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I saw the Saturday show in Boston. My overriding comment is how disappointed my wife and I were with the sound system. It was one big loud mess, echoey with sound bouncing all over the place. There were times we could barely make out the melody line of songs we know so well. We were sitting in what should have been great seats, band management seats in row 8 of lodge section 11. Basically right at the red line. I go to a lot of shows, and see arena shows as well, and this was the worst I've heard since REM did the first show in the new Garden, before they installed the sound baffles in t

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Love reading that

Listening to Atlas, remembering how much I enjoyed Real Estate's sets.

Going tomorrow, hope you have fun

The boards these shows come from? These are the Winterland October '74 shows. The GD movie shows. We know how great these performances were, and how great they sound on the Movie Box. How they made the album sound so bad was always a mystery to me. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Hold off buying? I'm incapable, already bought and downloaded the Saturday show. Funny, some person on FB named Diane Kyrus just posted she did the same thing!

Me too. That sort of sucks. Actually, not "sort of", that does suck. They should have put it all up at once. What are they going to do about Sunday's show?

Ha! Great minds think alike. I know who I'll be listening to on my commute home

Political spoiler alert. At the risk of introducing politics into this music forum, I thought this was an excellent op-ed piece by Patterson Hood in today's NY Times. Well done Patterson! http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/09/magazine/the-souths-heritage-is-so-much-more-than-a-flag.html?_r=1

I remember the day it came out. We were so excited for a new live Dead album from those Winterland shows. And then the album was just so flat. What a disappointment.

I have that, autographed by Bob Bralove. My cousins who live in SF became friends with him. As a result, I got to meet him every time they came through Boston and Albany in the '90's, he would set me up with passes and tickets. I don't know if I ever listened to Infrared Roses all the way through.

Hey, I like Bear's Choice! Grew up with that. My choices for "worst way to get into the band" (i love that topic): Built to Last Go to Heaven (definitely the worst GD cover of all time)

Steven Hyden's take: http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/not-fade-away-the-dubious-end-of-the-grateful-dead/

I was standing right about where you were, I agree with the comment that we couldn't hear Mikael on piano. But otherwise I thought the sound was fine and enjoyed the uniqueness of the hootenany set. I gave the Roadcase release a proper listen, and it is way better than the radio feed, which has also now been permanently deleted. It too served me well this last week.

That's a super hard question to answer. There's a similar topic on the Hoffman Forum (probably been many) that generates zillions of responses/suggestions. I agree with starting with Europe '72, that has to be everyone's consensus first choice. I would then throw in next a studio release, American Beauty, for its sheer elegance in playing and timeless classics in the American songbook. Then come back here if after giving those a listen you're still interested to listen to more. I'm sure we'll be able to point you in the direction of one or two more. Plus, I've got tons of excellent qualit

Here's what annoyed me about these shows (caveat: I did not attend any), which is no different than a typical GD show was: first set of about 75 minutes? Then a 60 minute set break, then about 30-45 minutes of music before a 10-15 minute drums/space segment. My timings may be off , but not by much I bet. So for 175 minutes, there's about 100 minutes of music. Or something like that. The point being, I don't care how old they are, I'm not into a 60 minute set break after 75 minutes of music, and then for all intents and purposes another break for the musicians other than the drummers. Fee

That's coming from Billy, who told a PBS interviewer that he thought the East Coast deadheads should have gotten some shows (damn right we should have!) and that he would be up for playing more. http://www.jambase.com/Articles/125690/Bill-Kreutzmann-Wants-East-Coast-Grateful-Dead-50-Shows

Based on an initial listen of the mp3 at work (not ideal listening conditions), the official release is a substantial improvement over the WFUV stream

Heartwarming interview to see the entire family. Very nice peak behind the curtain of Jeff Tweedy. My wife and I loved it, so glad Susan agreed to do this.

Pretty much sums up my impression of last night from my couch. Only difference, I always want to hear more Trey, I don't know if this was a discovery for you, but either way, hearing more Trey is always a good thing in my book. For me, not being there in the midst of the energy of the crowd, the numerous flubs and weak transitions took a lot of wind out of my sail.

From what I heard and saw, Trey was fantastic throughout. Not to give myself a pat on the back, but I knew he was a fantastic choice from the minute this was announced. I never understood all the negative commotion about that, the guy is just a fantastic player with his head and heart in the right place. Trey shined throughout.

I was less emotional about last night's "Fare Thee Well" than I expected to be. Mostly because GD music lives on for me in current incarnations. I guess I didn't have an emotional attachment to the "core 4" being on stage together or for them calling themselves the Grateful Dead one last time. I thought that would get to me, but it just didn't. GD music is still very important to me, and I'll continue to go hear it live when I can. Next up will be Phil and Friends for 2 nights at Lockn'. And to my ears, the best current way to experience live GD music is to go see or listen to JRAD.

I listened on and off on Sirius to Friday and Saturday, last night was the first night I was home and got myself situated for the PPV. I was psyched and had high expectations based on everything I had been hearing from all those "picky" deadheads, but truth be told I was underwhelmed last night. I'm sure I would have had fun if I had been there, but the music didn't make the leap from the stadium to my tv room (and I usually love doing couch tour). Most of my issues were with Weir: his guitar playing was fine, but he just visually looked so out of it, and his singing was terrible, both voic

Not a " heard" but a "seen". Pretty sure I saw a Wilco license plate, MA plate, last night in Pocasset on Cape Cod. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk