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Too much rock? How is that possible?!? Ha ha ha! That's exactly why I thought night 2 was the best of the run, they were hitting it hard right from the opening and that is how I like my MMJ. We took our teenaged son to just one night and had to pick the night. We ended up taking him to night 1. With the 6 mellow songs to open, it was not a great introduction to MMJ for him, just not exciting enough for him. Too bad you didn't get to see night 1, you probably would have really dug the acoustic stuff. Its nice that MMJ has all those facets to their music and that they mix it up from n

I agree with all of you guys. I was surprised upon listening to the Jack Straw and especially on the Playin' In The Band>Cold Rain and Snow (was that really the first song this group had played in front of an audience?) at how good Mayer's playing was. I was pretty sure I was going to like his guitar playing better than Trey's in the GD setting, but wow! Way stronger crescendo in Jack Straw and some really focued, intent, purposeful and exploratory playing in Playin'. I'm impressed. I wish this show was coming to Phoenix. I'd go for sure. I still won't travel out of state for this, bu

The first night in SF and the first night in Austin they started the show with 6 acoustic songs, I'm guessing they will probably do that in Boston and NYC, too, so if you like that side of them you have a pretty good chance of hearing it if you are going to the first night. They are also doing some of that New Basement Tapes stuff as well, scattered through the shows. So a couple songs from Jim's solo record, a couple from New Basement Tapes and one from Monsters of Folk plus some of their old mellow songs are all in the rotation right now really bringing in some of the Americana side of Jac

Here's a good AUD recording from the PHX show. MMJ have been doing songs from Jim James solo projects for the first time on this tour and this show had the only version so far of the Monsters Of Folk song The Right Place. https://archive.org/details/mmj2015-10-20.at853 I have come to love the song Slow Slow Tune even more than before, I think its the best song on Circuital. Its got that Gilmour-like slide guitar and Floydian lethargic psychedelic feel with a kind of 50s crooner song structure, a good and weird combination! I also am really impressed with the Philly soul sound of Only Me

I saw all three nights of the San Francisco run and then the Phoenix show. They are really on fire right now, playing at nearly as high a level as they ever have based on the shows I've seen and the live recordings from before my time seeing them. The new songs have really come to life, so if you don't like the Waterfall, don't let that prevent you from going to see them live. The 4 night Beacon theater run in November will surely be as great as the other recent runs of shows. SF had no repeats over three nights and unlike past tours, only 1 cover, so they are digging deep into their catal

For me, when you have founding members of the Grateful Dead playing primarily or exclusively Grateful Dead music in a given concert, it is natural to compare the quality of the music produced to the quality of music the Grateful Dead produced. I know its not the Grateful Dead anymore, but I still want the music to be high quality, exciting, and emotionally moving. Whether you call it "The Grateful Dead" or not doesn't have any impact on my enjoyment one way or the other. As I've said before, I saw Phil and Friends shows with the Quintet lineup in which the intense deep jamming was easily be

I also find it ironic that in roughly the last three years of the Grateful Dead, it was often Jerry that was the weak link as his health, energy and dexterity and probably his passion and drive declined. Its unrealistic to expect these guys to be on fire in their 70s, but Jerry's demeamor in the last few years was like someone in their 70s when he was only in his 50s.

Yeah, funny, but more in a sad way to me. Too slow without a burning fire is just boring to me. Its becoming clear to me that Weir has been the one holding back the music in Furthur and Fare Thee Well and he will most certainly continue to do so in this Dead and Co deal. I also found this illuminating: "So what advice did Anastasio give to Dead & Company guitarist John Mayer who is about to go through a similar experience to the one he had? When the pair met, Trey told John "You and I, this is not our band," as he advised the younger guitarist to let the members of the Dead shine."

Lots of streaming audio and video on this site. I found most of those bootlegs listed in that Rolling Stone article. http://alldylan.com/bob-dylan-bootlegs/

To represent what Wilco is all about in just a few songs, I'd say you need one dark, chaos/noise art-rock song (Via Chicago, At Least That's What You Said, Poor Places Misunderstood), one folky sing along (Jesus Etc, What Light) and one catchy roots rocker (Casino Queen, I Got You, Outtasite Outta Mind). Might also need an alt-country song like Far Far Away, Pick Up The Change or Passenger Side and maybe an ultra depressing-with-just-a-hint-of-a-silver-lining song like Sunken Treasure or Ashes of American Flags

You might argue that the essence of Zeppelin could be encapsulated by one song ( eg Stairway To Heaven) that has the mellow Celtic/folky side as well as the heavy riffage aspect of Zeppelin, but that would still miss the odd time signatures (eg Four Sticks) and the Indo/Arabic influences (eg Black Mountain Side) not too mention the straight up heavy blues (Since I've Been Loving You, You Shook Me, etc) I suppose you could get a pretty good idea of Zeppelin from two or three songs, but I don't think one song would do it.

Here is a nicely detailed breakdown of the Blonde On Blonde sessions if you go for this sort of literary criticism kind of writing. http://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/186-mystic-nights

Toronto, 1980 Dylan may have faced some backlash when he toured with an electric band in 1965, but it was nothing compared to what he dealt with 15 years later. After converting to Christianity and cutting an album of born-again songs, Dylan hit the road singing only the new material. He also preached from the stage. "I told you 'The Times They Are A-Changin' and they did!" he told a crowd in New Mexico. "I said the answer was ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’ and it was! And I'm telling you now, Jesus is coming back, and he is! And there is no other way of salvation." Often lost amidst all the craziness

Oh, yeah. I have a vinyl bootleg from the European tour in 1980, I think, for the Saved album. I believe Like A Rolling Stone is the second song of the set and the band is killing it and Dylan is waaayyy into it vocally, just a superb performance. I really like his gospel period. Those records were well recorded with great bands. And somehow when Dylan sings religious stuff, its not offensive or disgusting to me because I know he gets the true meaning of those spiritual teachings and not what the greedy power-mongers of institutionalized religions have twisted it into for centuries.

https://archive.org/details/gd1982-08-03.sbd.miller.77196.sbeok.flac16 I agree about the Frost run and Iowa. 8-3-82 Kansas City is another show I'd consider a contender for top 10 that year. Seems like July and August in '82 was a peak for the year.

Yes!!! More genius, inspired songwriting from Dylan buried in a collection of mediocre songs. Somehow that makes it even better (by contrast?). What a great great song, just as good as Every Grain of Sand to me. I feel the same way about Where Are You Tonight? on Street Legal (although that album as a whole is far less mediocre than Emprie Burlesque, IMO).

What I'm waiting for is a vault release of the Hard Rain DVD and hopefully the entire show on audio, at least, and cleaned up compared to the Hard Rain album with that annoying high pitched noise throughout. I think its one his best performances of all time, shambling and loose but super intense at the same time. http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/10/bob-dylans-1976-concert-tv-special-hard-rain-surfaces-online/ "Meanwhile, many other Dylan projects are percolating. We asked our source about the documentary of Dylan’s 1975/76 Rolling Thunder Revue, which has been in development for years.

Keep looking, that will be a long search.... ha ha ha!

Thanks for the suggestion! I've listened to that show, but not in awhile, I think the first set is really good, from what I remember. I agree about '78. They could be sluggish and plodding on some nights and rip roaring on others. April was a strong month that year, as was Feb. I don't care for New Year's Eve that year nor is Egypt very impressive to me overall other than some cool moments here and there. October Winterland run is pretty hot and so is the first run at Red Rocks in July. It was a top year for Black Peter and Stella Blue and Its All Over Now and Estimated Prophet, imo. W

Doing more 1978 listening and I came across what sound to me like a couple nuggets. One is the Wharf Rat and the Sugar Magnolia from 4-22-78 Nashville (the latest Dave's Pick, right?) https://archive.org/details/gd1978-04-22.133792.sbd.miller.flac16 and a really good Fire on the Mountain from 4-11-78 Atlanta. https://archive.org/details/gd1978-04-11.sbd.miller.108666.flac16 The ending of the Fire is, well, on fire! So is the ending of the Wharf Rat from Nashville. Those are the kind of peaks and crescendos that I crave and that make a version really standout to me. Jerry's soloing hi

Good video of Phil and Friends with Santana, Haynes and Sless, Barraco and Molo from Lockn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ZSKD0wNWk Billy and The Kids with Weir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMnqID16C0o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHtb-TWhYLc Illinois has produced some great straight up, unpretentious rock!

The tour is not coming to my city (Phoenix, AZ) and I would definitely not travel out of state to see it. Nor would I pay more that $50 for a good seat in an arena. Personally, I'd much prefer to blast recordings of actual Grateful Dead concerts in my house than go see just about any of these Dead-related bands. I'd also rather go see Dark Star Orchestra live, because its more important to me to hear the music played really well than to hear it played by its originators. Like you said, Vacant, all bands need to play together ALOT before they get tight enough to really do GD music justice,

I bought the download, too. I cannot hear any splice, but it must be there, as described in that wikipedia posting. The cut in the sole version on archive happens at about 3 1/2 minutes into the song and comes back as Jerry is singing "...the night comes so quiet...". I would think this cut is in the master copy or the only copy that is floating around. I've also never known them to go back and rework a Dicks Picks for later release, so I'd guess that all versions, disc or download, are the same with the patch coming from another show. They did a pretty damn good job if that is the case.

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