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Too funny. I love the part where Bobby is defending the cops that they were reading about in the paper and you hear Jerry in the background saying " Must we have this yellow Journalism" I'da loved to have been on that train ride...."Might as Well"

Listened to 3-25-72 today, a great set with Mr. Bo Diddley.........RIP Bo

Uh oh...now you did it, prepare for the inevitable why should Wilco turn into a jam band immbroglio

Hell yeah! Thats the "X" factor I always try to get people to understand. Stuff like that they used to do on a regular basis. Jerry doin' the Tiger, Mind Left Body jams from Darkstar, the way some songs get seriously intense and almost scarry then a long slow slide into something like Stella Blue....I could go on and on

37 years ago today 5-29-71 (Winterland)...for all you Chuck Berry fans, first ever "Promised Land". While never one of my all time favorites you gotta admit it's a pretty rollicking tune to get a show started, though on this date it was played later on in the first set. On an un-related note listened to 11-17-73 today for the first time in many years. Forgot just how frigging awesome that Playin>Uncle John's>Morning Dew>Uncle John's>Playin sandwich is. Man those were the days.

I'm reading "Fallen Ashes" A history of the CIA. Kind of interesting how pretty much every President since the CIA was founded (1947) has used it to fuck around with world events.

friggin' beautiful up there huh? I miss Vermont. Tennessee is a bit different

I was one of them crazy Norwich dudes.....what about yourself?

Keeeef! because, as they said in Waynes World Keith can not be killed by conventional methods

Good point A-Man......Heroin is a "solo" drug. Most people get into it to withdraw from everything (no pun intended). I was lucky I got to see them a lot back in the days when they were playing bars and such ( I went to college in Vermont in the mid 80's) Dunno if I'd see 'em again if there was some kind of reunion but I am glad to hear he's cleaned up his act.

"We're gonna be just a few minutes folks so we can get everything just exactly perfect, on account of our new name which is the just exactly perfect brothers band"

Vol 4 is a classic.......from an epic run at the Fillmore East All of 'em are pretty good stuff, get 'em all!

Ahh I'm sure I'll be on the editing room floor but it would be cool to see the Nudie suit as you say immortalized.

I don't know anything official or what, but back in March at the Ryman show a videographer was filming myself and my girlfriend outside the venue for a few minutes. I asked her what was going on and she said they are "making a documentary of the tour" (Spring 08) and that it would be out in a year or so. Again, thats what she told me...who knows if it will come to be but they were filming inside and outside the Ryman so....take that with however many grains of salt you wish...I heard they were filming at some of the other venues this spring as well. Would be great if they get a dvd out!

Hell Yeah!!!!!!! AHHHH WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Werewolves of London....AH WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO We discussed earlier in either the previous dead thread or on this one...My very first Dead Show, at the tender age of 11. I was very psyched when they made this DP 25....damn I miss the picks....used to look forward to the 3 or 4 per year, now we are at the mercy of the powers that be at Rhino.........I bet 'ol Latvalla is just spinning in his grave. BTW Scott, how's everything goin? I've been away a lot lately from the board these past few months.

I know this borders on heresy but.....in my opinion (mine only mind you) I say this is the single most overrated Dead show out there. I think it's a great show, an absolute killah, but to me this gets way more than it's due. Part of it, I think, is that it's very easy to get and great sounding so a lot of people have heard it. I say the days before, most notably 5-7 and the day after 5-9 are better......don't shoot me, just sayin' No one can argue that May of 1977 was just absolutely insane with great shows though. May 9 (Buffalo) what a fantastic Help>Slip>Franklin, May 19 (Atlanta)

It's Pigpen......I had a Prof in college who was at the show (swore he was stone cold sober) tell me so....it sounds like Pig as well so I'm convinced

Gotta echo Mountainbed with Jerry doin' "the tiger", also Jerry during the jams on Let It Grow circa 1974 some very intense stuff. Also more recently I gotta hand it to Pat doing his fills on Impossible Germany, especially the live version on the SBS bonus EP, really adds to the texture and to me is amazingly beautiful. Also did Nels doing Ashes live at the end.

Hey I've got one as well...was sitting in the front row and he tossed it down to me as the show ended. This was like 10 years ago in Nashville.

Honestly I can't remember any of the places in NH. I wanna say Hanover, right across from White River VT. Saw a bunch in Burlington of course.. Yeah Mountain, it was pretty cool now that I think of it. At the time they just seemed like a great bar band you know? I remember the first big show I saw with them at Great Woods in Mass. Guess it was around, I dunno 92-93 maybe? about 15,000 people there. It was like wow, how did THIS happen? I wish I had been old enough to see the Dead back in 74....actually to have seen them in 72....sheeeeeeeeeit, now that woulda been something, or even back i

Wow...probably at the same shows a few times....went to school in VT, Norwich, if you can believe that. When I reported to Ft Knox after I graduated and got commissioned my company commander was always giving me shit for listening to the Dead and Phish and stuff like that. I even had a camoflauge steal your face sticker on my tank in Iraq in gulf war 1. I think most of the higher ups thought it was a "gung-ho" type thing...little did they know the true meaning

I don't even want to know how you found that. Shocking, that.

Ah the good old days in Vermont, seein those guys in little bars... before the "scene" got so big.....Funny "Wilson" story. There was this idiot where I used to work years ago with the last name Wilson...big blustery loud kinda guy. Everytime he came around me and a buddy would start humming Duh Duh, Duh Duhhh..........Wilson!, Duh Duh, Duh Duhhh..... made us laugh anyways.

Correct A-Man Phil wrote it. Listen to the intro to that song (UBC) and then the first few seconds of "Passenger Side", always kind of reminds me of each other...just the first few seconds of guitar, seems to have the same sonic quality or something

Not at that show but was in Memphis a couple weeks later and heard it as the encore.....great to hear that but all in all a lackluster show...was the first time I had seen the Dead in about 5 years as I had stopped going to shows and only went to see JGB shows. Apparently the superstition was correct. What was the other one everyone used to say? Jerry in red, trouble ahead...something like that? I don't recall ever seeing him in anything but a black T