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This is really not my type of thang at all...but somehow it just about works.  I love Bruce's contribution to the late period Dead (he was in them the only times I saw them, of course) but the Range leave me cold.  There's some lovely Jerry on this, mind.  Bruce Hornsby and the Range with Jerry Garcia - Across the River:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WubwoP4l_YI&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3JO_NYlz4n7pCh3ZOhQt__WB1XdLPzE9njigO6nIHm0B-VinNcHjd4YVE

Have you heard his version of  Black Muddy River on the Day Of The Dead tribute collection? Better than their original. (I may have mentioned it here before.)

Love "Across The River": Bruce & Jerry did have a great rapport.

Not at all keen on the "Black Muddy River" from "DotD". That guy's voice is just wrong. This, however, is how it should be done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSchq4RllM4

But these people nailed it totally;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GYF4b8t5VE

Changing the subject somewhat, I recently picked up a Blu Ray player for pennies from a Cash Generator (pawn shop) in order to play a new King Crimson acquisition & to my delight found it plays US region specific DVDs, so I'm delving into all those US "Vault" releases I've not seen since the old DVD player passed over a couple of years back. A late night is in prospect.   ;D

Haven't been aware of any previous UK screenings other than "Fare Thee Well" & in general, I'm not a fan of the cinema environment, but I would be tempted.

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/grateful-dead-meet-up-at-the-movies-going-global-trafalgar-rhino-1203232390/

The first one they did here in the states, to which I went, included a really good sound system installed in the theater. I don't know if they've continued to do that. Most of the available videos are from their later years, which aren't nearly as interesting to me, so I haven't been to any since then.

Some UK venues, but none close enough for me to be tempted, espeially for a '91 show. Having said that, it is a Hornsby show & the reviews on Archive.com look encouraging.  :)

https://www.meetupatthemovies.com/

Like most crazy Deadhead things (several hours of tuning from one particular year?  Why of course, sir...come this way), this isolated guitar mix from Bobby is both utterly meaningless, and incredibly illuminating.  Above all, it's fascinating....I've only dipped in and out for 15 minutes or so, but hey....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLV-73VF6Tg&feature=share

New 3CD set from 1991 "Saint of Circumstance" just out, and it's rather good. Nice clear sound, and mostly songs rather then extended jams.

Anyone else know what they were doing 29 years ago this evening?  My first, and penultimate, Dead show...

On my way back from Paris from my last Dead show. ;D

Took you a while..were you hitching?

Long liquid lunch with brother in Town. Good job Hereford was the last stop on the train.  ;D

Not Dead, but related...

I would love to see this, but I don't think the stars will align. It looks like a one-off gig. It would be awesome if they would take it on the road.

Ooodles of noodles.  (Not as frightening as it looks) :)

A five hour compilation of jams 1972-1983.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4TW70xVkmU&feature=share

Oh, Lordy Mama...what have you done?  :o ;) :) ;D

Don't think I'd seen this before...GD and Etta James...NYE '82/'83 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edrcytfti2o&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0dPFmatdiUHemdmcNr1f2vi4grVg8ml0k4FICebr4BOkA03_S8PezCAy4

FYI.
In case you haven't got this bookmarked I stumbled open it doing some FC/Fillmore research...

https://dlr2008.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/the-grateful-dead-in-1970-the-fillmore-east-and-west-and-the-other-ones/

Here's a bunch of stuff, free to watch, from those nice nugs.net people, that may appeal to some reading this thread.

Shows from Weir & Wolf Bros, Dead & Co & Joe Russo's Almost Dead among others.  :)

https://www.nugs.net/03-13-2020-15-concerts-to-watch-at-home.html?utm_source=nugsnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=031820_newsletter

Whoop whoop.  Nice one, Ian  :)

To expand on the above...here's Bob

https://twitter.com/BobWeir/status/1241379200574951427?s=09&fbclid=IwAR1YAOTuWlDCUHeffrokQeejP_Cn_D3b7g2Ii-BuLtX5SlD424GXFiFEbEQ

Whole shows, eh? I'm in.  :)

https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-grateful-dead-to-share-classic-gigs-on-new-weekly-livestream-series-2645181

Apart from the fact it's from '89 and it's already been released, I'm wildly excited...  ;) ;D

Cheer up, mate, there's more on the way.   ;) ;D

For the beginner in your life https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/11/grateful-dead-where-to-start-in-their-back-catalogue

Thanks for the tip, Dave, I've downloaded Dick's Picks Vol. 3 after reading those recommendations. I've tried so hard ((c) Daevid Allen) to not start on the Dick's/David's Picks series - oh dear...

I have a handful of Dicks Picks but not that one. I'm no expert but I thought 1977 wasnt their best year. Perhaps I need to investigate.  Although, no, I dont need an y more Grateful Dead material. Or do I?  ::) 8)

'77 is great.  Very high energy.  Columbian marching powder may have had a lot to do with this...allegedly.

 8) ;D

If your pockets are deepish (but not that deep), and you like your vinyl, then this may appeal...free delivery too.  6LP set at under £60?  That counts as a bargain these days

https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/grateful-dead/portland-memorial-coliseum-portland-or-5-19-74

Not really off-topic (I guess) -- Here's my take, along with a friend, of the Dead's "Crazy Fingers."  Just uke, keyboards and vocals. Hope you like it. https://youtu.be/iDFeT1PtScQ

Here's a genuine offer for anyone in the UK.

A longtime Deadhead has uploaded their entire collection of good quality live Dead & Ratdog shows onto hard drives & is looking to dispose of the source CDs. There are 8 large wallets available, 6 Dead & 2 Ratdog.

Given their size, they will need to be collected from either near Frome, in Somerset, or from me, in Hereford, depending on your location. This is a free offer, no cost involved. Please send me a pm if interested.

 :)

Well, that didn't take long. The offer is now closed.  :(

Just discovered (from him, on FB) the news that Tom Constanten (keyboardist '68-'70) has a 17 year old son.  He's 76.

I wonder if he's still into Scientology?

I think not, but I can't confirm that. He's definitely a thinker though...his FB posts are very wide ranging and philosophical in tone.

Where next for Grateful Dead?

https://northcoastorganics.us/grateful-dead-organic-deodorant/

Groan!  I'd love* to see a list of all the branded products related to the good ol' GD over the years.

* No, I wouldn't

The 50th anniversary Workingman's Dead 3-CDer arrived a day early (Discs 2 & 3 are 2/21/71 - and bloody marvellous they are too)  :)

Nice. That whole 6 night run at Portchester is pretty fab & widely available in excellent quality.

Also worth checking out is the outtakes selection "Workingman's Dead- The Angel's Share". It's officially sactioned. It's also a bit bitty, but fascinating & most enjoyable. Available for free at lots of outlets (Apple, Amazom, Spotify, etc.), but Soundcloud gets my vote:

https://soundcloud.com/grateful-dead-445960714

 :)

I can only see one song, called Lightning Struck [demo].

Jules

Oops. Apologies. Try this.

https://soundcloud.com/gratefuldead/sets/workingmans-dead-the-angels-1

Great, thanks.  Does anywhere have it as a free download?

Jules

Not legally - it's streaming only.

It appears to be available for download from dead.net, along with a similar d/l for American Beauty. 13 dollars each

It's November & time for the annual freebie. 30 Days of Dead 2020. :)

https://www.dead.net/30daysofdead?eml=2020November1/5147838/6131962&etsubid=39909681

Another freebie:

https://z2comics.bandcamp.com/album/grateful-dead-origins

And, if you're daydreamin' of sunshine:  [;-)

https://thegratefuldread.bandcamp.com/

(Well worth $6 or £5 IMHO)

Thanks for this, Paul - this is great  :)

If you're looking for reggae versions of Dead songs, here's my old band from our 2013 Reunion show, doing our thing with (to?) Scarlet Begonias:
https://charmcityreactors.bandcamp.com/track/scarlet-begonias

 :) I like that...

For the 'Dead curious' in our lives?   ;) ;D

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/grateful-dead-chronological-live-playlist-346-hour-garcia-weir/

Oh my word...  ::)

Here's a rather nice animation to accompany Ripple :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmMjY6tXaEo

Amazon is showing a radio recording (on CD) due shortly of Dylan & the Dead at Eugene, Oregon on "that" tour. Done a bit of digging & delving, seems to be a reasonable consensus online that it's (one of) the best shows. Widely available, I assume, in illicit formats for some time now. I found a version on youtube (audio only) and Bob's voice - on Maggie's Farm at least - is unlistenable for me.

Can't imagine it's  any good. However (and perhaps I've mentioned it here before), the Dylan/Dead rehearsal recordings are, generally, superb. And they're high quality studio recordings. You can hear them here: https://archive.org/details/gd1987-06-01.sbd-rehearsals.fraser.97489.shnf

Thanks Sam...

I've got a slightly perverse liking of the Dylan and Dead shows, whilst recognising of course that they don't show either party at their peak.  The rehearsals contain some magic though, definitely, as do some of the gigs themselves.

Dylan's voice doing funny things?  Welcome to the last 35 years... Basically he became a parody of himself in the late 80s and onwards.  But I kind of respect that....

Bless 'em all...

Bernie gets everywhere cool

Mickey Hart - The Monkees years?

Fairly certain that's not Hart at the front.  Think it's someone like Scully (?)....

Yep - it's Rock Scully (co-manager at the time of this pic). Mickey Hart joined a year or so later...

Cheers,

Slippy 8)

Duh. Should have clocked that, as I've seen that pic, sans Bernice, before. I blame a surfeit of Licor 43. Just realised that Pigpen has look of the Edgar Broughtons about him...

Uploaded back in 2014, but I just discovered it...Jerry Garcia Band live footage from 1976, from a gig on a boat that sailed around New York. Quite enjoyable.
https://youtu.be/ujGkFhSOPw4

New album due from saxophonist Dave McMurray, all Dead covers. First song released is "Loser", with Bettye LaVette on vocals and Bob Weir on guitar, along with Don Was, Jay Lane, Jeff Chimenti and Greg Leisz. It's SUPERB. Here's an article about it, with the music video:
https://www.jambase.com/article/dave-mcmurray-grateful-dead-dedication-tribute-album-loser

I like Bettye's voice but the music is just too AOR Jazzy for me, closest to some early 90s Dead live jamming perhaps?  Not my thing, but the great thing about Dead music is there's something there for everyone....

Saw Bettye at Ulverston coronation hall a few years ago great backing on that gig, a week later I was disappointed by Patti Smith at the same venue.

We've had this conversation before...that (and the previous night in Kendal) was one of my all time favourite gigs.  Horses/courses  :)

ps a review https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/1394964.pretty-cheeky-patti-smith-gives-electric-performance/

A new mega-box from a key era ('71-'73) https://store.dead.net/special-edition-shops/st-louis-collection/listen-to-the-river-st-louis-71-72-73-20-cd-1.html?eml=2021July21/5405744/6131962&etsubid=39877111

Happily, I find there are soundboards of all 7 shows in my vault.

That's $200 saved.  ;D

But, but, but....the, er, BOX!  ;) ;D

Live Dead '69 (featuring TC) dates:

NOV 8 – KINROSS, UK
NOV 10 – CARDIFF, UK
NOV 11 – LONDON, UK
NOV 12 – LONDON, UK
NOV 13 – LEWES, UK
NOV 14 – CHISELHURST, UK
NOV 16 – NORWICH, UK

https://www.jambase.com/client-email/25990-airplane-family-live-dead-69-fall-2021-email-1-2?fbclid=IwAR2nxI7GKQ-DI14xDFdI0vDE1hixntMc5jb-cryL3th87HRZT-6cjJCzAKg

Cardiff. Gosh  :o

The Earl Haig club apparently...https://m.facebook.com/earlhaigmemorialclub.co.uk/

My friend's band have played there, they specialise in rock, old R'n'B and blues bands. I'm seriously thinking of going to this!

I'm just double checking that you realise this is the Live Dead '69 show and not the Jefferson Airplane/Starship family bit...the link page could be regarded as a little confusing...it's all (well mostly) the same band but two very different projects.

No I didn't, I would have preferred the latter tbh

C******** is closer than you think.  ;D

https://www.crocsbest.com/Grateful-Dead-Advent-Calendar-2021-The-One-With-24-Little-Doors-p2795480.html

Here's a whole bunch of videos documenting the Dead's UK trip to Hollywood Festival in 1970.  :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dp-YUumlPo&ab_channel=DJDeaf

There's a time and a place for Dead & Co...and they're great fun, but if you want a somewhat more challenging (arguably) take on the Dead's music...the expanded Bobby & the Wolf Bros lineup are (I think) fab and hit several spots for me.

See what you think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-R00mSIIGk

Thanks David; Wolf Bros is behind the ear for later. :)

On another matter; I see on FB, someone in the UK has been clobbered with £63 excess charges on importing the new box set.  :o

I saw that...ouch!

It's November, so it must be time for "30 Days of Dead"  :)

https://www.dead.net/30daysofdead?eml=2021November1/5509162/6131962&etsubid=39909681

I have a copy of the Europe '72 73-CD Box set for sale.  You either know what this is or you don't, but here's a link to the Discogs page https://www.discogs.com/release/3116404-Grateful-Dead-Europe-72-The-Complete-Recordings

This copy belonged to (and has a nameplate sticker for) Andy Roberts, renowned UK-based LSD historian and Stringhead etc etc.

Drop me a line if you're interested or know somebody that might be.  Loads of photos and further details.  It's in excellent nick.

Had the premium Bond come up this month I'd be first in the queue. Some of my favourite shows are in this set. I'll just have to content myself with  CDRs. Oh the pain.  ;D

swap it you for the cassettes 😉😁

If only it existed on such mighty media.  I'm in...  ;D

If I were to come into some serious money courtesy of "ERNIE" or his/her descendents...

It's a lot cheaper than a new bike, Paul. ;D

Good point, well made...  ;D

Dark Star Orchestra:

"We're heading to Europe! 🌍
Join us for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of 'Europe '72' with nine European performances in England, France, Germany and Italy September 13 - 25, 2022.
Every show will be a recreation of a historic Europe ‘72 tour performance; as we'll be performing in four of the exact cities from Europe ‘72, notably in Paris, France - at The Olympia - the very same venue the Grateful Dead performed on May 3, 1972.
Before we head to Europe, we'll bring a few Europe ‘72 recreations to life in the States - 50 years to the day! We'll recreate the Dead’s 4/8/72 show from Wembley Empire Pool London, England at the Skull & Roses Festival on April 8 in Ventura, CA. Additionally, we will take the Europe ‘50 Years Later’ recreation to The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY on May 13, offering up the Dead’s performance from Lille, France from 5/13/72.
Adding to these two stateside performances is the presence and participation of Jerry Garcia’s ‘Alligator’ guitar; a 1955 Fender Stratocaster originally used by Jerry on the Europe 1972 tour, shared with DSO’s lead guitarist Jeff Mattson to handle and elevate the specific tones from this legendary instrument.
This historic Jerry Garcia instrument is provided for use at our shows with a special thanks to Grateful Guitars Foundation. Foundation’s Andy Logan. Logan states "Grateful Guitars is thrilled that Dark Star Orchestra is celebrating the Grateful Dead’s legendary Europe ’72 our’s 50th anniversary. We’re excited to celebrate some specific show anniversaries this year in the United States and especially to ‘take that ride again’ and tour Europe with the band and our loving tribe. We know this will enliven Deadheads around the world and will help ensure this music thrives for generations.”
Rob Barraco summarizes the magnitude of experience stating “It is an honor of my lifetime to pay tribute to such a transformative event that we all have come to know as Europe ‘72.”
Tickets for all European shows go on sale Friday, March 25 at 6 AM ET are available via our website.
Europe '72 50th Anniversary European Tour Dates:
9/13 - London, UK - Shepherd's Bush Empire
9/17 - Paris, France - The Olympia
9/18 - Cologne, Germany - Live Music Hall
9/19 - Frankfurt, Germany - Batschkapp
9/20 - Berlin, Germany - Astra Kulturhaus
9/22 - Munich, Germany - Muffathalle
9/23 - Milan, Italy - Santeria Toscana 31
9/24 - Florence, Italy - Teatro Puccini
9/25 - Rome, Italy - Monk"

Could be worth a punt  :)

Very tempted with the DSO, of course, but logistically not sure I'll go for it...

This is a beautiful bit of writing...


John Mayer on Jerry Garcia

This is the forward John wrote for Jay Blakesberg's book "Secret Space of Dreams"

https://www.woodstockartscollective.com/books

"I’m a good enough guitar player to know a great guitarist when I hear one, but I had to become an even better one to begin to understand the depth and complexity of Jerry Garcia’s playing.
I’ve always said that musicians play like they are, and in the case of Garcia, his performances serve as a detailed map of a man, his intentions, his desires, and his impressions of the world around him. And going by that map, Garcia was a lovely, mighty soul. I never met him, and will never understand the loss of those who did, but the vast archive of his music amounts to the makings of a starry night sky that turns listeners into explorers.
Several years ago I set out not just to learn Garcia’s approach to the guitar and the songs he played, but to learn what about it has allowed millions of people who don’t play the guitar to key into it for hours on end. Soloing has been known since its inception as a kind of self-indulgent expression. Why, then, could so many listeners, myself included, listen to him do it endlessly without fatigue?
To best understand what makes Garcia’s guitar playing so unique, it helps to start with what it sidesteps: though it drew from blues and R&B, his guitar approach left a few traditional elements out of the equation, he didn’t play from that well-worn feral, sexual place that traditional blues music traded in, nor did he really touch the sinister aspects that were born into the idiom. Garcia didn’t sing about wanting to rock a young woman all night long, and any of his deals with the devil existed metaphorically as mere setbacks. (What’s 20 bucks, anyway?) These changes affect the fundamental color palette of the storytelling. I’m not sure the sun ever rises in Chicago blues music, but in the musical storytelling of Garcia and the Grateful Dead, it shines so bright it hurts.
On a more technical note, he played most often in a major blues scale, which added to this mix of innocence, and even joy. Minor blues notes lend themselves to the exquisiteness of pain, while major blues scales kind of explore the relief from it. Garcia played to relieve people of pain. That melodic innocence must have something to do with bringing so many people to their “happy place.” He wasn’t pulling notes from an anguished place within, he was catching them with a butterfly net as they went flitting by overhead. On a tactile level, he held the guitar with grace. It wasn’t a weapon, it was a vehicle. He took it easy. He may have played fast, but he was thinking slow. And that makes us listen with a smile.
I put Jerry Garcia on the same level as Miles Davis and Bill Evans because of the intention in his performing; once you’ve learned all the notes, and the chords, and the bends and the runs, you come to the final frontier of playing which is the why of it all, and that’s where the power was and still is in his playing. He played from a real place, a place that faced out to the world, not for his own reception or gratification. He played for the joy of interacting with the band and with the music he loved. If you listen close enough to a musician, you can tell what they’re looking to get out of each and every note they make. Garcia, to me, was looking to bring music to life out of the tacit, sacred duty to use his gift. Even after learning these things, they offer very little help in sounding anything like the man. That’s because he didn’t play anything stock or repetitive. There are no “signature Jerry Garcia solo riffs” as exist with so many revered guitarists. To “sound like Jerry,” you have to make people feel like he did, and well—good luck with that.
The real magic—the kind that will make the Grateful Dead music live forever—that’s in the way we carry it on in our hearts and minds. I don’t listen to Garcia and the band play—I watch it. I believe we all do, and that what we see is a blend of the music, the year in which it was played, the season and location of the show so as to understand the state of mind the band was in that night, that week, that presidency. We see it differently from one another the way we do our own dreams, but we all agree that our dreams contain these songs, and this band, those places and names. And that’s how the Grateful Dead managed to freeze time. We discuss our favorite years in present tense; we say we just heard the best version of something last night as if that was the moment it first took place. Your favorite year of their music "wasn’t", it "is." And in that way, inside that beautiful dreamscape the band created, the Grateful Dead is still up there, still playing. And Jerry is right there in front of them, and time is held in place by those who refuse to let it fade, and even as we sleep, as long as one of us is listening, the band is still playing.
We lose the ones we love, we pine for those who have left, and we lament the changes of modern times. But the makers of this music dug a tunnel, and it runs beneath time and space, and we, the ones who love it like family, crawl through to visit 1974, and 1969, and 1987 and 1990. If we were alive at the time the show took place, we see ourselves as the people we were in the lives we had, and if we weren’t born yet, we get to wistfully dream what it must have been like.
We only get a few minutes on earth, and Jerry Garcia gave all his minutes so that we could forever visit his life and times through his playing, and let it unravel into a new kind of now." --- John Mayer on Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead

Signed copies of this book JERRY GARCIA SECRET SPACE OF DREAMS available at
https://www.woodstockartscollective.com/books

Some great early footage I've not seen before.... Garcia tripping his proverbials off... perfection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9yA3mNzWc8

A much better than not bad covers band.... Guitarists are from Edie's New Bohemians, I believe....  Sounds like Jerry singing Bobby!  Well, I like it anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZORLEvuZaQ

It was, gulp, 32 years ago today.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR0wWlaUbvkCzj9CDYC4BV1Xbkn7KHn_ltIirvlMsWajdjjtqIzYMGyBDX8&v=FoYqVVY0NMg&feature=youtu.be

John Mayer after the 'final' (almost certainly not) Dead & Co show:

San Francisco, night 3/3. This music has made me a better player, and this band made me a better person. I was given the opportunity of a lifetime - to have access to the greatest songbook in modern music, and the deepest well of life memories shared by hundreds of thousands of Deadheads who extended their grace and acceptance to me. I learned to compromise, and to take other people’s chances along with them. I learned to play in real time, to express myself without the distraction of ambition or expectation. I learned to listen, to have musical conversation, and most importantly, to be a part of something much bigger than myself. It was never about me. It was bout “it” - that spirit that a band and a crowd could go looking for together. If I’ve done my job right, I’ll disappear into that beautiful tapestry, the one that began almost 60 years ago and will continue to expand for lifetimes to come. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for embracing me and my place in this band, and to Bob, Mickey, and Billy - I’ll never be able to fully express my gratitude for your taking a chance on me. Something magical happened on this tour, and I don’t think any of us saw it coming. Dead & Company is still a band - we just don’t know what the next show will be. I speak for us all when I say that I look forward to being shown the next shaft of light… I know we will all move towards it together. This band changed my life, and I love you all for it. An incredible tour, an unforgettable ride, and a beautiful world of memories to visit. I’ll be seeing you….

If anybody is interested in any of a collection of official Dead (GD/Other Ones/The Dead etc) shirts from the 90s and 00s then drop me a line.  I got a collection from a friend of mine whose son sadly died, mainly as it had a mint Ratdog 2002 (one of my favourite ever shirts) in my size which made me skip around the room.  There's some really nice ones including a totally mint 1990 25 years Dead shirt from the Without a Net tour.  Sizes L and XL.

This is a great piece by the Camper van Beethoven man.  No hagiographic nonsense here...he's not really even a fan.  But he's put the hours in and he's got something out.  There's a Grateful Dead for everyone...

https://jsegel.wordpress.com/2021/11/30/listening-to-the-first-100-dark-stars/?fbclid=IwAR0Kc5MBuGkPg6svK_lIaR9k0g2r_Ny6Ku3VHDt55d3vwCgwexNWLuXNz5k

Now that's what I call a rabbit hole
Wonderful and frightening😱

Feet first now, Jim ;) ;D

50% I'm utterly appalled and disgusted
50% I'm in... ;) ;D

Whilst ridiculous prices, still not quite as much as I was expecting...

Dark Star Orchestra - 26 & 27 September 2024 - Alexandra Palace Theatre, London.  I'm rather tempted...

Me too, but it's a slightly head and heart thing...a £250 trip to London to see a friggin' tribute band? I dunno...

See you there! ;D

 ;D

Well, I just completed a 600 mile round trip to Northumberland to race a duathlon... so a quick nip down to London from Glawster? Seems churlish not to... but, do I go to one or both nights?  Assuming different setlists, of course.

Since I last posted, I have lost a dear friend. So I decided to prevaricate no more and booked a standing ticket for each night. I never saw the Dead, and this may be one of the very few chances I get to experiencing something akin to the real, er, deal.

I'm still prevaricating, mainly but not totally, because of my health...it could well be radiotherapy around there.

Hope the dates don't clash... if they do, health first of course!!

Gillian and David cover Brokedown Palace as a tribute to Phil.

If you hear anything better this decade, do please let me know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfaddTPhmuc

Nice. Thanks.

Lovely, just lovely! Fare Thee Well, Phil.

Fab

30 days of the Dead for November as per usual....

https://www.dead.net/30daysofdead?eml=2024November1/6616765/6131962&etsubid=39877111

And today's is absolutely magical.  Music to take LSD to.  Allegedly.

Blog detailing all the 30 days plus link to the downloads... https://momentstransition.wordpress.com/2024/12/01/the-grateful-dead-30-days-of-dead-2024/?fbclid=IwY2xjawG5eKNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQiIzQM3u1pbmlPseyaWQ_bhzAnQle3fBy9mn3FX5l-EyV8BoWt6CBrUMw_aem_ZNFZV8B9nG7BazUHP1tOuw

An (I think) absolutely lovely Unbroken Chain from Grahame Lesh and the rest of the gang in tribute to his Dad at a recent gig.  He's got his Dad's wonderful voice, but a whole new super improved version.  Sounds great.  Glorious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK3M_m2tQb8

Come on, you know you want to...it's only 60 CDs....

https://store.dead.net/en/grateful-dead/special-collections/60th-anniversary/enjoying-the-ride-dead.net-exclusive-%5B60-cd%5D/081227813048.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawI-uitleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHUwQKAIUQ5YbxBNaqQ2GfwHJ5FFSu1NJFOMVBEw0MvfvLejogDRPWn1AAg_aem_3Z2u7oO4UI_m4O2lwWGQvw

I think you'd have to be a true fanatic to buy that.

Looking at it cynically, it could be a good investment. The Europe '72 & 30 Trips box sets have appreciated quite considerably in value. But no, I'll pass.

Have you met any Deadheads? ;) ;D

I know at least 5 people personally (all UK based) that are buying it.  And, yes, it'll be 'worth' double in a couple of years so...better than Gold.

But it's not for me...indeed, I've virtually stopped buying Dead releases - there's just so much live stuff out there for nowt that it doesn't really make sense.

My Dead buying days are more or  less over. Even as a vinyl buyer, I'm not tempted   buy the reduced  price reissues which are turning up in HMV and elsewhere.

That aside though,  given there will be buyers for this sort  of monster CD  boxes, where do they find the time, or indeed the stamina,  to listen to them?

They don't.  They just magically 'feel better' owning them.  I once estimated how much of my music collection I actually listen to: 5% is probably a massive over-estimate.  It's almost literally a form of madness...

Yes   i'm rather like that too.   I'm at the stage where i ask myself when i last played the album im.listening to .  Often it's years.  

My whole collection is Mp3, I listen extensively in the car and think I must get through the whole collection once a year.

Have you got about 10 albums?   ;) ;D

Nope about 1200 at last count. I spend a lot of time in the car!

Lordy.  At 60 mins a CD, I make that about 3.25 hours a day, 7 days a week?  I'm impressed... ;D

To be fair if a track comes up I don't fancy listening to I flip to the next

Like?  Sweet lord, I didn't realise we had to like the stuff we carry around with us like a lead weight...I need to look at my collection in a whole different light now (maybe that's the advantage of digital only) ;) :D ;D

I'm in for the 3CD edit...

That's probably a wise move.  Never has 5% seemed more appealing... ;D

First of all I considered the date, but unless the RAH is having a massive jape, it looks like it might have legs.  :o

https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2025/bobby-weir-and-wolf-bros

It's very pleasing news, but after a brief wobble I think I've decided to leave things where I left them after the Ratdog tours in 2002/03, which were exquisite.  I don't have the money or the patience for this...

First reaction on seeing this news - fantastic
Followed by - b*gger, I'll be in Spain
Then - oh, it's an orchestral show, ok, not too down about missing it.

I have to agree with David and Paul, on all points. (Except Spain; Egypt for me on that date.  :) )

Perhaps if it was on ice?

where do they find the time, or indeed the stamina,  to listen to them?
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My whole collection is Mp3, I listen extensively in the car and think I must get through the whole collection once a year.
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Lordy.  At 60 mins a CD, I make that about 3.25 hours a day, 7 days a week?  I'm impressed... ;D
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All my CDs are now digital and if I play them non-stop it will take 30 days to get through them all.  Less than I thought actually with over 11k songs.  That's not counting my vinyl though.  I still need to convert that and there's a lot of it!

Nice that Phil's bass and his genes found their way onto the D&C 60th celebrations stage...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc9iOGYzzhU

Dead and Company ft. Graham Lesh - Box of Rain 8-1-25 San Fran GD60

This will stir the juices of one or two:    ;D

Next Dave's Pick's from the March '81 Rainbow shows.

https://store.dead.net/products/daves-picks-56

Nice 🙂

These are dark days, people.  Buckle up... ;)

Someone should make him remove both his bandana and dungarees. He's practically dressed as Pigpen and he still didn't know. He guessed The Beautiful South? Tit.

Jules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE7nAKZcVCY

RIP Donna Jean

https://relix.com/news/detail/donna-jean-godchaux-passes-away-at-78/?fbclid=IwY2xjawN1soFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHnN3s0NnbY5qIZbzDUOA6iBQukDtpc0NtJYB2b3PCw7JLUDq71rHQFnHKSP9_aem_AKkWsu6Ng1ziHTswa4_DSA

Not to everyone's taste, but she had some lovely moments, bless her. R.I.P :'(

In happier news, it's November & it's "30 Days of Dead" time.

Free downloads for everyone.

https://www.dead.net/30daysofdead

RIP Bob Weir

Hard to believe in some regards but he's always been very Zen about illness and being alive.  Probably my most enjoyable live music experiences were following Ratdog on the 2002 and 2003 UK tours.  So lowkey, such wonderful music, and at times, just standing there about 20 feet from Bobby effing Weir felt so bloody surreal.  Great times.  He will be much missed, but in some regards I do hope this marks the end of the Dead & Co gravy train (it probably won't).  They were never much cop imho.  Other projects, like his Wolf Bros were so much more interesting.  Kicking myself for not going to the RAH last year, but there you go.

Yes. Me too. There's a pattern emerging. I missed Garcia having tickets for MSG in September '95 & my being in hospital when Phil last played the  the O2

Piece in the Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/11/bob-weir-was-a-songwriting-powerhouse-for-the-grateful-dead-and-the-chief-custodian-of-their-legacy

yes just read that... nice one!

"More fun than a frog in glass of milk!"
-Bob Weir

While I agree with David's comment on the RSD thread & will not be participating, this caught my interest.

The Dead's contributions are Vol. of "On a back porch" compilation of random tracks on one disc, plus 6th June 1976 Boston Music Hall on 5 LPs.

Arguably more fascinating is Garcia's "Reflections 50th Anniversary" edition. :o Three LPs featuring the original album remastered, 4 previously unreleased outtakes, Orpheus (a 16 minute studio jam previously issued on the "All Good Things" box set) & four live unreleased JGB tracks from 75/76,  

https://trk.mg.musictoday.com/m/1/17126418/02-b26035-38a3c2be5c934a65a8bd9f963b000375/6/917/d5ca1f59-3b46-43a7-938f-1a1c9a9e7511

Oof.  Now this, I would kill to see...