Agreed on both points. Pigpen shines in his last full performance. A two-hour set one monstrosity and the pre-encore encore of NFA>GDRFB>NFA is cosmically unique. Then.... second set perfection (even sans a DS): "Truckin'" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) > – 18:57 "The Other One" (Weir, Kreutzmann) > – 9:09 "Drums" (Kreutzmann) > – 2:17 "The Other One" (Weir, Kreutzmann) > – 12:19 "Morning Dew" (Dobson, Rose) > – 11:47 "The Other One" (Weir, Kreutzmann) > – 5:47 "Sing Me Back Home" (Haggard) – 10:58 Followed by a tour ending five song encore. All in all is all we are, and this four hour show is my all time favorite. And every time it's mentioned, I dive right back in.
The conversation about the tour dates wasn't presented as groundbreaking research. It just came up as context for those two Tampa shows. I think it's kind of a curious decision that the band would fly home from Georgia for less than a week, followed by a trip all the way back out to Tampa for two final "stand alone" shows.
This black female musician you may not know has written songs you probably do Interesting, Gma story today with a gd connection.
"The Grateful Dead produced several renditions of 'Oh, Babe, It Ain't No Lie,' a song she composed." And Jerry did "Freight Train," and the GD/Hunter probably had "Shake Sugaree" in mind when they wrote "Sugaree."
Chapel Hill/Carrboro are just down the road. I went to show at Cat's Cradle (Carrboro) this weekend and I believe there's a plaque along Rosemary Ave about Ms. Cottan.
There's a big historical marker sign on the main drag by the Station nightclub with her name on it. (Is it still called Franklin Street there?)
I wanted Estimated on Dave’s 33 to keep going, but then Jerry decides it’s Eyes time. Any thoughts on the Space that follows? Sort of a languid intro to the half-time Stephen.
Decided to revisit Anthem Of The Sun. It was a very long time since I last listened to this one but it's still just as outstanding as I remember it. This is clearly my fave ”studio” album of theirs, perfectly capturing the live sound they had at the time. And that was it's purpose. I would honestly say it's just as good as many of the shows from '68, though Idk if that's faint praise or not. All the songs on here, especially The Other One and Alligator are so unique sounding, and they're up there among my fave versions. Love the whole thing. I should definitely spend more time with this album since I feel I've basically disregarded it completely since my last listen. I've simply focused all my attention on the live shows, and that has been the case for quite a while now. I also realize I should revisit many of the other studio albums, such as Workingman's Dead and Aoxomoxoa. I don’t really consider any of these albums terrible. Sure they’re not as good as the live shows themselves, but they’re still pretty decent at best. Anthem Of The Sun is however essential in my book.
To be clear: Eventually, the loose consortium of interested parties—Acker, Butler, and Carter, as well as another of Acker’s friends from law school, Chuck Dadswell—formed the legal entity, ABCD (using the first letter of each member’s last name). The goal of ABCD was to help Cantor-Jackson in her battle to recover royalties—hopefully by purchasing the lost lots of her recordings, should they ever turn up.
He’s Gone> Truckin’> TOO> Bobby McGee> TOO> Sugar Magnolia from 6/26/73 via PNW box maybe the greatest EVER Phil here
Now listening to 2/24/71[Port Chester Ny]on TIGDH on SiriusXM's Grateful Dead channel via the webstream now playing Bird Song.
I assume you know a lot of this is taken from live shows. I think i mentioned this a while ago but you should pick up the shrine 67 and all of the 68 releases especially the valentine's day carousel show.
According to the article posted last week, they wound up breaking even selling tapes to the Dead, so it appears that just getting those reels to the Dead vault was more important than profit. I had the impression that they hoped to help Betty get royalties, but were unsuccessful. However, they also returned a lot of non-Dead tapes, including some JGB shows, to Betty. Presumably, she could profit from selling some of those to bands/labels that may want them for official release.
2.13.70 - Fillmore East - New York, NY - SBD Giving the full show a listen tonight... In the first set right now. They are already full steam ahead, although it's hard not to look forward to the 60 min Dark Star > Other One coming up on the other end.
Phil, Mickey & Bill pioneering Drum & Bass between Stephen and NFA on Dave’s 33. I don’t think I’ve actually ever heard anything from that genre, so I could be wrong.
