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Hey nice job A-Man with all the links and such. On another note just received my copy of the 2-14-68 (Road Trips). Friggin sweeeeeeet! This is yet another example of Primal Dead, you can just hear the acid dripping through this one. Also got the Hartford 77 set, thats also pretty great. I would highly reccomend both

Sure......I hear you it just seems too mainstream I guess. I'm not saying they loose street cred 'cause they aren't saying fuck you to the man or anything like that but, I dunno.....for me it just doesn't jibe. Yeah times change for sure, it's just tough seein Bob and Phil koffe klatching with Whoopi and Joy Behar....I never tripped that bad to see something like that

Hmmmm.....Bobby and Phil on The View a few weeks ago....Tipper sitting in on Drums....Tour "Books" after each show......$100 + ticket prices......What's going on? Used to be Kind Veggie Burritos and "doses!..Doses! What is this the 401K tour? I know I know they gotta make a living but this just seems so un-dead like Call me jaded and cynical and who am I to judge but count me out. Jerry is rolling in his grave (or at least his ashes are swirling in the Ganges). The Dead have gone middle of the road. Christ... I gotta bust out some Pigpen now. Sorry for the rant, if you go and have a blas

No particular order: A Prayer For Owen Meany-John Irving The 13th Valley-John DelVecchio Catcher In The Rye- J D Salinger The Stand (un-abridged) Stephen King Going After Cacciato-Tim O'brien

That was the one that did it for me. I had a friend back in Jr. High (no pun intended) whose older brother turned us on to the Dead with that tune. This would have been back in 1976. We had the day off from school 'cause of a blizzard and we were hangin' out in my friends cellar planning on building a snow fort and his brother walks in and says we gotta listen to this. He put on Live Dead and proceeded to get us stoned (it was like my third time ever). When Darkstar came on I was completely mezmerized. That slow, snaky intro....and on and on and on it went. The snow fort never got built that

Damn....wish I had Sirius, 24 hours of Darkstars.....That's like dying and going to heaven.......

Hey Scott, wishing you a very happy Birthday brother. Hope it's filled with some great tunes and some cold brews!

Here lately I'd have to say "Gentlemen Start Your Engines" Grateful Dead

"The Omnipotent Grateful Dead!"

When I saw the Moo-Cow I immediately thought of the chick in The Grateful Dead Movie they show doing her "Whooo-Whooo" noises. Watching the various people they filmed during that run never fails to crack me up. Wish I couldda been there in those days......

True story. I thought they played great and sounded great that day. The only shitty thing was that quite a few folks weren't in their seats and those that were were trying to talk over them. I heard many, many folks saying stuff like "who the hell are these guys", etc, etc. In all they played around 10 tunes and as I stated before they sounded great. Pretty good PA system there at Phillips arena. Sadly most of the folks were there only to see the Stones and seemed to not give a damn. Personally I thought I'd died and gone to heaven, Wilco and The Stones on the same bill, pretty friggin' great!

Right on A-Man, you hit the nail on the head, but I daresay Jerry's last wife probably won't have too much to say if there is a good payday to be had.

One damn fine run of shows......The Star is indeed sweet, but man oh man do I love those 1969 versions....Primal Dead!

one of my all time favorite Weirisms was from 10-30-71, that ones famous for the dude screaming "Truckin'" at every opportunity Bobby: Hey you folks under the lip of the balc, bal, bbbal- Jerry: " B B B b Balcony!" Bobby: Might want to watch out cause in a minute they're gonna dump a whole load of live chickens on ya That always cracks me up

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Great Wharf Rat from 4-26-71 (Fillmore East NY, NY) immortilized for all time on the SkullFuck album Good shout out MB for 9-27-72, an all time great. They sold this DP on the home shopping network when it first came out and was absolutely hillarious to see the live feed from Dead HQ with visibly tripping Latvala and Parrish going on and on about this. It's the one item I have ever ordered from a shopping channel. The operator that took my order was like "why are all these weird people calling here tonight" True Story

What!!!!????? No one mentioned 8-27-72 yesterday......possibly the best ever Playin' and an absolutely mind melting darkstar. The Sun Soaked Serenaders indeed.

Yeah.... I listened to the show only once, it's seriously a bummer. On another note there is a great version of So May Roads from Salt Lake City from February of that year, that version (to my ears) is the best.....It was (and is) a great song. Wouldda been interesting to see what they would have come up with had Jerry knocked off the dope and chili dogs.

If you read the liner notes in the set that particular version of So Many Roads is actually a compilation of two different versions of the song. The first half was from a previous show (a few days earlier) and the second half was actually from that (final show) night. Or something to that effect.

Oh man, those old Maxell tapes.....printing out the "J" cards, wondering how the hell to get the hiss out........good times. I listened to a LOT of crappy sounding tapes trying to convince myself they weren't that bad

Thats sweet. Like I said I really wish I couldda seen 'em back in late 60's early 70's. I was lucky enough to see my first show in 78 and my last in 95, though for a while in the early 90's I stopped goin to Dead shows and just went to JGB shows.

"Black Peter" Grateful Dead All of my friends come to see me last night, I was laying in my bed and dying. Annie bonneau from st. angel say the weather down there so fine. Just then the wind came squalling through the dark, But who can the weather command? Just want to have a little peace to die, And a friend or two I love at hand. Fever roll up to a hundred and five. Roll on up, gonna roll back down. One more day I find myself alive, Tomorrow maybe go beneath the ground. See here how everything lead up to this day, And its just like any other day thats ever been. Sun going up and th

Absolutely correct! Can only imagine what that would have been like to be there........or back in 72, or 69, or..........

Yep...I too requested Pieholden through the website for Nashvegas so......take that with however many grains of salt you wish

Big time in agreement with Lynch for "Most of the Time" and "Not Dark Yet", also with Mrs. Peel for "It Makes No Difference" especially the Last Waltz version I would add: Comes A Time - Grateful Dead I Shall Be Released - The Band/Bob Dylan