No "sorrys"! What about "Wake Up to Find Out" (Nassau Coliseum) and "Saint Of Circumstance" (Giants Stadium)? "Wake Up to Find Out" sounds incredible good and the performances are stellar. And I really like every RSD and Black Friday release the Grateful Dead released.
Listening to 12/1/73. 1st set thru to Big River pretty solid so far plus the soundcheck is pretty cool with Blue Suede Shows and Working Man Blues which is basically played like Deep Elem but Jerry sings Working Man Blues (at least partially) instead of Deep Elem.
Anyone have any favorite performances of Sugar Mag, especially those with a great Sunshine Daydream coda?
Also, is this movie any good?: Amazon.com: The End of the Road: The Final Tour '95 : Merl Saunders, The Grateful Dead, Brent Meeske, Brent Meeske, Michael Dong, Douglas Hosdale: Movies & TV
2/1/78 and 4/22/78 were neck and neck, but I ultimately decided they're different enough -- more specifically, the solos between Sugar Magnolia and Sunshine Daydream have such different characters -- that they can both be my favorite.
Man, this 3-28-85 Scarlet>Fire is something else. It's been a while since I've listened to this show.
Braver man than me. I've yet to listen to anything post-'91 other than a few tracks from compilation albums like So Many Roads or Ready or Not.
KCWhistle is spot on about 4/22/78 (it rocks hard), but my personal favorite is from 12/1/79, with a rather unique ending.
the ironic part is, some of those "less than stellar" period bootleg releases are amongst the best in the series. Self Portrait, you already mentioned, but the Trouble No More release of his live Christian period was phenomenal. I actually find them a little more fulfilling than his "golden" period releases (electric trilogy, Blood on the Tracks) because they offer more surprises. So yes, I say bring on a Dylan and the Dead archival release!
Tempos in the first set are a little on the "easygoing" side by E72 standards, but that second set is a doozy.
Logistically, it also would've been a lot easier to play France/Netherlands and then just jump back over to London. Munich took them 831 km in the other direction.
They did have four off days before the next London gig though. Must be the most relaxed schedule ever on a successful tour.
They had to cross and re-cross borders and go through customs multiple times on their itinerary. Seemingly a bit of a risk for that particular group of people. I assume that booking a tour on a different continent in those days was a bit of an adventure--how to even figure out who to contact, for example.
Does the gentleman who puts together Save Your Face ever do lossless offerings? Don't get me wrong I listen to fair amount of MP3 (most of my collection for portability and saving space), but IIRC, these are VBR? If so, ultimately I don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth, but I thought I might ask.
Yeah, exactly. Though Luxembourg borders Germany, it just seems strange they’d head east rather than west, en route to the U.K. Another show in France/Netherlands, or even easier/closer, Belgium would have made more sense. It doesn’t really matter, it was more a curious observation that’s all.
Yes, although there were a few California bands who had experience touring Europe by then. Zappa/Mothers and Santana for instance.
