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Bump to see if Analogman has dug up any news about the Faces going on a tour. 2015? I guess they have to wait for the Stones to finish touring this year. I hope this really happens.

Nice Half Step from William and Mary 4-15-78. Never had set I, but I've had set II for years, perhaps the most intense Bertha>Good Lovin' combo except for brutal lyrical flub in which Garcia forgets to sing the entire third verse, the capper with the "throw me in jailhouse" line. It would've been one for the ages if not for that, aarrgghhh!

I was gonna say that one, too. I love that song!

Turn Up The Radio - Autograph http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSdu9Zw6R54&feature=kp

I'd never listened to this one before and I heard all the stuff you mentioned, its really good, especially the St. Stephen and NFA, smoking! Thanks for the rec!

Yes! With as massive a repertoire as he's got, both originals and brilliant covers they've done over the years, they should not be repeating any songs for three nights in a row like the Dead did. I'd follow them on tour if they'd just mix it up. He doesn't even change up the setlist that much from tour to tour. So much wasted potential, IMO.

I like that Englishtown show, too, mostly for what to me is faraway the best version ever of Mississippi Half Step, Jerry is just soaring in his long long solos on that one. The Truckin' and the Not Fade Away are pretty hot, too. Some nights they were just on, like you say, making it seem effortless or not even in their control. I love that shit!

Listening to the October '78 Winterland soundboards and they don't have all that reverb/echo to them. I guess it was something about how they were recorded and not necessarily the room.

The Dicks Pick was the night before at the same venue 9-27-72. Fall '72, fan-fucking-tastic! On 9-28-72, Check out the sweet He's Gone>bass solo>Other One>Bobby McGee>Other One. Greatest Story rips, too.

Winterland soundboard recordings often have a lot of echo in them, I've found. I hear it in the june 1977 and the october 1974 recordings I have. Must be something about that room, I've always thought. I haven't listened to the Nov. 1973 sbds in a long time. Listening right now to 9-28-72 Stanley Theater, wow, they are smoking! https://archive.org/details/gd1972-09-28.sbd.miller.94268.sbeok.flac16

Sound Of Lies is kinda lush production and a bunch of sad and beautiful songs. Smile is perhaps over-produced (Bob Ezrin) and inconsistent. Rainy Day Music is more acoustic and stripped down, produced by Ethan Johns. Its beautifully recorded but I'd wait for the remaster, there was some issues with the mastering that made it over-saturated/peak-clipped. The songwriting on Rainy Day Music is very consistently great, IMO. I'd recommend both Sound Of Lies and Rainy Day music, but if you are only getting one, it depends on whether you prefer a fuller pop sound or something more acoustic and

I am so stoked for this! As much as I love Hollywood Town Hall and Tomorrow The Green Grass, the Louris-Olson reunion was disappointing to me. I LOVE Rainy Day Music and Sound of Lies and the thought of getting a whole setlist based around those records with Gary, Tim, Marc and Karen doing the vocals (did Kraig sing?) is like a drink of water after a long desert trek or something like that. Might have to make a trip to the Midwest for this one, it'd be cool to see them in Minneapolis.

Kinda surprising they didn't do this a long time ago. Given their history, why would they forego a chance to further exploit their customers with another baseless and exhorbitant fee? I predict soon the free standard mailing will disappear for all shows.

I think Ticketmaster and LiveNation (aren't they the same company now?) still have the free standard mail option, at least they did for two shows I just got tickets for this month, but it is buried. On the first page they give you the print at home option and call that "preferred" (preferred by them, not by me) but there is a small link for more delivery options. If you click on that, you can pay a lot to have them sent to you by Fed Ex or whatever, but at the very bottom is the option for free standard mail delivery. I've never had an issue using standard mail. Just gotta be careful not t

Try these live cuts, that's where it really comes through. http://www.studio360.org/story/live-in-studio-the-war-on-drugs/

For me the Springsteen, Hornsby and especially the Huey Lewis are far off the mark in comparisons, even laughably absurd in the case of Huey Lewis. There is no catchy, lighthearted, lightweight blues-based pop in their music.. I had read comparisons to Dire Straits, but I didn't hear so much of that either. The guitar is not stinging enough. Maybe Dire Straits-like in the length of the songs and 80s production. War On Drugs music is far more dreamy and open-ended than any of those bands (except Dire Straits). The Dylan similarities are pretty obvious in his vocal inflections and harmoni

Well, yeah Granduciel is the lead guitar, lead vocals and songwriter, but the performing band is still a band and I got the sense that the bass player was more of a co-leader, musically, while the drums, keys/synths and rhythm guitars support. The keyboard played briefly dipped into some welcome "acoustic" piano solos, but mostly played electronic washes of sound.

Couldn't find a thread for this band. I saw them last night in Phoenix and was pretty impressed. They have a pretty interesting and effective mix of 80s synths and beats with Dylan-esque vocals and lyrics, plus some really great long guitar solos with lots of shimmering effects, so they also sound like a cool blend of U2-ish 80s guitar and lyrical melodic 70s soloing. They get into some nice crescendos which I found great. The drums, keyboards and rhythm guitars lay down a static, steady foundation and the bass, lead guitar and vocals provide all the drama and the emotion. I found this b

There are hints and rumours on the Jayhawks message board from people who are definitely in the know that there will be Jayhawks shows without Olson to coincide with the reissues of Sound Of Lies, Smile and Rainy Day Music. Gary just did an acoustic duo show with Karen in Rochester Minnesota last month. Also Mark Olson has said in interviews that the Jayhawks are "defunct". I think that means the ill-fated reunion of the classic original lineup is defunct and that he won't be involved in these upcoming shows. The question is will the line up include Kraig Johnson on guitar. This says that

Well then that's a good sign that they might play those songs with Billy and Mickey on drums on one last Grateful Dead tour, if that happens. I agree that's its great to have Kimock on lead guitar in Ratdog. That might get me to check them out if they came my way, but so far they haven't. The Furthur shows I saw webcasts of were okay, but the tempos were a bit sluggish to my ears and I didn't feel the drumming was very powerful. Having Billy and Mickey might not make a difference with both of those things, but I'd hope so. I still want to hear GD music played live, I'm just really picky i

I agree with all of big loop's statements about the Phil Quintet, total spot-on assessment. I've never liked Ratdog at all, mostly because the set lists have always excluded nearly all of my favorite Bobby tunes and they've never had, IMO, a good enough lead guitar player nor keyboard player. Kingfish was the Bob Weir side project that I liked but that is the long ago past. So for me, its not about whether band members are in the bands or not, its about how a band approaches the cannon of Dead music and how good a job they do of it. I just went to see Dark Star Orchestra and they are st

I didn't see that many long-shelved songs get revived except for the awesome moment when they pulled New Speedway Boogie out of a loooooonnnnnggg retirement (about 20 years) in 1991. I was out in the hallways with the other dancers and the smiles that instantly went over everyone's faces as they recognized the song was a great great holy-shit-I can't-believe-they-are-playing-this moment. And it was a pretty good version, too. https://archive.org/details/gd91-02-19.sbd.ladner.8574.sbeok.shnf After looking at this webpage, I remembered I was at the bustout for Here Comes Sunshine in Arizona

Thanks, Mr. Heartbreak! Fall of '83 seems to have been a good tour. I love the two Santa Fe shows from 9-10 and 9-11. That Lake Placid show has the fantastic Sugaree opener, so the first set is worth getting, too. I really like Brother Essau so I'll check out that version. Looks Like Rain from Providence on 4-20-83 a couple night before is a great version, very impassioned vocals (I always dig a good f bomb from Bobby) and Jerry is flying.

I've had a lot of good suggestions for shows to listen to on this forum and I appreciate that a lot. I have a never-ending project of seeking out the cream of the Dead's performances from excellent-all-the-way-through shows to standout performances of a single song. With that in mind, I thought I'd throw out an invitation to pick your brains once again. If you are interested, pick a year and give us your top 5 or 6 shows for that year. Here's mine for 1985: 3-28-85 Nassau Long Island 6-14-85 Greek Berkeley 6-27-85 Saratoga 6-28-85 Hershey Park 6-30-85 Merriweather Post 11-1-85 Richmond,

Don Johnson, the Miami Vice dude, would come out and sing on Ramblin' Man with the Allmans sometimes in the early 90s. I guess he's a musician, too and an old friend of the band and some of them helped him on an album he made, but it still was strange to me.