Thanks to whoever recommended that 5/9/79 FOB. Streaming in my office from relisten app on my iphone to my xiaomi headphones. It's been a slog of a day, this tape is definitely helping
Plus it’s not that much. My wife thinks so. If it was up to me I’d get front row loge for $300!! Then again without my wife, I’d probably be broke!!!
12/12/69 care of Dave’s 10 Let’s get this started with a smoking Cold Rain & Snow First set gets a bit rough but I love it all
Really stoked today - UPS brought my new Marshall Mode earbuds. What a difference - these beat the crap out of my $8 panasonic throwaways. Comes w/ the new Donna screech filter software . Also, waiting tomorrow on delivery of some Sennheiser HD600 cans, which for $286 better make Bobby play slide in tune?
Keep in mind 4/7 only circulated in pretty rough sounding AUD before it’s official release, that’s one reason.
Great long rough early versions of Easy Wind & Cumberland Blues Plus the bits of chatter from the band is priceless Let’s hope we get another late 69 show on Dave’s 27 or 28.
I'm at the Hollywood Palladium tonight, in my head. Disc 4 of Dick's 35, 8/6/71. The good ol' Grateful Dead.
I'm glad I'm done with GD collecting on the aftermarket. The Fillmore West box... [shudders]. But that one had to be done.
Late '69 would be great, but honestly, I'd take any above-average show from '67 to '70 to be on an upcoming Dave's. You all know that I love the Pigpen/primal era!
I went with the Relisten app, and landed on Hartford 4/3/86, a show I know well from my high school tape trading days. You could do a lot worse, a solid Bird Song, and then a Supplication Jam into Let It Grow to end the first set, although there are some hiccups in the Let It Grow. Second set pre-drums starts with a well played Uncle John's into a 15-minute Playing that is strong, and then possibly into (whatever it's worth) the best version of Brent's I Don't Need Love that they played. That one falls in about the middle of the pack of Brent songs for me, which is damning with faint praise but also makes the point that I don't always need my GD songs to be sunshine and rainbows. I think it works as a song and a performance, albeit not one that I would park at a critical point in the second set. Post-Space a decent but, as often the case in that era, perfunctory and short Other One, followed by a very good Wharf Rat. Solid It's All Over Now, Baby Blue encore and that's all she wrote. I had become a fan of the GD in summer or fall 1985, and didn't realistically think I had a shot to make it to a show until the 4/3 and 4/4/86 Hartford shows. Unfortunately, I was six months shy of having a drivers license and hadn't yet made friends with anyone who both had a license and wanted to go. and unlike venues in NYC and New Haven, I couldn't get there by train. I briefly toyed with hitchhiking to those shows but chickened out. That summer, they also skipped the greater NYC area, and then Jerry had his coma. I thought I would never see him live. Boy was I wrong. Anyway, the tapes I got of the 4/86 Hartford shows around the time of the coma were at the time a bittersweet reminder of what might have been. Luckily, although pretty solid for '86, they weren't earth-shattering after all, and starting in '87 I made up for lost chances with a vengeance.
Binghamton, NY 83-04-12. Solid show. Jerry's on his way into that helium voice territory, but his vocals are quite strong for '83
Isn't it better to just be your usual, warewolfy self and enjoy everything? At least until you've heard it
Oh no There isn't a 'eh' or 'meh' nanosecond on the entire tour and that is including Donna's out of tune screaming. My heart is now broken. YMMNV.
Maybe they benefited from the more frequent days off...? I’m still feeling ill about what I paid for that some months ago. I may never recover.
I am bored by the 4/8 Dark Star (same with Missoula 74) and like 4/7 more. Love the 4/8 LLRain though.
Yeah, they’re not bad at all (ok, the multiple false starts at Beat Club disrupt things considerably). But they’re just average performances for the ‘70-‘74 period and there’s probably about 4 dozen shows in ‘72 that are better.
