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Yay! A Grateful Thread! I've been making my way through '82, and I'm pretty much near the end. A pretty solid year. There were some real highlights for sure, some nights they'd still take the music to places you wouldn't expect but it was mostly by the numbers, jam wise. Speaking of Casey Jones they busted that out twice out of nowhere as encores, only one of which we have a board of as far as I know. Also, useful website is Setlists.net - Dead shows by date, region, country, venue, song, year. drat near anything. If you're looking to see how many times they played Help-> Slipknot! -> Fire (once), or shows that opened with Alabama Getaway but also had The Other One then that's your website. I'm just going to throw Dick's Picks 19 as the perfect first live show to listen to. It's on spotify and everything. Go wild. algebra testes fucked around with this message at Aug 11, 2013 around 03:04 |
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Hey I think ACE is like one of the best "Grateful Dead" albums ever writ. I guess I'm in the minority there...
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| # ¿ Aug 10, 2013 01:11 |
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Yeah, I think by 82 for example they had about four shows they'd rotate (ie: the Scarlet/Fire show, the Playing show etc), but then within those shows there were differences each time so it gave the impression of a limitless number of possibilities. My vote would be 9/10 MSG 91. Branford Marsalis is guest on the second set and it's pretty amazing. http://archive.org/details/gd91-09-....511.sbeok.shnf There are some 91 shows, with Bruce (he wasn't there all the time) that are positively amazing. The energy he could bring really seemed to stimulate Jerry. edit: I've never cared about the mix, if there isn't enough phil that's something I can live with. But I'll be damned if nothing grinds my gears like Vince being mixed over the top of Bruce. 
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| # ¿ Aug 12, 2013 22:43 |
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Goddamnit I'm going to have to educate this thread about Bobby aren't I?
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| # ¿ Aug 13, 2013 00:06 |
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HollisBrown posted:I've never heard that show but I' really interested in "He's Gone", it's one of my favorite tunes and they didn't play it much. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXLP7SDksao  due to hippy titties. I think it's great, there really isn't a lot of good 70s footage. Apart from later when they're coked up like crazy.
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| # ¿ Aug 15, 2013 01:22 |
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quote:Jack Straw from Wichita Classic Dead, I believe once Bobby flubbed "Texas, fourth day of july" while playing in Texas on the fourth of July. I've always liked that song, the way the can get across the dynamic of the two friends relationship and the trouble it brings which leads to Jack killing his friend. And it works as a song too.
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| # ¿ Aug 19, 2013 10:54 |
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The Fresh Prince posted:Ugh, Lesh deserved to sing Box of Rain. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_fEzl5S0hE That's a great doco too, gets me a bit  at the montage of Jerry at the end thought.Also, speaking of doccos there's a lot of Dead in this one including some great Jerry stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPIWGLIprZI I always laugh at "They were a hairy, bad looking bunch of guys."
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| # ¿ Aug 21, 2013 01:15 |
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They played a few electric Deep Elum Blueses around that time, and they're so much fun. That an "On the Road Again" were cool little songs that popped up in that era.
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| # ¿ Sep 5, 2013 03:06 |
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I have some ideas I'll look up, but this always makes me  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvjHH_G-4_8
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| # ¿ Sep 10, 2013 12:58 |
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How the gently caress does Vince Welnick still have a band? And if there's a Vince Welnick band why isn't there a Jerry Garcia Band? 
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BigFactory posted:That was a joke. But missing man formation was not a good band.  Going for a bike ride tomorrow, think I might bust out some 77 Dead for the ride.  Haven't listened to something from May for a while, I love the music never stops from that era. So drat funky.
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| # ¿ Sep 24, 2013 12:47 |
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That Cold Rain and Snow from the Steppin' Out... box set is so good. So much bite and energy. Spoiler alert, I guess, Europe 72 was a great tour.
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| # ¿ Oct 13, 2013 10:52 |
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I enjoy the 'punch' his vocals added. Nothing like him laying down a fat "Jack Straw from Wichita" at the climax of the song. While they're not amazing, I don't mind his Go To Heaven tracks, they're not amazing but they're not so bad. Also, he only sung them once a blue moon.
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| # ¿ Oct 22, 2013 07:32 |
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When did he blow his voice out? It was pretty early on from memory. And they didn't actually play it that often before he did and it was before they had decent monitors on stage.
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| # ¿ Oct 25, 2013 12:55 |
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Yeah I'm pretty sure he blew his voice out in or around '73. Anything after that is not going to sound so good. Very early 70s, 72 even he still had that great upper register.
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| # ¿ Oct 25, 2013 14:39 |
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Dick's Picks 29. Haven't listened to the Dead seriously for a while, but wow the sound is amazing, so crisp. All the parts laying on top of each other in just the right spaces. Can't beat a rocking Promised Land opener (my personal favorite).
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| # ¿ Dec 1, 2013 09:27 |
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There were some amazing Sunshines in this period. Really strange that they dropped it in a couple of weeks. It was played again during the '74 Winterland Rehearsal Shows but that was it until it was reborn in '92.
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvkUfy_9SmQ
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| # ¿ Jan 12, 2014 04:20 |
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Juaguocio posted:Killer. I think that's the best version I've heard; most are pretty underwhelming. gently caress godspeed man. It's either going to be amazing or you're going to burn out like a motherfucker.
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| # ¿ Jan 13, 2014 13:12 |
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Abu Dave posted:Archive.Org has a whole buttload of legal live shows for download: How about this and this bt.etree.org is the best place for shows, the Dead's policy is no soundboards of things they sell, and no charging money so it's not 
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BigFactory posted:To translate: "these ratdog dates aren't selling well". Who are they having to bury hatchets with? I hope they get Haynes on guitar he's my favorite 
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| # ¿ Feb 2, 2014 13:18 |
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The Grateful Dead Thread - We don't know who's Dead in this thread.
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| # ¿ Feb 4, 2014 02:30 |
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 45 Years Today.
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| # ¿ Feb 28, 2014 01:29 |
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Juaguocio posted:Yes indeed. It's never a bad time to revisit the Live/Dead era. I eagerly await.
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| # ¿ Feb 28, 2014 05:16 |
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Wow great read! More content would really be appreciated.
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| # ¿ Mar 22, 2014 05:11 |
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https://archive.org/details/gd1968-...59.sbeok.flac16 Todays listening for me. I wasn't taken aback by the start, but everything from the other one onwards was
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| # ¿ Mar 30, 2014 07:44 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGMxHdcCL-0 I don't know if I've posted that before but that's a great documentary.
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| # ¿ Apr 17, 2014 01:42 |
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Yes the answer is yes. It'd inspire me to do similar with a year in the 80s 
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| # ¿ Aug 3, 2014 13:20 |
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And I really liked 1991 with two pianos. Man I'm kinda bummed I didn't get in on that first 1990 box set.
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| # ¿ Aug 8, 2014 14:43 |
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quote:"I came up for "Bird Song", and after the set was over, I said, 'Thanks for letting me play, guys.' And they're like, 'No, no, stay! Play the second half of the show. We'll do "Dark Star".' That had no significance to me. I'm like, '"Dark Star"? Okay. What is it?' 'Oh, you're gonna love it. It's free, it's out.' 'Great, I can play out.' They start playing that lick, and the audience goes loving bananas. Later, I started getting these phone calls on my private number: 'Man, you were great last night. Thanks for getting them to play "Dark Star". They haven't played it in six months.' 
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I don't, I think I just pulled it from some promotional stuff from Rolling Stone or something.
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| # ¿ Sep 21, 2014 01:35 |
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Juaguocio posted:I haven't heard any news about Bobby's health, but he and Phil sang The Star-Spangled Banner before game 3 of the NLCS today, so hopefully that means he's doing better. Looking that up, turns out they have done it quite a number of times! I remember hearing a concert at the Coliseum with bob Waxing on about how great the Athletics were at the time, so they're presumably baseball fans.
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| # ¿ Oct 16, 2014 06:32 |
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http://www.avclub.com/article/exper...l-dead-t-210576
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| # ¿ Oct 18, 2014 02:42 |
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Volume 19 is still my favorite. I think it was in contention for the first show to be released but they went with another show from that tour edited down instead.
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| # ¿ Jan 21, 2015 23:42 |
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They started off with a more Bluesy/straight up psychedelic vibe and after Workingman's Dead/American Beauty they paired their sound back and we ended up with that country sound for a few years, at least until their first 'retirement'. Some of their early stuff was really I guess you'd say "full on" but it's still very pleasant to listen to. Just blazing/screaming guitar solos over long these blues rock songs. Although, not a huge amount of tape is in good condition from that era. There was a Dick's Picks 22 from 1968 that should be on spotify if you want to check it out.
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| # ¿ Feb 22, 2015 01:52 |
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9/27/72 was the first show I heard.  edit: I look forward to you getting up to '73 because there were some amazing shows that year too.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PODPgBaiFI4 Sweet video on the Wall of Sound.
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Llyr posted:Recent Dead fan here. I've listened to their studio albums from Workingman's Dead to Blues For Allah and now I want to try their live stuff. I'm finding it daunting though. I know Europe '72 is recommended but I prefer the songs off Allah & Flood. Also, which Europe album do I get? The one that is a mix of the tour or one of the complete shows? Since I love the 73-75 materiel, any live show recommendations? From '73 (which includes Flood material) Dick's Picks 19 & 28 For Blues Material, anything from ~ May '77 is great, so Dick's Picks 29 In regards to Europe '72, the Album Europe '72 is a nice collection of bit and pieces so that's a good starting point. All of which, afaik, is on Spotify so that's an easy place to start.
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Hollis Brownsound posted:That interview cemented a couple things I'd always thought: '77 was the broke and strung out on coke year, which is what makes the music being so good so incredible.
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Juaguocio posted:I'm really enjoying Deal so far. After the introduction, the co-author pretty much gets out of the way and lets Billy ramble about whatever, so reading the book is kind of like hanging out and listening to him tell stories. The phrase "a lot of acid" pops up literally dozens of times. Let me guess the words "we never really did" are not the ones immediately preceding?
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