, smile smile!
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jun 3, 2011 - 10:29am PT
YaaHoo! Section 103 Shoreline Tonight !!!
Further, in the rain.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 3, 2011 - 10:58am PT
Yo jeremy, ummmmmm
THIS THREAD'S ALREADY D E A D !!!

Straight to yo earhole muthafathah!
Wooohoo!
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 3, 2011 - 11:26am PT
"Cosmic Charley" Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing; used by permission.

"Cosmic Charley how do you do?
Truckin' in style along the avenue
Dumdeedumdee doodley doo
Go on home, your mama's calling you

Calico Kahlia come tell me the news
Calamity's waiting for a way to get to her
Rosy red and electric blue
I bought you a paddle for your paper canoe

Say you'll come back when you can
Whenever your airplane happens to land
Maybe I'll be back here too
It all depends on what's with you

Hung up waitin for a windy day
Kite on ice since the first of February
Mama Bee saying that the wind might blow
But standin here I say I just don't know

New ones comin as the old ones go
Everything's movin here but much too slowly
Little bit quicker and we might have time
to say 'how do you do?" before we're left behind

Calliope wail like a seaside zoo
The very last lately inquired about you
It's really very one or two
The first you wanted, the last I knew

I just wonder if you shouldn't feel
less concern about the deep unreal
The very first word is : How do you do?
The last: go home, your mama's callin you

Go on home
Your mama's calling you
Calling you....."



k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jun 3, 2011 - 11:36am PT
Happy Friday you f*#king hippies!

And happy Friday to you, grouchy.


BTW, when did being called a hippy become an insult?
Folks that love to love, love music, are pro-Earth, and anti-violence.

Yeah, I guess in this modern age, all that love stuff is so outdated.
Too bad. Paper or plastic?
cowpoke

climber
Jun 3, 2011 - 12:52pm PT
04/04/86
Hartford Civic Center

Jack Straw
Dire Wolf
C.C. Rider
Candyman
It's All Over Now
Crazy Fingers
Greatest Story Ever Told
Day Job

Touch of Grey ->
Looks Like Rain ->
He's Gone ->
Smokestack Lightning ->
Drums ->
Space
The Wheel ->
Stella Blue ->
Throwin' Stones ->
Turn On Your Love Light

Box of Rain

My first show. (as if I own it, right?)

Turned out that my first Day Job was their last, but I honestly don't remember them playing it; a blur other than smokestack and the wheel, during which I really heard them for the first time.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jun 3, 2011 - 12:56pm PT
"Happy Friday you f*#king hippies!"

Oh, didn't realize you were aiming that at just one of the folks who post to this thread.


Still, I think it's sad that the word "hippie" is now equated with a crusty pan handler, when in actuality the hippie movement was the beginning of the environmental movement.

So I'll pass your own advice on back to you. Lighten up.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 3, 2011 - 04:12pm PT
Cowpoke, those 80's Hartford shows were either trainwrecks or amazing, sometimes both.
My first bootleg was a Civic show from 83, second set. Still one of my faves, the first set was a real stinker, though.


And jeremy, jeez dude, put on some Pet Shop Boys and mellow the f*#k out. ;^}

Have fun k-man!
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2011 - 01:22pm PT
How were the shows k man, pate?
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Jun 12, 2011 - 03:05pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/the-grateful-dead-easy-wind
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 15, 2011 - 11:56pm PT
http://www.archive.org/details/gd85-11-01.aud-oade.remaster.20416.sbeok.shnf

Here's one of those diamonds in the rough.
Or is a really rough diamond?

I've loved (parts of) this show for a long time.
At least listen to the first part of set 2.

Comes a time, when the blind man takes your hand
, says "don't you see?".
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 21, 2011 - 11:00pm PT
Happy Summer Solstice!
Do yourself a favor...
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DfFUE6PwcreQ&v=fFUE6PwcreQ&gl=US

Hard to believe this was 22 years ago tonight.
It was a fun show, broadcast on pay per view- (so there's lots of good footage out there)
No real surprises, just solid.
And really, it had lots of classic elements-
A Bobby amp-kicking meltdown.
Tiger!
A smokin Deal.
Clarence, The Big Man.
A Dew and a Brokedown.

Good times at the dump.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jun 21, 2011 - 11:26pm PT
Jefe,

How was the show?? oMyGod. My good bro scored 4th row tix at 3pm day of the show (at cost). Man, I was LUCKY to be there, as was anybody else who was there.

I saw just Friday, had to drive to Yos on Sat...

But the Boys were as tight as I have Ever heard them. My friend (who's a damn good bass player) made a funny comment,"Sounds like they've been practicing for once." Ha... Their segues were turns on a dime.

What a setlist (1st set Other One!):

Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, CA
June 3, 2011

Set 1
1. Here Comes The Sun 08:48
2. Jack Straw > 08:33
3. Bertha 08:55
4. Pride Of Cucamonga 06:29
5. Cumberland Blues 12:42
6. Deal > 09:56
7. The Other One > 14:04
8. Hell In A Bucket 08:37


Set 2
1. Help On The Way > 06:54
2. Slipknot! > 08:19
3. Franklin's Tower > 10:13
4. Saint Stephen > 14:46
5. The Eleven > 08:33
6. Mountain Song 12:25
7. Playin' In The Band > 09:10
8. Uncle John's Band > 07:49
9. Morning Dew > 12:13
10. Uncle John's Band > 03:17
11. Playin' In The Band (reprise) 06:23

E. Touch of Grey
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 21, 2011 - 11:50pm PT
Sick.
Yeah, Phil is really into practicing, segues even.
Plus, that lineup's been going for a while now.
Love the no holds barred approach to post-Grateful.
Compare your setlist to the Summer Solstice one i referenced!
Glad you got some.
And...a glowing review from a seasoned vet says a lot.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jun 22, 2011 - 01:58am PT
Unsure why, but the Solstice link be broke.

At Shoreline, the Dew was most intense. Phil & Bobby, oh man, so sweetly wound.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 22, 2011 - 02:07am PT
Ah fukkit.
try look
http://www.archive.org/details/gd89-06-21.sbd.gorinsky.4603.sbeok.shnf
cowpoke

climber
Jun 22, 2011 - 11:56am PT
this G & G sitting here in limbo is pure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSZnZlDNU-Q&feature=related

the wind & rain from the same show is beautiful too.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jun 22, 2011 - 12:48pm PT
Jefe, that Solstice shows was indeed nice. And heck, I think I was there...

But seriously, did you check out the setlist that I posted?

Help>Slip>Frank>ST>11 !!

Playin>Uncle>Dew>Uncle>Playin'

By themselves, set lists do little. It's how they are played that matters.

I heard a funny story once how the Dead were pulling into this town (Cincinnati?), and the DJ on the big AM station commented how the Dead could play Louie Louie for hours on end.

Indeed, they opened the show with Louie and came back to it to close off the 2nd set. Who knows, I guess I could research it. But it's funny lore nonetheless.
cintune

climber
Midvale School for the Gifted
Jun 26, 2011 - 09:58pm PT

Photos by Linda McCartney:
http://everyday-i-show.livejournal.com/121371.html
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jun 26, 2011 - 10:01pm PT
Now that stuff be some real hippie-wear.
yosguns

climber
Durham, NC
Jul 6, 2011 - 12:49pm PT
Date: December 5, 1979
Venue: Uptown Theater
Location: Chicago, IL

http://www.archive.org/details/gd79-12-05.aud.warner.19418.sbeok.shnf

1 Tuning 02:56
2 Alabama Getaway 07:12
3 Greatest Story Ever Told 05:09
4 Dire Wolf 05:39
5 Me And My Uncle 03:43
6 Big River 06:47
7 Cold Rain And Snow 07:57
8 Easy To Love You 05:47
9 Althea 11:13
10 Lost Sailor 06:41
11 Saint Of Circumstance 06:17
12 Shakedown Street 15:49
13 Samson And Delilah 07:30
14 Ship Of Fools 11:07
15 He's Gone 17:12
16 The Other One 07:26
17 Jam 09:55
18 Drums 02:56
19 Space 04:28
20 Black Peter 11:54
21 I Need A Miracle 03:24
22 Bertha 06:48
23 Good Lovin' 07:28

Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Jul 9, 2011 - 06:19pm PT
Slow down,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQFeuAbLHro&feature=related
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jul 15, 2011 - 01:49am PT
That is cool.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jul 15, 2011 - 10:48am PT
the sun will shine,
in my front door most days,

march winds will blow,
april troubles my way.

Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jul 15, 2011 - 01:50pm PT
Just a photo, not clickable, what a tease,
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Jul 15, 2011 - 03:36pm PT
Thanks for the PERRO, haven't heard that in a while now.

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/perro_garcia1971-01-02.asx
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Jul 15, 2011 - 03:43pm PT
Ahh man, Althea!

One of my faves to play with the coolest garage band in Alaska. Man we could make some sick noise with that one.

Miss ya Jerry. Death Don't Have No Mercy......
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2011 - 01:03am PT
Crickets and cicadas sing...


(sing it jeremy)


A rare and different tune...


(I know you know it)


TERRAPIN STATION!


(Wooooo hoooooo!)
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 30, 2011 - 01:12am PT
You can't let go,
cuz you're afraid to fall...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OXDHxuMew8&feature=related


K-man, Deal 6.21.89
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Mfw3ixKjU

part 2 ha ha!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1hSOE85-Y4&playnext=1&list=PL6609774D4323F24C


Like a feather in a whirlwind
Blow Away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXCuA2nt_6A&feature=related

Far From Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRBXb_rhVM0&feature=related


THIS IS KILLER! From "Backstage Pass"
Easy To Love You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04cnUPDDh6o

Brent left us 21 years ago(a few days ago).
Rest in Peace
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 30, 2011 - 01:16am PT
F*#kin love Brent songs.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 31, 2011 - 01:15am PT
Backstage Pass is awesome, watch it.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 31, 2011 - 01:31am PT
Well, excuuuuuuuuuuuse me.
Forgot I was dealing with the cooooolest deadhead ever. Dewshhead, troll.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 31, 2011 - 05:12pm PT

whoa geez, this is pretty old.
lysergic inspiration
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Jul 31, 2011 - 05:45pm PT
You guys are WAY headier than me.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jul 31, 2011 - 06:52pm PT
"What would your momma think . . . pretty Peggy-O?"
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 1, 2011 - 10:10am PT
His job is to shed light...

k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 1, 2011 - 11:34am PT
Jefe,

Hey! I think I was at that Shoreline show...







I finally listened to The Closing of Winterland cds. I put it off because I didn't want to tarnish the memory of that 3am experience, when they opened the last set with Dark Star.


Dang! That was a pretty hot show! I still remember John Cipollina's a mazing playing, with Jerry backing him up, on I Need A Miracle. Or was that ... Oh well, it was ghud.

Heck, even the Blues Brothers were a kick.







We were all standing around the other day, kicking dirt. As can be popular with DeadHeads, somebody started bashing Bobby. I'm like WTF is wrong with you, I LOVE that guy!! Heaven help that fool.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 1, 2011 - 09:31pm PT
Never had such a good time
in my life before
I wanna have it one time more
one good ride from start to end
I wanna take that ride again
AGAIN!
Might as well



Kman- The winterland dvd i CAN find.
I'll hook it up to hold you over.

{{{HAPPY BIRTHDAY JERRY}}}
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 1, 2011 - 09:59pm PT
If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind . . .
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Aug 1, 2011 - 10:49pm PT
Nothing left to do...
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 2, 2011 - 12:33am PT
Seriously?

About time...I bought two of those Terrapin Station CD sets, and they said the bucks were going to go to The Station.


Jefe...No worries mate--I got the CD and the DVD. I just couldn't listen to 'em until now-----I didn't want to spoil the memories.




BTW, what is your favorite RELEASED live show? DP #3 sure smokes.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2011 - 11:09am PT
I really like DP19
Oklahoma City 10/19/73

The caveat on the back cover reads:
"Despite a rather skeevy ouverture, the sound quality of this release quickly settles into a nice, warm groove. Listen closely, however, for you may just find that your mind will be blown by the music contained herein."

Highlights for me are
Dark Star>
Mind left body>
Morning Dew

And the encore
Eyes>Stella>Johnny B Goode


73 Jazzy style.
Of course, there are others....!
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 2, 2011 - 11:49am PT
Thanks Jefe--I'm throwin' that in my ride today. Looks to sound Sweet!




If you have it, the last Road Trips (Denver '73) has a most amazing Wharf Rat. I listened to the first disc and thought "Well, that's nice," but then put in the 2nd. I found myself pretty darn happy. Coming out of Playin' and into WR, my emotions overtook me.

I waited a couple of weeks to see if I was just influenced by the Moon. Naw, those notes brought up those same feelings. Funny how music can make me cry with joy.
TwistedCrank

climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom
Aug 2, 2011 - 12:07pm PT
DP19 is definately one of my all time faves. The MLBJ is out there and the post-lyrics Eyes way rocks out. Keith pounds the JBG encore.

Fairground venues were the t!ts.

I've had early 71 making the circuit on my deck for the past few days. Heard "Oh Boy" and "I'm a Hog for You" on the commute. You can hear the boys smiling. Love the Pig.
Nibs

Trad climber
Humboldt, CA
Aug 2, 2011 - 04:11pm PT
"Love the Pig" me too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqwdGkNp7xY&feature=related

Edit: my favorite official release is the 1973 Winterland box set. The Friday night show was my birthday; went to the Saturday night show which was so amazing we had to go back Sunday. The Sunday show stands as one of the best concert experiences ever - jazzy exploration, low key, no one in a hurry, small audience...I am truly grateful to have been there. Hearing those shows again with the release of that box set confirmed that I had witnessed something very special that weekend.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2011 - 09:37pm PT
Yeah nibs, good stuff. Pretty good catalog representation in those discs. I'm a sucker for 73.

Now, I'm not a full Donna Hater, but to hear 73 style without her is just awesome.

DP14 from the Boston Music Hall displays this quite nicely. One drummer, no Donna(prego), the boys were a sweet five piece.

The story in the liner notes describes the scene on the first night of the run when the band was late, which they never were in those days. The crowd is wondering what's up. The curtain finally goes up to reveal an empty stage and for the next 3 hours the crowd gets to watch the crew set up the scaled down Wall of Sound. They open with Morning Dew, which is esentially a 15 minute soundcheck.
The first set ends with a 23 minute Playin.
The second set includes other classic 73 stylings with a Weather Report, a Dark Star jam, and of course a beautiful Eyes of the World.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2011 - 10:23pm PT
Then, in stark contrast, we have
DP10
Winterland. 12/29/77

This is a full on, high energy show.
I love the Jack Straw opener(always a good omen, especially for us Tucson heads ).
The whole show is off the charts and the mix is {{{perfect}}}.

As the liner notes for this one say,
"The band played with the subtlety of a sledgehammer"
and
"This ain't no background music, turn that f*#ker UP!"

Yep, 77
TwistedCrank

climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom
Aug 2, 2011 - 11:10pm PT
There' something to be said about those times when things were just exactly perfect.

77

Peaking.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2011 - 11:17pm PT
"On account of our new name is the
Just Exactly Perfect Brothers Band"
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 3, 2011 - 10:03pm PT
DP10
Winterland. 12/29/77


Indeed, that was a good show. I remember exactly where I was when they played that Jack Straw, and each time I hear the disc it takes me right back--Stage Right, a couple of rows up on the balcony, great view of Cpt'n Garcia.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 3, 2011 - 10:26pm PT
Once again, confirmation...
I was born too late,
blame it on a
Simple twist of fate.


Besides this and the Swing,
What other legendary shows did you see?
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 4, 2011 - 12:37am PT
My first show was Pig's last.... (He didn't play too much.)



But lucky are the souls who saw the '71 Palladium show.
Damn!

They finally found the board tapes for that one. You can catch some of the Aud tape on DP #35. Then they released some of the board on Road Trips Vol 1 #3, the extra disc only. Yep, *the* Hard To Handle, most amazing. Most Amazing. Also, a super jumpin' Mr. Charlie too. And the most beautiful of Beautifuls, Brokedown Palace. Except that Garcia totally clams a note in the middle of the solo, Ouch!
TwistedCrank

climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom
Aug 4, 2011 - 10:51am PT
I cannot get enough of 71 right now...

I'm a hog for you baby, can't get enough of your love
I'm a hog for you baby, can't get enough of your love
When I go to sleep at night that's the only thing I'm thinking of

One little piggie ate a pizza (yeah)
One piggie ate potato chips (yeah)
But here's a little piggie comin' over your house
Gonna grab a love of your sweet lips

'Cause I'm a hog for you baby, can't get enough of your love
When I go to sleep at night that's the only thing I'm thinking of
Yeah!

One little piggie went to London (yeah)
One piggie went to Hong Kong
This little piggie's comin' over your house
Gonna love ya all night long

'Cause I'm a hog for you baby, can't get enough of your love
When I go to sleep at night that's the only thing I'm thinking of
When I go to sleep at night that's the only thing I'm thinking of


drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 5, 2011 - 10:24pm PT
Speaking of Pig,
AND
Official releases...

Rockin The Rhein is really, really good.
Rheinhalle, Dusseldorf, West Germany
4/24/72

Top notch 72 sh#t.z

Pig shows up with:
Chinatown Shuffle
Mr Charlie
Next Time You See Me
Good Lovin
Hurts Me Too.
-and filler on disc 2-
from the Lyceum:
Lovelight
Two Souls in Communion

Great show, great sound, funny banter.
Many classic moments, including a
Dark Star>
Me and My Uncle>
Dark Star

Mos def check it out if you haven't already.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 5, 2011 - 10:51pm PT
All these shows from the seventies are, of course, the sh#t. Love them.

But I'm an 80's Deadhead!
So the sound of Brents voice and keys really brings me back.

Lest we forget the great years of the early 80's.
When Jerry's voice was still relatively fresh, Brent had added new energy, and great new songs were in the rotation.
Plus TIGER! C'mon now!!!

Go To Nassau
5/15-16/80

Although not a complete show, this release killz it with nuggets plucked from a few nights.

If you like a mix of old and new, this ones gottit.
Everything from
High Time and NFA>GDTRFB to
Far From Me and Lost Sailor>Saint.

Definitely my favorite 80's official release.
Sooo goood.
Pennsylenvy

Gym climber
A dingy corner in your refrigerator
Aug 6, 2011 - 12:22am PT
the doctor here, as p-envy. I was at 5/14/80 at Nassau. Didn't even know I was seeing Comes a Time.then they cancelled 5/7/81 and played a day early instead and that turned out to be the final Caution Jam out of the Bobby Sands He's Gone. anybody got 8/26/71 from Bronx, Ny Gaelic Park. I grew up right there but was only 7 years old, I was probably at the bowling alley next door.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 10, 2011 - 02:27am PT
Another August 9th...
We miss you Jerry!


When the last rose of summer pricks my finger
and the hot sun chills me to the bone.
When i can't hear the song for the singer
and I can't tell my pillow from a stone.

I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
sing me a song of my own.

When the last bolt of sunshine hits the mountain
and the stars start to splatter in the sky.
When the moon hits the southwest horizon
with the scream of an eagle on the fly.

I will walk alone by the black muddy river
Listen to the ripples as they moan.

Black muddy river, roll on forever
I don't care how deep or wide
if you got another side.
Roll muddy river,
black muddy river roll.

When it seems like the night will last forever
and there's nothing left to do but count the years.
When the strings of my heart begin to sever
stones fall from my eyes instead of tears.

I will walk alone by the black muddy river
Dream me a dream of my own.
I will walk alone by the black muddy river
Sing me a song of my own.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 10, 2011 - 11:07am PT
"I miss Jerry" says the sign on Phil's amp.

Couldn't agree more.






Pate: That '68 show sound like it'd be Wow.



Matt: My big Bro got us some box seats at the H-wood Bowl show. I was a young-un, and completely straight. That show stood me on my head for a week, I couldn't believe/handle what I'd seen. I remember watching Jerry walk on stage and said to myself "Wow, that guys head looks like a black dot." And that other dude, he's got a pony tail! I didn't even know Pig was in the band...kinda sad looking back.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 13, 2011 - 10:58am PT
Doctor, I'd fogotten about the Bobby Sands
He's Gone>Caution...
That's DP13

Another smokin' Nassau show for sure.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 13, 2011 - 11:08am PT
You ain't got a hinge you can't close the door.

Said you can't close the door when the wall's caved in!!!
TwistedCrank

climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom
Aug 13, 2011 - 11:33am PT
I just finished a listen of the latest RT. I'm not an 80s guy by any means and I'm more of a second set guy than a first set guy, but the boys swatted one out of the park on the first set. Plus the extras from the night before are quite tasty - particularly the plunky Deep Elum.

Speaking of strictly commercial, who else here dropped the 450 bones on the complete European tour collection?
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 13, 2011 - 12:16pm PT
Winterland 6/7/77 . . . some more quality material.

"You know they never stopped rockin', goin' around and around . . . reelin' and rockin', what a crazy sound."
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 13, 2011 - 12:25pm PT
Got mine personalized to say "What a long strange trip it's been."

I know, kinda cliche, but very fitting.
Looking forward to seeing if it's all worth it.


Yes, I dug the latest RT too. Jerry was in quite the mood. Killer jam out of Fools to end it.


Also just listened to (for the first time since being there) the Friday opener from latest Furthur shows at the Shoreline. Ho man, that was a sumpthin.


In the first set alone:
Here Comes The Sun
Cumberland
The Other One
Pride...

Mmmmmm.


Next up: DP 20 ...
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Aug 13, 2011 - 12:29pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/grateful-dead-dont-ease-me-in

http://www.nodepression.com/video/grateful-dead-beat-on-down
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 13, 2011 - 12:43pm PT
Hey, thanks for that!

The NSB is from that flippin' to. And a smokin' Hard to Handle.


Love it when Garcia was a black dot. Lesh using that short scale bass he used on Crosby's "If Only ..." album.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Aug 20, 2011 - 02:14pm PT
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Aug 24, 2011 - 10:10pm PT
Hey. Ive got a tech question. I just succumbed to the apple powers and bought an iPad. My old laptop sh#t the bed. I didn't figure on not being able to use sugarmegs or archive on this thing. Does anyone know how to stream from those sites rather than download, or possibly any other good Dead streaming sites?
TwistedCrank

climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom
Aug 25, 2011 - 12:01pm PT
If the archive.org or sugarmegs stream clients are Flash or Silverlight, then you are SOL unfortunately.

I'm still listening to a mess of board downloads from archive I have that I scarfed before the tool put the kibosh on the boards.

coondogger

Trad climber
NH
Aug 25, 2011 - 12:52pm PT
Hi,
Does anyone know a site where I can find Legions of Mary recordings?
Thanks,
Steven
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Aug 25, 2011 - 04:00pm PT
I (and future wife) saw 'Saunders & Garcia' @ the Rheem theatre in Morage ca in '73. Was recently able to get a recording as a LOM dealie. Had no idea of LOM, back then!
TwistedCrank

climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom
Aug 25, 2011 - 04:10pm PT
Reconstruction bombed

Huh?

I had a Reconstruction tape - long since lost to the winds of time - that I loved. It had a cut of Dylan's "Tough Mama", a "Let it Rock", and a take on a Dave Bruebeck tune that I thought were awesome.

But then, it's the only Reconstruction I think I've heard...
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Aug 27, 2011 - 10:30am PT
i'd better head back to tennessee.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcJegw_8Y1k&feature=related
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 27, 2011 - 11:56am PT
"Honey come quick with the i-odine" . . .
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 27, 2011 - 12:02pm PT
Ahhh, listening to the '77 Winterland box set.

Them there were some good shows...


The Enemy is Listening
JimC

climber
Aug 27, 2011 - 12:46pm PT
Check out this link to a fairly extensive library of shows. Its a regular feature program on www.wmvy.com (Marthas Vineyard Radio) radio since 2007. The DJ is very knowledgeable and has a huge bootleg library. He can get on your nerves if he talks too much but 95% of each podcast is music. Good stuff. Each broadcast is around 4 hours.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Sep 1, 2011 - 05:04pm PT
Well it came today.
The Mammoth Box Set.

Mine is inscribed with the old cliche:

"What a long strange it's been."



(Hahahahaha, well whatever "it" is, it has been strange!)


I'm afraid to open it.
BrianH

Trad climber
santa fe
Sep 1, 2011 - 05:22pm PT
I'm a sophomore in high school jamming out to headphones and "Casey Jones." My little brother tells me, years later; "I saw you dancing to that music that I couldn't hear and it scared the sh#t out of me!"

Within 4 years of that he'd hit the road and for 2 more followed them around.

Myself,I went to my first show in Fall of '78, at Madison Square Garden. I still can't believe my parent let me go on a school night! I was a HS senior by then and they just wanted me out of the house...

My last show was Summer '94 (?) in Washington DC. By then the heroin had caught up to Jerry and it just wasn't tight that night.

In between, I hit as many east coast shows as I good. So many adventures, so much joy. I remember exactly where I was when Jerry died (Boulder CO) and my colleague taking me to a a drum circle that night and I cried.

I don't listen to them so much anymore, but every now and then I put on a show, or give a hard listen and the chills still come.

In another times forgotten space
Your eyes looked from your mother's face
Wildflower seed on the sand and stone
may the four winds blow you safely home
TwistedCrank

climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom
Sep 1, 2011 - 06:27pm PT
I'm afraid to open it.

Don't . It'll be like a Beanie Baby = worth much more still in the wrapper.

You'll be missing out on some fine tunes though.
bvb

Social climber
flagstaff arizona
Sep 1, 2011 - 08:49pm PT
mos def not a deadhead, but i always thought "ripple" was a beautiful song.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 1, 2011 - 10:07pm PT
"Winter gray and falling rain . . . we'll see summer come again.
Darkness falls and seasons change . . . gonna happen every time . . .
same old friends the wind and rain . . . summers fade and roses die.
You'll see summer come again . . . like a song that's born to soar the sky!"
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Sep 1, 2011 - 10:49pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/grateful-dead-not-fade-away-buffalo-1989
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Sep 7, 2011 - 02:22am PT
Twisted,
Naah, I still have Two Virgins in a wrapper.


First set, first show in London. Most excellent ;-)
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 7, 2011 - 02:38am PT
It's all a dream we dreamed
one afternoon
long ago
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Sep 7, 2011 - 08:25am PT
Ladies and gentlemen,

The Grateful Dead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Za1LZbSo6M
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Sep 7, 2011 - 06:06pm PT
I love the Dead.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Sep 7, 2011 - 07:15pm PT
The Grateful Dead made a few music videos.
I saw one for Hell in a Bucket.

Anybody know of any others, besides the Touch of Grey one they did at Laguna Seca?
sensi

climber
vegas
Sep 8, 2011 - 12:08pm PT
never got to see them.... too young, but there music has been the soundtrack of my life (something about living on the road no one captivates the felling like the
DEAD)
one of my favorites PEGGY-O

http://youtu.be/53km0TqlclY
originalpmac

Mountain climber
Anywhere I like
Sep 8, 2011 - 01:48pm PT
to Norwegians photo of the moon, "Oh From the northwest corner of a brand new crescent moon, while crickets and cicadas sing!"

a friend recently got access to the vault, got everything the dead recorded from 67 to 95, plus a few hundred JGB shows. Filled a terrabyte.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Sep 8, 2011 - 07:17pm PT
gerry knows a clear path
through my head.
though i've lost him somewhere inside and
now he permanently dwells within.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhIF7KEuitU
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 9, 2011 - 12:29am PT
ROAD TRIPS AND PAPER STRIPS!!!!

The shape it takes could be your's to choose. ..
strangeday

Trad climber
Brea ca.
Sep 9, 2011 - 12:42am PT
A sweet franklins tower from radio city music hall...
[url="http:// http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEniyvOtETc&feature=youtube_gdata_player"[/url]
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Sep 10, 2011 - 10:14am PT
everybody's playin
and drinkin that wine.

i can tell the queen of diamonds,
by the way she shines.

jerry singing us into a new day.

hugs.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 10, 2011 - 11:14am PT
"Goes to show you don't ever know . . . watch each card you play and play it slow . . ."
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Sep 10, 2011 - 11:33am PT
Well everybodys dancin in a ring around the sun
Nobodys finished, we aint even begun.
So take off your shoes, child, and take off your hat.
Try on your wings and find our where it's at.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Sep 10, 2011 - 11:43am PT
pigpen could sure rap,

"i ask my baby,
pleeeease, pleeease,
let is shine.

some of your lite.
that sweet little thing you got
that's what i need

that's all i got to have

thats all i need
some of your love
i know where you got it hidden,
and im gonna find it
i can't do without it.

some of that special light,
shine on me.

i like to have some of your lovelight."
originalpmac

Mountain climber
Anywhere I like
Sep 10, 2011 - 12:01pm PT
"I had to move move,
really had to move!
Thats why if you please, I am on my bended knees,
Bertha don't you come around here any more!"

I was named a truck of mine Bertha, after the song... That truck don't come around here any more
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 10, 2011 - 12:10pm PT
"I had a hard run . . . runnin' from your window . . . I was all night running, running, running . . . lord I wonder if you care?"
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Sep 10, 2011 - 12:43pm PT
tumble down shack in Bigfoot County.
Snowed so hard that the roof caved in.
Delilah Jones went to meet her god,
and the old man never was the same again.


drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 10, 2011 - 12:46pm PT
Thanks for keeping this going brothers.
We are everywhere.
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Sep 10, 2011 - 12:48pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/grateful-dead-to-lay-me-down
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Sep 10, 2011 - 12:55pm PT
jefe the grateful dead will never be past tense.
they are the sap running thru our trunks,
keeping the worldly pests at bay,
making syrup for our breakfast,
and medicine for Mason's children.

and when we're just rotting stumps
Dead and gone.
and our sway is silenced
and our heights are grounded,

the next generation will make jewelry
outta the petrified sap. amber like.

yea the past circles around and catches it's own tail,
thus encirlcling the present with gerry's own song.
nita

Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
Sep 10, 2011 - 01:00pm PT
Thanks..Poco,

Sweet memories, I Love that song!!!.. Was that the version on Reckoning/For the faithful ??
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Sep 10, 2011 - 01:07pm PT
Hello nita...I don't know
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Sep 10, 2011 - 02:16pm PT
I'm with you Nita, that was so subtle poco.

And now, some of my most favorite lyrics of all time:



Leavin' texas, fourth day of July,
Sun so hot, the clouds so low, the eagles filled the sky.
Catch the Detroit lightnin' out of Sante Fe,
The great northern out of Cheyenne, from sea to shining sea.


Ho man, those ring so sweet.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 10, 2011 - 03:39pm PT
First song I learned on guitar- Loser.
Second song- To Lay Me Down.
Hometown reference /fave opener- Jack Straw.

Y'all are nailin' it for me this page, thanks.

And when I said thanks brothers, I meant
Brothers and Sisters(Nita).

Keep the faith!


drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 10, 2011 - 03:47pm PT
.. and pmac
An old climber/deadhead buddy of mine had a bus named Bertha.
She(Bertha) was parked on a hill and the E brake gave out. Guess what happened...
She run smack into a tree.
True story.

And norweeg- yeah, BEW...damn. .. .

Nailin it homies.

All lost and dreamin'
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Sep 10, 2011 - 06:11pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/grateful-dead-china-rider
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Sep 10, 2011 - 06:28pm PT
i know. it's jerry.
i always penned kurt's name kurdt. or was it kurdt's name kurt?
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Sep 10, 2011 - 06:49pm PT
if the music stopped?
it is never supposed to stop.
but what if it did?

a world with no music,
is incomprehensible.

but to venture there into that forbidden mental playground:
the incomprehensible.

i'd chase the wind for a day and see where it ended me.
i'd lay down there and chew a blade of grass.
untie my shoes and strip off my horrid socks.

i'd lay down, and then lay further down.
then i'd take the lay to a level i've never yet achieved.
i would dissapear.
not dead, no. just mysteriously absent.

once i was free of those damn socks, all wrotten and streched out;
once i was free of that physical mess dubbed chuck,

i'd become silence.
in order to know it better.
and to understand and appreciate my new audible companion, in my music-free world.

my trip thru silence cannot be penned, write now.
my head swirls with the dream,
while reeling with panic.

re-materializing, i step back into my holy socks,
dab my sneakers and find my way back into a world
that no longer rocks.

then i'd probably join a religion cause i sure as hell would be lost without music. lost people migrate down the drain.

goodly, the dead promised,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE4EJjkShFI
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Sep 11, 2011 - 10:30am PT
the mirror in the mirror (Spiegel Im Spiegel),
shatters.

careful, you may never come back from a won way trip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1pVFIoUEdA
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Sep 13, 2011 - 10:55am PT
this is alright.
sand feels good.
waves make nice song.
sky is blue, mostly.
music's in my heart.

..life as it should be...


Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Sep 13, 2011 - 07:00pm PT
uno (mas) dose of jerry.


Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Sep 15, 2011 - 07:53am PT
hey jerry.
anyone else in here?

no? just you and me? that's cool.
there's a lot of life to push out there.
the good folks must be doing their part.
you know pushin that wagon up the grade.

not me. not today. im just going to hang about with you jerry.

hey you wanna listen to this tape i found in a tree?

"you found a tape in a tree?"

well, yea. i was doing my high-angle logging gig,
for these rich folk up on that hill.
they wanted down this grand cedar cause they hate pitch on their
mercedes.

you know jerry, i love trees but i gotta make bucks. the whole pulling
the wagon thing.

anyway there was this tape lodged in a branch, kinda held there by
cedar sap. all incense smelling and all good.
so i pocketed the tape, lowered myself down and
told my clients that i found a rare species of bird in the upper reaches
of the tree.
and i have to consult an expert, cause i do believe the species may be endangered, or even believed to be extinct.

"well put in the tape and let's spin it."

...sccth...psssss...ss...

"....Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ? "

"F*#KIN JANICE! love that girl. pig got on great with that gal."
" 'shame she passed. she loved that bottle. that girl played hard, but had a voice like an angel."

or, jerry, like a bird.

"well shet, im diggin this."
"thanks for stopping by chuck, but i do believe you've planted a song seed on my heart"

cool jerry. i'll diesel on. what you gonna call the song?

"bird song."

drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 15, 2011 - 09:49am PT
I can't figure out
If it's the end
Or beginning
But the train's put its brakes on
And the whistle is screaming ....
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 17, 2011 - 02:10pm PT
Reaching for the gold ring
down inside...
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 17, 2011 - 02:24pm PT
Never could reach it . . . just slips away . . . but I tried!
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 17, 2011 - 02:27pm PT
"I been balling a shiny black steel jack-hammer,
been chippin' up rocks for the great highway,
live five years if I take my time,
ballin' that jack and a drinkin' my wine."

Easy Wind
Mick K

climber
Northern Sierra
Sep 17, 2011 - 05:29pm PT
I ain't often right,

but I never been wrong.
TwistedCrank

climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom
Sep 17, 2011 - 07:12pm PT
"Turn on over. Rise on up. I wanna jump on my pony and ride."


So sayeth the Pig.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 17, 2011 - 08:18pm PT
nice shots pate.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Sep 20, 2011 - 02:03pm PT
i sat down to my supper.
it was a bottle of red whiskey.
i said my prayers.
i went to bed.
that was the last they saw of me.


please don't murder me.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Sep 20, 2011 - 02:10pm PT
these guys tear a rippin cover of easy wind.
tim knows his way in and out of bernouli's paradise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE-CX5h96eY
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 22, 2011 - 10:31am PT
All I know is something like a bird within her sang...
TwistedCrank

climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom
Sep 22, 2011 - 10:55am PT
4-21-72 Beat Club, Bremen, GDR

Listen to the jam out of The Other One.

Lightning in a fukkin bottle, man.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Sep 22, 2011 - 11:02am PT
i was just reading about the birth of The Other One this morning.

bobby was chillin at his 3rd floor story in SF and looked out the window and saw some coppers searching a vehicle.

he cocked a waterballoon and chucked it at the heat,
hittin the fella right in the ear

"never was there a more beautiful shot." piped phil.

the cops looked around and dripping with astonishment, saw none culprit.

but bobby couldn't resist. he had to show face to those cops.

so he goes down stairs and strolls past the scene.
the smirk on his face was enuf for guilt and the cops busted him.

thus became the lyrical chant,

"the heat come round and busted me, for smiling on a cloudy day."
yosguns

climber
Durham, NC
Sep 22, 2011 - 12:10pm PT
Norwegian,

I like that story a lot. I heard it in an interview by David Gans on the Dead Hour many years ago.

It seems strange to me now that this was my response to Ammon McNeely being tased, but I wrote about the same thing here: http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1252206&msg=1252291#msg1252291

Lesh: Water balloon episode?
MM: Uh-oh!
DG: Oh, I wanna hear this!
Weir: I got him good. . . . I was on the third floor of . . . our place in the Haight-Ashbury. . . . [T]here was this cop who was illegally searching a car belonging to a friend of ours . . . down on the street - the cops used to harass us . . . every chance they got. They didn't care for the hippies back then. . . . [S]o I had a water balloon, and what was I gonna do with this water balloon, come on. And, uh...
Lesh: Just happened to have a water balloon, in his hand...
MM: See, I wasn't gonna bring that up...
Lesh: ...ladies and gentlemen.
Weir: And so I got him right square on the head, and uh...
Lesh: A prettier shot you never saw.
Weir: ...and . . . he couldn't tell where it was comin' from, but then I had to go . . . and walk across the street and just grin at him...
Lesh, MM, DG:
Weir:...and sorta rub it in a little bit.
DG: Smilin' on a cloudy day. I understand now.
Lesh, DG:
MM: It all becomes clear.
Weir: . . . [A]t that point, he decided to hell with due process of law, this kid's goin' to jail. He didn't have a thing on me . . . It never got to court, but on the other hand, I did get thrown in jail and beat up a little bit.
MM: I still want to go back; you just happened to have that water balloon handy, it was kind of just like standard procedure.
DG: Gee, I wonder if...
Weir: He was the guy that was breakin' the law, too, the cop was.
MM: That's, that's - I agree.
Weir: I guess - . . . what does a water balloon amount to, is that assault with a, uh...
DG: Friendly weapon.
MM: With a moist weapon.
Lesh, DG:
MM: That goes under the water laws.
DG:
MM: And if it was tap water, that also...
Lesh: Disrespect for an officer.
Weir: Right.
DG: That was enough in those days - as I recall.
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Sep 23, 2011 - 12:56am PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/grateful-dead-deep-elem-blues
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2011 - 09:25am PT
Paint by numbers morning sky
looks so phony.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Sep 28, 2011 - 11:18am PT
Sometimes the songs that we sing are just songs of our own.









Those are some very cool pix Pate.

But I don't know how to get twisted.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Sep 29, 2011 - 12:07pm PT
i do enjoy the cowboy theme common to the dead.

...

Out in the West Texas town of El Paso
I fell in love with a Mexican girl.
Night-time would find me in Rosa's cantina;
Music would play and Felina would whirl.

Blacker than night were the eyes of Felina,
Wicked and evil while casting a spell.
My love was deep for this Mexican maiden;
I was in love but in vain, I could tell.

One night a wild young cowboy came in,
Wild as the West Texas wind.
Dashing and daring,
A drink he was sharing
With wicked Felina,
The girl that I loved.

So in anger I

Challenged his right for the love of this maiden.
Down went his hand for the gun that he wore.
My challenge was answered in less than a heart-beat;
The handsome young stranger lay dead on the floor.

Just for a moment I stood there in silence,
Shocked by the FOUL EVIL deed I had done.
Many thoughts raced through my mind as I stood there;
I had but one chance and that was to run.

Out through the back door of Rosa's I ran,
Out where the horses were tied.
I caught a good one.
It looked like it could run.
Up on its back
And away I did ride,

Just as fast as I

Could from the West Texas town of El Paso
Out to the bad-lands of New Mexico.

Back in El Paso my life would be worthless.
Everything's gone in life; nothing is left.
It's been so long since I've seen the young maiden
My love is stronger than my fear of death.

I saddled up and away I did go,
Riding alone in the dark.
Maybe tomorrow
A bullet may find me.
Tonight nothing's worse than this
Pain in my heart.

And at last here I

Am on the hill overlooking El Paso;
I can see Rosa's cantina below.
My love is strong and it pushes me onward.
Down off the hill to Felina I go.

Off to my right I see five mounted cowboys;
Off to my left ride a dozen or more.
Shouting and shooting I can't let them catch me.
I have to make it to Rosa's back door.

Something is dreadfully wrong for I feel
A deep burning pain in my side.
Though I am trying
To stay in the saddle,
I'm getting weary,
Unable to ride.

But my love for

Felina is strong and I rise where I've fallen,
Though I am weary I can't stop to rest.
I see the white puff of smoke from the rifle.
I feel the bullet go deep in my chest.

From out of nowhere Felina has found me,
Kissing my cheek as she kneels by my side.
Cradled by two loving arms that I'll die for,
One little kiss and Felina, good-bye
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 1, 2011 - 12:14am PT
I don need no stinking miracle!
nature

climber
back in Tuscon Aridzona....
Oct 1, 2011 - 12:14am PT
TFPU
Reggaemylitis

Trad climber
South Lake Tahoe, CA
Oct 5, 2011 - 02:52am PT
No one at this Dark Star Orchestra show tonight? They are on FIRE! As in, ON THE MOUNTAIN!! :)
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Oct 8, 2011 - 11:08am PT
from franklin's tower,
there hangs a bell.

it can ring,
turn night to day.

ring like fire,
when you lose your way.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Oct 8, 2011 - 11:22am PT
It may have one good ring baby, you can't tell . . .
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Oct 8, 2011 - 05:06pm PT
I got the chance to meet John last night.

I shook his hand, said:

"Dark Star, thanks."

Kinda of a quizzical look back.

"Hey, I really like your pink guitar."

He looks at me sideways...

"No, Bobby's guitar is pink."

"Hmm?"

"Mine's purple."

"I guess it was the lights..."


Really a nice dude, could spent a long time talking, but I kinda felt small after my intro.

Hope the mix is better tonight, last night's was way off.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 12, 2011 - 11:11am PT

Summer leaves have blown away...
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Oct 17, 2011 - 09:41pm PT
momma killed a chicken,
thought it was a duck.

put it on the table with its feet stickin up.

aint it crazy.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Oct 17, 2011 - 09:54pm PT
Gone are the days when the ladies said "Please, gently Jack Jones, won't you come to me?"
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 17, 2011 - 10:30pm PT
funny kalimon, i was riding my bike last night and heard a band playing BEW, that line in particular.
Deadhead sh#t, man.
strangeday

Trad climber
Brea ca.
Oct 17, 2011 - 10:54pm PT
Any news about a NYE show??
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Oct 19, 2011 - 04:02pm PT
um buried middle of a 100 minutes of dark star.
ever done the,

grayfolded?

my mind might never be different again.

i'd sneeze but i cant because the whole
f*#kin world is flowing into me right now,
and the funny thing is,

it all fits onto one little peace of paper.
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Oct 19, 2011 - 04:34pm PT
Heard the most awesome soulful version of Jerry doing Smoke Gets In Your Eyes on Sat radio today. This version I hadn't heard before, really something.

No wonder he's my frikken hero.....
TwistedCrank

climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom
Oct 19, 2011 - 04:43pm PT
She got her leg up against the wall,
She got her leg up against the wall,
She got her leg up against the wall,
She look over,
Her left shoulder.



FAKK THE PIG!
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Oct 19, 2011 - 04:45pm PT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jTGrLVZfMs&feature=related

Cigarettes and Coffee baby....
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Oct 20, 2011 - 12:55am PT
i dare you to stand still through this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYA5r_FbY0U
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 21, 2011 - 12:25pm PT
Happy birthday Brent Mydland.
Lotsa good times.
Rest in peace.
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Oct 21, 2011 - 12:31pm PT
Good post Jefe.

Brent really gave them a great kick in the pants when he showed up.

He brought a lot to the table that guy.

Too bad I think he always felt like a bit of an outsider. Just my humble opinion. I may be off base, as I so often am....
strangeday

Trad climber
Brea ca.
Oct 21, 2011 - 12:34pm PT
Damn.. 21 years since Brent passed.. RIP..
"never trust a woman"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFTAo6P4puM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 21, 2011 - 12:41pm PT
I was in Milwaukee, after the last show of summer tour in Chicago, when the news of Brent's death hit.
It was a great tour.

You are so far from me...
Rudyj2

Trad climber
UT
Oct 21, 2011 - 01:16pm PT
Yep....I remember that phone call so well..like it was yesterday. "Hey man, Brent is gone, He is Far From Us". RIP guys. Miss U everyday!
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Oct 22, 2011 - 09:39am PT
La dee da da da, La da da da da, Da da da, Da da, Da da da da da
La da da da, La da da, Da da, La da da da, La da, Da da da.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVdTQ3OPtGY
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Oct 27, 2011 - 05:10pm PT
... i wen doooown.
one 'ol daaay.

i went down to sea a gypsy woman,
one day.

yes i did
yes i did.


i wanna find out.
i wanna find out what wrong.
with me and my ol' lady...

she said all you need.
all you need.
all youneed.

all you need

all you got to have.
is just a little touch.
a little touch of mojo...

now entering chaos...


thanks pig.

11/8/69

damn couldn't find the version im crankin..

but here's close:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqJN2pUXmg0
strangeday

Trad climber
Brea ca.
Oct 27, 2011 - 06:09pm PT
Allman bros. Doing franklins tower... Awesome!! Warren, Derek trucks, AND Jimmy herring?? Yes please.. Oteil singing ?? Even better....I need to get a copy of this show..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weSoRb_dMco&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Oct 28, 2011 - 08:45am PT
this thread is dead.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 28, 2011 - 10:04am PT
TwistedCrank

climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom
Oct 28, 2011 - 10:14am PT
"It was an alligator 'til I cut its tail off and painted it yellow."
strangeday

Trad climber
Brea ca.
Nov 2, 2011 - 06:53pm PT
No way!! I love the archive site, but am without a computer right now!! Nice tip.. I'm on it!!
strangeday

Trad climber
Brea ca.
Nov 2, 2011 - 09:26pm PT
Thanks again for the tip pate... I've been playing with the app, and it's pretty sweet! Works great, hasn't crashed, and has every live show from the archive.org site... Awesome!!
cowpoke

climber
Nov 3, 2011 - 02:30pm PT
thanks, Pate -- love archive.org

and speaking of music sharing, anybody else planning on reading this new book on the GD as a business role model?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0446583790/ref=rdr_ext_tmb

sounds pretty interesting and couldn't have been released with better timing given the present business-world zeitgeist
cowpoke

climber
Nov 3, 2011 - 02:44pm PT
the first three chapters:

1. Master strategic improvisation: How the Dead learned to plan and act at the same time

2. Live your values: How the Dead did well by doing good

3. Be kind to your customers: How the Dead offered superior customer value

...and sounds like equally interesting ideas through the next 7 chapters.
strangeday

Trad climber
Brea ca.
Nov 6, 2011 - 09:21pm PT
Jerry didn't climb Aguille either...
strangeday

Trad climber
Brea ca.
Nov 11, 2011 - 10:04am PT
Phurthur? Hmmm....

pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Nov 18, 2011 - 06:45pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/the-grateful-dead-bertha
Tobia

Social climber
GA
Nov 18, 2011 - 09:34pm PT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PekdeINQco&feature=related
Brown Eyed Women ~ Europe 72

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BgzrfUA8lo&feature=related
He's Gone ~ Europe 72

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBvYNXx9K6Y
Deal ~ recorded at Cornell University 1977
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Nov 20, 2011 - 08:10pm PT
please don't dominate the rap jack,
if you got nothing to say.



(no relation to anyone's post)
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Nov 20, 2011 - 08:37pm PT
spent a little time the mountain . . . spent a little time on the hill
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Nov 20, 2011 - 08:53pm PT
...i saw things gettin outta hand,
but i guess in time they will.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Nov 20, 2011 - 10:42pm PT
don't know what what I've been told . . . it's hard to run with the weight of gold
cintune

climber
Midvale School for the Gifted
Nov 20, 2011 - 11:01pm PT
Other hand I've heard it said

A big legged woman ain't got no soul


Wait, what?


.... Ded Zep :-D
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Nov 20, 2011 - 11:25pm PT
You tripin?

"Other hand I have heard it said, it's just as hard with the weight of lead."
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Nov 23, 2011 - 08:53pm PT
no shite man
i just made a kale, rice, walnut, garlic, onion, yata yata soup for the sick children while spinning dick's pick 16: darkstar - other one - eleven - uncle johns band yata yata i followed their mix theme with my soup..

those boys teach me 'ow to cook.

edit no anchor steam for
me, just a couple pulls from the charles shaw..
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Nov 23, 2011 - 09:24pm PT
Life may be sweeter for this I don't know
Feels like it might be alright
While Lady Lullaby sings plainly for you
Love still rings true

Midnight on a carousel ride . . . reaching for the gold ring down inside
go-B

climber
Habakkuk 3:19 Sozo
Nov 25, 2011 - 01:23pm PT
Free downloads

http://www.dead.net/30DaysOfDead/november-25
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 25, 2011 - 02:20pm PT
Cloud hands reaching for a rainbow...
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Nov 25, 2011 - 04:43pm PT
Recall the days that still are to come . . .
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 25, 2011 - 06:35pm PT
Thanks kalimon.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Nov 25, 2011 - 08:27pm PT
Waves of violet go crashing and laughing
The rainbow winged singing birds fly 'round the sun
Sun bells rain down in a liquid profusion
Mermaids on porpoises draw up the dawn
What's become of the baby this cold December morning?




Perhaps the strangest song to ever be officially released by Warner Brothers...
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Dec 1, 2011 - 02:14pm PT
well i taught that weeping willow,
how to cry, cry, cry.

i taught the clouds how
cover upa clear blue sky.

the tears i cried for that woman
gonna flood you a big river,

and i'll just sit here,
'till i die.
Murzerker

Social climber
Land of Goats and Tacos
Dec 1, 2011 - 03:10pm PT
Sugar magnolia, blossoms blooming, heads all empty and I don't care,
Saw my baby down by the river, knew she'd have to come up soon for air.
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Dec 14, 2011 - 10:40pm PT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebWm_76riIc&feature=related
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Dec 17, 2011 - 06:05pm PT
I'm loving on the 'He's Gone' on DP 29's second disc. Pretty much, the whole second disc is kick-ass.

It's been a while since I've heard this song and this version is freaking rad.

Donna and Bobby on background vocals, Jerry is sounding top notch as well.

Phil is dropping bombs out of the vocal jam, life is good.
strangeday

Trad climber
Brea ca.
Dec 17, 2011 - 06:22pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]

Jerry's last filmed interview...
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Dec 17, 2011 - 07:41pm PT
Nine mile skid on a ten mile ride, hot as a pistol but cool inside.
Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile . . .
Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile!!!
yosguns

climber
Paris, France
Dec 17, 2011 - 08:36pm PT
Now he's gone
Lord he's gone
Like a steam locomotive
rolling down the track
He's gone
He's gone
and nothing's gonna bring him back
He's gone

Going where the wind don't blow so strange
Maybe on some high cold mountain range

AND


One way or another,
One way or another,
One way or another,
This darkness got to gi-ive.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Dec 18, 2011 - 11:59am PT
DP 29 is Six discs, and He's Gone is on #6, is that the one you mean?

I've been going slow and steady through the Europe '72 box--24 shows in all. Ho man, there is some SWEET stuff in there. The YouTube link just above is from that tour.

Love Live the Dead!
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Dec 18, 2011 - 12:11pm PT
That's what I meant.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Dec 18, 2011 - 05:36pm PT
pocoloco posted the I Know You Rider, but the China Cat leading into it is a most sweet prequel:

Grateful Dead• China Cat Sunflower 4-17-72


I've watched this a couple of times, and ho man, I love me some Jerry.
Was there ever a cooler cat?
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Dec 18, 2011 - 06:14pm PT
I had no idea DP 29 was six discs.

I bought it on iTunes.
go-B

climber
Habakkuk 3:19 Sozo
Dec 18, 2011 - 07:50pm PT
This week's Jam is from:

June 12, 1992


http://dead.net/features/jam-week/december-16-december-22?eml=dn/121611/jam
Mighty Hiker

climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Dec 18, 2011 - 08:05pm PT
Yawn.

(Just trolling the Head cases.)
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 18, 2011 - 08:15pm PT
What are we gonna do with you, Anders?
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Dec 18, 2011 - 08:49pm PT
Crazy cat peekin through a lace bandanna . . .
like a one-eyed cheshire, like a diamond-eye jack . . .
A leaf of all colors plays a golden-string fiddle,
to a double-e waterfall over my back.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Dec 21, 2011 - 02:39pm PT
as we rolled out of
fernario,

as we rolled out of
FERNARIO,

our captain fell in love
with a lady like a dove.

they called her,
by name,

pretty peggy 'o.

will you marry me pretty peggy 'o.
Risk

Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
Dec 31, 2011 - 04:02am PT
This is certainly one of the highlights of one of the finest New Years Eve concerts of all time:

[Click to View YouTube Video]
nevahpopsoff

Boulder climber
the woods
Dec 31, 2011 - 05:16pm PT
row jimmy row.......HNY!
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Dec 31, 2011 - 07:50pm PT
Deadheads who happen to be around a computer tonight, unite!

It's NYE, the finest of nights (I guess), let's share some music!

I'll dig around, what have you got?
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Jan 2, 2012 - 08:34pm PT
What's the best Help>Slip>Franklins you've heard?
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jan 14, 2012 - 03:50am PT
origins.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
cowpoke

climber
Jan 14, 2012 - 12:01pm PT
origins? that's fun. I'll play.
[Click to View YouTube Video]

and the cover
[Click to View YouTube Video]
rand0M aXiS

Trad climber
Beserkeley
Jan 15, 2012 - 06:33pm PT
Wake up to find out
that you are the eyes of the World
but the heart has its beaches
its homeland and thoughts of its own
Wake now, discover that you
are the song that the morning brings
but the heart has its seasons
its evenings and songs of its own

There comes a redeemer
and he slowly too fades away
There follows a wagon behind him
that's loaded with clay
and the seeds that were silent
all burst into bloom and decay
The night comes so quiet
and it's close on the heels of the day
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jan 15, 2012 - 08:35pm PT
jeremy's a closet deadhead,
he's too often
bumped this thread,
come on out jeremy.
it's cool.

society might hold it against you
but what the f*#k,
society?

Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jan 24, 2012 - 11:56am PT
i lit out from Reno,
i was trailed by 20 hounds,

didn't get to sleep that night,
till the mornin came around.

i set out runnin,
but i take my time.

a friend of the devil,
is a friend of mine.

if i get home before daylight,
i just might get some sleep
tonight.

ran into the devil,
boy he loaned me 20 bills,

i spent the night in utah,
in a cave up in the hills.

i set out runnin,
but i take my time.

a friend of the devil,
is a friend of mine.

if i get home before daylight,
i just might get some sleep
tonight.

i ran down to the levy,
but the devil caught me there,

took my 20 dollar bill and vanished into air.

i set out runnin,
but i take my time.

a friend of the devil,
is a friend of mine.

if i get home before daylight,
i just might get some sleep
tonight.

got two reasons why
i cry away each lonely night.

the first one's named sweet anne marie,
and she's my hearts delight.

the second one,
is prison babe,
and the sheriff is on my tail.

if he catches up with me,
i'll spend my life in jail.

i set out runnin,
but i take my time.

a friend of the devil,
is a friend of mine.

if i get home before daylight,
i just might get some sleep
tonight.

got a wife in cheeno,
babe and one in cherokee.

the first one says she's got my
child,
but it don't look like me.

i set out runnin,
but i take my time.

a friend of the devil,
is a friend of mine.

if i get home before daylight,
i just might get some sleep
tonight.


can't say

Social climber
Pasadena CA
Jan 29, 2012 - 07:04pm PT
just stumbled into this reminder of the Pauly show in 72 and another one at the Paladium.
cowpoke

climber
Feb 10, 2012 - 06:36pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Feb 10, 2012 - 09:25pm PT
"Trouble with you is the trouble with me . . . we got two good eyes but you still don't see."
go-B

climber
Habakkuk 3:19 Sozo
Mar 16, 2012 - 04:31pm PT
http://www.dead.net/?eml=dn/031512/logo
http://www.dead.net/meet-up-at-the-movies
Second Annual Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies 04/19/2012
http://www.fathomevents.com/concerts/event/gratefuldead2012.aspx
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Mar 16, 2012 - 07:20pm PT
"Ain't nobody messing with you but you . . . your friends are getting most concerned.

Loose with the truth, baby, its your fire, but baby I hope you don't get burned.

When the smoke has cleared, she said, that's what she said to me . . .

Gonna want a bed to lay your head . . . and a little sympathy."
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Mar 16, 2012 - 07:40pm PT
Trouble with you is the trouble with me . . . we got two good eyes but you still don't see.

This reminds me of that funny Robin Williams line:


"The problem is that God gave men two heads, but only enough blood to run one at a time."



can't say, My buddy was at that Pauley show. I think he's still coming down.

Funny stories from that show concerning the band, the men's locker room, and some UCLA cheer leaders.
zBrown

Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
Mar 16, 2012 - 08:02pm PT
"It's a far gone lullaby, sung many years ago"

can't say

Social climber
Pasadena CA
Mar 16, 2012 - 08:19pm PT
k-man, I went to the show with the girl who found herself in the restroom with them. I lost track of her and the guy who drove and had to call my dad to come get me. He wasn't too happy to say the least lol.
Tripod? Swellguy? Halfwit? Smegma?

Trad climber
Wanker Stately Mansion, Placerville
Mar 17, 2012 - 11:47pm PT
What a lovely piece of nostalgia.
Here's another: Jerry's favourite band.
Hmmmm..... warms my heart and cheers my soul to listen to the dulcit tones of JR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBo0LLlKu5Q
Happy Friday
a :)
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 21, 2012 - 11:31am PT
Rainbows end down that highway...
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Mar 21, 2012 - 11:51am PT
can't say, now that gave me a good laugh.
Sorry man.





Holy Cow, now there's an early Greek show! Fantastique!
splitter

Trad climber
Hodad surfing the galactic plane
Mar 21, 2012 - 12:18pm PT
can't say,

edit: Oh, just noticed that it wasn't necessarily your gf! I remember the times very well, and music and surfing was everything in my life. Sorry, didn't mean to sound like a jerk. I am glad that she had a good friend in you, Can't Say. Lotta respect...
can't say

Social climber
Pasadena CA
Mar 21, 2012 - 03:19pm PT
splitter, it's all in the context of the times I guess. While not my g/f, she is one of the most amazing women I have ever had the pleasure of knowing, albeit one who has lived a tragic life. But back then she was a young hottie, passionately into the Dead and the whole late 60s scene. The fact is she had a crush on Bob Weir a mile long and she said before we went in the concert, she was going to try to get backstage and do Mr. Weir. Turned out it was more then Bob lol
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 21, 2012 - 03:31pm PT
Hey Now!
zBrown

Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
Mar 21, 2012 - 03:36pm PT
I went to that Pauley Pavillion show in 1972 and the Greek Theatre show in 1967. There's a poster that I have lost track of for a show in Berkeley in 1966 featuring the "Greatful Dead".

cowpoke

climber
Mar 21, 2012 - 04:28pm PT
I've got a question for folks: should I make date nights with the wife for the first two nights -- Boston Wang Theater -- of the Further summer tour? The venue is fabulous, but...

Since Jerry, I have not seen any of the various constellations, and I haven't wanted to...until now, I guess. With a few exceptions, I haven't even been too psyched listening to Further shows...until now, kinda. For the most part, I don't find the sound as inspiring as I'd hope, but I'm feeling nostalgic...and seems like I should, at least, give 'em a chance.

Anyway, if it was free, we would definitely go, but it ain't.

Looking around, seems like for two tics for two nights, we're looking at over $500.

So, from those of you who've been dropping in on Phil from time to time, is it worth it? And, should we go both nights or just the first (which would cut the cost by about $200)?
splitter

Trad climber
Hodad surfing the galactic plane
Mar 21, 2012 - 04:49pm PT
Wow, crazy prices. That would work out to be $125.00 each per night, which doesn't sound as bad. If you ever get to see the PBS presentation of the 1974(or maybe it was '76)Grateful Dead show in Oakland, it's really stellar. But the reason I bring it up is there are these two doods/deadheads that are engaged in this friendly argument inside before the show starts and they are discussing the increase in the price of tickets to $3.50(three dollars & fifty cents). One guy is really upset and thinks it is outrageous. It goes on for about 10-15 minutes, they keep coming back to it. But I remember those times, and that was allot of money to fork over back then.

I saw the Dead at San Diego State U on Mothers Day 1969 with Santana, Canned Heat, Quick Silver Messenger Service & The Flying Burrito Brothers. Great concert. Only time I saw them live. It was an outside concert on the football field.
Mick K

climber
Northern Sierra
Mar 21, 2012 - 05:15pm PT
Cowpoke:

Absolutely go to the shows. I think you will be very happy with the outcome. No it is not the Grateful Dead but it is grateful dead music. If you loved the music back then you will still love it now.

I have been able to catch 9 Furthur shows so far and I would hit the road in a minute for the Wang Theater if I could.

Go both nights otherwise you will be out in the street on the second night looking for a "miracle."

Try some Furthur the first hit is free....

http://www.archive.org/details/Furthur

http://www.archive.org/details/further2010-05-28.shure-sm89.gearing.108424.flac16

http://www.archive.org/details/furthur2010-09-25.akg483.frank.109984.flac16

http://www.archive.org/details/furthur2011-02-11.sbd.official.113303.flac16
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Mar 21, 2012 - 05:21pm PT
I saw Furthur in Manchester two years ago and was really impressed at how well Phil and Bobby are still playing. If you can swing it, I'd say both nights would be awesome!
zBrown

Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
Mar 21, 2012 - 08:16pm PT

No tape has surfaced for 5-7-66, though there is one from the Avalon 5-19-66 which contains the earliest version circulating of Good Lovin'. Likewise the Greek 1967 show. There are 3 November, 2 September, and 1 August 1967 tapes circulating.

Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Mar 21, 2012 - 10:50pm PT
"My time coming any day, don't worry about me . . . no."
zBrown

Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
Mar 24, 2012 - 01:03am PT
^watch out you don't get the Sneffels.

Franklin's Tower courtesy of Wolfgang's vault 8-5-79 grainy vid, great performance.

The Oregon concert film.

go-B

climber
Habakkuk 3:19 Sozo
Apr 4, 2012 - 12:07pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Grateful Dead - All Along The Watchtower - 9/30/89
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Apr 4, 2012 - 09:19pm PT
there's none, cherise.
except for you.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Apr 4, 2012 - 10:19pm PT
"Is there another girl for you?

If you could see my heart you would know it's true . . . "
cowpoke

climber
May 1, 2012 - 04:13pm PT
I had the most amazing dream last night of being at Grateful Dead show in some tiny venue that I didn't recognize (my brain invented it)...it was so sad waking up and realizing it was a dream. I know, pretty random share...it was just such a vivid dream of a great show that never was and never will be.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
May 1, 2012 - 04:17pm PT
I too have those dreams. Do you take GHB every night before bed as well?

Just kidding.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
May 3, 2012 - 08:37pm PT
it's the same story
the crow told me.

it's the only one
you know.

like the morning sun,
you come.
and like the moon you go.
sheepdog

Trad climber
just over the hill
May 3, 2012 - 08:49pm PT
Here you go folks, get a piece of history....

http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/carsforsale/studebaker/unspecified/1397957.html?printable=1
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
May 3, 2012 - 09:12pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/jerry-garcia-grateful-dead-so-many-roads-complete-7-9-95
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
May 3, 2012 - 09:58pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/grateful-dead-birdsong
Spider Savage

Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
May 3, 2012 - 11:28pm PT
The Charlatans. I heard of them but never heard them. If they are on youtube they are eclipsed the The Charlatans UK. Anyone have a link?
zBrown

Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
May 4, 2012 - 01:08am PT
I saw the Charlatans in SF, 1966. Dan Hicks was in the Charlatans.


George Hunter, Dan Hicks, Mike Wilhelm, Mike Ferguson, Richie Olsen
The Charlatans, 1964, Golden Gate Park Conservatory


Dan Hicks, April 4, 1966, San Francisco Cow Palace

[Click to View YouTube Video]




Argon

climber
North Bay, CA
May 4, 2012 - 01:18am PT
Phil Lesh and Friends were pretty amazing at Terrapin Crossroads on Saturday. Jimmy Herring is incredible. What a great venue - hope that Phil goes strong for another 30 years or so.
zBrown

Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
May 4, 2012 - 01:20am PT
speaking of San Francisco - I'd like to see the Cockettes and Smacky and Our Gang pop up on YouTube.

oops they have:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnTLffNuVr4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnTLffNuVr4

drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - May 4, 2012 - 01:37am PT
Thanks for keeping this thread going!

jockamo fee no ah nah nay
jockamo fee nah nay!
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
May 4, 2012 - 02:12am PT
cowpoke, the Dead played the Orphium for three nights. They were super special shows in that it was their reunion shows. Not that they never played during their hiatus, but this was their official "we're back" sets.
I was lucky to have a friend... I remember it was the first time I'd seen them play a whole set without stopping, starting with Playin'...


And man!, that is one rippin' Eyes.


[Funny how they don't show Bobby for the whole video, except for a short shot of his back around 10:25.]
cowpoke

climber
May 4, 2012 - 07:54am PT
k-man, I love that set of videos from the soundchecks leading up to the 76 Orpheum run and I kinda wondered if my dream was my brain's invention of what it would have been like to have been there. Wish it was a memory rather than a dream. [Click to View YouTube Video]
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - May 8, 2012 - 06:16pm PT
ummmmm,
it's May 8th.



edit: lemme guess, k-man, you were there, right?
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
May 8, 2012 - 06:40pm PT
jefe,
you are almost real.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
zBrown

Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
May 9, 2012 - 12:16am PT
Last time I checked there were something like 7000 GD shows available.

I started with someone else's top ten list, then added ones that I'd attended (funny I wasn't at any of his top ten). I don't even know how many I have now.





Bob Wier tie-die?



k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
May 9, 2012 - 01:59pm PT
That last shot is Great, Weir playing an SG, Garcia in 'tails & a rare non-black tee, and Lesh w/ the Alembic! Whoa Boy!


Naw, I don't ever think I saw a 5/8 show...


But let me check ;-)



I was a young & naive kid when I got to SF to see one of those Orpheum shows... Strange story on how I managed
to get the tix, but so it goes.

I swear, there was the very cute gal in the seat in front of me, just a few years older than I...
Although she was with her man, she kept sliding her arm behind her seat, where she'd find and rub my leg.

At one point, she got up, turned to me and winked, and wandered up the aisle.
It was about an hour later that it dawned on me...
TwistedCrank

climber
Dingleberry Gulch, Ideeho
May 9, 2012 - 02:51pm PT
5/8 Holy Kamolee has it been 35 years already?

Yeah, I was at Barton Hall. You knew when Jerry looked over his shoulder about 1/2 way into Row Jimmy that the group was beyond firing on all cyclinders. I'll never forget that nanosecond. Ever. Nothing was out out place that night, my face was melting off and, as I recall, I had a looming exam in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, or some such droll, that would have otherwise consumed me at the time. When it was all over, when we were to wander into Collegetown to unpeak, we exited the barn and it was snowing. Fuggin first week in May, we had no concept of temperature, or time for that matter, and we got pelted with the first snow of the next winter. Fuggin magic. My face still hurts from smiling so big.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
May 9, 2012 - 03:05pm PT
Wow, we finally know where Owsley's truck is, how cool is that?

It showed up in Hemmings Collector Blog.

It's still in the Bay Area. This 1954 Studebaker was responsible for hauling the bands new "Owsley" gear around in the early days.
Long Strange Trip Indeed.

It’s not often you’ll find mention of any Grateful Dead news here at Hemmings, but the arrival on the market of a psychedelically painted 1954 Studebaker one-ton pickup changes that.

Collector and special-interest cars earn their appeal from their rarity, performance, breakthrough feats of engineering, excellence in design, or, in some cases, their notoriety. Recently discovered by art dealer Steve Cabella of San Francisco, this Studebaker 2R15 allegedly gained its notoriety when the Grateful Dead’s financial backer, landlord, sound man, and supplier of LSD, Owsley Stanley, bought the machine to haul his custom-made sound gear back and forth to the band’s gigs. An artist friend of Stanley’s at the time gave it the distinctive psychedelic paint job that it still wears today.







drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - May 9, 2012 - 03:14pm PT
nice one there, twistedcrank.

i made the reference to k-man because he seems to have caught so many "legendary" shows, esp 77's.

Me, i was probably burning army men or building jumps for my wind-up Evel Kinevel.


I think most of us wore out a copy or two of 5/8/77.

Actually, the first set from the previous night, 5/7/77, is one of my alltime faves.
The best 1/2 $tep!



pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
May 9, 2012 - 03:28pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/the-grateful-dead-ship-of-fools
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
May 9, 2012 - 03:34pm PT
This is as good a place as any to post this.

Priceless.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
May 9, 2012 - 04:37pm PT
She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes . . . and I knew without asking she was into the blues.

She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls . . . I knew right away she was not like other girls . . . other girls.
zBrown

Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
May 9, 2012 - 04:43pm PT
In case anyone is interested, here is the "must have" list that I was given a long time ago. I've misplaced the name of the person who gave it to me. While searching for it, I was amazed by how much I've accumulated.

2/27/1969 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA
2/11/1970 Fillmore East, New York, NY
5/11/1972 Civic Hall, Rotterdam, Netherlands
6/10/1973 RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C.
8/6/1974 Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, NJ
6/14/1976 Beacon Theater, New York, NY
5/9/1977 War Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, NY
5/18/1977 Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA
4/16/1978 Huntington Civic Center, Huntington, WV
7/8/1978 Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO
12/28/1979 Oakland Auditorium, Oakland CA
10/14/1983 Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT
10/9/1989 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA
9/13/1993 The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA

Feel free to criticize and postup your own favorites.

Speaking of cute gals. Y'all remember Pigpen!

drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - May 9, 2012 - 04:54pm PT
Lotsa good shows there.

83 Hartford was my first tape. Love that second set.

The 89 Warlocks is a modern gem.

Gotta say, I'm shocked that Cornell 5/8/77 isn't on your list, as it is widely considered one of the finest shows the Dead ever played.
zBrown

Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
May 9, 2012 - 04:56pm PT
5/9/77 is. Maybe it was a typo in the original. I'm gonna have to load up that disc and see what's gong on. I'm sure I hav 'em both.

Garcia hardly ever wore black in the old days. Phil and Bill didn't even wear shirts.

Denver 9-24-67.



Bob Wier digs DA Brim


Tie-die Phil
zBrown

Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
May 9, 2012 - 05:05pm PT
GD road trip!



zBrown

Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
May 9, 2012 - 05:13pm PT
Da Brim, even Owsley!


TwistedCrank

climber
Dingleberry Gulch, Ideeho
May 9, 2012 - 05:17pm PT
Best show? Best run? Best tour? Best hot-seat rental? WTF?

It's all fun and games til someone puts an eye out.

And thanks to whoever reminded us of the Orphem 76 run. The 7/18 second set sequence doesn't even fit on a single CD - not that anyone uses them anymore. They had me at Lazy Lightnin->Supplication->Let it Grow->drums->Let it Grow->Wharf Rat->TOO->St. Stephen->NFA->St. Stephen->Wheel->TOO->Stella Blue->Sugar Mag.

That was one of my first tapes...

edit: Phil wo/ a shirt. OMG. Note to self: must scratch eyes out.
zBrown

Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
May 9, 2012 - 05:38pm PT
Or get all 7000+ shows.

7/18/76
Disc 1 (1:07:35 audio, 417MB SHN)

SET1

1. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo [9:52]
2. Cassidy [4:20]
3. Row Jimmy [9:47]
4. Mama Tried [2:59]
5. Scarlet Begonias [11:17]
6. Looks Like Rain [7:10]
7. Tennessee Jed [9:14]
8. New Minglewood Blues [4:56]
9. Loser [8:00]

Disc 2 (1:07:22 audio, 402MB SHN)

1. The Music Never Stopped [6:49]

SET2

2. Might As Well [5:54]
3. Samson And Delilah [7:10]
4. Candyman [7:50]
5. Lazy Lightnin' [7:29] >
6. Supplication [1:20] >
7. Let It Grow [6:51] >
8. Drums [3:24] >
9. Let It Grow [4:45] >
10. Wharf Rat [15:51] > % Cut (Phil's intro to TOO included)

Disc 3 (57:32 audio, 322MB SHN)

1. The Other One [6:23] >
2. Saint Stephen [8:35] >
3. Not Fade Away [7:01] >
4. Saint Stephen [0:59] >
5. The Wheel [6:02] >
6. The Other One [3:16] >
7. Stella Blue [10:58]
8. Sugar Magnolia [10:05]

ENCORE
9. Johnny B. Goode [4:15]


Psilocyborg

climber
May 9, 2012 - 06:14pm PT
you might hate me for this...

I do love the dead, but I was born in 1977 so its a little before my time.

This was for my generation:

[Click to View YouTube Video]
cowpoke

climber
May 15, 2012 - 12:20pm PT
It's alright, 'cause I love you.
And that's not gonna change.
Run me round, make me hurt again and again.
But I'll still sing you love songs
Written in the letters of your name.
And brave the storm to come,
For it surely looks like rain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54izhA_5YUs&feature
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Jun 2, 2012 - 12:47am PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/the-grateful-dead-next-time

Happy B-day Jefe
yosguns

climber
Durham, NC
Jun 2, 2012 - 12:51am PT
Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Click to View YouTube Video]

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Chango

Trad climber
norcal
Jun 2, 2012 - 02:03am PT
Jerry's songs seem to hit home. Ond of my favorite lyrics of any band, "I've got no dime, but I've got some time to hear your story..." Wharf Rat.

Saw them only once in 1988 at Irvine Meadows. My bud took two hits of LSD and washed it down chomping mushrooms. i
I sat on the lawn with him and watched over him, till he peed on the hippie chick sitting in front of us. Time to go...
zBrown

Ice climber
mercenario de merced
Jun 2, 2012 - 12:59pm PT
^isn't there a peeing thread? ahahahaha.

Just in: GD never played "Whisky in the Jar" in concert, closest was soundcheck 3-24-93 Dean Smith Center NC.
covelocos

Trad climber
Nor Cal
Jun 2, 2012 - 02:59pm PT
[url="http://www.nodepression.com/video/jerry-garcia-s-last-film-interviewhttp://"]http://www.nodepression.com/video/jerry-garcia-s-last-film-interviewhttp://[/url]
SCseagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz
Jun 17, 2012 - 12:11am PT
Greatful Dead archives to open soon at UCSC


http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_20873394/opening-grateful-dead-archive-set-june-29-at




Susan
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Jun 22, 2012 - 08:00pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/grateful-dead-not-fade-away-buffalo-1989
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Jun 22, 2012 - 10:22pm PT
GD Archive take two

http://library.ucsc.edu/grateful-dead-archive
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Jun 22, 2012 - 10:48pm PT
pocoloco1, thanks.

Brent's candle burned hot and fast, but his shows are fun to hear.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jun 25, 2012 - 01:18pm PT
"you be the lie,
i'll be the irony."
yosguns

climber
Durham, NC
Jul 1, 2012 - 12:58am PT
So, a bit OT, but "Lawn Boy" is actually a good album. That is all.
Chinchen

climber
Way out there....
Jul 1, 2012 - 01:46am PT
Listening to some Garcia Grisman right now. Garcia was a genius.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2012 - 08:46am PT
Til the morning comes...
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jul 22, 2012 - 10:24am PT
"Showing you the way, leaving no doubt" . . .
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jul 26, 2012 - 06:44pm PT
(listen) for a while,
(to) the china cat sunflower.

-providence civic, 6/26/74,
yea!
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jul 26, 2012 - 07:51pm PT
"I rang a silent bell beneath a shower of pearls . . ."
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 26, 2012 - 09:14pm PT
My dog's name is Rosebud.
I couldn't really name her Travis Bean, Wolf, or Tiger.
She's a chihuahua.

The grass ain't greener, the wine ain't sweeter
either side of the hill...
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Jul 26, 2012 - 11:49pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jul 27, 2012 - 11:28am PT
"I know this song . . . it ain't never gonna end."
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 1, 2012 - 08:23am PT
splitter

Trad climber
Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
Aug 1, 2012 - 09:07am PT
Happy Birthday Jerry. And Thanks for all the great music and good vibes, bro. RIP
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Aug 1, 2012 - 10:08am PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/jerry-garcia-band-how-sweet-it-is
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 1, 2012 - 12:22pm PT
Happy Birthday Jerome!


Sometimes the songs that we sing are just songs of our own.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 1, 2012 - 01:01pm PT
I'll tell you where the four winds dwell
Some Random Guy

Trad climber
San Francisco
Aug 1, 2012 - 02:17pm PT
happy b-day captn!

it's awesome he's making it to the rock-n-roll hall of fame.

http://www.tristudios.com/artists/move-me-brightly
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Aug 1, 2012 - 02:22pm PT
Happy 70!
Reggaemylitis

Trad climber
South Lake Tahoe, CA
Aug 1, 2012 - 02:34pm PT
Happy Birthday Jerry! Anyone going to see the Grateful Dead Movie in theaters tonight?
AZ-OW

Trad climber
Granite Mountain Wilderness
Aug 1, 2012 - 03:12pm PT
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Aug 1, 2012 - 05:21pm PT
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Aug 2, 2012 - 10:35am PT
silver, you shall get together with a dime
and make some alligator wine.

mr charlie told me so.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2012 - 10:43am PT
Or half a cup of rock and rye...
There's always red grenadine too...
or a gin fizz...

Interestingly enough, last time I was at that theatre on the flanks of the tenderloin, Mr Charlie got boots stompin and the joint jumpin.
nita

Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
Aug 2, 2012 - 11:02am PT
Celebrating the Music.....Tamalpais Research Institute, putting up some excellent videos and music.

Happy Birthday Jerry....Where does the time go....

http://www.tristudios.com/videos/new-speedway-boogie-scaring-children-w-jackie-greene

http://www.tristudios.com/videos/uncle-johns-band-bridge-session

http://www.tristudios.com/videos/jack-straw-furthur

http://www.tristudios.com/videos/big-bad-blues-bob-weir

http://www.tristudios.com/videos/brokedown-palace-fog-jeff-chimenti

thanks.. Some Random guy..
Some Random Guy

Trad climber
San Francisco
Aug 2, 2012 - 10:41pm PT
nita don't thank me......thank you know who.....

yeah the warfield, i gots me a whole head full of memories from that place...but i can't remember them?
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 2, 2012 - 11:08pm PT
It all rolls into one and nothing comes for free,
There's nothing you can hold, for very long.
And when you hear that song come crying like the wind,
It seems like all this life was just a dream.
Stella blue. stella blue.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 2, 2012 - 11:39pm PT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Es-lCfHHjWE#t=549s
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Aug 3, 2012 - 01:24am PT
i'm at a loss for words (WTF?)

i guess it doesn't matter anyway




drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 3, 2012 - 11:31am PT

China>Crazy>Rider

Laguna Seca nuff said
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 4, 2012 - 12:13am PT
"Get back home where you belong . . . don't you run off no more . . ."
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 4, 2012 - 12:26am PT
One of the best days in my life was during a run at Telluride. It was mid-summer in 87 and I took the lift up to the top with a close friend. We descended the back side of Gold Hill and climbed the steep North ridge of Palmyra Peak (13,000+) and dropped acid on the summit. The incredibly beautiful Sneffels range was spread out in all it's glory before us. We descended from the sharp summit about 35 feet, donned our skis and ripped it up down perfect corn through a long, classic 2000 foot couloir, schussing our way down the Bear Creek drainage, laughing the whole way, to the Aspen forest. We took off our skis and descended the switch backs, as we drew nearer and nearer town the band started playing down below, and Jerry's guitar was drifting up through the woods to us. We "missed" the first couple of songs of the first set, but enjoying them floating upwards as we were coming down the trail, the green glowing forest around us, sunburned, happy and high was even better than being inside. We dumped our packs at the gate and went in and danced the evening away. Awesome day.

Pate Grateful Dead Bump!
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 4, 2012 - 01:21am PT
"Esau skates on mirrors anymore . . . and greets his pale reflection at the door . . ."
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Aug 4, 2012 - 01:35am PT
@Kalimon - now that's a day and a half, right there.

In another times forgotten space
Leggs

Sport climber
Home Sweet Home, Tucson AZ
Aug 6, 2012 - 08:30pm PT
"Cause I'm Missing Jerry Tonight" by D. Crosby

Cause I'm missing him tonight

If I had to pick one of us to speak for us all
He would have done the job well
Coming from some crazy angle
He'd have known which story to tell
he'd tell the truth about real music
he knew the truth long before he fell

His fingers would touch his guitar neck
My axe would be pressed to my chest
A chord and a melody would walk in the door
Closely followed by all of the rest
Magic and tragic and triumph and storm
and all the things we had sought on our quest

You get your ego out of the way of your hearts
The whole becomes greater than the sum of the parts

A sort of field pops into existence
Everything lifts off the ground
You know that you're doing what you were born to do
That you're using the gift that you've found
To create some lift and break all the chains
with which all our people are bound

he did it for all the right reasons
and made all of our mistakes
a more human man you could not find
an accelerator without the brakes
but he had the brains and the heart and the spirit
Garcia really had what it takes.




Pate Grateful Dead Appreciation BUMP
(Heard a wonderful set on community radio early early this morning, made me think of Colorado, fishing and acceptance ...BUMP BUMP!)
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Aug 9, 2012 - 06:09pm PT
sleepy aligator in
the noon day sun.
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Aug 9, 2012 - 07:18pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/grateful-dead-row-jimmy-egypt
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 9, 2012 - 08:26pm PT
"Sleepin' by the river, just like he usually done . . ."
HighTraverse

Trad climber
Bay Area
Aug 10, 2012 - 05:39pm PT
Jerry's 70th birthday concert
http://sanrafael.patch.com/articles/watch-the-star-studded-jerry-garcia-birthday-concert-9c31ae22#youtube_video-10961962
Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Donna Jean Godchaux and many many more......

"You can't go back and you can't stand still
If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will"

better, direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJY3sUB1ots&feature=player_embedded#!
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Aug 13, 2012 - 05:34pm PT
they're a band beyond description,
Like Jehovah's favorite choir

people joining handin hand
while the music plays the band
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 13, 2012 - 08:59pm PT
it's been hot for seven weeks now . . . too hot to even speak now . . . did you here what I just heard?
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Aug 20, 2012 - 01:54pm PT
what is a band?
without cymbals!

cymbals are grand.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Aug 20, 2012 - 01:57pm PT
Weege, you catch the SF shows?
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Aug 20, 2012 - 02:15pm PT
I believe the credit for this goes to Gergory Meredith. Thanks Greg.

Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Aug 25, 2012 - 10:34am PT
well i married me a wife, she's been trouble all my life.
run me out in the cold rain and snow.

[Click to View YouTube Video]

well im goin where those chilly winds don't blow.

when, there i arrived,
i found a dire wold, and sat down to breakfast
with him,
a bottle of red whiskey,

when i took a pull he caught glimpse
of my filthy, wretched soul,
and recoiled in disgust.

i informed him that i've roses in my eyes,
that well mask my true intent.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Sep 5, 2012 - 07:37pm PT
passing me by,
the busses and semis,
plunging like stones from a slingshot on mars

Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 5, 2012 - 09:22pm PT
"Blackthroated Wind keeps on pourin' in . . . with its words of a life where nothing is new . . . "
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 5, 2012 - 09:23pm PT
Now what's to be found by racing around,
you carry your pain wherever you go,
Full of blues, and tryin' to lose,
You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

Black Throated Wind . . . whisper in sin . . .
Sparky

Trad climber
vagabond movin on
Sep 5, 2012 - 11:08pm PT
Love the dead. Also love futbol and bicycling. Perfect.


http://www.gdao.org/items/show/278243
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 5, 2012 - 11:28pm PT
"Me and my Uncle . . . went riding down . . . south Colorado, west Texas bound . . ."
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Sep 5, 2012 - 11:47pm PT

Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 5, 2012 - 11:49pm PT
It looks like rain and it feels like rain . . .
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Sep 5, 2012 - 11:55pm PT
Say Kalimon - what's going on in Ridgway?

Recently surfaced 9:15 of GD, 1968, Newport

some of you hodads might appreciate this

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 6, 2012 - 12:40am PT
zB - Summer is winding down after a relatively hot and fitful cycle . . . super dry until early July, when the monsoonal moisture gods unleashed their kindness. We were spared the devastating fires that many of our brothers and sisters have suffered this season. Today was the most magical of blue sky days we have been blessed with for quite some time . . . "I've seen fire and I've seen rain . . . I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end", kind of day. I am blessed to be working on a totally sweet little building project close to home, instead of having to drive to Telluride. We are on Pleasant Point and have the complete Sneffels/Cimarron panorama to contemplate.

Hope all is well with your self!
kennyt

climber
Woodfords,California
Sep 6, 2012 - 12:41am PT
Move on.
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Sep 6, 2012 - 12:50am PT
Kalimon:

do you know the Henrys, Gig and Annette? (Sambo and Max). Friends who bailed on La Crescenta, CA for the good life.

You must be right next door to them.

I've been looking at property in Ridgway for a number of years.


Did you ever look at that monster house on Catamount?



Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 6, 2012 - 01:08am PT
Gig is awesome . . . very good dude that I've had the good fortune to work with up in old Telluride! Six degrees of separation indeed.

I know not about the Catamount.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Sep 15, 2012 - 11:56pm PT
Kalimon, we haven't conversed. But how's it going?

Do you know where I can find My Uncle? His name's Mike Hunt. zBrown told me you might.
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Sep 27, 2012 - 12:34am PT
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Oct 3, 2012 - 02:01am PT
Got the honor of seeing Furthur this Sunday. I'm just coming down--no, going up.

What a freakin' show. Honestly, they do just keep getting better.

JM: How many songs are you responsible for knowing?

JK: The total playlist, I think, is pushing 300 songs. I couldn’t give you an exact statistic.


Yeow... A very cool interview:

http://www.noozhawk.com/article/100212_jeff_moehlis_furthur_john_kadlecik/
throwpie

Trad climber
Berkeley
Oct 3, 2012 - 11:20am PT
I was at the Sunday show too...the second set was SO GOOD! Makes an old timey deadhead happy to see that the fire still burns very brightly.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Oct 5, 2012 - 07:49pm PT
i stole staggerlee's stetson tonight,

it should be a rager,
im not to sleep
i'll roam the woods and milk
the fluid moon,

for the medicine bottle is empty too,

i love a good game of smokin guns,

love is dead
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Oct 5, 2012 - 09:18pm PT
mouse from merced,

Hey there friend! I do not personally know Mike Hunt. Is he in the Ridgway area? Now that I think of it there may be a Hunt mailbox down at the bottom of Pleasant Point Drive, or maybe I am imagining this.

Let me know how I can help you out.

Oh yeah, just for all you Heads . . . I saw Phil and Friends at the T-Ride Blues and Brews with Warren Haynes . . . it was sweet. My first Dead show in a very long time.
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Oct 5, 2012 - 09:24pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/the-grateful-dead-scarlet
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Oct 5, 2012 - 11:37pm PT
@Timid - good to see that, even if it's been said before.







pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Oct 14, 2012 - 10:07pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/jerry-garcia-grateful-dead-peggy-o-6-26-94
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Oct 15, 2012 - 11:24pm PT
Wild Horses Bill & PP




What song is he playing?

zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Oct 16, 2012 - 03:11pm PT






TwistedCrank

climber
Dingleberry Gulch, Ideeho
Oct 16, 2012 - 03:43pm PT
Are they..... tripping?
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Oct 18, 2012 - 08:44pm PT
i will sacrifice all:
the sky above and the earth beneath me;
the world within me,

to protect the song.

my actions lead my words;
my folly leads my valor.
mountainlion

Trad climber
California
Oct 18, 2012 - 11:48pm PT
I'm a stone jack baller
and my heart is true
and I'll give all got
I say to you yes I will

My favorite dead is the bluesy stuff with Pig Pen followed by the stuff around the time of "shakedown street"
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Oct 19, 2012 - 12:29am PT
my buddy tim telling of wind's easy passage,
first thru a can.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Oct 20, 2012 - 01:17pm PT
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Nov 2, 2012 - 11:02am PT
thanks boys.
thanks donna.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
John Butler

Social climber
SLC, Utah
Nov 2, 2012 - 01:35pm PT
You guys are all getting the free unreleased Dead-Song-a-Day at:

30 Days of Dead


,right?

Freaking awesome live stuff so far...
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Nov 2, 2012 - 05:38pm PT
Oh Man!! The High Time playing today is Freakin' SWEET!

Just the intro alone, worth the price of listening...




Thx John!
cintune

climber
Midvale School for the Gifted
Nov 6, 2012 - 10:50am PT
China Cat > I Know You Rider today; stellar.
Tobia

Social climber
Denial
Nov 6, 2012 - 11:13am PT
john butler: thanks for the info.

zb, you are slipping; quit messin' with the mouse and stay on top of things.
Patrick Sawyer

climber
Originally California now Ireland
Nov 6, 2012 - 11:32am PT
I am not a Dead Head, but I am a Dead Head. Last time I saw them was UC Berkeley Greek Theatre, June 1982.
cowpoke

climber
Nov 25, 2012 - 01:34pm PT

The vast legacy article in the nov New Yorker is worth a read
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/11/26/121126fa_fact_paumgarten?currentPage=1
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Nov 25, 2012 - 03:25pm PT
You guys are all getting the free unreleased Dead-Song-a-Day at:


or



@Patrick Sawyer - Greek 1982

Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Nov 30, 2012 - 02:26pm PT
SCseagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz
Dec 1, 2012 - 05:05pm PT
oh Brandon, you beat me to it...love this cartoon!


Susan
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Dec 1, 2012 - 05:59pm PT
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Dec 5, 2012 - 11:51pm PT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVZD9CZ623M
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Dec 6, 2012 - 12:03am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Dec 6, 2012 - 01:21am PT
Weegie, that was good.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Dec 14, 2012 - 10:37pm PT
Playin' like a wave upon the sand . . . daybreak, daybreak on the land.

Truely a sad day in America . . . gonna leave this brokedown palace.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Dec 14, 2012 - 11:00pm PT
Sunshine Daydream . . . every precious one.

Heaven help the fool.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Dec 14, 2012 - 11:21pm PT
The bus come by and I got on . . . that's when it all began.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 15, 2012 - 05:47pm PT
yes, Andy, yes.

like a song that's born to soar the sky

[Click to View YouTube Video]


zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Dec 15, 2012 - 05:51pm PT

Now Samson and the lion, they got in a tack,
Samson he crawled up on the lion's back.
You read about this lion, he killed a man with his paws,
But Samson got his hands around that lion's jaws.
He ripped the beast till he killed him dead.
The bees made honey in the lion's head.
If I had my way, if I had my way, if I had my way,
I would tear this old building down.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Dec 22, 2012 - 09:40am PT
the dire wolf collects his
dues,
while the boys sing 'round the fire.
rand0M aXiS

Trad climber
Beserkeley now living in Daygo
Dec 22, 2012 - 09:47am PT
They put me in jail without a judge or jury
For robbing Colonel Pepper in the morning so early
They didn't take my fist so I knocked down the sentry
And I bid a long farewell to that cold penitentiary
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 22, 2012 - 09:47am PT
Here it is boyz and girls, the legendary Field Trip.

You got Neil at the wheel, the Sunstroke Serenaders, naked peeps, trippy visuals, kids, dogs, water shortages, Pranksters, and amazing music.
An amazing document with perfect sound quality.
Take a few hours out of your busy day or lazy night and give it a watch.
Enjoy.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Dec 22, 2012 - 11:13am PT
Looks to be the full version with the skit and all.

Nice that it's available on the tube. I must have downloaded 5 different versions over the years.

Might as well throw this in here too.

Rober Hunter:



The meaning(s), or lack thereof, ascribed by others to an example of lyric work are not part of the work. The interpretations are separate "works". The manner in which an audience receives the work, what they, collectively and individually, make of it, can indeed provide potential data for the allusiveness (referentiality)of future lyrics, gainsaid, but cannot be ascribed as a characteristic of the particular work, per se, with validity without "insider information" which is, in any case, no part of the song. That way lies true nonsense, even unto deconstruction. Yet the little bugger of a jingle persists and seems to move hearts.
cowpoke

climber
Dec 23, 2012 - 06:33pm PT
I'm less than halfway through (they just finished china cat->rider) and pretty much blown away. I love when Jerry played the strat with very little effects. And, Phil is great as always, but another quick impression is that Bobby's note-picking (rather than strumming chords) is fantastic in more than one instance. love the moment of announcing where little wanderers could be found too. anyway, thanks drljefe = very much appreciate the time machine.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2012 - 12:33pm PT
Happy holidays Deadheads.
Be grateful- for family, friends, and of course, good music.

zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Dec 24, 2012 - 12:50pm PT




Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jan 1, 2013 - 11:55am PT
i just inherited a few shows.
im spinning tapes, non-stop.

i see online a few gadgets that
convert cassettes to mp3...

anyone have experience with this process?
advice on how to proceed?

i'd be happy to kick around this treasure
to anyone interested...

i know there are some absolute gems in here.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jan 1, 2013 - 12:30pm PT
Do you feel what I feel
Can we make that so it's part of the deal
I gotta hold you in these arms of steel
Lay your heart on the line ... this time.

I wanna breathe when you breathe
When you whisper like that hot summer breeze
Count the beads of sweat that cover me
Didn't you show me a sign, this time.

Thanks to all you groovy Dead Heads!

To 2013 we forge ahead.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jan 1, 2013 - 12:35pm PT
Wow, Weeg!

"Bound up cover just a little more ground."
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jan 1, 2013 - 12:40pm PT
Can you see what I see
Can you cut behind the mystery
I will meet you by the witness tree
Leave the whole world behind.

I want to come when you call
I'll get to you if I have to crawl
They can't hold me with these iron walls
We've got mountains to climb.

Wishing you all happy and peaceful adventures in the new year.
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Jan 1, 2013 - 01:15pm PT
Pretty cool. Have you done an inventory? Looks like in the vicinity of 500 tapes to me.

i see online a few gadgets that
convert cassettes to mp3...

Wondering why you'd want to do that???

Some advice I got on converting to digital.

I'd recomend a small digital recorder like a zoom,tascam etc plugged into your stereo they have decent AD chips these days and as a bonus you can record new with them.




drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 1, 2013 - 01:20pm PT
Happy New Year!
[Click to View YouTube Video]

Nice score there with the tapes weeg!
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Jan 1, 2013 - 01:21pm PT
Norwegian, that's an impressive collection.

Happy new year all!

Picture a bright blue ball...
Rhodo-Router

Gym climber
sawatch choss
Jan 1, 2013 - 04:03pm PT
Weej, you got my second show in there- Hampton 3/24/87.

I have no input on the conversion process, but I bet it's out there on the interwebs if you look hard enough. maybe search the archive forum.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jan 1, 2013 - 07:36pm PT
sampson tennessee help>slip>franklin's music promised eyes>dancin>around


Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, CA (2/26/77)

weeg is nothing right now.
nothin' but a useless smile.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jan 4, 2013 - 10:45pm PT
im wonderin where the nut-thatch winters?
wings a mile long,
just carry the bird, away.
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Jan 4, 2013 - 10:51pm PT
Let me know if you find 1967 Greek Theater - Berkeley in there, please (with Bola Sete and Charles Lloyd) my first paid Dead show.


Norwegian

Trad climber
Placerville, California
Jan 4, 2013 - 10:53pm PT
i'll drag my eyes
thru the attics of our lives.
and see, though
i think my earliest show is '68

thanks zbrown for
the digital conversion advice.

drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 4, 2013 - 10:57pm PT
pretty sure the nuthatch winters in toostoned.

that Swing show... a rare and different tune.
K man was there, that lucky sunnavagun.
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Jan 4, 2013 - 11:05pm PT
thanks weeg

it would be a rarity indeed

8/5/67, 9/3/67, 11/10, 11/11, and 11/14/67 are all that appear to exist

but ....
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 4, 2013 - 11:49pm PT
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 11, 2013 - 10:07pm PT
From the Closing of Winterland
[Click to View YouTube Video]

Love this version.
Stagger Lee was still relatively new and Garcia sings it with intent and is stoked on his new tune, you can see it.
Weir gets a little nutty on the slide at the end, but whatever.
Risk

Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
Jan 11, 2013 - 10:26pm PT
That Stagger Lee video gets my memory all fired up. Especially from 2:30 on. In my sketch book from 1975 was my best at The Gar who looks similar in that great video from Closing of Winterland:

zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Jan 11, 2013 - 10:39pm PT

Author?
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jan 11, 2013 - 10:53pm PT
Set up like a bowling pin . . .
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 11, 2013 - 10:57pm PT

A christmas present I made for my nephew, a young jedi.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jan 11, 2013 - 11:06pm PT
If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will . . .
Ricardo Cabeza

climber
Charityville
Jan 11, 2013 - 11:24pm PT
Favorite year?
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jan 11, 2013 - 11:26pm PT
'77 is way up there.
Norwegian

Trad climber
Pollock Pines, California
Jan 14, 2013 - 09:14am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
strangeday

Trad climber
Brea ca.
Jan 16, 2013 - 11:55pm PT
Further is streaming the next few nights shows from the sweet water music hall for free. The boys sound good.

http://www.sweetwatermusichall.com/
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Jan 17, 2013 - 12:21am PT
The Boston Pops Orchestra with Warren Haynes does Garcia?

C'mon people, let's do a fundraiser to get me there!
Help a brutha out!!!

http://clicks1.musictoday.com/cts/click?q=1;120018;4zYLBgYEPjt7TuvZNv0sUQ%3D%3D

















Weir gets a little nutty on the slide at the end, but whatever.

Ummmm, that was kind of an ongoing problem wasn't it? HA!!!
strangeday

Trad climber
Brea ca.
Jan 18, 2013 - 11:18pm PT
Night 3 of the free further stream just started.

http://www.sweetwatermusichall.com/
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Jan 18, 2013 - 11:28pm PT


survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Jan 23, 2013 - 06:27pm PT
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 23, 2013 - 08:39pm PT
Like Poltergeist ^^^^^^^^
"They're heeeeeeeeerrrrreeeeee"


Here's a cool interview with Neal Casal.
Neal was the guitarist for Ryan Adams and the Cardinals and is now playing with the Chris Robinson Brotherhood.
He had the opportunity to play WOLF, Garcia's guitar.
Here's what he had to say.
http://www.relix.com/features/2012/12/30/neal-casal-on-playing-garcia-s-wolf
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jan 23, 2013 - 08:55pm PT
I just got through listening to show #19 from the Europe '72 run.
5/23/72, from the London Lyceum.

A totally hot & uncorked Hey Bo Diddley.
Ho man, were those guys smokin' on that tour. The clean Garcia tones :-)
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jan 23, 2013 - 10:51pm PT
http://archive.org/details/gd1972-03-23.sbd.miller.100000.sbeok.flac16

Pick a number . . . any number!
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jan 23, 2013 - 11:28pm PT
"You know our love will not fade away . . . "
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jan 23, 2013 - 11:36pm PT
"Don't want to be treated this old way . . . "
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jan 23, 2013 - 11:58pm PT
http://archive.org/details/gd72-08-21.sbd.hamilton.150.sbeok.shnf

"Just one thing I ask of you . . . "
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jan 24, 2013 - 12:41am PT
http://archive.org/details/gd72-08-21.sbd.hamilton.150.sbeok.shnf

Very special show!

Also a very sad show as Donna and Keith essentially replace our dear Pigpen.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 24, 2013 - 12:55am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Jan 24, 2013 - 01:17am PT
Wow . . . now that is what I'm talking about jefe! Possibly the best LLR of all Dead time! Magnificent. If you don't get it with this one you just don't get it.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 26, 2013 - 09:50pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]

[Click to View YouTube Video]

I love the 80's!
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Jan 26, 2013 - 09:55pm PT
is that the one with Pete T. sitting in - I can't remember.


EDIT

yeah - memory's still working - not sure, but I think Phil vetoed him joing the band



[Click to View YouTube Video]
bit'er ol' guy

climber
the past
Jan 27, 2013 - 12:35am PT

Still?

Really?

I don't get it at all.
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Jan 28, 2013 - 03:43pm PT
This should clear it up.


Towards the show’s end Pete got on-stage with the Dead and played three songs. Unlike most musicians who sit in, Townshend didn’t just stand to the side but got in the middle of the stage and jumped around
...


Pete said that sitting in with the Dead at Rockpalast was hard because he was having the chords shouted at him. He was also surprised at having trouble keeping up at some points because he thought the Dead never rehearsed

 Justin Kreutzmann
Norwegian

Trad climber
Pollock Pines, California
Feb 5, 2013 - 09:29pm PT
astronauts of inner-space
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 5, 2013 - 11:31pm PT
strangeday

Trad climber
Brea ca.
Feb 6, 2013 - 12:06am PT
I got a chance to " get on the bus" a few years ago... Zane Kesey was showing people the old bus, and the new one. Sorry, crappy phone pics.

Inside the old

And the new (didn't get inside that one)
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2013 - 11:16pm PT
Thanks for the link timid.

Let the words be yours
I am done with mine.

Keep this thread going, deadheads.
Out.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Feb 9, 2013 - 12:05pm PT
1975

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn4nQCPYN_A
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Feb 9, 2013 - 04:20pm PT
"Let your life proceed by it's own design . . . "
yosguns

climber
San Mateo, California
Feb 12, 2013 - 11:22am PT
Studying to 7-13-84 this morning: http://archive.org/details/gd84-07-13.sbd.ferguson.353.sbeok.shnf

"Test me, test me, test me..."
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Feb 12, 2013 - 12:16pm PT
The Savior Of The Sacred Tone.


throwpie

Trad climber
Berkeley
Feb 12, 2013 - 01:47pm PT
Happy Fat Tuesday!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMpaD-ktv7Q&feature=player_embedded
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Feb 17, 2013 - 05:33pm PT
Happy Yesteryear...



Now playing Dead and Darts at the House of Purring Cats...
Norwegian

Trad climber
the tip of god's middle finger
Feb 22, 2013 - 06:44pm PT
go truckin down the line
just past that neighbor.
you're ahhll fine.

givin that bright eyed,
a sad smile.

and know we've all been walkin
the same long mile.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 22, 2013 - 10:38pm PT


Paradise waits, on the crest of a wave, her angels in flames.
She has no pain, like a child she is pure, she is not to blame.
Poised for flight, wings spread bright, spring from night into the sun.
Dont stop to run, she can fly like a lie, she cant be outdone.

Tell me the cost; I can pay, let me go, tell me love is not lost.
Sell everything; without love day to day insanitys king.
I will pay day by day, anyway, lock, bolt and key.
Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see.

Help on the way, well, I know only this, Ive got you today.
Dont fly away, cause I love what I love and I want it that way.
I will stay one more day, like I say, honey its you.
Making it too, without love in a dream it will never come true.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Feb 22, 2013 - 11:02pm PT
In another time's forgotten space . . . your eyes looked from your mother's face, wall flower seed on the sand and stone . . . may the four winds blow you safely home.

Roll away the dew . . .
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 22, 2013 - 11:22pm PT
Do you remember the first Grateful Dead song you ever heard?
Tough one, I know, but not for me.

When I was just a kid I loved looking through my siblings' albums, hundreds of them. Album art was an endless source of amazement for me and I also started to really like music early as well.
So when my sister gave me a gift certificate to my neighborhood record store, Loco Records, I was amped!
I already knew I liked Elton John, my brother was into him, so I chose Honkey Tonk Chateau.
I had enough for another album so I flipped through hundreds, just like at my siblings' homes, looking for a cool album cover.
When I came across one with a frizzy haired skeleton wearing sunglasses and playing a violin, I had to have it!
I ran home and called my sister to tell her about my choices.
I remember I could barely even read, or pronounce the name of the album. My sister laughed and helped me along.
Grateful Dead Blues For Allah.

When the needle touched vinyl, there it came.
Help on the Way.

At eight years old, little did I know what I was in for!


Norwegian

Trad climber
the tip of god's middle finger
Feb 22, 2013 - 11:42pm PT
i cant remember the first,
though i do remember
that years past thru
me as i crawled and clawed my way along,
searching for the bird song.

finnally a coked-out sweet bartender
with a mistletoe tattoo, she escourted me
thru and thru.

janice was keen, unto.
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Feb 23, 2013 - 12:06am PT
As I picked up my matches and was closing the door,
I had one of those flashes I'd been there before, been there before.
Well, I ain't always right but I've never been wrong.
Seldom turns out the way it does in a song.
Once in a while you get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2013 - 01:17am PT
Long distance runner, what you holdin out for?
Caught in slow motion in a dash for the door.
The flame from your stage has now spread to the floor
You gave all you had. why you wanna give more?
The more that you give, the more it will take
To the thin line beyond which you really can't fake.

SCseagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz
Feb 23, 2013 - 01:26am PT
Do you remember the first Grateful Dead song you ever heard?
Tough one, I know, but not for me.

Ah yeah, kinda sorta, I think. But it was Bob Weir whom I lusted after. I mean really.
Also my favorite bike race, California Death Ride ... Heavily borrows from...

Best event posters I have ever seen


Susan



Psilocyborg

climber
Feb 23, 2013 - 03:23am PT
first song was touch of grey when it hit the radio.... I was 10.

First "real" listen was a tape I was given a few years later...3-1-69 cryptical envelopment...face melted.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Feb 23, 2013 - 05:34am PT
St Stephen. Headphones @my brother's pad in Chicago 69/70)
Been on the bus more or less ever since.

Though I may have heard truckin' on the radio before
Edit, nope hadn't been released yet

....life before, in a world before Truckin ....
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2013 - 10:18am PT
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Give me five
I'm still alive
ain't no luck
I learned to duck!
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 27, 2013 - 10:07am PT
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Jerry sure could rip the sh#t out of that Travis Bean
TwistedCrank

climber
Dingleberry Gulch, Ideeho
Feb 27, 2013 - 11:30am PT
First GD song I heard was "Caution on the Tracks". Didn't have any idea who it was - it was this sound that was just pouring out of the local college radio station at 2AM. It was probably an Anthem vinyl. All I know was that it was all you need.

All you need.
Mick K

climber
Northern Sierra
Feb 27, 2013 - 01:11pm PT
Grateful Dead 4-17-72 Tivolis Koncertsal Copenhagen Denmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt67BUeQ1-Q

The video of Pig Pen is amazing!

drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 10, 2013 - 01:11am PT
Your rain falls like crazy fingers
Peals of fragile thunder keeping time
Recall the days that still are to come
Some sing blue
Hang your heart on laughing willow
Stray down to the water
Deep Sea of Love
Beneath the sweet calm face of the sea
Swift undertow
Life may be sweeter for this, I don't know
See how it feels in the end
May Lady Lullaby sing plainly for you
Soft, strong, sweet and true
Cloud hands reaching from a rainbow
Tapping at the window touch your hair
So swift and bright
Strange figures of light
Float in air
Who can stop what must arrive now?
Something new is waiting to be born
Dark as the night
You're still by my side
Shining side
Gone are the days we stopped to decide
Where we should go
We just ride
Gone are the broken eyes we saw through in dreams
Gone - both dream and lie
Life may be sweeter for this I don't know
Feels like it might be alright
While Lady Lullaby sings plainly for you
Love still rings true
Midnight on a carousel ride
Reaching for the gold ring down inside
Never could reach
It just slips away but I try
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Mar 20, 2013 - 10:58pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/the-grateful-dead-rockpalast-festival-grugahalle-essen-germany-3
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Mar 20, 2013 - 11:05pm PT

We are all reaching for that metaphorical gold ring . . . down inside. Never can quite reach it . . . but still we try. Midnight on a carousel ride . . . life may be sweeter for this.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Mar 22, 2013 - 11:35pm PT
All the years combine . . . they melt into a dream.

A broken angel sings from a guitar.

In the end there is a just a song . . . comes cryin' up the night, through all the broken dreams and vanished years . . . Stella Blue.

All the cards are down, there is nothing left to see . . . there's just the pavement left and broken dreams.

In the end there is still that song, comes cryin' like the wind, down every lonely street that's ever been . . . Stella Blue, Stella Blue . . . I've stayed in every blue light, cheap hotel . . . you can't win for trying.

Dust off those rusty strings, just one more time . . . gonna make them shine . . . shine!

It all rolls into one and nothing comes for free . . . there's nothing you can hold . . . for very long.

When you hear that song, come cryin' like the wind . . . it seems like all this life was just a dream . . . Stella Blue, Stella Blue.

http://archive.org/details/plf2001-07-26.flac16

drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2013 - 11:44pm PT
Always loved a Stella.

There are many complete shows on youtube now- dicey video with soundboard sync.

Here's just one, oh, and it opens with a Jack Straw...a true Tucsonan's barnburner.

[Click to View YouTube Video]

zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Mar 23, 2013 - 12:17am PT
The Skeleton Dance

zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Mar 23, 2013 - 12:19am PT


drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 23, 2013 - 12:24am PT

ahhh, high school.
Kalimon

Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
Mar 23, 2013 - 12:28am PT
Skeleton dance indeed . . . is there any other one?
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Mar 27, 2013 - 12:35am PT
Risk

Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
Mar 27, 2013 - 01:01am PT
Norwegian

Trad climber
the tip of god's middle finger
Mar 27, 2013 - 01:07am PT
yosguns

climber
San Mateo, California
Mar 27, 2013 - 01:16am PT
Norwegian,

That's a nice photo of Kesey (it is Kesey, right?). Where did you find it?

Allyson

EDIT: On second thought, the nose doesn't look like Kesey...
Norwegian

Trad climber
the tip of god's middle finger
Mar 29, 2013 - 02:55pm PT
yosguns that's not keysey.
he's one of the pranksters on the bus.

i pilfered the photo from
keysey's book,

'the further inquiry'


anyway the silence is a hungry
beast
and gerry, that gente
is quite the chef in that o scure realm of noise,
noone better satiates the beast
than his song.
yosguns

climber
San Mateo, California
Mar 29, 2013 - 03:03pm PT
Nice, yes. I am wondering which one. Not Babbs, not Kesey. George Walker?
zBrown

Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
Apr 29, 2013 - 12:02am PT
I avoid Facebook, but:

Save Jerry Garcia Amphitheater - SF Rec Park is evaluating a proposal to change the name of Jerry Garcia Amphitheater to Levitts Pavilion. From our viewpoint this is unimaginable as Jerry is Native son of the community and has inspired millions of fans.

https://www.facebook.com/SaveJerryGarciaAmphitheater?hc_location=stream

Please show your support!
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Apr 29, 2013 - 01:38am PT
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Norwegian

Trad climber
the tip of god's middle finger
May 23, 2013 - 12:40pm PT
drink all day,
rock all night.

the law'll come get ya
if you don't walk right.
frank wyman

Mountain climber
montana
May 23, 2013 - 12:47pm PT
Can't believe the guy kicked his dog....Totaly uncalled for...
Norwegian

Trad climber
the tip of god's middle finger
May 23, 2013 - 12:52pm PT
yea,
i recently encountered a dear friend
on some obscure climbers path.
we were both dust, stoned, and beautiful.

i had my dog, cho.
paul had left cedar behind.

we obviously were both elated at the semingly random
convergence of two losts along disorganized trails;

so we attempted a crude high five,
we missed and my pinky collided with his elbow
and he smiled, anyway.

we discussed the proper salutation in these type cituations,
and i told him next time,

black my eye.

for they're difficult to come by, these days.
frank wyman

Mountain climber
montana
May 23, 2013 - 01:00pm PT
Listening to "Rocking the Cradle: Egypt 1978" Realy like Donna Jean Godchaux on "Around And Around"
throwpie

Trad climber
Berkeley
May 23, 2013 - 01:11pm PT
Way back in the olden days, My pals and I , the Sony Brothers, put together some taper tshirts...this was 77 or 78. Taping wasn't yet "legal" so we fancied ourselves as outlaw recorders back then. I did the artwork for several dozen shirts that I assumed were lost to the sands of time. Not so. One showed up on ebay! I'm collectable!
throwpie

Trad climber
Berkeley
May 23, 2013 - 01:21pm PT
While I'm at it, heres a shot from David Gans Playing in the Band book. Its Sony Brother Tumbleweed doing his thing at the Greek. Shot by my buddy Bruce Polonsky
Baron Weasel

Trad climber
England
May 23, 2013 - 04:36pm PT
Can I join in? Fellow Dead Heads are a rare breed here in the UK...

...The Sun will shine in my back door someday,
March Winds will blow all my troubles away...

...I wish I was a headlight, on a North bound train,
I'd shine my light through the cool Colorado rain...

survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
May 23, 2013 - 04:42pm PT
Welcome Baron!!

Deadheads are welcome no matter where they're from.

"Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see."
Baron Weasel

Trad climber
England
May 23, 2013 - 04:49pm PT
Cheers Survival.

As a Potholer I always liked this one:

I'd rather be in some dark hollow where the sun don't ever shine,
Than to be at home alone and knowin' that you're gone,
Would cause me to lose my mind...

Baron Weasel

Trad climber
England
May 24, 2013 - 06:26pm PT
Did you see what the T-shirt went for Throwpie?
Dr.Sprock

Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
May 24, 2013 - 09:24pm PT
cold rain and snow up here, going to new minglewood on a slow freight,

campfire in the box car, you bet
and i ain't even saddled my pony yet

throwpie

Trad climber
Berkeley
May 24, 2013 - 11:27pm PT
Thousands

30.00 is what he wanted. Maybe it's still there...your big chance! it's a small though.....
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Jun 5, 2013 - 12:59pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 5, 2013 - 11:19pm PT
Nice graphics Mr. Weege . . . oh yeah, the jam is outrageous as well.

Thanks Brother . . . perhaps we'll get on the rock one day, maybe I'll meet you at the jubilee or on the run . . . not in a cave up in the hills or some West LA Fadeaway.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jun 6, 2013 - 12:03am PT
Do you remember the first Grateful Dead song you ever heard?

Help on the Way.

At eight years old, little did I know what I was in for!

Holy cow, you be Young boy!



My brother used to play nothing but GD. I hated it. Uncle John's this, Ripple that.

The worst was that one with the purple album cover (thank god Phil later made one in white).


In '72, we had box seats at Hollywood Bowl. I was 14... Garcia was a black dot, a young kid with a pony tail played the other guitar. Pig Pen sat on an amp all night long, it was his last show.

The only thing I remember is Casey Jones, and then "We'll be right back."

Not me though, I never came "back."
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 6, 2013 - 12:12am PT
Serious cred K-Man . . . you must tell us more about everything.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jun 6, 2013 - 01:08am PT
Matt, Brother! We saw the same first show. That's cool.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jun 6, 2013 - 01:13am PT
What I do remember is the day "Ugly Rumors" got released.
Also known as Mars Hotel, the second record on GD Records (can you name the other two?).

We took a copy back to my house, and put together all the speakers in the house and cranked the thing UP! Side one, so great to hear the new tunes. Then Side two. But oh-ho. We started to get serious feedback, and thought we'd fried the amp.

Ugh, nope. Just Unbroken Chain and a joke played by Phil. Man, that was a day.


I have all 10 Rounder Records. The first one is Rum Runners, followed by the Kingfish studio album. Old and In the Way is another. Anybody remember Pistol Packin' Mama or the Keith and Donna album? Seastones?? Yeah, that's quite a diverse collection of song books...
Nibs

Trad climber
Humboldt, CA
Jun 7, 2013 - 09:22pm PT
Been waiting a loooong time for this:

http://www.fathomevents.com/#!sunshine-daydream/more-info/details

but not playing in Humboldt County, dammit
Floorabove

climber
The Gunks y\'all
Jun 7, 2013 - 09:54pm PT


Half-step
Mississippi Uptown Toodleloo
Hello baby, I'm gone, goodbye
Half a cup of rock and rye
Farewell to you old southern sky
I'm on my way - on my way
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 7, 2013 - 10:10pm PT
On the day that I was born, my Daddy sat down and cried . . . I had the mark just as plain as day, it could not be denied . . .
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Jun 18, 2013 - 06:04pm PT
all of my friends,
come to see me last night.

i was laying in my bed,
and dying.

anyone knows,
from sin and gin.

say, the,
weather down here,
so fine.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jun 18, 2013 - 06:36pm PT
Wake of the flood for sure K-man, can't say the other one without cheating and looking...
cats under the Stars? I know not exactly GD...


Edit: shakedown street? With the brilliant Gilbert Shelton cover art on the jacket?
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
Jun 30, 2013 - 08:58pm PT

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throwpie

Trad climber
Berkeley
Jun 30, 2013 - 09:27pm PT
A thing I did back in the olden days...'76 I think.
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
Jul 1, 2013 - 07:49pm PT
nice tP. Didn't know that about you.
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
Jul 8, 2013 - 04:39pm PT
Easy Wind

Trad climber
Jul 8, 2013 - 04:47pm PT
"A seamless audio supercut of an entire year of the Grateful Dead tuning their instruments, live on stage"

Full of the 'here we go' butterflies-in-the-stomach feeling.

http://archive.org/details/gd1977-12-31_505
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jul 8, 2013 - 04:58pm PT
Skull-flash, zDaddy! Pleeeeeze?
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jul 8, 2013 - 11:03pm PT
BBGD!
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jul 8, 2013 - 11:08pm PT
Jaybro,
Correct--Wake of the Flood is GD001
Next is Mars Hotel


Then came Blues for Allah, the last on Grateful Dead Records

After that they went to Arista for Terrapin, '77. :-)
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jul 23, 2013 - 10:57am PT
Interesting Kman those record jackets even had a different feel, thicker, heavier that others.
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Jul 24, 2013 - 12:05am PT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eDFbhh6Vfc
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Jul 24, 2013 - 05:27pm PT
an enjoyable tribute,
blazing northward,
we the lights!


[Click to View YouTube Video]

Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jul 24, 2013 - 05:36pm PT
"Me and my uncle . . . "
TwistedCrank

climber
Dingleberry Gulch, Ideeho
Jul 24, 2013 - 06:03pm PT
Well, grammatically it's "My Uncle and I".

Funny story about that, a character at work came to work one morning spewing on and on about what an awesome song "My & My Uncle" was and how his playing the version from Skull and Roses (i.e., Skullfeck) over and over was driving his wife nuts. So I burned him 3 CDs with every "Me & My Uncle" I had in my local vault. What a wank.
Reeotch

Trad climber
4 Corners Area
Jul 24, 2013 - 07:08pm PT
Ahhhhhh . . .

Thanks Norweegian, I needed that!
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Jul 29, 2013 - 12:17pm PT
frank wyman

Mountain climber
montana
Aug 1, 2013 - 12:59pm PT
I think Jerry would have been 71 today???
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Aug 1, 2013 - 02:37pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/the-grateful-dead-sugaree

Happy Bday Jerome
rand0M aXiS

Trad climber
Beserkeley now living in Daygo
Aug 1, 2013 - 03:58pm PT
Yes, today is the 71st b-day for Captain Trips.

Lots of festivals in SF this weekend. Concerts at Davis Hall with the SF Symphony and a big show in Golden Gate Park.
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Aug 1, 2013 - 04:18pm PT
all the years combine
and melt into a dream.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 1, 2013 - 06:22pm PT
With 70 years upon my head, to have you call me child...


Happy Birthday Old Man.


Now that is one spaced out dude:


Dark Star Named for Jerry Garcia


Asteroid (4442) Garcia
The Minor Planet Circular Citation:

(4442) Garcia = 1985 RB1
Discovered 1985 Sept 14 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.

Named in memory of Jerry Garcia (1942-1995), lead guitarist for the 'Grateful Dead'.
He was also a superb banjo player and steel pedal guitar player. His recorded works
embrace many styles, among them rock-and-roll, bluegrass and country, and experimental
electronic music. Garcia and the Grateful Dead have also sought to preserve endangered
and under-appreciated music.

Garcia was best known for his consummate musicianship and for live performance and
improvisations. Those embracing Garcia's music have now panned several generations,
attesting to the quality and timelessness of his music. Name proposed by T. Gehrels,
following a suggestion by S. Radford. Citation prepared by E. Olszewski and S. Radford.


Orbit Elements (MPC 16219):

(4442) 1985 RB1 = 1988 BC5
Epoch 1999 Jan. 22.0 TT = JDT 2451200.5 (M-P) Williams
M 19.49637 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.18994928 Peri. 264.46907 -0.94705461 +0.20238887
a 2.9971671 Node 287.02127 -0.07031730 -0.88820543
e 0.2493994 Incl. 15.10981 -0.31327790 -0.41246800
P 5.19 H 12.7 G 0.15
From 22 observations at 4 oppositions 1978-1988.


survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Sep 24, 2013 - 09:30pm PT
JERRY!!!

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind!!
[Click to View YouTube Video]
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Sep 24, 2013 - 11:57pm PT
WooHoo, I just found out, I'm going to see Furthur this Sunday!
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Sep 30, 2013 - 10:56pm PT
totally burned out
my lovelight.

gotta go re-kindle that shite.
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 30, 2013 - 11:05pm PT
Ship of fools . . . on a cruel sea . . .
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Oct 16, 2013 - 10:23pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/jerry-garcia-grateful-dead-so-many-roads-complete-7-9-95
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Oct 16, 2013 - 11:07pm PT
Happy Birthday Bobby!!!
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Oct 23, 2013 - 10:03am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
james Colborn

Trad climber
Truckee, Ca
Oct 23, 2013 - 10:15am PT
I have been to more than my share of Dead shows starting in the early 80's.
I went to a Further show at the Greek a few weeks ago and realized I must of been a Jerry fan.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Oct 23, 2013 - 10:43am PT
I saw Furthur at the Greek too. Totally Awesome. The Wharf Rat in the first set brought me to tears.

And yeah, I'm a total Jerry fan. Seeing every line-up of the "Dead" after Jerry flew the coop just reaffirms to me how much he gave us--so many melodies, song after song... But JohnK, the new lead, has taken those melodies to new heights, and I love being there to hear 'em.

I'm also listening to last year's NYE show. Man, what a show they put on!


Anybody have favorite shows?
james Colborn

Trad climber
Truckee, Ca
Oct 23, 2013 - 10:57am PT
Further just did not do it for me. The back up singers drove home the point that no one center stage could sing. I realize now why the Dead never let Phil sing. It was rare that he sang, so maybe it was more of a treat BITD. There are so many other bands I would rather see live now that out perform these guys. Just my opinion.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Oct 23, 2013 - 11:57am PT
Wow james, sounds like you're on a bum rush. But, what other good bands are touring these days? I love to hear live music. I was lucky to see a Tool show a couple years ago. Now that was knock-down amazing. Just saw the Psychedelic Furs, that was more of a hoot than I imagined. Seeing Adrian Bird in Nov...


As for Furthur, I don't like to compare them to the Dead with Garcia, I just enjoy the tunes they make. I like 'em live, and I have some recordings that are outstanding. But you can put them down if you like, I prefer to look at the bright spots. Lesh's bass playing is just unreal, and the more I get to see him live, the luckier I feel.

Cheers,
Rhodo-Router

Gym climber
sawatch choss
Nov 3, 2013 - 10:21pm PT
The Lives They Lived: Jerry Garcia;The False Notes He Never Played
By Ken Kesey
Published: December 31, 1995


HEY, JERRY -- What's happening? I caught your funeral. Weird. Big Steve was good. And Grisman. Sweet sounds. But what really stood out -- stands out -- is the thundering silence, the lack, the absence of that golden Garcia lead line, of that familiar slick lick with the up-twist at the end, that merry snake twining through the woodpile, flickering in and out of the loosely stacked chords . . . a wriggling mystery, bright and slick as fire . . . suddenly gone.

And the silence left in its wake was -- is -- positively earsplitting.

Now they want me to say something about the absence, Jer. Tell some backstage story, share some poignant reminiscence. But I have to tell you, man: I find myself considerably disinclined. I mean, why break such an eloquent silence?

I remember standing out in the pearly early dawn after the Muir Beach Acid Test, leaning on the top rail of a driftwood fence with you and Lesh and Babbs, watching the world light up, talking about our glorious futures. The gig had been semi-successful, and the air was full of exulted fantasies. Babbs whacks Phil on the back.

"Just like the big time, huh, Phil."

"It is! It is the big time! Why, we could cut a chart-busting record tomorrow!"

I was even more optimistic. "Hey, we taped tonight's show. We could release a record tomorrow."

"Yeah, right" -- holding up that digitally challenged hand the way you did when you wanted to call attention to the truth or the lack thereof -- "and a year from tomorrow be recording a 'Things Go Better With Coke' commercial."

You could be a sharp-tongued popper of balloons when you were so inclined, you know. You were the sworn enemy of hot air and commercials, however righteous the cause or lucrative the product. Nobody ever heard you use that microphone as a pulpit. No antiwar rants, no hymns to peace. No odes to the trees and All Things Organic. No ego deaths or born-againness. No devils denounced, no gurus glorified. No dogmatic howlings that I ever caught wind of. In fact, your steadfast denial of dogma was as close as you ever came to having a creed.

And to the very end, Old Timer, you were true to that creed. No commercials. No trendy spins. No bayings of belief. And if you did have any dogma, you surely kept it tied up under the back porch, where a smelly old hound belongs.

I guess that's what I mean about a loud silence. Like Michelangelo said about sculpting, the statue exists inside the block of marble -- all you have to do is chip away the stone you don't need. You were always chipping away at the superficial.

It was the false notes you didn't play that kept that lead line so golden pure. It was the words you didn't sing. So this is what we are left with, Jerry: this golden silence. It rings on and on without any hint of letup. And I expect it will still be ringing years from now.

Because you're still not playing falsely. Because you're still not singing "Things Go Better With Coke."

Ever your friend, Keez

k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Nov 5, 2013 - 09:35pm PT
^^^ Kesey's words, wow. The golden silence.






Some RS funnies and a cool Garcia interview:

Jerry Garcia Gets Animated Over Acid Tests
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
Nov 5, 2013 - 09:48pm PT

Rare photo of Garica and Kesey together. Roll away the dew.

Rhodo-Router

Gym climber
sawatch choss
Nov 5, 2013 - 09:56pm PT
Wow, fabulous series Kelly. I watched the Jerry one and then immediately clicked on another to hear David Foster Wallace.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 7, 2013 - 11:40pm PT
Nice additions homies.

Farewell to you ol southern skies
I'm on my way
On my way!
Pate

Trad climber
Nov 10, 2013 - 12:25am PT
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Nov 10, 2013 - 01:02pm PT
Funny how Garcia looks like Hendrix in that photo, and Kesey is a dead ringer for Brian Jones!


What's the last tape you listened to?

Nowadays I only listen to the Dead while driving long distances alone, so it might take a couple weeks to listen to one show. I'm currently in the middle of the "break" between sets in the last show in the Spring '77 box set they just released.

I haven't been all that impressed with the quality of the recordings in this set, but surely there's some killer moments. I'll know more after I listen to the last set in the box.

Before that, I totally dug the music from "So Glad You Made It," a 2 CD set from the Spring of '90. I didn't expect much (Garcia wasn't the sharpest during the band's later years), but Whoa! I changed my mind!! The band is especially crisp and they work their effects to perfection. Full sound, full value, I recommend a listen...


I have a lot of old reel-to-reels, and there's some wicked treasures buried in there (for example, the Go to Heaven outtakes are a gas--including a particularly sweet rendition of Althea). But I haven't listed to those ol' reels since my deck bit the dust. Now I listen exclusively to the officially issued CDs, dang there's so many and the sound is so good, hard to go back to those old tapes.

Happy listening!
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Nov 10, 2013 - 03:04pm PT
"All that could not sink or swim was just left there to float . . ."
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Nov 20, 2013 - 07:16pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/thegrateful-dead-heaven-help-the-fool
Baron Weasel

Trad climber
England
Nov 22, 2013 - 08:08am PT
Beautiful words from Keez - thanks for sharing that!

Been listening to this recording of Jerry solo a bunch recently:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGNJaFjU5nc

Enjoy!
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Dec 13, 2013 - 10:03am PT
"we ain't many!"

weir everywhere.
Rhodo-Router

Gym climber
sawatch choss
Dec 13, 2013 - 10:26am PT
The hard thought, the warrior thought...
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Dec 13, 2013 - 11:12am PT
"Let my inspiration flow in token rhyme suggesting rhythm . . . that will not forsake you 'til my tale is told and done . . . "
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Dec 13, 2013 - 07:45pm PT
god is sound
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Dec 17, 2013 - 08:40am PT
i woke up to find out that
i'm a saline tear
in the filthy eyes of the world.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Edge

Trad climber
Boulder, CO
Dec 17, 2013 - 10:22am PT
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Jan 2, 2014 - 07:49am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Jan 2, 2014 - 10:33am PT
been on more of a Neil Young kick lately..... just put Cowgils in the sand together...
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Jan 2, 2014 - 10:44am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
frank wyman

Mountain climber
montana
Jan 2, 2014 - 10:45am PT
Stumbling through Hastings yesterday, Noticed a "New" Grateful Dead Twin CD Called "Spring 1990~So Glad You Made It" They keep making them and I'll keep buying them...
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Feb 6, 2014 - 07:21pm PT
upon the blue ridge mountain.
there i take my stand.
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drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2014 - 07:31pm PT
Weeg!

Just the other night I found an old road journal.
Along with this doodle, look at the last sentence.


Been singing it ever since.
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Feb 7, 2014 - 09:03am PT
cool jefe.
i know that jerry appreciated
the good folks who watched his back.

once he had an elusive itch
and i was local,
so i scratched his back
though instead of shedding dead skin,
my fingers found a new tune,
like the dude was strung with string.

he turned around, aghast,
smiled.
and then he proceeded to write down
the song.
robert wasn't around, he was
hitchhiking across the southwest
in search of torment, and ohh he found it,
so i gave jerry some words to accompany his bio-chords,
and we together,
stoned.
Delhi Dog

climber
Good Question...
Feb 13, 2014 - 05:19am PT
Cool stuff if you're interested.

"During the last few years of their career the Grateful Dead used inner ear monitors and talkback microphones that allowed the members to communicate with each other without the audience hearing what they were discussing. A few recordings from 1995 of the "monitor feed" have turned up over the years allowing fans to hear the inner workings of the band. Today, we stumbled across a pair of "monitor feed" recordings provided by TimeZonerTV from Jerry Garcia's final show, which took place at Chicago's Soldier Field on July 9, 1995. "

http://www.jambase.com/Articles/120719/Ear-Monitor-Recordings-From-Jerry-Garcia%27s-Final-Show-Surface

Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Feb 13, 2014 - 08:01am PT
one of those endurance songs,
[Click to View YouTube Video]

love the dead, thru and thru
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
Feb 25, 2014 - 04:46pm PT

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zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
Feb 25, 2014 - 06:21pm PT



drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 25, 2014 - 08:10pm PT
Shall we go
you and I while we can?
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Feb 25, 2014 - 09:03pm PT
Through the transative nightfall,
Of diamonds...
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Feb 25, 2014 - 09:17pm PT
"Mirror shatters in formless reflections of matter . . . "
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Mar 7, 2014 - 06:31pm PT
How did I miss this one till now?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmPkgSIkUeM&sns=em

[youtube=RmPkgSIkUeM&sns]




And leave it on!!
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
Mar 7, 2014 - 07:24pm PT

Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Mar 18, 2014 - 09:28pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Mar 19, 2014 - 09:14pm PT
http://youtu.be/kaTKRENvMIs
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Mar 19, 2014 - 09:43pm PT
Anyone seen my dead thermos. I lost it somewhere at a climbing are in the west about ten years ago. I have been so sad since I lost it and now no longer have the dead channel after shutting off Sirius.
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Mar 19, 2014 - 10:04pm PT
"There's a sea bird cryin'. . . there's a ghost wind blowing . . .
and its calling you to that misty swirling sea . . .
'till the chains of your dreams are broken . . .
no place in this world you can be."
Dal Maxvill

Social climber
Illinois
Mar 19, 2014 - 10:34pm PT
When they lost Pigpen, they lost their soul.
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Mar 19, 2014 - 10:42pm PT
"Without a warning you broke my heart . . . taken it baby . . . tore it apart . . . and you left me standing in the corner crying . . . said your love for me was dying . . ."

There was only one Ron McKernan.

k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Mar 19, 2014 - 11:38pm PT
Brown, that's a cool shot with Garcia playing that Guild. I suppose he recorded the first GD album with that thing.
throwpie

Trad climber
Berkeley
Mar 20, 2014 - 12:22am PT
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 25, 2014 - 12:49am PT
Oh HAYL yeah
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wilbeer

Mountain climber
honeoye falls,ny.greeneck alleghenys
Apr 13, 2014 - 09:36pm PT
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zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
Apr 13, 2014 - 10:03pm PT

What, no Mickey?

http://www.magpictures.com/resources/presskits/magictrip/6.jpg

Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Apr 13, 2014 - 10:59pm PT
"I know these rails we're on like I know my lady's smile . . .
Re-see a dozen dreams in every passing mile.

Can't begin to count the trips that she and I have made . . .
But I wish I had a dollar for each time we both been down this grade.

It's one hell of an understatement to say she can get mean . . .
She's temperamental, more a bitch than a machine.

She wasn't built to travel at the speed a rumour flies . . .
These wheels are bound to jump the tracks before they burn the ties."
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
Apr 13, 2014 - 11:11pm PT
Red, White and Bluye Suede Shoes?

Rings on her fingers, bells on her shoes?

I had never seen these hush puppies before.







Greek Theatre 10-1-1967

Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Apr 13, 2014 - 11:16pm PT
"Murphy's sure outdone himself to pick this stretch of track . . .
I can only hope my luck is riding in the back.

Well I have prayed to God . . . This ain't the day we meet.

I've done about everything but try dragging my feet . . . "
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - May 8, 2014 - 11:27pm PT
Considered by many the best

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Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
May 8, 2014 - 11:53pm PT
http://https://archive.org/details/gd1977-05-08.sbd.cantor.sacks.266.shnf
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
May 9, 2014 - 12:58am PT
I'm a little shakey on this 'which one is the best' thing, but that cornell show is certainly a contender.
I do believe our own, Linda Lu, was in attendance....

"And another, step back".....
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - May 9, 2014 - 01:07am PT
I'll tell ya what- I always liked the night before, the first set at least.

https://archive.org/details/gd77-05-07.sbd.bertha-ashley.26361.sbeok.shnf

Do yourself a favor...at least give that 1/2 step a listen.

edit:
no f*#king idea why it won't give me clicky
Dr.Sprock

Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
May 9, 2014 - 01:29am PT
taping was not a problem, no need to get in a rut,

http://dlr2008.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/grateful-dead-the-1972-tapes-on-the-internet-archive/
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
May 10, 2014 - 12:54am PT
Thanks for that, Drljefe! The sound was so clear in those days, so melodic. Also that might have been the high point of their second set round and round marathons; truly high energy, but not as come fueled manic as the next few years. I know, I was at a lot of those shows, in winter land, Oakland, redrocks, whatever that big indoor venue in Denver was, as well as Reno, Santa Barbara and others then, and fully appreciated every moment of those crazy rides!!!!
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
May 10, 2014 - 10:50pm PT
whoa, did that just happen?
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
Jun 4, 2014 - 07:15am PT
1967-09-03
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throwpie

Trad climber
Berkeley
Jun 4, 2014 - 12:22pm PT
12/26/81 As far as Sarlet/fires go, this is my favorite. Ragged, careening, and full of blown lyrics, its on fire. It's like they can't get it out fast enough. Far from perfect but so good.

https://archive.org/details/gd1981-12-26.menke.glyde.10533.sbeok.shnf
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Jun 4, 2014 - 03:17pm PT
Dead concert on pbs last night. Had to tvo it as it was bedtime. Hope to watch tonight. To me nothing is more climbing related than the dead. Love this thread.
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
Jun 4, 2014 - 05:08pm PT
When I first started collecting seriously I ran across this list of "must have" shows:

2/27/1969 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

2/11/1970 Fillmore East, New York, NY
5/11/1972 Civic Hall, Rotterdam, Netherlands
6/10/1973 RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C.
8/6/1974 Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, NJ
6/14/1976 Beacon Theater, New York, NY
5/9/1977 War Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, NY
5/18/1977 Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA
4/16/1978 Huntington Civic Center, Huntington, WV
7/8/1978 Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO
12/28/1979 Oakland Auditorium, Oakland CA

10/14/1983 Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT
10/9/1989 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA

9/13/1993 The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA

They are all pretty good.


drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 4, 2014 - 06:38pm PT
10/14/1983 Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT

My first bootleg.

Amazing second set... Scarlet Fire Estimated Eyes Spanish Jam Other One Stella Blue

So good.

Also Trey Anastasio's first show.

Rhodo-Router

Gym climber
sawatch choss
Jun 4, 2014 - 07:27pm PT
10 something 1984, Hartford…Rhodo's first show. It was pretty good!
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 4, 2014 - 08:27pm PT
https://archive.org/details/gd1980-12-26.nak300.walker-scotton.miller.89260.sbeok.flac16

Pretty good too.
Flip Flop

Trad climber
Truckee, CA
Jun 4, 2014 - 08:32pm PT
I remember those guys . Good times. I love hippy chicks and hacky sacks and felafel.
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 4, 2014 - 08:40pm PT
You forgot nitrous.
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 4, 2014 - 09:19pm PT
https://archive.org/details/gd1982-10-10.mtx.seamons.110744.flac24

One of the great venues.
throwpie

Trad climber
Berkeley
Jun 5, 2014 - 11:36am PT
Back in the old days before a taper section...My Sony Brother TW Ryan, shot by my other Sony Brother, Bruce Polonsky. Greek Theatre.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2014 - 10:05pm PT
That's a pretty famous photo there Throwpie, from the Book of the Deadheads.


Rosebud


Rosebud

See what I'm talikn' about?


k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jun 5, 2014 - 10:58pm PT
I've listened to a bunch of tapes and whatnot. Still, perhaps one of my favorite shows is that Hollywood Palladium show from '71. So frickin' tight.

From the Phil Zone has a cut from the audience tape that went around for a while. But then they actually found the sound board tapes and released various cuts from them in the Road Trips series. Half of the released SB cuts were on one of those special Bonus Discs, so fairly rare I suppose.

A most beautiful Brokedown Palace in the first set (complete with a skin-wrenching clam from Garcia during his solo). And ah, that Weather Report tease before heading back into a scorching Other One. I just wet my pants thinking about it.
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Jun 7, 2014 - 06:19pm PT
jerry sportin a pony tail;
bobby looking fit;
phil looking lesh;
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zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
Jun 7, 2014 - 07:11pm PT
shot by my other Sony Brother

Hopefully not just to watch him die.

You plant ice ....

It's all Greek to me

Anyway, the river keep a talkin'


Air guitar, pfffft!

Forget all that macho sheeit, get yourself an airspade

throwpie

Trad climber
Berkeley
Jun 7, 2014 - 07:20pm PT
Just a flesh wound...
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
Jun 7, 2014 - 07:36pm PT
k-man

you may want to take a look/listen here

(original recording due to Harvey Kaslow and Craig Todd, I believe)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pi5qeAdXE4
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
Jun 8, 2014 - 11:35am PT
I get The Shrine and The Palladium confused sometimes. The show I'm thinking of was at The Shrine. Can't remember what year.

In the meantime. Shrine - June 8, 1956.


Remember when Jerry used to just sing and didn't play guitar, Pigpen had those big sideburns and The Dead only had one drummer. Who was the other guy that Wier replaced?


wilbeer

Mountain climber
honeoye falls,ny.greeneck alleghenys
Jun 16, 2014 - 08:18pm PT
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survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Jun 16, 2014 - 09:01pm PT
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strangeday

Trad climber
Brea ca.
Jun 16, 2014 - 09:16pm PT
I love finding old stubs while digging through stuff. Found these in my old backpack. I really miss those Vegas shows.
[url=http://s1306.photobucket.com/user/misterphishy/media/E9F671E5-EA0D-46DE-91DE-1A7B768E0BEC_zpsheys4ssq.png.html]{{img}}h~~p://i1306.photobucket.com/albums/s566/misterphishy/E9F671E5-EA0D-46DE-91DE-1A7B768E0BEC_zpsheys4ssq.png[/img][/url]
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Jul 17, 2014 - 06:51pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jul 17, 2014 - 07:46pm PT
7/8/1978 Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO
12/28/1979 Oakland Auditorium, Oakland CA
I was at those two!

That first one was dingus mcgee's birthday he musta been only like 100 back then
CA.Timothy

climber
California
Jul 17, 2014 - 07:52pm PT
Just hit two of the Ratdog shows. LA and San Diego. San Diego was the night after Bob got too messed up to take the stage in Vegas. I liked both of the shows I saw better than any of the 20 plus Furthur shows I have seen. Anyone see a leg of the Ratdog tour?

Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jul 17, 2014 - 08:21pm PT
"I said, pal get to know her, you'll like her . . .

Seemed like the least I could do . . ."
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 17, 2014 - 08:24pm PT
...when i was 18

throwpie

Trad climber
Berkeley
Jul 17, 2014 - 09:14pm PT
Yours truly, circa 1979 Oakland auditorium
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jul 18, 2014 - 11:38pm PT
"Sunshine Daydream!

Walk you in the tall trees . . .

Goin' where the wind goes . . .

Bloomin', bloomin' like a red rose . . .

Come on over sweetly . . .

Light out singing, I'll walk you in the morning sunshine . . .

Sunshine daydream . . . sunshine daydream . . .

Come on, come on over daydream . . .

Sunshine daydream, coming, coming from a sweet dream . . .

Sunshine daydream, wading in a cold stream . . .

Crawling out your window . . .

Goin', goin' where the wind goes . . .

They're never gonna miss us . . .

Light out singing, I'll catch you in the morning sunshine . . .

Sunshine Daydream . . . sunshine daydream . . . sunshine daydream . . .

Coming, coming from a sweet dream . . .

Sunshine Daydream . . . sunshine daydream . . . sunshine daydream . . ."

6/17/75
richross

Trad climber
Jul 18, 2014 - 11:47pm PT
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Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jul 19, 2014 - 12:12am PT
"Never, never fade away dream . . . "
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jul 19, 2014 - 10:08am PT
Ratdog better than Furthur? Wow, that's a statement. I've seen some pretty killer Furthur shows, so I suppose I gotta catch the Rat.

I thought Bobby said he was gonna change the name of that band...
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jul 19, 2014 - 10:54am PT
On that '71 Palladium show:

(original recording due to Harvey Kaslow and Craig Todd, I believe)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pi5qeAdXE4


Yah, good stuff. This is the much-adored audience recording. While this gives you a great feeling of being there, the actual sound-board recording really ups the fidelity.

The Phrom the Fill Zone CD even uses this audience recording on the Hard to Handle track. But from the uTube comments: absolutely stellar...one of the very best gd shows of all time, wow! and this is an audience tape, archive has the soundboard...


But alas, I went and searched, but found only this:

This show has been commercially released as "Road Trips Vol. 1, No. 3: Summer 1971"

Only part of the show is released on that Road Trips, and a bit more on a Bonus Disc... So, there ya go.
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Jul 23, 2014 - 07:18pm PT
I'll have to check to see if I have it on hard disc.

Grateful Dead - August 6, 1971 - Hollywood Palladium - Hollywood, CA

Recording Info:
SBD -> Master Reel -> CD

Transfer Info:
CD -> Samplitude Professional v10.02 -> FLAC
(3 Discs Audio / 2 Discs FLAC)


All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller

-------------------


Bob Dylan
September 23, 1995
The Edge Ft Lauderdale, FL (private party/free show)

Source:
Mics Unknown, DAT Audience x 2

Conversion:
Sony M-1 > Midiman Optical > SPDIF SB Platinum >
CoolEdit WAV >
CDWav > SHN (mkw)


THIS SHOW IS FOR PERSONAL LISTENING PLEASURE ONLY.

NO PERSONAL PROFIT OR OTHERWISE IS TO BE MADE FROM THIS RECORDING!


Disc 1:
01: Real Real Gone
02: Friend of the Devil
03: Maggie's Farm
04: It's Too Late
05: Sylvio
06: Confidential
07: Willin'
08: That Luck Old Sun
09: West La Fadeaway
10: When I Paint My Masterpiece
11: Key To the Highway

Disc 2:
01: Tangled Up In Blue
02: With God on Our Side
03: Highway 61 Revisited

Carl's notes: This was the first show after the death of Jerry Garcia. It's an obvious tribute.

drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 23, 2014 - 07:43pm PT
Cal Expo August 6, 1989



Let the Good Times Roll

This was a great run.
The band was really ramping up, Jer was healthy and stoked, and some of the last good lot camping scenes.

Give this run a listen, it don't disappoint, and turn that f*#ker up!


Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jul 23, 2014 - 09:00pm PT
"In another time's forgotten space . . ."
covelocos

Trad climber
Jul 23, 2014 - 09:38pm PT
bixquite

Social climber
humboldt nation
Jul 23, 2014 - 10:16pm PT
wild lead on the sand and stone, may a good belay take you safely home
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Jul 30, 2014 - 07:09pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jul 30, 2014 - 08:08pm PT
"How do you do . . .?"
Psilocyborg

climber
Jul 30, 2014 - 09:19pm PT
A broken angel sings
from a guitar
In the end there's just a song
comes crying like the wind
through all the broken dreams
and vanished years
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 30, 2014 - 10:50pm PT
Thank you ^^^^^^^^^^
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 1, 2014 - 06:25am PT
Jerry Garcia
August 1, 1942-
August 9, 1995


Solo acoustic
4.10.82
Capitol Theatre
Passaic, NJ

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1. Jack A Roe 0:08
2. Going, Going, Gone 5:19
3. Dire Wolf 10:55
4. Gomorrah 14:35
5. Run for the Roses 20:44
6. F.O.T.D. 24:46
7. Babe, Ain't No Lie 31:37
8. Rosalie McFall 38:26
9. Sing Me Back Home 41:58
10. Deep Elem 48:00

Set 2
1. It Takes Alot to Laugh, It Takes a Train To Cry 53:31
2. Ballad of Casey Jones 58:33
3. China Doll 1:04:32
4. Ripple 1:09:07

E. Reuben and Cherise 1:13:45
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Aug 1, 2014 - 07:04am PT
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Happy Birthday Jerry.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 1, 2014 - 07:01pm PT
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k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 1, 2014 - 07:13pm PT
Happy Birthday Jer.

19 years, seems like yesterday.


You told me goodbye, how was I to know
you didn't mean goodbye, you meant please don't let me go.

I was having a high time, living the good life, well I know.
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 1, 2014 - 09:06pm PT
"It seems like all this life was just a dream . . ."
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 1, 2014 - 09:13pm PT
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I took my Mom to see the Grateful Dead in 1990. She had a great time. Some funny things she may not remember- At the set break she decided to venture off solo into the sea of hippies. I told her to find a landmark so she could find us. There happened to be a big yellow balloon near our group, good. When she finally returned she said "I found my way to the yellow balloon and it was the damnedest thing, there was an AA meeting going on!" She had stumbled into a Wharf Rats meeting, sober Deadheads, who were at every show and marked their zone with a yellow balloon.
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 1, 2014 - 09:20pm PT
"If you get confused . . . listen to the music play . . ."

I also took my mom to Dylan/Dead 1987 at the Oakland Coliseum at her request! She remembers seeing some dude doing lines off the plastic folding stadium seat in front of her. She still loves me anyway. What a great Mom!
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 1, 2014 - 09:26pm PT
My Mom caught a ride back to Tucson with a friend of mine while I took her Isuzu, the "Day Trooper" to Denver for some shows.
On the drive she insisted my friend follow a large tour bus, convinced Jerry was in it. They took an off ramp and everything.
Jerry was not in the bus.
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 1, 2014 - 09:28pm PT
He was on the bus though!
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Aug 1, 2014 - 10:15pm PT
http://www.nodepression.com/video/jerry-garcia-grateful-dead-so-many-roads-complete-7-9-95
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 5, 2014 - 05:00pm PT
82 Field Trip Veneta, OR

http://vimeo.com/46909815

Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 5, 2014 - 05:21pm PT
"Since I came down from Oregon, there's a lesson or two I've learned . . .
By standing in the road alone . . . standing watching the fires burn . . ."
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Aug 6, 2014 - 04:35pm PT
oh shite.
i spilled the bus.

the whole thing.
it's empty.
all the history got away.
all the echos escaped.

i'm sorry.
neal alighted.
and i don't know
where to look.

check you kits.
there's a cowboy's spirit on the loose,
and a plethora of pranksters
are in-between buses.

kreeping about the landscape,

what the hell do i do with this
empty vessel?

i'm gonna start with shag carpet.
and go from there?

pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Aug 7, 2014 - 05:06pm PT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaQ1vXdf1Q0
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 7, 2014 - 05:57pm PT
"I see your silver shining town . . . but I know I cant go there . . .
your streets run deep with poisoned wine . . . your doorways crawl with fear . . ."
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Aug 7, 2014 - 08:27pm PT
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Aug 7, 2014 - 08:35pm PT
Well my mom was not a Dead fan. She did however, like the Jefferson Ariplane (discovered on her own, without my interference).

Must have been the Finnish connection (Jalasjärvi & Kurikka, grandpa Jakob and grandma Hedwig) .

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pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Aug 9, 2014 - 04:25pm PT
http://youtu.be/JT8zLTaKxeE
cintune

climber
The Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
Aug 9, 2014 - 04:33pm PT
If mercy's a business, I wish it for you
more than just ashes when your dreams come true.
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Aug 9, 2014 - 06:55pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Aug 13, 2014 - 07:53pm PT
ex chemistry,
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Aug 13, 2014 - 07:58pm PT
jey hefe
i had a dream last night
where you sold your bus
here on the topo
and then we had no wheels
so we drove around the country
on my front deck.

it was bitchen,
picking up hitch hikers
and playing a boom box
in the wind,

no dead it was mostly
jerry band stuff.
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Aug 13, 2014 - 08:03pm PT
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 13, 2014 - 08:04pm PT
"So I think I'll drift on where it's at . . .
Where the weed grows green and fat . . .
And wrap myself around a bush of that bright . . .
Whoa, oh . . . Oaxaca vine . . ."

Beautiful work zB.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 16, 2014 - 09:21pm PT

W. W. w/ W?

































(What's wrong with Weir??)
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Aug 17, 2014 - 05:29am PT
Not a thing.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 17, 2014 - 07:49am PT
"Cause when he's chargin' his chopper
up and down your carpeted halls . . .
you will think me by contrast quite proper . . .
never mind how I stumble and fall . . .
never mind how I stumble and fall."
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 17, 2014 - 07:54am PT
Hard to say....with all the Internet speculation.

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k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 17, 2014 - 08:03am PT
Ho man...


I just listened to Playin' in the Band from Oklahoma City, 11/15/72 (it's "Extra Material" from the new Dave's Picks #11).


That is one f*#kin' Barn Burner!! Oh man, seriously, that is a rocket ship.
Check it out if you can find it. Maybe it's still up on that archives?
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 17, 2014 - 08:05am PT
http://archive.org/details/gd72-11-15.psbd.cotsman.10916.sbeok.shnf
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 17, 2014 - 08:24am PT
"Some folks look for answers . . . others look for fights . . ."
richross

Trad climber
Aug 17, 2014 - 08:30am PT
Bohemian Grove member Bob Weir at 24:20

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k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 17, 2014 - 09:31am PT
Kalimon, that's cool. Too bad the last 10 minutes are cut, but at least you get the First Rocket Stage. Blasters ON!!



But Hey, your link lead me to the whole show:

https://archive.org/details/gd1972-11-15.sbd.miller.110631.flac169


Check the Wharf Rat too, nice version. :-)
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Aug 17, 2014 - 10:46am PT
"Some folks up in tree tops....just look to see the sights"


Kalimon+
cintune

climber
The Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
Aug 17, 2014 - 11:23am PT
Great set:

[Click to View YouTube Video]

Winterland Arena

Terrapin Station
The Alhambra
Drums
Not Fade Away
St. Stephen
Around & Around
Uncle John's Band
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 23, 2014 - 09:28am PT
When I was seven or eight years old I bought my very first album. My sister Betsy had given me a gift certificate to Loco Records on Broadway and Stewart, just a few blocks from my house.
I already liked music, and having older siblings I was exposed to a lot of good stuff. Those were the days of vinyl and even more than the music itself, I loved album cover art and my siblings' massive collections provided hours of wonder.
So it was off to Loco Records to pick out a few albums. I knew I liked Elton John, thanks to my brother Jim, and I chose Honky Chateau purely on the merit of "Rocket Man".
Choosing the next record took a while. I flipped through hundreds of albums. There were familiar names like Alice Cooper and Dan Fogelberg but at this point I was paying more attention to the album cover art.
Then it happened. I came across the absolute coolest image I'd ever seen, a skeleton with big frizzy hair and sunglasses. He was wearing a robe, playing a violin and sitting on some intricately carved stone that had some lettering that I could just barely make out.
So the decision was made and I rushed home to play my new music. Boy did I feel independent! Rocking out to music that I chose, that I bought. I must have played Rocket Man twenty times!
I unwrapped the other album, excited to hear what my mystery choice sounded like. The needle hit the groove in the vinyl. Pumping bass and power chords, and then the first words, "Paradise waits, on the crest of a wave...."
I called Betsy to tell her about my purchases, how I'd spent her gift certificate. Elton John, I couldn't even pronounce "Chateau", and the Grateful Dead, Blues for (couldn't pronounce) Allah. Betsy snickered at that one.
Little did I know then that it was the moment I became a Deadhead.

Well almost 40 years later and I'm listening to Blues for Allah while my sister Betsy fills in the pages of the last chapter of her amazing, rich life. A life where she has helped and inspired countless people from Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, the backwoods hollers of Kentucky, and high schools in Phoenix. As a mother she raised three very talented and unique children that have grown into amazing adults. As an art teacher she helps plant the seed, water, and inspire many artists to flourish. As a partner she found and helps another realize true love. As a daughter, a sister, an aunt and a friend she gives, she loves, she encourages, she inspires.

The lyrics from that very first Grateful Dead song, "Help on the Way", seem especially poignant to me tonight.

"Paradise waits, on the crest of a wave, her angels in flame.
She has no pain, like a child she is pure, she is not to blame.
Poised for flight, wings spread bright, spring from night into the sun.

Don't stop to run, she can fly like a lie, she can't be outdone.
Tell me the cost; I can pay, let me go, tell me love is not lost.
Sell everything; without love day to day insanity's king.
I will pay day by day, anyway, lock, bolt and key.
Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see.

Help on the way, well, I know only this, I've got you today.
Don't fly away, cause I love what I love and I want it that way.
I will stay one more day, like I say, honey it's you.
Making it too, without love in a dream it will never come true."


Immediately following the very intense jam of "Help on the Way" comes "Franklin's Tower", with this simple gem of a verse, so much more beautiful and full of meaning than I could have ever imagined...

"In another times forgotten space
Your eyes looked from your mother's face
Wildflower seed on the sand and stone
May the four winds blow you safely home."


Music has been such a large part of my life, and through every phase, every up and down, lyrics have found a way to say which I wish I could say myself.
So tonight I sing, I sob, in sadness, in celebration, in thanks.
Thank you Betsy.


Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Aug 24, 2014 - 08:26pm PT
hey now! jefe.

a great share, yours.
music ties it all together,
sometimes nicely and sometimes painfully.

jerry and the boys
invited many of us home.
though when we got there,
they left.

and we've lead them
to their next gig.

my first album was
"what a long strange trip,"
double album, on cassette.

i spun the spools off that one.
a gift from my first girlfriend.

i know that when i die,
no one will say i was
a gem of a friend;
a helluva dad;
a caring son;

i have convictions that quarrel
incessantly with my heart.

my stride is a drunken stumble;
though the booze is curiosity.

thanks for sharing
in regards to your lovely sister.

hey now.

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Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 25, 2014 - 07:51pm PT
"Some come to laugh their past away . . .
some come to make it just one more day.
Whichever way your pleasure tends . . .
if you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind."
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 25, 2014 - 07:54pm PT
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Aug 25, 2014 - 08:29pm PT
some minor turbulence
in my proper stride;

actually my whole castle is collapsing
around me, and i'm trying my best
to disassemble it before it crashes
but life's bricks are free falling
all about and i'm dodging them
and boy is this exhausting,
but the dead train carries me
thru;

along with some occasional 311[Click to View YouTube Video]

smile while you have the chance;

survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Aug 25, 2014 - 09:24pm PT
Great post Jefe.


"Midnight, on a carousel ride, reaching for the gold ring, down inside..."
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Sep 5, 2014 - 06:49pm PT
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Psilocyborg

climber
Sep 5, 2014 - 07:02pm PT
I got a hold of a tape of 3-1-69 when I was a teenager. Blew my mind.
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 5, 2014 - 07:34pm PT
"Never could reach it . . . it just slips away . . . but I tried . . ."
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Sep 5, 2014 - 08:35pm PT
Do you know the Bobby /climbing history? Did you ever hear of Johnny, Les and Ryan DeVoe ?
Well I did not think so. Some time back, I mean way way back '63or '64. The story goes that two of Bobby's good friend's got the chop climbing at different places in Cali. on the same weekend. (Maybe one got badly hurt or one died?)
Both had wanted Bob to join them, so as to not have to pick, he said no to both and went and saw that ugly fat guy in some band. When neither buddy was in school the next Monday Bob Weir stopped being a budding rock climber, turned to singing and the guitar, joined The band, and the rest you know.

The DeVoe family was Bobs mothers' brother. Uncle and cousins, and his adopted very well healed east cost family from where he gets his interest in property ownership and there is nothing wrong with owning real estate. Ryan the oldest, was a climber. All three were touring heads, "family" from the late '70s, thru the juveniles & junkie days of the early '90s. After much long strange tripping, Johnny, the youngest, died of an overdose, just a few years before the fat man went down that road.

I met Ryan in the Gunks , stayed at the DeVoe home in Rhode Island, climbed and saw shows around the country (never toured the world the way Les and Johnny did) we would go to 'Will Call at venue ticket booths and get set up with very special 'all arena' passes that let us go front to back stage and also in Philly. and Buffalo to the Stones shows. . AIKO AIKO `/;.D
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 5, 2014 - 08:44pm PT
Thanks Gnome! "Sometimes you can get shown the light . . ."
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Sep 5, 2014 - 09:23pm PT
1979,The Mason Jar,Henrietta,New York,One great room/bar.

I was a barback/tender.Max Creek,a regional Dead like band was playing and they where/are still good.

The owner of the bar,John Burdock,was good friends with Hunter.They had traveled together.John had a cottage on Honeoye Lake.The Grateful Dead would stay there over the years ,in summer,then play Ithaca,Rochester,Buffalo,Syracuse ,Toronto,etal in late summer shows.

It must have been pretty cool to see one of them water skiing .[friends say they have]


So,Max Creek,was jamming,the 150 or so in the room where content.Burdock comes in and tells me and Toby ,the REAL bartender, to take care of these two guys ,all night.

They drank Alabama Slammers ,by the picture.Where very wide eyed and Cool.

It was Mickey Hart and Phil Lesh.


The real funny part about it was me and Toby were the only people in a crowd that knew,and none of them caught on.

Was lucky to party with them after.

https://archive.org/details/mc1983-01-14.set2.sbd.flac16
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 5, 2014 - 09:40pm PT
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Sep 5, 2014 - 09:45pm PT
Yeah man..

Edit;This is a great thread .
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Sep 5, 2014 - 10:06pm PT
WTF 2/28/80 that was a very good show!, small venue JGB W/Robert hunter. wow
I went to a school across the road from there and was a real home town show Robert Hunter, Toads Place New haven CT11/12/80. Solo! The whole band Lake Placid 10/17/83.Showtest $12.50!!!

Where were you when the boys played Aiko into the dew? 9/2/80 Rochester war memorial

awh I'm gonna go look at ticket stubs I think I've got that Keene college one... big edit. Yes sir Thursday February 28 1980. w/, Robert Hunter $5 advanced $7.50 at the door 10:30pm!!!? TACO ROKS Makiing me Smile. /;D big time! Now the taco heads GNO me Might as well,
4/4/78 Little Feat. At Wesleyan U Middle twn CT and so many more,,,

I am so late to this show!!!

and the stuff is in very deep storage

Pate= Royalty, Family? HMMM we were at alot of the same shows

Back stage at Philly, The Garden, La Fontane ?

Gotta' a bunch a stuff and then again ...not some really bad storms (sandy and before)
Also my folks let the basement flood so I just will Have to see
And
I still listen to tapes,have ticket stubs and tour shirts to post up I hope !?!

Keep the dead alive
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Sep 6, 2014 - 06:09am PT
Where were you when the boys played Aiko into the dew? 9/2/80 Rochester war memorial


Surfing Salt creek,living in Dana Point and framing houses in Mission Viejo.
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Sep 10, 2014 - 03:52pm PT
Danko, Joplin, Garcia, Weir & cast of more


[Click to View YouTube Video]
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Sep 10, 2014 - 04:02pm PT
Get Back

[Click to View YouTube Video]
goatboy smellz

climber
लघिमा
Sep 10, 2014 - 04:31pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
goatboy smellz

climber
लघिमा
Sep 10, 2014 - 04:55pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]

Download...Grateful Dead Live at Hollywood Palladium on 1971-08-06
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 10, 2014 - 06:08pm PT
"Dropped four flights and cracked my spine . . . honey come quick with the iodine . . ."
goatboy smellz

climber
लघिमा
Sep 10, 2014 - 06:29pm PT
http://www.gdao.org/items/show/20036

Go to number three.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 10, 2014 - 06:32pm PT
^^^^^
good one goatboy
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 10, 2014 - 08:26pm PT
Love those early 80's

Nassau '81
https://archive.org/details/gd81-05-06.glassberg.vernon.17697.sbeok.shnf

https://archive.org/details/gd81-05-06.glassberg.vernon.17697.sbeok.shnf

tried twice...but no clicky wtf

driftin' and dreamin'
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Sep 19, 2014 - 06:54pm PT
Gnome,I heard that was a good show ,2/28/80.A friends band ,Slipton Fell openened for TJGB At that show.

Was more into Little Feat in the late 70,s,early 80's.They played around here alot.[Click to View YouTube Video]

Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Sep 20, 2014 - 05:55pm PT
The Best of '77-'79
reds&pinks too
#s 133 Wilkins Theatre Kean College2/28/1980 J Garcia w/Robert hunter $5 advance $7.50 at door
( don't know about your frnd's band opening ...a10:30 pm show w/ Robert Hunter)
(and the tic stub got us into ToadsPlace New Haven Show.... a radio promotion!!!)

missing ToadsPlace New Haven CT robert Hunter solo 11/12/80

17c madison square garden 9/5/1979 GRTFL Dead a hurricane rolled thru came out to clean city streets
11f Veteran's memorial ?( wait for it) 5/10/1978 GRTFL Dead floor seats we moved all the chairs
Crazy big tic says6/21/? America, Stills, ....Harry Chapin...(when did he die?) Sussex Cnty arts center
In the pink Wilkins thtre Kean College 12/13/1983 J Garcia band( again) just Belongs here
blue & the rest
11G.A.Wesleyan Arena 4/4/1978 Little Feat and (hahah) Jon Hall$6.50
Capital theatre( NJ's best) Allman Bro'sband 4/20/1979 !!!
then a tiny venue Morristown community theatre 9/7/1979 Sea Level Jocimos' allman bro's band
.................. also Saw Tom Waits and Leon Redbone Here around the same year!!.....
.....and Van Morrison....and Robbie Robertson w/special FRNDS no G Hudson The Band.....
did I forget anything ...Oh....331 j #1 .Madison Square Garden 9/18/1979 the Who Preformance #5

I was A lucky Boy!!!

the missing tics are the result of taper ego, I kept the tics in the tape case'es so maybe if I find them
but really I do not know
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Sep 20, 2014 - 06:12pm PT
Thanks for the Jerry interview goatboy . . . a very interesting look at Garcia. He really opens up at times, shares some deep insight and fascinating philosophy.

"I'll tell you where the Four Winds dwell . . ."
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Sep 21, 2014 - 12:56am PT
From now on I will not explain what I've scanned,it is so gumby and totally noOb....

Super taco head sounds porno.......
I am using a computer .....
There is a new cold spot in hell...
I still have xxx magazines under the bed......
The truth is that I am a noOb ....
To all this Computer/ Internet .....
Surfing for me up until march......Bold Text
Was a board and a wave....
So I have to Catch up.......

Honey, how do I it? do this and that and why won't the damn thing load....
Then the picture is sideways and the link is not blue...argh Help...

I come clean 'cause I know that the net was almost exclusively
part of the whole dead thing from the very beginning ....
I am always very late to the party
The sun is coming up
The cops have been called
That is when I show up...very late.very late
From now on I will not explain what I have scanned it is redundant, Me=Stupid noOb
What does serene mean?
Tobia

Social climber
Denial
Sep 23, 2014 - 02:28am PT
Jerry Garcia Band ≈ I'll Take A Melody
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Sep 23, 2014 - 03:02am PT
Let's say I've been under a rock it can' t be called living 'cause I have missed so damn much
My skills are not growing fast enough I am trying to catch up
To post from my archive that is where I get lost
Play cassette tape to...what ?? To be able to create a link
I not embarrassed and I've got miles of tape to get out
Help
This is the 1st one I want to get to all
Robert Hunter 11/12/80
Toads Pl., New Haven, CT

a touch of gray
day job
Reno roll
friend of the devil
Alabama getaway
sweet little wheels
brown eyed women
Tiger Rose
Ruben &Charisse
12 /26/79 uncle yJohn's band

side two
box of rain bad luck Willy
trucking
easy wind
boys in the bar room
Mississippi halfstep
Slack string quartet
Ripple
The 11
St. Stephen
Day job





oh wow just found out that my daughters tablet has talk capability deadheads help me download my tapes to you guys
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Sep 23, 2014 - 03:21am PT
most of this shite is probably already digitized.
there are heaps of archive sites.

pate's pissed and don't post much
but he is loads of help in
the good knowledge department
TwistedCrank

climber
Released into general population, Idaho
Sep 23, 2014 - 06:24am PT
De spam bump
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Sep 25, 2014 - 05:42am PT
**hey now to fair poet and from all the long road
That you and I have not ever met well then if for no other reason to have fallen and be come this age zing it has been worth it the hype that I find thread after thread
............and wh'ose EPHENE. THAT? . , ! ?

As I try to guess who might each stranger if true might be.


Crazy and I love your xeno astro boy scalliwag prose tt equals Trying, To , trivial
And that weed eg aN is a lot that you not ..,,,No.....K.......that is so cheesy,and cle'iche

Wow
I am using the Shablet a sub standard tablet who's auto correct (((has a mind of it's own)))and edit control/re write is part of why some of my suff first appears in such a garbled mess //
**after the am routine is dispensed with if I've Been good then the magic master my wife has a fourious rant at me 'I turn on jerry and the boys, take over the space, her desk becomes mine as like on crack I sit all day long as I said I have been under a rock ......but I would not call it living ......look at all that I missed and surf the computer thingy all day
Pathetic and I really only basically come right out of the b for dummies .
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Sep 25, 2014 - 06:08am PT
gnome it's better
to build a door into your
sandwhich thru which
you enter at lunch;
now within the folds
of white bread
you eat your
way out and then
turn into a moth
to live in the dark
while seeking light.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Sep 25, 2014 - 06:42am PT
Can' t do you the time this is that am ritual it's bird ,,the noisy ,,the dog a big boned but getting on ,,then kids ,coffee and wife the Chula Vistas s that's cool The Vermont show was right after the LAke PL acid surely I was basking full tour

I can throw up pics but at first it will be ticket stubs and maybe start scanning card liners.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 11, 2014 - 09:43pm PT
If a man among you got no sin upon his hand
Let'm cast stones at me for playin in the band!
originalpmac

Mountain climber
Anywhere I like
Oct 12, 2014 - 08:41am PT
A friend of mine was so f*#ked up at a Dead show in the late eighties he thought Jerry turned into Elmer Fudd. 'dawkstar cwashes... puwwing wight into ashes...' hilarious.

From the northwest corner of a brand new crescent moon
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Oct 23, 2014 - 05:35pm PT
no edit on the dead page how ironic or is it the Shablet the sub standard tablet??
was I a mess in my one liner up a post or two, or what, that the most incoherent that I have been on line
as to why and WTF a wise man I am often not but here ...slipknot fadeaway
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Nov 3, 2014 - 06:15pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Nov 3, 2014 - 06:21pm PT
"The truth of love an unsung song must tell . . .

The course of love must follow blind without a look behind . . ."
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Nov 3, 2014 - 07:14pm PT
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rgmBc2BaM2A
cowpoke

climber
Dec 4, 2014 - 05:20pm PT
49 years ago, tonight, in San Jose. Warlocks no more.
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Dec 4, 2014 - 05:54pm PT
"I hear the cries of children
and the other songs of war . . .
It's like a mighty melody
that rings down from the sky . . ."
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 5, 2014 - 05:19am PT
In San Jose?
Set list?
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Dec 5, 2014 - 08:09am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]




I used to dream of long talks with Jerry and sometimes Phil. No so much anymore.

Still missing that guy ...
cowpoke

climber
Dec 6, 2014 - 06:44am PT
jaybro, I guess their first night as "The Grateful Dead" was 12-4-65 = early days of house party acid tests when I doubt too many folks wrote down what was played ;)
http://jerrygarcia.com/show/1965-12-04-big-nigs-house-san-jose-ca-usa/
http://www.postertrip.com/public/5573.cfm
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Dec 6, 2014 - 07:46am PT
Acid test,of course! Nice, Poke! I knew it was a long shot. But figured with the most chronic allied band, Ever there was a chance of something.

What I was really curious about, was if they had original music at the start. Original sound, no doubt!
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Dec 30, 2014 - 10:27am PT
Calling all Dead Heads!!

http://liveforlivemusic.com/news/casting-call-seeks-deadheads-to-feature-in-new-scorsese-produced-grateful-dead-doc/
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Jan 16, 2015 - 01:15pm PT
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-the-grateful-dead-soldier-field-20150116-story.html
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jan 16, 2015 - 01:32pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]I really just wanted to find the radio broadcast of 6/28/76 . The end of the first set was
Row Jimmy, The music Never Stopped > Might as Well!! This was good to though [Click to View YouTube Video]YIKES it seems to be a part of a Multi-day set of summer shows [Click to View YouTube Video]
there is more but . . .the version of The Music Never Stopped, has a prominent Donna! She is loud
In the moment but oddly restrained not the over board 'strangled cat' at all.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jan 16, 2015 - 01:48pm PT
I'm seeing this setlist for 6-28-76. If you get the date straight, I can probably find it. Was it a radio show from another date, that aired on 6-28-76?

Grateful Dead - June 28, 1976
Auditorium Theatre - Chicago, IL


Set 1:
d1t01 - Promised Land
d1t02 - They Love Each Other
d1t03 - Cassidy
d1t04 - Tennessee Jed
d1t05 - Looks Like Rain
d1t06 - Scarlet Begonias
d1t07 - Lazy Lightnin' ->
d1t08 - Supplication
d1t09 - High Time
d1t10 - The Music Never Stopped

Set 2:
d2t01 - Eyes Of The World ->
d2t02 - Happiness Is Drumming ->
d2t03 - Wharf Rat ->
xxxxx - Drums ->
d2t04 - Dancing In The Street ->
d2t05 - The Wheel ->
d2t06 - Around And Around

Okay so that is that

My tape: 1st set

Cassidy.>
peggy-o
Mama Tried
Mission In The Rain
Looks Like Rain
Brown Eyed Women
Tennessee Jed
LazyLightning>
Supplication
Row Jimmy
Music never stopped>
Might As Well


This will take some sluething as I see three or four dates 6/25/76 seems to be St Louis?

6/27/76-6/29/76!! 6/30/76??
Vegasclimber

Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
Jan 16, 2015 - 02:39pm PT
Seriously considering flying out to Chicago for this.

Just before Jerry died, I took a trip down to Vegas to hang out with my bud. I was so stoked about going to see them...until I got there and realized that the show had been the weekend before. Always regretted not being able to see them live, so I might have to buckle down and make this happen.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jan 16, 2015 - 04:35pm PT
Cool stuff--Wegie, nice tape collection. I have a bunch of old reels, but there's so much great live stuff in HDCD that I don't have the time to listen to those crusty old audience tapes. Sometimes, thought, it seems the aud tapes capture more of the mood, the sound of the band through their stereo.

That's one thing about the shows that I really miss. The band always had the best damn stereo system.

What you don't see much of in tapes is the old studio outtakes, a favorite of ours used to be the Barbed Wire Whipping Party and other goodies from the Aoxomoxoa sessions. I also have somewhere some outtakes from Go To Heaven. An amazing version of Garcia finger picking through Althea...

Jaybro, to answer your question, it depends on how you look at it. Garcia had already been playing a lot of tunes when Phil ran into him. Phil was playing trumpet, but picked up the bass. I suppose when the band first got together, they pulled into Caution right off. My memory is probably off a bit from what I read, but Phil does a good job of describing the early years of their friendships, and the music that influenced them in the beginning. Check out the first few chapters in Phil's book "Searching for the Sound." There's also a fantastico description of the Acid Tests.
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Jan 16, 2015 - 05:04pm PT
Maybe a few of us can get to that Chicago show.

I am game.
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jan 16, 2015 - 08:21pm PT
https://archive.org/details/gd1976-06-28.mtx.seamons.112676.flac16

Looks like the Promised Land opener Gnomemon . . . Chicago it is . . . crisp Donna and Jerry vocals.
CA.Timothy

climber
California
Jan 17, 2015 - 09:07am PT
crunched the numbers and it will cost the wife and I over $2000 to make that weekend happen. I wish I had the extra coin.

I wish they would have done this farewell at Sam Boyd in Vegas! cheap cheap cheap for the traveling family
[Click to View YouTube Video]

Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jan 17, 2015 - 09:30am PT
Thnx k-man, I'll check out that book.

"Strangled cat" - ha ha , sadly too apt at the worst of times.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Jan 17, 2015 - 10:04am PT
I will not be throwing down major coin to make it happen in Chicago.

I had my awesome moments at shows, standing close enough for Jerry to melt my face. I'm happy.
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Jan 17, 2015 - 05:18pm PT
6-27-1976 Setlist

Grateful Dead Auditorium Theater, Chicago, IL June 27, 1976

Set 1
01. Tuning
02. Cold Rain And Snow
03. Cassidy
04. Brown Eyed Women
05. Big River
06. Ship Of Fools
07. Lazy Lightnin' >
08. Supplication
09. Friend Of The Devil
10. Looks Like Rain
11. Might As Well
Set 2
01. Tuning
02. Let It Grow >
03. Drums >
04. Let It Grow >
05. Wharf Rat >
06. Samson And Delilah
07. Help On The Way >
08. Slipknot! >
09. Franklin's Tower >
10. Sugar Magnolia
Encore:
11. U.S. Blues
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Jan 17, 2015 - 05:39pm PT
!Gee
Nome

6-29-1976 Setlist - set 1

Grateful Dead
Auditorium Theater, Chicago, IL
June 29, 1976


9. Supplication (Kingfish cover)10. Row Jimmy 11. The Music Never Stopped 12. Might as Well
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jan 18, 2015 - 07:05am PT
c I knew that I was on to a real forgotten summer trip! Three nights! all astonishingly mixed sets, maybe some of the best Donna, coming on strong, at the end of the gig.
It is so good!

that is the show thanxz Z!

Of course in the rehearing my old tapes in comparison to all the incredible shows that are on the digital Archive! makes it hard to justify keeping my old relics.
Sad to say it but 2015 will change my library of Dead tunes!! a full change!?
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Jan 18, 2015 - 07:31am PT
BTW GD is known to have played Row Jimmy 271 times in concerts.

ranging 2-9-1973 (Maples Pavillion) through 6/21/1995 (Knickerbocker Arena)



Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jan 18, 2015 - 08:19am PT
hi ' hey Now! Don't let me cross your sticks.
I was born under the flag as my delinquent parents left me to a college age babysitter who apparently took infant me along to shows!

my sister was also on the bus as a natural ginger and foxy as hell by the '70s, she was very off the bus by '85. Then again in the Touch of Grey/Thrill Is Gone, Hollywood phase, she got the call, was in ...
Working in production, from the corporate side. She got me good when she called from a limo on the Ski area grounds, with. . . a girl from... well. . . 'Cafe' Bethoven'(*nah my hartz still broke)
Was it Beauna Vista?? any way it had been billed as the HIGHEST Dead show ever, and she went by Limo courtesy of Bob!

I heard the tape it was no great shakes but still . . .
She went as a straight laced, buttoned up executive, with a 'family'member who had. . . blah blah blah . .
not over that girl that is fur sore.
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Jan 19, 2015 - 09:15am PT
I'm planning on going to the Chicago shows. Tickets go on sale soon.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jan 23, 2015 - 08:02am PT
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jan 23, 2015 - 03:25pm PT
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jan 23, 2015 - 03:42pm PT
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Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jan 23, 2015 - 05:19pm PT
"Shadow boxing the apocalypse within . . ."
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jan 23, 2015 - 05:56pm PT
I have a factory cassette tape with the studio version of My Brother Easu on the B side (Touch of Grey on A).
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jan 23, 2015 - 06:54pm PT
"Fighting a war neither one ever can win . . ."
Psilocyborg

climber
Jan 24, 2015 - 01:35am PT
https://archive.org/details/gd72-11-17.sbd.warner.15982.sbeok.shnf

I love finding these gems

Collection: GratefulDead
Band/Artist: Grateful Dead
Date: November 17, 1972 (check for other copies)
Venue: Century II Convention Hall
Location: Wichita, KS

Promised Land, Sugaree, Me & My Uncle, Tennessee Jed, B.T. Wind, Birdsong, Jack Straw, Box of Rain, Don't Ease Me In, Beat It On Down The Line, Brown Eyed Women, Big River, China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider, Around & Around, Casey Jones Cumberland Blues, El Paso, Uncle John's Band, He's Gone-> Truckin'-> The Other One, Brokedown Palace, Sugar Magnolia, Uncle John's Band, E: Johnny B. Goode

HOT!HOT!HOT!
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jan 24, 2015 - 05:21am PT
ppffpht wowsh best alnite shovel the roof I've had in Along time thnx!
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 24, 2015 - 08:01am PT
very clever DMT!
Flip Flop

Trad climber
Truckee, CA
Jan 24, 2015 - 08:05am PT
I hope that they play drums and space for half the show.


[Click to View YouTube Video]
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Feb 5, 2015 - 11:11pm PT
HEY NOW
tonight on the TV - The Late Late Show on CBS,John Mayer is the guest host . . .

With BOB WEIR.! . they talk about 3 Shows in July!! ! then they played

Truckin' and
half a smokin Althea!


can not post a song , if I could it would be one for ground hog day or Chinese New Year!!

Some Cali shows ??'88 or '89??

Bob Quote
"It was kind a hard to tell the difference between where you go when you dreamed,

and where you go when you walk on stage!"
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Feb 9, 2015 - 04:30pm PT
i'm quick creating memories
of things i've not yet experienced;

that way, when i get there
i'm proceeding via hindsight
that is authored only by my imagination.

... is a great way to travel.
like robbing the future
of it's greatest weapon: uncertainty.
and slowly detonating this chaos
on a placid little moment
that just wanted to be left alone
to it's own devices,
but here comes my reckless wonder,
plowing into emotional stasis
when the angels are asleep
and i already know that i'm gonna die
at the age of 58.

it'll be a peaceful though vivid death,
gracefully unbinding a caged soul
from the shackles of life.
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Feb 14, 2015 - 09:24am PT
"You're sick of hangin' around and you'd like to travel . . .
get tired of travelin' and you want to settle down.
I guess they can't revoke your soul for tryin'. . .
get out of the door and light out and look all around."

Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Feb 14, 2015 - 12:42pm PT
stopping there is just off
SOME TIME THE LIGHT'S ALL SHINNING ON ME,. . . OTHER TIMES I CAN BARELY SEE

WHAT A LONG STRANGE TRIP IT'S BEEN

SMILE AS THOUGH YOU MEANIT COUSINS! (THATZ ME)


Aug 27, 2010 - 02:28am PT
Sort of reminds me of a much more serious version of a story from Grateful Dead lore I heard that was inspiration for a song with the lyric "smilin' on a cloudy day." There's a suggestion at the end of the interview below (I edited a bit for readability) that it takes more these days than disrespecting an officer to merit getting roughed up. For what it's worth, some of you may appreciate:

Lesh: Water balloon episode?
MM: Uh-oh!
DG: Oh, I wanna hear this!
Weir: I got him good. . . . I was on the third floor of . . . our place in the Haight-Ashbury. . . . [T]here was this cop who was illegally searching a car belonging to a friend of ours . . . down on the street - the cops used to harass us . . . every chance they got. They didn't care for the hippies back then. . . . [S]o I had a water balloon, and what was I gonna do with this water balloon, come on. And, uh...
Lesh: Just happened to have a water balloon, in his hand...
MM: See, I wasn't gonna bring that up...
Lesh: ...ladies and gentlemen.
Weir: And so I got him right square on the head, and uh...
Lesh: A prettier shot you never saw.
Weir: ...and . . . he couldn't tell where it was comin' from, but then I had to go . . . and walk across the street and just grin at him...
Lesh, MM, DG:
Weir:...and sorta rub it in a little bit.
DG: Smilin' on a cloudy day. I understand now.
Lesh, DG:
MM: It all becomes clear.
Weir: . . . [A]t that point, he decided to hell with due process of law, this kid's goin' to jail. He didn't have a thing on me . . . It never got to court, but on the other hand, I did get thrown in jail and beat up a little bit.
MM: I still want to go back; you just happened to have that water balloon handy, it was kind of just like standard procedure.
DG: Gee, I wonder if...
Weir: He was the guy that was breakin' the law, too, the cop was.
MM: That's, that's - I agree.
Weir: I guess - . . . what does a water balloon amount to, is that assault with a, uh...
DG: Friendly weapon.
MM: With a moist weapon.
Lesh, DG:
MM: That goes under the water laws.
DG:
MM: And if it was tap water, that also...
Lesh: Disrespect for an officer.
Weir: Right.
DG: That was enough in those days - as I recall.
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Feb 14, 2015 - 01:16pm PT
Just came across this, may be browser dependent. Didn't work for me in I.E. (either way), but did in Firefox.


https://soundcloud.com/jimwise/gd-6-6-70


http://soundcloud.com/jimwise/gd-6-6-70
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Feb 14, 2015 - 06:29pm PT
So, who all, is going to Chicago?
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Feb 20, 2015 - 02:33pm PT
Argh!! so cold here(moist! -8) that a very important tape to me is fozen in the carz cassette deck'

5/6/90 Cal state Domingez Hills 1st set
I'm gonna try a hair dryer!?

zb that right there' is some sweet soundz thanx as always you amaze

"Snowed so hard that the roof caved in"
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Feb 20, 2015 - 04:44pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]

Thinking hard about Chicago.


Heard Trey on the radio the other day,they will be good.
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Feb 20, 2015 - 07:37pm PT
"One watch by night . . . one watch by day . . ."
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Feb 20, 2015 - 08:39pm PT
Legion Of Mary/4-75 at Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZx7xCK6yfo
thebravecowboy

climber
my pals call me Shackleton
Feb 20, 2015 - 08:44pm PT
Serendipitous photos, DMT. I like. Big Medicine.

First I've tuned in, and I gotta say, this may be the best non-acrimonious thread yet for me.


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drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 20, 2015 - 10:35pm PT
Comes a time when the blind man takes your hand
Says, "Don't you see?
Gotta make it somehow on the dreams you still believe
Don't give it up, you got an empty cup
That only love can fill, only love can fill"

Been walkin' all mornin', went walkin' all night
I can't see much difference between the dark and light
And I feel the wind and I taste the rain
Never in my mind to cause so much pain

Comes a time when the blind man takes your hand
Says, "Don't you see?
Gotta make it somehow on the dreams you still believe
Don't give it up, you got an empty cup
Only love can fill, only love can fill"

From day to day just letting it ride
You get so far away from how it feels inside
You can't let go 'cause you're afraid to fall
But the day may come when you can't feel at all

Comes a time when the blind man takes your hand
Says, "Don't you see?
Gotta make it somehow on the dreams you still believe
Don't give it up, you got an empty cup
That only love can fill, only love can fill, only love can fill"

[Click to View YouTube Video]



k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Feb 21, 2015 - 08:46am PT
If you have doubts, listen to the music play!

[Click to View YouTube Video]


Trey, from the latest Rolling Stone:

The flow of the whole thing is in my DNA. [Yet] I never sat down and studied what Jerry played until the last two weeks.

A couple of days ago, I started listening to The Wheel. There's a line he plays after the first verse -- it slides all the way from the bottom of the neck to the top. I learned it exactly, note for note. Then what I do, since I don't want to go out there a just copy Jerry - I play in in all 12 keys, so that I get it into my body.


I'd love to go to the shows, but (1) I loath stadium shows, (2) there's no guarantee of tickets, and (3) Chicago is a long ways away. I'll listen in some other fashion than just being there, maybe I'm just getting old. But I sure do miss standing next to the stage at Winterland, when Jerry was still just a black dot.
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Feb 21, 2015 - 01:40pm PT
Uno

Psilocyborg

climber
Feb 21, 2015 - 02:01pm PT
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Psilocyborg

climber
Feb 21, 2015 - 02:07pm PT
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Psilocyborg

climber
Feb 21, 2015 - 02:21pm PT
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Psilocyborg

climber
Feb 21, 2015 - 02:26pm PT
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Psilocyborg

climber
Feb 21, 2015 - 02:41pm PT
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Feb 21, 2015 - 02:59pm PT
I love it I can not post music but was dieing to put up the Phish "Terrapins" and kaboom
Right where I needed it, hail to the trip master no chi town but my hart wil be there!!
zb you intimidate me more than Pate how is it that you have all the high quality
Never ever, SEEN Before or ever Again when I search for them shots of all the Boyz
That Doors Bar Shot ? Jimmy holding Zimmerman album? and Zimmerman?? (some of the Dylan from London?)

I can not even try to spell that almost mushroom name but Hey Now Psilocyborg, if I could get over being but hurt I might share some family secrets of Bobs adoptive? Family
Ryan De Voe and I climbed and saw shows for years and his brothers (Les, &Johnny) and I were a unit at shows, just a groupie groping all the cosmos, sorry that my mind works wierd memories come and go!

Whhaaattt that is frying woot woot, can you ever get over that shite!. . . takes the Bait,
but will not be bought or sold


calling Richard Ross!!
Psilocyborg

climber
Feb 21, 2015 - 03:13pm PT
for furthur synchronicity, I had just read that explanation of the other one, then read this thread and boom there it was posted.

My first tape was 3-1-69. It is still my favorite. Check out the other one from that show....wow
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Feb 21, 2015 - 04:52pm PT
"The summer sun looked down on him . . . his mother could but frown on him . . ."
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Feb 21, 2015 - 06:05pm PT
G(Of)D

When I first started collecting music downloads I always felt funny because I didn't have any to share. I also got really tired of just seeing "thanks" in the comments sections. So I started adding a little bit more significant commentary and tracking down and sharing rare photos.

Being a long time follower of Bob Dylan, one of my favorites and at time uncirculated was this 1966 photo of Dylan and Roberston. I found it in the archives at the University of North Carolina (down near Gypsy). Credit is due to Robert Bolton.




zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Feb 21, 2015 - 07:02pm PT
Recommended Listening - Garcia

Smoke 'em, if ya got 'em

1972:

1-19-72 The Lion's Share, San Anselmo, CA - Garcia & Saunders
1-26-72 Symphony Hall, Boston, MA - Howard Wales and Friends
2-6-72 Pacific High Studio, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia, John Kahn, Bill Kreutzmann & Merl Saunders
6-30-72 Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA - Garcia & Saunders
12-28-72 Lion's Share, San Anselmo, CA - Garcia & Saunders - previously listed as 12/20/72 (Keystone, Berkeley, CA), which is incorrect.

1973:

1-24-73 Boarding House, San Francisco, CA - Garcia & Saunders
1-25-73 Boarding House, San Francisco, CA - Garcia & Saunders
5-4-73 Homer's Warehouse, Palo Alto, CA - Garcia & Saunders
6-6-73 Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ - Old & In The Way
7-5-73 The Lion's Share, San Anselmo, CA - Garcia & Saunders
7-8-73 The Record Plant, Sausalito CA - Garcia & Saunders
7-23-73 The Boarding House, San Francisco, CA - Old & In The Way
9-6-73 Capitol Theater; Passaic, NJ - Garcia & Saunders
11-4-73 Sonoma State University, Cotati, CA - Old & In The Way


1974:

2-9-74 Rheem Theater, Moraga, CA - Garcia & Saunders w/Bill Kreutzmann
6-6-74 Keystone, Berkeley, CA - Garcia & Saunders
6-13-74 Keystone, Berkeley, CA - Great American String Band
7-3-74 The Bottom Line, New York, NY - Garcia & Saunders
8-9-74 Keystone, Berkeley, CA - Garcia & Saunders
8-30-74 Freeborn Hall, UC, Davis, California - Legion of Mary
8-31-74 Keystone, Berkeley, CA - Garcia & Saunders
10-4-74 Keystone, Berkeley, CA - Garcia & Saunders
10-5-74 Keystone, Berkeley, CA - Garcia & Saunders
10-6-74 Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - Garcia & Saunders
10-31-74 Memorial Gymnasium, San Francisco, CA - Legion Of Mary

1975:

2-14-75 The Generosity, San Francisco, CA - Legion of Mary
4-9-75 The Bottom Line, New York, NY - Legion of Mary
4-19-75 Oriental Theater, Milwaukee, WI - Legion of Mary
5-21-75 Keystone, Berkeley, CA - Legion of Mary
10-31-75 Tower Theatre, Upper Darby, PA - Jerry Garcia Band w/Nicky Hopkins
12-20-75 Winterland Arena, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band w/Nicky Hopkins
12-31-75 Keystone, Berkeley, CA - Jerry Garcia Band w/Nicky Hopkins

1976:

1-27-76 Keystone, Berkeley, CA - Jerry Garcia Band (First show listed here with Keith & Donna)
2-14-76 Keystone, Berkeley, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
2-21-76 La Paloma Theater, Encinitas, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
2-22-76 La Paloma Theater, Encinitas, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
3-6-76 Moore's Egyptian Theater, Seattle, WA - Jerry Garcia Band
4-3-76 Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC - Jerry Garcia Band
7-9-76 Keystone, Berkeley, CA - Jerry Garcia Band

1977:

7-23-77 Keystone, Berkeley, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
8-6&7-77 Keystone, Berkeley, CA- Jerry Garcia Band
11-23-77 Palace Theater, Waterbury, CT - Jerry Garcia Band (First show listed here w/Maria Muldaur)
11-27-77 The Palladium, New York, NY - Jerry Garcia Band
12-2-77 Orpheum Theater, Boston, MA - Jerry Garcia Band
12-11-77 Recreation Hall, Penn State University, University Park, PA - Jerry Garcia Band

1978:

You should probably just get all of March...
2-18-78 Marin County Veterans Auditorium, San Rafael, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
3-10-78 Auditorium Theater, Rochester, NY - Jerry Garcia Band
3-11-78 Leroy Theater, Pawtucket, RI - Jerry Garcia Band - some shows for this tour billed as "Mystery Cats."
3-14-78 Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA - Jerry Garcia Band
3-17-78 Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ - Jerry Garcia Band
3-18-78 Warner Theater, Washington, DC - Jerry Garcia Band
3-19-78 Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA - Jerry Garcia Band (last show listed here w/Maria Muldaur)
6-18-78 Keystone, Palo Alto, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
10-28-78 Paramount Northwest Theater, Seattle, WA - Jerry Garcia Band
11-03-78 Keystone, Palo Alto, CA - Jerry Garcia Band

1979:

3-8-79 Cabaret Cotati, Cotati, CA - Reconstruction
6-17-79 Keystone, Palo Alto, CA - Reconstruction
6-22-79 Keystone, Palo Alto, CA - Reconstruction
7-6-79 Keystone, Berkeley, CA - Reconstruction
7-7-79 Keystone, Palo Alto, CA - Reconstruction
7-22-79 Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA - Reconstruction
8-10-79 Temple Beautiful, San Francisco, CA - Reconstruction
10-21-79 Keystone, Berkeley, CA - Jerry Garcia Band (First show listed here w/Ozzie Ahlers)
11-18-79 Keystone, Berkeley, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
12-21-79 Keystone, Palo Alto, CA - Jerry Garcia Band

1980:

Pretty much all of February can be recommended but more specifically:
2-2-80 The Stone, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
2-7-80 The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
2-15-80 Orpheum Theater, Boston, MA - Jerry Garcia Band
2-20-80 Fine Arts Center, U. Mass., Amherst, MA - Jerry Garcia Band
2-29-80 Calderone Theatre, Hempstead, NY - Jerry Garcia Band
3-1-80 Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ - Jerry Garcia Band
3-8-80 The Stone, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band

1981:

Probably all of February '81 could be recommended as well...
2-4-81 Warner Theater, Washington, DC - Jerry Garcia Band (First show listed here w/Melvin Seals)
2-5-81 Stabler Arena (Lehigh University), Bethlehem, PA - Jerry Garcia Band
2-11-81 The Palladium, New York, NY - Jerry Garcia Band
2-13-81 Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ - Jerry Garcia Band
4-24-81 Keystone, Palo Alto, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
8-21-81 Keystone, Berkeley, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
11-4-81 Palace Theater, Albany, NY - Jerry Garcia Band
11-8-81 Alumni Gym (Rider College), Lawrenceville, NJ - Jerry Garcia Band
11-10-81 The Palladium, New York, NY - Jerry Garcia Band
11-14-81 Patrick Gymnasium, UVM, Burlington VT - Jerry Garcia Band

1982:

3-7-82 The Saddlerack, San Jose, CA - Jerry Garcia Band w/Bill Kreutzmann
4-10-82 Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ - solo acoustic - the only time Jerry ever took the stage alone.
5-5-82 Oregon State Prison, Salem, OR - Garcia & Kahn acoustic
6-4-82 Neighbors of Woodcraft, Portland, OR - Garcia & Kahn acoustic
6-16-82 Music Mountain, South Fallsburg, NY - Jerry Garcia Band w/Bill Kreutzmann (some consider this their favorite JGB show period.)
6-17-82 Veterans' Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, CT - Jerry Garcia Band w/Bill Kreutzmann
6-18-82 Cape Cod Coliseum, South Yarmouth, MA - Jerry Garcia Band w/Bill Kreutzmann
11-11-82 Felt Forum (Madison Square Garden), New York, NY - Jerry Garcia Band (First show listed here with Jaclyn LaBranch)
11-13-82 Bushnell Auditorium, Hartford, CT - Jerry Garcia Band

1983:

5-28-83 Cape Cod Coliseum, South Yarmouth, MA - Jerry Garcia Band
5-30-83 Bushnell Auditorium, Hartford, CT - Jerry Garcia Band
5-31-83 Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY - Jerry Garcia Band
6-1-83 Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY - Jerry Garcia Band
Most of fall tour has been recommended...
11-25-83 Cleveland Music Hall, Cleveland, OH - Jerry Garcia Band
11-26-83 The Forum, Binghamton, NY - Jerry Garcia Band
11-27-83 Constitution Hall, Washington, DC - Jerry Garcia Band
11-30-83 Hartford Agora, Hartford, CT - Jerry Garcia Band
12-2-83 Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA - Jerry Garcia Band
12-3-83 Orpheum Theater, Boston, MA - Jerry Garcia Band
12-4-83 Gymnasium (SUNY), Stony Brook, NY - Jerry Garcia Band
12-9-83 Beacon Theater, New York, NY - Jerry Garcia Band

1984:

1-13-84 Paramount Northwest Theater, Seattle, WA - Jerry Garcia Band
8-1-84 The Stone, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band (Jerry's 44th birthday!)
8-10-84 Rocky Glen Amusement Park, Moosic, PA - Jerry Garcia Band
8-11-84 Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ - Jerry Garcia Band
8-12-84 Club Casino Ballroom, Hampton Beach, NH - Jerry Garcia Band
8-13-84 Club Casino Ballroom, Hampton Beach, NH - Jerry Garcia Band
8-26-84 Keystone, Palo Alto, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
11-26-84 Bushnell Auditorium, Hartford, CT - Garcia & Kahn acoustic

1985:

10-16-85 The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA - Garcia & Kahn acoustic

1986:

1-27-86 The Ritz, New York City, NY - Garcia & Kahn
1-31-86 Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ - Garcia & Kahn
10-4-86 The Stone, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band (first post-coma performance)
11-30-86 The Stone, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band

1987:

8-29-87 French's Camp on the Eel River, Piercy, CA - Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band
10-17-87 Lunt Fontanne Theater, New York, NY - Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band
10-31-87 Lunt Fontanne Theater, New York, NY - Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band
11-29-87 Warfield Theater, SF, CA - Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band
12-6-87 Wiltern Theater; Los Angeles, CA - Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band

1988:

1-23-88 Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, CA - Jerry & Santana (Blues for Salvador)
2-6-88 Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
3-5-88 Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
4-26-88 Marin Civic Ctr, San Rafael, CA - Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band
7-7-88 - Cotati Cabaret, Cotati, CA - Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band
7-10-88 Greek Theater, University of California, Berkeley, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
11-26-88 - Wiltern Theater, Los Angeles, CA - Jerry Garcia Band

1989:

Just about every JGB show in '89 has been recommended by someone at some point...
1-27&28-89 Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
3-3&4-89 Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band w/Clarence Clemons
5-19-89 Irvine Meadows Amphitheater, Irvine, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
5-20-89 Open Air Theater (San Diego State), San Diego, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
9-1&2-89 Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD - Jerry Garcia Band
9-5-89 Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT - Jerry Garcia Band
9-13-89 Performing Arts Center, Old Orchard Beach, ME - Jerry Garcia Band w/Clarence Clemons
9-16-89 Poplar Creek Music Theatre, Hoffman Estates, IL - Jerry Garcia Band w/Clarence Clemons
10-31-89 Concord Pavilion, Concord, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
12-2-89 Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band w/Clarence Clemons

1990:

2-4-90 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
4-14-90 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
6-13-90 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band w/Clarence Clemons
8-7,8,9-90 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
9-1-90 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
11-21-90 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
11-24-90 Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
12-17-90 Sweetwater, Mill Valley CA - Garcia/Grisman (First appearance)
12-22-90 San Francisco Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band

1991:

1-31-91 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
2-2&3-91 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA - Garcia/Grisman
3-1&2-91 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
8-10-91 French's Camp on the Eel River, Piercy, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
8-24-91 Goldcoast Concert Bowl, Squaw Valley, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
8-25-91 Goldcoast Concert Bowl, Squaw Valley, CA - Garcia/Grisman
11-7-91 Capitol Center, Landover, MD - Jerry Garcia Band
11-9-91 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA - Jerry Garcia Band w/Bruce Hornsby
11-19-91 Providence Civic Center, Providence, RI - Jerry Garcia Band
11-23-91 Bradley Center, Milwaukee, WI - Jerry Garcia Band
12-7,8,9-91 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA - Garcia/Grisman

1992:

8-1-92 Irvine Meadows Amphitheater, Irvine, CA - Jerry Garcia Band (Jerry's 50th birthday!)
10-31-92 Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
5-7,8,9,10,11-92 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA - Garcia/Grisman
12-19-92 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band

1993:

2-25-93 Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
2-26-93 Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
2-27-93 Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
4-16-93 Pauley Pavilion, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
4-17-93 Pauley Pavilion, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
4-18-93 San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
4-25-93 Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
8-8-93 Portland Meadows, Portland, OR
It might be wise to get all of Fall tour....
10-31-93 Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ - Jerry Garcia Band
11-1-93 Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY - Jerry Garcia Band
11-8-93 Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT - Jerry Garcia Band
11-12-93 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - Jerry Garcia Band w/David Murray
11-18-93 Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, VA - Jerry Garcia Band
11-19-93 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA - Jerry Garcia Band

1994:
1-12,13,14-94 - Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA - Garcia/Grisman
2-4,5,6-94 Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
3-9-94 Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
4-20-94 Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band

1995:

4-21-95 Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA - Jerry Garcia Band
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Feb 21, 2015 - 07:07pm PT
Some say this is some of the finest playing ever by Mr. Garcia

Jerry Garcia and Merle Saunders
Keystone Korners
San Francisco Ca
5 20 1971

The date has been deduced by David Lemiuex and Matt Smith with some solid research. While we will never know for sure, few would know better.


1. jam
2. jam
3. jam
4. Blues Instrumental
5. Little Bit of Righteousness
6. Summertime (theming, not exact)
Risk

Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
Feb 21, 2015 - 07:11pm PT
My first show was: Grateful Dead Live at Selland Arena on 1974-07-19 (July 19, 1974)

https://archive.org/download/gd1974-07-19.sbd.miller.32634.sbeok.flac16/gd1974-07-19.sbd.miller.32634.sbeok.flac16_vbr.m3u
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Feb 21, 2015 - 07:15pm PT
October 1, 1967


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climber
Out Of Bed
Feb 21, 2015 - 07:33pm PT
zb , sir missing from, the (not) your list are both the 2/28/80 & 12/13/ 83 Keene college , union Nj shows, the 81 /show featuring Robert Hunter rivals even the magic mountain show! I seethe Caldwell College show. And my favorite all time the 8/29/87 Hog farm Frenches Camp Éel River show!! Out side, late summer early harvest, humbolt !very small brothers and sisters
See my post some pages back for the ticket stubs.
Risk

Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
Feb 21, 2015 - 08:38pm PT
I went to the 8/29/87 Hog farm show! Indeed! Labeled as the "best weekend ever" by me and those I went with. We went to see a great Dead cover band at the "Crossroads" in Laytonville afterwards until the wee hours before crashing in some redwood state park. Swam in the Pacific near Ft. Bragg the next day. I will never forget that great show. Garberville and Arcata shows were great too. On my 25th birthday, Mar 19, 1982, Joe D. and I shared a Camel with The Gar behind Mojo's in Arcata during the break; we treated the occasion as no big deal and just hung out a while in the alley across from where I lived then. When our smokes were up, he said something like "hey guys, it's time for me to go, thanks."
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Feb 22, 2015 - 07:18am PT
Z, where on Earth can I get to listen to that Garcia show from 71?
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Feb 22, 2015 - 08:29am PT
Just because it's amusing.
I think, just from hearing him talk about his approach to this, he'll kick ass!
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Feb 22, 2015 - 11:50am PT
gnome - As I recall this was a list of one guy's collecction of shows. I can't remember if it was all of them or the ones he thought were best. It was supposed to be a work in progress, I 'll look into it to see if it has been updated.

k-man the files for the show are about 1.5 GB in compressed FLAC format, so U.S. mail is probably the path to take. First off, I have to track down which disc I have them on. More later...

here is a version on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw5BpsT2lgQ

another show (1971) from Matrix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt4s6iMH_lU



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climber
Out Of Bed
Feb 25, 2015 - 01:56pm PT
Today right now in fact I have pulled one from my vault:
for all the western Folks,

this is acrispy tape!! VENTURA FAIRGROUNDS< CALIFORNIA>,7/18/82
the case notes read 3rd generation (spelled out for emphasis) 2 NAK 300/100 sony d-5
Brian Schley!
Samson and Delilah.>Franklins Tower, The Women are smarter, Ship of fools( smokin! CRAZY FINGERS drumz
filler Harrisburg>6/22/83
Ramble on Rose!!

drumz/space MOSQUITO space,>not fade away >the Other one>Wharf Rat> Sugar Magnolia
Filler>6/22/83, Harrisburg PA,
Feel like a stranger

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climber
Out Of Bed
Feb 25, 2015 - 03:52pm PT
v v v v- - ^ ^ ^ ^
The reason for the deep dive into the '80s was the need to find The Broadway tapes that are a party to the Hog Farm, Eel river, Garcia band show,8/29/87
Scroll 'round till like what ya found
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Ya all know how to scroll right?
the thing is as always happens when i pull out the box with the early '80s shows i find the cream and must listen - 7/18/82 was just the tip of the iceberg....
5/11/80!!
Portland Main, a Mothers' Day show,1 ,
1st set
Alabama Getaway.> The Promised Land , they Love each other.>Cassidy (yee ha) Loser, All Over Now, easy To Love You, Big Railroad Blues>Looks Like Rain, Don't Ease Me IN>The Music Never Stopped.

2nd set two songs: Scarlet > fire ...
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Feb 25, 2015 - 06:29pm PT

It seems that GD played Ventura Fairgrounds 7-17 and 7-18 1982.

I only went to one show there, I can't remember if either of these was the one.



Dr.Sprock

Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
Feb 25, 2015 - 11:03pm PT
dude i bought strings at Draper's on California St where Jerry bailed out the bathroom window because his student didn't have a clue and the rest is historically correct,
i don't want to hear from these trust fund punks who followed them around in the 90's, jus sayin, you had to be there, WTF, over? your gonna die!

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climber
Out Of Bed
Feb 26, 2015 - 02:21am PT
Sprocket ee all night the jujuj is high tonight!! For your approval
Or not
At englishtown then drug all around for the rest of the tour only to stop
Yes
'91
Juvinals and junkie tour.,.m( that is urinals & furkeed up onz)thr wzz dieing go'n dwn!
All stop !!
Ah? @
The. Manor Downs !!!. . .Fourth of July 1981@00pz edit

1st set0)
Jack straw, Peggi0 )(, Me & my Uncle .Big River, loser, Little Red Rooster, )(Tennessee Jed, Minglewood Blues , China Cat Sunflower>I know You Rider!!

then, the Encore$!!

One More 4thof July

as a filler on this tape from 6/3/83 the Capital theater, Passic NJ
Cats down under the starz.....( JGB )



CHECK IT!!

Then from that venerable Venue Home town for Me.... some time i loose the things i have found over night The CAPITAL THEATER FROM "73 - 89 had some of the best shows of all time
I notice very few Whole shows but this and three years in a row of Bromberg shows are well worth the Listen

hey now zb check out the Capitals Calendar!! I barely know how
[Click to View YouTube Video]

I f you can't do the whole show thats a shame and you need to expand your ability no more short attention span theater of a bit
but
skip to () !;29,oo() catch thend of whipping post and then CHECK IT!!
ya' all can keep your phish,</;-P any one remember Liberty cap(itals at the shows??)
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climber
Out Of Bed
Feb 26, 2015 - 10:30am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Feb 26, 2015 - 11:24am PT
Thanks for those links zBrown!

And I remember that black-light poster. Wow, those were the daze.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Feb 26, 2015 - 11:29am PT
Apparently Bill Walton got Kareem Abdul Jabbar to commit, on the air, to going to Chicago with him for these final shows coming up!

That's fun.
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Feb 26, 2015 - 12:51pm PT
Would be something if Bill and Kareem pulled up in his van. Last time I saw Walton a couple of years ago he was carrying around his own chair to sit in because although his back is way better, it still can start hurting.



survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Feb 26, 2015 - 01:40pm PT
I was living in Oregon when the Blazers won the title, and we got to go to a lot of games for a couple years, thanks to a wealthy friends dad.


In the late 90's I met him in a gift shop in the SLC airport, so got to visit with him for a few minutes about that great Blazer team.

We didn't talk about the Dead, heh....
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Feb 26, 2015 - 03:53pm PT
Nothing worse than having Bill stand (or sit) in front of you at a Dead show.





















































Unless, of course, he shares.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Feb 26, 2015 - 04:01pm PT
Classic exchange between Walton and John Wooden at UCLA, from a documentary.

Wooden had a no long hair, no beard policy.

Walton came back from a summer break with his hair growing out and a full beard.

He marched into Wooden's office and said: "I'm keeping the beard coach."

Wooden: Hmmm, Is that important to you Bill?

Walton: Yes it is Coach.

Wooden: Well I've always admired a man that's willing to stand up for what he believes. We'll miss you Bill.....

Walton: I'll shave.
Robja

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
Feb 26, 2015 - 04:04pm PT
Hey Kelly, didn't you or Sharon take this picture, or was it CJ??
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Feb 26, 2015 - 04:14pm PT
Here's a shot of Bill in Egypt. He really is tall.


In addition to pretty much everything the boys ever played being on the internet, there is all kinds of other stuff.

Just discovered when this (famous?) photo was taken. 5-29-1969.

survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Feb 26, 2015 - 04:31pm PT
Wow zbrown, Bill looks like a Dead Ringer for Weir in that Egypt shot....
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Feb 26, 2015 - 05:13pm PT
Just tracked down the UCSB show where a hell's angel brought his bike on stage and decided to accompany the band by revving it and Warren Zevon got booed.

June 4, 1978.

Here's a clip of one guy's recolleciton

Now back to the main event: If any of you attended the Greek in 87' where they were doin' the motorcycle thing! Well, this is were it was derived from! On that board tape one can clearly hear Mickey tell the biker not to rev. it up but to just let it idle unlike here; where this guy with the motorcycle obviously had a different approach!
For example, not only with the bike but with his monkey vocalizations too which he apparently couldn't hear himself with no monitor not realizing (and asking eventually though the mic, "Is this f*#kin' thing workin'?") that it is going out over the P.A. before hand during the improvisational jam with Garcia doodlin' through his envelope filter (on by the way, the "wolf" Doug Irwin guitar i.e. the one in the movie since the Travis Bean had gotten stolen some time late the year before); (Wier unusually had a Ibanez double neck, and Lesh on the 10 button bass (Europe '72) but neither of them were in this jam until the motorcyle); while most interesting and rare Mickey Hart set some spooky Carribean rythmns using genuine steal drums! Not to mention some weird moaning and hollowing from Donna(? not visible or who knows maybe that was Bonnie Raitt or some other chick with the biker, in any case it made for a unique jam into the motorcycle charged Not Fade Away)!

More, I definitely remember the "acid casualites" remark.

Many attendees of this show recall the craziness that surrounded Warren Zevon's set. Well I have a very nice audience recording of it, and I'd like to share a few comments!!

Number one, Zevon was definitely flying on something the entire set. Therefore he is loud and obnoxious to the audience. Number two, the set goes on a little too long and it's obvious that the crowd is getting bored. You can hear people in the audience yelling "Bring on the Dead!!" The chants get louder as the set wears on.

Before he goes into "Werewolves of London," Zevon says to the restless crowd: "Okay you f*#kin' acid casualties... you vegetables... I want you to say "AAAOOOHHH!" (The crowd either yells "AAAOOOHH" or starts to boo!) "Now, you ne'er do wells....I'm going to introduce one of the greatest living singers to you... you don't deserve it but you got it!" (He introduces Bonnie Raitt, who gets a decent round of applause) "Say AAAOOOHHH!!!" (more catcalls and boos from the audience!!! "Bring on the Dead" chant grows louder and louder) "Just turn in all your drugs to my road manager and we'll see that they are properly disposed of." (More booing and catcalls as Zevon & band starts the song.)

Zevon does finish his set, which ends under an assault of feedback. (Very little applause from the audience). Bill Graham, the master of ceremonies gets on stage and says "Once again, please Warren Zevon..... (Zevon says 'thank you')
We will be back in a little while with the... Grateful Dead." And the crowd cheers wildly.

Warren Zevon setlist:

VERACRUZ
JOHNNY STRIKES UP THE BAND
TENDERNESS ON THE BLOCK
MOHAMMED'S RADIO
EXCITABLE BOY
ACCIDENTALLY LIKE A MARTYR
NIGHT TIME IN THE SWITCHING YARD
A CERTAIN GIRL
ROLAND THE HEADLESS THOMPSON GUNNER
POOR PITIFUL ME
WEREWOLVES OF LONDON
LAWYERS, GUNS & MONEY

Yeah, but what about the show? From memory, I'm inclined to agree with this guy, but I'll give it another listen..

If you end up enjoying this, cool, but, honestly:

Set 1 has some truly great moments...but...

Set 2 degenerates into something really bad, starts off well but gradually goes south. It really seems that the band got drunk backstage. Yes, they are pumping out unbridled energy, hooting and hollering by the end (which seems to convince many that the music is great), but the playing becomes just a mess, amateurish. They are certainly pleased with themselves, but very likely upon listening back, they would feel that they'd like to forget about this one, embarrassed by it.

Again, for those that enjoy this show, great. But, honestly the 2nd set is truly progressively bad. There are so very many other better shows. It's worth it to skip this one (or at least sign off a few songs into set 2).

The show is here in three versions.

http://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Grateful%20Dead%29%20AND%20date%3A1978-06-04


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Out Of Bed
Feb 28, 2015 - 02:32pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]


http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2011/05/jgms-february-16-1974-capitol-theatre.html
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zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Mar 3, 2015 - 06:57am PT
SOLD OuT

throwpie

Trad climber
Berkeley
Mar 3, 2015 - 09:18am PT
They did the idling Harley rhythm thing at the Greek in Berkeley as I recall. No one around us knew it was a motorcycle till they revved it...
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Mar 3, 2015 - 09:40am PT
Just tracked down the UCSB show where a hell's angel brought his bike on stage and decided to accompany the band by revving it and Warren Zevon got booed.


HellFire, I was at that show!

Haha, Warren telling us we're all a bunch of acid-head losers. Way to impress the crowd!


Bob, I think Sharon, but I was standing next to her! Good action Bro!!
throwpie

Trad climber
Berkeley
Mar 3, 2015 - 09:55am PT
Sorry for repeating what you already posted Z....I need to read more closely
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Mar 3, 2015 - 10:40am PT
Ha ha K-man I was at that SB show too!
Warren yelled out that we didn't deserve to have him play for us. Also Bonnie R
It took me a while after that to get into his music.....
The positive thing I remember was Elvyn Bishop ( opening act, iirc) being psyched when Jerry came out to jam with his band. After a blistering guitar solo, EB fanned his cowboy hat as if to cool off Jerry's guitar. I saw him do that other times with other musicians, but I always liked it and thought it an endearing gesture...
Stone ground played at that show, too.
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Mar 3, 2015 - 12:14pm PT
Me too and I recall Zevon calling those assembled "a bunch of late 60s acid washouts."

Always answer the source...
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Mar 3, 2015 - 03:43pm PT
Strange day. I'll be back with which angel it was later. It's been hushed up because there is an ongoing argument over the rights to the bike (or at least it's contribution to the band that day).

The Big Wha-Koo preceded Elvin Bishop and Garcia played one song with Elvin, "Goin' Fishin'".


Anybody else go to this one? I know throwpie's older brother Tim attended.

zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Mar 11, 2015 - 06:46pm PT

The poster for the Grateful Dead/Country Joe And The Fish concert at the Carousel Ballroom on February 14, 1968, the first live remote FM broadcast of a Grateful Dead show


The Dead’s first involvement with FM radio came very early on – while he was attending UC Berkeley, Phil Lesh was a volunteer engineer at Berkeley’s KPFA station. On one of his first meetings with Garcia in winter 1962, he asked Garcia to record a demo for the station’s Midnight Special folk show. Garcia wound up playing a full radio show of solo folk tunes, called The Long Black Veil.

A couple years later.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
EdBannister

Mountain climber
13,000 feet
Mar 11, 2015 - 10:52pm PT
quote Randy Hankins:
"I will be Grateful, when they are all dead."

HaHaHa

ps..

they should change the ice cream from Cherry Garcia, to Berry Garcia!
that one is mine!
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Mar 13, 2015 - 01:52pm PT
@
Steve Grossman

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
Mar 13, 2015 - 02:23pm PT
His hair was perfect...
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Mar 15, 2015 - 05:43pm PT
3-13-2011


After Bear's death, his family started the Owsley Stanley Foundation, which is now raising funds to restore and release Bear's tapes - over 1300 live recordings...

http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2012/03/owsley-stanley-foundation.html
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Mar 15, 2015 - 05:48pm PT
"As well to count the angels dancing on a pin . . ."
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Mar 15, 2015 - 06:52pm PT
Just heard a rumor that the Grateful Dead will do two shows in the Bay Area before Chicago. (Shoreline?)

I've known some folks who have been to a Lot of Dead shows, but until now, Jerry has been to them all. Man, that dude sure liked to follow the tour.


Great memories of Santa Barbara Jaybro & Steve! My memories of the show are not as crisp. But I do remember they guy next to me, he somehow snuck in a huge N2O tank...
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2015 - 07:00pm PT
Ugly rumors ;-)

They should just do a proper tour.
It would be well attended and would certainly quell all the Deadheads pissed off about the Chicago deal.
Rotate guitarists too so all the Trey haters will be happier.
By the end the band would kill each other- then there'd be no question whether they'd play again.

Doubt any of that will happen, though.
A Bay area blowout sure would be appreciated, and appropriate.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Mar 15, 2015 - 08:55pm PT
"Trey haters"?

A real first-world problem.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2015 - 08:57pm PT
lol no doubt!
There's serious outrage!
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Mar 16, 2015 - 05:24am PT
I like your take on this, Jefe.
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Mar 16, 2015 - 06:12am PT
Speaking of rumors,I heard that THE Chicago band will play a few shows in Vermont under an alias,in bars.
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Mar 16, 2015 - 10:06am PT
Trey haters?

Blasphemy!

Dudes got major chops.

If anyone wants to camp out at the expected Watkins Glen show this summer, that would be fun. I'll be there.

ST+ Phish= a really good time.

Let's do this!
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Mar 16, 2015 - 05:29pm PT
I was thinking about the summer'86 tour, the tour that ended early with Jerry going into a comma on 7/8/86, on the fourth of July, yhey played thusly [Click to View YouTube Video]then this the night before the fog rolled in[Click to View YouTube Video]http://articles.latimes.com/1986-07-13/news/mn-20764_1_diabetic-coma
much is written but the sounds were sharp just before . . .[Click to View YouTube Video]this is just past the one year mark.
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Mar 16, 2015 - 09:54pm PT

ggg



Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Mar 18, 2015 - 08:13am PT
The to much of everything[Click to View YouTube Video]IS JUST ENOUGH!! SEE YA" MOUSE!
[Click to View YouTube Video]

3/28/81 Germany
[Click to View YouTube Video]
I have a tape or two from this great set of shows. . . but


I have this show show from 7/10/81 St Paul , Minn. Playin'in the car, but when I looked for any of it the interview was all that I found?

the second set of the show was Ripping,:

space>.Uncle Johns Band>.Playin' in the Band.> China Doll.>Uncle Johns>Playin,>
>around & around>Good Lovin' Encore, Cassey Jones!!



... I have to be able to find it...00h and welcome aboard V V V Tennessee Jeddon't pull up on the boltzs at Stoney Point!
Tennessee Jed

Sport climber
South Bay
Mar 19, 2015 - 11:56am PT

Pretty sweet bus in Arcata, CA!
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Mar 19, 2015 - 08:24pm PT
MARCH, 1967

Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Mar 22, 2015 - 02:52pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]

sweet memories,[Click to View YouTube Video] and crazy 'smaller show' stories,[Click to View YouTube Video]
The - To Lay Me Down - SCHOOK the place!!








add this, show,
I was there in bottles and sense
but really was trying to get to a different Paradise Forks,
I need to checkout more of the show, heres what i found so far:

[Click to View YouTube Video]
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Apr 7, 2015 - 08:50am PT
Bill joins in at the Ferry Building!
Psilocyborg

climber
Apr 7, 2015 - 11:32am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]

28:00 is when mickey and billy join
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Apr 7, 2015 - 01:58pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]Come ON try a whole show![Click to View YouTube Video]
I had plans to throw up Manor Downs Or St. Paul '81 but . . .

8-29-87 French's Camp on the Eel River, Piercy, CA - Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band

and then all that I can find of this (but for the whole show.)[Click to View YouTube Video]what a summer climbing trip!!
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Apr 10, 2015 - 07:36pm PT
Well, looks like my ugly rumor was pretty hit:

http://www.dead50.net/

WFF?



ION, I am totally digging the new Modest Mouse record. Holy cow, so much going on on those tracks. Is anybody else onto those grooves?
cintune

climber
The Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
Apr 10, 2015 - 08:15pm PT
The new Modest Mouse album is good. Always thought of Isaac as being kinda like Neil Young's long-lost grandchild.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa
Apr 20, 2015 - 07:48pm PT

[Click to View YouTube Video]

[Click to View YouTube Video]

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Apr 20, 2015 - 08:12pm PT
"Half a cup of rock and rye . . ."
cintune

climber
The Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
May 7, 2015 - 01:42pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
May 7, 2015 - 02:53pm PT
F*#k Isaac Brock.

Casey Jones was the only song he came up with, and that was with a question mark?

And then to talk down on a scene that created so much of what he enjoys as the music world. What a bitch.
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
May 9, 2015 - 07:27pm PT
mickey hart on feedback,

"first one would feedback, then all of them would be feeding back madly, until the song disappeared beneath torrents of noise. it was like somebody tossing a bloddy chicken into a pool of piranha. phil would almost be foaming at the mouth, throwing his guitar into the amp. and jerry would just drop everything and run at his amp, as if he couldn't get back there and start feeding back fast enough.

god it was exciting. for a few minutes you'd be out on the edge with this roaring animal all around you, and it was always an open question whether it was going to go back into it's cage or not. pigpen hated it. he would hide behind his organ, and we'd have to call to him to come back out and play."

-excerpt from "The Story Behind Every Grateful Dead Song" by Stephen Peters.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
May 15, 2015 - 05:31pm PT
I forgot to ask. Has anyone ever listened to the "tuning" tape? I can't remember how many minutes (but pretty long) of nothing but GD tuning.

I'll track it down if anyone is interested and yes I listened to it all the way through. OK I was working on some stuff simultaneously.


whoops, forgot about utube - here it is 92 minutes and :50 bonus track (from 1977)

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
May 22, 2015 - 05:47am PT
the last verse that Garcia
sung to an audience before
his worldly departure:

"i will walk alone by the black muddy river,
and sing me a song of my own."[Click to View YouTube Video]
cowpoke

climber
May 29, 2015 - 04:21pm PT
say uh, huh.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
May 29, 2015 - 05:09pm PT
"I'll be knockin' on the Golden Door . . ."
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
May 29, 2015 - 06:55pm PT
"And the river keep a talkin'
But you never hear a word it say"


[Click to View YouTube Video]
bixquite

Social climber
humboldt nation
May 29, 2015 - 10:06pm PT
Jerry and the Boys would run it out and bolt ground up by stance
SC seagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab or In What Time Zone Am I?
May 30, 2015 - 09:54am PT
I recently watched the Netfix show on Bob Weir. He was always my favorite Dead. It was an excellent documentary. He's still sooooo sexy.


Susan
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Jun 1, 2015 - 04:26pm PT
In one of the funniest twists of all time, Garcia was pictured in a Richard Nixon campaign commercial in 1968!!

Notice how kind and positive the tone is compared to today!

[Click to View YouTube Video]
jeff constine

Trad climber
Ao Namao
Jun 1, 2015 - 04:55pm PT
Let the Dead R.I.P for ever.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jun 1, 2015 - 06:15pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]


The choice of Chicago? still leaves me out in the cold,
and
as for uncle Bob he is a piece of work, and would have made a very good climber .

He is a bit of a slum lord but it is with a golden hart.

Womanizing?
he was know to say that any one who criticized him was jealous and would keep the fans happy too, & it was part of the job description.

I was smitten by a friend of his who was a friend of my sister and they would torture me by calling home to ask if i could guess who was about to say hi?
It would always be some almost a list punter,
but the day they called from the Boreal ridge show It was Bob and he and I played a funny game I knew instantly,
so I spelled out B, O B and BOB said" HA! this guys good, b,o,b it is !"
and do you know A, M, Y,?
she says that this was your ticket
that she doesn't need why aren't you here?
argh!
My sister was a little hollywierd chick and her friend was the strawberry blond to die for even if she was once from New Jersey.











[Click to View YouTube Video]
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jun 1, 2015 - 08:57pm PT
Wow! Thanks for that, gnome! That had it all... 6/18/76 in NJ, I wonder if Linda Lu was there?
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Jun 5, 2015 - 06:29pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
zBrown

Ice climber
Brujň de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
Jun 6, 2015 - 07:40pm PT
Walter Cronkite was there. Walter Trout? I dunno.

Clerk wrote it down.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Bill Mc Kirgan

Trad climber
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Jun 6, 2015 - 08:42pm PT
^^^ YEs inDEEDy, thank you !!!!
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jun 7, 2015 - 06:12am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]In all the stupid hype of the gender bending Jenner or is it gonna be a Cardeshean?Using a C to be what feminine ?what a k0gk!
Any way on the tv show 20/20 Leslie Sthal said
"There is a song that goes :



There will come at time when things once seen as strange ,
Seem familiar. . .


[Click to View YouTube Video]




Like I said of the gay flag
Hey
No you can not have my rainbow for your cause!
I feel the same way about the sound track to my life.

The use of images and music taken so out of context as to create a new and un meant
Meaning should at least be pointed out.

To me that line has spoken volumes about pre cognition, and some decidedly tippy,druggy,in a great way,[Click to View YouTube Video]
Gareful Dead, only sh!t
siht that you can not now afterwards take out of the story.! Cause it is the essence, to me of what made the dead experience.
that

Things once seen as strange seem familiar was all about living Nd tripping . As a life style.
You can water it down for historical political correctness, but that would be bogus!

Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till its gone,


Sure stop here and the line can fit a myriad of subjects. . .


Tore down paradise, and put up a parking lot only frames the direction of the subject

Don't it always seem to be that you don't know what you've got till its gone,
Tore down paradise and put up a parking lot!



Prayers for Joni Mitchell !
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jun 23, 2015 - 07:22pm PT
It is an all in kinda thing with me see the date,[Click to View YouTube Video]I hope that the shows are great, hot for sure and long enough to taste the soup,




I was Family, We had it first and sure did not mind it's annexation by the movement.



Sorry I can't link right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l3Ghakv8-Y
zBrown

Ice climber
Jun 23, 2015 - 07:33pm PT
Photo by Marty Meyer


Reputed to be a very good show

Jerry Garica Band
10/28/1987 - Early Show
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
New York, NY

01 Get Out Of My Life Woman
02 They Love Each Other
03 Mission In The Rain
04 Like A Road
05 Love In The Afternoon
06 //My Sisters And Brothers
07 That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)
08 Deal
Encore
09 Crazy Love
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 23, 2015 - 07:44pm PT
"Walk me out in the morning dew my honey . . .

Walk me out in the morning dew today . . . "
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 23, 2015 - 10:15pm PT
Hey gnome
Take your homophobic bullshˇt somewhere else.
Thanks.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Rhodo-Router

Gym climber
sawatch choss
Jun 24, 2015 - 05:53am PT
Oh, so it's YOUR rainbow. Can't believe the hundreds of millions of gay people never asked your permission for that.
How inconsiderate of them.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jun 24, 2015 - 08:25am PT
I'd written it off, didn't get blessed by the lottery and I figured "that was that."

They just released some 6,000 tickets for cheap for the Saturday show at Levi stadium, a friend of mine wrote me. But it was too late, I'd already bought some tix off eBay!

I stumbled over to the Dead ticket section, and there's tons to be had. Many for above cost, but if you look, you can find some deals. OK, I still paid a pretty penny, but I got great tickets for almost 30% off the sticker price!

Sunday Show, here I come--the last Dead show in Cali.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jun 24, 2015 - 09:16am PT
OK, how about a trivia contest?

First question: What did the sticker on Jerry's Travis Bean say?

Answer to come shortly...
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jun 24, 2015 - 02:33pm PT
The one that looked like Oil Can Harry?
zBrown

Ice climber
Jun 24, 2015 - 03:24pm PT
Geetar Sticker
paraphrase

Ass Grass & Gas,
no free rides

Grateful Dead - May 7, 1972 - Bickershaw Festival - Wigan, England
Notes:
    This is from Betty's recording mix
Set 1:
s1t01 - Truckin'
s1t02 - Sugaree
s1t03 - Mr. Charlie
s1t04 - Beat It On Down The Line
s1t05 - He's Gone
s1t06 - Chinatown Shuffle
s1t07 - China Cat Sunflower ->
s1t08 - I Know You Rider
s1t09 - Black Throated Wind
s1t10 - Next Time You See Me
s1t11 - "Happy Birthday Billy"
s1t12 - Playing In The Band
s1t13 - Tennessee Jed

Excellent 7:22 TJ - I sometimes listen in reverse.
the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
Jun 24, 2015 - 07:57pm PT
Last dead show ill likely ever experience this Saturday at Levi's stadium. Fare the well.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jun 25, 2015 - 08:17am PT
On Garcia's guitar sticker...

Garcia said the Travis Bean was the best production guitar made, and he played his white one for a couple of years. I love that period of time when he'd play with few effects, just the tone of the guitar blasting through. He got more and more into effects, which was pretty good for the most part, but I always loved it when he'd just turn the balls to the wall.

It wasn't often I'd fight to get up close, but it was a special experience when you were in ear-shot of the group. Jerry never put on much of a "show," he'd just stand staring at some far-away light, gently rocking back and forth. And the crowd would be going nuts.

At Winterland one evening, I got up close enough to read what his new sticker said on that Travis Bean.

The Enemy is Listening

Ha! What a friggin' jokester. I laughed hard.
Soon after that he got himself a different guitar. He put a sticker on that one too, it was a wolf. Sometime afterwards, when the ax was in the shop, Irwin tore the sticker off and duplicated it with a beautiful inlay. I think that was then end of the stickers on Jerry's guitars.

Yeah, Fare the well.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 25, 2015 - 10:26pm PT
Nice post K Man.

I hadn't considered going to any of the Fare The Well shows.
Then I got a call and a message from some old East Coast friends.
Just get to Santa Clara, we've got you covered- tix, hotel, car, just get there.
I didn't even know the show dates.
Looked it up, as I was about to go ahead and purchase plane travel.
Turns out I already had plans- a family wedding in LA.
First time, last time I guess, I'll ever turn down miracles.
Turns out, now I have the flu and can't even go to LA.
F*#k it.

Have fun at the show1
EP

Trad climber
Way Out There
Jun 26, 2015 - 06:15am PT
We have three fix for the Sunday night show and nine for the Chicago shows. I could have flown to Munich for a week instead.
zBrown

Ice climber
Jun 26, 2015 - 06:59am PT
3 stickers now reported on guitar

ass.grass.gas ... my other guitar sounds better ... the enemy is listening



More here.

http://www.abalonevintage.com/1977_travis_bean_tb-500_guitar_jerry_garcia_grateful_dead_guitar_collection.htm
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jun 26, 2015 - 08:30am PT
Wow, look at that Strat! Amazing pic, thanks.

The Eurpoe '72 box set has a booklet with a piece about that guitar... I'll try to carve out some time to scribble it out...


ass.grass.gas ... my other guitar sounds better ... the enemy is listening

The man liked his stickers!
I see the ass.grass.gas covers The Enemy...



drljefe, the flu. Bummer...


A good friend of mine bought a Sat. ticket, for $230. Then she had a family affair and can't go.
Tickets are easy to find now, she's having a hard time selling.
Risk

Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
Jun 27, 2015 - 09:32am PT
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 27, 2015 - 09:43am PT
"River gonna take me, sing me sweet and sleepy . . .
Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back back home . . .
It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago . . .
Mama, mama many worlds I've come since I first left home . . ."
bixquite

Social climber
humboldt nation
Jun 27, 2015 - 02:47pm PT
whoever is going to the shows, have fun and dance and shake your bones,
but as always I'm gonna go climb and surf on the beach in Trinidad and have a mellow night
with the wife and kid. I am grateful for the shows i saw and magic when Jerry was on, and
at this point in my life nothing beats a good day of surf or climbing in index and at the end of the day chilling in the hammock with the kid and listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
Thanks boys for the songs that are the sound track of life, and mr Hunter for the depth of
your words. To all the good family far and wide, lets keep on dancin'
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jun 27, 2015 - 03:32pm PT
We have at least one taco operative on her way to Santa Clara show 1 right now....
ryankelly

Trad climber
Bhumi
Jun 27, 2015 - 09:34pm PT
d-know

Trad climber
electric lady land
Jun 27, 2015 - 10:53pm PT

Love and respect.
zBrown

Ice climber
Jun 28, 2015 - 04:23pm PT
When Jerry arose ....


you know how it goes


Goin to leave this Broke-down Palace
On my hands and my knees I will roll roll roll
Make myself a bed by the waterside
In my time - in my time - I will roll roll roll
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 28, 2015 - 06:09pm PT

Couch Tour continues.

Last night was great, possibly my favorite post Jerry Dead music.



Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 28, 2015 - 08:53pm PT
Thanks for the set list Jefe!
EP

Trad climber
Way Out There
Jun 29, 2015 - 07:55am PT
Saw the webcast first night and the live version last night. There is something quite reassuring about watching from the comfort of a couch with a beer in hand and a plate full of food. Trey was a very interesting choice. I prefer Kadlicek.

Next stop?

Chicago.
zBrown

Ice climber
Jun 29, 2015 - 09:12am PT
More Garcia

Half of Bill Walton's living room is filled with musical instruments. These include an array of drums, cymbals and percussion instruments given to him by the band’s drummers, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart. All of the band's members once signed a Zildjian cymbal for Walton as a birthday gift. On it, Garcia wrote: Hey Bill. Beat this!

Bill is a "bigger" fan than many of us. :)

You can check out his Dead memorabilia here.

I took out the links because after you click 'em a couple of times they default to the newspaper subscription page.

This is pretty weird, since it apparently "remembers" your ip address and blocks access to the article. Some may call it the end of the free press in Amerika.
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 29, 2015 - 09:23am PT
"Talkin' 'bout the time when we was mutual friends . . ."
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 29, 2015 - 09:27am PT
http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/gd2015-06-27SantaClaraCA.asx
zBrown

Ice climber
Jun 29, 2015 - 09:45am PT
Could not get to that specific link

did go here

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/

and watched some streaming vid

THANKS
Stevee B

Trad climber
Oakland, CA
Jun 29, 2015 - 11:36am PT
So...I watched the first show, second set only from the couch while on a family visit in Santa Barbara, visiting sister and parent and picking up hand-me-down baby stuff. Then I see the first photos posted of friends from tour who I hadn't seen in twenty years imploring "GET UP HERE". I petition my wife and we leave Santa Barbara at 2pm the next day.

We stop at the Santa Clara Mariott to pick up a floor ticket left for me at the front desk at 6:40pm. I hear Minglewood from a mile away. By 6:58pm I'm stepping on to the floor, front left, of the stadium. The traditional rendezvous point. At 7pm, as scheduled, Frank comes out and wraps my wrist with a VIP band and I find myself hugging and hooting with a dozen friends who I had literally not seen in twenty years.

No time to catch up, music's playing! Talk to you at set break.

As it went down:
(Missed)
Stranger
Minglewood
Brown-Eyed Women
(arrived)
Loose Lucy - very competent - much more energy than last night. Trey is getting loose.
Loser - very impressive. I like Phish some but I'm way cynical about this configuration. This one rocked. Trey most definitely overcame his initial inhibitions. In fact, Bobby and Phil tried to return from the bridge several times with Trey obliviously soloing over them at least three times. Eventually they gave up. "I guess we're done when Trey's done." Kinda funny moment when Bob and Phil just lost all control of the band. Far more prominent than ever happened with the Boys.
Row Jimmy - Also very strong. Well extended. Trey is strong.
Alabama Getaway - straight up smoking. Full-tilt, and a nice treat since I only saw one in the 80s/90s.
Black Peter - nice placement in first set, suprising energy to a song that drug us into a dark place in the Jerry days.
Hell in a Bucket - Rowdy and fun. The Bobby songs seem to float better.

Set break Chuck and I mysteriously found ourselves taking a wrong turn and ending up fortuitously in a VIP lounge area with free food and short bar line. We stacked ourselves with treats to take to our friends and chuckled back out into the concourse to socialize.

Back for Round Two -
1/2 Step > Wharf Rat - as good as it ever got in the days. I don't recall hearing a Wharf Rat from 1988 forward that approached the quality of this one. My friends and I began a discussion of how many truly terrible Grateful Dead shows we saw, and how on balance this was certainly better than some of them.
Eyes - off kilter. Please don't let Phil sing anymore. Love you Phil.

The rest was continuously solid with no real low lights, but nothing electrifying.
Drums>Space>
Miracle>
Death Don't>
Sugar Mag
E: Brokedown

Death Don't does deserve mention. I don't know what happened but the falling-off-his-chair Bobby, doddering old pain-pill addled old man received some sort of rejuvenation. DDHNM was one of the rare Jerry songs that Bobby actually sounds just as good if not better singing, and he nailed it. Emotion and intensity I don't recall ever hearing when done by the boys.

Donor Rap, Final Bow, that's it that's all. So glad I didn't miss it.

Best wishes to all of you heading to Chicago!





Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 29, 2015 - 12:40pm PT
"I can't think of a place that's more perfect, for a person as perfect as you . . ."

rbord

Boulder climber
atlanta
Jun 29, 2015 - 12:41pm PT
We got to see both shows - what fun!

Last night we had floor tickets. The security people gave you a wristband that meant you had access to the floor. I asked them when they would open the floor to everyone (Saturday the floor looked packed!) and they said never - it was reserved for floor ticket holders the whole time (like your seat would be reserved for you the whole time). As soon as the first song started to play, broad daylight, people started jumping down in the ADA section next to the floor, then down to the floor, then jumped the barriers into the crowd and disappeared/blended in. Soon it was crazy crowded on the whole floor - we eventually bailed to some unoccupied seats way over yonder. Kind of annoying and also kind of sweet that the floor was so well used. Prolly a big part of it was that they had sold all the obstructed view and no view seats behind the stage, so those folks packed in all over.

The interesting thing to me was the perspective of the Levi's Stadium security personnel. They we're flabbergasted and unprepared for the aggressiveness and disrespect of the people jumping the section barriers and flooding the floor and ignoring their instructions and authority. They were used to better behavior from the people who attend NFL games, which seemed an interesting commentary on the values of the fan bases. It's not what I've learned to expect. :-)
Stevee B

Trad climber
Oakland, CA
Jun 29, 2015 - 01:08pm PT
I noticed that consistently at fresh venues they played. At the Palace in Detroit in 92 it was free for all with the ushers night one. By night two they'd locked it down.

Excellent response to my lack of modesty Kalimon. It was a special night indeed and I'm having trouble containing it.

I have a joke for you:

"An old man enters a confessional and proudly exclaims, "Father, I have to tell you what happened to me last night. I'm 90 years old, and I made love to two 18-year-old women for eight hours!"

The stern priest replies, "That is a sin. I will have to give you a penance."

"Father, you can't give me a penance."

"Why not?"

"Because I'm Jewish."

The perplexed Father asks, "Then why are you telling me?"

"I'm telling everyone!""
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 29, 2015 - 08:09pm PT
SteveeB thanks for your live reports!
zBrown

Ice climber
Jun 29, 2015 - 08:19pm PT
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Dead Men Walking

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drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 29, 2015 - 08:25pm PT
I was there^^^^^^^

Check the Deal from that show.
zBrown

Ice climber
Jun 29, 2015 - 08:42pm PT
^Sweet and Sleepy.

cowpoke

climber
Jun 30, 2015 - 05:22pm PT
I was not fortunate enough to see them in their heyday, but I'm just gonna say it: 2nd SC show was musically better than all but the very best moments from the best shows I saw in the 80s. Yes I miss Jerry, and no I'm not a fan of Phish, but Trey absolutely freaking killed it entire 2nd night. As did entire band. Trey was justly and modestly derivative (eg, so we recognized the general mixo leads) but totally uniquely him too, and I f*#king loved it. No, it was not the same as with the Grateful Dead as only they could be with J, but that's as it should have been. CHICAGO!!!!!!
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jun 30, 2015 - 06:42pm PT
Well gosh darn it, I've seen my last Grateful Dead show. 43 years of being amazed at shows!

We used to time our backpacking trips so that we'd get out and drive straight to a show. Ha, what a tirp that was.

Second show was excellent--what a sound! But, what a morose song selection--He's Gone, Black Peter, Death Don't Have No Mercy, and Wharf Rat, mercy mercy me.

To me it seemed like it took a bit for Trey to warm into it, but by the second set we were all rockin'!

Somebody said that we should rent a room and stream the last shows (for we who can't make Chicago). Grand idea...
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jun 30, 2015 - 07:01pm PT
I may have to watch this on the fourth.....
zBrown

Ice climber
Jun 30, 2015 - 07:07pm PT
Maybe I'm too nostalgic, but Grateful Dead without Jerry Garcia is not the Grateful Dead. I don't care if Jimi Hendrix is playing the guitar.

Greatful Dead maybe. I would go if I had a ticket.


Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jun 30, 2015 - 07:27pm PT
Good point. I heard something that I think was from the other night, sounded like all the other members, with a very talented, very competent singer/ guitar player. It made me sad, it just wasn't what I wanted....But, given that, I once saw the "Jerry Garcia band" in Vail at a free concert about a decade ago. I was skeptical, but it was free, and the streets were heated.

Those guys kicked ass! They didn't try to sound like Jerry, but we're clearly inspired by him. It was a welcome, delightful surprise. I'd go see them, in a heartbeat!

So times change, the wheel keeps turning. I'm ready to watch, hear this with an open mind and accept it for whatever it turns out to be.


I've been to overt hirty genuine dead shows, seen them with the Who, elvyn bishop, Branford, Bruce, etc,
Also legion of Mary, many JGB's, and various tributes, and other interpretations. Including Lyle Lovett playing Friend of the devil, in Reno, days after jerry passed, the next day, a bluegrass band playing OR, did their take on lyle's versin of Friend, with a big expository intro. They rocked it! the next night I saw B.B King play a version of stormy Monday modified just for Jerry.

I want to see this thing as it covers, " just a little more ground"!
the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
Jun 30, 2015 - 07:53pm PT
Great show! Classic dead show. Unlike any other band. I love me some Warren Haynes, and saw The Dead with him once, but he's too bluesy for the dead. Trey did a great job filling in. Bruce Hornsby did great vocals too.

So happy I got to relive the past a little and get one more time around. even if it wasn't as good as BITD.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 30, 2015 - 11:07pm PT
This may be long and rambling, like a tired Row Jimmy jam :-), but I've been trying to gather all my thoughts about this sh!t and am ready to puke it out.


I've not been a fan of Post-Jerry Dead projects.
I saw The Dead, Furthur, Phil and Friends, all once each.
Just not my gig. They were fun and the music was OK. Phil and Friends was probably my favorite because (ok it was at the Warfield) they were not trying to be the Grateful Dead.
It was Grateful Dead music, interpreted and morphed, handed down, carried on.
Which is what music is, especially American music. It's a tradition that's handed down, that changes with the times and the players.
The others, The Dead and Further, seemed like novelty acts, trying to recreate the music and the experience and falling short for me. I actually enjoyed the few Dark Star Orchestra shows I saw more. It was Grateful Dead music actually played well, really well.

So when these Fare Thee Well shows were announced, I really had no desire, like I said, not my gig. I figured it was going to be just another novelty thing. Nothing will ever come close to the Grateful Dead, even at their worst, and I saw some stinkers in my 101 Grateful Dead shows.

Then came the sh!tshow ticketing fiascos for Chicago, the endless bickering about Trey and who should be filling the slot. I was turned off even further. Not even the announcement of the two added California shows got me pumped.

When some old East Coast Heads messaged me and said they had me covered carte blanche, "Just Get There!" I had an immediate change of heart and checked the dates ready to book a flight.
Bummer, I already had a family wedding planned in LA. Oh well, de pump.
Then I got the f*#king summer flu and had to cancel LA WTF!!!!!!

Enter the webcast. Couch tour time. Perfect.

So here's my take on the shows from the comfort of my couch, and my patio, and my bathroom, and my kitchen.

First of all, I'm a fan of Trey and think he was the right man for the job. He's a modern legend, a certified virtuoso capable of anything, and he did pick up where Jerr left off. He led the biggest freak show the world ever knew other than the Grateful Dead. He knows the scoop. Plus, I'd heard him play with various Dead incarnations and knew he could slide right in.

There are a bunch of players that could do the job and do it well.
No one has shown the reverence for a Garcia ballad, both in vocals and chops, like Warren.
No one can imitate Jerry like JK. Barry Sless, Neal Casal, Jimmy Herring, all very capable.
But in the end, the general public, even old Heads not up on the current scene would be like,
"Who?"
They needed a recognizable name as well as a shredder.
"Ummm, Jerry Garcia's dead, who's gonna play guitar???"
"OH....the guy from Phish. That makes sense."
Yeah Trey makes sense, whether you love him, hate him, or even know him at all.

So this is just one man's take, tastes vary. But I've listened to a sh!tload of Grateful Dead in my life, seen a lot of shows, am critical/skeptical, love Trey, miss Jerry and I'd like to think I have a good ear.
And because I was not at the show, dancing, living it up, letting the music and whole experience wash over me...
Just listening on headphones...and watching, scrutinizing, loving, singing...
my review counts dammit! :-)

Night 1
Rough opener- Truckin'. Slow, the mix was off.
Uncle John's- same.
I'm thinking, here we go again.
Then something happened.
They fixed the mix, they warmed up and
it became obvious that this was a throw down.
They weren't just busting out an old song that Garcia would never have played in later years, interspersed with other classics. They were busting out a whole set of them. Vintage early Dead. 1970 sh#t. Proper, but it felt like a short set.
I knew the second set was not going to be a Sampson> Women Are Smarter ordeal. They were going to keep this going.
And they did.
Unless you were seeing the Dead in '70, I wasn't, I was born in '70, you never heard a set like this played by the members of the Dead.
It was epic.
Some of my first tapes were one long braided jam of Cryptical>Dark Star>St. Stephen>The Eleven.
I love that sh!t and it was handled with aplomb.
The second set was 2 1/2 hours. Closing with a Dew and encoring with Casey Jones.
Of course there were fvck ups, but I loved every bit of it. Even Phil's wretched singing.
And he was the definite architect of this show. He's known for heavily rehearsed jams and vintage Dead, and barking orders into the monitors.

I immediately purchased the webcast for the next night.

Night 2

The first night was decidedly a Phil show.
I knew night two was going to be a Bobby show,
and in the afternoon I called a Stranger opener.

Nailed it. I still got's it!

The mix was right, any jitters gone and I knew right away that we were in for what many of us younger heads remember as a Grateful Dead concert.
The set was chock full of singalong classics.
Trey absolutely crushed Alabama Getaway, he ripped the signature solo on Loser, and during Hell in a Bucket he just shredded the whole fvcking thing. Trey was ripping.

The second set featured seamless jamming and transitions into Wharf Rat, then into Eyes, then into He's Gone. These segues were excellent, amazing. Not just special for this band, special period.
He's Gone had some super cringeworthy vocal flubs but everybody just laughed it off and Smiled, Smiled, Smiled.
A traditional Drums/space into Miracle. Perfect. Bobby in his element and handling the vocals well, like he'd been singing it for 40 years.
Death Don't Have No Mercy was a bust out I heard at Shoreline in 89, it hadn't been played since '70, so it was cool to hear it again, this time sung by Bobby.
Sugar Mag was the obvious closer but what would the encore be for these guys' last show in California?
Brokedown Palace, of course.

Certain Dead songs have a short, succinct , melodic solo. Brokedown is one of these. Iconic.
These are solos you don't take liberties with, you don't wander or run with. You play it exactly how it was meant to be played.
Trey did this beautifully, note for note his guitar gently wept out the solo, and I must admit, I wept as well.
If music can bring back memories, this solo, these lyrics just flooded the dam, filled the book, and colored the painting with a million sweet and sad times I've had since I was a teenager.
Love, love, loved it.
It made me feel like a Deadhead.
I AM a Deadhead!!!

Many will say that this was not the Grateful Dead. It can't be the Grateful Dead without Jerry.
After this show, I beg to differ.
What I heard was the Grateful Dead. Beautiful, ugly, sweet and sour.



More about Trey. (this about the time in Row Jimmy when I'd go get a pretzel or take a leak)

I don't think it should be understated what Trey managed at these shows.
I watched and listened to him very closely.
Imagine being master like him, with a signature tone and style, with many years playing your own music live, to throngs of adoring fans, not central scrutinizers.
I'm sure he was told "not to sound like Phish" and "don't imitate Jerry". They had him on a tight leash and the world would be watching.
What's a guy to do? :-)
Well he managed to adopt some of Garcia's unique style, mimicking it without imitating it. Holding on to his own tone and style and adopting Jerry's when called for. Not sounding like Phish. Not sounding like Jerry. That's a tall order.
And remember, he has to play with Weir- no small feat, as Weir is not a conventional rhythm player. He's full of surprises and spices and is rarely holding it down for the lead to do his thing. Trey has to play lead and rhythm and figure out what spices Bobby will throw into the stew at all times, on songs that are not his own and that are loved and familiar to hardcore fans for 50 years. And he did an amazing job. He not only did his homework but was much of the time responsible for keeping the train on the tracks.

There will still be those that don't like him, that will compare him to Jerry, or still think there was someone better fit for the job.
But from where I was sitting- Trey killed it.


If you actually read this bullsh!t, thanks. Feel free to heckle, debate,
or just smile and celebrate the music of the Grateful Dead!

You weren't there maaaaaaaaaaan.




edit:
I just read stevee b's account on the previous page, and cowpoke's above.
Cool to see the parallels from someone who was actually there.















Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jul 1, 2015 - 05:15am PT
That brought tears to my eyes...
Rhodo-Router

Gym climber
sawatch choss
Jul 1, 2015 - 05:51am PT
Thanks jefe. That was just what I was looking for. Curiosity satisfied.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 1, 2015 - 07:06am PT
Jaybrah- good tears I hope. I didn't want to stink the place up or anything.
Stevee B

Trad climber
Oakland, CA
Jul 1, 2015 - 08:10am PT
Nailed it Jefe.

I'd take only one exception - and I don't mean to split hairs. From where I was looking at it, it was a lot of fun and had all the dressings of The Grateful Dead and actually really did come very close, and in many ways it *was* much better performed and energized than dozens of those terrible shows we both saw in the 80s and 90s (every damn show Spring 1992 - wtf?), but it just didn't have that...you know. Which like I said and I think you alluded to, that didn't make it bad or unenjoyable or whatever, just different.

After seeing one Further show a few years back, I thought it was interesting but it really just confirmed that after 125+ shows frolicking my life away, I really don't have to bother with this anymore. This show was much better than that, and I might be motivated to catch another one with the right people and circumstances, but in many ways it was relieving to know that Yes This Is Over, has been for years, and I'm at no risk of having to put everything on hold again and follow this circus.

There was much mourning but also a little of relief when Jerry died. For one, the whole anguish of watching him drag along the bottom of the ocean of drug addiction and embarrasing shows was finally over. For two, I could finally go to college and get a job and tackle life effectively. It was getting pretty tough arranging everything in my life around their schedule.
zBrown

Ice climber
Jul 1, 2015 - 10:56am PT
Interesting article about Bill Walton. He's attended upwards of 850 Dead shows and was going to all five farethewells. I wonder if he'll bring his own chair.



drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 1, 2015 - 12:29pm PT
Stevee b

I really like what you wrote.

While I had the "benefit" of listening from home, and having close ups of Trey's fingers and the band's faces, etc,
You were there.
The music and the experience WAS washing over you. You WERE reuniting with old friends....
And you attest to it missing "something".
Well, it was Jerry.
And it wasn't Jerry.
When he died so did a lot else.
The music would never be the same again, nor the scene, or the vibe, or that "something".

That "something".....
Probably most pronounced for me in those few seconds before the band started, that collective energy in the air.
Or when I'd start to see more and more hippie vehicles, letting us know we were close.
Even the dread of the Sunday night closer and the realization that a long drive home awaited.

F*#k man, I'm definitely overly sentimental and it probably did skew my review....

Thanks stevee b- I hadn't talked to any friends that were there yet about that "something" and whether it was there or not.

It was on my couch!


the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
Jul 1, 2015 - 01:46pm PT
After seeing them in Santa Clara the thing that really came to mind is are they really going to be able to call it quits after these fantastic shows with this line up?

It really was the Grateful Dead again. Of course there was a big hole without Jerry but it still felt like old times and just 5 more shows won't be enough.

I wouldn't be surprised if they reunited this line up again at some point.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jul 1, 2015 - 02:20pm PT
It was getting pretty tough arranging everything in my life around their schedule.

Hahahaha... As much as I love the Dead, I never did find the need to go on tour.

I see the band every chance I can, and never try to have expectations about it being one thing or the other. The first few shows after Garcia passed were especially tough though--it was like there was this spot on the stage where something was supposed to be, but it was just blank.
Empty.

The good shows were Great, the really bad ones were a waste, and there was everything in between. After seeing these guys for over 40 years, I'll still go back if they play again. But alas, I wonder if there will be more Bobby/Phil hook ups after this run. My personal take is that no, this is really it.

Phil said it in his donner rap, these are very special moments we have, and we're all glad to be able to be a part of these special events. And from what I see, Phil will forfeit his bass when we pry it from his cold dead fingers.
And I worry about that.

But damn did that band sound Full!



[PS. Jaybro, I did your post from yesterday.]
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jul 1, 2015 - 07:08pm PT
Happy, in awe, re-groking tears of grateful beatitude, of course, Jefe. But you knew that.
Risk

Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
Jul 1, 2015 - 08:04pm PT
I'm with drljefe all the way.

I’ve been to my share of great, great Grateful Dead shows, including my 1st at Selland Arena (Fresno, 1974), Oakland Auditorium (New Years, several years), Greek, Cow Palace, Warfield (1980), Calaveras, plus 50+ more. I never went ”on tour,” but did do whole series around Northern California until 1995.

I’ve hung with Jerry in the alley, and have cousins who were friends and classmates of Billy and Pigpen in PA. Since the early days, I’ve had a closer than average connection to this PA garage band.

Saturday night’s concert by the Grateful Dead was the best concert I’ve ever attended without a close second. Creampuff, Viola, The Eleven, and St. Stephen each alone would have put this concert at the very top. Welcome to the family, Trey! Thank you! The Great Hiatus ended on Saturday.

I’m still recuperating
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jul 3, 2015 - 02:40pm PT
So what's the beta on streaming this? I saw the link up three or somewhere. Is it easy? Computer only? I think I can port to a big TV.. Is it recordable?

Anyone up for a realtime Supertopo, fare thee well party tomorrow?
Trad

Trad climber
northern CA
Jul 3, 2015 - 06:29pm PT
There's a live (audio) stream right now (Music Never Stopped!) on

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/taperrob

On the downside they cut in with ads at inopportune moments but, well, it's free.

For the various video streaming options check out

http://www.dead50.net/watch-listen/

1st set just ended...
Risk

Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
Jul 3, 2015 - 09:07pm PT
Link works fine- for free! Thanks! I'm thinking about paying for streaming on Sunday. Local movie theater is $15, with only their "refreshments." Screw that!
EP

Trad climber
Way Out There
Jul 3, 2015 - 11:56pm PT
Soldier Field had 75,000 packed in. To me, the vibe was gentler and friendlier than Levi's Stadium. Tomorrow night we get fireworks.
zBrown

Ice climber
Jul 5, 2015 - 12:29pm PT

Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Jul 5, 2015 - 12:37pm PT
I missed the couch tour, was busy watching fireworks from a mountaintop.

Anybody there? Stream it?

Let's get a recap.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jul 5, 2015 - 12:59pm PT
One more night!

Key point, yes, there Is Dead after Jerry!
Edit: I never thought I'd say that!
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Jul 5, 2015 - 01:15pm PT
I love your stoke Jaybro!

I've got three days of Phish coming up next month at Watkins Glen! F$@& couch tour!
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 5, 2015 - 01:39pm PT
Night one

**Set One: Box Of Rain, Jack Straw, Bertha > Passenger, The Wheel > Crazy Fingers > The Music Never Stopped

Set Two: Mason's Children > Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain > Drums > Space > New Potato Caboose > Playing In The Band > Let It Grow > Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower

Encore: Ripple**

The energy and musicianship in this show was remarkable. It felt over the top.
Trey was on fire from beginning to end. Amazing stuff, and I've been a major wet blanket when it comes to post-Jerry stuff. Mind blown.


Night two

**Set One: Shakedown Street, Liberty, Standing On The Moon, Me & My Uncle, Tennessee Jed, Cumberland Blues, Little Red Rooster, Friend Of The Devil, Deal

Set Two: Bird Song, The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion), Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance, West L.A. Fadeaway, Foolish Heart, Drums > Space > Stella Blue > One More Saturday Night

Encore: U.S. Blues**

I was a bit luke warm about the first set, probably just me but it felt like it was lacking something...
but the second set was awesome. Bobby in form.
Sailor>Saint is one of my all-timers and all Trey's studying paid off. It was f*#king flawless and beautiful.
And if you can find it, listen to One More Sat Night. Once again, Trey is the f*#king man.

Brandon- do yourself a favor and get tonight's webby.
The whole production is something worth seeing.

As a life-long Deadhead and someone who's loved Trey from the start, this sh!it is like peanut butter and chocolate.

If he weren't already there, these shows will cement Trey's place in history.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 5, 2015 - 01:44pm PT
And check this out-

The lights at the Empire State Building's LED tower were synchronized to the band's live performance of "U.S. Blues." ESB lighting designer Marc Brickman teamed up with the band to create the vision and technical design of the music-to-light show, which featured an assortment of Grateful Dead imagery in the mast of the building.

[Click to View YouTube Video]

Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Jul 5, 2015 - 01:47pm PT
Good call man, any clue if I can stream on a tablet, where do I sign up?

Edit; that Empire State Building vid is pretty darn cool.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 5, 2015 - 01:59pm PT
Go to youtube- Fare Thee Well or gd50. As long as you have a good connection, you're golden.
My laptop speakers were not doing the sound justice. Use good headphones.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jul 5, 2015 - 03:09pm PT
When I get to this window, what do I press to pay, I've got a google wallet etc


Wtf?
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Jul 5, 2015 - 04:31pm PT
Thanks Jefe,gd50 it is...

Great sets last night.....man.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jul 5, 2015 - 05:02pm PT
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jul 5, 2015 - 05:11pm PT
Nice! Looks like you are in Jaybro . . . have fun.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jul 5, 2015 - 05:15pm PT
We AXSSAnd you too and all the deadheads in taco vile and beyond, as well!



China cat!
/Rider
Estimated
(Space-ish)
Built to last
-stretch-
Samson & Delilah (drum flexing)
Mountains of the moon
( slight China refrain)
Ashes

Break

truckin'
Cassidy
Althea
Terrapin
-drums-
(-theremin?)
-auto horns?
-"beam"

Unbroken Chain-
Days between
Not fade away
Donor rap
Touch of Gray (weir back out in a T-shirt that says-" Let Trey Sing"!)

Encore attics of my life




Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jul 5, 2015 - 06:15pm PT
"A leaf of all colors plays a golden string fiddle . . ."
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Jul 5, 2015 - 06:43pm PT
That band sounds awesome right now!
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jul 5, 2015 - 09:44pm PT
EP

Trad climber
Way Out There
Jul 6, 2015 - 12:38am PT
The restrooms were so crowded a member of our group got caught peeing under a stairwell. Cuffed, put in a cell, and ejected sans ticket after receiving a citation.

He said the real fun was when gatecrashers got busy. Cops on Segways rushed in screaming, swinging elbows, and cleared the area in front of the Field Museum. Our guy watched from the sides and avoided my additional trouble.

On the inside, we were sitting between Phish/Trey fans and a local couple who saw the shows in '95. The mix was good. The sound ok opposite the the stage. I called China Rider and Estimated Prophet in the first set and Terrapin second set.

All things considered, I heard better performances from Furthr, but enjoyed being there for the final, real end.

Back to LAX tomorrow night.
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Jul 6, 2015 - 05:22am PT
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/grateful-dead/6612951/grateful-dead-fare-thee-well-intermission-music



I really liked that stuff^^^^^^^

Great Shows .
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Jul 6, 2015 - 11:53am PT
Me too!

And the Trey thing?
Kreutzman kissed his forehead before they took places in the last show.
He and Phil shared an enthusiastic embrace after a flight of stringed wizardry mid set.
Bob donned the shirt.

I think he "passed the audition." As it were..
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Jul 6, 2015 - 12:08pm PT
I've listened to a little bit of their run, and man, let me tell you, it's the coolest shizz.

I grew up listening to the Dead, but never got to see Jerry. Instead, I went on Phish tour for a few years.

Hearing Trey play with his own sound, with the boys, well it just makes me smile from ear to ear.

Love it!
zBrown

Ice climber
Jul 6, 2015 - 12:09pm PT
uno dos one two trey quattro?


like Mr. Weir said at the end, there will be other "stuff"



7/5/2015-Starting to trickle in now



Bear's ashes were on the soundboard at FTW


Anybody tape it?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/arts/music/tapers-at-the-grateful-dead-concerts-spread-the-audio-sacrament.html


cintune

climber
The Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
Jul 9, 2015 - 05:18pm PT
So, I'm working at a summer camp for over-privileged kids and today was rappelling day.

As usual, I'm playing music on my phone as I hook the kids up to their fig-8's and send them over the edge of the cliff.

"Don't let go of the rope, lean back, keep your feet on the rock, brake-hand down by your hip, there ya go."

Then this little eleven-year-old comes out to the rap station, looks at me with a smile, and says "China Cat Sunflower! I love this song!"

Made my day.
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jul 9, 2015 - 07:10pm PT
Really cool image zB!
zBrown

Ice climber
Jul 9, 2015 - 07:17pm PT
Stole it right off someone's face, K.

More theft.


Bear's ashes on soundbaord.

Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jul 10, 2015 - 08:37pm PT
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wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Jul 11, 2015 - 07:08pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
zBrown

Ice climber
Jul 29, 2015 - 10:39am PT



k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jul 29, 2015 - 12:43pm PT
The Nash Strat
by Henry Kaiser [from Europe '72: The Complete Recordings box set]


One of the many delightful qualities of Europe '72 recording is the unique sound of the heavily modified Fender Stratocaster guitar that Jerry Garcia used for all of the performances on this tour. I'd like to briefly guide you through this instrument's history to show how this sonic magic came to be.

In the two years before the '72 European tour, the Dead and their techs were caught up in a whirlwind of technical innovation and experimentation. The band's instruments, amplifiers, an PA system were altered practically every night. Bear, Rick Turner, Ron Wickersham, Frank Fuller, and others were redefining the onstage experience and the live sound of rock 'n' roll, as the band members constantly experimented and redefined all aspects of their music. During the Europe '72 tour, this experimentation had flowered into an unprecedented musical expression for a psychedelic dance band. What was different about this tour was that the gear was totally consistent from night to night, since only a limited amount of gear could be carried on such a tour. This technical consistency, along with the great old European concert halls and their amazing acoustics, allowed for a refinement of the band's expression and musical communication over a length of the tour. (The acoustics of those halls played a tremendous part in the creation of some of the "Dark Star" and "Other One" jams, almost like another band member.) An essential part of this refinement of performance was the guitar that was in Jerry's hands.

In the early years of the Dead, Garcia had played a Guild Starfire and then a wide variety of Gibson guitars, culminating in a Gibson SG, heard to exquisite effect on the `Live/Dead` "Dark Star." In the autumn of 1969 he made the move to Fender Stratocasters. He switched among several of them for the next year or so. In late 1970 Graham Nash gave Garcia a Fender Stratocaser (most likely with a '57 maple neck and a '63 swamp-ash body) [purchased by Graham for $250 in a Phoenix, AZ pawnshop]; this is the guitar that we hear on the Europe '72 tour. Today some folks refer to it as Alligator, after a sticker that began to adorn its pickguard some time later after June of '72. We'll call it The Nash Strat. During this tour, its body sported a Harley-Davidson sticker and an R. Crumb "Keep on Truckin'..." sticker.

However, this guitar was no longer anything like a stock Fender Stratocaster. By the time The Nash Strat reached Europe, it had been modified with many of the innovations that the Alembic crew had discovered, and also with some unusual mods that Jerry himself had suggested. These mods were precursors of things to come in electric guitar design and production. It was the sate-of-the-art electric guitar of its day.

Here's a list of the principal mods on The Nash Strat by April of '72:

1) Wiring and control circuitry replaced with higher-quality components, plus extreme shielding to combat hum and noise.

2) Internal pre-amp designed by Ron Wikersham, powered by a 9-volt battery; later marketed as the Alembic Stratoblaster. This provided impedance isolation for the guitar from the amps and cables, as well as a small amount of extra gain, resulting in a clearer, purer, more hi-fi tone when the signal reached the amps.

3) A brass nut, Schaller tuners, plus a brass string tree to make the higher tuners work with the neck's geometry, which both resulted in a fortunate evolution of tone and sustain for the instrument.

4) New, really big tall frets.

5) The Fender tremolo Strat bridge was removed, the trem cavity filled with wood and epoxy, and a Gibson tune-o-matic bridge was installed, along with a brass tailpiece. This meant that the strings no longer traveled through the body, and the overall string length was changed, resulting in changes to the sustain and resonance of the instrument, as well as changing the instrument's "feel" for string bending.

6) Part of the broken pickguard was replaced with brass, which gave quick access to the insides, and new knobs were installed, along with a brass jack plate.

All of these features, combined with the magic of Jerry's brain and fingers, resulted in some of the most clear and articulate guitar work ever to appear in the Grateful Dead music. Things never stood still in G.D.-land, however. Doug Irwin was working on the guitar to be known as Wolf, and while it was not quite ready for the stage, one of Wolf's features was modded into The Nash Strat in later 1972; a larger, more massive brass bridge and sustain block. Alas, to this listener's ears (check out live recordings after December 1972), the magic of The Nash Strat was gone. Garcia then switched around among different Stratocasters until he took up Wolf full time in September of '73. Apparently The Nash Strat was last used by Jerry on August 1 of 1973. Magical Guitar: R.I.P.


And now you know... The rest of the story.
zBrown

Ice climber
Jul 29, 2015 - 07:42pm PT
zBrown

Ice climber
Jul 29, 2015 - 07:45pm PT
MIT 05-06-1970


zBrown

Ice climber
Jul 29, 2015 - 07:51pm PT
Wolf Wolf

zBrown

Ice climber
Jul 29, 2015 - 07:54pm PT
Seems to me I was at this one.


Risk

Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
Jul 31, 2015 - 10:59pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]

This is when things really kicked in and we knew it was more than the real thing. I too can't believe I was there.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 1, 2015 - 08:46am PT
Happy Birthday Jerry!

skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
Aug 1, 2015 - 09:28am PT
I still love the Dead
always playing in my head
what i'm lisening to now

[Click to View YouTube Video]
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 9, 2015 - 07:45am PT
It's been 20 years now.

Here's a tribute by Ryan Adams.
[Click to View YouTube Video]

And how 'bout this fresh Stagger Lee
from the Closing of Winterland
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Aug 9, 2015 - 08:51am PT
" I hope to find a warmspot in hell when I arrive..".
[Click to View YouTube Video]next the one that was. . .[Click to View YouTube Video] east coast [Click to View YouTube Video]thankyou [Click to View YouTube Video]




@ 1:150:30 the start of a rockin' knock in' on heavens door. . .

Then after that @1:134:15 Tangled up in blue. To a great not fade away of g


Asbury Park NJ ,

http://youtu.be/Glq7yzbfy-o


11/26/77 capital theater Passaic nj

And the killer CLaDarone !! 7//8/77 !!

And

And



This is the opening game to Solan.com article . . .
I can't paste more but it is a grateful read. . .



SATURDAY, JUL 4, 2015 09:29 AM EDT
“I won’t see the end of the year”: Backstage at Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead’s final shows
The Grateful Dead were exhausted in spring '95, Garcia most of all. Here's the band's story of those last days
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"I won't see the end of the year": Backstage at Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead's final shows
Jerry Garcia at Madison Square Garden, Sept. 15, 1987. (Credit: AP/Corey Struller)
Excerpted from "So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead"
Three songs into the show, the house lights still on, the time had come for “Dire Wolf,” but with a perverse twist no one had anticipated. Twenty-five years had passed since the Dead had recorded that song at Pacific High studio. They’d played it innumerable times since, occasionally slowing it down a half step. But tonight, in the middle of Indiana, they again injected it with the crisp, merry gait of the recorded version, and even the song’s refrain harked back to its original impending-death inspiration. “Please, don’t murder me,” Jerry Garcia sang again, now in a voice weathered by age and abuse, as cops pivoted their heads, hoping to catch sight of the man who’d vowed to kill Garcia before the night was over.

Along with the likes of Alpine Valley Music Theatre in Wisconsin, the Deer Creek Music Center had become a destination spot, a revered haven, for the Dead and their fans alike. Springing up amid cornfields and cow pastures a half-hour north of Indianapolis, the amphitheater was, like the band, an enclave unto itself. Out there the straight world never felt so distant. Although the Dead had played Deer Creek six times before without major incident, tonight began on a sour note. On their way from their hotel (north of Indianapolis) to the venue word filtered down to band and its management: a death threat had been called in to Deer Creek. Similar calls and warnings had arrived before, but this one felt creepier. An anonymous person had called local police claiming to have overheard the distraught father of a young female Deadhead. The information was unclear, but the implication was that the girl couldn’t be found and had run off on the road with them, and that the father was planning to attend the show and shoot Garcia.


So....... Much more to this
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Aug 9, 2015 - 09:37am PT
Doesn't seem possible, I'm glad im in Vedauwoo today,hearing Stella Blue in my head,..
Flip Flop

climber
Earth Planet, Universe
Aug 9, 2015 - 12:42pm PT
Miss ya Jerry. 20 years ago today.[Click to View YouTube Video]
zBrown

Ice climber
Aug 11, 2015 - 08:05am PT
Jerry is still with us.

3-18-1995 Philadelphia Specturn

One listener's take.

Yep, it's a good one. Play just this track for a regular average deadhead and it would be tough to place this at '95, unless you know the show. It has Jer singing with the confidence of a young man, navigating through Dylan's tune as soulfully and easy as you please. Jewels and binoculars, indeed.

Listen UP.



http://archive.org/details/gd1995-03-18.sbd.miller.97659.flac16
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Oct 5, 2015 - 05:04am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]


Just announced
Bobby and Mickey and Bill with Jon Mayer at Madison Square Garden.
10,000 free tics in pairs
Ever feel like they are following you?
I swear off going to the circus - beauty of the memories - versus real pissed up city corridors
And sad animals suffering from delusional thinking. . . ??
Then we'll right here and during the last gasp of the climbing season
What to do?


Grateful Dead, John Mayer giving away 10K tickets to NY show
Published Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015 | 9:06 p.m.
Updated Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015 | 9:06 p.m.

NEW YORK (AP) — Members of the Grateful Dead and John Mayer are giving away 10,000 free tickets to their concert next month.


The veteran band and Mayer, who joined forces for the supergroup Dead & Company this summer, announced Monday that 5,000 fans will have a chance to win two tickets each to their Nov. 7 show.

The group has partnered with American Express for its music series, "American Express Unstaged," for the sweepstakes. Film director Brett Ratner will direct the concert's livestream from Madison Square Garden.

Fans can enter to win tickets Monday through Thursday on Dead & Company's website.

Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir are part of the group with Mayer. They are performing a string of U.S. dates on a fall tour.

___

Online:

http://www.deadandcompany.com/



g_C7lpzwba0[Click to View YouTube Video] The whole show is great but watching the so grateful Fat man at the end of the show encore is also so Core,
i could not find a clip so I put up the whole show up, the thing to do 1st - at least i think so - . .
.is go to the end and watch gerr-ball
sing his hart out and maybe even a tear can be seen? then you can if you have the time, listen to this . [Click to View YouTube Video]. . and. .[Click to View YouTube Video] . or just the whole show.
cowpoke

climber
Oct 9, 2015 - 04:14pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
zBrown

Ice climber
Oct 9, 2015 - 05:47pm PT
thanks gNome

[Click to View YouTube Video]
zBrown

Ice climber
Oct 9, 2015 - 06:08pm PT

Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Oct 11, 2015 - 09:14am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_SmNXA4rP0



For the fine season as it turns

I miss going to shows and climbing at the same time
as it was for years and years every fall
For Betsy
Tipkiss

Trad climber
CA
Oct 22, 2015 - 08:29pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Gary

Social climber
Hell is empty and all the devils are here
Oct 23, 2015 - 06:53am PT
Best wishes to Phil Lesh.
Almost 25 years ago I broke the story of a rock legend who had developed a passion for esoteric contemporary music, most of it by British composers. More than that, Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead put his money where his heart was.

He sent money to composers and their widows to help get their music recorded. Havergal Brian, Harrison Birtwistle and Robert Simpson were three early beneficiaries.

Phil was modest and unassuming when I tracked him down. He just loved modern music.

I was very sorry to read today that he is suffering from bladder cancer and send him all good wishes. Phil, 75, has cancelled some gigs but says the tumours are non-aggressive and the prognosis is good.

My original exclusive story was published in the Independent, Der Standard, the Los Angeles Times and various other newspapers around the world. You can read it here.
http://slippedisc.com/2015/10/sad-news-rocks-classical-sponsor-has-bladder-cancer/

http://slippedisc.com/2015/10/how-the-grateful-dead-backed-little-known-british-composers/
Norwegian

Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
Oct 23, 2015 - 07:17am PT
once in a while
you get shown
the darkness
in the strangest
of places
if you look at
it right.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Oct 28, 2015 - 03:56pm PT
The Punk thread popped up an it turns out that that junk has staying power? I not have thunk it
I was all over deep in with a punk girl and all sorts of rude disgusting stories I could tellLike Rollins raping stoned children but what would be the point
They can keep the loud fast rules this is summer dead at their best[Click to View YouTube Video]
I
Fock all I just lost a deeply personal share that I had to ask permission to
Then I must hit return unmeaning to by mistake sorry Jake n'Jude.
I'll try again soon it is my fault I tried to end it snide and daddy- o ya know !! Still kickin it out
My actual fan that caused the train wreck was grand pa huh Jake!
So this is that show and before I lose this apology I push ?? I can not trust shablet cross your toe yo
I was one of two my folks Austrian child refugees, Jews turned On ya know, so they split for a time and got caught in Peru
The story goes that I went to Lycoming college and on tour ~ your mum was so much more lucky ~ a very pretty girl she sun n'and fun'd it on the Sound Shores and big city trip long stories,
she tanned like a lobster though so both of us look back and blam shrinking gnome,
The amazing thing of course is that papaw as due to get back and they did when is what this is all about to try to make up for it they claim, it was really more about them but we got taken along on some west coast near epics. Music being a huge part
So for me and sis Daddy-o was takin' us to shows
The share hear is one and you know you see that is the date to he Xed out the thing is he is here now messing with me big
I wrote Xed' it came out dead.

Saving
This is weird Got, - the last years we left my Popzz with the gift that a the new Ant gave to 1st niece. The stuffed Jerry doll
We said it when he was ailing it gave him a chuckle and a new born needs Jerry ? Why?
Can you believe that at 84 he was going in for a pace maker planning to have his esophagus
Cut out , we shared that roof top at the hospital with some famous doctors or ther children
Pasternack 's kid was a huge Head, so the Manhatten Fire works from a hospital helicopter pad with 60 of od freaks all heads with Phd's by the date of the show he was for all intents a purposes

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Nov 1, 2015 - 04:44pm PT
For sure the undead & dead can and do get together. Just last night in New York City
A that all American venue the felt fore arm of the Madison square garden where they grow carrots and coffee beans just the beans, the dead played a concert with some crypt keeper , not Paul Ryan, - John Mayer . So some 70 years olds, thr Dead and the very much alive Mayor of NYC ? Got together.
Now to add to this a member of my family was an eye witness. Not the 25 year old how's birth day I memorialize here and in the proper thread, happy birthday! "They are all gym climbers now Jake"

It was the 84.5 year old bad Mudder! She took the train ride into the shjty and was shocked to find she had to share her train car and in fact her bench seat with a hoard of 30 year old Jerry's kids some who had paid $800.00 for a ticket
and the guy across from her who she said said he had 100 tickets for sale!?.
Now moms as not dressed as the dead heads were for Halloween - but she is a frightening sight and I matinee worse if you are tripping, She stands 4 foot Seven, has twin scares one fresh , running from just under each eye to below her lower lip!
She was bored and miffed at being crowded , then was scared as to what was going on beyond the marathon, Halloween & the World Series . So she pipes up, and asks what is going on? She is met by your friendly opportunistically Bob & Betty dead heads who has all the extra tics, who says " I bet you don't know how the Grateful Dead are"
I'm not sure why she did not get hers self and the birthday boy grandson tickets after all she won the bet, but instead had to be reassured that when at 11 pm on the return trip home she would be alright, or should stay at rad hipsters pad in Brooklyn over night? [Click to View YouTube Video]
The moms story is priceless and shadows my dead fathers flight sitting with that jerball on a shuttle flight, so knowing who Jerry was he spent the flight talking Wagner and the opening of the Seven rings in Vienna that Phill and Jerry had attended but were cruxed - more by the bad German, ( it was hi German / Austrian) than the poor quality of the fancy production that my (heather headed deadhead) father felt was beyond the pale. .
Gaufaw choke chortle wheeze . ..[Click to View YouTube Video]
Uyderly righteous - [youtube==mf4iqxpja0M] thirty years ago I may do three or just an hour of
Acoustic-skip to the monkey and the engineer let the rest pass unless you got the time
[Click to View YouTube Video] all but thirty five years ago
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Nov 1, 2015 - 05:06pm PT
Phil makes a Mayo sandwich.

Get bettah brothah!



Gnome, I was at that Orpheum show!
zBrown

Ice climber
Nov 1, 2015 - 05:47pm PT
Better get back to Tennessee, J.

30 Trips Around the Sun: The Definitive Live Story (1965-1995)
Expected Release: Sep 18, 2015

According to iTunes:

Caution The Emergency Crew (Presumably 1965 studio version)
Cream Puff War Filmore Aud SF, CA 7/3/66
Viola Lee Blues Shrine Aud LA, CA 11/10/67
Dark Star Greek Th Berkley, CA 10/20/68
Doin That Rag Dream Bowl Vallejo, CA 2/22/69
Dancin In the Streets Winterland SF, CA 4/15/70
Aint It Crazy Fox Th St. Louis, MO 3/18/71
Tomorrow is Forever Palace Th Waterbury, CT 9/24/72
Here Comes Sunshine Sports Arena SD, CA 11/14/73
Uncle Johns Band Parc des Expositions Dijon, FR 9/18/74
Franklins Tower Lindley Meadows SF, CA 9/28/75
Scarlet Begonias Cobo Hall Detroit, MI 10/3/76
Estimated prophet Capital Th Passaic, NJ 4/25/77
Samson and Delilah CC Providence, RI 5/14/78
Lost Sailor/St of Circumstance Cape Cod Coliseum S Yarmouth, MA 10/27/79
Deep Elem Blues CC Lakeland, FL 11/28/80
Shakedown Street Barton Hall Ithaca, NY 5/16/81
Bird Song Manor Downs Austin, TX 7/31/82
Brother Esau Centrum Worchester, MA 10/21/83
Feel Like a Stranger CC Augusta, ME 10/12/84
Let it grow River Bend Cincinnati, OH 6/24/85
Comes a time Cal Expo Sacramento, CA 5/3/86
Morning dew MSG New York, NY 9/18/87
Not fade away Speedway Oxford, ME 7/3/88
Blow Away Arena Miami, FL 10/26/89
Ramble On Rose Zenith Paris, FR 10/27/90
High time MSG NY, NY 9/10/91
Althea Copps Coliseum Ontario, Canada 3/20/92
Broken Arrow Knickerbocker Albany, NY 3/27/93
So Many Roads Garden Boston, MA 10/1/94
Visions of Johanna Delta Center SLC, UT 2/21/95



http://www.dead.net/store/special-edition-shops/50th-anniversary-shop/30-trips-around-sun-box



Well I've been enjoying these shows very much.
I'm up to 1980-11-28.

As I thought this show has the old 'The vocals are out of phase'
issue.

The instruments are recorded fine, relatively speaking.
In phase, but the vocals are out.

I've heard this on other recordings from this period.
Like 1980-11-26 and 1981-05-12.

So I just spent some time listening to quick bits from all of the
1980 soundboards that are on The Archive.
I can hear this issue on the built in speakers of my iMac.

The 1980 shows are fine until 5-30 and 5-31.
Those two have overall phase issues that I don't think are
related to this vocal thing.

Then 8-26, 8-27, 8-30, 9-02, 9-04, 11-26, 11-28, 12-26, 12-28,
12-31 all have the vocal issue.
That means it can also be heard on the matrix shares like 1981-02-27.

Not too surprising it's not heard on the multi track recordings from The Warfield and Radio City.

12-13 and 12-14 also do not have the vocal problem.
I'm tired of looking but I'm sure it's on other recordings from this
period.

It's very tricky to fix also. I can do it on my old in the tooth
Pro Tools system but I end up with a mono recording.
You can't just collapse the stereo image though, it takes a lot of
fixing before that.

You would think that if there's a good fix to this issue that
they would have gotten it done right. ???

There may not be any real good fix.

And why did the recordings end up that way in the first place.
Did someone think it sounded cool/good?
They were too high??

I do love the box set though. I couldn't really afford it
but I wasn't going to not buy it.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Nov 1, 2015 - 10:18pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]Keep getting the most funky things splitting the screen posts bleeding into each other this is a test ?

K - Man that was such a hot show ! My Dady-0 was way out and way in..
in '76 we saw almost the whole west coast summer tour, from a rented RV and on route one The pacific coast highway he side swipe the side of the road
A rock closed the door for to the living space and from then on we crawled out the square escape hatch in the back of the camper.



Not liking the vocals phase effect[Click to View YouTube Video]q
The. I want throw up that China town shuffle from the '72 yEurope box seen else where tonight
And all of these too
[Click to View YouTube Video]%[Click to View YouTube Video]
The shablet is saving to camera every other picture I gonna go dump ands bump with another
Werewolves 30 years ago yesterday!
3/1/69 w/stones that's the Altomont show


3/26/88. Steve Miller ??



12/12/73
4/27/71?1(I hope)




I guess. . . a 72 looser too the score of the final game of the fall classic [Click to View YouTube Video]
The Mets suck!
Swept! And two games were piss-poor showings almost no run games 7-1 & the last of the four game sweep Kansas'City Royals7 the Mets 2

[Click to View YouTube Video]



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cowpoke

climber
Nov 4, 2015 - 06:18pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
zBrown

Ice climber
Nov 4, 2015 - 06:38pm PT


drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 5, 2015 - 10:42pm PT
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 5, 2015 - 10:43pm PT
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 7, 2015 - 05:20pm PT
FYI-
live stream of Dead&Co right now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0ZjzbIi4Co

k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Nov 7, 2015 - 05:26pm PT
Very cool, thanks for the heads up (no pun intended!).
zBrown

Ice climber
Nov 7, 2015 - 06:44pm PT
Whaal I don't think this one is live right now, unless of course you're watching it here.

"It's good though"
-Bruce Phillips (RIP)

First song ever for Dead and Company, Times Union Center, Albany, NY 10/29/2015 - Bob Weir Sang Playing In The Band and John Mayer Sang Cold Rain and Snow

[Click to View YouTube Video]


Havens tuned his guitar to an open chord fretting the neck with his first finger and massive left thumb. He playedguitar like it was a drum with a fierce right-handed strumming attack.


Don't believe me, eh?

[Click to View YouTube Video]
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 7, 2015 - 06:55pm PT
It's live.
Franklins Tower right now.
zBrown

Ice climber
Nov 7, 2015 - 06:56pm PT
Yeah! I've been watching it and other stuff too.

This tech is getting pretty high.

Drop til you bop.

Like I told ya!

Someone else will do it, but I just figured out how to record it, so I won't.

Random comments (not mine):

john Mayer was 18 when Jerry died. do you think he ever had a chance to see the Dead?

Grisman and Del McCoury tore it up in Brooklyn tonight! Tough choice with both Phil and Dead & Co in town.



Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Nov 7, 2015 - 07:36pm PT
Thanks for the link Jefe!
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Nov 8, 2015 - 01:00pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
covelocos

Trad climber
Nov 8, 2015 - 01:04pm PT
Johnny Mayer is the Heir Apparent. I'm all in!
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 8, 2015 - 01:19pm PT
There are lots of "jam bands" out there- all purportedly built on the foundation that the Grateful Dead layed down.
Aside from the improvisational jamming and a fan base that likes to get high and dance, the mostly bear little resemblance or pay little homage.

To me, Ryan Adams has come closest to sounding like the Dead without imitating them.
He played with them and they've picked up some of his songs, but he's kind of a chameleon and his love of the Dead, and how it was reflected in his recordings or live shows, was largely a phase.

His album Cold Roses reflects this period, and is excellent.

His song Cold Roses and this one, Magnolia Mountain, are the best non Dead Dead songs ever, IMO.

[Click to View YouTube Video]

And of course Rosebud- the best tribute to Jerry.
[Click to View YouTube Video]









drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 8, 2015 - 01:26pm PT
Covelocos-
He sure knows his way around the neck of a guitar, that's for sure.
He was able to jam and not get redundant or repetitive, but the sound of the band, overall, was listless...for me at least.
Mayer's work on Stella Blue was some of the best I've ever heard...
But he blew the solo on Brokedown.
That is a clean, concise and beautiful solo that should not be f*#ked with or deviated from, it is played one way and one way only.
Mayer may have shredded it but that's where he lost me.
DON'T TRY AND GET FANCY ON THE BROKEDOWN SOLO!!!!!! :-)
covelocos

Trad climber
Nov 8, 2015 - 01:53pm PT
As I always say, Jefe. There's no accounting for taste. This is the first post Garcia incarnation I've been able to enjoy.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Nov 8, 2015 - 02:40pm PT
In deed

I Need A Miracle Billy n' Bobby ragen' .. Rage on.... d'boyzz rage on!

I also listened to a great Cold Rain And snow by Ryan ,,


Not a distant enough relative ?!!

now if I had just pushed submit three min. ago you 'd all understand....
zBrown

Ice climber
Nov 8, 2015 - 03:35pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Nov 22, 2015 - 06:11pm PT
Great Listenhttp://www.npr.org/2015/11/20/456393316/songs-we-love-circles-around-the-sun-kaseys-bones
Tipkiss

Trad climber
CA
Dec 10, 2015 - 06:11pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]

Jerry says to Phil of the ABB on their way to this show: "make sure you check these guys out... they're kinda like us... They jam hard"
Butch joins on drums
Mickey attacks his gigantic gong
Mick Fleetwood and Danny Kirwan "find room to join the festivities"
"It's a surprisingly coherent free-for-all, with five guitarists , four drummers, organ, and Pigpen roaring over it all"
"Gregg takes a verse ... Sounding like a fifty-year-old black man even then."
Pig and Gregg trade vocals
Berry Oakley takes over on bass about halfway through Lovelight as Phil just wants to listen!
"My mind starts to stretch out of shape... everyone on stage is flat-out wailing"

After the show, "I walk outside -- it's daylight, and snow is falling gently on the streets of New York... I grab Bob and Jerry in a group embrace: This is what it's all about."
zBrown

Ice climber
Jan 6, 2016 - 07:39pm PT
zBrown

Ice climber
Jan 6, 2016 - 07:56pm PT
Captain Trips

the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
Jan 6, 2016 - 07:56pm PT
I was out of the loop on the Dead and company thing. Saw them on New Year's Eve. Wow, what a show!! I'm a huge fan now.

I only saw "The Dead" once. With Warren Haynes. It was good but not amazing. Over the Hills and Far Away cover was very cool.

The Grateful Dead in Santa Clara was very good. Trey is a great fit. But coliseum shows are just too big.

John Mayer was fantastic with the Dead. He brought something new and different. Hearing all those songs with him breathed new life into them. His guitar improvisations were really good. Watching him work with Bob was a treat. They seemed to tighten things up a little. In the past sometimes they jammed a little too long. Bob would motion to John when it was time to move on and John would finish up what he was doing, nod, and they'd move back into the chorus.

The Forum in LA is great now. First time I've been there. They did a great job with the remodel. It's more compact than any other basketball arena I've been to. We scored first row of the upper section right in the middle for only $25 each. Best deal I've had for a concert in ages.

Also first time I've seen a New Year's Eve show. I wanted to do that for ages. It went from 8:30 to 1:30. With a number of breaks. I want to see every New Years show from now on!

Here's someone's video of the whole thing: [Click to View YouTube Video]
JC Marin

Trad climber
CA
Jan 7, 2016 - 01:28pm PT
Well as my old man use to say:

"hippies are living proof that cowboys f*#k sheep"

Of course, he was a cowboy and I'm a hippie...not exactly sure what he was trying to say...
throwpie

Trad climber
Berkeley
Jan 7, 2016 - 05:27pm PT
Young man, doesn't it bother you that your father f*#ks sheep?

Naaaaaaaaaaa
JC Marin

Trad climber
CA
Jan 7, 2016 - 05:40pm PT
It's baaaaaaaad
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jan 7, 2016 - 05:42pm PT
Sorry to say, Your MaaAAha Was ~ Mutton

For edification of da yout'

[Click to View YouTube Video] And so that it If anyone wAnders Heres more of the show [Click to View YouTube Video]

zB next ? the Chula Vistas'?
zBrown

Ice climber
Jan 7, 2016 - 05:55pm PT
zBrown

Ice climber
Jan 7, 2016 - 06:10pm PT
OK, sure the Dead played CV. A bit after the Carousel shows.

[Click to View YouTube Video]

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jan 7, 2016 - 06:11pm PT
Yes Yes, Jerry in Redz ! .........A hot show fo' Da headz
zBrown

Ice climber
Jan 7, 2016 - 06:17pm PT
Like the shirt, eh?

Wore it in Long Beach also

s1t01 crowd
s1t02 Hell in a Bucket >
s1t03 Sugaree >
s1t04 El Paso
s1t05 Dupree's Diamond Blues
s1t06 Little Red Rooster >
s1t07 West L.A. Fade Away
s1t08 Let it Grow

s2t01 crowd
s2t02 Tennessee Jed
s2t03 Cumberland Blues
s2t04 I Need a Miracle >
s2t05 Crazy Fingers >
s2t06 Drums >
s2t07 Space >
s2t08 Comes a Time >
s2t09 Gimme Some Lovin' >
s2t10 Truckin' >
s2t11 Black Peter >
s2t12 Good Lovin'
s2t13 Encore: Keep Your Day Job

[Click to View YouTube Video]

drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2016 - 06:31pm PT
Hey The Fet-
Thanks for the review.
I'm sure Dead&co have jelled more since that stream I watched. They're sounding pretty darned good.
Interesting choice, The Forum for NYE.
I saw some insane shows there in the 80s so there's plenty of exploded brain cells and hippie DNA floating around in that place, even after the remodel.
Glad you had a blast.
Covelocos was there too, maybe he'll chime in.


My first bootleg had an incredible Spanish jam, I can still here it now, even though I wore the tape out. Coincidentally, it was Trey Anastasio's first show.

Hartford 10/14/83 (DP#6)
Don't even bother with the 1st set
The second is one of my all time favorites.

If you like early 80s Dead this is a must listen 2nd set

http://archive.org/details/gd83-10-14.beyer-ficca-brennan.ficca.20023.sbeok.shnf




Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Feb 9, 2016 - 06:36pm PT
The new formation arises;


Dead & Co

they have announced spring east coast shows

Edit , 2/14/16; A valentines memory...

I took a sweet - hart to the 10/14/83 show,
her folks were Greek, from the 'Connecticut Gold coast'
so it was a very posh crash pad after the show----Patrice Pedizzimus,
I called hr Dizzy Mouse.
2 days after the show, (that she did not get into as I did ),
she came up to the cabin that I was living in.
On Easy street ;
The Easy Street cottages Paul Smiths NY.
she knocked on the door and jumped in bed,
telling me thank you so much!!?.
someone else had turned her on to what a great 1st show she'd been to.
We then went to My home town show,. . . .LAKE PLACID!
and one some say had one of the best Surgeree's
EvaH!16+ minutes ,[Click to View YouTube Video] the Lake Placid show ,

This From the Link below:
10/17/83
Olympic Center
Lake Placid, NY

Set 1:
Sugar (*some blips and a gap due to taping "difficulties")
Little Red Rooster
Friend of the Devil
Brother Esau *
Birdsong
Hell In A Bucket
Deal

Set 2:
Touch of Grey
Samson & Delilah
To Lay Me Down
The Women Are Smarter
Terrapin Station
Drums
Space
The Wheel
I Need A Miracle
Going Down The Road Feeling Bad
Good Lovin'

E: Revolution

it was an amazing TRIP A real TEST, .....drops like rain
Some Where you can read all about it - it was an 'all time'- one for the ages- show....
Short 1st set
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxYmYxZUrGE
& .........THE 2nd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpLz9NwEKSY

Then it was up to Syracuse, The Carrier Dome is Huge and the sound was not so gud..
So this is very nice to hear
[Click to View YouTube Video]
.
the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
Feb 9, 2016 - 08:26pm PT
Just got tickets for the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in June in NY.

My parents live nearby, good time to plan a visit!

I'm listening to drljefe's link above right now, so GOOD! The Dead are definitely an acquired taste, not polished pop by any means. But so different than EVERY other band. The way they can segue from a jam slowly into an established song, seemingly knowing what the rest of the band is thinking is wild. It takes the audience a little while to figure out the new song and then you hear the cheers. So cool.

Not to mention being about the only band being so for the fans that they allow tapers, so you can go back and listen to any show you want.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 9, 2016 - 08:57pm PT
Yeah the Fet!

That's a show that I much prefer the audience recording over the board.

I'm glad you gave it a listen. One of my all time faves.
zBrown

Ice climber
Feb 23, 2016 - 08:01pm PT
Y'all probably remember Geoffrey Gonzalez. He played for Al Mcguire.



http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=2607974&tn=4080#msg2771402

zBrown

Ice climber
Feb 24, 2016 - 06:03pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]

Why?

be Coz
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Feb 24, 2016 - 07:31pm PT
"Death will leave you standing and crying in this land . . ."
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Feb 24, 2016 - 07:38pm PT
For COZa one of a kindpeace out King Coz
zBrown

Ice climber
Mar 15, 2016 - 07:24pm PT
zBrown

Ice climber
Mar 30, 2016 - 08:44am PT



Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Apr 2, 2016 - 12:08pm PT
Pic #2 (Roc)Scully, -
(?)with the beard in the back-ground?
Ken Kesey, (He & K Babbs looked alike in some photos),
but that is the author & star of Electric Kool-aid Acid Test, standing next to the fit young Captn' Trips
More, from way back when, & back n' whytes,
Great to C.

this was always a tight set marker, if Jer. felt up to the Cover
[Click to View YouTube Video]
EP

Trad climber
Way Out There
Apr 3, 2016 - 08:20pm PT
Went to Terrapin Crossroads last night to see the Golden Gate Wingmen: Kadlecik, Chimenti, Ratdog drummer, and Reed Mathis on bass. Opened with Eyes of the World.

DSO in Berkeley next week for a three day run. Saturday night will be epic.
zBrown

Ice climber
Apr 3, 2016 - 09:52pm PT
Photos:

Unknown, Chet Helms, Kesey, Garcia

Garcia, Jorma, Mickey, ??, Casadyt
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Apr 12, 2016 - 08:03pm PT
http://youtu.be/z_bXHbUqOd0
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Apr 12, 2016 - 09:10pm PT
Thanks for the video pocomon . . . very interesting dynamic between Jerry and Donna that I have not noticed before . . . Is it true that she was Jerry's "girlfriend" on any or all levels, in another time's forgotten space?
zBrown

Ice climber
Apr 12, 2016 - 09:40pm PT
Phil clearly was with the band

Two wrist, one head


Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Apr 12, 2016 - 10:06pm PT
Nice BMW t-shirt as well! Looks like it was a hot sweaty show . . . not to fence you in the lines I might have drawn, 'cause it surely looks like rain.
Dr.Sprock

Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
Apr 12, 2016 - 10:08pm PT
Grateful Dead-Robin Williams connection-

Estimated Prophet

My time coming, any day, don't worry about me, no
Been so long, I felt this way, I'm in no hurry, no
Rainbows and down that highway where ocean breezes blow
My time coming, voices saying they tell me where to go

Waldo Grade tunnel now named the Robin Williams Tunnel

cowpoke

climber
Apr 30, 2016 - 04:01am PT
the wonders of youtube
[Click to View YouTube Video]
[Click to View YouTube Video]
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Apr 30, 2016 - 07:32pm PT
http://youtu.be/p5Q4bRNpueQ
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
May 10, 2016 - 07:38am PT
I just finished Bill the Drummer's book Deal. A super fun read for we Deadheads.
I recommend.
zBrown

Ice climber
May 10, 2016 - 08:56am PT
This is serious, isn't it?


Here's one for y'all to listen to.

http://archive.org/details/gd_nrps70-06-24.aud.pcrp5.23062.sbeok.flacf
zBrown

Ice climber
May 16, 2016 - 09:25am PT

[Click to View YouTube Video]




If you're deadicated, there are several of these floating in the ether - this one's pretty good

about 3 hours here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5kl0ev79v4
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
May 16, 2016 - 09:47am PT
Just Feelin' it creeping' in . . .Look At Phill!
see ya!
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
May 25, 2016 - 08:29pm PT
"When there was no ear to hear . . . you sang to me."
zBrown

Ice climber
May 29, 2016 - 03:43pm PT


Jerry loans Clarence his guitar solo.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
May 29, 2016 - 09:21pm PT
"All the birds that were singing, have flown . . . except you alone."
zBrown

Ice climber
Jun 22, 2016 - 09:00am PT
Late Father's Day


Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jun 22, 2016 - 03:33pm PT
at any rate,
they were the true freight


[Click to View YouTube Video]next the weight[Click to View YouTube Video]
zBrown

Ice climber
Jul 23, 2016 - 11:26am PT
A little game from the other one ...

Name the tune in play here. If you're really good at this game you'll be able to identify what is unique here.

drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 23, 2016 - 12:08pm PT
I'm claiming "Satisfaction" or "Dancing' in the Streets"
SPAC 6.24.84
zBrown

Ice climber
Jul 23, 2016 - 07:57pm PT
1984 seems to be the concensus year. No definitive answer on the tune.

Folks trying to include/exclude songs based on the guitar chord(s).

What's unique? Mr. Garcia and Mr. Weir sharing a microphone.

Say what?



drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 23, 2016 - 08:09pm PT
Where is this discussion happening zbrown?

zBrown

Ice climber
Jul 23, 2016 - 08:19pm PT
Bill Walton's house?

drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 23, 2016 - 08:27pm PT
Bob's guitar, not to mention the polo, nail the year.
There's a photo of Phil and Jerry sharing a mic at the SPAC show I listed....
zBrown

Ice climber
Jul 23, 2016 - 08:30pm PT
Good eye drljefe.

Gonna have to change the terminology from unique to rare , eh?

zBrown

Ice climber
Jul 23, 2016 - 08:34pm PT


zBrown

Ice climber
Jul 23, 2016 - 08:36pm PT
drljefe

How'd it go? :}

I'd love to turn you on

Do you know Lossless Legs? Bill's actually out of town helping Luke get his coaching legs (against papa's advice).


http://www.shnflac.net/forum.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=16637&page=1


I remember that one time when Bob Weir demanded (and got) two. His condition for hanging in when they said he needed to pickup his guitar practice rate.

the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
Aug 3, 2016 - 05:28pm PT
4 shows in the last 7 months.

Actually 5 shows in the last 13 months because I went to a fare the well show at Levi's stadium.

New Years at LA forum. Realized how good Dead and Co. are.

Saratoga NY. Great show. Estimated prophet was great.

Wheatland, CA. Great show. Casey jones and so many others.

Wheatland was so good decided to do mountain view the next day. Last day of the tour.

Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Aug 3, 2016 - 08:57pm PT
I saw him rock the preppy pelt all through the late 70's / early eighties.

Here is how I celebrated Jerry day 2016
clifff

Mountain climber
golden, rollin hills of California
Aug 5, 2016 - 05:15pm PT
Tamalpais High (Jam) ☮ Crosby, Garcia & Friends

[Click to View YouTube Video]

David Crosby & Jerry Garcia (etc) - Mountain Song

[Click to View YouTube Video]

thanks to Rolley from Bulgaria - new member

zBrown

Ice climber
Aug 5, 2016 - 05:50pm PT

June 16, 1974

wilbeer

Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
Aug 5, 2016 - 08:07pm PT
Warren Haynes playing Jerry's guitar Tiger last night over here.

Amazing,sorry Trey,John Mayer,not even close.

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/lifestyle/2016/08/02/warren-haynes-symphony-orchestra-bring-back-dead/87739474/

zBrown

Ice climber
Aug 5, 2016 - 08:28pm PT
One man gathers what another man spills
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Aug 5, 2016 - 08:58pm PT
A broken angel sings from a guitar.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Aug 5, 2016 - 09:21pm PT
"When memories fade they become stories.
Some of those stories become songs."
zBrown

Ice climber
Aug 6, 2016 - 07:00pm PT
Six bucks.


Check out microphone arrangements.


zBrown

Ice climber
Aug 6, 2016 - 07:15pm PT

Description: Grateful Dead
Unknown Location (possibly Owsley’s house in Watts)
xx/xx/1966


Source: sbd > 10 inch Master Reels @1 5ips 1/2 track > dat(48k)



01 //Hi-Heel Sneakers
02 Viola Lee Blues (with false start)



Description: Grateful Dead
Avalon Ballroom
San Francisco, CA
05/19/1966


Source: sbd > 10 inch Master Reels @ 15 ips 1/2 track > Dat (48k)

Set I


01 //Beat It On Down The Line
02 Standing On The Corner
03 Mindbender
04 It Hurts Me Too
05 Viola Lee Blues
06 I Know You Rider
07 It's A Sin
08 Sick And Tired
09 Cream Puff War//
EP

Trad climber
Way Out There
Aug 6, 2016 - 08:44pm PT
RETURN TO AQUARIUS: A DAY OF PEACE, LOVE & MUSIC CELEBRATING WOODSTOCK 1969 INCLUDING A SPECIAL SET CELEBRATING JERRY GARCIA

August 13, 2016,
Terrapin Crossroads Presents:
Return to Aquarius
A Day of Peace, Love & Music celebrating Woodstock 1969
Including a special set celebrating Jerry Garcia
Terrapin Crossroads Backyard
Saturday, August 13th:
Phil Lesh, with a rotating cast of musicians, including Stanley Jordan, David Nelson, Stu Allen, Melvin Seals, Boyd Tinsley, John Molo, Barry Sless, Adam MacDougall, Grahame Lesh & Midnight North, members of San Geronimo, Ross James, Alex Koford, and other special guests, will perform a celebration of the music and spirit of Woodstock and the life and music of Jerry Garcia.
The day will consist of Phil and friends performing some of the musical highlights of Woodstock- including the Grateful Dead’s short, but very action filled set- closing with a very special set of Jerry Garcia’s most beloved songs.
Return to Aquarius
A Day of Peace, Love & Music celebrating Woodstock 1969
Including a special set celebrating Jerry Garcia
Saturday, August 13th, 2016
Doors 12pm/Show starts at 1pm
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Aug 10, 2016 - 06:20am PT
Pleasant memories of 12683. . .12/6/83 both shows as an old six foot five friend was the head of UVM production,


[Click to View YouTube Video]

Two shows I know I've heard (but the U Mass show in 1980 is on YouTube.)
Then ,
The two shows from the 1983 University of Vermont ? How can it be
Anyone have any ideas where to find theses shows?

http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2011/06/ln-jg1973-07-05jgmsallsbd.html
zBrown

Ice climber
Aug 11, 2016 - 07:24pm PT
^why yes gNome I do. I'll get back to ya.


Back to the microphone show. It could very well could be Berkeley Community Theatre 11-2-1984

song still unidentified, coiuld be Gimme Some Lovin'


zBrown

Ice climber
Aug 12, 2016 - 07:18am PT
gNome here's your silver platter

Apr 13, 1983 - Patrick Gymnasium


http://archive.org/details/gd1983-04-13.nak300.andrewf.82876.flac16


Underlined
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Aug 21, 2016 - 06:55pm PT
http://youtu.be/z_bXHbUqOd0
zBrown

Ice climber
Aug 21, 2016 - 07:26pm PT


zBrown

Ice climber
Sep 28, 2016 - 08:06pm PT

i-b-goB

Social climber
Wise Acres
Sep 28, 2016 - 08:17pm PT



zBrown

Ice climber
Sep 28, 2016 - 08:26pm PT



i-b-goB

Social climber
Wise Acres
Oct 6, 2016 - 09:43am PT



THE CAT RETURNS: More than 20 years after Jerry Garcia played it at his last Grateful Dead show, his famed Doug Irwin Tiger guitar makes an encore appearance with Warren Haynes and the Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration.

By Richard Bienstock | Photos by Jeff Nelson

It’s dusk on a warm evening as Warren Haynes takes the stage at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the famed concert venue nestled in the side of a mountainous rock formation in Morrison, Colorado. The Gov’t Mule and former Allman Brothers Band guitarist is here to lead the Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration, a tour, now in its third year, dedicated to presenting the Grateful Dead frontman’s music with accompaniment from local orchestras.

As Haynes and his band, aided tonight by the Colorado Symphony, break into their set opener, the 1968 classic “Dark Star,” a cheer erupts from the thousands of Rocky Mountain Deadheads in attendance. This initial loud welcome is quickly followed by another, and possibly even louder, ovation, as the crowd acknowledges the instrument strapped across Haynes’ torso. It’s a guitar so mythologized in Grateful Dead lore that it’s known by just a one-word name: Tiger.

“Very few instruments in the world have that sort of connection with an audience,” Haynes remarks to Guitar Aficionado after the performance. “But Tiger is one of those instruments. It’s just so revered in the eyes and ears of Grateful Dead fans.”

Custom-built for Garcia by luthier Doug Irwin over a period of six years, Tiger features distinctively shaped horns, a top and back of deeply figured Cocobolo with layers of maple and vermillion sandwiched in between, and lavish touches like brass binding, detailed pearl adornments, and an ornate tiger image inlaid on the oval preamp cover, below the tailpiece. The guitar served as the Grateful Dead leader’s main stage instrument between 1979 and 1989. As such, it’s revered by the Dead faithful and as recognizable—and perhaps almost as representative of the band—as the dancing bear image or the “Steal Your Face” skull logo.

But there’s another reason why Tiger’s appearance at Red Rocks triggered such an intense reaction from the throng in attendance. The evening’s show took place August 1, on what would have been Garcia’s 74th birthday. It also marked the first time the guitar was played onstage by anyone since Garcia used it to perform “Box of Rain,” the final song of the evening, at his very last Grateful Dead concert. That show, at Soldier Field in Chicago on July 9, 1995, came just one month before Garcia died of a heart attack at the age of 53. That the Dead leader happened to be using Tiger at the time was something of an accident. Garcia’s main guitar in those days, a custom-built Tiger lookalike known as Lightning Bolt, was undergoing repairs on the night of the Soldier Field concert. The instrument he chose to use instead, another custom Irwin creation known as Rosebud, went on the fritz about halfway through the show. Thus, Garcia turned to Tiger to cap the evening—and, as it unfortunately turned out, his 30-year career with the Grateful Dead.

But when Haynes brandishes Tiger at Red Rocks, it’s as if Garcia is right there with him. “The guitar was built for Jerry,” Haynes says. “And it has a voice that instantly reminds people of him.”


Until this night, however, that voice had been silent for more than two decades. How it came to be resurrected is something of a long, strange trip in and of itself, one involving a cast of characters that includes an NFL team owner and a Cy Young Award–winning Major League Baseball pitcher.

Per Garcia’s will, Tiger was returned to Doug Irwin after the guitarist’s death. Wolf, Irwin’s first custom creation for Garcia, came back into Irwin’s possession as well. In 2002, Irwin sold both instruments at auction. Wolf went for $700,000 and has made the rounds on the jam band circuit over the years, appearing in the hands of everyone from Neal Casal, guitarist in the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, to Haynes, who has played the instrument numerous times at Symphonic Celebration shows.

Tiger, which Garcia played for the longest continuous stretch of time for any guitar he used during his career, was sold at auction to Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay for an astounding $850,000 (the final price tag, with commissions, was closer to one million). Irsay, a passionate guitar enthusiast whose expansive private collection boasts such coveted and iconic pieces as Bob Dylan’s “Newport Festival” Fender Stratocaster, Les Paul’s 1954 “Black Beauty,” George Harrison’s 1964 Gibson SG, and, his most recent acquisition, Prince’s yellow Cloud custom guitar, has housed Tiger at his Indianapolis office ever since. The idea to bring the guitar out of retirement came, interestingly, from another sports-world luminary, if an unlikely one: San Francisco Giants pitcher Jake Peavy.

The 35-year-old Peavy is a two-time World Series champion, and he’s a guitarist in his spare time. In 2014, the Boston Red Sox traded him to the San Francisco Giants, and after landing in the Grateful Dead’s Bay Area stomping grounds, he was converted into an unabashed Deadhead.

“The Dead, to me, is a way to be,” Peavy tells Guitar Aficionado at Red Rocks while awaiting the evening’s show. “And the Giants are really married to the Grateful Dead family through things like Jerry Garcia Tribute Night, which we do at the ballpark.” The pitcher, who also runs the charitable organization the Jake Peavy Foundation, conceived of the plan to bring Tiger back to the stage after he and several of his Foundation associates attended one of the Grateful Dead’s 50th anniversary Fare Thee Well concerts last year. “We went to the show, and afterward we were sitting around and saw online that Wolf and Tiger were going to be on display somewhere,” Peavy recalls. “And one of the guys said, ‘Tiger is such an instrumental piece in the band’s history and in Jerry’s history. Wouldn’t it be great to see it played onstage again?’”

Peavy and his team began to seek out anyone who might be able to help with their quest and eventually landed on Chris McKinney, who curates the Jim Irsay guitar collection. “They found me on Facebook,” says McKinney, who traveled with Tiger to Red Rocks. “And honestly, it’s not that Jim had never been interested in doing something like this. It’s more that no one had ever asked.”

After getting the go-ahead from Irsay, McKinney brought Tiger to San Francisco this past May to meet with Peavy and his team. The initial plan, devised by Peavy’s camp, was to offer the iconic guitar to John Mayer, who was in town rehearsing with the recently formed Dead & Company for a summer tour. “But for a lot of reasons, he politely declined,” Peavy says. “Which I completely understand. He has some big shoes to fill, stepping into Jerry’s role in that band. And he’s not trying to be Jerry Garcia. He has his own sound.”

Mayer may not have grabbed hold of Tiger, but during that period when the guitar was in San Francisco several other key figures in the Grateful Dead world did. “I had a small get-together at my house, and guys like [former Grateful Dead road manager and Garcia tech] Steve Parish came, and you could see the whole room shift when he picked up the guitar,” Peavy says. “And we took Tiger to Terrapin Crossroads [the San Rafael restaurant and music venue owned by former Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh] and gave it to Phil to hold, and it was like it brought Jerry back to him. In general, just to witness the emotion that was involved with the people that came and saw this instrument…you know, it’s not normal to see a grown man shed a tear over a guitar. But everywhere we went, you could see the reverence people had for it…”

Guitar Aficionado – November/December 2016 - Kiefer Sutherland
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Oct 6, 2016 - 09:59am PT
Thnx for postin' 'dat....
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Oct 6, 2016 - 10:07am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Oct 6, 2016 - 11:09am PT
"Gotta get down to the mine . . ."
WyoRockMan

climber
Grizzlyville, WY
Oct 13, 2016 - 10:59pm PT
Been diggin' the CRB lately:

[Click to View YouTube Video]
i-b-goB

Social climber
Wise Acres
Nov 1, 2016 - 05:45pm PT
30 DAYS OF DEAD

http://www.dead.net/30daysofdead?cmpid=dn/2016November1/-main-image-1&eml=2016November1/3786373/6131962&etsubid=39951193
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Nov 1, 2016 - 08:07pm PT
Nice work on the mugshot collage zB!

Thanks for the 30 days link goB!
zBrown

Ice climber
Nov 4, 2016 - 09:45am PT
Missed a good one.

survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Nov 4, 2016 - 09:57am PT
We need Jerry now more than ever.
zBrown

Ice climber
Nov 4, 2016 - 03:24pm PT
The inspiration for this whole line of inquiry seems to have disappeared.


Long as I'm at it


1963 Berkeley




zBrown

Ice climber
Nov 4, 2016 - 03:36pm PT
Testing, testing

zBrown

Ice climber
Nov 6, 2016 - 10:06am PT
Hart Valley Drifters included a very young Jerry Garcia and future Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter




Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Nov 6, 2016 - 07:07pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
zBrown

Ice climber
Nov 7, 2016 - 08:52am PT
Haven't sewen this one in a coon's age

k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Dec 1, 2016 - 07:33pm PT
I wanna get a friend a present.

What's a really good, officially released Grateful Dead CD?

I have a few of them (One from the Vault being really good!), but I want to hear what other good shows I can get on CD.

Merry Jerry!
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2016 - 07:40pm PT
Dicks Picks 12/27/77

Hell, any one of those. Choose the era.

There are other, newer live "series"-
Road Trips
Dave's Picks



Edit-
OH, I think you were at this one K-Man.
Even better.
TwistedCrank

climber
Released into general population, Idaho
Dec 2, 2016 - 07:22am PT
http://www.dead.net/store/1970s/red-rocks-amphitheatre-morrison-co-7878-cd
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Dec 2, 2016 - 07:29am PT


There are a lot of ways to go
Some times a birthday show ? The persons birthday or your own?

I'm partial to a East coast Madison Square Garden show at the moment ![Click to View YouTube Video]
~ ~ ~ ~ A Dicks Picks 3 disc show,
also a Richmond show, from 11/1/85

http://danb.altervista.org › gdstream
"Standing on the Corner" from The Grateful Dead 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Bonus CD .... Dick's Picks Vol. 21: 11/1/85 (Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, VA) & 9/2/80 (Community War Memorial, Rochester




.that has this nugget[Click to View YouTube Video]

But I still think the '77 show from the same venue is considered an "All Time"
I was at the Rochester September 2 1980 it is the best IKO >>Morning Dew
#1or 2 (after Cornell.zezs.....;^j.....oh and that Burlington Vermont show. . . )
Chinese Menus give me similar problems



!V!

http://archive.org/details/gd1980-09-02.sbd.miller.tetzeli.patch-28299.34940.reflac.flac16





Bvg


http://www.thebarnpresents.com/deadify-a-guide-to-facts-figures-and-year-by-year-playlists-for-grateful-dead-on-spotify-16926.html




just a thought or two


I added the dates . ..
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Dec 2, 2016 - 03:59pm PT
These are some excellent suggestions.

Because I never ventured to the CO Red Rocks (Sad!), I think that one might get added to the list.

One of my fav's of the Dicks Pix series is #3, one of my favorite eras of the Dead...

And yeah, 12/27/77.... Hahahaha...
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jan 6, 2017 - 06:32pm PT
7/8/78 -A Hearalded Rececent Released set ! - 1of the best ! At a great venue!

[Click to View YouTube Video]



K,

'76 ~ '80 so sweet you can hit a sour one or two but almost every spring show after these ' New Fear shows, were toasty, 4/12/78,,[Click to View YouTube Video]
now I'm sorry if this 'going off' but it is a short listen , , , ,twice
4/21/78[Click to View YouTube Video]4/12/78[Click to View YouTube Video]
One quick look only brought up the whole show a tasty treat early for a No Fear run,
(((((Ho and I'd like to mention 4/27/85( ? I think ? The frosts,. . ))))))


K-Man :
12/27/77,
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jan 6, 2017 - 08:00pm PT
"They're a band beyond description . . ."
Rhodo-Router

Gym climber
sawatch choss
Jan 9, 2017 - 10:00am PT
That Yale Bowl July 1971 is pretty smokin' Kelly.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 9, 2017 - 02:04pm PT
That Duke University US Blues is a classic for sure.

Here's a pic an old friend sent me today- of a doodle I did years ago.


And because I was an 80s head, here's this:

[Click to View YouTube Video]

karabin museum

Trad climber
phoenix, az
Jan 11, 2017 - 04:44am PT


I painted this Grateful Dead jean jacket for a friend back in 1985. It came out to be a true masterpiece and one of my finest Jean Jacket works. Probably cost $100 back then.

Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jan 11, 2017 - 04:55am PT
^ ^ ^ ^sweet Marty !
Zowie Pop! Those panels are art !


( this for place saving - Bulletproof hard rock, Bolts, or Old school, (fair means) Clean rock climbing.)


There in 'Zona!
There were Tempe shows in the late 80s !?
I'll have to go look.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Jan 11, 2017 - 06:32pm PT
Such a great image too, on the jacket.

I have that Aoxomoxoa poster, that's a gem!



1971, love that year for the Dead. Yale Bowl July 1971, is that a tape? I found this:

http://www.dead.net/show/july-31-1971
zBrown

Ice climber
Jan 11, 2017 - 07:40pm PT


zBrown

Ice climber
Jan 13, 2017 - 10:34pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Tobia

Social climber
Denial
Jan 26, 2017 - 11:03am PT

Dead & Company ≈ Live at Fenway Park
[Click to View YouTube Video]
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Mar 8, 2017 - 11:39am PT











Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Mar 9, 2017 - 05:43am PT
Question ? Where's the music gone?
Answer

Only Need A Show,If Only My Friends Could Go, how the sounds sound today 3/6/17

I've not read yet what has dropped
I feel like I need one [Click to View YouTube Video] I never Needed Two,

The whole show scroll around a bit before settling in.m. .

https://youtu.be/qpMxumwa5-Y


[Click to View YouTube Video]

Blue Mountain?
Edit:
Yup, That Blue Mountain?! It will take a few times to see
[Click to View YouTube Video]
what it sounds like ? After 1/2 a listen, mind ya',
is a - "Muddy River"- for Bob,
Someone who plays needs to weigh in ? , but try it for yourself,
I'm not sure ? somethings to continue to age into.
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Mar 9, 2017 - 09:25am PT
How about it for Blue Mountain?

Took me a few listens to forget about judging it. It's not what I expected, but there's a few tunes there that are really great.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Mar 10, 2017 - 09:51am PT
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Mar 10, 2017 - 10:58am PT
.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
.



[Click to View YouTube Video]

A year later,
Here it is[Click to View YouTube Video]

Maybe Bobby & the Midnights?
pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Mar 10, 2017 - 02:34pm PT
https://youtu.be/2eDFbhh6Vfc
F

climber
away from the ground
Mar 17, 2017 - 09:55pm PT
Saw Bob Weir at the local last night playing with the David Nelson Band. (DN has cancer, BW was covering for him).

They started late, and stopped early. No encore.
BW had zero connection to the crowd. Never aknowledged the audience.
The "word" was he didn't want anyone talking while he was playing, so you were getting constantly shushed by the "heads" for two hours every time you talked to your friends, or even at one point when ordering a drink.
Freak show was abundant. Not impressed by the musicianship, or showmanship.
Thumbs down.

(Hearing some 20 something wanna be hippie talk about her "spiritual experience at the Greatful Dead show last night" made me want to vomit into my coffee this morning)
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Mar 18, 2017 - 05:48am PT
played some dead last night..
dire wolf, warf rat, cassisdy and bird song..
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Mar 18, 2017 - 07:53am PT
Three versions of dire wolf ?

1st, squeaky clean,
from 'The Tom Snyder' TV appearance ( the video has TV distortions )


https://youtu.be/Hhqyg_dTaTg

As was the way of things,
Back then, when they were super tight
the whole Troupe is flying just right during this [Click to View YouTube Video] 1977 Is The Time . . .Period!

.
Then, [Click to View YouTube Video]
it's. Official!(?) so that's what the band sounds like
SilverSnurfer

Mountain climber
SLC, UT.
Mar 18, 2017 - 08:14am PT
I was there-traded a dish washing shift at the Nugget Inn with a buddy from Bird Creek to make the show. Fun times indeed.

Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Mar 18, 2017 - 08:26am PT
Woo ha ! That's a blast! what a great show ,[Click to View YouTube Video]
"a long way to go to wake up . . . in a parking lot
. . . . . .in Alaska" though!
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Check out some more of that show!
A high school auditorium, like it was in the 70s
Smal family thing playing to the mid-night sun. . .
Althea, & Friend of the Devil . . . .


Then in reviewing that A. G / Greatest Story !

I checked this, High test ~A. Getaway~ Gets high marks for hitting all points of the moving target
( And Some don't like the song, . . . )


[Click to View YouTube Video]


Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Apr 21, 2017 - 03:56pm PT
Ho khan I hope this is truth
5/8/77 Barton Hall Cornell is to be released on 5/5/17
(as well as a box set of three more May '77 shouws, that's all's I know & I kno no more but . . .

https://www.amazon.com/Cornell-5-8-77-3CD/dp/B06X3W659N

I'm lost in small rock hell Connectecut, absolutely cut off from the crew - now dispersed to the winds so ?? Who knows? My wife n kids haven't loaded a disc in years. .. . .., 4.5 milk crates of vulnerable vinyl, sadly warping. One amazing Dead/New riders boot o 500 disc pressing or some such, I don't look these things up, might though now.

Anyone here care to chime in or is it to be my pleasure/curse to fill
these pages with mirth and song
The Music NEVER STOPS,
NAUW DA BANDS Au PACKED AND GONE,.. . . . .

.........WHERE THEY EVER HERE AT ALL.
1&2&3,456 let the music play
[Click to View YouTube Video]


In terms of making a tour of it > I 'iked' '87 , but it had changed, I think it is a given,, there were shake ups in the entourage.
A place called cafe Bethoven opened, a Queen left the circus. Big " Happy Jack" Gr_ _ _an
Was found dead behind the wheel of his BMW,
am I right (I don't know what's written) were thwarted attempts to try to cure Jerry ?
Did that happene?

All the societal junk ; the flee market transactions had not been able to assimilate.
Scammers, old on young - and - young on old , some times leading an un-aware, brother or sister there to red bus. - or if your travels took you or you, your-self fell prey.

I saw many full crews easily dozens of people leave tour. Many went Phishing but for many 40
Was a cataclysmic re-alignment. As we all had watch our older brothers a SISTERS, both fly and fail, fly away, Crash and make it or crash n' burn. 70 year old Frosted Flakes were stark mirrors, a tapering off at least felt like it was universal.

Things were also weird sad on tour at various venue's
And camps, Juvinile's and Junkies, drama & death rode along, shadowing the habbit had fully frozen out some, and constant medical, re-lapses were often evident rather than the rarity.
As plus to some was the re-entrenchment of chemicals, as X re the old mDma, but te-configured (?) was so not my scene, but it got huge, das boat sails I saw less and less multiples, started to pick a far off California show over 15 east coast shows and always felt well rewarded. Will call and @ door show.
zBrown

Ice climber
Apr 21, 2017 - 08:44pm PT
11-7-1987

Henry J Kaiser Convention Center

--Set One--
01 tuning
02 Hey Pocky Way->
03 Jack Straw
04 Row Jimmy
05 tuning
06 When I Paint My Masterpiece
07 Dupree's Diamond Blues
08 "We Want Phil.."
09 Box of Rain
10 Cassidy->
11 Might as Well

--Set Two--
12 Uncle John's Band->
13 Playin'in the Band->
14 Terrapin Station->
15 Drums->
16 Space->
17 Prelude->
18 I Need A Miracle->
19 Black Peter->
20 Throwing Stones->
21 Not Fade Away
22 crowd
Encore
23 Not Fade Away->
24 Knockin' On Heaven's Door
25 tuning
26 One More Saturday Night
WyoRockMan

climber
Grizzlyville, WY
Apr 24, 2017 - 05:16pm PT
Two of my favorite things.

Sh-shake it down.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Risk

Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
Apr 24, 2017 - 08:31pm PT
(Hearing some 20 something wanna be hippie talk about her "spiritual experience at the Greatful Dead show last night" made me want to vomit into my coffee this morning)

Not sure I follow? Vomit over what, another's spiritual experience? I wonder what they said when I has 20 and diggin my first show in 77? Keep it positive, man!
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Jun 5, 2017 - 03:32pm PT
Anyone hitting up Boulder this weekend? Would love to go but can't part with $100+.
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Jun 6, 2017 - 12:55pm PT
anyone going on Saturday?
zBrown

Ice climber
Jun 6, 2017 - 01:05pm PT
Broadway World: Grateful Dead Musical is in the Works
by BWW News Desk Jun. 5, 2017

Attention all Deadheads! According to an Equity casting notice, a Grateful Dead musical is in the works.

The untitled project is described as: "a new musical comedy, featuring the music of THE GRATEFUL DEAD- a semi-fantastical and immersive Americana tale of the Jones family in 1920's Cumberland, Maryland, as they con, swindle and gamble their way into riches."

Rachel Klein is directing a July reading, with musical direction by Jeff Chimenti.

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. Ranging from quintet to septet, the band is known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, psychedelia, experimental music, modal jazz, country, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, and space rock, for live performances of lengthy instrumental jams, and for their devoted fan base, known as "Deadheads".

The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and a recording of their May 8, 1977 performance at Cornell University's Barton Hall was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2012. The Grateful Dead have sold more than 35 million albums worldwide.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jun 10, 2017 - 03:21pm PT
Was on the bus as the ride slowed down,

- we jumped off -

leaving forever the whirling marble of our youth!

Then it took a hearty - 'ave at it !

LIFES not dead yet !

grabbed a-hold, rollercoaster round & up

but I'll always look back

The fondest if most un-clear memories. . . . .


The boys in the Buck-eye nest, Ohio! The Breedlove'!' State; (where the girls were beautiful ( No, 'h' ))
The 1st set,
then the 2nd ~> He's Gone. @1:33:09,,,,(after 'playin' in the band' )
**6/9/91* 26 yrs**
it just bounced up on the YouTube nu-for-u thingy. .. . Worth a listen.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FqKMT60vvgU
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - Jun 10, 2017 - 04:29pm PT
WTF

Same.
Loved it. Felt proud, connected, then sad.
mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Jun 12, 2017 - 01:52pm PT
show was great fun on Saturday and the setting at Folsom Field was just really cool. The tailgating scene was nice on campus as well. I think there were more people younger than me than older.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jun 26, 2017 - 04:42pm PT
Not my place to post that dead & company show, it was smokin' though
And
Then
Whishing
I really
Could
Remember
When
It was
A real
Festival
Like A
summer show
In Saratoga
A righteous
Outdoor
Venue to be sure
6/28/88
When I Paint My Masterpiece
https://youtu.be/c5e1TNpgPNs


Then this one From D'A Otha' coast (& what's in the car now ) 7/26/87 Anaheim
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 26, 2017 - 08:25pm PT
Jerry looks pretty bad at the Hebron, OH show . . . much older than his actual years.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jun 27, 2017 - 05:53pm PT
Every year it was so apparent, each encounter from '?. on
was frought with drooling Jerry before shows.
it was sad and his preformance showed,
it slowed the band carried him he never led ,
He always got the top rope treatment
some times they turned him down ,
way don to were he could hear he'd been dropped for the key boards ,
a sacralidge to say
but he'd turned into a junkie
it is sad to see.


Sorry that was not the bump I'd planned to leave!

PICKLES . Are you Lookin' in? I hope you call or that we bump into you again!
drF

Trad climber
usa
Jun 27, 2017 - 08:18pm PT
If you don't have Amazon Prime borrow a buddies password.

This is a good show!
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Trip/dp/B072HHSYTQ/?ref=dvm_us_dl_sl_go_ast|c_201269419629_m_iFVjSBUd-dc_s_&gclid=CLOl4ujJ39QCFYF_fgodXfoEIw
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Jun 27, 2017 - 08:46pm PT
Upon revisiting the Hebron, OH show previously mentioned . . . as much as Jerry must have been struggling physically, he surely gutted out an awesomw Sugaree.
zBrown

Ice climber
Jun 30, 2017 - 07:29pm PT


Somebody got murdered on New Year's Eve
Somebody said dignity was the first to leave
I went into the city, went into the town
Went into the land of the midnight sun


[Click to View YouTube Video]


Rolling Stone: Grateful Dead Movie Meet-Up To Screen Unreleased 1989 D.C. Concert
RFK Stadium show will play in movie theaters nationwide for one night only in August
By Jon Blistein | June 29, 2017

The Grateful Dead will screen their previously unreleased July 12th, 1989 concert at Washington D.C.'s RFK Stadium in movie theaters nationwide August 1st. Screenings for the band's seventh annual Meet-Up at the Movies event will begin at 7 p.m. local time.

Organizers Fathom Events and Rhino Entertainment released a 30-second trailer for the Meet-Up featuring snippets of the Dead performing tracks like "New Minglewood Blues" and "Touch of Grey." A list of participating theaters and tickets are available via the Fathom website.

The 1989 RFK show came in the middle of a busy year for the Grateful Dead, during which they played 74 shows and cemented their place as the third-biggest rock and roll concert attraction after the Rolling Stones and the Who. Still, the band often faced opposition when they rolled through town, including a Washington D.C. councilwoman, who represented the neighborhood surrounding RFK Stadium and lobbied against the show before ultimately reversing her position.

The concert at RFK notably featured a rare first set occurrence, with all four of the Dead's lead singers performing at least one song. During set two, Bruce Hornsby joined the band for two tracks, "Man Smart (Woman Smarter)" and "Sugaree," which also served as an atypical set two opener. The concert film also includes one of the only versions of "Black Muddy River" recorded on video.

Earlier this year, the Grateful Dead celebrated the 40th anniversary of their 1977 concert film The Grateful Dead Movie with a nationwide screening event.

Members of the Dead and John Mayer are currently on tour as Dead and Company. The outfit will wrap their trek with a two-night stand at Wrigley Field in Chicago June 30th and July 1st.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jul 1, 2017 - 10:14pm PT
Dat's one of seven - sleepy, Snow's pillow - the princess not the dwarf. .,.
12/04/88The Bridge School Benefit [Click to View YouTube Video]



Duprees
heres this from '82

https://youtu.be/Rh4aJlVYcps

and the March 90' ( and was almost thru) from th then New Knickabocker

https://youtu.be/4dRsxLxl2ZQ
Oldfattradguy2

Trad climber
Here and there
Jul 31, 2017 - 08:13pm PT
Happy 75th and the start of 9 days of Jerry!
zBrown

Ice climber
Jul 31, 2017 - 09:02pm PT
Jack StrW Row Jimy - DP23


or http://www.teragramballroom.com/event/1516852-grateful-shred-friends-los-angeles
originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Aug 1, 2017 - 05:21pm PT
Jerry Birthday Bump!

Big fan of JGB. Here is a good one, from the Old Testament.

https://youtu.be/cuKNQamDtnE
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Aug 7, 2017 - 03:24pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Oh no Voodoonola !?!!
whatever is to be ? Done ?m!!
There is no love for our site ?



https://youtu.be/iIM8aolPPmA]

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Aug 9, 2017 - 05:17am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]https://youtu.be/lTpKB9yIYwg


[youtube=be/lTpKB9yIYwg]

[youtube=/lTpKB9yIYwg]
zBrown

Ice climber
Aug 11, 2017 - 07:05am PT


[Click to View YouTube Video]
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Aug 11, 2017 - 07:12am PT
[Click to View YouTube Video] , gettin' in to it , then there's



That olé' "MASTERPIECE"

https://youtu.be/Z08P0j4WOxo

And "THINK"

https://youtu.be/zqYGhWwhKEQ

[Click to View YouTube Video]




Gary !
Yes, (and here's the most recently released, I think?)
"China Town Shuffle"

https://youtu.be/l6YZorMKN3w


but I've had a tape for decades
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Aug 11, 2017 - 07:35am PT
It's been 45 years since Pigpen toured with the band. RIP
[Click to View YouTube Video]
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 11, 2017 - 02:01pm PT
Jack StrW Row Jimy - DP23

Ho man, just got this Dave's Pick, and these tunes are totally worth the price of admission.
So bright and inspiring G!
zBrown

Ice climber
Aug 13, 2017 - 06:49pm PT

Yes indee_dee

Clerk recorded it, but I was there or maybe I wasn't!

[Click to View YouTube Video]

It might have been this one, I really can't say.


[Click to View YouTube Video]
WyoRockMan

climber
Grizzlyville, WY
Oct 4, 2017 - 06:30pm PT
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Oct 4, 2017 - 09:15pm PT
Nice, Wyo!
Any idea if that recording was before? Or after?

Edit, thanks, who!
WyoRockMan

climber
Grizzlyville, WY
Oct 4, 2017 - 09:38pm PT
February 1997 at Fillmore. So AJ.
chapter IV

Big Wall climber
kinda fluid
Oct 6, 2017 - 04:30pm PT
i walked into splintered sunshine
and donned a box of rain.

believe if you need to;
if you don't just pass it on.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Oct 27, 2017 - 10:29am PT
Short 'n sweet
Constant, Animated, 'with it' Jer-ball,
a bit rare in those hazy daze of '88
3/26/88 Hampton Va
(S kessler's 30th b-day)
sweet wheel if you need it [Click to View YouTube Video]If ya' don't just pass it on




1st Set

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70pEOt0z2ak

2nd Set

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7jgWg7Cpkk



Bonus, To take the daze by storm, The Greekz Bezerkly 7/15/88

2nd set,


Set 2
Scarlet Begonias
Fire on the Mountain
Man Smart, Woman Smarter
Ship of Fools
Estimated Prophet
Drums
Space
I Need a Miracle
The Wheel
Gimme Some Lovin'
Morning Dew
E: Turn on Your Lovelight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmPtORBd-cc


((check this; the comment left 4 days ago!))


Delsin Menolascino
4 days ago
Read Rock Scully's book "Living With the Dead". It turns out these guys are/were just drug- and alcohol-addicted sociopaths preying on young girls and living like kings while their deluded fans worshiped them and lived like the scum of the earth. A colossal waste of time, energy, resources, and young minds! Robert Hunter: "We turned self-indulgence into an art form". That's the truth, except it's not really art (I'll grant there are a few really well-written songs). Listen with an objective ear--the vocals are terrible, the playing sloppy, and the whole thing basically dependent on state-of-the-art sound equipment which YOUR money paid for. The rich get richer, the deadheads stay poor--look at the houses Phil and Bob live in now. They gain the world and lose their souls.
True, but most of us knew and were happy to provide
zBrown

Ice climber
Nov 1, 2017 - 09:12am PT


i-b-goB

Social climber
Wise Acres
Nov 1, 2017 - 01:22pm PT

30 DAYS OF DEAD

http://www.dead.net/30daysofdead?cmpid=dn/2017November1/30DaysDeadIsBac-GetStartedHere-main-more-1&eml=2017November1/4164005/6131962&etsubid=39951193

Free download each day of November!

TwistedCrank

climber
Released into general population, Idaho
Nov 2, 2017 - 06:21am PT
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was

Trad climber
there
Nov 2, 2017 - 08:41am PT
dude i know jerry.
i am jerry.
f*#king jerry.

what a character.

if he would crawl out from behind the wall paper
he'd be all like,

"don't just f*#king post echoes of what i said (sang!)

i was only trying to encourage the masses to come apart.

so please.

come apart."

because that's beautiful.

when together means trump.
and hate.
and greed.
and ignorance.

you. you person amongst many.

you have an obligation.
to exist.

so do so.
according to your whims.

please.

because this f*#king american society and maybe the world beyond american is only a whisper on the stage of existence.

i think, if i listen real close, even through the amplifiers,
you are saying,

"me. me. me. more for me. i'm scared. i'm hollow. i'm lazy."


no jerry would want us to write something on his thread like,

"life is chocolate, melted into a fluid sauce.
and we are all cookies. dipping. into
life. into the sauce.
dripping goo. and god eats us.
she eats our most sour; most inimate parts."

or perhaps,

"skate your ex-boyfriend."

yea. that's what i did.

the fool treated me poorly.

so i left. then he came calling.
you know, for booty.

so i responded. and met him.
and told him,

"get down on all fours."

he pictured boobies and dripping hoo-hoos.

but i did not bring those to him.
he is a jerk.

instead i skated up to him and popped my girl-ollie
and slid tail side upon his right love handle. and landed
my trick.a

girls are excellent. yes. we are.


originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Nov 3, 2017 - 01:36pm PT
Anyone have one of these? Was gifted to me a while back. From Owsley Stanleys old mould. His son started making them again.

pocoloco1

Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
Nov 3, 2017 - 05:06pm PT
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XRXH764kL0A#
zBrown

Ice climber
Nov 17, 2017 - 08:38pm PT
Longest TOO -12/31/1972 ??

41 minutes
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Nov 19, 2017 - 04:48am PT
The Greatest Story (ever told)[Click to View YouTube Video]
As we roll on towards the gobbler day,
Thanks Giving * Giving Thanx for giving us
all a fine ride
on the way to
oblivion,
couldn't imagine this roller coaster with out . . .
7/9/77 late shows Asbury Park Nj - opens w/ 'The Harder They Come',
Then 'They Love Each Other'(long -ish break/tune up, "A") 'In The Moon Light' (pickin' fremzy!)
(but scroll, baby scroll)
SkoL!
[Click to View YouTube Video]
+ ther's just some thing about '77 Jerry
zBrown

Ice climber
Nov 19, 2017 - 08:40am PT
"just a guitar player"
-bDylan

“It’s not really me—I don’t design guitars or any of that kind of stuff, since I don’t have that kind of mind. The guy that made this guitar, Doug Irwin, is a luthier, a guitar-builder. His guitars all have great hands. My hand falls upon one of them and it says ‘play me,’ and it’s one of those things not all guitars do. Some guitars definitely don’t do it, but his guitars do that and it’s just a special thing.

"It’s not entirely a matter of balance, it’s not a matter of dimensions, of measurable stuff, it’s something indefinable, but my hand loves it. There’s almost like a physical attraction. The man’s work is museum quality, the workmanship and the detail—it’s a beautiful instrument. But even the aesthetics of it are not what make me like them, it’s just the way it feels in my hand. I don’t know what it is, he doesn’t even know what it is, but he just builds them the way he thinks I would like them, and it works perfectly.” Garcia found Irwin by the same process of serendipity that he uses to explain a lot of the fortuitous coincidences he’s experienced.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 18, 2017 - 01:27am PT
https://www.facebook.com/groups/DailyDoseofGratefulDeadMemes/?fref=mentions

https://www.facebook.com/knut.masco?hc_ref=ARSgD5DRtzitxFpYExdtUAY8VweoxMocwgPPlwV5Gr1kWtGpvOfbHSOBUSWlKMsVdu8

^^^Scroll to Dec. 12 for the Honeymooners -- GD/fire on the mtn.
originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Dec 18, 2017 - 01:09pm PT

Real smokin John K show (of Furthur) at Terrapin Crossroads last week. Special guest was Bobby. Was awesome. Don't know why DandC picked Mayer. John K is an amazing guitar player and singer. Has the chops and the soul. Mayer is just a corporate music d#@&%e. IMO.
zBrown

Ice climber
Dec 18, 2017 - 04:32pm PT

It was a good year

[Click to View YouTube Video]

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Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Dec 18, 2017 - 06:08pm PT

while searching for the 6/3/83 J Garcia Band show @ (Passaic Nj) Capital Theater,
I kept seeing shorter bits, till I found this,

Jerry,on the ball, for MTV, full 30 minute interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN4E5GQIZao

then, in that I was, ole' all in` then,

so that was from the link (i,think?)

So these guys deserve at least a shout out

Where to find dealydedicated, truelydedicated, :

http://www.deadheadland.com/2017/01/05/mtv-interview-1983-june-2nd-jerry-garcia-complete-interview-mtv-studios-ny/
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jan 14, 2018 - 06:55am PT
posted on 1/13/18
who's got a b-day ? ther's some sweet sound boards droppin'

Grateful Dead 7/6/1990 Cardinal Stadium, Louisville KY
(95 views)

https://youtu.be/i_TyPAC9smk

At least catch then Opener
"Hell In a Bucket"



then there are 3 others or maybe 4?

7/4/1990 Sandstone Amphitheater, Bonner Springs KS

https://youtu.be/Iq3AC-Wgqc8


6/23/1990 Autzen Stadium, U of Oregon, Eugene OR SBD

https://youtu.be/J-M6oK-551c





2:47:01
Grateful Dead 7 19 1990 Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville IN
122 views
13 hours ago

2:57:06
Grateful Dead 7 16 1990 Rich Stadium, Orchard Park NY
64 views
13 hours ago

2:47:26
Grateful Dead 7 14 1990 Foxboro Stadium, Foxboro MA
71 views
14 hours ago

2:56:56
Grateful Dead 7 12 1990 RFK Stadium, Washington DC
71 views
15 hours ago

2:37:04
Grateful Dead 7 10 1990 Cater Finley Stadium, Raleigh NC
62 views
15 hours ago



2:44:42
Grateful Dead 7 4 1990 Sandstone Ampitheatre, Bonner Springs KS
100 views
16 hours ago

2:49:43
Grateful Dead 6 23 1990 Autzen Stadium, U of Oregon, Eugene OR SBD
160 views
16 hours ago

2:58:30
Grateful Dead 1990 06 17 SBD Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA
567 views
2 months ago

2:38:29
Grateful Dead 1989 07 13 Robert F Kennedy Stadium, Wa
1.6K views
2 months ago




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Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Feb 9, 2018 - 02:14am PT
I reelly liked the 6/23/90 show & it dosn't show so here it is from the Archive , that lets you listen to individual songs

https://archive.org/details/gd90-06-23.sbd.ladner.28690.sbeok.shnf



then sure enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=658GBfGX8bI

the Barton Hall show(s) May 8 '77 Cornell University
now given a name, The "See The Light" shows? seems insane ive had these tapes for decades almost as good as the "Danes"
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Mar 7, 2018 - 06:12am PT

The Miles part


https://youtu.be/WbvkgR5K-YE



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zBrown

Ice climber
May 12, 2018 - 12:03pm PT
In Selvin's estimation, the group made a crucial error in the immediate aftermath of Garcia's death when they retired the name "The Grateful Dead." They compounded it by not actually touring together for three years, a crucial period where Phish was able take much of their audience and become the new kings of the jam-band scene. The 1998 tour (where they were billed as the Other Ones) was done without Kreutzmann, the first of many times one member was on the outs. "There have been six different versions of the group since Jerry died," says Selvin. "They were always shifting. You could never tell who was gonna turn up the next time they played and you could never tell who was gonna choose sides in the middle of an argument."

A key moment came at the end of a 2009 Dead tour when Phil Lesh and his wife Jill decided they wanted to carry on without the drummers. They recruited Weir into a new project they dubbed Furthur, which featured John Kadlecik – the leader of the premiere Grateful Dead tribute act Dark Star Orchestra – as the frontman. "Given his oft-expressed displeasure with tribute bands, Lesh's pick of Kadlecik to join his new band served two purposes," Selvin writes in Fare Thee Well. "It effectively crippled the top tribute band by taking out their guitarist and it signaled Lesh's intent to tool his new band into the ultimate Grateful Dead tribute band."
originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
May 12, 2018 - 12:53pm PT
I loved Furthur. Can't stand Mayer. Think he is a corporate pop star d#@&%e. John K has chops. Saw him play at Terrapin recently, it was great.

Joe Russo's Almost Dead is the best Dead continuation band going right now, IMO.
the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
May 12, 2018 - 07:53pm PT
Have you Mayer detractors been to a Dead & Co. show? Best Dead shows since Jerry died IMO, including Fare the Well.

Mayer has chops. Listen to his blues stuff, or where he emulates SRV, Hendrix, or Clapton. Or listen to him improv with Dead & Co.

I wasn't a Mayer fan until we happened to go to the New Years Eve Dead & Co. show at the LA Forum in 2015. Just wanted a fun new years, and it was awesome. So glad I experienced Dead and Co. on their first tour, been going to a few every year since.

Went to the Dave Chappelle and John Mayer Controlled Danger show in San Fran a few weeks back. Sides hurt from laughing so much.

[Click to View YouTube Video]
the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
May 30, 2018 - 12:00pm PT
Free livestream of Dead & cos tour opener tonight on nugs.tv


originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
May 30, 2018 - 02:52pm PT
^^^ Well, sh!t, that was well said.
Matt Sarad

climber
Jun 23, 2018 - 08:23am PT
Dark Star Orchestra tonight at Libbey Bowl in Ojai. Interesting that Phil plucked John Kadlecik aka “Fake Jerry” for Furthur. Having seen Furthur, Kadlecik’s band the Golden Gate Wingmen, and Trey with Fare Thee Well in Santa Clara and Chicago, I think that Mayer is still missing the mark.

Kadlecik is closest to honoring Jerry without faking it. Trey was in over his head and didn’t really hit it until four days in. Mayer, bless his heart, is giving it his all.
Oldfattradguy2

Trad climber
Here and there
Jun 23, 2018 - 08:31pm PT
^^^
If you do not think john Mayer is a great fake jerry, you likely do not have satellite radio tuned to tonite’s broadcast from alpine valley.....

Seen a lot of fake Jerrys over the years. One of which claims to have invented the term.
originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Jun 23, 2018 - 10:27pm PT
Anyone going to Shoreline? Cause I am. I'll be in the lot huffing nitrous and talking sh it on Mayer. Joking, I'll be in the show
the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
Jun 24, 2018 - 06:45pm PT
I’ll be at both nights in the 200s.
Risk

Mountain climber
Marooned, 855 miles from Tuolumne Meadows
Jun 24, 2018 - 07:18pm PT
I'm hearing a lot of naysayers on current members on whether or not their up to the task, for better or worse. Take it easy. I'm glad the soul isn't Dead too. I hope it never is. It's not the music or the members of the band, it's the soul of the experience and being with the family altogether; that's what makes it happening and important to all of us.

I'm headed down to Eugene with my two daughters (15 & 18; talked them into it- 1st show) for the 30th. Hoping that a special moment will present itself, whether it's in the parking lot or during the encore; just hope it happens.
Matt Sarad

climber
Jun 24, 2018 - 07:20pm PT
Dark Star Orchestra did one if my favorites: Robertson Gym UC SB February of '77.
zBrown

Ice climber
Jun 24, 2018 - 07:33pm PT
'Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!'
-Albert Hofmann

Mayer could never have pulled this off.

Not even Meher Baba could

https://archive.org/details/gd1977-12-31_505


Psilocyborg

climber
Jun 24, 2018 - 11:08pm PT
Sometimes I wonder what it would have been like if Trey Anastasio would have taken over for Jerry in 1995. In 1995 Trey was the most powerful rock guitarist on the planet. By 1999 he had soul dropping from his fingers

https://youtu.be/BayAIRqFsHY?t=7m40s
bit'er ol' guy

climber
the past
Jun 25, 2018 - 09:07am PT
I've never understood The Dead. Either you like it or you don't. I don't. I think it's awful. I grew up in a musical family. I'm a musician. I worked in record stores around LA in my teens and early 20s. I've been to all kinds of concerts from jazz to punk. In the mid 1980s a girl friend took me to see The Dead at Laguna Seca. I had heard what great musicians they were (are) but seriously....it was hard to take. The tempo changed randomly, they were drifting in and out key (and interest) as they droned on and on. No one seemed to notice or care. The rest of it was pretty cool-Los Lobos rocked, lots of drugs and uninhibited hippy chicks. I went to another show in the East bay that was worse. The sound was horrible, why were so many people taping it and writing down the set list? It seems like if you were a fan you'd want to forget about it. I walked out.
the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
Jun 25, 2018 - 11:54am PT
The dead is an acquired taste for many fans. The first show I went to I only knew about 1/4 of the songs and I thought the jamming went on way too long especially drums and space. I wasn’t really impressed. But The more I learned over the decades the more I came to appreciate them. They played their songs differently every night. Some nights were better than others, that’s the nature of risk taking and improvisation, and there were times when Jerry was too wasted. But when they would come and play 3 nights in a row you could go to every night and it was always something new. They had hundreds of songs they actively played and you never knew what you’d hear. I came to learn and love dozens of great songs you’ll never hear on the radio. Most of the time I’d see them their sound was great, if you were out in the back in big venue with the house sound system it could be not good but up near the stage they took great care in having good sound quality.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jun 25, 2018 - 01:39pm PT
That is a good example, a great set list of a second night show. Already a bunch of nights into a run, of a long tour. so it was by some accounts a "lesser show". A condition that could switch from 1st show in a city or the 2nd night or a run of less than stellar shows in a row.

Robertson Gym, UC Santa Barbara, 2/27/77

https://archive.org/details/gd77-02-27.bertrando.vernon.10378.sbeok.shnf/gd77-02-27d1t09.shn

There is no accounting for taste. As with beauty it helps if you find the package appealing, but love happens the Grateful gnow the dead happens too. If you only value a tertiary experience in your live music, you won't build the appreciation, of the accessibility in the same way. For many of us of a certain age, at the time & for decades there was no other band that did what the Dead did with the same results. Even by the fool fan clubs of the day, it was all new, derived from the "Beats" & the Jazz age, coffee houses & Folk-music. Then there was all the party stuff & the idea to caravan across country show to show, every show, eventually expanding across the globe; following a musical act!,
JC Marin

Trad climber
CA
Jun 25, 2018 - 10:25pm PT
It's amazing what taking a sh#t load of drugs can do..
originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Jul 4, 2018 - 06:41pm PT
Fet, I was in the lawn last night. Show was smokin! I take back what I've said about Mayer. He nailed it. Whole band was on point.

i-b-goB

Social climber
Nutty
Jul 27, 2018 - 02:24pm PT

Grateful Dead - Ramble on Rose (JFK ‘89)
https://vimeo.com/281651530
the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
Aug 2, 2018 - 05:03pm PT
Happy Jerry day all!

Originalpmac I’m glad you enjoyed it! I was lucky when we went to Dead and Co New Years 2015. I hadn’t heard about Mayer playing with the dead and went last minute. Loved it! Been going to more nights on each tour every year. 2 in 2016, 3 in 2017. 6 in 2018 lol! Of course that’s nothing compared to some dead heads.
zBrown

Ice climber
Aug 2, 2018 - 05:30pm PT
OK Home Movies

All in the family, eh

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Aug 3, 2018 - 06:12am PT
Speaking of the balance, ((()))&completely ignoring Florida, Boston, NNew Mexico,Arizona, Las Vegas, Kentucky . . . .)
in the weeks that follow,
the copy bands do well up & down the east coast.

There has been a new surge in faithfuls
willing to have fun, to the familiar tunes
Blues In E play'd loud, enough , , ,

So the better skilled bands need to stand out-
In a urge to strike a difference, Dark-Star Orchestra is re-playing whole shows.
I'd like to provide some recommendations. provide challenges
The, qcrspy, incredible, Terrapin... from San Rafael, 4/1/84

https://youtu.be/ZBHAuHLC7J0



Still, I find, that some songs take me to a spot,
[Click to View YouTube Video]for some the sax, its the sax mhan...
& along the way, some where in there, while doing so-

No Sax Mhan, for the pure-er...Another -"Knocking"-
Jerry Garcia Band 03/07/82
Saddle Rack San Jose, CA

https://youtu.be/3NlHOiNOupw


(That,Whole,Show)

https://youtu.be/A_eMdalyAK0

`
`




A way to a space

to a spot where achieving mental/physical, balance is reached.
Red rocks Colo. (Some sorta shows there ! for 4 years in a row)
7/8/78(Wharf`Rat,Franklins'+SugarMags )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md2cUdhvtSU

Balance,
while the crescendo of sound picks a course to that place. . .
This place 11/25/83, Cleveland OH (Melvin Seals, Keyboards)
(talk about a -Knocking-!-4th,song;31:00min in-)

https://youtu.be/1p5yzz8g3Do


& This Place(A special-Small Venue!WoW!)8/13/84

https://youtu.be/vOznMkDTCkE


K lets see, these were rack'd so to peak . S-es are for that other set.

09-24-72, Waterbury, CT; 13 minute China Cat Sunflower->I Gnow You Rider

https://youtu.be/3TXWBv-cQ60

& an ultimate '72, Tennessee Jed

https://youtu.be/jqzQFQWVEEY


& the 18 minute long "Playin' In the Band,

https://youtu.be/CtgaJeGk0uk


ALL from that cosmic show

https://archive.org/details/gd72-09-24.sbd.jeffm.2202.sbeok.shnf/gd72-09-24d1t04.shn


4/14/82, Glenns Falls,A worthy show. . .
A small hockey rink, up the highway 1/2 an hour - A Gunks "hometown" show
China->Rider
https://youtu.be/0SoqK_8p89Q



9/4/79..Madison Square Garden NYC. the whole show

https://archive.org/details/gd1979-09-04.sbd.miller.79747.flac16


This end of the 1st set:
"
- Candyman
- New Minglewood Blues
- Tennessee Jed
- Lost Sailor ->
- Saint Of Circumstance ->
- Deal
Was tight,the show went south, promting rumors, no truth

seems like 1 song from later in the gig, that was still good; is this,
"He's Gone"

https://youtu.be/XKV4RD-fiZM

Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Aug 10, 2018 - 08:40am PT
C, hay now
& here we go

Jerry Garcia Band 2/21/76
La Paloma Theater, Encinitas, CA Early+Late Show La

https://youtu.be/OTVsnQE-Te4

I Second That Emotion
They Love Each Other
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Who Was John
Mystery Train
Friend Of The Devil
Tore Up Over You
Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
(I'm A) Road Runner
(Late Set)
The Way You Do The Things You Do
Catfish John
A Strange Man
Harder They Come
Mission In The Rain
My Sisters And Brothers
After Midnight
Moonlight Mile
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)

 Encore -
Talkin' 'Bout You





((found 'em(lost them ??? badamnit dang naBIT! ! !))

Jerry Garcia Band 12/6/77 - The Dome (C.W. Post College), Greenvale, NY
from the East coast, as the notes point out,

Snowed so hard that the roof caved in-




https://youtu.be/GZokup0QLXg


Catfish John
That's What Love Will Make You Do
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
The Way You Do The Things You Do
Mystery Train

 Set 2 -
Don't Let Go
I'll Take A Melody
Reuben And Cherise
Simple Twist Of Fate
Harder They Come
Tore Up Over You
Mission In The Rain




. . .


still & always, thAnx Jerry!
4/10/82 Passaic NJ.
Gno more, needs to be said ?
Maybe skip past the Long Slow 3rd song, Gomorrah,
to 18:20,start with a crisp Dire Wolf

https://youtu.be/iVwfUAK2P9Y


Early Show;

Deep Elem Blues
Freight Train
Babe, It Ain't No Lie
*Gomorrah
Dire Wolf
Little Sadie
Stagger Lee
Valerie
Been All Around This World
To Lay Me Down
Run for the Roses
Ripple
Encore: Reuben & Cherise

Late Show

Set One

Jack-A-Roe
Going, Going, Gone
Dire Wolf
*Gomorrah (i luv it too, this one is supreme,Long & slow)
Run for the Roses
Friend of the Devil
Babe, It Ain't No Lie
Rosalie McFall
Sing Me Back Home
Deep Elem Blues
Set Two
It Takes a Lot to Laugh It Takes a Train to Cry
Ballad of Casey Jones
China Doll
Ripple
Encore: Reuben & Cherise
originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Aug 10, 2018 - 11:24am PT
I love Gamorrah. Great song.
zBrown

Ice climber
Sep 10, 2018 - 09:06pm PT
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9aMyC5bm1uA

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5JsY7NMYAqY
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Sep 13, 2018 - 04:27am PT
1st) https://youtu.be/dxMKWCUIk4E

https://youtu.be/W7RxsHp9v2o


From 9/2/80, (1st) the space that led to "Iko" into The "Dew"
(skip all the space till 7:37, the starting riffs of the Iko to come)




I don't think my tape from the "Fronton" was this clear? But I went thru 2 cassettes and missed it when the last went south.
I also had a Bob Marley tape Live from France Ive never heard agian, along with A Joini Mitchell from the same time

'74 Florida Jai-ALai Fronton Show ( with movie - Crisp-EEY)
https://youtu.be/8VsGW3hwOjs
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Nov 8, 2018 - 07:28am PT
Hey Now

The attics of the Archive!

wow that thing is cool

Here are all "taper" BrySchley shows, I was at 90% of these !

https://archive.org/search.php?query=taper%3A%22Brian+Schley%22&page=2
matty

Trad climber
under the sea
Nov 8, 2018 - 03:53pm PT
I have 2 tix available for the Joe Russo's Almost Dead show tomorrow, Friday 11/9, @ the Wiltern in LA. $70 each 3rd row front center of balcony (loge). Will consider all offers. Figured it was worth a shot to post here. Cheers-

Matt
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
Nov 8, 2018 - 08:51pm PT
When they come to call on you and drag your poor body down . . .
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Dec 19, 2018 - 07:06am PT
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZbROWN==10/29/77, Evans Field House - Northern Illinois University - https://youtu.be/9DcVrPRlfn0==
==
Twas yesterday12/18

schnONOObtez
x'ed a one of `m thought to post anything UPz??
???Schmoomzwherez....


That won't do - Won't Let that stand !

dis-thread-"ill do!


Yo- I saw from m'ren a week ago
then just found this
holey schizz- Bob's & Jerry's last show!
June 25, 1995, Washington D.C.
[''00:05 "It Takes a Lot to Laugh"..*]
[..08:15 "Rainy Day Women".*.]
*NO I don't think so
Enjoy....

crisp too!

https://youtu.be/Qr6N0_o2-40]
wazzent for me to do
on timez beingz
me-givenz my demanded removal
To do so was to make your friendezs look bad?
so worse for the Gnomz


Full ConcertZ (2)
-6/24 + 25/95

https://youtu.be/DOqwpz1l4B8




This Page includes the celebration that was the OP's focus:

We are in the middle of 9 days of Jerry. He was born August 1st and died August 9th. I pay extra respect during this time and remember many good times. I know there are plenty of Heads on here, so post up.

Also, this week there are probably big wall guys and gals dealing with small pieces of mashed up metal in granite. Discuss...

"Sometimes we live no particular way but our own..."
It makes me sad that "Jrffr" got clear of here.
his last post was :



drljefe

climber, El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson

Jun 11, 2018 - 10:56pm PT


the lost decadence of modern society.

Sorry, but wtf does that even mean?
,
Early June !
Happy New Year Dead Head
zBrown

Ice climber
Dec 19, 2018 - 09:54am PT

Thanks gNome

Keep on posting in the free world


https://www.jambase.com/article/grateful-dead-daves-picks-volume-30-january-1970-fillmore
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Dec 19, 2018 - 11:01am PT
Gnome, you’re drowning out everyone else with your words.

Leave some room for other deadheads, please.
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Dec 19, 2018 - 11:06am PT
There's this thing ?

And an excellent thing it is!




Grateful Dead Live at Nassau Coliseum on 1993-04-01,



https://archive.org/details/gd1993-04-01.139965.aud.lamarre.berger.flac1648





Heynow,?


wait what\yosOOz, saying?



Brandon-climber
The Granite State.
!?> > > Dec 19, 2018 - 11:01am PT
Gnome, you’re drowning out everyone else with your words.

Leave some room for other deadheads, please.
too that, roger that = things I post are distilled from listening to hours of the most recently posted dead stuff.
I post a wide mix of old & new of just one thing, Grateful Dead.

If you or if anyone else wants too?

really !


pleaze come 'round once a month!!(~){;={D
D Murph

climber
Jan 1, 2019 - 10:41am PT
Team,

I'm looking for up-tempo / bouncy version of They Love Each Other for an event for my daughter.

So far I've come across 03-28-73 and 02-26-73 that are along the lines, plus the original 02-09-73 Stanford debut.

Any other favorites out there I should check out?

Thanks!
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jan 1, 2019 - 11:34am PT
"LET HE GOOD TIMES ROLL"
https://youtu.be/GzigR99mcuw



There are all sorts of "they Love each other" versions, from the different decades.
The Jerry Garcia Band versions can be heavy on the organ/keyboards


Grateful Dead:
This?
( I'll use it to compare to)
but That said, its awfully good !
Maples Pavilion, Stanford, California. 2/9/1973
https://youtu.be/O_DUHgauPGw

2/28/1973, Salt Lake City, Ut
https://youtu.be/P3NrG9NGUMc


Boston Music Hall, November 30, 1973
https://youtu.be/H8YN3Ucstkc




6/19/76,
(has a blip of distortion @the start, in this version, there is a clean one)
https://youtu.be/fwnvZ4Pb6lQ

**The Barton Hall show, 5/8/77
https://youtu.be/WLqVTi1XnzA



Greek Theater - 5/23/82
https://youtu.be/229fapyMY88



12/3/83 Orpheum Theatre, Boston,
https://youtu.be/WU9CyM54jOw


A STUDIO THING THATz bippy bop
https://youtu.be/PwOPNAIxd5c

edit" added these


7/12/76, Orpheum Theatre - San Francisco,
https://youtu.be/NjkUMmaH5p0


10-18-88
New Orleans bash;
the boys brought their best game

https://youtu.be/0E9xSzK5Nk0


*
7/19/90, Deer Creek Music Center,Noblesville, IN,

https://youtu.be/K8ASQWLkvnY








JGB:
Give me a while & I'll look into The JGB Seems like A !/80 or /82 Keen College, Nj show ? but let me search for U

JGB /With Donna
9/15/76
https://youtu.be/ELSo6dUW4tk

7/9/1977
https://youtu.be/FgmZOR2c7i0


**5/31/83
https://youtu.be/yjJMfNFwbeQ


12/3/83
https://youtu.be/WU9CyM54jOw



9/5/1989
https://youtu.be/4MssaWhjwg4

9/10/89
https://youtu.be/QClU4xD03H0


**10/31/87
https://youtu.be/3m7Oj2q1dJQ

5/20/90
Hilo Civic Auditorium. Hawaii
https://youtu.be/zvAA4MlOv9g




From zBrowns list below: Great shows but, no "They Love Each Other"


*79-10-27 Cape Cod Coliseum, South Yarmouth, MA

https://archive.org/details/gd1979-10-27.sbd.miller.98950.sbeok.flac16/gd79-10-27d2t03.flac
`


*88-07-02 Oxford Plains Speedway, Oxford, ME

https://archive.org/details/gd88-07-02.sbd-matrix.dan.21211.sbeok.shnf/gd88-07-02d1t01.shn
`


89-10-09 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA

https://archive.org/details/gd89-10-09.sbd.serafin.7721.sbeok.shnf/gd89-10-09d1t01.shn
`


90-03-29 Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, NY

https://archive.org/details/gd1990-03-28.sbd.miller.87643.sbeok.flac16/gd90-03-28d1t01.flac
`

&
that "My Dad comment? ouch! "originalpmac"
11-01-85 Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, VA

https://archive.org/details/gd1985-11-01.134977.mtx.tobin.flac16/gd1985-11-01d1t01.flac


I lose myself in what's here,
then sometimes it loses me
so here ya go "originalpmac",
13,328 shows, BY THE SHOW & Each song can be sampled individually

https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?&sort=-downloads&page=3
D Murph

climber
Jan 1, 2019 - 01:30pm PT
Thanks Gnome! Will give them a spin..
zBrown

Ice climber
Jan 1, 2019 - 01:33pm PT
Deadbase Rankings


Best of year
65-00-00 no show listed
66-07-16 Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
67-03-18 Winterland Arena, San Francisco, CA
68-02-14 Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, CA
69-03-01 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA
70-02-13 Fillmore East, NYC (late show)
71-04-29 Fillmore East, NYC
72-08-27 Old Renaissance Faire Grounds
73-05-26 Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA
74-10-19 Winterland Arena, San Francisco, CA
75-08-13 Great American Music Hall, S.F., CA
76-10-09 Oakland Coliseum Stadium, Oakland, CA
77-05-08 Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca
78-07-08 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO
79-10-27 Cape Cod Coliseum, South Yarmouth, MA
80-10-31 Radio City Music Hall, NYC
81-10-16 Melk Weg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
82-04-19 Baltimore Civic Center, Baltimore, MD
83-10-11 Madison Square Garden, NYC
84-07-13 Greek Theatre, U.C. Berkeley, CA
85-11-01 Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, VA
86-12-15 Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA
87-12-31 Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA
88-07-02 Oxford Plains Speedway, Oxford, ME
89-10-09 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA
90-03-29 Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, NY
91-09-10 Madison Square Garden, NYC
92-06-20 Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, DC
93-09-22 Madison Square Garden, NYC
94-03-30 The Omni, Atlanta, GA
95-03-23 Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, NC

Also,

https://srirecords.com/product/grateful-dead-the-grateful-dead-64/
originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Jan 1, 2019 - 01:53pm PT
I saw Melvin Seals with JGB in Auburn, CA a couple weeks ago. Fantastic show. I met John Kadlecick as well. Super fun.

Edit to add: That 1985 Richmond show on zBrowns list is smoking. Dicks Picks Vol 21 is that show. Rocking Jack Straw at that one. Pretty sure my Dad was there.
zBrown

Ice climber
Jan 1, 2019 - 03:12pm PT
^I just copied the list from the Deadbase compilers.

I will put the rest up later...

originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Jan 1, 2019 - 07:13pm PT
A friend of mine was the stage/production manager of String Cheese Incident (more Blue Cheese Accident) but he got hooked up by the Furthur guys with access to some data base vault of all of the recorded Dead shows as well as JGB shows. Filled up a terabyte hard drive. Pretty fun picking through it.
Flip Flop

climber
Earth Planet, Universe
Jan 1, 2019 - 07:55pm PT
Dear East Coast Fan Boys,
What do we think of parking lot swindlers and drug dealers?
I like the Dead but cmon boys, it was fun but only okay musically.
Just look at the poor confused dancers. If you can call it that.
Trey? Phish isn't real music. They are a continuation of the wasteoid part of the dead. The Jambasturbation of, by and for drug casualties.
Move on
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jan 1, 2019 - 08:26pm PT
here is another amazing 73 show,5/26/73. All that & jaunty, fast, 1st set & inspired TLEO,

https://youtu.be/xP2hWww9yww

flip flop
what can I say?
J.Donnini dislikes the Dead, so does my wife.
It is the soundtrack of my life
The songs often speak to me, lyrically
the visceral drums, a thing I can do without.
but would never want to take out, it adds to the whole.
Bobby is a slum-lord & a pig, his screaming was always flat
& down right off the charts more times than not

Jerry is dead & was the walking dead for a decade.
It was beyond sad it was a pathetic circus of the damned
if you sat back looking for any redeeming qualities,
you wouldn't find any, not a one that wasn't tainted in some way.
I hate that some grimy deadhead might,
by way of nice music, get to put their paws on my kids,
it is my fault for letting it into my families life.
I tried to get them climbing too. That worked out the way I'd not planned,
they both grew out of it. that makes me even sadder.

There is no way to defend it, the scene was more often than not
Juveniles & junkies, getting over on one another , spreading darkness.
some hated the noise called it the sounds of strangled cats.
Flip flop, yeah I can agree, whatever it was?
it was not about high quality.

IT NEVER WAS ABOUT THE CRAFT OR THE CRIME!
(or it was all about the crafts and the pass the time)

Both of which can be pointed to as proof that
it was the real miracle that it happened at all
And more over it never stopped
No, & more often, it made it across the globe,
What it was, it was.
a happening that kept on truckin`
over & over
& over again.
I would sleep through shows
I could make money, legally
I could feel like Never Again
& be off the tour for years Then get dragged back in for one more.

&
I never kid myself on what a total waste it was, I wish I'd climbed more instead.
It was the apathetic mix of juveniles & Junkies that brought it all down in the....
wait there are more than 8 copy-cat type band$?
I guess there really is no accounting for bad taste,
(Look who got to steal the elections)
originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Jan 1, 2019 - 10:29pm PT
Hey Flip Flop, who ever said anything about Phish being a good band? As far as trying to convince someone that doesn't like the Dead or think they were talented to appreciate them is wasted energy. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Yours is wrong but it's your opinion. 😃
Flip Flop

climber
Earth Planet, Universe
Jan 1, 2019 - 11:44pm PT
Somebody foisted Trey.
I like the Grateful Dead music.
And the hacky sacking.
Not the uptight fan boys and wannabe hippies in parking lots.
I like dirt not scum
Drugs ruined the band and the scene
Maybe you opine otherwise but i'll win by a sweeping majority opinion.


Hey Gnome, I hope that my kid is too well adjusted to be a climber. Climbers are nutso and overcompensating for messy stuff. Don't be sad because you didn't raise misfits. Remember that we are crazy.

Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jan 2, 2019 - 12:06am PT
Yes Filp, & as you say.
so already know, good for you to see it for what it is.
There is a whole world of challenges to help prepare kiddos for
To guide them through without increasing the chances of setbacks & broken necks.
Climbing, 10-week long road-trips, touring chasing the same thing over & over again (a definition of crazy)
as much as it was good for me, and taught me survival instincts that I needed to make it out from under.
I choose to hold the young'ins up.
To, protect them from both strangers by pointing out signs & from those who would do them harm by a negative influence.
I will try to help them launch.
being a yo-yo, if you have that sort of backing has no value




9/2/80 Rochester war memorial,
an overlooked gem of a show,
Skip to the very end, number 20, (54 seconds long)' as they break into (number 21); Iko, that then flows* into Morning Dew.
(*DoH?! there is a distinct skip of some heavy bass notes in this version)
Then if your a deadhead , check out the whole show.


https://archive.org/details/gd80-09-02.aud.skankweed.26458.sbeok.shnf/gd80-09-02d1t07.shn
zBrown

Ice climber
Jan 2, 2019 - 09:15pm PT
Dead & Company Live at Princeville Golf Course Club House Lawn on 2018-12-31

Including guest Taj Mahal and nice technical problems

https://archive.org/details/rutpb2018-12-31/rutpb2018-12-31d1t01.flac
D Murph

climber
Jan 3, 2019 - 02:15pm PT
Thanks for the shows everybody, some really interesting tracks.

As for the kids...wow the fear is real. I wish I knew the best way to keep them safe. From ill-intentioned men, abusive "friends", texting while driving, fall on rock inadequate protection, powerfully addicting drugs.

The thing is that for many of these things they don't really get a chance to make small mistakes, see what happens, then adjust behavior (i.e. learn). There's no "intermediate feedback" so to speak, either nothing bad happens or it's a catastrophe.

If I think about it too much it is overwhelming. But at the same time people do manage to survive all these perils. Still wish could keep them from having to suffer. I guess that's pretty natural as a parent. I'm all ears if any of you have good advice.

Gnome did you ever take them to shows?
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jan 3, 2019 - 04:17pm PT
Not nearly to be overlooked, The big big big 3, stand, over the Thanks Gigging break, 1973
all 3 weigh-in, as heavyweights-Dicks Picks #14 &"best of"-List-12/1,here,
(might be the lesser?)
11/30, 12/1 & 2/73 - Boston Music Hallzzz

https://youtu.be/gVdQSkDIVKs


Did I take them to shows? No
But, 'fake' shows for a few hours
& Not just I , We
For the last few years we go to a small local outdoor gathering where the tribute bands play all day, 12pm, ending at 9pm.
(there was one 2 day event)
the Wife barely tolerates the "noise". She is so straightArrow (now) and matron-ly in appearance she casts her vibe...
What scares me the most is that my daughter loves it. My son his mother's son sits by mom with a pained look matching hers.
Made in the shade with that 1 so far, that scares me too
(Lifes roller coaster has been good so far...)

That Is the only way I could figure out how to protect them. Show them all the warts and pitfalls. The passed-out drunken sots.
Sometimes by the over-flowing dumpsters... Lost souls under arrest... Wild-eyed trippers screaming out the wrong words...
& happy hacky-sak playing hula-hoop wearing barely dressed Tye-Dyed mess.

Trying to pre-load them, teach them the golden mean, and that there is no need to fear if you only share with family who care .
That No One can be trusted when it comes to imbibing anything.
& that it is more fun with your wits about you & with you & ears stuffed to protect from the always too loud "noise" .
That way the 1st time they go with others, they will get a headache if nothing else.

You can not save them forever but I'm going to give them a road map and sleep on their dorm room floors for the 1st year of college!
matty

Trad climber
under the sea
Jan 3, 2019 - 11:20pm PT
Zbrown’s link is technically not D&C as it has no Mayer or Oteil. More like Bob/Mickey/bill and friends. Just throwing it out there. Peace-
D Murph

climber
Jan 4, 2019 - 01:10am PT
Wise.. I like that approach..
zBrown

Ice climber
Jan 4, 2019 - 12:33pm PT
Technically, that's zBrown unless you know me personally. In which case you can call me zB.

You seem like a good guy. Aren't most GD followers. So you can call me zB.

The title comes from the archive page.


Dead & Company Live at Princeville Golf Course Club House Lawn on 2018-12-31
by Dead & Company

Publication date 2018-12-31 (check for other copies)
Topics Hawai'i, Kaua'i, NYE, Rising Up To Paradise, Dead And Company, Steve Kimock, CID Benefit
Collection DeadAndCompany
Band/Artist Dead & Company


Who cares?

Did you like it, yes or no.

Were you aware of it, yes or no.

Was Taj there?

Why yes he was.

zBrown

Ice climber
Jan 4, 2019 - 05:56pm PT
too young to follow the Dead

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jan 5, 2019 - 03:35am PT
The Dicks picks is listed at 4 minutes:(but it's shorter/ the dancing video is 3:48+)

[Click to View YouTube Video]


ha! (both work, gratefully)

As I saw that and thought zB's was an excellent observation,
so I checked. Sure 8nough, the date a late '91 show, the location; Boston & the lyrics fit.

The time was a bit off-(D.Wolf=3:36 vs dancing=3:48+)
play with it, but I found for the best fit; for the syncopation of it
start the dancing above 1st, turn off the sound, hit play on the Dicks pick share, , ,

[Click to View YouTube Video]
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Jan 20, 2019 - 07:03am PT
talkin, i still wish I could do it all & go to showz

Must be some reelz for reelz member of da`famiezzy's Deadhedz members' B'day or somthing as this 3 -4 nights just ending sounds like it was a leave-ya-speechious/&/very special sorta phun...YMMV
: Drums/Space, Uncle John's Band, Walk Me Out ... In The Morning Dew
Encore: Turn On Your Love Light

I remember being in the parking lot at the Henry J Kaiser Auditorium in 1985 listening to a repeat of that night's concert and it was magical, surreal. Hope someone feels that way tonight with this short because this night's music by D&C was phenomenal. Have an epic night!!!
Thanks,
1/19/19!!-HApPY tA MaKecAkE it just ONE MORE Daze
[Click to View YouTube Video] oh-oh, done did it again
Rhodo-Router

Gym climber
sawatch choss
Feb 27, 2019 - 01:09pm PT
Happy 50th to the Dark Star!

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/opinion/grateful-dead-dark-star-anniversary.html

zBrown

Ice climber
Feb 28, 2019 - 06:50pm PT
I saw that too

QuoteGarcia’s mother took him to see “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein” when he was 6 years old, he once said in an interview. “My father had just died the previous year. That was my first sense that there are things in this world that are really weird, and there are people who are concerned with them. I think that sounds like fun.” Here
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Mar 10, 2019 - 07:51pm PT
1st order of business; THE MISSING VIDEO In my previous post.
That was a super intimate view from just in front or on the stage.

The Dead & Co
"Playin' In The Sand" shows
from 1/17/19 thru, 1/20/19
Mexico for "Family" celebrations!
(~~);=E}
1 week with 3 amazing shows!

The 2 best Videos with live video footage went bye-bye?

The 1st night;1/17/19 is around to see.

Only Audio of the other shows
but great sounds so, . , . , . ,

Hard to chose one 1/20/19, was the longest,
And from what I think I know
a special persons birthday show.


Then when lookin' hard
I had to wonder if I was off a day?
+ the set form the 19th is a dream!
&
THAT IT IS what got yanked 1st?
~SO GIVEN THAT~it was what I'd posted, That's what I replaced.

that it/they got yanked at all
gives 'em weight .,,,

So as much as I like the show from 1/20/19 as much as 1/19/19
only one needs to be here!

So
that missing 1/19/19 Show,
Originally Published on Jan 20, 2019
Dead and Company 1-19-19 Full Show Audio Only "Playin in the Sand."

Set 1: Deal, Hell in a Bucket, Cold Rain and Snow, Ramble on Rose, Alabama Getaway, Peggy-O, China Doll, One More Saturday Night
Set 2: Estimated Prophet, He's Gone, St. Stephen, William Tell Bridge, The Eleven, Drums, Space, Uncle John's Band, Morning Dew
Encore: Turn On Your Lovelight
re-posted a month ago
[Click to View YouTube Video]







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Yeah Yeah totally mono-silly
Dead centric, a totally boring listening list
your veritable dead brain one braincell'd traveler to nowhere


Anyone else want to share their Feed?


(Ice9, would tell ya,)IT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO REMEMBER HEARING *(~~;=}

Grateful Dead - Tennessee Jed - Providence - 5/13/81

https://youtu.be/uJbCYjyjMa0

Grateful Dead -DEAL- Providence - 5/13/81

https://youtu.be/gfG6PojqbyU


Grateful Dead -Whole Show- Providence - 5/13/81

https://youtu.be/0OLaLZAys0U

@17:57
(depending on how you feel about it)~(a-headache-inducing?)(&)Penultimate ~Brent~, CC Rider starts )




{TIME TO TELL THE TALES FROM THAT SHOW RIGHT THERE}
1stBKSTGE!~~~~~~~>FROM THERE TO Pomfret Vermont + Katie McBride






[Click to View YouTube Video]


just announced, 3/11/19, tomorrow night! 2 $HOW$, early & Late; Bobby Weird At the Blue Note Cafe, in New York City... talk about small in your face venues

EyesOfTheWorld

Mountain climber
Huntington Beach, CA
Mar 11, 2019 - 10:37pm PT
The Dead and my climbing go hand in hand. Garcia provides great comfort in sub-zero bivouacs as well, get yourself a big ol bag of pot and keep yer soul warm
Tobia

Social climber
Denial
Mar 12, 2019 - 07:31am PT
zb,
is i yo' friend?

Grateful Dead ≈ Ramble On Rose (Europe '72)
[Click to View YouTube Video]

Anyone notice the ambigram in the ice cream drops?

Grateful Dead ≈ Not Fade Away
https://youtu.be/QTPndsG_KA4
zBrown

Ice climber
Mar 15, 2019 - 12:10am PT
Yes
I ndeed



I am he as you are he as you are me
And we are all together
See how they run like pigs from a gun
See how they fly
I'm crying


The question came up on the speakers for mastering thread, creating a new thread to keep the noise down in the other thread. The ask was for commercial CD strategy which is just a part of my overall data strategy.

I started with 12 drawers of CDs, drawers designed to hold 270 normal sized CD cases. I had up to 3 discs per CD case so actually stored 600 to 700 CDs in each drawer.

I am down to 200 live shows (300 CDs?) to rip and tag plus probably another 200 commercial CDs.

I did not have the money to buy a NAS, or even a set of bays and build on from their so my system has evolved over time.

I currently store all my grateful dead on a 4 bay 2 TB OWC raid device that I bought used 7 or so years ago. Windows 10 does not have a driver so my pc is at Windows 7. I plan to buy 2 of the 10 TB external drives that are quickly dropping in price to replace this

I have 4 6TB external drives used in pairs of 2.

2 contain tagged and cataloged sources for my Classical, Jazz and Rest where Rest is every other performer.

2 contains all my tagged and cataloged Garcia sources and various untagged sources from vines such as the jazz,bluegrass, classical and Peter Rowan. i try to tag 10 of these a week.

I have 2 smaller internal drives that contain all my video as well as my current untagged and uncatalogued sources (downloads), down to about 15 shows.

I also have 4 4TB portable drives that I keep in my work bag. These travel with me all of the time and is what I typically use at work.

1 contains most of my grateful dead. Not concerned about the lesser versions of shows as I can always grab them from the LL archive.

1 contains my tagged and cataloged garcia and jazz.

The remaining 2 have Rest A thru M and N thru Z. I do not have any of the vine sources on these drives.

Every week i probably tag and catalog 30 to 50 sources, a mixture of downloads, vines and commercial rips. For example yesterday I tagged 8 GD shows, 6 garcia shows and ripped 6 Rory Gallagher CDs. As i tag I copy/ move to the appropriate devices



As much as I would like a NAS, i am OK with this set up, possibly forever. External and portable drives are getting bigger, faster, cheaper.







Quote from: eddiegeeeee on 5 hours ago
Do folks have a most preferred brand in terms of reliability?

WD-Reds seem to be the go-to.

I have two 8TB Reds (5400 RPM vs the 7200 for large file storage) internally mounted in my primary Linux box. They're configured RAID 1 and run by the OS. I get consistent 140+MB/sec transfer rates onto the RAID and it serves music and HD video flawlessly.




Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Mar 15, 2019 - 12:40am PT
- hEY NOW -

MORE THAN NOT,
NOT SURE WHERE THIS FITS IN?
as part of the run-up to spring

YEARS GO BY WE ALL GO FROM FLY
TO WEARY TRAVELERS

IN THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
bOBBO BOBBY WEIR(D) IS NO EXCEPTION

IF THE LOVE FOR HOW IT WAS, ENDURES IN YOU
IF THE WHAT IT WAS REMAINS THE WAY YOU WANT & NEED IT TO BE
DO NOT WATCH THIS

[Click to View YouTube Video]




3/13/81+3/15/82
PROVIDENCE ROHDE ISLAND
Always HGNOME TOWN SHOWz (BOB'S ADOPTED FAMILY)
A DEEP DIG YOU CANT EVEN LOOK UP ANYWHERE ANY MORE
ALL THREE BROTHERS THERE AND ME
mIKO,rYAN,jOHNNY&lEE
tHESE WERE THOSE
HIGHWATER MARKS
WHOLE SHOWS (~;=} NO APOLOGIES(a few tears)

3/13/81

https://youtu.be/0OLaLZAys0U


3/15/82

https://youtu.be/UNZK6iRMmsU

YEEHA !
WHEN THEY PLAYED/OPENED WITH "LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL"
7/17/89 ALPINE VALLEY WIS(Downhill frm here,Live,Video)

https://youtu.be/GzigR99mcuw

MORE COMMON & JUST AS GRATEFUL
7/26/87
[Click to View YouTube Video]aLL THE WAY TOO
LOOK AT THE CROWD!
BIG TIME BIGTIME
& NO WHERE ELSE I'DA RATHER BEEN
OR NEED`D TO GO(BUT A BIG DITCH UP NORTH)
this has bobby's MASTERPIECE[Click to View YouTube Video]

hELL 'EN THE WAY TO REMEMBER IT FOREVEH[Click to View YouTube Video]HO, BOBBY
AT LEAST WE KNOW WHERE THE YEARS THEY GO
"EASY TO SLIP"
INDEED!





(4 minutes of the sweetness~the Capital Center, Landover, MD)
March 16, 1990
No video,very good audio~ (from)So Glad You Made It

Let the Good Times Roll

https://youtu.be/whHLXtdgX4Y


HAPPY SPRING


What ? You wanted an Invitation?
thanx for playin' along

 Just have to BE
Deadicated
As I was saying
High Water marks (THE BOY IS 15 & WE HAVE AN 18 YR OLD DAUGHTER!!)
some say this is the ONE, Some say yes they can pick ONE
I can't pick one.
 After an equally amazing show At Madison Square Garden in New York City, the night before,
**A show that brought everyone from near & far,
the boys & gang head to the shore. This was a different time.
Back then, early on when 'mingling (~';cD with the fans creating D ead H eads was the score

...This was the tour with The New Riders ofthe Purple Sage, where Jerry play'd peddle steel...
46yrs ago today March 19 in 1973 @ nassau veterans memorial coliseum Long Island NY

[Click to View YouTube Video]

Set 1:
Introduction
Promised Land
He's Gone
Mexicali Blues
They Love Each Other
Looks Like Rain
Wave That Flag
Box Of Rain
The Race Is On*(1st in 3yrs~3rd time?)
Row Jimmy
El Paso
China Cat Sunflower ...
I Know You Rider
Around And Around
Tennessee Jed
Playing In The Band

Set 2:
Loose Lucy
Me And My Uncle
Brown Eyed Women
Big River
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo ...
Stella Blue ...
Jack Straw
Truckin' ...
Drums ...
The Other One ...
Eyes Of The World ...
China Doll
Johnny B. Goode
Encore:
Casey Jones

same`thing(wall of sound)
https://youtu.be/obG-5dyG5pY
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Apr 6, 2019 - 12:43am PT
There is so much new music from various bands.
Some are formations with founding members.
Some of the 'jamb-bands play 1/2 sets of dead inspired shows.
Darkstar Orchestra reaches back in history for set-lists & recreates classic shows.
Bluegrass children, not old enough to have any idea that they are following in a tradition [Click to View YouTube Video] play their hearts out
& thank Jerry for the songs on their videos.[Click to View YouTube Video]



I had framed pictures from some venues that were backgrounds for ticket stubs
& a collection of the cloth stickers that came with the backstage ticket/invitations.

For a long time, I held out hope, that they were in LA or somewhere.
More & more, the actions of my family show thats not to be very likely, sigh😢🤢😭
7/7/89
[Click to View YouTube Video]Philly Shows were hometown shows for Bob, his extended family lived in a city block building.
This, what was referred to as "Main-Line" very toney blue-bloods. This same family had a spread in Saunderstown Rohde Island.
originalpmac

Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
Apr 6, 2019 - 02:26pm PT
Just a fun story.
I was at a three show run of Furthur in Broomfield, probably 2011. My friend and I were all spun after the show at a hotel, finally decided to get a cab back to our hotel. Some old timer-ish dude picks us up. He had the Dead playing quietly in the town car. My friend asks him, "Is that 'Visions?' Driver cuts him off. "Of Johanna?" and cranked the volume. Had a great sound system too. Missed our turn to the hotel and told us he would knock a few bucks off the fair. I told him we would probably just wait in the car at the valet till the song finished, which we did. Paid the fare and threw him a twenty. Best damn cab ride ever.
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Topic Author's Reply - May 31, 2019 - 11:23pm PT
Such a long long time to be gone
and a short time to be there.

Fare thee well supertopo.
Kalimon

Social climber
Ridgway, CO
May 31, 2019 - 11:45pm PT
"Gonna leave this brokedown palace . . . On my hands and my knees, I will roll, roll, roll."
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