darkstar

The part when a very drunk JG tells Janis that "I've loved you ever since the first time I set eyes on you" always tears me up. You can just tell by the look in his eyes that he totally means what he's saying.

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

Definitely. That is the obvious connection (imo), along with the wide variety of musical genres you come across during the course of a show. My hope is with Nels now firmly in the band he gets the leeway to take things further and further out.

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

That Playin' sammich is the shit. When they roll back into UJB from Dew it's one of the best things ever!

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.

I was your typical Castleton loser, but only for 1 year, 87-88. I skied and partied for a year, then felt bad about spending a lot of my parent's money and not getting much in the way of education, so I transferred.

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

One of my top 10 concerts ever was seeing them in 95 (?) in Germany. We were living there at the time and while they were starting to play big arenas in the US, over there they were playing really small clubs. In fact, were we saw them was in the basement of the basement of the train station in Cologne. It was a tiny little space and was not crowded at all. I was right up front and had no problem going back for bathroom breaks and beers then walking right back to my spot. Their playing was incredible, the sound that came from only 4 musicians! One of those concerts that lifted you up from the first note and kept you soaring until the last. I have a recording of it and it is as good as I remember.

 

Saw them again that last tour at Saratoga Springs; the band and the crowd just seemed out there. I wasn't tapped into what was going on with the band other than the music, but I remember thinking that the kids were doing different drugs than the ones I used to do. I wondered if it was just me getting old, glad to know now that it wasn't that. The whole scene was seedy and the music just wasn't what I had remembered.

 

Darkstar, I was in college in VT in the late 80's. Where were you?

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

When people are sticking needles in their arm, they usually do not want others to see it, and/or they are past the point of most unnecessary human contact.

 

He looked in pretty good shape at the Jammys - good for him - now the real work begins.

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.

Maybe they're running on Grateful Dead Time -which means we have another 10-15 minutes to get "ready".

"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!

How about that Ryman show, huh? That's the one show the wife and I have seen this time around and that's where I done seen those cameras. Well, thanks for your feedback darkstar. Here's hoping we see that documentary, wherein Tweedy's nudie suit would be immortalized for the masses. And if you and your girlfriend should happen to make the final cut, you'll have to tip us off to who in the film you are.

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!

5/11/78 Civic Center Arena Springfield, MA

 

I: Cold Rain, BIODTL, FOTD, L.L. Rain, Loser, Mexicali > Mama Tried, T. Jed, Minglewood, Peggy-O, Lazy Lightning > Supplication

 

II: Scarlet > Fire, Dancin' > Drums > NFA > Stella Blue, Around

 

E: Werewolves, J.B. Goode

 

30 years ago today. Crazy second set - the rumor is that the band ingested some good mescaline at this show. Listening to the wild vocals in Dancin', and especially Werewolves it sounds like more than just a rumor to me.

 

Available as Dick's Picks #25

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.

Mother's Day at Barton Hall, Cornell 31 years ago today.

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) possibly the best all time ever Sugaree, May 21 (Lakeland, FL) a stellar Comes A Time with what might be the most beautiful, emotive jam at the end (and then a great segue into St. Stephen) they ever played. The rest of May is awesome as well. Great thing is they are all easy to get either on Dick's or the other usual avenues.

And I'm a guy that isn't much impressed with post 74 Dead! (I like all Dead just 66-74 better than the rest)

The "don't listen to him?" Me too. For sure.

 

The thing starts with some crowd dude saying, in thick and deep burner tone, "Jerry, play 'St. Stephen'" and some chick with falsetto echoeing the "St. Stephen" and then laughter from the stage.....

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.

i've got John fogerty's guitar pick

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 in say 68-69 dang. I woulda loved to have seen some pigpen. Primal Dead!

I used to catch 'em in the bars in NH in the late 80s, too. Fun times. I also dated a chick for 7 years with the last name Wilson. I've used the tune in a similar manner as described above.

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

 

Say hey, Willie's willie

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.

I don't think I have heard that song - it's a Phil song, right? Although, maybe I have. I have Mars Hotel on a blank tape from years and years ago.

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

13 years ago today - The Spectrum, Philly PA. The debut of one of the most-requested GD songs of all time - Unbroken Chain. We only had to wait 20 years!

 

Anyone from the board at that show? I wasn't.

 

Fan superstition said that if the tune ever got played it would be the beginning of the end for the band. Sadly this turned out to be true.

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