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comments are pretty funny - very Spinal Tapish. Always nice to see all the equipment in the loft.

Yeah - I have no idea where our seats will be --- I just know they were $120 per ticket, which is too much.

Looks like I will be finally seeing them (Soldier Field in Chicago) -- my wife just emailed me and said our friend snagged four tickets this morning.

Looks like a great line up -- nice too see all the great jazz musicians on the bill.

Yeah - It's a nice easy intro to the Dead world when you are a teenager coming out of Stones/Zeppelin/Maiden world - just pretty much straight up songs, that kinda of rocked and swung. I only had the 1st set on tape. At the time I only had the Skeletons comp. and Dead Set.

You may want to invest in a cheap tuner, too. I remember when I kid and getting frustrated because it never sounded right. Granted, I sucked at playing it, but once I figured out how to tune it correctly, it was more enjoyable sucking at it...

I always enjoyed Van Dieman's Land. I never gotten around to see U2, friends of ours want to go to a Chicago show - we may go. My friend is excited - she was too young to see the Joshua Tree tour - her first tour was Zoo TV and she has seen every tour since. I remember giving $5 to a friend in my high school for his copy of Joshua Tree --- he brought it to school, where we had very skinny lockers - it barely fit.

Quinones added to the Allmans, mostly because it seems that Jaimoe chops dimensioned, so he picked up the slack. I don't think either of the above added much to the Crowes. Not of fan of Airto when he played with Miles in the late 60's, early 70's, either.

Finally getting to the last show of the 66 tour -- 5/27/66, Royal Albert Hall. The electric set is something else -- the whole 'read more books and J.D. Salinger' intro on the intro to Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues. This day and age, management would have risked him off to rehab after this show. Of course, back then they just called it a motorcycle accident.

Lastly, why the hell do you to have extra percussionist when you have Gorman. Always bugged the hell me when the Stones had Ollie Brown in 75-77, too,

Looking forward to the 1st two, too. 12/5/71 was one of my first boot legs tapes.

Here's a great review from a show from the 95 Beacon run. Man... http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/20/arts/rock-review-borrowing-without-blending-black-crowes-at-the-beacon.html

I didn't know Wachtel was touring with Walsh until after the tour. I wouldn't mind seeing a Joe Walsh gig (with his current band). I saw him once - he played, solo, at a benefit type show - he was still drinking and it wasn't very good. He was funny as hell, as per usual, though. Now listening to 3/22/95, Beacon Theatre show.

Honestly, he was the best part -- still wasn't good, though.

Watched some Bad Company's Soundstage performance last night on PBS -- it was pretty painful, though I never really was much of a fan. I don't think they needed Robinson up there at all - I don' think he took one solo. He just to seemed there to fill in the sound. Their reworked version of Shooting Star was dreadful.

It's all about the image of a wall.

Plus an hour before the tweet, Conway was on the talk circuit touting the plan to gut the oversight committee.

And Trump. Of course, now Trump can take a victory lap for a tweet opposing the plan and take full credit for the R's backing down.

Looks like the House R's are scratching their plans in gutting the ethic's panel. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/gop-congress-ethics-office-233123

I'm the rank outsider.

My niece bought me Blues & Lonesome for Christmas -- very enjoyable. Production isn't too bad, either. Definitely not a phone-in record. Also got the Stripped Blu Ray set --- definitely see some overdubs, esp on the France show - but it sounds great. Keith, especially looks great. I haven't watched the actual Stripped video since it came out. I forgot much of it. Nice to have it.

I think that was the Duke, 78 show where Jerry is jumping around a bit during US Blues.

I always put Archive Ratdog (or Archive Dead / Archive Lesh) in Google and their page comes up. Find the year on the left of the page (hit more if you can't find the year) Once your are in year section and on the far right of the Sort By bar there is 5 blue lines - hit that and click on the show details box. Hit the Date Publish tab and the shows will get in date order. I still like the old look -but have gotten use to the new one.

Perhaps they showed their own venue's past concerts at the Capital on nights when they did not have live show going on. Or they planned to do it. One would guess they had reasons on why they filmed the shows - it probably wasn't the cheapest endeavor.

Yeah - that's what I am thinking, the whole close circuit thing. Maybe the local PBS TV station was cool and played the shows. I don't think the whole pay-per-view thing was working in the mid to late 70s.