The Grateful Thread

Also, DP14 has my favorite "Eyes of the World." That whole sequence is great but that particular performance is etched on my brain that few others are. All told I think '73 is my favorite year.

 

Yes, all stellar. November/December '73 is a peak period.

 

Bonus disc or no bonus disc? It's a great box regardless. Possibly my favorite.

 

When Birdsongs and Songbirds collide

 

Wow, what's that from?

I can confirm there are much less pleasant things I could be doing this afternoon than listening to the 100-minute Christine McVie playlist I threw together an hour ago. She was really the key ingredient in that band.

 

It was from 87


Here’s another shot

 

We covered those shows earlier this year over in the Grateful Dead Archival Live Release Thread. They're all liked or loved to various degrees.

 

Yes. 11/9 is excellent, and like @SJR, 11/11 is a contender for my favorite Dead show ever. I don’t like 11/10 as much as a lot of people do, but it’s still really good.

 

One thing I will say for 11/10 so far is that the tracklist has some more surprises on it, like a Truckin > Wharf Rat, the Morning Dew, and the Loser & Deal in the first sets. It's missing a China Rider or Dark Star but I dig the variety in there that you don't get in night 1 and night 3.

Also, only one Here Comes Sunshine?? What gives?!

 

I didn't know Jerry and Christine met, but of course Fleetwood Mac and the Dead shared a few bills before she was in the group, and I've read that the Dead (especially Weir, I think) were fans of their s/t album from 1975 and that it was a reason they had Keith Olsen produce Terrapin Station.

 

That Truckin’>Wharf Rat is the highlight of the show for me. The PITB palindrome is good but I like the one from 11/17/73 better.

 

P.S. Is your avatar from "Inherent Vice?" My absolute favorite PTA movie, and not surprising to meet someone else who appreciates it on the Grateful Thread.

 

Indeed, it is! Good eye. I love that movie and the book too.

IIRC there are quite a few Pynchon-heads on this thread.

 

Breaking my Dead hiatus with 9/9/72 (Hollywood). This TOO has got the goods

 

Duane Allman gets more attention, but Peter Green and Mick Fleetwood also joined the Dead for the big jam on 2/11/70.

Also, I remember reading somewhere that Passenger was musically inspired by FM’s Station Man.

 

Now listening to 11/30/79[Atlanta Georgia]on TIGDH on SiriusXM's Grateful Dead channel via the webstream now playing Cassidy

 

From: The Annotated "Passenger"

In an interview in Dupree's Diamond News, issue #28, Lesh says of "Passenger":

"What's weird about that song is I sort of did it as a joke. It's a take on a Fleetwood Mac tune called "Station Man." I just sort of sped it up and put some different chord changes in there..." (p. 18)

 

In 1976 "Let It Grow" had a jam over the chords A Minor to F Major (around the same time they regularly had a Drums break in the song), rumored to be inspired by "Rhiannon."

 

Yes, one of the best runs/releases out there. Every night is exceptional.

 

LOL, I thought it was Kreutzmann.

BTW, Pynchon went to Cornell and his birthday is 5/8. COINCIDENCE???

 

I just pulled my copies of that and Rumours out of the basement for a spin tonight.

 

Best TOO month ever. Phil walks off with a cute little filly and the show is over. Love that gig.

 

30 November 1979 was performed at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh. A dandy show that gets lost in the brilliant emanation which is the next night.

 

These boys weren't messing around on 4/15/70, were they? Holy cow.

 

Interesting. I had also heard that Keith Olsen really whipped their asses into shape during the Terrapin recording sessions ... so much that he was a big contributor to their inspired playing during the Spring '77 tour. The guy was no slouch.