Grateful Dead - Today in History

[tigger]

Happy Barton Hallday! 

[Grateful13]

  On 5/7/2018 at 8:55 PM, dominattorney said:

Nice thread.  I'm assuming ya'll know about Today in Grateful Dead History on the Sirius XM station, and I'm just beating a dead horse.  If not, love that show. 

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The Big Steve (Parish) Hour they started about a month ago is a must listen, for sure.

[dominattorney]

  On 5/9/2018 at 2:38 AM, Grateful13 said:

The Big Steve (Parish) Hour they started about a month ago is a must listen, for sure.

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Love the Big Steve Hour

[HDGSN]

May 9, 1977 - War Memorial - Buffalo, NY

For the longest time, this was my FAVORITE show out there.  Now, it is still in my Top 5, but a few 1970-1974 shows keep coming around to make me second guess my rankings. This show does not have 2 of my favorite 1977 songs (Sugaree and Half Step).  This show also does not have other big 1977 songs (Morning Dew, Terrapin Station).  What this show does have, in the 1st set, are the best ever versions of Help>Slip>Frank, Brown Eyed Women, Peggy-O, and TMNS.  There may be a version or two of Franklin's Tower that is better on its own, but this suite is the best out there.  Phil Bombs all over Help>Slip and a really great upbeat Franklin's Tower.  Whooooo boy, the TMNS is stunning.  It is the best even with 30 seconds of the crescendo seemingly dropping out of stereo and into mono.  One of my favorite single live recording songs the Dead ever played.  The 2nd set follows it up with a great Bertha, an interesting Estimated>TOO, and a top 3 version of Comes A Time (many people have it as #1 because of that intense solo to close it out). Sugar Mag is also great.

 

[HDGSN]

46 years ago today, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan played his last ever show with the Grateful Dead at The Strand Lyceum in London, UK on the famous Europe '72 tour.  His last song singing lead was Chinatown Shuffle, although the last song he sang on was I Know You Rider.  This show is rightfully one of the top rated Europe '72 shows.  My favorite is the 5/23/72 show, also at The Strand Lyceum, but the Dead played one hell of a Morning Dew on 5/26 - this is THE Morning Dew from the Long Strange Trip documentary where a sound engineer describes leaving the recording truck unguarded with the tapes still running to go and fix a fallen mic and finding himself at the stage right as the band drops into Morning Dew and the moment and the drugs tell him to say F it and watch and Jerry's solos bring everyone to tears.  Goosebumps!

 

 

[cfc1016]

  On 5/9/2018 at 1:11 AM, tigger said:

Happy Barton Hallday! 

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I think I’m one of the few who actually prefer the ‘day after cornell’ more. The ‘never stopped’ is my absolute all time favorite version, and up there as one o my all time favorite single-song dead performances, period. 

[tigger]

Ok, so it's "Dead & Company yesterday in history," but did anybody attend/stream last night's show in Camden, NJ?

The second Set was an awful lot of fun to listen to. Much better than the tour opener we were at in Mansfield, MA the other night

[HDGSN]

23 years ago. July 9, 1995. The last one. 

 

[mi000ke]

Saw my first show in May 1970 and never looked back.  Best show I ever attended was Summer Jam '73.  Not in terms of the music (the Dead did not put on a great show) but the scene was amazing.  We got there a week early while they were still building the stage and camped out.  I had a chance to jam on sax with some folks to a large crowd.  Now that I'm retired, I play in a jam band that does a lot of Dead covers. 

(Note the caption - they were expecting 150,000 and got over 600,000 - bigger than Woodstock. Also nice to remember that I was once "young people" and had a full set of hair  )

 

 

[cfc1016]

I’ve been searching for over 6 years for the performance date of my favorite headyversion of wharf rat. In every other version, “I’ll get up and fly away” is sung in one line, with the rhyming guitar break (bob) on the following line. In ONE performance, the guitar break and the vocals were played/sung in the SAME line (concurrent). I’ve probably listened to ~200 versions of wharf rat trying to track down that one version. No luck. I’ve asked all the ‘dead historian’ heads i know; posted on message boards;  - noone can tell me when it was.

I called the big steve hour last Thursday for the Q&A session. ‘If anyone can tell me, it’ll be steve’ i thought. I called ~50 times to get through. Got disconnected on hold. Finally got through again just in time to be the last caller to go on the air. Even steve didn’t know. He was super cool and a joy to talk to though. 

I really wish I could track down this performance. Wharf rat speaks to my soul (more than most dead songs) and this version in particular just tickled my brain meat. 

PS if any of you have nevet heard the PERRO sessions, I’ve uploaded the complete (original - the youtube re-release cut a few tracks and demolished sound quality) recordings in FLAC, with oroginal documentation, here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/0B6VCXXYtyhcsfkNtQlZ6NlJYaHJUckNUMWYtdHBHSlE1YTQyYVJMRThVTThPWFFiQVVOelk?usp=sharing

If you’d prefer the recordings in MP3, here’s that too:

https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/0B6VCXXYtyhcsflZzVnRSQWIzWGZrU3pYT0dXQTJxTGNTZFlSVERmZk1CYTF0OHJuWGF6OG8?usp=sharing

 

[El Corojo]

Man, Jerry's voice... the most bittersweet utterance of human emotion. Both of my kids were sang to sleep as babies by "Ripple." My wife and I saw one of Mickey's Superorganism shows just days before finding out that she was pregnant with our son (now 4). I got into the Dead just before Jerry passed. Just my age, I guess (42 now).  Thanks for the post guys.  

 

[El Corojo]

Another favorite to share with you guys

 

[HDGSN]

  On 7/12/2018 at 5:02 AM, El Corojo said:

Man, Jerry's voice... the most bittersweet utterance of human emotion. Both of my kids were sang to sleep as babies by "Ripple." My wife and I saw one of Mickey's Superorganism shows just days before finding out that she was pregnant with our son (now 4). I got into the Dead just before Jerry passed. Just my age, I guess (42 now).  Thanks for the post guys.  

 

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Ripple was almost my first dance! It will be played at my last dance.

[HDGSN]

  On 7/12/2018 at 5:11 AM, El Corojo said:

Another favorite to share with you guys

 

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Only 23 or so of these played - yet another cover they played better than the original. 5/26/72 and 3/24/73 were great versions.

[merkonakis]

Great thread!!


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[Hammer Smokin']

Dead and CO are live streaming their two upcoming sets starting at 9:15 eastern FOR FREE!

https://relix.com/live/

Enjoy.

[HDGSN]

Happy Barton Hall Day! 42 Years!

[lovethehaze]

Just listened to a ship into estimated from 77 on the way in to work. Inspiring !!