The Grateful Thread

[dmc]

He's great at a festival, even better in a club

Thats pretty much the case with most bands.....

 

[BeanoNYC]

Been checking out Ryan for the past four years. He's great at a festival, even better in a club

I'm going to see if I can postpone our anniversary trip to cape cod this weekend. He's playing a festival in Barnstable on the 16th. (Shhhh...don't tell my wife )

 

[deadheadskier]

I'm going to see if I can postpone our anniversary trip to cape cod this weekend. He's playing a festival in Barnstable on the 16th. (Shhhh...don't tell my wife )

Sounds like a good plan

Not only are they great musicians, but totally cool guys. My brother has become good friends with them through his non-profit group www.rocktheearth.org They've been generous enough to donate fifty cents from every ticket sale this summer to RTE. I've had the opportunity to hang out with all the guys on numerous occasions pre and post shows and you couldn't find a more down to earth group.

enjoy them in NYC and hopefully on the cape as well...

 

[BeanoNYC]

Sounds like a good plan

Not only are they great musicians, but totally cool guys. My brother has become good friends with them through his non-profit group www.rocktheearth.org They've been generous enough to donate fifty cents from every ticket sale this summer to RTE. I've had the opportunity to hang out with all the guys on numerous occasions pre and post shows and you couldn't find a more down to earth group.

enjoy them in NYC and hopefully on the cape as well...

In the words of the A-Team's Col John Hannibal Smith "I love it when a plan comes together." We're hitting the Cape on Saturday. Going to the music festival on Saturday and staying in the upper cape that night. (Hopefully weather will hold up. I need to bring some sort of shade for the pregnant almighty whitey) Sunday morning we head to the outer cape and remain in North Truro until Tuesday. Just need to get out early Saturday morning to make it for Ryan Montbleau.

Again...If anyone in Metro NY is interested, I already have tickets to see Ryan Montbleau on the 29th of August. He's playing a cruise around Manhattan. Only 25 smackers...

 

[deadheadskier]

Up North Festival ROCKED. Seriously was just about as good as it gets in terms of venue, size (roughly 5K people) everything. I was seriously worried that it was going to be a mess as new festivals rarely get right the first time, but the promoters managed to. On Friday night, the bathroom situation was looking to be the worst nightmare I've ever seen in nearly twenty years of going to these things, but they realized the problem and doubled the number of porto-johns first thing Saturday morning and it went from worst to first in terms of that area.

Music wasn't the best line up, but had some strong highlights. Lettuce late night Friday completely ripped, John Brown's Body, Ryan Montbleau, were the Saturday picks and today The Brew, Railroad Earth and Sam Kinninger Band killed it.

Umphrey's Mcgee was the headliner last night and while they are impressive musicians, for third time seeing them I still got bored. I guess I don't 'get it'. I love a good jam as much as the next guy, but they just kept rocking and rocking and rocking and rocking and rocking.....you get my point. It just starts to all sound the same without vocals sprinkled in to distinguish the different tunes.

The only bummer in the whole weekend? I'm at home working right now instead of seeing Ratdog Damn boss having to take vacation and leave me with his work

 

[BeanoNYC]

Up North Festival ROCKED. Seriously was just about as good as it gets in terms of venue, size (roughly 5K people) everything. I was seriously worried that it was going to be a mess as new festivals rarely get right the first time, but the promoters managed to. On Friday night, the bathroom situation was looking to be the worst nightmare I've ever seen in nearly twenty years of going to these things, but they realized the problem and doubled the number of porto-johns first thing Saturday morning and it went from worst to first in terms of that area.

Music wasn't the best line up, but had some strong highlights. Lettuce late night Friday completely ripped, John Brown's Body, Ryan Montbleau, were the Saturday picks and today The Brew, Railroad Earth and Sam Kinninger Band killed it.

Umphrey's Mcgee was the headliner last night and while they are impressive musicians, for third time seeing them I still got bored. I guess I don't 'get it'. I love a good jam as much as the next guy, but they just kept rocking and rocking and rocking and rocking and rocking.....you get my point. It just starts to all sound the same without vocals sprinkled in to distinguish the different tunes.

The only bummer in the whole weekend? I'm at home working right now instead of seeing Ratdog Damn boss having to take vacation and leave me with his work

Don't worry...it's only Bobby. He'll be around again. I've never seen Umphrey's in person, but have listened to quite a few shows. I can relate to what your saying, though I'm still looking forward to seeing them. I couldn't see them Sunday at the vibes...I was just too fried from the previous days. I do really like railroad earth's stuff. They got a neat twist to the bluegrass sound.

 

[deadheadskier]

So Many Roads

.....which roads did you all take to ease your soul?

How'd you get to posting in this thread on alpinezone?

......I'd love to hear everyone's introduction to the band, what it's meant to you, what it continues to mean to you and where this road will carry you on from now

 

[Vortex]

Wanted to go. Just was not possible. I like small festivals. Maybe next time.

 

[BeanoNYC]

So Many Roads

.....which roads did you all take to ease your soul?

How'd you get to posting in this thread on alpinezone?

......I'd love to hear everyone's introduction to the band, what it's meant to you, what it continues to mean to you and where this road will carry you on from now

Just always liked them. Got heavy into them my senior year of HS. Became a tape collector in college when I met more people like me.

 

[Vortex]

1985 Springfield Mass a college buddy had and extra ticket. 23 years later. Starting to slow down. 119 Dead shows. Around 100 Phil shows. About the same amount of Bobby shows. Saw some Go Ahead, Weir and wasseman. A decent amount of Jerry Band. Never really kept track of that stuff...

About posting in this thread.... I talked to Beano About it and he got it going. Like to hang with like minded folks. Have caught shows with DMC, Beano, Maineskier69. Eski. I did see the New riders with Trailboss.
Deadheadskier we'll meet up this year.

 

[deadheadskier]

I got on the bus when I was 10 thanks to my brother Sean who is 8 years older. It's likely that I had heard their music before on the radio, probably Casey Jones, Truckin' or something of the sort, but nothing stuck.

As the story goes.....Sean who had moved out of the house showed up to do some laundry and it happened to be my birthday. Recognizing he hadn't gotten me anything, he gave me a tape out of his car; 2nd set Fillmore East 4-29-71 to be specific. He told me when I go to play, make sure the stereo is cranked. Later that day I put the tape on my fathers living room stereo with the volume cranked. Opening tune is Morning Dew and if you're familiar with this version, Phil drops a huge bomb on the first note. It shook the house and I was immediately fascinated and hooked.

That particular song I've always had a bit of intimate relationship with ever since. They played it at my first show, 3-18-90 in Hartford and perhaps I'm biased, but I haven't heard a more powerful one during the Brent era. I saw the last one Jerry ever sang at Albany in 1995. Then in 2004, when living in Florida, I made a last minute decision to drive 9 hours to Atlanta to catch the final show of what has been the last Dead tour. They encored with it and Warren did an incredible job. It would've been a perfect way to close the book had Bobby not segued into Touch of Grey typical Bobby :lol:

 

[deadheadskier]

Just always liked them. Got heavy into them my senior year of HS. Became a tape collector in college when I met more people like me.

ya know, as nice as it is to have basically everything they ever recorded available at the click of the mouse, part of me misses the good ole days of tape trading. There was a certain novelty to it as you never knew where or whom you'd get that next crisp Betty Board from or killer audience recording from. For years I'd always travel with my trusty double deck Yamaha in the car with a pack of Maxell XLII's at all times.

I converted to digital in 2004 back when boards were still downloadable from archive. It wasn't until last year that I gave away my analog tapes even though I hadn't listened to them in three years. It was a somewhat sad moment doing so as I looked through them and remembered for many what party I was at that I met so and so who had this great show.

 

[dmc]

Sophomore in HS - went to see them at Nassau Coliseum in 79.
Don't remember much.. just that it was wild...
Wasn't really into them yet... Even in high school I was more into hard rock then the Dead...

It wasn't until college and some .... ummm... chemical discoveries that I began to understand what the GD were really up to... Basically because i was exposed to a lot more quality recordings played through great sound systems... Owned by some pretty cool people...

My first real - "I GET IT" show was 10-11-83(MSG).
It featured a RARE "St Stephen" out of space into Throwin' Stones.
That was pretty much it...

 

[dmc]

Opening tune is Morning Dew and if you're familiar with this version, Phil drops a huge bomb on the first note. It shook the house and I was immediately fascinated and hooked.

That particular song I've always had a bit of intimate relationship with ever since.

Isn't that song about nuclear apocalypse?

It is a powerful song...


My song is "Estimated" - I saw it played a ton.. And always liked it.. The imagery and rhythm ... Great stuff...

"My time coming, any day, dont worry about me, no
Been so long I felt this way, Im in no hurry, no
Rainbows and down that highway where ocean breezes blow
My time coming, voices saying they tell me where to go."

 

[deadheadskier]

Isn't that song about nuclear apocalypse?

It is a powerful song...

It is, but for whatever reason I find safety in Jerry's reading of it. It's almost like yes, someday something awful is going to happen, but through that you'll rise up and be okay.

 

[dmc]

It is, but for whatever reason I find safety in Jerry's reading of it. It's almost like yes, someday something awful is going to happen, but through that you'll rise up and be okay.

I like the dichotomy of his scratchy sweet voice and the subject matter...


here's a cool version by Robert Plant...


DEVO


Nazareth


Mule

 

[BeanoNYC]

Hey guys. In the upper Cape this morning. Heading to N. Truro in a bit. Naukabout festival was perfect. Great weather, good bands, great tiny crowd. Ryan Montbleau rocked. Just one pic here ...sorry.

http://m.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=2769873235&

 

[BeanoNYC]

Hey guys. In the upper Cape this morning. Heading to N. Truro in a bit. Naukabout festival was perfect. Great weather, good bands, great tiny crowd. Ryan Montbleau rocked. Just one pic here ...sorry.

http://m.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=2769873235&

 

[deadheadskier]

Had forgotten about this site, but was looking for a decent easy accessible streaming site to play from my computer for the morning work out. It's no archive, but it's user friendly and has great variety only on one page.

http://stash.nugs.net/stash.asp

 

[BeanoNYC]

I'm hearing a buzz about another Dead reunion to benefit Barack Obama. This time East Coast; possibly Philly.