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[zanjam]

Jen, if you ever feel bad about missing a Spanish Jam while peeing, you can think about a guy I know who was at one of the Madison Square Garden shows in '83 and in the bathroom when they broke out St. Stephen.  That's orders of magnitude worse than your story.

If there's ever a Cortez, by Neil or otherwise, you can be assured I will be in the bathroom.  That's how my life rolls..

But missing that Stephen is pretty major!!

This is why we stop drinking liquids before shows!

I don't understand?  Stop drinking?

[johnnYYac]

Unless you get a sign...

[ericm]

Unless you get a sign...

Woh!  At first glance I thought that was etched into the bottle, then looking closer...WTF?  Yeah, depending on how you view life that's either a sign to stop drinking, or one that says BOTTOMS UP!  I'd be inclined to lean towards the latter.  Steal My Face right down the hatch!

[Colfax]

I never spent anytime in a bathroom missing a show by drinking l s d

[LBSUNFLWR]

Listened to "One From The Vault" this weekend after being reminded how good it is!!
Highly recommend!!

[Come Closer]

"As part of Black Friday 2013, an acoustic set from The Grateful Dead will be pressed in a 2xLP, 180-gram vinyl set. The release, titled Family Dog At The Great Highway, San Francisco 4/18/70, is a "never-before-heard" set and has been cut from the original master tapes."

[searchinbig]

If you guys don't know it's 30 Days of Dead at Dead.Net.

Free songs every day, plus a contest to enter if you guess the date, venue, etc. Have fun!!

[searchinbig]

"As part of Black Friday 2013, an acoustic set from The Grateful Dead will be pressed in a 2xLP, 180-gram vinyl set. The release, titled Family Dog At The Great Highway, San Francisco 4/18/70, is a "never-before-heard" set and has been cut from the original master tapes."

Does anyone know where I might be able to pre order this?

Or can anyone help me out on RSD?

Any help MUCH appreciated!

[woodnymph]

Jazzy Ear Candies

"The improvised music the trio came up with was unlike any project Phil has played in and showed off Lesh's roots as a jazz musician. "

(((full jam at bottom of page)))

http://www.jambase.com/Articles/119912/Lesh-Krasno-And-Russo-Play-Surprise-Set-In-Central-Park

[Jamison]

Looks like I can feel free to gush about Jerry on this thread!

[GO4IT]

Thanks for sharing the memories, Mr. White.

And, speaking of memories, it looks like JerryGarcia.com website has been revamped:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jerry-garcia-gets-a-digital-makeover-20140117

3,450 shows?!?  That's mind-boggling.
15,000 hours of recorded music?!?  I might have to quit my day job.

[ajclements004]

HEY JOHNNY I'll be getting the soundboard of tonight's show either in the next couple weeks or in mid-December when my friend who's getting it brings it down to NC for me to copy--- IT'S GOT YOUR NAME ON IT!!!!

Do you still have this show?  Would love to have it.

[parkervb]

Europe 72 coming to a theater near you

http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1973100

[GO4IT]

Europe 72 coming to a theater near you

http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1973100

Sweet!!!

Europe '72 was one of my "go to" albums back in the day and I still spin my original vinyl a few times a year, especially when the temperature rises.  Just did so a few days ago.

[Shug]

The show they will play at the movies in July was from a German TV show, but this is the well circulated Cophenhagen show from the same tour.  Lots of versions of this video on youtube, this one seems to be pretty high quality.  I'm looking forward  to seeing that Bremen Beat Club show at the movies next month.

Grateful Dead 4-17-72 Tivolis Koncertsal Copenhagen Denmark

[Shug]

Had some friends over for a listening party last weekend.  I chose 1985, creating a "dream show" culled from that year, most of it from 3-28-85 (set I) and 6-28-85 (set II) with a few additions. These shows have been faves of mine for years, but I was still surprised how good they sounded up real loud. Front half of set II Hershy Park the band was truly on fire. So much bass and so much separation between the instruments, the band jamming so good!  Too bad about the forgotten lyrics and a few bum notes, but ya gotta love the Dead warts and all!

All of this is easily found on archive.org

https://archive.org/details/gd85-03-28.sbd.griesman.5313.sbeok.shnf

https://archive.org/details/gd1985-06-28.sbd.miller.107066.flac16

https://archive.org/details/gd1985-06-30.sbd.miller.89192.sbeok.flac16

https://archive.org/details/gd85-06-24.sbd.murphy.2274.sbefail.shnf

https://archive.org/details/gd85-04-07.sbd.sacks.3346.sbeok.shnf

Why Don't We Do It In The Road (4-7-85 Philly)
Truckin
Smokestack Lightning
High Time
El Paso
Peggy-O
Cassidy
Bird Song (4-7-85)
China Cat>
I Know You Rider

Scarlet>
Fire (3-28-85)
Music Never Stopped>
Tom Thumb Blues
Estimated>
Terrapin
Drums/Space
Other One>Cryptical (6-24-85)
Comes A Time (6-24-85)
I Need A Miracle
Morning Dew
Sugar Magnolia (6-30-85)

E: Shakedown Street (6-30-85)
US Blues (6-24-85)
Brokedown Palace (7-14-84) (a great favorite version, the vocal blend was superb, Jerry sounds much better than '85, though, so I had to cheat by including a non-1985 song!)

[LBSUNFLWR]

I will be there in the theater tonight, can't wait!! I have seen them all so far and loved them! 

[Shug]

Damn! That was a great little short show (last night's Dead at the Movies, Bremen '72)

Garcia was on fire and making it look effortless and my oh my that sweet Fender tone he was getting out of his Strat.  I believe that was Alligator without the sticker.  http://jerrygarcia.com/guitars/#alligator  Sounded so great, such a sweet strong country rock tone, perfectly foiled against Weir's warm Gibson sound.

One More Saturday Night was a definite highlight, holy shit they were jamming.  I thought to myself "this may be the most perfect hard rocking grooving expression of Chuck Berry rock 'n roll ever" (neck and neck with the Rolling Stones doing something like Brown Sugar in 1972 or Wilco playing Monday live in 2008-2010).  Keith and Jerry were so locked in, rocking the fuck out!

I loved seeing the goofiness, Bob and Jerry disagreeing about whether to wait for Pig's organ to get fixed, Jerry telling Donna (right before the second version of Playin' In The Band) to back off from the microphone, restarting songs, all that was funny and cool to see.

Phil and Billy were all over it all night long, too.  Garcia was the man of the night though.  He was blazing away in the Other One.  I am firmly convinced with the listening I've been doing the past couple years, that Spring to Winter 1972 was the peak of Jerry's guitar playing, he was so clear and precise, so fluid, never running out of ideas, aggressively leading when called for but always fitting in to the song.  Seeing him do it 40' tall on the IMAX screen really brought it home. 

[Shug]

Yeah it was short but I knew that going in, so I wasn't surprised.  To get more of the same, we watched the 4-17-72 show at home with some friends the next night.  Its all on YouTube, as I posted it above.

[ericm]

Jerry would've been 72 today, and I'll be raising a glass for the big guy's birthday.

Gone way too soon, and missed all the time.