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One of my favorite second sets ever was the night before in portland maine....

Fall 1982 they hadn't figured out what to do with Throwin' Stones.

I really like the 13 April l1983 version in Burlington.

My oldest daughter is applying to college right now and Boulder  and UVM are her two top picks.

Boulder 3 September 1972 is pretty underrated.

Speaking of underrated, 18 July 1976 starting at Lazy Lightning is phenomenal.

I'm just going to get it out there once and for all......I really like the song "You're Afraid Of Love, When Push Comes To Shove."

...another great Audience moment....

Listening to 17 June 1975 Help Slip Frank (audience - 87560)....after the gushingly beautiful vocal finale of Franklin's and the song ends you can hear Jerry say "we are gonna take a break", the crowd cheers, and the taper says, "change the batteries."

The 6/22/73 PITB is legendary.

well the 22 february 1973 PITB Is pretty darn amazing...

I musically like Blow Away - but the vocals from Mydland just got a bit too intense or raw for me. i like passion but i often found myself cringing seeing it live. He was a mess at times...

july 7, 1989 was one of the best shows of 1989. The first set is fantastic for many reasons (e.g., best aiko post 1985?) (e.g., excellent jam in hell in a bucket) (e.g., check out the huge blast Phil bomb as the band comes out of Loser jam to "Last fair deal...") (e.g., Let it Grow is only rivaled by 10 February 1989 for best of the year). The second set is equally impressive (e.g., scarlet fire is huge) (e.g., the lovelight finale ends, and then returns for another finale).

Pretty cool to have such footage of a great great show from such a late era in Jerry's career...

The 18 July 1972 Dark Star is quite often my favorite of all time. The 12 minute jerry led improvisation prior to verse 1 is about as good as he ever played - in my opinion...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=12&v=r7LrdKDDbYc

Donna Jean slowed to 60%...

I went with 9 friends (all guys).

The Bluegrass fest started thursday.

I arrived tuesday with one friend to go hiking. For those first two nights we stayed at a condo in Telluride. For the festival we moved to a large condo (5 bedroom) in mountain village. We had to take the gondola (we called it the "ganjala") to and from telluride.

The gondola was not that bad. After each night of the festival there were very long gondola lines to get back to mountain village (25 -40 minute wait), but we just went to the singles line and it was only about 15 minutes (and 2-3 of us went up together).

If I had it to do again and money was not an issue, I'd stay in telluride.

If i had it to do again and money was an issue, i'd stay in mountain village. it really wasn't that bad.

hiking wise, we did the see forever trail (up to 12,500 feet) to the wasatch connection and bear creek trail - about a 9 mile look. Stunning views....

The festival was an incredible amount of fun. especially the tarp run...

The only people I've ever met who did not get into bluegrass because of Jerry are bluegrass musicians. 

Ha - me too...

I'd be there my touring friends planned Telluride bluegrass fest about a year ago...So I'm in Telluride and can't believe the number of deadheads here. I'd say every 20th tshirt is dead related.

For those not willing to wait for the Rhino soundboard...

Here is my "edited" version of the 17 May 1974 Vancouver Truckin > NFBM > Eyes > China Doll, Sugar Magnolia

...wherein I "edited" a lot of the donna singing out to render it listenable in nearly every setting. This jam truly is amazing...

https://youtu.be/-vBDE68pS68

The Seattle 1974 PITB is the longest ever? 45+ minutes...I like to tell myself that length does not mean quality...

Here is a mix of various snippets from various Jerry and GD shows I made...enjoy...

https://youtu.be/_Hl5qZIGXpI

seeing parquet courts tonight in madison...

Loved Kurt Vile live...

It may be blasphemy to say this here, but the last several Wilco shows have been pretty bland. It's led me to lose interest in them as a band. Each live song seems so rehearsed and there is nothing left to improvise. I don't know. Maybe I listened to them too much.

Tweedy always seems to know when to reinvent himself and his band. Maybe the time is coming for another reinvent?

morning dew 9 17 1982 is best of year in my opinion (and it is out of hte gdtrfb)

I've gotta make it back to that fest sometime soon. Have you been in awhile? It's been about 18 yrs since, for me. My ex still takes the kids. 

This will be my first time. Coming from Madison I will need to adjust for the elevation...

I had already planned to go to the Telluride bluegrass music fest that weekend. So I shall not attend the Alpine shows...have fun...

Lou Reed is to speed as Grateful Dead is to psychedelics.

11-17 was a pretty good show. The 15 November 1971 Austin show was better - in my opinion. 11-17 had, in my opinion, exceptional Cumberland and NFA>GD>NFA; above average Truckin’ jam, PITB jam, Big RR Blues, and i guess above average Other One Muncle Other One Wharf.

The band sounded rowdy and having a blast...or so it seemed to me...

Great to see them releasing these early shows...

I want to pull the .wav files....hmmm....i guess i'll check ebay...