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Official release has not happened, I've heard, because the Dead have rights to the music, but the filmmakers have rights to the video footage and the two parties apparently cannot come to a business agreement. This may have been discussed in this very thread a ways back. Too bad, IMO, its a better representation of how good the Dead could be live than The Grateful Dead Movie.

Bird Song from Veneta is pretty damn good, too. There was a lethargic yet purposeful trippiness to the jams on that day. It feels alot like a hot summer day in a field out in the country...I mean the music perfectly matched the specialness of the setting and circumstances. Great Grateful Dead show for sure!

I've been a fan of the Dan for a long time. I think this guy's assesment and recomendations of what to start with and what to avoid if you are just getting started with Steely Dan are spot on. Countdown to Ecstasy has some amazing guitar solos, its not too polished (i.e. its not yet yacht rock), it feels at least somewhat like a true band as opposed to two guys and a bunch of sidemen and there are some really good songs on there. The Boston Rag was never a favorite of mine until I saw them play it live, holy shit did it ever come to life for me, the ending of that song rips! And who doesn'

Seems to me that "rock music" festivals are becoming more popular. I personally don't really like the festival experience, but from the different message boards I peruse regularly, people get really exicted for festivals like Forecastle, Bonaroo, Hangout, etc etc. and these things seem to sell out pretty regularly or at least get really solid turn outs and the people who go seem to be more into "joy and movement" than "craft and meticulous trickiness".

I have a very soft spot for this song, I love it and I'd love to hear John and Pat sing it, I'll bet they harmonized wonderfully.

Yeah that one at GAMH in 1975 is mighty tight, but the jams are not fully developed and its shorter because of it. Check out some of the 1977 ones like the one from 5-9-77 that worldrecordplayer mentioned.

You can say that again! Can't tell you how much I've had to travel out of state to see my bands since I moved to AZ 6 years ago. Wilco have played in AZ twice in that time, not near enough for me. Indy81, you should consider coming to see The Mother Hips at the Compound Grill on March 22. They are really good. http://www.motherhips.com/news/index.htm

Yeah, he looks like he's in heaven, living the rock drummer's ultimate dream, playing Zepp tunes with Jimmy and Robert, just beaming. Every great rock band has a great drummer. If the drummer ain't great, neither is the band, IMO.

Best Mississippi Half Step ever: 9-3-77 Englishtown Raceway, one of Jerry's best solos ever, IMO, completely triumphant and joyful. http://www.archive.org/details/gd1977-09-03.aud.102409.flemming.berger.flac24 Best Sugaree ever: 5-5-77 New Haven, CT HUGE crescendos, 17 minutes long! http://www.archive.org/details/gd1977-05-05.sbd.unknown.261.shnf

Could not agree more with ya, a good horn section can take things to another level for me. smells like flowers, if you don't know about it and don't have an aversion to them, watch the Black Crowes DVD Into The Fog. All from one night at the Fillmore in SF in 2005. Horn section is fantastic on stuff like Welcome To The Goodtimes and The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down. If you are a horn section fan, you will probably appreciate it.

Took a listen to some stuff from '77 last night. There is definitely good reason why this time period is so highly regarded, they were sounding really strong. 3-20-77 Winterland - rare stand-alone first set versions of Estimated Prophet and Scarlet Begonias to close set one. If they are this well-oiled and ready to jam and its still the first set, you just know its gonna be a good show. 6-9-77 Winterland - Help On The Way>Slipknot>Franklin's Tower to open set two. 1977 probably had the best performances of this trio, IMO. More fleshed out than 1975, and fairly tight synchronizat

Apparently he also did a stint in Thin Lizzy (after Lynott had died) and in The Cult, but I've never heard that stuff. He died in 2008 of epilptic seizure.

Does anybody else think deceased drummer for Page and Plant in the mid 90s Michael Lee is amazing and way under-appreciated? I'm specifically talking about his performance in the DVD No Quarter: Page and Plant Unledded and particularly on the songs Gallows Pole and What Is And What Should Never Be. I saw both tours of Page and Plant with Lee and I saw Page's Outrider tour in the late 80s with Jason Bonham on drums. I think very highly of Jason Bonham, but I'm always blown away by the exhuberent and powerful playing of Michael Lee and I never hear any one sing his praises. Filling John Bo

They played Ride On A Pony quite a few times in 2005, really a great cover. Its on one of the last two nights at Fonda Theater, for sure. Also any version of Rich singing lead on Pink Floyd's Fearless from that year is worth listening to. 2005 is my favorite year for live Black Crowes: Mark Ford was back and just blazing every night, they were doing long two set shows most of the year, there were tons of great covers that they often played better than the originals, IMO, and we got to hear what some of the songs from By Your Side and Lions sounded like with Mark Ford on lead guitar (he

How could I forget 5-14-2005 Hampton Beach, NH? Dude, this show fucking rips!!!! There is a long jam>Black Moon Creeping that has got to be one of the very best ones ever. Sick intense jamming all the way through, just one of those nights when something got into them and the stars aligned for unsurpassed musical magic. I'd recommend this one above all the others that I mentioned above. And the Instant Live recording is flawless. Virtue and Vice Go Faster Jam>Black Moon Creeping Crash On The Levee>jam> Nebakanezer Ballad In Urgency>jam> Wiser Time Jam>Thorn's Progre

Totally agree, I'd lose my shit if I heard Wilco do this one live, a briliant cover. Another one that'd make me melt into a pile of goo if I ever heard it live: Glad and Sorry As for songs they wrote, I've been wanting to hear Say You Miss Me, Too Far Apart, Its Just That Simple and You Are My Face. I'll never get tired of Monday or Kingpin, either.

Lotti, you RULE!!!!

Good Crowes shows in 2005, off the top of my head: The Fillmore, SF run especially 8-5-05, 8-10-05 and the night with the horn section that was released as the DVD Into The Fog The Fonda Theater, LA run especially the last night 10-23-05, the Sunday service that opens with Stare It Cold>Thick 'n' Thin and has great versions of Seeing Things and Sister Luck. 10-22-05 is also very good with killer versions of Neil Young's LA, the Allmans' Dreams and Dylan's Girl From The North Country. 12-30-05 Providence, RI was excellent, too. Most definitely pick up 8-1-06 Columbus, OH. Its not 2

I agree, The Wall is not my fave Pink Floyd by a long shot. I saw the tour (a friend took me for free, otherwise I'd not have paid to see it) and it was well done, but for me it paled in comparison to the Dark Side Of The Moon tour Roger did 5 years ago or so. That tour was great because Dark Side is one of the greates albums of all time and it was well played, but there was also room in the show for some other Floyd stuff. Hearing just one song from The Final Cut was kinda cool. Since I only listened to that album for a year or so when it came out and I literally had not heard it in all t

My fave Here Comes Sunshine, 11 minutes long, exquisite guitar interplay between Jerry and Bobby, clean tones, crisp picking and tightly synchronized, building to nice crescendos with excellent playing from Keith and Phil, too: http://www.archive.org/details/gd1974-02-23.sbd.kaplan.serafin.198.shnf

The 1990 Arizona Compton Terrace was right before Denver. The Denver blizzard and the Here Comes Sunshine at the same venue was in 1992 according to my handy dandy Deadbase. I couldn't remember either. "All the years combine, they melt into a dream..." indeed! Compton Terrace was a super-great venue, wish they'd do shows there again. You can still see the lighting rig from the freeway when you drive by, but its been abandoned for years sadly.

There are picky Deadheads (like me) and then there are the "anytime Jerry is playing it is wonderful" Deadheads. I'm exaggerating to make a point, of course, but its true. I was at the last five shows Brent played in summer of '90 and I thought they were OK, Deer Creek was better than Tinley Park, IMO. I think Spring tour 1990 (from which Without A Net was taken, I think) was better than Summer 1990 overall, although the Cal Expo and Shoreline shows in summer 1990 were pretty freakin' good, especially Shoreline. As was already mentioned, the Madison Square Garden run in Fall of 1990 with

For me, with both MMJ and Wilco, its not the studio recordings that I really care about, in fact they are pretty much irrelevant to me. Both bands excel as live rock ensembles, and for me, that is where the magic happens. The studio recordings are just templates for live performances when the songs really take off. I agree Evil Urges isn't very good and Circuital is OK, but many of the songs on those records are killer when played live (I feel the same way about most Wilco records, too). Jim James is a superb frontman, he's got tons of charisma, passion and energy combined with what seems

Exactly what I was gonna say!

I wonder if they put Promised Land back into the DVD of Ticket to New Year's? Its on the VHS, but edited out of the DVD version when it was first released. The Bertha>Promised Land that night was a killer one-two opener and its a shame to have Promised Land edited out. If they left in the goofy skits, funny as they were (Mickey as Spock and appetizers and punch with Garcia) in favor of the complete concert, I'd be disappointed.