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The shit (Kavanaugh hearings) hits the fan at 10 AM Eastern today. Plan your day accordingly. 

Anyone else see the Cubs game last night? One of the announcers called a Kris Bryant home run and I'll be damned, Bryant stepped up and hit one. Too cool.

I did see that. Jim DeShaies called it. Did you see that dude at the game tonight pull a Bartman on Rizzo chasing the foul ball? OMG, I'm glad that didn't cost them the game!

Feel Like a Franklin's

I recall seeing a number of those in the 87-88 period. They seemed to fit well together as a set 1 opener.

5/1/81 is a really nice one, set 2 opener.

My very first Dead show: 9/23/82. Thirty-six years ago today. That's kind of hard to believe.

 

https://archive.org/details/gd1982-09-23.sbd.miller.108973.flac16

 

Alabama Getaway-> Greatest Story Ever Told, Peggy-O-> Little Red Rooster, Tennessee Jed, Mama Tried-> Mexicali Blues, Althea, Let It Grow

 

Touch Of Gray-> Lost Sailor-> Saint Of Circumstance-> Ship of Fools, Throwing Stones-> Drums-> The Wheel-> The Other One-> Wharf Rat-> Around & Around-> Johnny B. Goode, E: It's All Over Now Baby Blue

 

​Those early 80s versions of Touch & Throwin' remain my favorites...especially for the original Throwin' lyrics of "come waltz with the stars" and the less pop-sounding, more rocking Touch.

T Stones into the Drums. That's not something you ever see. As a matter of fact, this show and the very next one were the only times that was ever done.

I'm just going to get it out there once and for all......I really like the song "You're Afraid Of Love, When Push Comes To Shove."

There's no doubt it's a close cousin to things like Ramble On Rose, and while it might be "recycled" (for lack of a better word) it's still a fine little tune. I saw a number of them in that 2+ year period. It's kind of a shame that the '89 Alpine version was the last one.

My box was delivered to my office yesterday but I was out for the Jewish holiday. I'm in today and it is still sitting unopened. Good thing I have my car with me, that would be a bear to carry home on the train

 

I'm going to try to resist having my first listens of each show be on my phone or iPod. These shows are going to deserve the full home system, but that's going to take me a lot longer to get through. We'll see if I can resist. 

Times like these are when I'm actually glad I don't have a phone to listen to music. I just hope these old speakers can handle it haha.

I got the PNW box today (after I came home from jury duty - seems about right!). Man these guys go insane with this packaging. Nice little stash box - which I would never actually use haha.

Looking forward so much to digging into this one. I've said it had the potential to be one of the best boxes ever.

Do any of you have the Complete Stuttgart 1963 release which came out about 8 or 9 years ago? I've been listening to my Coltrane discs in chronological order (by recording dates, not release dates), and this set is amazing. It's like the bridge between the searching sound of A Love Supreme - which was recorded not long after this show - and the later, more radical avant garde material. The show features a 29-minute Impressions and a 36-minute Mr. P.C., and both are just incendiary.

 

It's not that easy to find online now, because it was an import, and may have fallen out of print. Essential for Trane fanatics, for sure.

A 29 minute Impressions? OMFG. 

I need to get this.

Ever notice how similar Gotta Serve Somebody and West La Fadeaway are? Written around the same time, and likely when  Jerry and Dylan were having a big influence on each other.

That sounds like a GREAT idea for a song pairing for a local Dead cover band. That could be a very smooth segue. I'm going to throw that thought to my friends here.

I wonder why these teams our doing such things? Is it just to get people in the seats? I have read attendance is down all over. I can see SF doing a GD night. That one makes sense. It is a son of a bitching thing that most hyped thing about my Pirates is that they have been pushing a Ed Sheeran concert all season. Whoever in the hell that is. 

I guess there's SO much money involved with these ballparks - the overhead has to be astronomical - that putting on concerts is a way to keep the money flowing when the team's out of town. Wrigley was hyping a Like Bryan show (whoever that is!) but it'll pull in big bucks for sure.

Were you shocked at Wrigleyville - esp. if you haven't been there since 85. Quite a change. Did they have anybody from the Grateful Dead organization on hand - the White Sox had TC on the field to say "play ball" to start their GD Night game, this year. 

Oh man. I didn't really recognize anything but the ballpark itself. Much more money in the area - that was obvious!

There wasn't anyone from the organization there. But I guess WE were there because Weir Everywhere haha.

Did anyone here go to Grateful Dead Night at Wrigley Field on Monday? That was quite a bit of fun, although it was stupid-hot out.

I literally hadn't been to see my Cubs since before they got lights (1985). A friend of mine called me up a couple of weeks ago to tell me his girlfriend pootered out on him and would I like to go? Uhhh...YEAH!

We got a room about a 30 minute walk from Wrigley, hit a few hole-in-the-wall bars on the way there (which made me feel right at home) and then danced out front pre-game to local Dead Cover band Mr. Blotto (I saw them once in Indy about 25-30 years ago, pretty decent band). Our tickets included a neat ball cap - Cubs "C" with a row of dancing bears going through the "C". Got Bleacher Bum tickets damn near dead center field about 5 rows up from the outfield wall. They played GD tunes through the PA between innings - Touch & Truckin' (of course) and Golden Road (surprise!).

Classic matchup between two of the NL's best - Lester vs. Syndergaard. But the wind was SCREAMING straight out to center, so I expected a 17-15 game. We did win 7-4, and Rizz hit a HR in the 8th about 15 feet left of where we were sitting. Got to see my man Carl Jr. go 3 up 3 down in the 8th as well. FLY THE W.

My friend Russ' long time friend Karen, a Wrigleyville native and bartender at Lincoln Tap, took us on a bar hop of her favorite places - stuff NOT on the tourist trap of Wrigley bars. She was quite a vivacious and wonderful host. Just a wonderful time for me.

 

 

 

Other news, I went to the White Sox game last night, where it was Grateful Dead Night and I saw Tom Constanten - he was sitting in with the band that was playing up on the kid's deck between inning. It was kinda of cool seeing him play.

He seemed as weird (in a good way) as ever - as I expected him to be.

 That is cool as hell! 

 

 

I must admit, I tend to skip Blow Away. After seeing it a few times on the DVD, I get tire of the ending vamp. I only saw them with Brent twice and they didn't play Blow Away, either time - probably would have different perspective of the tune if I would have seen it performed live.

I saw the first one (Alpine '88) and a few others. That song doesn't do much for me. I LOVED Brent's playing but I never really cared for most of his tunes.

I grew up with moderate Republican parents. I was a bit more liberal than them but remained a registered Republican until two years ago. I probably split my vote 65 / 35 Republican v. Democrat over the years (I'm 4-2 Republican in presidential elections).

 

Having said that, it seems like the last two years have gone against every value I was taught growing up. Honesty, racial equity, compassion (if not necessarily generous government support) for the poor, refugee, and immigrant, a free press, fiscal responsibility, suspicion against Russian and other autocrats, respect and friendship for political opponents, free trade, and a general respect for human rights in general. I'm sure I've forgotten others. Every day is another horror show that I hope we will slowly be able to crawl out of, but fear we will not.

UC2P I've always respected the hell out of you regardless of our voting habits. I'm probably viewed as "The Hard Left" here in Central IN but that certainly wouldn't be the case if I lived on the West Coast or in the Northeast. I've always thought of myself as a left-leaning centrist. What's going on now is nothing short of an abomination. I would like to feel that we're an example of how people don't have to drink the kool-aid, we realize at the end of the day we're really not THAT far apart.  Cheers.

46 years ago today: 7/18/72, Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, NJ

 

Saw a post from Scott about this on Facebook and it reminded today was the anniversary of the show. My all-time favorite of the shows that have not been released. Many Deadheads consider first sets to be just warmups, and "all the action" is in the 2nd set - meaning a long psychedelic jam in a Dark Star, Other One, etc.

 

Not me. I'm a songs guy. I love the Garcia/Hunter catalog, and I love it when Bobby is fired up as well. This show's first set is not to be missed. Killer versions of Me and My Uncle (!), Bird Song, and Black-Throated Wind. The early Stella Blue (with the "can't keep from crying" lyric still intact) is also one of my faves.

 

And yes, the second set features a highly-rated Truckin' > Dark Star > Comes a Time sequence that is also excellent. 

 

Get some here: https://archive.org/details/gd1972-07-18.sbd.miller.32878.flac16/gd72-07-18d2t02.flac

46 years ago today: 7/18/72, Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, NJ

 

Saw a post from Scott about this on Facebook and it reminded today was the anniversary of the show. My all-time favorite of the shows that have not been released. Many Deadheads consider first sets to be just warmups, and "all the action" is in the 2nd set - meaning a long psychedelic jam in a Dark Star, Other One, etc.

 

Not me. I'm a songs guy. I love the Garcia/Hunter catalog, and I love it when Bobby is fired up as well. This show's first set is not to be missed. Killer versions of Me and My Uncle (!), Bird Song, and Black-Throated Wind. The early Stella Blue (with the "can't keep from crying" lyric still intact) is also one of my faves.

 

And yes, the second set features a highly-rated Truckin' > Dark Star > Comes a Time sequence that is also excellent. 

 

Get some here: https://archive.org/details/gd1972-07-18.sbd.miller.32878.flac16/gd72-07-18d2t02.flac

Stoked!  This is a great show, one of the best of the year, IMO.  Fall tour '83 was strong.  I love those two shows in Santa Fe, as well. 9/10/83 and 9/11/83

I'm stoked as well. '81-'85 is criminally under-represented in the official releases. I know some of it is due to not having all the shows in the vault on SBD format (6/18/83 SPAC comes to mind) but still...

September '83 has some killer moments - the Santa Fe shows you mentioned, Boise, and I've always loved the first night (9/6) at Red Rocks. Pre Drums set 2 is amazing.

Dead & LLC a couple night ago in Boulder. Meh. Skipped last night. Mickey was licking  the Beam during "Space." Probably the most interesting point of the show. 

I'm just glad it's over and I survived it. 

Now can we go back to discussing the next Dave's, box sets, etc.? l'm in TOO many Dead FB groups and that whole Mayer/Jerry/DeadCo vs Dead/fans vs haters thing was tiring and annoying as fuck. AND the next person who asks "Where's Shakedown?" get a shiv. lol

I was just listening to Alpine 6/22/85. I REALLY love June '85, and that little Midwest run (Alpine, Riverbend, Blossom) are some cherished moments for me. I was such a fan boy then. 

I watched a 30 minute snippet of the old TV show Jazz Casual (host: Ralph Gleason) from I believe Jan. '64 with the Classic Quartet late last night on YT. They do Afro Blue, Alabama, and Impressions. I then immediately went to Archive and listened to the 6/17/75 GD Winterland show, where they did an insane 25 minute Blues For Allah > Drums > Stronger Than Dirt > Blues For Allah, and when they got to the Dirt I was listening to JG's incredible playing on that and thought to myself, "Man this guy REALLY incorporated Trane's style and phrasing on this". 

I would definitely agree Mr. H regarding Coltrane. He's my favorite Jazz musician of all time, and along with Ravi and Jerry that's like my Holy Trinity of music.

The Classic Quartet is undeniably one of the greatest small combos of all time, I never tire of hearing them. The small amount of time Dolphy was with him (Impressions LP, live footage) is truly mind blowing as well. I also like the later stuff like Ascension and Interstellar Space as well. That stuff influenced a whole bunch of folks I love - Braxton in particular. 

Have you ever heard that "Live At The Village Vanguard, Again!" single CD? It's from 5/28/66, with Pharoah, Alice, Jimmy and Rashied Ali. It's only about 45 minutes long - a 15 minute Naima (a favorite of mine) and a 25-30 minute workout on My Favorite Things. It's so far out, I just love that one to death. Epic, life-changing stuff for me.

Greenfield does great work. I have his Garcia bio, Bill Graham's and Bear's and they're all worth the time.

Up at Dead.net, too.

 

I ordered it -- no issues, either -- which is odd for dead.net

Yeah, I swiped one too. A bit of a problem at first but it's done and done now!

There is a listing on Amazon UK, but no official announcements yet: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DKRPFX7

Right on. That's all I'm seeing too. 

I always get all sweaty palmed when something like this gets talked about haha.

I think it's strictly rumor at this moment (nothing on Dead Net as of now) but I'm hearing about a box set of 73-74 PNW shows. 

Post it up of you can confirm, thanks.

Bartman does road games, too?