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Good old Troy/Tray/Trey/Terry Garcia.

 

If you aren't hearing this Dark Star right now you need to be

 

listening to night 1 now...this shit rules so hard lol kinda mad i couldn't make it to boston

 

Grateful Dead Guide: 1972 Melodic Jams

some of these are fuckin wild. the 3/23/72 dark star one features Jerry sounding like Dicky Betts. Makes me sad that wasnt fleshed out

 

Caught JRAD on Friday night and they were phenomenal as usual. 25-minute Eyes of the World into a 20 minute Dancing in the Streets to open the show? Ow ow ow.

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Set One (9:27PM - 10:43PM)
Jam ->
Eyes Of The World @ ->
Dancing In The Streets # >
The Music Never Stopped >
Tennessee Jed >
Next Time You See Me $

Set Two (11:24PM - 1:00AM)
Iko Iko %
Jam $$ -> Black Throated Wind ->
Bertha >
Feel Like A Stranger ^
Peggy - O &
Jam * ->
Playing in The Band + ->
Marco Solo @@

E: It's All Over Now

@ - With a “What’s Going On” (Marvin Gaye) Tease (SM), a Marco Solo which evolved into a Marco / Tommy Duo & a DD Bass Solo
# - With numerous “Becky" (Benevento Russo Duo) Teases & Jams (MB & JR, then Band)
$ - Junior Parker cover (Sung by Pigpen when it was a part of the GD’s repertoire), First Time Played by Almost Dead, sung by SM
% - Not Played by Almost Dead since 2015-02-16 Boulder Theater, Boulder, CO a gap of 123 shows. Preceded by a “Wild Thing” (Tone Loc) Tease (JR)
$$ - With "Theme From A Symphony" (Ornette Coleman) Teases (DD)
^ - With “Sledgehammer” (Peter Gabriel) Teases (Band) and “Poison” (Bell Biv DeVoe) teases (JR)
& - First Time Played by Almost Dead, sung by TH
* - With a Dancing In The Streets Tease (Band) & maybe Dark Star Teases as well?
+ - With Terrapin Suite Teases (TH, MB & JR)
@@ - With a “Borderline” (Madonna) Jam
## - Bobby Womack and Shirley Womack/Rolling Stones Cover, (Sung by Bob Weir when it was a part of the GD’s repertoire) First Time Played by Almost Dead, sung by TH, with a Cumberland Blues Tease (MB)

 

I love the stuff with the Dead as a backing band on If I Could Only Remember My Name and Graham Nash David Crosby. Damn. They were one sympathetic unit.

 

Haven't listened to those tapes in a minute gonna revisit soon

 

Here is that 48-minute Eyes -> Dancin' first set opener combo by JRAD I mentioned a few posts ago. Check it out!

 

that ruled

 

Yupppp, they rule. Unfortunately, these Brooklyn Bowl shows are always full of chompers. I watched this show from four very different spots throughout the venue across the two sets and only found one spot (15 feet off stage, Marco side during 2nd set) where people were watching the show and not TALKING. SO. FUCKING. LOUDLY.

 

speaking of

damn

 

Best night-time zone out music.

 

This is one of the best tracks this band ever cut...shit. There's a baaaaand out on the highway....

 

If I was ready to listen to another album, are Wake of the Flood or From the Mars Hotel any good?

 

I mean...they've got good songs on them...I'd rather have you listen to Live/Dead again and totally skip the Dark Star if you have to. The rest of that album is everything perfect about 60s Dead. Without Dark Star it's even a reasonable length for a regular album. Skull and Roses is also a relatively short but very good live album. Europe '72 of course is very good but long and I think you've already listened to it and if it didn't convince you I'd go another way. I'm wary of recommending a full 2 hour Dick's Pick or anything for worry of loss of interest. So come back after you've heard the rest of Live/Dead, all of which is great.

If you like it come back and I'll send you on to Skull and Roses. If not we'll have to decide if you're ready for 2 hours of dead and whether to go to '72, '74, '77, or '89. Enjoy :)

BUT ALSO. Actually. You maybe should listen to either of those studio albums. They both have some of my favorite dead songs on them and maybe there's one you really like and i can send you a bunch of different versions. So do that too. They're both good for that, have some of the band's best songs on them. Just not top versions

 

Listen to Cornell '77.

 

Yeah. Or do that. I'm sure I've recommended that in the past but now its on spotify. I just dunno if you wanna sit down with it for 2 and a half hours

 

Hot take: there are 3 better shows (5/9, 5/22, and 5/28) than 5/8/77 in that month alone

 

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So I've listened to this cut before a bunch of times because it has the best Phil bombs of all time in it...I've probably posted it here before but if you start at 11:00 you hear phil go INSANE with the Phil bombs.

What I had never known before today was from the comments of the youtube video...apparently this was during a MASSIVE storm, where the lawn at MPP was flooding, the rain was pouring off the roof like waterfalls, there were mudslides down into the isles of the inside...and then when the lightning hits - BOOM BOOM - i'll get up and - BOOM BOOM - fly away - BOOM BOOM - fly away

I can only imagine. Holy shit that must've been an amazing experience

 

I mean just look at these comments...


If I could go back in time and see a dead show, I don't think this would be it based on the music. But based on these comments? Shit, it's gotta be up there with the top 5 I'd go for

 

extremely mad that it seems like there aren't any scofield/medeski/phil shows on the archive?? come onnn

 

@cshadows2887

 

Damn that's pretty great. Such a light touch.

 

You'd love Reckoning, for sure. And the first half of Dick's Picks 8