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Some feel the Dead peaked in 1968 with their hard-edged, tripping your eyeballs out, driving psychedelic rock. If intensity and tightness (they were super rehearsed in those years) is what you crave then check out: Fillmore West 1969 http://www.amazon.com/Fillmore-West-1969-Grateful-Dead/dp/B000B6VUA2/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1360450082&sr=1-1&keywords=grateful+dead+fillmore+west+1969 Shrine 1968 http://www.amazon.com/Two-Vault-Grateful-Dead/dp/B0002T2Q7Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1360450157&sr=1-1&keywords=grateful+dead+two+from+the+vault Car

Hell YEAH, brotha!!!!!!! That one fucking rocks! I don't think I've ever heard another record that is so hardcore honky tonk AND aggressively rocking at the same time. Thats what you get when you put Billy Joe's done-it-all experience together with his late son Eddie's guitar slinging and Brendan O Brien producing and sitting in. Totally brilliant country music. If you have suggestions for other stuff like this, PLEASE let me know...

I just went through this on another message board. Its admirable to want to appreciate something that you like has an important place in music history, but it may just end up to be not your thing. Doesn't hurt to try, though. And the Dead do so many styles, its a lot of ground to cover and a lot of different reasons why people love them. I have always thought of them as the ultimate living encyclopedia of American music styles. Bluegrass, Appalachian folk, Chicago blues, Texas blues, country, Chuck Berry, free jazz, 70s funk, R&B, New Orleans/Mardi Gras, Carribbean, etc. As Jerry s

For Phoenix and San Diego, it was Scott Devours on drums. Pete announced Zak Starkey has tendonitis. Not sure what will happen for the remaining dates. Scott did more than I would have expected in terms of being tight and strong in his playing. I was worried when I first heard Zak would not be playing, but I was more than happy with Scott's playing. He came out after the show was over and he gave my 12 year old a guitar pick, nice guy. Yeah, tinnitus, that Quad documentary is really good. I saw it on Palladia a couple months ago. It really primed me for this show. Well worth seeking

Yeah, me, too. I didn't really like Wilco until Ashes of American Flags, even though I got AM and Being There when they came out, just didn't grab me then and I never went to see them, even when the Mother Hips opened for them at the Fillmore in SF on New Year's Eve. Nor did seeing them live for the first time in 2002. Might be that I just prefer who they are now as a band more than earlier in their career. Someone gave me My Morning Jacket Z and It Still Moves in 2005, neither of which grabbed me on a cursory listen. 5 years later, I watched the live DVD Okonokos and realized the fool I'd

Thanks for the kind responses, folks. Writing about these powerful experiences helps me process the experience and sharing it is a way to try to connect with people, so thanks for being a good group of folks to ramble on about music with! Yeah, mountainbed,the stuff I wrote about is not far from the Dead experience. I think that's what impressed Joseph Campbell so much when he went to see the Dead. And I think a lot of how a rock show goes has to do with the attitude, energy and expectations/desires of the audience. How else to explain the difference between the reactions of Ira Robbins

I saw the Quadrophenia tour last night, had an awesome experience (everyone on the floor stood the entire show and the bowl of the arena stood for the first 30 min and the last 45 or so. Dudes behind me were rocking out on their feet the whole night. I hate being around sitters at a rock show and I was really worried about this night given the "demographic" of their audience, but I was pleasantly surprised. This is in contrast to what Ira Robbins wrote. It must suck to be a jaded music critic. Seeing The Who’s Quadrophenia performed by its composer Pete Townsend and his main living music

I think it just means that his Daddy knew he was gonna grow up to be a ne'er do well rambler/gambler/musician or something of that sort. Same kind of thing as "Delilah Jones was the mother of twins two times over and the rest were sins. Raised 8 boys, only I turned bad, didn't get the lickin's that the other ones had" One time Jerry had lyrical dyslexia and sang " Saddy dat down and cried", hilarious!

I listened to part of 4-11-87 this AM cranked up really loud after the rest of the family had left for work and school. Dude, that Sugaree is a barn burner!! I was shouting and doing double overhead thrusters right there in the kitchen, pure joy! I love that the Dead's music can still make me feel over-the-top ecstasy. Thanks for the suggestion! (I'd encourage you to listen to that Touch of Grey from Hartford, though, I think its even more intense than the Chicago one)

I like this one, too, and particularly in the early 80s. Check out this empassioned version! I just love me a good f-bomb! http://archive.org/details/gd1983-04-20.aud.wise.92322.sbeok.flac16

I didn't say anything about the best Bobby songs, I just mentioned those three were some of my favorite Bobby songs. To me, its two different things. And my point was not to rank Bobby's songs, but rather to share my excitement over what I think are some particularly hot versions.

Manasha was hot? I thought she was kinda well-matched size-wise for JG. I will check out those slower Touch of Greys again, but like most songs, I like the more energetic versions. I will def. check out those Chicago Spring '87 shows, too. Seems like the whole tour was really good. Last night in the car I had time to give Go to Nassau (Long Island May 1980) a better listen. The Lazy Lightning>Supplication and the Sailor>Saint were both impressive. Those songs, along with Let It Grow, are my faves from Bobby, aside from his straight ahead short rockers. I love the complexity of the

Best Touch of Grey ever!!? http://archive.org/details/gd1987-03-27.sbd.seaweed.111241.flac2448 The crowd is just ROARING for the "we will survive" parts and the whole performance is over-the-top jubilant. First East Coast tour since Jerry's coma, I think. They were fucking stoked to have him back and healthy. Spring '87 is blowing me away. Two killer nights in Hartford, the last night in Philly is way hot, and I'll bet there are more gems from that tour that I haven't discovered yet, AWESOME!

I've never been much of a Prince fan, although I'm well aware how talented he is and his rep for awesome live shows and I know he's a guitar shredder when he wants to play that way, like in this video (I'm a classic rock guy, not so much a funk/dance/pop fan, so I find this performance fucking awesome) Maybe Prince needs to work with a producer like Rick Rubin, who has a rep for making really established artists write and write and rewrite before they even start recording and he's not afraid to tell them what they've been doing wrong, either.

Furthur actually webcast all four nights. I caught nights #3 and #4. Night four was pretty dang good with a good Truckin' opener that went into a nice little jam and the show stayed good all the way through, I was rather impressed, but I also wasn't expecting all that much (first time I've checked out Furthur). Night #3 had a kinda lazy first set to my ears, but the second set had a good Dark Star>Morning Dew>Dark Star>Terrapin sequence with some good spacey playing. Phil, to me, is the anchor with his consistently jazzy complex and energetic bass playing. I'm fine with the prec

I might've mentioned it before, but of all the stuff I saw in the parking lots for sale and didn't buy, the Garcia chia pet tops the list! My buddy Mercury had a sticker next to the gas cap on his beater truck that said "Phil 'er up!"

"Not all who wander are lost" - commonly seen bumpersticker on hippie automobiles

Consensus on a music message board? Are you high? :) 2008 would be my pick for best year of Wilco. Nels, Pat, Glenn and horn section, Sky Blue Sky tunes getting played a lot, Nudie suit, 2008 can't be beat, IMO

I guess I'm on the ridiculously high standard end of things, because if we are talking truly utterly flawless albums (which in my mind is different than 10 stars out of 10 stars possible), for me there is only one...Dark Side Of The Moon. OK, maybe, two with Zeppelin IV. In the long list of rock albums that I think are 10 out of 10, most of them have at least one less than perfect quality. But not Dark Side, not for me. I don't care how classic its considered or how well known it is. It is highly regarded because it deserves to be. Lots of "10" albums are that way, but I can't think of a singl

Aside from a bunch already mentioned... The Black Crowes - Southern Harmony and Musical Companion The Pretenders - The Pretenders (oops, just saw it a few posts above!) Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend

Nice and long and more importantly, some hot playing! Althea, yeah! And that second set keeps up, too. Alabama Getaway-> Greatest Story Ever Told, Sugaree, Me & My Uncle-> Mexicali Blues, Tennessee Jed, Feel Like A Stranger, Friend Of The Devil, Far From Me, Little Red Rooster, China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider-> Promised Land I love it when they could end the first set, but instead choose to throw in a bonus Promised Land. I was always bummed in the later years when they'd end the first set with Bird Song and NOT do Promised Land. "Goddammit, Bobby, rock us out to e

Interesting, because I feel kinda the opposite. For me, the two-headed monster bashing away back there was often best on first set power songs like Cold Rain and Snow, Jack Straw, Feel Like A Stranger, etc. When folks say the two drummers were "unwieldy" and were like a tank, powerful but not able to turn corners quickly, I always thought that the biggest impact was on the transition jams between songs in the second set, which just didn't seem to be as adventureous from '76 on when Mickey was back. Personally, I like the deep powerful sound of two drummers. The only weak spot in the early seve

Thanks! PS Apparently its not available in the US store, at least not right now. Maybe it was a limited time thing.

Is this Wilco doing this song? I could not find it on iTunes this morning. Any ideas on where to find it/what happened?

Always a smart ass around, huh? When I asked for elaboration, I was asking if he or she would tell more about why they were favorite concerts, not just list them. If he or she doesn't feel like doing that, no big deal. I just think its more interesting to hear a bit more detail.