Agree for sure. Throwing Stones was a really good song, it just got played to death and 'Throw It Away" become too predictable.
Mmmm. Not sure whether to preorder this one or pick up the Big Rock Powwow gig. Decisions, decisions.
My shuffle has served this one up a few times over the past few weeks: from 30 Days of Dead 2012: Dark Star - Berkeley CA 10/20/68 It's shorter than the Live/Dead version but I love it even more than that hallowed release. Anyone heard the rest of that show???
The whole show was released in the big 30 Trips Around the Sun box (aka the Porch Crusher). It's relatively short, but excellent.
It's always sound like a great proto-'69 "Dark Star" to me. Not the monster it would soon become yet, but pretty close. It makes sense, it's a late '68 performance.
Now listening to 4/17/69[Washington University St Louis Missouri]on TIGDH on SiriusXM's Grateful Dead channel via the webstream now playing Dark Star.
You can hear one of the guys yell "Too Fast" right as they are coming out of the intro into the first solo.... I love stuff like that
A few years ago I would have agreed with this in s second. With time I am starting to like the Pow Wow shows more and more and I rarely go back to the 15 May ‘70 show. I think part of that was editing the Pow Wow shows on the official release so both shows were complete and seamless, which is not quite how they are on the offical release. That said, the early show on 15 May is terrific. I find the late show to be a bit flat. This show contains a really, really great TIFTOO.
Pow Wow. I love 5-15-70 too, but 5-24 has always had 'it,' I thought it was magic the first time I heard it and have never stopped thinking that since.
Someone said 4/17/71 earlier, and since I loves me some Peanut I'm listening. I love this five-piece sound; the only thing some of these April 71 shows could use is a little more jamming. Only 2 Dark Stars in 20 shows that month, and 3 or 4 Other Ones. Good Lovin' certainly seemed to be the main jam, and on 4/17 the jam after drums is sweet, and Pigpen, with a dollar and a quarter, is front and center thereafter. Jump on the wagon and ride. It's a stone groove, my man. (NSFW)
I prefer 5/15/70 by a fairly wide margin, but agree with @ducksdeluxe that the correct answer is BOTH. Too much of everything is just enough, and all that...
April 18: 1969 Purdue University, Lafayette, IN Morning Dew That's It For The Other One -> Sittin' On Top Of The World -> I'm A King Bee 1971 Lusk field house, Cortland, NY Set 1 Cold Rain And Snow Me And My Uncle Bertha Me And Bobby McGee Next Time You See Me China Cat Sunflower -> I Know You Rider Casey Jones Set 2 Sugar Magnolia Second That Emotion Truckin' Hard To Handle Loser Playin' In The Band Around & Around Good Lovin' > Drums > Good Lovin' Uncle John's Band 1978 Civic arena, Pittsburg, PA Set 2 Scarlet Begonias Dancing In The Street -> Drums -> Samson And Delilah Terrapin Station -> Around And Around Encore U.S. Blues
18 April 1971 is a joy. Phil's bass never sounded better than in early to mid '71. Jerry and Bob are great. I guess that Jer is playing either Peanut or Les Paul. Billy enjoys every min of playing the drums alone. Pigpen is only heard when singing or threatening the house electrican that if he don't turn the house lights down he will be hogtied. The only thing that early '71 is lacking is the jamming. But what we have is wonderful and Pig was still alive. The band never sounded better and the recordings are there to prove it.
Agree wholeheartedly! Re the jamming - there's a bit more of that kind of stuff, when they return to the road after their early Summer break , which is why I find 07/31/71 - 08/26/71 to be my most consistently exciting version of the Skullf*ck band in that era.
6/30/74 Playing. I know there is a UJB samich in there, but the Playing is so good once I hit UJB I go back to start Playing again. And the reason for my infatuation is 100% Billy...just playing out of his mind on this. Everyone else is respecting what is going on enough to lay back.
You guys have me wanting to listen to some Summer 71 shows now. Of what’s officially available, what are the standouts?
