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February can't come soon enough for those of us over in left field!

Today is THE day folks ... Some absolute whoppers on 10/25 https://archive.org/details/gd69-10-25.sbd.jagla.81.sbefail.shnf https://archive.org/details/gd73-10-25.sbd.vernon.14451.sbeok.shnf https://archive.org/details/gd79-10-25.sbd.set2.fishman.21271.sbefail.shnf

Excited for this tour as I can’t wait to dance it out in a west coast vibe. We are trading soaking up warm weather for soaking up warm hearts.

I recall a quote from last weekend when you said wherever dso will be on 2-22 is where I will be. Hmm I was thinking that date in 69 was a 2 setter but only 1. I was hoping for a 4 show Key west run 2/27-3/2 or maybe a mini fest in the desert for 4 days celebrating all things 69.

Yea, reckoning is my favorite too. You can put it on and forget about it, just listen right on through. It’s my ‘go to’ for non Dead heads. 9 of the 16 songs were played the night I was there. ‘Monkey and the engineer’ was actually from that night. My shroom mates buddy was at the show in San Fran where ‘Ripple’ was played. When they say ‘that’s Otis’ , that was , I think, Bobby’s dog running across the stage. Jerry does some of the gentlest picking on ‘to lay me down’. I gave my copy to a 62 year old guy I worked with who was into bluegrass. He taught himself ‘ripple’ on the guitar. He’s now pushing 80 and does open mic nights in the area. I love it.

Reckoning just might be my favorite or if not then definitely the most played of the dead releases not counting dicks picks

One of my favs is the wooo hoo's in music never stopped after each first line in the verses

Heard the Sammy Hagar song Heavy Metal on the way home from work tonight, reminded me of how much I loved that movie when I was 14

Yes, those are a reason to study history. The more you learn, the more you know!

So, one week after my first Grateful Dead concert, I go back to college for my second year. My shroom mate has a friend who went to college in San Fran just so he could go to Dead shows. He calls my roommate to say Bill Graham bought the Warfield theatre so that the Dead could play there for two weeks straight. They’re playing acoustic sets, plus two electric sets to celebrate their fifteenth anniversary. With a few more phone calls over that time, we learn that every acoustic set is being closed with Ripple, and that they’re making a double acoustic and a double electric album from those shows. They asked everyone to not do too much hootin’ and hollerin’, as the shows were being recorded for the albums. We also learned that they were doing similar shows at Radio City. That got us cutting class and riding up to Radio City the Monday before Halloween. We ride into New York with his Buddy and try to scalp tickets. We get robbed by ‘scalpers’, and now we’re penniless outside of Radio City while our ride is inside the show. Pretty disappointed for about an hour when someone walks up to us wearing a ski mask and asks, ‘who wants to get snuck in?’ We tell him our hard luck story, and he says, ‘ stand right here, let me find three more people’. We end up walking right through the front doors of Radio City without a ticket. This guys neighbor was a ticket taker at the door. Once inside, we got free doses, red dragons two weeks old from Berkeley. Absolutely amazing night. Acoustic set was precious. Five and a half hour show. Life changing. That’s all, thanks for letting me share.