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Yeah! I love that they never catered to their audience, never felt the need to play the "hits" every night. They held fast to the notion that if they were interested in what they were doing then a certain percentage of their audience would be, too. Do your thing and you will attract the people who get it. I've often wished more bands would do that. Would've been nice if they dressed a bit better in the 80s and 90s though. Phil in sweatpants and Jerry in a dirty black t-shirt makes watching some of those official videos less pleasant! Ha ha ha! Good detective work, thanks, man!

Does anybody have Dicks Picks 28 from Lincoln Nebraska 2-26-73? If so, is there a splice in Eyes of the World partway through Garcia's first solo? There is only one copy on archive and it has a nasty splice, cuts right to partway through the next verse. This is a very good Dark Star>Eyes and if there is no splice in the Dicks Picks, I'll be buying it. (Note the Dicks Picks is two different shows and they played Eyes at both)

Will that app work on a Mac? Is it free? I use Audio Hijack, but that cost $. I got the bundle that includes Fission for editing, so I can take out the gaps between songs that are inherent in the archive streams. The editing does take some time. Well worth the money, IMO, unless there is now something for free that works just as well or better. I did not see that Uncut disc, HH, but I have been listening to August '71, a unique time (Feb-Aug) when they were a five piece with Pigpen (as opposed to a couple months later when they were a five piece with Keith for a short time). August '71

I feel ya, dude! I get overwhelmed like that too, sometimes. And in those times, its astounding to me that more people don't get it. . The Dead were an incredible American artistic and cultural institution in a league by themselves. An easy target for ridicule by the ignorant and the opportunistic, for sure. but I predict the more time passes the higher esteem the Grateful Dead will be held in by people who understand.

Ditto, I was expecting so much from the guy who engineered or produced so many of my top rock albums of all time. Glyn Johns is just not a storyteller and did very little to let the reader know what it was like to be in those sessions, apart from the behavior that annoyed him. Seems like a grumpy old curmudgeon. And I bought this book twice before I read it, my first copy was lost in the Indian Ocean when the boat I was in sank on my Indonesian surf trip this Feb. I'd kinda like my money back, x2.

And even though that writer was mercilessly honest in pointing out some of the less attractive sides of the cultural scene at the Fare Thee Well shows, he still managed every now and then put all that criticism and judgement aside and get swept up in the idealism of it and the (nostalgic?) force of the music or at least of the songs being played. I liked how he was able to hold a variety of mindsets and perspectives at different times during the weekend, it made his essay more realistic to me. I was never one of those "its all good, it can't be bad music if Jerry is playing it" Heads, but

Interesting piece. I think it ended up explaining a lot about why I didn't want to go see these shows. At first I didn't connect with this guy because I can't really relate to gangsta rap and/or grungey 90s So. Cal. culture, but the more I read, the more impressed I was and the more I found myself sympathetic to his point of view and his experience. I shared it with some friends who never got to see the Dead or only saw them once or twice in '95 but who are quite into any current endeavor of the former Dead members and it lead to some interesting discussion about people who got to see the D

I'm in the minority of Jacket fans, I think, because I don't really like their new album and I actually prefer Circuital (even though that one is not all that great either). Both albums are spotty, but there are more highlights on Circuital than The Waterfall, IMO. I like the more traditional songs like Thin Line and Big Decisions. The main part of the song The Waterfall is great, but I don't really like the intro/outro to that song. But the new songs are sounding much better live than on the record for me and that is great because MMJ, to me, are primarily a live band (just like Wilco).

I agree with Dick on this one, the 12-19-73 Here Comes Sunshine, but I don't always. He was pretty outspoken for not liking much at all from the 80s. I can understand that opinion even if I don't share it. I know he was constrained a lot in his picks by vetos from the band over performance and sound quality and stuff, but he had his definite biases, based on what I've read, towards the late 60s and the out-there jamming of the early 70s. No doubt he was a well informed and extremely passionate listener of GD. Here is another interesting piece from the deadessays.blogspot.com that tells al

That sounds like a conducive listening situation! Mind set and setting have a lot of impact, in my experience, to how much I like a given show/listening session. Getting into the music under headphones is a great way to achieve that, nice! Plus some pulled pork for days afterwards?

I did consider that one, thanks for the suggestion. That transition is sweet, no doubt, but you give up a full version of HCS to get it. Hard to compete with the brilliant version on 12-19. Have you read this essay? The writer is pretty flowery but he clearly listens intently with lots of impressive attention to detail. http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2011/05/here-comes-sunshine-guest-post.html Here's a sample of his writing: #1 - December 19, 1973 Curtis Hixon Convention Hall, Tampa (14:12) The finest version of all. Excellent mix - everyone’s perfectly audible. This starts with p

Ha ha! Yeah, that is a tease to list it all out like that, sorry! Its all on archive.org though. Easy to stream and there are ways to capture streaming audio so soundboards can be had with a little investment of money and time. On archive I look for anything that has Charlie Miller's name on it. You can't go wrong. https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?and[]=year%3A%221973%22&and[]=subject%3A%22Soundboard%22&and[]=subject%3A%22Charlie%20Miller%22 What would really be sweet is if I had a big rural property and could throw a proper hippie party at which people could dance and

After many hours of listening and researching the opinions of many on archive.org and headyversion.com and my memory of past listening, I just finished compiling a 1973 composite show for my listening parties. I love the "we-just-landed-on-Pluto" alien/prehistoric meltdown jams and the Dark Stars from '73, but not everybody can get into that at a party (especially if your guests are not dosed), so I left off some of my favorite jams from that year (Playin>meltdown>Mind Left Body>He's Gone>Truckin' from 12-2-73 or Dark Star from 11-11-73, etc). Here's what I came up with for stro

I think Ace is the best studio album from the Dead. Its essentially a Grateful Dead album of all Bobby songs, because the Dead were the band. "Talking about Ace in an interview in the early 1980′s Weir said: “That was a Grateful Dead record, as far as I’m concerned. And I don’t do that material with my side groups. ….. It was all me singing, all my songwriting. I started by using a couple of different musicians, and it just settled in to being a Grateful Dead record right quick". I think it rides the razor-thin line between live inspired performance and studio precision/perfection better

Intensely Climactic Blues Rock Electric Guitar Solos: Garcia/Grateful Dead - Tennessee Jed on Europe '72 or Hard To Handle from the Hollywood Paladium 1971 (This one sounds surprisingly perfect and composed for a live Garcia solo, and its part of huge all-band/all-audience crescendo, everyone is getting off!!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na9a79rdjxs Betts/Dudek in Allman Brothers - Ramblin' Man studio version SRV - Things I Used To Do on Couldn't Stand The Weather https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxsUM-tMQk0 Clapton - Don't Think Twice Its Alright on Bob Dylan Tribute Concert (s

Here's a true travel story from a trip that was on my travel bucket list. Its long, but I thought folks on this thread might find it interesting enough to read. I’ve long dreamed of surfing perfect waves in tropical locales since I was a kid growing up in Southern California riding waves at North San Diego County beaches. I remember looking at photos in magazines of intense waves in Hawaii, knowing they would always be out of my range, even though they could look so perfect and easy in a still photo. I also remember when photos of Indonesian waves in the Mentawai Islands off mainland Sum

For me its the ability to be a channel for spiritual energy and to evoke an emotional response in the listener. When I think of all the times I saw SRV live, I remember it being completely clear to me that there was a huge and powerful spiritual energy coming into his body and coming out of his hands to his guitar and amps. It was always overwhelming to me. Of course to be able to do that, a musician has to have a high level of technical mastery of their instrument so they can stop thinking about technique and let the music flow and that for most takes years of practice.

I lived in Turkey for a year in the mid 80s (exchange student at age 17) and have travelled all over the entire country twice again in the 90s. Its a wonderful country and a perfect one, IMO, for getting a taste of Middle Eastern Islamic culture without danger or too much extreme fundamentalism (but that has been on the rise even in Turkey in the past 20 years, like lots of places, including the US, IMO). People are very friendly, hospitality to strangers is a virtue and most people are tolerant and respectful of different religious traditions. You will very likely experience plenty of 3rd

At least it would seem to be advertised as a show primarily focused on Byrds and Byrds-related covers. I can really see Nels and really everyone in Wilco digging on the more experimental sounds and obscure songs on this album, though. Its also not really an acoustic album, either, lots of electronic keyboards and effects. There has gotta be a significant reason why they chose that album title and photo to advertise the show and give the band a temporary new name, I would think.

I would guess they are covering that entire album. Totally envious of this show. http://www.apeconcerts.com/event/902155-notorious-wilco-brothers-san-francisco/

I listened to/watched the webcast of night 1 in a packed bar at full volume with lots of people dancing and I was pretty blown away at the setlist and how deep they went into the aggressive and chaotic jamming. I'm sure the environment caused me to overlook the flaws, but I didn't notice them at all at the time. I was in perma-grin and dancing my ass off. I was shocked at how good the show was ( I had pretty low expectations based on what Furthur played like for the past several years) and came out really optimistic that the entire 5 nights were actually going to do justice to the Dead's

It is a baseball stadium for Spring training. Seats along first base line get shade sooner than third base line. Seats higher up also get more shade than seats right next to the field. It will be freaking hot. An oven is also dry heat, but it still cooks you. So does the Arizona sun in summertime. I've done outdoor shows here in summer, but be prepared to be uncomfortably hot. Hat, sunscreen, drink lots of water.

From Rolling Stone magazine MMJ article: That night, the bandmates play the new album in its entirety for a small crowd of friends and family at Louisville's Headliners Music Hall, where they last played in 2003... For the encore, the band reaches all the way back to 2001's At Dawn, and James reminisces about the time he was kicked out of the venue for being "super fucked up" during a Wilco show. "It's such a trip to play here," he says. "I'm so proud." Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/remaking-my-morning-jacket-behind-dark-new-the-waterfall-20150423#ixzz3YB7jKCc9

I'll take a multi-night indoor theater run in practically any city, although I've been wanting to do Chicago for Wilco. They probably won't do it this year, you are right, since its been every other year. I can't swing a single show mid-week in Los Angeles, so I'm hoping for something worthy of airline travel this fall. Capitol Theater in Port Chester again would be good. Too bad their Bay Area shows are at a festival. 2 or 3 nights at the Masonic in San Francisco would've been cool.