Dmada

Did anyone get their tickets yet? Waiting on my port chester tix.

Thanks!

Good one I've seen them open with that.

I'm hoping they take another quick run through their strong US markets after South America

Where did you see them ?

Ive seen them a few times, but that was my first, November 1981, Hartford, CT.  Still one of the best shows I have ever seen.

Nope. Springfield, Mass. My first rock concert! Crazy times.

I loved seeing shows at the Springfield CC. 

under my thumb

Stones

81'

Great show last night!

My shirt smells like weed.

They came on around 9:10 and ended around 11:20.

Wow surprised at all the ratdog negativity.  I agree that the more recent stuff was tough to swallow, but they had a really good run IMHO.

I had more fun at some of the ratdog shows than I did at dead shows in the nineties.

My two cents on the ensembles after Jerry passed is that I always loved rat dog with Wasserman on the stand up.

Cheap tickets, low key venues, acoustic stuff and lots of great tunes. The years with Sylvester before he got sick were also great. Some great shows 2002-2005.

 

Never really dug the other ones, the dead or further. Not a Warren, Jimmy Herring or JK fan.

 

Same with Phil and friends, except when Chris Robinson or Jackie Greene is part of the band.

The playing is fine all the way around. The only thing that grates is Weir singing Jerry's tunes. He just sprays the words around as he damn well pleases with no regard to metre or rhythm. Hey, we all know that NOBODY is going to sing it like The Big Guy, but there are certain tunes, like last night's Stella, that are (in my opinion) pretty "sacred", and if you're not going to give it the reverence it deserves then just do the fucker as an instrumental. I've seen the DNB do it like that (with Sless on pedal steel) and it was beautiful.

 

100% agree

that stella killed the momentum

crazy fingers, china doll, must have been the roses are others that just should be avoided IMHO

 

That being said, I was really surprised at how good this band sounds.  Mayer is excellent and it is easy to forget how critical the DRUMS are to Grateful Dead music.

Grate time!

Amazingly, I won tickets in the Amex contest for tonight's MSG show.  It has been a very long time since I have been to a show with Billy and Mickey onstage.

Keeping the expectations reasonable but it should be a good time!

And 32nd anniversary of one of the most memorable shows I caught: Hartford '83. I can still hear the roar of the crowd as St. Stephen splendidly sprung out of a Space that I can still recall as vividly. I was about 16 and knew they'd done St. Stephen at MSG earlier in the week and the whole place seemed to be on the edge of their collective seat with anticipation.

 

Oddly, the "return" of St. Stephen was in absentia for only four years....

I was at that show.  Hartford was my hometown venue.

Super easy for me.  GA both nights at the cap in under 3 mins.

Done.  Great live tune!

Capitol theater!

I was able to get two tix for Saturday night about ten mins in on the mobile app

They are in the last row of the right balcony.  Probably the last two tickets sold!

The rolling stones 1981 at the Hartford civic center

First song: under my thumb

 

Most memorable (Tie): You Cant Always Get What You Want/Jumping Jack Flash

To this day I vividly remember the sing a long and Mick going nuts during JJF.

The more I think about this, the more I see the 50th as just hype.  It's not like these dudes have never played before together in any combination since Jerry died.  It's also not like Trey has never played with them.  The hype really seems to be selling it and the marketing is genius with all these articles on mail ordering and getting us all talking about webcasts.  Not to mention the whole, 'this is the end of the long strange trip' (with a wink of course).  

 

Interesting times.

 

I tend to agree about the hype.  Is there anyway that these shows could live up to the hype?  I kind of doubt it.

Pearl Jam Borgata AC 2005

One of my buddies and I had all been drinking before the show and needed to hit the restroom.

The public bathroom had a line out the door, it was at least a 15-20 min wait.

I see this security guard standing in front of two big doors and I say, I will give you $20 if you take us to the bathroom you use.

He proceeds to open the door and we are walking down the hall when Mike McCready comes walking down the hall.

He could not have been nicer, signed my poster and let me take a picture.  He waves us off and proceeds to walk into the VIP room where the entire band and Ace Frehley were hanging out before the show. Best $20 I ever spent.

I think they got trey to make sure the stadium was full, as I suspect they may have some trouble selling out three nights with kimock or JK on lead.

Same with the GD billing-gotta make it a dead show so they fill the place.

 

I am 100% uninterested in this event.  I may be a fun time in a great city, but the grateful dead is long gone IMHO.

The three nights of port chester. First night was probably my favorite.

Austin city limits first weekend-just an amazing musical event capped off by pearl jam.

Robert plant at the cap-finally got to hear some live zep tunes.

Do any of you Deadheads have much experience with Jerry shows from '74, '77 or '82? There's a site out there with most of those shows available (PM me if you want the link), but there's just no way I'll ever have time to download them all, much less listen to them. Anyone have favorites from those years? Thanks.

 

I think 4/18/82 is fantastic. But I am biased because that was my first show.  There is a unique "earthquake" space as well.

 

04-18-82 Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, Ct. (Sun) 1: Bertha> Promised, FOTD> C. C. Rider, Ramble On, Me & My Uncle> Mexicali, Althea> L. L. Rain, Big RxR Blues, Let It Grow 2: Cold Rain> Samson, Ship Of Fools, Playin> Eyes> Drumz> Phil's Earthquake Space> Other One> Black Peter> Sugar Magnolia> Playin> Sunshine Daydream E: Don't Ease

I forgot that I wanted to comment specifically on Ashes of American Flags. I remember at the show getting lost in the outtro jam and thinking to myself "what song is this?", and then realizing that they were still in Ashes...  Maybe it has been played that way before, or maybe it's just been a while since I've heard it in-person, but the jam seems to have taken on a new feel. I distinctly remember my first listen to YHF and thinking that Ashes was going to be my favorite song because it sounded like it was right out of Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii era. Very heavy and dark and spacey. Now it sounds more like the Grateful Dead's spring 1977 soaring takes on tunes such as Morning Dew. Heavy and emotional still, but in a different way (more uplifting, eventually?). Of course this little review will make no sense to those who aren't familiar with those bands, but for me it confirms Ashes, and Wilco (as if they weren't already, LOL) in some heavyweight historical benchmark territory, in my musical library.

 

The ashes jam was one the top moments of the three nights.

Did you look at the right Roadcase? At the Kungfu store: http://wilco.kungfustore.com/roadcase.html

 

(Not to be confused with the Wilcoworld streaming Roadcase: http://wilcoworld.net/#!/roadcases/)

 

All three shows are up at the store.

I was also confused.

Very happy with the quality of the boot (FLAC).  Great to relive this fantastic night of music.

Another great show.  The ripple was just terrific and so appropriate.  Great songs, great fun and great highlights each night.

Please do it again next year.

Surprised that no one has mentioned how Jeff basically chided the crowd for not really "giving it up" between the main set and the first encore. And it was true. That's a big pet peeve of mine when people basically don't even applaud and then just expect that the band will come back out.

 

Jeff seemed a bit miffed and/or annoyed at that; for him to even say something about it, you knew it was a pretty lackluster ovation. I think Jeff sort of said something like, "We've already played two hours...we don't have to keep playing." A small part of me wished he was more of a dick and just decided to end the show after the first encore (or even the main set). Even though, the hootenanny encore is always fun...

 

Anyway, to my mind, there was a little bit of a weird vibe to the crowd last night. Can't quite put my finger on it, but it just felt a little "off" somehow. And maybe Jeff was in a slightly weird mood as well; he mentioned in the first encore that his hand was cramping and it looked like he mouthed "I'm done," at his guitar tech when he decided to cut I'm Always In Love at the end of the main set.

 

Still a good night with some relative rarities. I called it the night of the Fakeout Endings with Hotel Arizona, Someday Soon and That's Not The Issue. Was that a secret theme of Being There? Haha. And as previously mentioned, True Love Will Find You... and Be Not So Fearful in the second encore was a treat.

 

 

The crowd was definitely more chill on night #2. You are right different vibe, a bit less upbeat.

this is such a great run

definitely more mellow last night

 

Nels on ashes was nuts

loved radio cure, kettle, hotel Arizona all great