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    It's outside the timeline of this topic, but here's a very current 20 minute interview with Mills and Stipe. I've only listened to the first couple of minutes so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiQ7EaIRgfc&feature=share
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    ^thx for the suggestions!
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    Anyone else heading to these shows? I've never been, so does anyone have any suggestions for pre-show food and drinks in the neighborhood? I don't plan on standing in line all day (now if the temperature were many degrees warmer I would be there), what do people think about the right time to get in line? I'm not looking to be on the rail. Any suggestions or insights would be welcome!
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    That's the thing, there are some good or really good tracks on all the albums, but those first five are start to finish awesome in my book. Not a single track I don't want to hear in the entire five. To me we're comparing masterpieces to albums with some really good songs but overall not great from start to finish. And after New Adventures, the really good songs are fewer and further between. Totally on board with John Smith: "The albums after NA have their moments but none are consistent enough for my tastes"
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    John McLaughlin and Jimmy Herring
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    I hate to be the contrarian here, but I’m sort of shocked by all the highest of praise for Automatic. Like folks here, Steven Hayden did a podcast calling it his favorite, or the best, R.E.M. album. It was such a surprise to me that I went back and gave it a listen and confirmed that I am not in that camp. Not that it doesn’t have some tunes I really like and put up there in the pantheon of all R.E.M. songs, but overall, from start to finish, the album doesn’t come close to the way I react to any number of their others, like all the I.R.S. albums. Maybe because l’m old enough to have lived thr
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    Heading to Nashville for the first time. Tonight the Grand Ole Oprey show at the Ryman
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    I'm with Shug on the covers I always say that for me one of the marks of a great musician/band is the choice of covers they perform. Warren easily comes to mind as one of the best; he exhibits his soufullness and musical sensibilities in the incredible collections of songs he's chosen to cover over the years. TTB are just about at that level for me. Seeing their Mad Dogs & Englishmen set at Lockn' was a highlight. They've incorporated a lot of that music into their everyday shows, and I'm really good with that. And of course it's not just the songs, but the players! And Susan's voca
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    Wow, that’s really interesting to me. I think Susan is among the best, if not the best, female blues singers since Janis, and I love hearing her sing, especially in front of that band. I could live with less singing by Mattison. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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    Cowboy Junkies
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    Christian McBride Trio Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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    I’m going to tweet at @realdonaldtrump (again), see if I can use my pull to get him to vote for you
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    Done. Trying to stuff the ballot box, but they won't let me
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    ^ Maybe I have it and just forgot?! Another one of those mid-west shows we trekked to, UNI Dome 2-5-78, https://archive.org/details/gd78-02-05.aud.set2.warner.19466.sbeok.shnf was released as Dick's Picks 18. I know I have that one. Did the early bird subscription for the 2018 Dave's Picks series. I vowed I wasn't going to do that again, who has time to listen to all of this? But the GD just have a vacuum permanently affixed to my wallet
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    Given how many great Scarlets there are out there, that says a lot! Listening now.
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    Yes, DeKalb would have been in range. No idea why we didn't go. I saw quite a bit of the midwest during my 4 years of college following the Dead around: Chicago (Uptown 11/78), Indy, Cincy (just a short time before people got crushed at the gates at the Who show there-could have been us at the Dead show), University of Northern Iowa, Normal. And St. Louis (unfortunately never at the Fox, that was before my time there). Good memories of all those shows.
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    Ooops. Thanks for the clarification. My brother was in Normal. I saw them there 4-24-1978 https://archive.org/details/gd78-04-24.sbd.mattman.20605.sbeok.shnf
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    Hey, I was at the Northern Illinois University (Normal, IL) show. I was at college in St. Louis and my brother did a year of graduate school in Normal. I remember going, but don't know if I've listened since. https://archive.org/details/gd77-10-29.sbd.kempa.280.sbeok.shnf I've had an excellent recording of 11/6/77 forever. That show always stands out to me for the first set, bookended by my favorite Half-Step and then Jack Straw, and Music to close. Just smoking versions of each. Not that the second set is too shabby I've always had a good copy, but I'm glad to get the HDCD treatment of t
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    Love that show! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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    I’ll be going to the Fri and Sat shows at the Orpheum. Already had Hot Tuna tix for Thursday, I wouldn’t miss that. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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    The Aragon, wow. Didn't know that place still existed. I went to college in St. Louis all the way back in the '70's. Made several trips to Chicago for shows, mostly for the Dead at the Uptown. One trip had us at the Aragon Ballroom for Hot Tuna and Santana. It was pretty much a pit then. I assumed it had met rhe wrecking ball by now.
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    That's a good pick, for sure.
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    Agree with your comments about Trey during Mountain Jam. I don't know if deferential is the word that came to mind; I felt during the post bass solo segment he may not have been familiar enough with the double harmonized guitar lines that are such a signature of the song (and the Allmans sound). Having said that, looked like a great sit-in for Delta Lady and Mountain Jam. My huge regret is that we had tickets for this show, but then my wife changed her mind and didn't want to make the trip down from Boston (for personal family reasons and especially since they are doing 3 nights here in Decem
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    Here's a couple of different video versions from the usual video tapers, starting with Ali (the first has Susan introducing Nels): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy8XgOt6luQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_dDn3wG20w
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    That is strange. But, since I already own recent 180 g. vinyl versions of each (A.M. being the orange vinyl Record Week or something like that version), the absence of the Troubadour set helped me make a decision and I'll go with the cd versions.
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