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Set 1 (6:20 pst): Jack Straw (bwjm), Big Boss Man (jm), Mexicali Blues (bw), Row Jimmy (jm), Ramble on Rose (bw), Hell In A Bucket (bw), Casey Jones (jmbw)
(7:30 pst) "We're gonna take a short break"
Set 2 (8:15 pst): Cumberland Blues (bwjm), Cryptical Envelopment (jm), Uncle Johns Band (jmbw), Scarlet Begonias (jm), Fire On The Mountain (bwjm), Drums, Space, Dear Prudence (bw), Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad (jmbw), One More Saturday Night (bw)
Encore (9:35 pst): Friend Of The Devil (jmbw)
Ear protection folks, I’m sure op has some in her back pack, do not leave home without a really good pair of over ear ear protection if your bringing your little ones. Also when ever possible find the wharf rat section, that way you do not have someone blowing mad clouds into the child’s face.
I know that it's the most common answer, but it really is one of the best versions ever of these songs. Barton Hall '77. These 26 minutes are absolutely perfect and blew my mind the first time I've heard them. The show deserves the reputation it has.
I've been listening a lot to 1971-08-06 lately which has an amazing Hard to Handle. The show is on fire, one of my favorites.
Story goes Lennon's photographer smuggled it all back to England after Monterey Pop 1967 in his camera lenses and the Owsley goodness fueled the making of the Magical Mystery Tour. Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III is brimming with all these fun Bear facts. I am passively listening to it and just got past the Egypt trip. Wild times.
It seems to be generally agreed on archive.org that this show is the one where they took a "heroic dose" from a bottle of apple juice before taking the stage. Phil has a great description of it in his book, but he doesn't say for sure what date it was.
Miles talked about this show in his autobiography, which is a hell of a read. This website summarizes that section a bit and adds some additional information from Phil's autobiography: http://www.openculture.com/2014/07/when-miles-davis-opened-for-the-grateful-dead.html
> In his autobiography, Davis described it as “an eye-opening concert for me.” “The place was packed with these real spacy, high white people,” he wrote, “and when we first started playing, people were walking around and talking.” Once the band got into the Bitches Brew material, though, “that really blew them out. After that concert, every time I would play out there in San Francisco, a lot of young white people showed up at the gigs.”
the "escaping" riff in the other one
hard to describe and I don't have an example in front of me
it's this set of ascending chords Bobby plays, it throws the whole jam into deep psychedelia, sends your mind off in two directions at once
if you heard it you'd know what I mean. sorry for the vague response
good question there are lots of these little things
EDIT: escaping riff at 18:30 of this Other One https://archive.org/details/gd1971-10-19.sbd.miller.114351.flac16 once you know it you'll hear bits of it in other versions
Check out the show from the Fillmore West when Davis opened for the boys, I've read stories from band members and they say it had an impact on their performance that night: http://www.openculture.com/2014/07/when-miles-davis-opened-for-the-grateful-dead.html
Happy Birthday Phil!
Here's one of my favorite solo's of his, from the same night they introduced Terrapin Station and Estimated Prophet
https://archive.org/details/gd1977-02-26.sbd.steve.253.shnf
The solo's between Eyes of the World into Dancing In the Streets
My favorite version of Knockin' on Heaven's Door is the Ratdog 8-9-1995 version, the night Jerry died. Extremely emotional and an overall beautiful performance.
Along with these same suggestions, I'd highly recommend checking out Long Strange Trip on Amazon video (and on DVD / Bluray). The documentary that sucked me in to the Dead, along with the albums mentioned above.
I guess a start would be to download "Listen To The Dead" on the Apple app store, but thats only for iPhones (I think, im not sure if on Android)
Album: Live/Dead
Dicks Picks: 4,8,14,28,31,36
Great shows on archive: 8-6-71, 8-27-72, 5-26-73, 6-10-73, 11-17-73, 5-19-74, 7-19-74, May 7-9 1977.
https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead is your best friend, all unreleased shows are on here( That were recorded) as well as the Dave Pick's..
All I can think of right now, but I would give some of these shows or albums a try.. 8-27-72 is definitively a good place to start though
I know y’all doubt this (and honestly I dunno if it’s true) but this does happen.
I was in a goodwill in Boulder co and overheard a guy say to his friend “hey do you like the Grateful Dead? They got a lot of cool stuff over here”. So naturally I wander over and inquire what they are talking about. Guy says to me “I think they had the whole GD discography over there” I look in his basket and no joke there are like 15-20 Grateful Dead/JGB cds in there. I’m talking dicks picks, Dave’s picks, pure Jerry, Garcia live releases... it was incredible.
My jealousy was slightly raging st that point and I kindly asked where he got them and he said there was a box over along the wall of stuff they hadn’t put out yet. Said he thought he got most of them but there may be a few left. So I race over to said box and start digging like my life depended on it. At the very bottom I found Pure Jerry volume 2, Garcia live volume 7, and the creme de la creme of the whole crop the May 77 box set they released which now pretty much can’t be found for less than $500. Here is the item
https://www.amazon.com/May-1977-Box-Grateful-Dead/dp/B00DE22Y0U
I returned and thanked the guy who then started haggling me to try to get the 77 box set offering to trade me all the pure Jerry’s etc etc. But I was very happy with my score even though it was only 3 of like 20+ cds.
Only thing I figured is a huge deadhead died and a family member had no clue what to do with CDs. I’m surprised they did zero research in the value and sold me and the other guy every single one for $2.99 a piece. They weren’t all in amazing shape but the CDs looked great and my box set is mint. It’s one of my most prized possessions and sits happily on my bookshelf.
So anyway long story short it def does happen, people die, things change hands. So I guess maybe not often in a million years but it happened to me.
If you didnt know, most or all of the shows /u/arghdos mentioned can be found at Archive.org. I'm checking out the 1972-10-17 - Fox Theatre - Potentially the best show ever played right now!
I don't know that the acid tests were comfortable or controlled, in fact I highly doubt it, but LSD was still legal at the time, which was great, and it sounds like it was a gas. There are some recordings, like this one. https://archive.org/details/gd66-acid-test-supplement.sbd.unknown.9514.shnf
Panic currently streaming on http://mixlr.com/widespread-panic/ and just played an unreal Surprise valley and as I’m typing just went into Airplane. Good little break during set break for those interested. Been a good two nights in Jackson. Hell of a first (second?) set from D&C though
https://archive.org/details/gd1982-08-03.sbd.miller.77196.sbeok.flac16
A Miller SBD of the Starlight Theater in Kansas City. Great Show and in my opinion the perfect transition from 1/2 Step -> Franklin. Smooth, doesn't miss a beat, no usual train wreck in there. You can hear the whole band building to it and then turn on a dime. Not my favorite of either song but the best transition I've ever heard.
Just for kicks I uploaded every live version I have of the song. Its mostly the Jerry Band in 1977, but there's a couple of Jerry and John Kahn versions and a Robert Hunter solo version plus a version when Joan Osborne was singing with the boys a few years back.
Album: Blues for Allah
Concert: Boston Garden 77
Jam: Hard to Handle Chateau d'Herouville '71
Song: China Cat - Rider from Europe '72
The usher tape of 6/24/70 at the Cap with its very well-timed "oh my god" in the Dark Star> Attics transition.
I really envy that guy his position. He knew shit was about to get heavy, and he was exactly right.
Candyman from 4.15.70 has always stood out for me. There is a stunning remaster as a bonus track on the expanded American Beauty but I didn't see that on YT.
Stella Blue from the great 10.25.73 Madison show is another one.
The first one is about the actual quality of the vocal. The second is about the emotion.
The studio version of Brokedown Palace is right up there. "Sing a lullaby...beside, the water..."
This show is good, but since it didn't get posted this year, I'm gonna mention that the show before it is one of the best I've heard from '81 and a genuine heater. First set is strong with a gnarly Stranger opener and a great Deep Elem, BIODTL, Bird Song sequence later on but the second set is the goods featuring one of the most raging and spot-on China-Riders you'll ever hear.
Here are all the Dark Stars that circulate in SBD from 1972 in order.
The "only stars" folder is just that, just the Dark Stars themselves.
The other folder has the DS interspersed with the songs immediately before or after them if there are segues, and some other interesting or worthwhile songs from some of the shows to round it out a bit more.
Not going to blow anyone away but the Persuasions have an album of A Capella dead covers that I listen to periodically. More of a novelty but there's some good licks on there.
https://www.amazon.com/Persuasions-Dead-Grateful-Sessions-Cds/dp/B005FYCHES
He’s just amazing. I had a Franklin comes alive shirt I got on eBay and had to explain to people at the Beacon Abb in 03 what it was.
Btw check out Drunk On Sunday my first book for some great tour stories
I'm in a similar boat to you and never got to see Jerry live. I can however say that I heard him play live, as I was in utero for one of the '93 MSG shows, so that would be one of the shows between 9/16-9/22. Will have to check the ticket stub when I have a chance.
I've been a deadhead since before I was even born!
EDIT: Found out it was 09/21/1993. Great setlist!
Done! Try This: new torrent
The original link and magnet have been changed too.
Please let me know if this is working.
You might want to clarify that you are talking about Tom Constanten. Pretty much every show he was on was a rager, but this link should answer your question: https://archive.org/post/272365/tom-constantens-contribution-to-the-grateful-dead
Also here is the show that they played at! I am listening to it now and it is pretty cool you can hear them trying to add that upbeat reggae sound.
From what I remember certain parts are better on certain tapes. There are composites out there as well which (presumably) did that work for you. Can't speak to the quality of said composites though
Gonna pimp Hartford '87 again. Especially since there's now this greatly improved 24 bit transfer of the ultramatrix SBD, amazingly superior to the Miller versions which are muddy and muffled. This is a true professional matrix, probably mastered by Dr. Don Pearson & not Healy, not sure about that but it just sounds like a Pearson mix. Mad, explosive energy at this show again. Best Touch I saw out of far too many versions and one of the classic Dews of the era.
Must-hear set 2 for any fans of the post-coma era.
Well, for anyone else who's interested, here's a link to stream: http://mixlr.com/scottdvanfossengmailcom/
Plus set list: Set I Bertha, Good Morning Little School Girl, Lay My Lily Down, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Loser, Maggie's Farm, Corrina, Deal
Set II Scarlet Begonias, West LA Fadeaway, I Need a Miracle, Eternity, The Other One, Standing on the Moon, Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
Encore: It's All Over Now Baby Blue (It's All Over Now Find Your Shoes)
The question is 'most aggressive version of a song' not most aggressive playing overall example, so I offer a thoroughly assaulted Foolish Heart from Cal Expo 1990 https://archive.org/details/gd90-06-08.sbd-matrix.ladner.6935.sbeok.shnf
Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but when I think "aggressive" Grateful Dead I think meltdowns, and my favorite of those is the Tiger meltdown section of 6.8.74 Oakland Playin' in the Band
here's an FOB aud you can compare the sound on
There's an astounding one from 1977-05-03... the only problem is I don't think many people know about it because it only exists as an AUD during an era of perfect-sounding Betty Boards.
his hearing was fine and the PA sounded fine all through that era
it's just a tape thing
here's a tab I randomly have open. not even trying to cherry pick a really great aud, this is above-average but hardly atypical https://archive.org/details/gd1981-05-01.fob.wagner.motb-0074.92415.flac16
EDIT: another one I had open recently, my man Dean Grabski's famous Merriweather '83 pull https://archive.org/details/gd1983-06-20.nak300.grabski.32795.sbefail.flac16 listen to the Phil Zone hits in Truckin'
there are better FOBs out there than either of these that show exactly what the PA sounded like but I'm out of time right now
EDIT2: If you haven't heard the Merriweather show, it's both amazing on a lot of levels, and hilarious, because of Bob Star. Just check it out I won't even say anything else
> The idea was to Gratefuldeadize the tunes.
Hellz yeah! Consider this; Mick Jagger and David Bowie did a cover of Dancin' in the Street. It was a cover. Same with Van Halen's cover. They both have a little of their own sound added to Martha and Vandella's structure, but just covers. What the Dead did with that song was more like they astrophysicised it, they would unfold it and undold it and unfold it... sometimes I swear they'd forget what song they were playing when it went out as far as they could take it--- but they'd always be able to bring it back. That's not a cover song, that's using the song's form and subtle meaning as a medium. A vessel.
>Then again, what songs did they cover that were written by Elvis?
They almost did this one (soundcheck) but it's really not an Elvis song, it's Carl Perkins. And of course JGB had a thing for Mystery Train, though that one too is really by Junior Parker more than Elvis... and of course Elvis did a great cover of Ship of Fools. Edited to add That's All Right Mama @ Greek '88
In the same boat as you, younger Deadhead who loves the 60's and 70's and has never been obsessed with the 80's. But, there are a still a few shows that I love from that period, mainly to get that Brent flavor and some of the classic 80's songs. I'll give you one pre-coma and one post-coma:
10-10-82: This one is hot, and such a classic. One of my favorite parts of 80's Dead is Bobby's slide playing – he kills it on this show.
11-08-87: One of the best Dead shows ever? Probably not. But it's a lot of fun and one of my favorites post-coma.
The sidebar is your friend.
1. Torrents
2. Shitton of Zips
3. Change /details/ on archive to /download/, rightclick .mp3 > save as (or use Download Them All for mass downloading)
most people pay for those
The Android app (Deadhead Archives) is terrific. My only beef is that you can only make playlists of individual songs, not entire shows (although you can kind of do it by favoriting shows).
It's been re released as part of the Grateful Dead Records Collection, which is on spotify as well. But yeah you're probably not missing much.
72, in my opinion, was when Jerry really got his chops. Before that, while his playing was indeed creative and inspired, was rough around the edges with a lot more flubs and his guitar was often out of tune.
By 72 his style had matured (most certainly with help from playing and learning with Merl) to the point where he truly was a great guitar player. He had really developed and ear for jazz and chord changes and took more care to keep his guitar in tune.
It's funny listening to his playing on the Live/Dead Dark Star from 69 to the Veneta 72 one. An insane amount of development in just 3 years time, and not just Jerry the whole band.
This Playin' in the Band is a prime example of what I'm talking about.
My memory of the weather at the show was how pleasant it was for July 4th. Surprisingly, that is one of my clearest memories from that day. This URL seems to confirm:
https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/KBUF/date/1989-7-4
Don't know why but this is my favorite Furthur show. Maybe because it has some really good versions of songs I don't hear very often like Ryan Adam's Peaceful Valley, George Harrison's Any Road and Ashes and Glass>Pride of Cucamonga, but I friggin' love this set.
https://archive.org/details/furthur2011-11-18.sbd.official.117335.flac16
cop out, but heady version: 9/18/90 does look interesting though. I'll update with personal faves in a bit
I thought it was because of the amount of tuning up before songs. I read somewhere that Jerry spent so much time tuning up early on that it was somewhat frustrating for others. I found this link below which seems what you are looking for.
https://www.quora.com/Why-did-the-Grateful-Dead-spend-so-much-time-tuning-onstage
Eye's of the world without Donna? Try https://archive.org/details/gd80-06-14.akg.clugston.7198.sbeok.shnf Donna can sing, but her singing doesn't really fit in with the dead. i like her in JGB tho.
http://www.deadlistening.com/2009/01/1974-july-21-hollywood-bowl.html
https://archive.org/details/gd74-07-21.fob-patched.miller.31436.sbeok.flacf
I never used to like AUDs, but then I listened to this tape and that changed. If you prepare your sonic self correctly, you'll soon feel the grass beneath your feet, smell sour smoke, etc, etc, etc. Dig it.
Merriweather '83 is the champ...rain the least of it....the lightning!
just read the page
Dean, the taper, was a friend of mine in later days
EDIT: I wasn't there, I was at some fairly epic rain shows but it really sounds like this one trumps them all, you can hear the lightning/thunder strikes on the tape...!
I was at the RFK '86...was pretty gruesome...remember the readout said 104...seems like RFK was pretty hot a lot though
Weather was pretty shitty on Halloween and 11.1.85, rainy in Columbia, I mean really seriously wet, people trying to take shelter in this tunnel that leads to the campus (I think), fun scene there, then in Richmond just one of those miserable shitstorms of cold and wet, matched only by the awfulness of the cops...later Jerry sang to us Come on in when it's raining...go on out when it's gone and it was one of the moments where the whole place was just electric and hanging on every word, still and focused.
Opposite of all that for me was Eel River '91 JGB, idyllic setting and nekkid people...sometimes the weather can matter the other way, it's just so perfect it puts everyone in a great mood
EDIT2: Weather was a major factor both times I went to Alpine. '88 was the dust bowl and '89 was the mud pit. As tends to happen when hippies are around mud for a couple days, there was a certain subset of people that just went ahead and got really into it...they were, like, one with the mud, mannnnnnnnnn
David Nelson played in the New Riders of the Purple Sage, and is a wonderfully talented musician. Unfortunately he has colon cancer and is looking for donations. You can help by going here to donate
Live stream for the weekend: http://mixlr.com/93redbridgedan/
Tune in Saturday! Note the shows are late, this is Alaska time starting at 10 PM.
Bob Weir flew all the way to Alaska to fill in, what a great friend. Hopefully there will be a soundboard for you to listen to in the future, they played several Bobby songs. It was wonderful.
"Be with you. I'd rather be with youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!" Listen to the climax of this Standing on the Moon. Best version I ever saw live: https://archive.org/details/gd94-04-06.schoeps.ladner.10311.sbeok.shnf Another good example: https://archive.org/details/gd93-09-26.dsbd.miller.28788.sbeok.flacf
On 1-2-72 they played Good Lovin' > China Cat Sunflower > Good Lovin', and that was well after they established the segue with I Know You Rider. The Good Lovin' is awesome.
https://archive.org/details/gd72-01-02.sbd.eD.8709.sbeok.shnf
Almost Acoustic JGB. Probably the only thing i’ll be after... nothing else really made the needle move.
Especially when you can find supposedly limited RSD releases on Amazon for less than retail months months later. I’ve seen Dylan & Dead for around half retail on r/vinyldeals
What kind of phone do you have? I'm an Android guy and have used Deadhead Archives as my archive.org access app for a while now without incident. Relisten seems to be the consensus best app for the job on iOS, but I can't personally vouch for it.
Try this to see if it breaks your addiction. You can download shows, for all sorts of bands not just GD, to play offline.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/relisten-formerly-listen-to/id715886886?mt=8
If you have android (GD only)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crabdance.jmw.deadheadarchives
One of her best Grateful Dead shows was 6-4-78 UCSB https://archive.org/details/gd78-06-04.sbd.cotsman.10530.sbeok.shnf from 12-30-78 UCLA she really kills on Scarlet https://archive.org/details/gd78-12-30.sbd.miller.18092.sbeok.shnf of course this is my opinion only.
Info from all music:
Dave's Picks, Vol. 9: Harry Adams Field House, U. of Montana 5/14/74 finds the Grateful Dead in the midst of their "Wall of Sound" phase, utilizing a complex system of amplifiers, monitors, and other various audio rigging to create one of the most complex stereo PA systems known to live performance at that time. Saying the band was deep into one of its jammier phases would be a tremendous understatement, with the set list getting into exploratory versions of crowd favorites like "Jack Straw" as well as a stunning rendition of "Weather Report Suite" that blurs into a particularly epic "Dark Star," as well as some of the most jazz-influenced playing the Dead would branch into that year on "Playing in the Band." This set collects audio from the entire show, which spans more than three hours of music over the course of its three sets
not a top five, but if you'd like a nice year by year and easy to dl primer, here. Other than that, personal favorites include(I'm a 73-74 fan so bear with me)
2/15/73
6/10/73
3/1/69 (not entirely released, but one or two picked and chosen for a compilation)
2/26/77
4/21/69
and of course a shoutout to how to get these shows from the archive, the grateful grabber
I agree with these people. You guys are being mean to this girl. Reread John Perry Barlow’s 25 principles for adult behavior please. Be kind!
Here’s a link for anyone interested.
http://www.openculture.com/2018/02/the-25-principles-for-adult-behavior.html
With K & D:
10/02/77- Paramount Theater - Portland, OR
10/07/77- University Of New Mexico - Albuquerque, NM
11/04/77- Cotterrell Gym (Colgate University) - Hamilton, NY
11/06/77- Broome County Arena - Binghamton, NY
02/04/78- Milwaukee Auditorium - Milwaukee, WI
04/14/78- Virginia Polytechnic University - Blacksburg, VA
I'm listening to the last one now, great recording, Jerry's singing in fine form.
I lean toward matrix recordings for this kind of thing: Jam>Space>Drums>Spanish Jam at Long Beach Arena on 1981-08-28
Personal bonus: Matrix'd Althea where you can hear every little detail between Jerry and Brent
Forgotten Space is on the Archive if you wanted to check them out. I think they do a fine job with the material. FWIW, the lead guy was in New Bohemians (of Edie Brickell fame) and has always had a Garcia-esque tone.
The soon-to-be withdrawn sbd of March 29 is obviously mixed down from the 24-track, it's very nice, but the room noise is rather high and the instruments kind of back in the mix. I much prefer this matrix of the night. Grab the flacs while you still can, most matrices are no longer downloadable at the archive, chances are good this one will be stream-only soon as well. (It will remain available through other sources, obviously, but this is quick & easy.)
He's mostly preaching to the choir. 8/6/71 is widely regarded as having one of the best audience recordings in the band's history. It's in my personal top five for sure. Check it out.
https://archive.org/details/gd71-08-06.aud.bertrando.yerys.129.sbeok.shnf
EDIT: IF YOU'RE STUCK AT 99%, Delete the torrent file and download it again. The torrent will restart at 99% and finish up in a minute or two. It's all my fault, I messed up, but /u/jpeirce set me straight. Read about it here.
To be clear, Chuck Berry was not at the show I attended - but he does still play a live gig every month or two in St. Louis at a bar/restaurant called Blueberry Hill. I gather that his performances these days are on the decline, so if you want to see him you should plan a trip soon. Be sure to purchase concert tickets the day they go on sale because they sell out pretty much immediately.
Since I'm no longer on mobile I can confirm that my attempt to spell Johnnie Johnson was accurate, but I have to correct myself because it was The Dead and not The Other Ones where Willie Nelson opened.
Here is the show I saw on Archive.org. Was it really over 10 years ago??!?!? What I want to know... where does the time go?
Obviously 6/10/73, with it's great third set jam, is the show of the day, but 6/10/90 is worth checking out if you are willing to venture out of the 70's. The band comes out of the gate swinging with hot Bertha and Jack Straw. The last solo in Jack Straw is ripping, but the band seems to take that energy and ramp it up even more for the final verse. Very rocking. And Phil and Jerry have a little fun afterwards, addressing the crowd about a rumor that was going around ("it's a bullshit lie!"). Worth a listen to at least those tunes- especially if you are a Phil fan. He is high in the mix and bringing the thunder.
This one appears out of the sonic wreckage of the explosion that ended Victim as an almost perfect counterpoint. I could have some attendance bias, but this show has one of my favorite 1st sets too, particularly that Althea.
There's also an excellent SBD of this one, so you can go with whichever flavor you prefer.
awesome! i have been looking for this one for a few years now.
>8/3/69 - Very unusual (and anonymous) guests tonight - a fiddle player in Hi-Heel Sneakers, and then saxophone and fiddle in the Dark Star>Alligator>Other One>Caution jam. One of the most unique sets the Dead ever played, though the mix is poor.
It's almost a treasonable offense to link to just the Dark Star rather than the Playin > Drums > Dark Star > Mornin Dew > Playin
... but I couldn't find said sequence on youtube, so I guess you're forgiven :P
https://archive.org/details/gd1972-10-18.sbd.matera.123571.sbeok.flac16
https://archive.org/details/gd77-10-29.maizner.vernon.8035.sbeok.shnf
Sorry guys, I might have this one hands down.
October 29, 1977 Field House at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
might as well
jack straw
dire wolf
looks like rain
loser
el paso
ramble on rose
minglewood blues
it must have been the roses
let it grow
bertha
good lovin
friend of the devil
estimated profit
eyes of the world
space
saint Stephen
not fade away
black peter
sugar magnolia
drums
sunshine daydream
encore - one more Saturday night
Glad I was born a few weeks early.
Track 8 from this studio practice session in 1992 has Jerry, Phil and Bobby discussing ketamine. Jerry mentions that Bobby has some experience with it.
I found a stream recording by FreakFlagFlyer that is pretty good! Looks like there's three recordings. The 1st set is the one that is 1:17:15 long. Concert starts around 16:30. http://mixlr.com/freakflagflyer/showreel/
I found a stream recording by FreakFlagFlyer that is pretty good! Looks like there's three recordings. The 1st set is the one that is 1:17:15 long. Concert starts around 16:30. http://mixlr.com/freakflagflyer/showreel/
H2O Girl is not streaming tonight--
H2OgirlNora :
Good Evening everyone! Last show of tour is upon us :( Sadly, due to so many problems (other ppl, not me) with Nug-z over the past 24 hrs, I've decided to NOT STREAM HERE tonight. I don't want to push my luck. I'll be listening over on our friend, Blaze's mixlr page. I hope you'll all come support him on his mixlr:
http://mixlr.com/allmostablaze/
I hate to do this on the last show, but would hate to get the shutdown also. Love and light!
http://imgur.com/gallery/mAQJI
Bobby came out for four songs last night. Scarlet, Ship of Fools, West LA, and New Minglewood. The old man sounded great as did Donna, Kimock, and the band. I felt very privileged to be in attendance.
I started recording a couple minutes into Scarlet but you can listen to the magic here.
Glad you got it! For anyone else with the same problem, the 23k file is a torrent file, not the music itself. Download and install ~~utorrent~~ Deluge, or any other torrent software, then open the torrent file with that program.
EDIT: several people have pointed out that uTorrent is pretty crappy now. Deluge seems good, and open source is always nice.
I was sitting in my living room listening to the second set of 12/05/79 when I read your post, so I thought I'd offer that up as a suggestion.
I also highly recommend Dick's Picks 5 from 12/29/79 as well.
3.21.85 Hampton - bit of an underrated show in retrospect, a blur at the time. Nothing crazy great but a strong clean show other than the croaky voice. In my mind immediately afterwards it was the greatest musical performance in the history of humankind, of course
Second night is only out in aud (but a solid one) and is more interesting - crazy rocked out Scarlet, a legit Spanish jam out of space and borderline Mind Left Body out of Terrapin
I'm actually more a fan of the '93/'94 Scarlet>Fires. I like the tone Jerry was getting then, and there are a lot of performances on Fire where he really shreds.
This one from June 21, 1993 rules.
93' in general is one of my favorite years for the band, especially Jerry. He seemed to me to have been entering a new territory as a guitarist, and it's too bad that it couldn't continue. I feel though, that '93 has some of his best playing.
> The Wall of Sound had its issues in terms of delivering a "full sound" on tape
I suggest you have a listen to this - pretty sure it will change your mind. Give it a few while everyone gets their levels right.
Edit: "this" is Rob Bertrando's AUD - DFC 20 feet from the stage
There's a version of Brokedown where they start in the wrong key, had to stop and re-start in th correct key. I think it's Nassau 81 but I could be wrong.
EDIT https://archive.org/details/gd1981-05-09.sbd.miller.33930.sbeok.flac16
Allow me to join in your pleasedness.
I have this on a playlist with 11/26/72 Dark Star immediately following it. It's amazing what a difference a few months makes...they both follow the DS theme/lyrics > meltdown > meltup > Feelin' Groovy Jam > DS theme/lyrics pattern, but are absolutely, completely, totally different beasts.
I gotta check out that Indianapolis show.
How about https://archive.org/details/gd79-01-15.rolfe.wise-cohen.310.sbeok.shnf ?
If a great board of some of these shows circulated they would be famous
The shows with Trey and Page are worthy of the praise but my personal favorite Phil show is this one - and it is available as a SBD:
2000-10-21 Riviera Theater, Chicago, IL
Admittedly I have attendance bias, but it's an excellent performance featuring my favorite of Phil's lineups: Warren Haynes, Jimmy Herring, John Molo, and Rob Barraco.
I feel the same way. They were at their most daring when they started and the first half of the seventies they were honing their craft. By the end of the decade they seem to have consolidated their sound too much. Also it was more lucrative to be a nostalgia act than continue to challenge their audience or themselves. The various side projects the Dead had in the second half of their existence were often more interesting.
There's no rule saying you must celebrate a band's entire catalogue. Just go with what you like. 6-14-1968 is far and away my favorite show. Despite the shitty recording there is some real magic here but it bears no resemblance to the best shows from the eighties. The set begins and ends with Feedback and sounds more like punk and no wave than what we expect from the Dead. If this show grabs you, chances are the eighties Dead isn't for you.
The first night (I think), where they close with Werewolves of London, is one of my favorite shows outright. Absolutely awesome from start to finish.
EDIT: Second night actually https://archive.org/details/gd78-07-08.sbd.unknown.294.sbeok.shnf First night is pretty fire as well
Roku is awesome its probably the best way to add smart tv to any tv. If you have a large media collection, you can use free Plex server with your Roku(s) to stream everywhere in your house, sort of like your own Netflix channel that can handle music too.
http://mixlr.com/phishfiend was streaming the audio last weekend, and also http://www.ustream.tv/channel/taperrob was too. The Mixlr feed also had a lively discussion going on though there were so many people talking it was a bit hard to follow.
This is what Phil talks about, the fact that we bring the music, they are the conduit. It goes back and forth and builds and finally we are in that zone. The musicians feel it, Jerry and Phil used to know when that was happening, it wasnt just us observers. They fed off it just like we did dancing away in the crowd.