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And Pat looked WAAAYY into it with his vocals , keys and xylophone and banjo but especially when he picked up a guitar! He was rocking out!

I agree best show I’ve seen since night one of the Ace Hotel Los Angeles run a few years ago. Random Name Generator has gotten positively rocking!! If I ever was a child has also developed into a strong live song . I think they sometimes take awhile for the live arrangements to fully develop. Even the new songs were tight and solid as well as nuanced, exactly what I was hoping for after being underwhelmed with the studio versions. When Wilco are inspired and locked in sync, they are in a class by themselves and when they play their Rolling Stones-style rock they are the greatest! Lighting is

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Charile Miller for official Grateful Dead archivist!! He would do it the right way!

He seems like he'll say any bullshit the marketers tell him to. I have a hard time respecting his opinion after he says every release is incredible, awesome, unique, best show, blah blah blah when some are great, some are good and many are mediocre, but they all get the same hyperbolic praise from him. And he's such a dork. Surely there is someone who deserves that job more and would be better at it than him, if the company were willing to hire someone who was in it for the fans and for the music, not the profit. They probably got the best man for the job for what their priorities are.

Re: 10-9-82 Frost. I liked it better than I remembered! Strangely, the Dupree's stood out for me. This seems to be a pretty much mistake free show, except for Bob in Truckin' [what's new? ] and Jerry is really solid in his playing throughout. Not as many peak crescendos on a casual listen. I like the middle jam in the proto Throwing Stones, too. I'm not usually a fan of the early versions of songs, like the In The Dark songs in '82 and '83, but this was a welcome change of arrangement for me. Thanks for the rec!

I have and will give the whole thing another spin at your rec. I like to do composite compilations of stuff from a given year and these shows were high on the list for my 1982 ones. Music Never Stopped 10-9 Frost Bertha 8-10 Iowa Minglewood 10-10 Frost Sugaree 10-10 Frost Beat It On Down The Line 8-10 Iowa They Love Each Other 4-14 Glenn Falls Mama Tried 4-6 Philly Candyman 4-6 Philly Lazy Lightning 8-6 St Paul Jackaroe 4-6 Philly To Lay Me Down 8-3 Kansas City Women Are Smarter 8-3 KC Let It Grow 9-11 West Palm Beach Deal 10-9 Frost China>Rider 10-10 Frost Playin' 10-10 Frost Crazy Fi

No worries! Kindness appreciated, thanks!

I've been listening to this one a bunch lately, I especially love the smokin' Minglewood opener! They could've used that one in the opening slot alot more, IMO. Slides into a real strong Sugaree, too. What a great place to see the Dead, only caught them there once, the last year in 1989, that was a good high day!

I was more joking than being serious, I don't really think he was slighting the Dead or they need more credit. I don't know of any other rock band or a touring band of any other kind of music before the Dead that pioneered setlist variety more than they did. It wasn't til the early 80s really, that the no repeats in three nights pattern started with the Dead but it certainly made people consider a three night run in a given city something where you didn't think twice about going all three nights. The expectation was so set in stone that some Heads would complain if a single song was repeated

I noticed he said like Phish, not the Grateful Dead. C'mon John, give credit to the pioneers of setlist variety, at least. I guess the Dead are still probably anathema to many from an art-rock, punk-rock indie-rock background. Really I don't care who is the model for setlist variety but how great would it be if they would play no repeats for three shows in a row all the time? One might even start to miss Jesus Etc ( or insert whatever overplayed warhorse you are tired of hearing) if you didn't hear it every time you saw them live! You might actually get to hear a song like Kingpin once in

I just wish the music and songcraft and performances had substance. it could be dark angry or bummed out disonnant substance like At Least That's What You Said, Spiders or Bull Black Nova or upbeat rocking substance like Side With The Seeds Theologians or Wilco The Song and You Never Know or it could be sad and beautiful substance like you Are My Face Wishful Thinking or Country Disappeared, but this is just wispy and barely there. I'm just not into minimalism much. I get that some people hear a lot of beauty in it an thats great for them, its just not what I like. I don't expect anything

I'm with you. Jeff isn't really singing. There aren't any strong melodies or bridges beyond these barely-there basic ones and certainly no catchy hooks or pop songcraft. Guitars and keyboards? I'm not hearing anything but wispy little flourishes way in the background. Drums are plodding and mixed far too loud, sounds like Glenn is banging on cardboard boxes instead of a drum set and it does not serve the songs well, IMO. I got somewhat hopeful about this album after reading some fan comments and reviews and I really was excited to put it on and wanting to like it, but to me its just mor

I don't know where Tim went nor the name of the new bass player. I've only seen them on web streams since Tim left, not even sure when it happened, but it was definitely before May this year. Tim just had a sweet groove, like a Motown R&B thing (too much to compare him to James Jamerson?) but could also go deep into jazz and really anything else, always serving the song, melodic and swinging most of the time. I thought he was so great in TTB.

Did you watch the Lockn set this year in which they played the whole Layla album with Trey Anastasio? Susan ripped a hot solo and sang great lead on Have You Ever Loved A Woman and Trey was looking over at her with an amazed smile on his face. I joked with my friends it was like he and Susan were having a musical affair while Derek watched, ha ha ha! Pretty bummed about losing Tim Lefebrve on bass, but that was almost too good to be true forever. Majorly bummed about losing Kofi Burbridge to another plane of existence. How great he was! So this is the third year that Nels has sat in wit

Box Of Rain, Ripple and Brokedown Palace, for me, may be his finest, most psychedelic lyrics and all three are from the same time period, he was tapped into something deeper for sure. Its shocking how good they are, I've listened to all three in a row a bunch of times, a repeated them several times in the last 24 hours. Box Of Rain, to me, is the most eloquent articulation of my psychedelic experiences and what I think of as the philosophical worldview that they helped me crystalize. And it's just a box of rainI don't know who put it there Believe it if you need it Or leave it if you dar

I would have liked to make these Red Rocks shows, but I got shut out for tix. I mean literally, I got ZERO tickets even offered and I tried ALL the presales and onsales and all that shit when they went on sale. Looks like they played well and Jim looks really healthy from photos I saw, he lost a bunch of weight. I'm glad they did these shows, but are they really back? Seems more like a handful of reunion shows than the band really being a permanent full time band again. I am not holding out hope they will fully return with MMJ as the full time main gig of all the players. I hope that ha

Yeah, people harp on those years for Jerry being at a low point with drug addiction and unhealthiness, which is true, and there were some bad shows and his voice was shot maybe half the time, but the musical performance peaks were really not that scarce in those years as some make it out to be and I think it applies to JGB and the Dead. The sound quality of the recordings makes a big difference to me and there were some sweet SBD recordings in '84 and '85, probably better than the quality of the boards in '82 and '83 overall. These Philly shows sound pretty great to my ears!

https://archive.org/details/gd1984-04-19.sbd.miller.118658.flac16 https://archive.org/details/gd1984-04-20.sbd.miller.103432.flac16 https://archive.org/details/gd1984-04-21.137247.sbd.miller.flac1648 If you haven't heard these or heard them in awhile, here's a reminder. Smoking run in Philly Spring of '84. I like most of these better than 10/12, 10/20, 6/27 and the Greek run, although all those are good shows that year. I got no problems with 1984 shows when they were on, Check out the Scarlet>Fire, Let It Grow, Help>Slip, Estimated, Bird Song, just tons of highlights in this P

As I've said before, I think originality and ceaseless "creativity" for its own sake is way overrated by lots of artists and fans. I'm all for it if it results in art that is strong and high quality. I'm not for it if it results in stuff that is mediocre or weak. I think Wilco's last three albums are mediocre at best especially compared to their earlier stuff (I know many disagree with me). As for what they play live, I just want to hear their best stuff, whether its old or new. Its not about nostalgia for me, like trying to remember and relive old times, its about I want to hear a killer

As always, a variety of opinions will exist, even though mine may be in the minority. I think the exact opposite, its great to see them NOT play a bunch of new songs that to me are not as good as their older songs. I don't care for Star Wars or Schmilco and wasn't that crazy about the Whole Love, especially not compared to Sky Blue Sky and A Ghost Is Born and even Wilco the Album. I'll take songs from 10 years ago anyday over songs from the last three albums. I also hate the idea of a band "promoting" new material, as if it were primarily product to sell instead of art to enjoy. Wilco, to

Yeah, it had a nice jam at the end, I liked it better than I have in the past. Audio mix was not that great, as others noted. Drums were too loud, especially for Ashes and Nels was too low in the mix for that one. I think it got better as the show went on, or I got used to it. At Least That's What You Said was great. Love all the Sky Blue Sky songs they are playing this tour!

I didn't know Peter Shapiro didn't see the Dead until 1993. I dug Kesey's statement about the fleeting moment of brilliance, the crack in your consciousness that "lets in all the light and opens up all the possibilities...the kids will watch 5 hours of mediocre music for that one moment, that click, because it puts them in touch with the invisible."

No there isn't. Well I guess somebody might find some they think are worthy, but not me. 1991 is the last year I listen to and that is very infrequently.