― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link
I actively dislike the proper albums though
― seuss, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 04:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 04:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 04:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 04:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 04:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 05:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 05:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Man, I didn't even know about that. Nor did I know a new Dick's Picks was out .... from '71! Man it's so crazy how they crank those suckers out; if you don't check back often you wouldn't even know that like 5 Dicks Picks had come out since you last browsed the site.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 05:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 05:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 05:10 (eighteen years ago) link
And one Broke-Down Palace I don't like is Will Oldham's cover of it. I was excited to hear that he was doing it, but I wasn't a big fan of the execution, esp. the second half. Oh well.
― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 05:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 05:23 (eighteen years ago) link
http://s57.yousendit.com/d.php?id=1H1UAEBDB90GCBSMTALVHSLK4
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 05:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 05:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 05:58 (eighteen years ago) link
that would be great, thanks suzy.
― amon (eman), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link
OK, the list forthcoming.
― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link
02/14/6802/28/6902/18/7104/29/7108/06/7108/27/7209/21/7202/09/7302/15/7306/10/7311/11/7311/17/7302/24/7406/18/7406/28/7410/19/7410/20/7402/26/7705/07/7705/08/7705/09/7706/09/7707/08/7806/30/8509/18/8707/17/8910/09/8903/29/9009/10/9009/10/91
― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― amon (eman), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link
'76 was a strange year, though. Caught between two styles for the most part. Although I know it's from 1975, a lot of '76 stuff reminds me of "One from the Vault" - sounds great but a little cautious.
― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Thursday, 25 August 2005 00:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― amon (eman), Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link
Actually, it also reminds me of baseball fans.
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:41 (eighteen years ago) link
BEHOLD! NY YANKEE BERNIE WILLIAMS AND ... THE JOURNEY WITHIN!
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00009VGX9.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link
But it's not like Dead fans are MORE rapturous than any other really rabid fans, at least the ones I know (including myself).* I guess baseball is the best analogy. It's not that baseball fans love baseball more than basketball fans love basketball, it's just that there is a lot more data produced in a baseball game for the fan to pore over.
― Scott CE (Scott CE), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:57 (eighteen years ago) link
"Grateful Dead concerts are like baseball games: no two are ever alike. The plays are always different, and there's always fresh hope. Sometimes the game's an all-timer even though individual performances are sloppy; sometimes everybody plays great but the team loses anyway.
Some people thrive on yesterday's moments, and aren't too keen on the way the game's played today. Some have only been fans since last year and don't care what happened way back when. You can cherish the great victories and triumphant seasons and chart them across decades, or you can go simply for the enjoyment of tonight and to hell with the standings. Like all the great teams, the Dead have their pennant years and bleak innings, perfect games and whippings, hits and foul balls, heroes and goats.
To many they're an institution, to some mere child's play, and to others the Grateful Dead is more or less an indispensable part of life. There are those who say the game's too slow, that the brief moments of action and excitement are too few and far between. Like "America's Favorite Pastime," the Dead are both celebrated and criticized, and some people will never see what's to enjoy.
Like big-league fans, Deadheads are as varied as the game is long. There are scorekeepers who record every detail for statistical analysis and a place in the Hall of Fame; camera buffs and video freaks; armchair umpires, die-hards, groupies. Some are bleacher bums who'd be in the stands no matter who was playing; and there are even spousal fans who go because if they didn't, they'd be left home alone. A lot of people attend because they've always gone and really don't care to stop.
It may take a few visits to grasp the subtleties, but if you let yourself into the flow of things, there's something to enjoy from the very first moment you're there. As the old saying goes, the mind believes what the mind believes: Grateful Dead is cerebral if you choose to analyze it, but it's basic and instinctive too. Like the game of baseball."
― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 01:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 01:48 (eighteen years ago) link
And this just occured to me - I can't think of any other rock musicians (besides blues guitarists) that are still playing music after six decades.
http://www.rockstar.it/img/Phil_Lesh.jpg
Godspeed, weirdo.
― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 01:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link
(Result 3: Xgau)
Jack Straw - about rebellion in the sense of escape? or revolution? both?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Wow. It does live up to the legend. Freakin amazing, some of their best playing.
And to think, I thought I hated them live post-73!
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 12 October 2006 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Thursday, 12 October 2006 01:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Pretty much all of May '77 is worth listening to. That 5/8/77 show though ... just has everything you'd want. Even the band banter telling the crowd to TAKE A STEP BACK is classic.
No one is gonna blame you for taking so long to leave the pre-hiatus '70s comfort zone, though. When I first started listening to GD I loved all that early '70s stuff, heard a bootleg from '87 and stayed away from post-hiatus double-drum line-up for years.
5/8/77 - fiercest Scarlet -> Fire, best Morning Dew climax, REALLY solid 1st set, etc. etc. It's pretty easy to find, too; plus the sound quality is A+.
― Jamesy (SuzyCreemcheese), Thursday, 12 October 2006 01:55 (seventeen years ago) link
I think I sent this track to like Chaki and Ian before we all got all YSI'd out, but for all my fellow brethren and sistren here's an insane "Cream Puff War" from '67 -- nine minutes of amphetamine-fueled Jerry blowing his brains out, total punk rock--
stormy i want this again!!!
― chaki, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
oooh i want that
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
The problem with the defenses of American Beauty and Workingman's Dead as "concise" is that the conciseness still doesn't come close to solving their main problems: a lazy-ass sluggish rhythm section, and lazy-ass sluggish singers.
― Sara Sara Sara, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link