If you want to just listen to lossy versions, basically I just google "Archives 1985-07-01" if I want to listen to 7/1/85. Then "check for other copies" at Publication date, look for soundboards, matrix, audience variety under topics and if you find a Charlie Miller version it's usually what you want.
Looked it up 2,900 capacity - huge compared to Shea Auditorium in my now home town in Wayne NJ - where they played in October 1970. 922 seat capacity.
Yes, I’m on Lossless Legs and I love it. I’m just a sucker for official releases. I bought most of the Dick’s Picks through 16 as they came out. Then bought no GoGD for many years until recently. I was pumped to find out so much was on Apple Music. I actually subscribed just for the Dead.
Where do you live in Wayne? I went to HS at Valley and my family lived in Packanack Lake from '74-'94.
Small world. Drove through the Lake last year, and it is night and day from when we were there, old houses razed and McMansions in their place.
Civic Auditorium, Springfield Ma. 3/28/73. Masters formed Dave’s Picks #16. JG is en fuego from the first pitch, another early ‘73 tour-de-force.
tonight one of my favorite. Dicks picks 4, 2/13/70-2/14/70. really enjoy the high time>dire wolf and then the dark star>TIFTOO>lovelight sequence. i'd say this was the last gasp of the primal dead era that the band started transitioning out of in late 1969
I thought the main reason the band generally and donna specifically sang out of key was that they simply couldn’t hear each other in the early years on stage. After the hiatus that issue seems to have resolved and the whole band sang better harmonies
Been listening to Road Trips Volume 3, Number 4, from 5/6-7/80. It's in the bottom 3rd of the Road Trips Series. The shows are okay. The set lists are okay. The sound isn't balanced well. There's an okay Althea. There are better played shows from '80 and better recorded shows. Moving on to Volume 4, Number 1 from 5/23-24/69. I'm looking forward to this one.
If you take the trouble to play it in real order it's a more enjoyable listen. Disc order: Disc one May 23, 1969: "Hard to Handle" (Otis Redding) – 5:47 "Dark Star" > (Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Bob Weir, Robert Hunter) – 18:56 "St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 9:01 "The Eleven" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 10:38 "Turn On Your Lovelight" (Deadric Malone, Joseph Scott) – 30:59 Disc two May 24, 1969: Introduction – 4:27 "Turn On Your Lovelight" (Malone, Scott) – 27:27 "Doin' That Rag" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:43 "He Was a Friend of Mine" ("Just a Hand to Hold") > (Mark Spoelstra) – 8:49 "China Cat Sunflower" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:24 "The Eleven" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 8:17 "Death Don't Have No Mercy" (Reverend Gary Davis) – 7:00 Disc three May 23, 1969: "Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) – 9:44 "Me and My Uncle" (John Phillips) – 3:17 May 24, 1969: Yellow dog story (Weir) – 3:12 "Alligator" > (Lesh, McKernan, Hunter) – 4:00 "Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 7:33 "St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 5:58 "Feedback" > (Grateful Dead) – 4:17 "We Bid You Goodnight" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 3:22 Real order: May 23, 1969 "Hard to Handle", "Morning Dew", "Me and My Uncle", "Dark Star" > "St. Stephen" > "The Eleven" > "Turn On Your Lovelight" May 24, 1969 "Turn On Your Lovelight", "Doin' That Rag" > "He Was a Friend of Mine" > "China Cat Sunflower" > "The Eleven" > "Death Don't Have No Mercy", "Alligator" > "Drums" > "St. Stephen" > "Feedback" > "We Bid You Goodnight"
After 1980, they mostly played it only on Kentucky Derby day, but at least once or twice they played it again on other days, like 9/20/93 MSG (I was there), for no reason that I can come up with.
Latvala was a big fan of the Giants '78 version. I'd recommend off the top of my head: 2/3/79 Market Square Arena 4/3/82 The Scope, Norfolk 7/31/82 Manor Downs (30 trips) 8/6/82 St Paul 10/14/83 Hartford (DiP 6) 12/27/83 SF Civic 6/16/85 Greek 6/30/87 Kingswood 7/8/87 Roanoke 6/25/91 Sandstone
