The Grateful Dead

[Analogman]

This is the Fillmore East 71 show with the lyrical goof/laughter in "St. Stephen," correct? If so, I was listening to that official release on Friay night foe th firt time and the track listing seemed off to me. I didn't check my DeadBase but recall the tape I have of the show had tunes in a different order. Is the official release track listing true to the actual order or has it been fucked with?

 

Wikipedia link

 

April 25, 1971 - Disc 1, tracks 3-4, 7 & 10, Disc 2, track 1, Disc 3, tracks 1-2 & 4

April 27, 1971 - Disc 2, tracks 8-9, Disc 4, track 9

April 28, 1971 - Disc 1, tracks 5 & 8-9, disc 2, tracks 2-5 & 7, Disc 3, tracks 6-10, Disc 4, track 3

April 29, 1971 - Disc 1, tracks 1-2 & 6, Disc 2, track 6, Disc 3, tracks 3 & 5, Disc 4, tracks 1-2, 4-8 & 10-11

 

Speaking of mixing and matching, I was listening to this yesterday:

 

Dick's Picks Volume 12 is the twelfth live album in the Dick's Picks series of releases by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded on June 26, 1974 at the Providence Civic Center in Providence, Rhode Island and on June 28, 1974 at the Boston Garden, Boston, Massachusetts.

 

I don't have many of the Dick's Picks releases. I just have the few that I was able to grab in the place I use to get cds back in the 1990s.

[JohnO]

I was listening to the Hollywood Palladium show from 1971-08-06 over the weekend. Highly recommend!

 

http://www.archive.org/details/gd1971-08-06.fob-SonyECM22p.miller.88816.sbeok.flac16

[JohnO]

Vince wasn't THAT bad.

I agree. I attended a 3 night run in Oakland that culminated in Mardi Gras and on the second night Vince carried the band. The Vince critics are way out of line imho.

[Analogman]

It's up early today.

 

Taper's Section (February 8 - February 14, 2010)

 

Greetings, and welcome back to the Tapers' Section, where this week we'll be playing music from 1988, 1990 and 1992.

 

Our first stop this week is at the Meadowlands in New Jersey, where the Grateful Dead were playing their first ever three-night run at the Brendan Byrne Arena. The middle night, 3/31/88, featured a very odd show ending jam, and we're pleased to play it for you here today. The post-Drums sequence of Space>GDTRFB>Miracle>Fantasy>Hey Jude>Watchtower, Knockin' featured a couple of things to note. First of all, check out the gorgeous Space, with Jerry, Phil and Bobby doing all sorts of cool things. The transition into GDTRFB is one of the cleanest I've ever heard, followed by a passionate Miracle into a terrific Dear Mr. Fantasy. At the end of Fantasy, during the Hey Jude coda, Brent and Bobby can be heard doing some outstanding vocal bits. Then one of the strangest bits of late-80s Grateful Dead music arrived: All Along The Watchtower. All I can say is check it out; train wreck narrowly averted, perfectly executed chaos ensues. Also, this encore would end up being the only time the Grateful Dead played two Bob Dylan songs in a row.

 

Next we have music from the final Grateful Dead show at the Hartford Civic Center on 3/19/90. We have the end of the first set, Picasso Moon, Brown-Eyed Women, All Over Now, Deal. This was the first time I ever saw Picasso Moon live, and although much-maligned, I thought the song kicked butt live, and I was thoroughly impressed hearing it the first time live. A nice, raunchy, rocking end, similar in tone to long-lost closing jams on Passenger. It's a great Deal, too, one of those versions where everyone locks in tightly in the closing jam.

 

From the same tour, on 3/29/90 at Nassau Coliseum, we have the start of the first set featuring Jack Straw, Bertha, We Can Run, Ramble On Rose, Masterpiece. We've selected this batch of tunes not only because it's really good, but it often gets overlooked due to the presence of Branford Marsalis later in the first set and in the second set.

 

Finally this week, we have the penultimate (there it is again!) Canadian Grateful Dead concert, held at the current home of the Hamilton Bulldogs (Go Habs!), at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on 3/20/92. I distinctly recall this day being a very cold, crisp, sunny end-of-winter day, and I spent some time in the afternoon visiting the CFL Hall of Fame near the arena. I also remember being in the hotel lobby when the band arrived and checked in, to a huge round of applause by a lobby filled with Dead Heads. From that show, we have Hell In A Bucket, Althea, The Same Thing, Brown-Eyed Women, Mexicali Blues>Maggie's Farm. This latter combination is cool as Mexicali rarely started cold, usually coming out of Mama Tried or Me and My Uncle. These versions of Maggie's Farm with everyone taking a verse were pretty cool, too. Hearing Vince sing his verse in Europe in 1990 was the first time any of us had ever heard Vince's voice on its own.

 

Be sure to stop by next week when we'll listen to music from 1974 and 1982. Thanks for hanging out, and feel free to send questions or comments to me at the email address below, with the subject “Grateful Dead” to make sure it squeezes through our state-of-the-art spam filters.

 

David Lemieux

[Analogman]

I was listening to the Hollywood Palladium show from 1971-08-06 over the weekend. Highly recommend!

 

http://www.archive.org/details/gd1971-08-06.fob-SonyECM22p.miller.88816.sbeok.flac16

 

That's the show where Bob tells the taper that he should move back in order get a better recording.

 

I really like that song Loser.

[Dmada]

I agree. I attended a 3 night run in Oakland that culminated in Mardi Gras and on the second night Vince carried the band. The Vince critics are way out of line imho.

Vine was good. He stayed under the radar for the most part and just played the tunes.

[Lammycat]

Vine was good. He stayed under the radar for the most part and just played the tunes.

I don't know. He had a few of his own tunes he brought to the band and was a pretty heavy presence (backing vocals) on a good amount of tunes. I never minded Vince but can understand some folks' comments about him being a little much.

[Dmada]

I don't know. He had a few of his own tunes he brought to the band and was a pretty heavy presence (backing vocals) on a good amount of tunes. I never minded Vince but can understand some folks' comments about him being a little much.

I guess he was more in the background for the shows I saw, I was totally indifferent to him and his playing. Still am.

[Lammycat]

I guess he was more in the background for the shows I saw, I was totally indifferent to him and his playing. Still am.

 

He used to play around here every now and again in small bars and I always enjoyed his stuff. He was a very affable guy, too. My least favorite of the keyboardists for the GD, though, even though he never really bothered me in the band.

[NightOfJoy]

I picked up a couple recordings of post Brent shows that I attended to find this awful highpitched caterwauling coming from the backup vocals. Cant tell if its Bruce or Vince but cripes, someone should've told whoever it was to shut up. I never noticed it during the shows themselves.

[Lammycat]

It's Vince. One of the reasons they went with him as Brent's replacement was the vocals/pitch he could hit.

[Analogman]

Found by way of David Gans' Blog

 

DeadBase Returns! And we’re looking for a little help from our friends

 

We’re back! Or at least we’re thinking about it… By popular demand we are in the process of determining the feasibility of publishing a new edition of DeadBase and are looking for some help. While a totally revised DBXII is still a possibility for the future, right now we are considering putting out a reprint of DBXI with an appendix of corrections and additions to the setlists. While we are looking into the logistics of printing and distribution (can you say Amazon?) we are putting the word out to gather missing data.

 

That’s where you come in. We know that folks have found errors in the setlists since the last version of DeadBase came out in 1999, and we want to include a list of corrections in the new book. All proposed changes will be reviewed and evaluated, and contributors will be acknowledged in the new edition.

[Lammycat]

If it's merely set-list corrections I'll pas and hold on to DBXI and DBX. The orrctions can be found through archives.org, mainly, and other sources.

[Analogman]

I love books, but I don't see where it makes much sense to print reference books these days. I've never seen a Deadbase book.

[calvino]

Today is the anniversary of the below:

 

Band Grateful Dead

Venue Roscoe Maples Pavilion - Stanford University

Location Palo Alto, CA

Date 2/9/73 - Friday

 

The show has the first performances of Row Jimmy, Loose Lucy, Here Comes Sunshine, They Love Each Other, Eyes of the World, China Doll and Wave that Flag.

 

Hell of a lot of nice first time songs played.

[Analogman]

Thanks to the book I got the other day, I am checking this show out:

 

Grateful Dead Live at Giants Stadium on 1991-06-17

[dtram]

Thanks to the book I got the other day, I am checking this show out:

 

Grateful Dead Live at Giants Stadium on 1991-06-17

 

That show looks pretty sick, opening up with Eyes might have been a clue. Is it worth a snatch )spending a snowy day snatching Floyd and Dead shows) and if so, have you found a SBD or matrix that may be better than the archive recording you linked to?

[Analogman]

That show looks pretty sick, opening up with Eyes might have been a clue. Is it worth a snatch )spending a snowy day snatching Floyd and Dead shows) and if so, have you found a SBD or matrix that may be better than the archive recording you linked to?

 

If you click on (check for other copies)it will list all the versions up at Archive.org. Of course, you won't be able to snag the SBD version. But - fear not - you can go to bt.etree.org and probably find it. If not there, I am sure it is out there somewhere.

 

I am still looking for this show (which is still a dead seed at bt.etree.org):

 

MOTB Release: 0046 16bit/44.1Khz

Release Date: 09/11/2007

Band: Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders

Date: 06/04/1975 - Wednesday

Venue: Keystone

Location: Berkeley, CA

Source: Audience FOB Recording

Media: Maxell UD90

Lineage: Sony ECM-270 and ECM-250 [Positioned Onstage] > Sony TC-152 > MAC

Transfer: MAC > Nak Dragon > LynxTWO-B > WaveLab 5.0 > HD 24/96 WAV

Taper: Bob Menke and Louis Falanga

Transfer: Bob Menke

Mastering: Derek McCabe

[dtram]

 

I am still looking for this show (which is still a dead seed at bt.etree.org):

 

Can't help you there. I found this on etree:

 

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=520974

 

Guess I'll grab this one.

[Analogman]

Good to hear.

 

That Jerry show seems to be a dead seed everywhere. Oh well - I will get it eventually.

[calvino]

Thanks to the book I got the other day, I am checking this show out:

 

Grateful Dead Live at Giants Stadium on 1991-06-17

 

I think I probably snagged this show from bt-etree because of the Taper book, too. I try to snag the shows that are in "Tapes to get:" sections from each year and obviously this is one of the them. It is a great audience recording.

[Analogman]

For me, it's a new world, as I really only listen to shows from 1968-1974.

[mountain bed]

Thanks to the book I got the other day, I am checking this show out:

 

Grateful Dead Live at Giants Stadium on 1991-06-17

That's a good 'un. Around that time ABC had a late night show called "In Concert" and they aired an hour of that show. I snagged it on VHS. Guess I should give it a spin!

[NightOfJoy]

For me, it's a new world, as I really only listen to shows from 1968-1974.

 

Thats not a bad place to be at all!

 

If you havent already, check out 10/12 and 10/13/68. The Eleven and Cryptical are insane.

[Analogman]

Speaking of tapes, check out this article:

 

A Taper’s Section Night to Remember…Grateful Dead Play Chapel Hill 3/24/93