Stan Franks! Forgot about him He was announced as the lead guitar for The Other Ones but he was out by their first show. He played in Phil’s band on 4/20 and that first warfield show was June 4. Does anyone remember what happened? Somewhere back in the cobwebs I vaguely remember reading about it
Folsom Field July 5th Well I married me a wife - she’s been trouble all my life - rain and snooooow…. Instant manifestation!
7/2 first Dead show. 1st set was hot & mellow. mayer seemed to fit in ok, prs/dumble rig - had various torn srv tees on. we went inside during break. broke my leg in the vip bar. didn't even get to shakedown =|
Having read Joel Selvin's book only about a year ago you'd think I would remember better... AFAIR, he did fine in rehearsals, but couldn't really cut it live.
That’s right! I’ve got that somewhere, I knew I had read it somewhere but had completely forgotten about Selvin’s book. Make of that what you will...
That totally captures the intensity of the storm. I was down on the field, in shorts and a t-shirt. The weather forecast for the day kept pushing the possible thunderstorms to later and later. By the time we left for the show, it looked like they might be at 11pm to midnight, or later, so, my brother took the lightweight poncho and I figured I’d buy one on shakedown or a merch booth. Due to a ticket snafu, I never had a chance to buy one, nor did I expect I needed one. Like everyone else, I got soaked. I had to wring out the t-shirt I was wearing in the bathroom up top. Of course, it rained a little more after they eventually restarted the show. Fortunately, I dumbly grabbed a plastic bag earlier when I bought a poster in a tube and my poster survived unscathed. Other people weren’t so lucky. I saw more than a few shredded poster tubes with posters still in them.
ya know i had been "this is worth seeing but not gonna spend a lot of time at home listening" with D&Co but I am more and more really in love with this particular band. Listened to the entirety of one of the Denver shows today at the computer and it just....it did it, it had it all. Not even a question of the missing link, just a band with a body of songs to deliver and explore and doing it with great care, love, and joy and adventure. Just like the Grateful Dead....
Really well said. That's about the best and most succinct summation of what D&C is about that I've yet seen.
https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/d...FLda5vLkCJMIS5Ayq11lehpHYBfWJkAsCQDlklRtclv1s Dead & Company’s 2019 Tour Biggest To Date, Grosses Over $40 Million
Odd. I get it, it’s different from other bands working the same book of songs but to say it’s unlikable is pretty unreasonable. I’ve spent a good bit of time listening to JRAD in the last week. I don’t love how tweeky and poorly they all sing but it’s still enjoyable. I listened to and watched DSO play sunshine daydream 72 last night, also fun but no creativity or surprises, Phil is losing what is left if his voice and rotates an endless roster of amateurs to play with and yes, D&C is working more of a groove and every song doesn’t feel like you just scarfed a fat line of coke. At the end of the day it’s all way more similar than it is different. I really don’t get the hostility, I’m glad there is a variety, options and vibrant interpretation of a genre of music I’m really into. But just like when the grateful dead were the top grossing band, there were a bunch people saying, “I don’t get it.” It’s just weird coming from a fellow head.
This is not a knock on anyone in particular, but what's surprising to me is that any version of the Grateful Dead, and especially any version without Jerry Garcia, is the top grossing touring band in 2019. It's been almost 25 years since Garcia died....amazing.
Dude, the above is an example of how you read into my comments way too much. It's not the first time I've been down this road with you. Hostility? I just don't get how they're doing so well when I'm not 100 percent psyched with the presentation, And that's my opinion. OK? Jeez.
My bad, not hostile at all. The Repetition and frequency of a negative review of a band on a thread about that band isn’t how I choose to post on this forum. More power to you but don’t get bent when people respond to it.
You may want to watch the negativity here. I think you're supposed to say that listening to Dead & Co. is like doing "a fat line of coke" in order to avoid problems in this thread. Or something. I said, "This is kind of a mystery to me as to why, but it makes sense to me based on how packed Camden was," and this was problematic. So I guess I need to Zapruder that sentence to figure out where I went so horribly, horribly wrong.