John A

The power on the entire block (both sides) went out around 5:15 and came back on just before 8. The show was hanging by a PG&E thread. The UC Theatre was ultimately quite accommodating, They extended the band's curfew, and the band responded to the curve ball with a super fun elective show. I had the pleasure of meeting both sml and Dr, Barry, not to mention hanging front row balcony with rude and his better half. Here's my list. The Imagine jam was super fleshed out. Everything from drums on was gold. Shakedown Street Minglewood Blues Althea Cc Rider Cumberland Blues We Can Run Paint My Masterpiece Mission in the Rain Sunrise Good Lovin' Help on the Way-> Slipknot-> Franklin's Tower -> Feel Like a Stranger Unbroken Chain -> Drums-> Space -> Imagine Jam -> Dark Star (1st verse) -> Corrina -> Comes A Time -> Deal Encore: The Weight

Very true, but one does risk being labeled a "potted plant" around these parts for doing so. 😏

Wow, what a clusterfuck. It looks like DSO made some lemonade out of that bag of lemons with a tight looking truncated second set. The only real crushing blow is that a Terrapin was lost between NFA and Dew.

For 10-21-83, my advice is to skip the 30 Trips and go directly to Jeff Silberman's 2nd row recording. It's a stunning capture.

I understand that. My comment was actually half tongue in cheek, and half honest curiosity as to whether it had ever been necessary. Sounds like at this show, per Matt's comments, it may have been!

Has Eaton ever performed the old Grateful Dead standard, "one, two, take a step back....three, four, take another step back"?

A quick count yields 4 Dylan covers. Research necessary: what are the most Dylan covers the Dead did in a single show? Tea, you on this?

I wonder what Jeff thought about the feel of playing Wolf, and if using it gave him any palpable sense of mystique. I guess that's a broad question, as it goes to both the feel of how he likes the instrument as well as to more visceral stuff regrading the intensity of playing one of Jerry's most cherished guitars. I know he doesn't post here, but if he had any specific thoughts he'd consider sharing maybe another band member could ask Jeff if he'd let them share it here?

And, for a mere $120, you can have 5/8/77 on a 5LP vinyl set! http://www.dead.net/store/cornell/cornell-5877-vinyl-2nd-pressing?eml=2018May8/4316449/6131962&etsubid=136384719

That's one hell of a 1st show. Nice!

There's is a rocking good audience that was just put out of 5-1-88 Frost. Now I understand that the circulating board is excellent, but this FOB with modified Nak 700s is a wonder to behold.

Wow that set list shows DSO entering another realm regarding the nuances of electives. On paper, here we have "mid 70s elective in the style of the late 60s and early 70s." Makes the head spin.

T for Texas is a verse in the so called "All New Minglewood Blues" (as opposed to the New Minglewood Blues which dates to 1966) that The Dead recorded for the Shakedown Street album which was recorded in late summer of '78. So presumably T for Texas was in live versions by then. Rude, now that you have a little more spare time, and every version of Minglewood at your finger tips, your assignment is to listen to them sequentially starting from 4-16-78 and report back as to when that verse appears.

Well there is that. Which makes such a game less fun. Because then you know it's an elective 1 note in.

That's a sneaky 1st set. Nothing to preclude it from possibly being an early 90s show, and then they open set 2 by dropping the Stephen bomb! Nice.

Son of a bitch that set list is off the charts. Would be hard to craft a list to hand to Jerry that would be any more satisfying than that. Palm Sunday trivia: It was played twice, on 3-18 and 3-19-78, both times on Palm Sunday. That's because the 3-18 encore started after midnight!

I think what we have here is just an unfortunate choice of vocabulary on your part, Steph, as "junkie music" does feel like it has an unnecessarily bad connotation. That said, I think I know exactly what you refer to. Although I prefer to call it "narcotic tinged". When I think of that reference I'm usually thinking specifically of circa '79 through '82 JGB, where Jerry might play sets with as few as 4 or 5 songs that would all stretch to 15+ minutes. Much of this music is undoubtedly informed by his heroin use at that time. Bottom line: at the end of the day, anyway you slice it the passion shown on these forums is both wonderful and infectious.

Speaking of Lucky Old Sun, check out Jerry's final "wash all my troubles away" vocal explosion from that 9-1-89 version. Goose-fucking-bumps.

I think Rude's equation has imbalanced parenthesis. But more importantly lacks the critical logarithm of Garcia's essence coefficient.

I had an unfortunately mistimed vacation to Santa Fe, so I'm not at the Warfield this weekend. But a report at set break indicated it's an elective, the set closing with Here Comes Sunshine > China > Rider. The jam in HCS was said to be the first set highlight. Of course it's an elective, because those are my favorites. I hope the crowds are good for these Warfield shows. Easily the biggest venue they've booked in the Bay Area.

That's 3 decades of The Dead plus some JGB seasoned in. Very cool. Only thing missing is a So Many Roads or a Days Between for a 4 decade festival.

Has DSO ever played Baby What You Want before?

That was a bizarre tour. California Central Valley in mid January. No other year featured such a thing.

Wow, Tea, that 1-12-79 is an interesting listen. I was unfamiliar as well with this show. For a '79 show without a soundboard source, this Jim Wise FOB with Sony mics holds its own nicely. And yes, the evening is all about the Dancin' and the NFA, both of which are stunning. Unfortunately during the final GDTRFB jam Bobby is way too loud in the mix, and he kills what would perhaps have been a huge Jerry scrub. The set list here could make one look the other way but that would be a mistake.

The China Rider bust-out. Hard to believe The Dead hadn't played it since '74, or that it wouldn't join the rotation again until '79.