Headed up to San Rafael later for Phil & Friends. The lineup is Anders Osborne and Stu Allen on guitar, Steve Molitz (Particle) on keys and Nathan Graham (Midnight North) on drums. Tonight is the final show of three with this lineup, they’ve been playing shows from the same day in history. Thursday was 11/15/87, Friday was 11/16/78 but was apparently supposed to be a different show from that date, 11/16/85 possibly. No show yesterday The options for tonight are 11/18/72 or 78. Either looks pretty good to me! It’s been almost 4 months since I’ve seen Phil! Far too long
I remember in the tape trade days it was a bummer the first time I got a show where the whole first set fit on one tape side. I think it was a 1994 show.
I think the 95 Salt Lake City show was the same, though I may have had a 100 minute tape for that one. Now it's onto 11-20-71 at the Pauley Pavilion, the last '5-piece with Keith instead of Pigpen' show. Decent enough as a transition, but the absence of Blue Ron has been glaring.
You mean from 3:41-3:47? If so, that's an A/D double-stop. but it certainly is languid despite being powerful (ah, dichotomoy agin). Anyone notice that Jerry's guitar goes from left channel to dead center at 7:00 of China Cat? I don't hear any other aberrations in the music, so it doesn't seem like a patch would explain this. Oh, and Phil hits more double-stops starting at 7:53...
I had a nice, slow, snowy commute to work here in Vermont on Friday and listened to the Dark Star > MLB Jam > Dew from this show on my way. Amazing every time!
Skipped Wichita 72 in place of some Phish. Sorry guys, needed some OOMPH at that point in tge day Currently in Colby KS about 75 miles from the Colorado border. Guess itll be Denver 73 tomorrow
It was perfect for me today as well - grey skies and ice. As soon as we hit Kansas and started headibg west the sky turned perfectly open and blue. Eyes was awesome to have playing at that moment
I texted your Uncle, he'll deal with you just inside the Utah border. Spent a night in Utah in a cave up in the hills...
I'm two weeks shy of 10 years since I moved from St. Louis to Portland, Oregon, and you'll be unsurprised to hear that I wound up stuck in Cheyenne for three nights because of a snowstorm and crazy winds that made I-80 and my moving truck incompatible. There's a surprisingly nice public library there, and at least at the time there was a great little used bookstore. I'm trying to remember where I stayed in Idaho that had some breathtaking scenery at sunrise. Twin Falls? A good segue into my recent Dead listening because, hey, it includes a Dark Star from Portland's wonderful Crystal Ballroom, huzzah! -- Road Trips 2.2 (2/14/1968 with an array of bonuses from Jan. and Feb.) is great so far. I'm in the middle of the 20-minute Viola Lee Blues on disc 1; it hasn't severely tried my patience yet. And everything before it really cooks. Definitely more of a raw band sound than I prefer, at least where the Dead are concerned, but I'm pretty surprised how much I like it.
Larry Graham is great (and that was the birth of slap, for better or for worse), but that line wasn't recorded very well, nor was it the basis of what Jerry was doing starting at 12:24 of the 9/18/74 Playin' (or were you pulling our collective legs?).
That's a damn shame. Surely there would be enough of a market with the usual GD crowd alone one would think? Though I'm not sure how much cleanup the tapes require...
