When I’m in the mood, the relaxed, “sluggish” tempos of June ‘76 sound mighty fine. The Jerry Garcia Band shows of the era have a similar vibe. June ‘76 is simply NOT where you go when you want to rock out.
Got Lone Star Dead on tonight, no idea what their pulling from, missed the announcement. After that going into Oct 1 94 Boston from the 30T stash.
Because it's a major letdown from September-October of 76 (like the rest of 77)? He would talk to the equipment 'how could you fail me now? what did I do to make you hate me....etc.'
28 March 1973- Springfield. Weather Report Suite: Prelude > Dark Star > Eyes of the World > Playing In The Band; Johnny B. Goode
We need a few more. Then we can have a tourney. 32 would be good. These are short segments. The Best Meltdowns Ever - This is the list (timestamps appreciated) ** For NCAA-Style Tourament ** Meltdown defined loosely similar as a Tiger Jam, or neither a particular riff or a vague meltdown, but rather a specific vehicle employed to explore the more explosive experimental music that the band had gotten into. it was a distinct jam that, despite it's atonal and seemingly formless nature, had all of the band members playing relatively consistent roles and parts every time- most notably garcia's wailing and descending wah phrases and phil's distorted chords. Should be short burts from 2-4 minutes. e.g. an entire feedback probably doesn't count Internet Archive Forums: Tiger Jam Internet Archive Forums: Tiger Jam/Meltdown Riff Internet Archive Forums: Scare me please... Drums > Space doesn't count Seastones doesn't count 5/11/72 - DS (32:00 - 36:00) 5/13/72 - TOO (17:30 - 21:00) 5/18/72 - DS (23:00 - 28:00 8/21/72 - DS (16:30 - 22:30) 8/24/72 - DS (16:00 - 21:30) 8/25/72 - TOO (24:30 - end, not on archive.org, only with DaP 24) 8/27/72 - DS (26:30 - 30:30) 9/3/72 - TOO (25:00 - 26:50) 11/13/72 - DS (24:00 - 25:20) 4/2/73 - Hear Comes Sunshine (16:30 - 20:00) 6/26/73 - TOO (13:30 - 18:00) 10/19/73 - DS (in the MLB track 7:00 - 9:30) 10/25/73 - DS after MLB Jam (11:30 - end) 11/23/73 - TOO (16:00 - 19:00) 12/2/73 - PITB (16:30 - end) 12/8/73 - TOO (24:30 - end) 12/18/73 - DS (17:30 - end) 12/19/73 - TOO (11:30 - end) 5/14/74 - DS (18:30 - 20:50) 5/21/74 - PITB (13:15 - 14:55) 6/8/74 - PITB (14:00 - 16:30) 6/18/74 - TOO (8:00 - 12:00) 6/28/74 - Jam (21:00 - 25:30) 7/21/74 - PITB (10:30 - 14:30) 9/10/74 - DS (in the "Jam" track DP 7 1:30 - 4:30) 3/23/75 - Blues For Allah 1 (6:30 - 8:20) 2/26/77 - PITB (8:20 - 9:10) Maybe 3/25/83 - LIG (6:55 - 7:30)
Might be easier in it's own thread...but sounds fun as hell to listen and vote if you give people a few days for each bracket...
Three from The Vault February 19, 1971, Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY A nice show (the first without Mickey Hart in over three years) with great sound since it was recorded to multitrack for possible inclusion on the self-titled 1971 live double album that would eventually come out that fall. Highlights include rarities such as the traditional tune “Dark Hollow” and a 14-minute churning, slow-burn “Smokestack Lightning”. Plus, what other band opens their show with two short old-timey ditties?
Thank you for posting these. Don't think I've seen too many pictures of Bear. Either that or I didn't know it was him.
A few other tasty morsels: 2/23/74 - TOO (10:00 - 12:00) 7/27/74 - PITB (17:00 - 18:00) 7/29/74 - TOO (8:00 - 9:20) 8/4/74 - LIG !!! (15:00 - 17:30) 8/6/74 - TOO !!! (6:00 - 8:20) 7/29/88 - PITB (5:00 - 9:30) A show from 1988 makes it...and it's pretty good too. At Laguna Seca.
I was randomly perusing old posts and came across this post from a couple years back: Only in the Good Ol’ Grateful Thread.
I was considering mentioning that one too. Mainly the last minute or so before Garcia leaves for Drums.
First of all, if you're running a GD meltdown tourney and don't include 25:00-28:09 of the 4/8/72 Dark Star, you've not only dropped the ball, you've turned it over for a dunk going the other way. Of course, much of what makes this melt so great is its dichotomous resolution. BANG ON, I'd probably seed this as #1 without having to listen to the rest. And I'm a '72-'74 guy. But it doesn't really get atonal until about 6:45 (Jerry's certainly pushing it, however); let's call it 6:30. No matter; just trying to focus on keeping things in the 2-4 minute range.