Skiing and Music

[chuckstah]

Saw my first Dead show 43 years ago today. Man, I was young. Not sure how I managed to pull that off, going to Lewiston with friends from Boston. Still my favorite show. Long. Probably going to Outlaw fest in Mansfield on the 16th. Willie, Bob, Los Lobos, String Cheese. $10 tix. No brainer. Man, I'm getting old

 

[jimk]

Saw my first Dead show 43 years ago today. Man, I was young. Not sure how I managed to pull that off, going to Lewiston with friends from Boston. Still my favorite show. Long. Probably going to Outlaw fest in Mansfield on the 16th. Willie, Bob, Los Lobos, String Cheese. $10 tix. No brainer. Man, I'm getting old

Beware, I saw Los Lobos as opening act of a Tedeschi-Trucks show about 5 or 6 years ago. Los Lobos played this odd little tune and it's been stuck in my head ever since, earworm!

PS: Springsteen has an ulcer, cancelling tour dates: https://wtop.com/national/2023/09/b...ing-doctors-advice-regarding-ulcer-treatment/

 

[jimmywilson69]

Los Lobos are very good. I'd like to see them

Also so the Springsteen news. Ulcer sort of makes sense to the last minute cancellation in Philly.

 

[deadheadskier]

Saw my first Dead show 43 years ago today. Man, I was young. Not sure how I managed to pull that off, going to Lewiston with friends from Boston. Still my favorite show. Long. Probably going to Outlaw fest in Mansfield on the 16th. Willie, Bob, Los Lobos, String Cheese. $10 tix. No brainer. Man, I'm getting old

My first GD experience was JGB actually in September of 89 just prior to my 14th birthday. First actual GD was March of 90 in Hartford. My brother who is 8 years older saw his first in 85 when he was 18. Instantly hooked and wanted to bring me. Mom wouldn't let me go until 14 and she had to come with. So, my brother got tickets for all of us and had my mom wear a tye dye shirt. Within minutes of her exiting the car on the lot, someone offered to sell her opium.

Other than that she had a great time especially being JGB and all of the Motown. Clarence Clemmons sat in that show. So, she let me go to shows without her moving forward. I feel fortunate to have seen 1 more JGB show and 30 GD shows before Jerry died in 95 just prior to turning 20. I had tickets to all 6 nights to the closing of Boston Garden that fall including 3rd row center for the final one

 

[KustyTheKlown]

My first GD experience was JGB actually in September of 89 just prior to my 14th birthday. First actual GD was March of 90 in Hartford. My brother who is 8 years older saw his first in 85 when he was 18. Instantly hooked and wanted to bring me. Mom wouldn't let me go until 14 and she had to come with. So, my brother got tickets for all of us and had my mom wear a tye dye shirt. Within minutes of her exiting the car on the lot, someone offered to sell her opium.

Other than that she had a great time especially being JGB and all of the Motown. Clarence Clemmons sat in that show. So, she let me go to shows without her moving forward. I feel fortunate to have seen 1 more JGB show and 30 GD shows before Jerry died in 95 just prior to turning 20. I had tickets to all 6 nights to the closing of Boston Garden that fall including 3rd row center for the final one

garcia live 13 is a clarence show - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garcia_Live_Volume_13

prob on spotify

 

[jimmywilson69]

I never saw the grateful dead. IN fact I never really even listened to them until Phish went on hiatus in 2000, when I really got into trading shows. I was more into hard rock, heavy metal, alternative and then Phish in the 90s. I didn't really miss anything with the Dead IMO when I was of concert age while Jerry was still alive. Would've been cool to see some JGB stuff though.

 

[crank]

Beware, I saw Los Lobos as opening act of a Tedeschi-Trucks show about 5 or 6 years ago. Los Lobos played this odd little tune and it's been stuck in my head ever since, earworm!

PS: Springsteen has an ulcer, cancelling tour dates: https://wtop.com/national/2023/09/b...ing-doctors-advice-regarding-ulcer-treatment/

Love that tune. My band was talking about learning it but we decided it was too weird and we would never end up playing it at a gig.

 

[chuckstah]

Beware, I saw Los Lobos as opening act of a Tedeschi-Trucks show about 5 or 6 years ago. Los Lobos played this odd little tune and it's been stuck in my head ever since, earworm!

I also saw Los Lobos open for Tedeschi Trucks, just last summer though I think. Good show, but I only knew one song before they closed with a great cover of Bertha. Thankfully, no strange songs stuck in my head.

 

[deadheadskier]

I never saw the grateful dead. IN fact I never really even listened to them until Phish went on hiatus in 2000, when I really got into trading shows. I was more into hard rock, heavy metal, alternative and then Phish in the 90s. I didn't really miss anything with the Dead IMO when I was of concert age while Jerry was still alive. Would've been cool to see some JGB stuff though.

There were a lot of stinkers in those 30 shows I saw between 90 - 95, but every single one of them had at least some moments where Garcia blew your mind. Or Phil or Brent or even Bob. Glad I saw Brent 3 times before he passed. Unquestionably my favorite live music experiences ever were the times I saw Jerry

I imagine an 18 year old feels the same way today seeing Trey. Trey admittedly hasn't fallen off like Jerry did, but he's still a shell of his 1.0 self. I saw Phish some 75 times between 94 - 2000. I've seen only about 15 shows since.

 

[chuckstah]

Like Deadheadskier, I saw JGB before the GD. I think it was late 1979 in Providence. I didn't really love the show as I wasn't really familiar with the music. Went on to see the Dead pretty much every tour through '95, but usually not multiple nights of a run, and never travelled outside the Northeast. Final show was Highgate, VT in '95. After that train wreck of a show I was pretty much done but did have tickets for one of the Boston shows in September. It was a good run. Still catch an occasional legacy band show, but it's not the same.

 

[ThatGuy]

I feel like I’m one of the only people who prefers the deads albums to the live stuff for the most part. American Beauty, Workingmans Dead and Terrapin Station are my favorite.
Definitely some awesome live shows I’ve listened to (Europe ‘72 is one of the best live albums of all time) but overall I prefer concise songs to long jams.
This is another great recording, https://archive.org/details/gd1993-06-09.150588.sbd.miller.flac1648/

 

[deadheadskier]

Like Deadheadskier, I saw JGB before the GD. I think it was late 1979 in Providence. I didn't really love the show as I wasn't really familiar with the music. Went on to see the Dead pretty much every tour through '95, but usually not multiple nights of a run, and never travelled outside the Northeast. Final show was Highgate, VT in '95. After that train wreck of a show I was pretty much done but did have tickets for one of the Boston shows in September. It was a good run. Still catch an occasional legacy band show, but it's not the same.

I'm assuming this wasn't a Reconstruction show in 79 you saw? If given a time machine, seeing a Reconstruction show would be near the top of my list. Maybe second only to a GD show from 74.

 

[chuckstah]

I'm assuming this wasn't a Reconstruction show in 79 you saw? If given a time machine, seeing a Reconstruction show would be near the top of my list. Maybe second only to a GD show from 74.

No. After 30 seconds of Google, this is the show. Early 1980. Great venue.

 

[jimmywilson69]

I feel like I’m one of the only people who prefers the deads albums to the live stuff for the most part. American Beauty, Workingmans Dead and Terrapin Station are my favorite.

Woah... I thought only one of these existed in the world! My buddy Jeff says he prefers studio Dead! Its not for me, and its clear they didn't take it as seriously as they did their concerts.

 

[Smellytele]

Woah... I thought only one of these existed in the world! My buddy Jeff says he prefers studio Dead! Its not for me, and its clear they didn't take it as seriously as they did their concerts.

I think they tried to make them too perfect and they sound too clean ( except the first 2 albums which were just mixed weird)

 

[tumbler]

The only album song I like better than live is Terrapin

 

[jimmywilson69]

agree terrapin station is a master piece

 

[jimmywilson69]

I think they tried to make them too perfect and they sound too clean ( except the first 2 albums which were just mixed weird)

That's a good take. I have also read that Garcia didn't like being in the studio.

 

[crank]

I first got into the Dead with Workingman's Dead and American Beauty. Loved that cowboy Dead shit.

I saw them the first time that same year at the Capitol Theatre when I was 13. Awesome show that started with RPS playing acoustic then Jerry switched to pedal steel and gradually everyone switched to electric. Bobby came out and played with them and them it kind of gradually became the Dead up there with Marmaduke jamming along and then he left and it was just the Dead.

I was never one to follow them around and see tons of shows. However I saw them at least a dozen times. throughout the years. My last show was at MSG in 89.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

most studio dead is def not for me, especially the slick overproduced 70s albums like blues for allah and terrapin. but american dream and workingmans are 2 of the best studio albums by any band imo. just perfect capture of the band's folksy era on wax.

separate thought - i think the 80s are my favorite era. underrated. brent is my favorite keys man, no question. 80s material rules. i love stuff like foolish heart, saint of circumstance>lost sailor, feel like a stranger, victim, etc. fuckin throwin stones! i even like most brent songs. we can run. just a little light. 80s dead smokes.