Ok, so we officially start driving, approximately next Monday. I had a great moment of synchronicity when I realized the Pacific Northwest boxset will be released right around the time we return from our first trip to, guess where.... Oregon Washington Northern California
I'm glad I grew up in the digital age and could skip right over it. I just pretend it doesn't exist - kinda like Metal Machine Music or Cut the Crap.
Congrats on getting a new gig! Longer routes through the West, load up on those long '72 thru '74 jams.
You may know this, but that one wasn't a show, per se, but a taping for TV broadcast. Word is (this may be in the liner notes, I don't recall) that they had a good idea that OMSN would be the one track selected for broadcast, so all the rest is just playing it out since they took the time to set everything up. By all accounts, it must have been an odd scene, with just a few German TV studio crew milling around to watch and listen. I will say that the improv on TOO is quite different from any other improv they did on that one (particularly the latter portion of the track). Radio Luxembourg is another odd duck. They clearly played a more mainstream set as it was for commercial radio. While you won't find any massive jams in there, the tunes are very well played. The opening Bertha features some great complimentary guitar work from Bob and Jerry (and the sound is what you'd expect from a studio recording: top shelf).
I jumped on it as soon as it came out in '76. I remember thinking, hmm, this sounds ... different, kinda constricted in a way sound-wise. But the fact that there were no jams didn't bother me. I was just excited to have another live LP to join (even as a relatively poor relation to) the first three live LPs. I wasn't plugged into what was then a very small tape trading community (the back pages of Relix was all I knew about it), and didn't really seek out bootlegs, so the officially recorded output was all I had. Still my favorite Stella ...
Speaking of second sets from '73 and '74, I ran across the picture below of Jerry in his Nudie suit, taken at the 1973-02-19 Chicago International Amphitheater show. All that apparently exists of a SBD is the second set -- but what a second set!!! The He's Gone -> Truckin' -> TOO -> Eyes -> China Doll jam kills. And Phil's own Nudie suit must have lit a fire.
wow, an amazing coincidence, I was just looking at another picture of that same show from the Taping Compendium. I set the book down, refreshed the page, and here is your post. Serendipity!
no, its Garcia at the mic. It might not be the same show either as it says Winterland 12/72, but he's got the same suit and the same guitar.
They are good... but the Summer '71 Mr Charlie's are even better! (Just a personal opinion, but I love the edgy tone of the Les Paul TV Special that Jerry had in that period & Phil seems to give the tune extra bounce, in the stripped-down Sk*llf*ck lineup of the band)
Hmm, I doubt it - the poster looks too cheap and generic for MSG to have put out in 1994. Visually, it is quite reminiscient of those other fake posters as well. And it shares the quirk of emphasizing the frontman at the expense of the band, which a few of these fake ones tend to do:
They apparently only wore them 3 times -- that Winterland show, the Int'l Amphitheater show, and 1973-03-19 Nassau Coliseum.
First time I heard Dictator, I legitimately thought there was a problem. YOU CAN'T EVEN MAKE OUT THE SONG THERE'S SO MANY SOUND EFFECTS WHY?!?!
I thought the original question was "fusion-y" or something, of which I think the DP 7 sort of qualifies...I don't know about funky though. For fusion-y I still say TOO 6/18/74 takes the cake....
It was pretty early on in my listening to live Dead too, though not until the 80s in my case. It might even have been the first live one I had. It was my introduction to a lot of songs, I had that before Wake of the Flood and certainly way before Garcia. I don't think I've heard a note of it since the early 90s, but it's hard to think of it other than fondly.
Listening to the "Let Mickey Sing" show, 7/3/88 Oxford, ME. This is also an IWT show. @Crispy Rob was also there, but I didn't know him then.
I sort of semi-knew this about Beat Club, and it's obvious when you listen to it that it's an artificial setting, but I definitely did not know that about One More Saturday Night being the thing that "mattered" (according to someone other than the band's own standards). Makes sense, though, having heard it. And I can't suppose anyone will complain about having two more E72 Playin's and a big Truckin'>The Other One. I also definitely did not know that about Luxembourg. 5/16, yes? There's a big Truckin'>The Other One there, too, but it's also a shorter show in general. So bad, although I love This Is England (which I guess is the predictable pick if you're wanting to salvage something from this steaming pile). Back to the GD, is the Hundred Year Hall China Cat>Rider universally acknowledged as an early high point for that pairing? I have no idea, but holy cow, I just listened to that, and not for the first time, but it's great.
I have a nice poster, hand bill and post card collection of fillmore era items. Generally I try for 1st printings when they show up at a reasonable price. One thing I will never buy are the Wolfgang's vault posters with their name on them.
