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WOD really worth seeing live...amazing show...

Head and the Heart tonight in Madison. Tomorrow night - The War On Drugs...

listening to 18 October 1972....

Spoon at the Orpheum Theater in Madison...

seeing War on Drugs this saturday in madison wisconsin....spoon tonight...head and the heart tomorrow...

Ha....i am writing this from Madeline Island....drank too much last night at tom's burned down cafe...

Sharon van Etten at Union Terrace university of wisconsin tonight... http://www.sharonvanetten.com/tour-dates

1968-11-22 - Columbus https://archive.org/details/gd1968-11-22.aud-goodbear.cotsman.21933.sbefail.shnf If you can handle the quality, this show is really really impressive. The Dark Star, Eleven and TIFTOO features stunning Jerry soloing - amazing. The New Potato is the best I've heard through this date in 1968...

I will dare and unsatisfied are amazing songs...

1968-11-01 - Chico https://archive.org/details/gd1968-11-01.sbd.kaplan.20008.sbeok.shnf Dark Star and TIFTOO and ending jam of Caution really impressive...quality becomes wretched during New Potato / Alligator 1968-11-06 - studio sessions... https://archive.org/details/gd1968-11-06.StudioRehearsals.GEMS.82393.flac16 blah - ok but nothing remarkable...lots of st. stephen starts / eleven starts...

agree with the hit / miss regarding the Hartbeats...Interestingly, the best shows of October 1968 (imho) were the 10/12 adn 10/13 shows ---- with Pig / Bob...

I still love the band and Tweedy as a musician, but I'd be open to a change. He does seem to reinvent himself every so often... My wife is an interesting barometer. She saw Uncle Tupelo during college and was a big fan of Wilco through the 90s and early 2000s (she introduced me to Wilco / Tweedy et al). She actually likes the current lineup the least of any. Her reasoning is that many of the songs have become so spaced out - but show to show each version is nearly identical.

The firing... http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2011/03/1968-firing.html There was also the point that Pigpen’s songs were a huge and popular part of the stage show. Constanten said, “When Pigpen fronted the band it became something else, because his thing was so cultivated and established in its own right that it became its own thing – sort of a psychedelicized blues band. I’ve heard it said that the Grateful Dead at that time was two bands: when Pigpen was fronting the band and when he wasn’t…” But while Weir’s skills had grown since the Warlocks were formed, Pigpen seemed to be standing s

i think 20 June 1974 is arguably the strongest (and most underrated) show of June 1974 - all of 1974. The Truckin' through China Doll is really really impressive...

Right...rumor is that Weir and Pig were actually fired from the band...which is belied by the Grateful Dead shows surrounding these dates...

Listening to 10 October 1968 - matrix....interesting that this show (and 08 October 1968) was only jerry / mickey / phil - no bobby or pigpen...Mainly meandering and varied forms of Dead songs - interesting but nothing dazzling or remarkable. I wonder what the real story is. Per DHTCompendium Weir and Pig were actually let go from the band due to musical limitations. That doesn't quite make sense as October 1968 has mainly Grateful Dead shows with Weir / Pig (12 October and 13 October are astonishingly impressive shows...).

ya - that is a loss...

This discussion just highlights to me that "the Dead," "Ratdog," "Further," etc. is trying to capture that which can not be captured - Jerry. Jerry was the most musically gifted member of the Grateful Dead and his loss cannot be replaced. He was able to take relatively simple (and sometimes boring) songs and make them incredibly interesting and unique. That talent cannot be matched. Similarly, Zeppelin couldn't replace Jimmy Page, and Wilco couldn't replace jeff tweedy. While the other bands (I like to call them collectively as "The Sans Garcians") may be marketable and fun to see, the mus

Listened to the second From teh Vault show (24 August 1968) ... that is smoking ... the transition from TIFTOO to New Potato is breathtaking...

Lets face it - the band probably burned out a bit on the songs they performed live for over 18(?) straight months. Unlike Grateful Dead shows, each version of nearly every Wilco song performed live were nearly identical. I get that the songs are complicated, but the lack of variation probably necessitated a long break...

Also - the Peggy O on 10.15.1977 is exceptional...

No problem....I love this show...