they gotta do 10/14/80 - it's the reckoning version of Bird Song, and the close of electric set one is as good as it looks. Set two speaks for itself. Grateful Dead Warfield Theatre San Francisco, CA Date 10/14/80 One Dire Wolf [3:08] ; Dark Hollow [3:52] ; It Must Have Been The Roses [6:00] ; Cassidy [5:47] ; I've Been All Around This World [4:15] ; Monkey And The Engineer [2:23] ; China Doll [5:18] ; Heaven Help The Fool [6:32] ; Bird Song [8:29] > Ripple [4:06] Two Alabama Getaway [4:28] > Greatest Story Ever Told [4:03] ; Friend Of The Devil [9:43] ; Me And My Uncle [3:03] > Mexicali Blues [4:27] ; Candyman [7:33] ; Little Red Rooster [8:53] ; Tennessee Jed [8:26] > Let It Grow[10:51] > The Wheel [5:01] > The Music Never Stopped [7:09] Three Scarlet Begonias [9:42] > Fire On The Mountain [8:39] ; Estimated Prophet [9:52] > Terrapin Station [12:10] > Playing In The Band [7:14] > Drums (1) [10:10] > Space [5:33] > I Need A Miracle [3:44] > Uncle John's Band [6:43] > Morning Dew [10:02] > Playing In The Band [2:46] > Good Lovin'[8:05] Encore U.S. Blues ; Brokedown Palace [5:21]
Right now revisiting 4/26/69. It was a very long time since I last hit this, I remember not really enjoying this show that much (or at best I found it decent) but on this second listen I have to say I’m a much bigger fan. Either it must be a grower or I’m just in a different mindset this time around and is therefore able to enjoy it better. With that said the late 60’s era is not really ‘accessible ‘ Dead so it might make sense. The China Cat Sunflower is very trippy and unique, Mountains Of The Moon is performed delicately (one of my fave versions) and Dupree's Diamond Blues is a very good opener. Currently on Doin' That Rag which is a neat one. Love late 60's Dead.
I have a palm tree label version with that black and white picture of Bob on the back cover. Although the front of my cover does not have the Bob 'Ace' Weir or the Of the Grateful Dead writing. I do believe I bought that in the 80's, that LP was always a had get, really tough to find. Never really saw it in much in stores even after I bought mine. I remember picking my up from a trip to Princeton Records.
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The audio guy on fox used to post on a different music board that I frequent. A few years back for the MLB playoffs he was taking requests He plays panic, phish, dead, and occasionally drive by truckers
fine, but then you have to leave out 10-19 and 10-20-74, which I am not prepared to do. I will take calendar 1974 over calendar 1973 in any event, that was just my way to sneak 12-6-73 into my pick. Make sure to find a version that has the full encore (not on DP 26 nor Fallout from the Phil Zone.)
I saw three nights at radio city for the east coast run of this style show. As nice as it was to hear these songs in an acoustic setting I thought some were better than others. Bird song has always been a favorite but although it was played acoustic it was done with an electric arrangement. I always enjoyed the acoustic set songs done that way. I thought they had a better feel done the original way.
Now listening to 6/30/73[Universal Amphitheater]on SiriusXM's Grateful Dead channel via the webstream now playing Bird Song.
It was almost always high energy when I saw it. Most memorable one that I saw live where it sounded explosive and the whole crowd was fully, fully into it was Hartford 3/19/90.
Speaking of Phil on vocals. I've just been listening to 1992-06-28, Deer Creek Music Center. This is one of the shows that gets a highlights 'whole show' rating in the Taper's Compendium. It is a first class show, for 1992 anyway. Hey there's some great shows in 1992. Phil sings an awesome Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues. Pretty much hits all of the notes and is very enthusiastic. Through the whole show Jerry is pretty much on vocally and instrumentally. Beautiful China Doll.
That was a stealth show, with no mailorder, so many people may have decided to go to the show at the last minute (as my buddy and I did), thus, "so glad you made it..."
Yeah, we were lucky enough to be an hour and half or so drive from the box office when they went on sale.
I recall that they quickly put the brakes on the unhinged frantic style of the debut and slowed it down, that did not always work for me but as you said the crowd always enjoyed the invitation. All of this Phil talk lead me to the first Keep on Growing another fun one...
Probably their best release ever. They were in full band improv mode at that time. Anything goes and anything did. That's what I'm searching for in music. Reckless abandon. And then nail it. This does. The Terrapin--> Playin' is spectacular despite some tape anomalies at the start of Terrapin.
