Grateful Dead live, Dick's Picks etc - S&D

Got tix the other day to see Dead and Co. this summer with my pops. I've never seen any incarnation of the band in concert but I've heard good things about this group. Consider myself a very mild fan up until now but I'm starting to play catch-up and I'll admit it's pretty addictive to stalk the Dead through different eras and different versions of songs. Once you get in their headspace it's very easy to not want to listen to anything else. case in point I feel pretty guilty at how much Dead I ended up listening to last night and this morning instead of The Fall.

there's a fantastic app called 'relisten' which lets you store archive shows offline... it's dangerous

triggering word there----evol j, you know about this right?
https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead

yes i do, i'll probably get there eventually though i'm content with what's on spotify for now.

john perry barlow died?

RIP, seemed like quite a character ...

he was quite likable in the doc- also, one of the only 'cool' republicans i can think of??

haha, i thought he was a "cyber-libertarian" ... which maybe is just republican, i dunno.

rip he seemed like an okay guy

Never Not Funny Anecdote from the Annotated Dead lyrics site:

Steven Finney wrote:
> I posted this a few years ago, but it bears a repeat...I read an
> interview with Barlow (aka "the Barlitos"...to those who know the band)
> many years ago in an English music magazine, and the following was
> one of the original lyrics to "Hell in a Bucket" which Bobby chose
> not to sing...(hey! This could even be taken as an HS reference!)
>
> "And while you were saying your mantra
> I was humping your very best friend
> And comparing myself to Sinatra
> 'Cause I did it my way in her end".

It's true! I was hanging out at Weir's a bit in those days, and there
were some gnarly ideas batted around for that song. Gerrit Graham (who
wrote "Victim or the Crime" with Bobby) was around for some of these
sessions, too.

I was actually able to contribute a little to "Hell in a Bucket": I
suggested to Bob that he change "You imagine me kissing the toe of your
boot" to "You imagine me sipping champagne from your boot." Barlow
seemed slightly miffed about it, but I'm pretty sure he got over it.

Fresh Air re-ran a Barlow interview today--- he saw that his kind of early small town experience in Wyoming was disappearing, America was becoming "Generica," but then he realized that "the Deadheads were going to The Well, an online village green" founded by The Whole Earth Catalogue's Stewart Brand and some of his crew. I started hearing about this thing in the 80s, though the only specic news item I recall is from the mid-90s, maybe: a guy who had been detailing his love life on there for years eventually decided to run for office and wanted at least some of these posts removed---caused a big furor on there, because the main doctrine on there always has been (just checked, it's still there) is, "You own your words": they belong to you alone, and you're responsible for them. Anyway, any ilxors been there? I tried an ilx search, bur gave up, "well" too common a word in thread titles.

"The Epic Saga of The Well"---from '97, but looks good:
https://www.wired.com/1997/05/ff-well/

"Estimated Prophet" is one of the best jams of the disco Dead.

yeah that song grows in stature for me, I didn't used to love it as much as I do now

same

Fun fact: Barlow worked for Dick Cheney on his 1978 Wyoming House Rep campaign! Seems like he split w/ the Republicans when neoconservatism became dominant. His politics seem pretty squarely libertarian, though. Was cool to see JPB show up in HyperNormalization; less cool that Curtis used him/EFF as stand-ins for naive utopians unwittingly ushering in commercial control of the web.

Wrote many of my least favorite GD songs but "Looks Like Rain" from Without a Net is a booming track and probably best case scenario for a Barlow/Weir tune.

I always think of Estimated Prophet as envelope filter dead more than disco dead but there is a lot of crossover there

2/27/69 vinyl for RSD!!

This will be nearly impossible to obtain but glad they're doing it

how do deadheads have so much money

Legal Weed Sales

deadheads truly exist in almost all walks of life therefore there are many many rich deadheads

yeah, true — just seems crazy the amount of cash some people must be dropping on the endless reissues, various shows, cherry garcia in bulk ...

how do deadheads have so much money

― tylerw, Friday, March 9, 2018 2:16 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tech Bros.

yea was gonna say there has always been that silicon valley / burning man kind of overlap between very wealthy people who "still need to live, maaaan"

Legal Weed Sales
Tech Bros.

I saw Phish at the Gorge in Washington State a couple years ago and was really surprised at how many BMWs / Mercedes / Lexuses there were waiting in line to get in, plus a non trivial number of really, really nice VW busses that had obviously been restored.

I'm sure there were a ton of tech bros there and I overheard a lot of conversations and networking about the weed business - people talking about their stores, testing labs, grow ops, banking/money laundering ventures, etc.

isn't al gore a deadhead?

also: deadheads are _old_. lotta broke-ass olds, of course, but more old people with money than young people with money.

When Jerry died there were TV obits focused on Wall St. bankers crying in the streets. They’ve been a yuppie band since the 80s

Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.
A little voice inside my head said:
"Don't look back, you can never look back."
I thought I knew what love was.
What did I know?
Those days are gone forever.
I should just let 'em go, but

About a year ago, I randomly caught the 7/4/81 Austin TX set playing on the SiriusXM Grateful Dead Channel; it had the most crackling "China Cat" I've ever heard!

(The last Dead thing I bought was the 2-disc Cornell 5/8/77 set... it lived up to the hype, but I had become kinda burned out on the SiriusXM channel at that point, so I’ve only played it a few times.)

http://www.dead.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/product-main/digi_cover.jpg?1527045404

ANTHEM OF THE SUN (50TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION)
2-CD Apple Lossless HD FLAC

"This is one the most thrilling albums the Grateful Dead ever produced, mixing portions of live recordings from the first six months of Mickey's tenure with the band, along with studio experimentations that would hint at where the Dead would go when they started recording to 16-track tape the following year. The 1971 remix, produced in order to make the album more accessible to the newer fans who were brought on board with WORKINGMAN'S DEAD and AMERICAN BEAUTY, has been the most commonly heard version for the past 45+ years. However, having this side-by-side with the original 1968 mix demonstrates countless differences, with the original mix being more primal, psychedelic, and experimental. Add to this the first extant live recording featuring Mickey as a member of the Grateful Dead, and you have a very special release in every way.” - David Lemieux

We're continuing our 50th anniversary reissue series with ANTHEM OF THE SUN: 50th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION, due July 13th. Released 50 years after its anniversary date, this two-disc deluxe version features a double dose of the original album - one fully remastered from the original 1968 mix and the other remastered from the more well-known 1971 mix - as well as a bonus disc of a previously unreleased complete live show recorded on October 22, 1967 at Winterland in San Francisco, CA. Newly remastered by Jeffrey Norman, this is the first known recording of the Grateful Dead with Mickey Hart, who joined the band in September 1967. The first run will come with a special lenticular of the cover.
Do not stop on the tracks, grab a copy while you can!
more info: http://www.dead.net/store/1960s/anthem-sun-50th-anniversary-deluxe-edition?eml=2018May22/4328286/6131962&etsubid=33554028
I don't have either mix, so I should get this, right?

Walking through the crowd at a @GratefulDead show at the Greek in 1986. pic.twitter.com/0N71Esnlx1

— Justin Kreutzmann (@JustKreutzmann) May 28, 2018

fuckin’ hippies, lol

I wouldn't call myself a head but this mix seems pretty great to me: live recordings from 93-94 featuring jazz players with the Dead - Ornette on four tracks + Branford Marsalis, David Murray, Ken Nordine. Five versions of "Space" + Ornette on "That's It for the Other One" (probably my favourite GD song of what I know)
https://t.co/llNo7G7Dfn

Oh, I see that some of it might be upthread?

yeah that whole blog is very much worth your time!

I tried "HAI!" listening to "HAI!" Murray on an "Estimated Prophet," and while "HAI!" he sounded "HAI!" surprisingly good "HAI!" with them, there were "HAI!" all these really "HAI!" annoying and distracting "HAI!" vocal interjec"HAI!"tions from Weir.

I watched the Dead doc on Amazon again, but lord help me some of the deadheads, Steve Silberman's whole "dead shows were like a MANDALA" thing is so cringey (even tho he seems like a really good dude overall) but man...

i'm grateful i was able to approach them with little to no context, being contemporary to that shit probably would have ruined the whole thing tbh

i grew up in the heyday of the Big Wu #blessed

if the silly deadhead stuff bothers you, stay far away from Dead and Co shows. Everyone at the show is super old and trying hard to do that same silly deadhead stuff and is hasn't aged well.

i will definitely stay far away!

listening to Europe 72 - Vol 9 - 4/26/72 (Jahrdundert Halle, Frankfurt)

really good set

Yeah, Europe 72 forever

http://image.em-dead.net/lib/fe93127176650d7b77/m/1/580+GD_PNW_Box_Wide.jpg

WHAT'S INSIDE:
6 Complete Shows On 19 Discs
6/22/73 P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C.
6/24/73 Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR
6/26/73 Seattle Center Arena, Seattle, WA
5/17/74 P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C.
5/19/74 Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR
5/21/74 Hec Edmundson Pavilion, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Mastered in HDCD from the original master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering
Masters transferred and restored by Plangent Processes
Original Art by First Nations Artist Roy Henry Vickers
Photos by Richie Pechner
Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 15,000
more info, audio:
http://view.em-dead.net/?qs=70c8fc4c130ea2c6a6919bd67c1c9b69910023921ce969f40bcc5206d87fccde5bb13ae43df64206a4489fc412dc2feca27ea45e1b5ebe8a0abbdb82f8074bc627e3f7790eef0588

73 is incredible, I bought this one right away

Yeah, great looking set! That PNE show is stellar

ha that packaging is ridiculous

omg yall listening party liner notes photos threads:
http://view.em-dead.net/?qs=4984f247ec76cd999b8230e54ff78fa44f67b6a26618eb911ded24d21c69396936bf79b510bfe4a105249a1f735a2822f2484977e9d6cc1230cf04d8c7136dfc727924d6fc1cd3fa

i think jesse jarnow, wfmu dj and author of the terrific heads, wrote the liner notes for the 3cd version, looking forward to reading/listening