The Grateful Thread

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by JRM, Apr 11, 2014.

  1. wavethatflag

    wavethatflag God is love, but get it in writing.

    Location:
    SF Bay Area
    Gaia is super pissed-off these days.
     
  2. Mad Dog

    Mad Dog Forum Resident

    Location:
    Chester County, PA
    IWT for both. I always thought the 4/26/83 Philly Spectrum show was pretty good too.
     
  3. snigglefritz

    snigglefritz Forum Resident

    Location:
    Durham, NC
    Yes, I was at that one, too. Fantastic Phil bombs during Shakedown Street. I got the tapes shortly after the show and proceeded to blow my speakers!
     
  4. Stone Turntable

    Stone Turntable Independent Head

    Location:
    New Mexico USA
    During a set break at a June 1977 Winterland show I was heading back upstairs to the balcony as a lissome hippie chick was walking down, and as we passed we both suddenly grabbed each other's hand and gave a squeeze in full uncanny mind-reading strangers stopping strangers mode, and then just kept going.
     
  5. fishcane

    fishcane Dirt Farmer

    Location:
    Finger Lakes,NY
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    Up next! Background painting is a portrait of pigpen I did in school
     
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  6. US Blues

    US Blues Undermining Consensus Reality

    Super Primal Dead!
     
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  7. Stone Turntable

    Stone Turntable Independent Head

    Location:
    New Mexico USA
    Dead played the Battle of Hastings, little known fact!

    o_O
     
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  8. talkingleaf

    talkingleaf Forum Resident

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    Denver
    The band was on fire for that first 12 years or so after the Battle of Hastings!
     
  9. talkingleaf

    talkingleaf Forum Resident

    Location:
    Denver
    Well, you beat me to that reference!
     
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  10. dsdu

    dsdu less serious minor pest

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    Santa Cruz, CA
    IMO they peaked during the Dark Star Ages.
     
  11. Mad Dog

    Mad Dog Forum Resident

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    Chester County, PA
    Phil is in peak form during Morning Dew also.
     
  12. Frosst

    Frosst Vinyl-obsessive kiddo

    Location:
    Sweden
    Earlier today I listened to 8/23/68 (Shrine Auditorium). What an awesome ****ing show this was! Mind-melting versions of Dark Star, The Eleven, The Other One and St. Stephen. The main highlight though was Alligator. Around 30 mins of intense jamming that never let up. Certainly one of the best versions I've ever heard. The mix was very good with Phil's bass being an ever constant force throughout. I just love his tone during that era.

    Now I'm listening to 12/30/78 (Pauley Pavilion). Man this show is so much fun. A killer Jack Straw opens up the show and the ball is rolling. Every version so far has been on fire. Examples being Tennessee Jed, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues (a really good combo), Stagger Lee, Minglewood Blues and Sugaree. The band is really on and Jerry solos like a madman. I can already tell this is one of the best of '78.
     
  13. Frosst

    Frosst Vinyl-obsessive kiddo

    Location:
    Sweden
    They even toured with Jesus back in the day. Must have influenced them to do that tour with Dylan later on...
     
  14. dsdu

    dsdu less serious minor pest

    Location:
    Santa Cruz, CA
    IMO they peaked during the BC (Before Constanten) Era.
     
  15. Crispy Rob

    Crispy Rob Cat Juggler

    Location:
    Oakland, CA
    Not on 6/23/74
     
  16. US Blues

    US Blues Undermining Consensus Reality

    Is it a real Dark Star if it doesn't crash? :nyah:
     
  17. US Blues

    US Blues Undermining Consensus Reality

    Lost in all the humor is the lissome hippie chick and your cosmic connection. I want to circle back and acknowledge your moment of bliss. :love:
     
  18. Jim Walker

    Jim Walker Senior Member

    Location:
    southeast porttown
    The Dead had an elevated sense of stage energy in the mid-fall of 1976. For me it is
    beared out in thrustful performances on this Pick, and a few weeks later during
    'Day On the Green' DP 33 (of course being billed w/ the who might do that), and
    the War Memorial show on Sept 28... killer energy, DiP 2o (landover show not so much).
    It is part of what makes that year special for me. Disc one, has Weir huffing and puffing,
    blowing it down, and Jer' giving Sugaree those fine lead line treatments.


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  19. bzfgt

    bzfgt The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler

    Unless there's a pre-existing inside Dead reference to it I don't know about, the convergence on the Battle of Hastings seems more remarkable than the handshake with the hippie woman...
     
  20. US Blues

    US Blues Undermining Consensus Reality

    Perhaps you missed the date of the Winterland show to which @Stone Turntable was referring? ;)
     
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  21. Dr. Luther's Assistant

    Dr. Luther's Assistant dancing about architecture

    Location:
    San Francisco
    (I'm listening to the June 1976 box. I'm going to put this here, because I apparently have masochistic tendencies.) :

    The slow tempo Friend of the Devil is a significant misfire.

    The lope of the instrumentation is beautiful. I like it, a lot. The vocal melody of the verses works just fine. The cadence of the vocals, at this pace, during the chorus, derails the entire exercise. I just can't work past it.

    That's my stance, and I doubt that it's going to change.

    Be kind.
    Or not.

    :buttkick:
     
  22. bzfgt

    bzfgt The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler

    I did! I looked at it three times but my brain must have kept changing it to "1977"!
     
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  23. US Blues

    US Blues Undermining Consensus Reality

    It's a well known phenomena that we read by seeing the patterns of letters or numbers, and since you expected a date within a certain range that's what you saw. I did a double take when I first read it as well, then I went for the humor.
     
  24. Dr. Luther's Assistant

    Dr. Luther's Assistant dancing about architecture

    Location:
    San Francisco

    On further review, the vocal bridge doesn't work either.

    :nyah:
     
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  25. bzfgt

    bzfgt The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler

    It's really just a terrible song, let's face it...
     

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