The Dead

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fucking SKULLFUCK motherfuckers

some folks trust in reason ... others trust in might..

makes exploring their catalog kind of fun, actually..

also, http://unixgu.ru/dead/

i don't know what's what in there, but have fun trying stuff out.

i've yet to meet a dead fan who didn't like Live/Dead

I was raised on the GD via hippy dad. It has taken me a long time to appreciate them again.

Jerry >>>>>>>>> Phil >>>>> Bob

Understand they are not a studio band and always had overthought things when recording.

then go back and start to fill in

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3/1/69
11/8/69
10/4/70
8/27/72
8/6/74
5/8/77

i cant believe i can still remember this shit (only cheated a little)

(runs away)

made of ribbon and lace. and i tuck my shirts in.

They're a singles band.

seriously...ian (or someone), throw up a primer mix...i should totally dig the dead, but...

just download anthem of the sun. it isn't very many tracks.

as a comp, what a long strange trip its been is near-perfect. that was my self-introduction to the band when i was 16. i bought a copy at the swansea mall whilst drunk. i played that thing OUT. a perfect starting point if you see the double vinyl for cheap.

smarter Deadheads try to brush off hippie-baiting by going "Well, Phil Lesh studied under Stockhausen". But would these fuckers ever listen to Stockhausen? No..

Yeah, but so are ten million other psych albums.

although i don't know what i'm complaining about, i love that studio other one suite, the rest i'll pass on.

an annotated version of my list...

6/25/93 RFK - first show, age 17, met up with my F&M fratboy summer roommates, get Half Step (hallelujah) opener leading pretty sweet list for a first time, including Althea, Cassidy, Cumberland, China->Rider, UJB, Sugar Mag, and glorious Weight encore. Hornsby on piano throughout.

6/26/93 RFK - liked it so much the first time I went back the next day and scored tix in the lot, where I also ran into this dude. made my way within 50 yards of the stage, where I'd be for every remaining RFK show. Lacklusterish show. Jerry sits in with opener Sting during Walking on the Moon.

3/28/94 Nassau - with high school friends (was my sister there?!). Dreary rain outside set right with a cozy Good Times Roll opener, and reflected in Box of Rain, excellent Rain (Beatles) cover, That Would Be Something ("...to meet you in the pouring rain"), and Bertha ("It was all night pouring, pouring rain, but not a drop on me"). Singing was great in this show, especially in Rain and set 2 highlight He's Gone. Brokedown encore.

7/16/94 RFK - Alone at this show (or was it the next night?) the summer before freshman year of college, I see a girl with a Columbia hat on while sitting on the floor waiting for set I. She's starting next year too and is in the same dorm. Will turn out later that she lives one floor below me and becomes one of my more important friends for much of the 4 years. Passable show with nice Cold Rain and Snow->Picasso Moon opener, and set 2 highlight Estimated->Crazy Fingers (and crazy Drums).

7/17/94 RFK - Nothing special about this one, but got my long-awaited first Eyes, as well as fave So Many Roads.

10/14/94 MSG (Set II only) - my first show with my college best friend, we scored tix halfway through, and make it inside at setbreak to join the friend mentioned above, one of the dudes now in the National, etc. And how are we rewarded? Scarlet->Fire set II opener! Attics!!

10/15/94 MSG - this one was with my friend's hs friends who would transfer in the next year and live with us for the next 3 years. Ok show, but fun list. The profusion of mounted cops outside aligns with the theme - Shakedown, Stagger Lee, Deal, Victim or the Crime, excellent New Speedway! Plus hometown Tom Thumb's and I Want To Tell You encore!

6/24/95 RFK - Dylan opens here, and Hornsby's back. Not sure, but I think this was the show where the crowd buzzed about Al Gore being backstage. We're near the end of course, and it's reflected in some of the playing, but this was a poignant one even at the time. The last Friend of the Devil (and Days Between) ever, and for an affecting encore Jerry tries real hard on the first Black Muddy River in four years.

6/25/95 RFK - another rain show with Rain, Box of Rain, and Samba in the Rain. excellent Shakedown opener, but there are obviously problems here. Jerry sat in with Bobby D on 2 songs to little discernable effect, and Bobby W pulls a 3-song cowboy break in the middle of the first set. some songs go to mush and the overall not-getting-it-up/pack-it-in mood is reflected in set 2's Samson, Ship of Fools, Truckin, Rollin and Tumblin, and Wharf Rat. Encore? Jerry pulls out the final Brokedown Palace.

05-05-90 California State U. Dominguez Hills, Carson, Ca. (Sat)
1: LTGTR, Race Is On*, Help> Slipknot> Franklin's, Queen Jane, Loser, Me & My Uncle> Mexicali, Loose Lucy, Saturday Night
2: Truckin> Crazy Fingers> Playin> Uncle John> Drumz> Miracle> Mr. Fantasy> GDTRFB> Around E: Touch
*Kentucky Derby daylast "Race Is On": 05-06-89 [67] - FM broadcast KPFK

Uh...

04-27-91 Sam Boyd Silver Bowl, U.N.L.V., Las Vegas, Nv. (Sat)
1: Touch, Walking Blues, FOTD, Mexicali> Maggie's Farm, Loose Lucy, Cassidy, Might As Well
2: Sugar Magnolia> Scarlet> Fire, Playin> Uncle John> Drumz> Miracle> Black Peter> Saturday Night E: The Weight
Carlos Santana opened - piano jam tuning before "Sugar Magnolia"

Woah...