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Sarah Fulcher! Poor woman got hung out to dry. Jerry and Merl never rehearsed with her and just told her to improvise and do her thing. She made it work! She brought Like A Road to Garcia. Big points right there. Jerry got under the hood of that one.

All you needed is to have The Maker follow that up and it wouldn't been a done deal on the Jesus freaks suspicion. Then follow that up with Loose Lucy to really confuse 'em. Congratulations, man! That is if bringing another redneck into the world is a congratulatory offense. 🤪 🥂

Good system with which to whittle away the time during the days of shelter at home. I hope my wife doesn't ask what happened to her white towels. 😀

21-22 from the floor in the NCAA Final. Check out this clip - the man worked the glass like Garcia works his fret board. My question is why did it take Memphis State until Walton was about 15-16 to abandon their zone defense❓ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAnC4cBXAuY

Agreed. Mid to late first set. I want Jerry to be a tad lathered up before diving into that gem. Not to mention giving Healy some time to make sure the sound is just exactly perfect. Remember upon the return of Bird Song in the early 80s it would appear 2nd or 3rd song? Just like Row Jimmy, Jerry needs a wait a bit for that one. Which of course is exactly what happened. As a tangential subject, the way first sets morphed into oft only 3 Jerry songs was a very unfortunate development. 😟

Meanwhile, 4 SEC games are now off for this weekend. And then there's that scene in Notre Dame on the field after they knocked off Clemson. Yowsa.

My daughter, shortly after going back to UC Berkeley this Fall (for 100% remote instruction), got COVID. Fortunately we told her that she wasn't coming home for weekends, as college campuses were fueling the hot spots in September. So we weren't exposed. She had very mild symptoms for just a couple days, except she lost her sense of taste/smell. She only started to get it back about 3 weeks later. What kind of illness barely touches you with any ill effects but takes out your olfactory completely for weeks? When you think about whatever neurological factors may be at play there, it should be fuel concern about what this virus is potentially doing to people. Much of which is still unknown.

Nuggets indeed. One of my favorites. In fact I once posted a write-up I did a few years back in this forum... http://www.dsoforums.net/forum/topic/19215-berkeley-community-theater-11-2-84

Jeff Silberman's 2nd row audience tape of that Worcester show is great. Competes nicely with the 30 Trips release!

The Estimated crushed the Dark Star in that MSG show with David Murray.

Oh yeah - we have a winner! That would have been awesome indeed. Much as I love Steely Dan, I can;t see The Dead touching any of it. Too slick foe their tastes. The beauty of it, though, is that it's slick in the best of ways.

Yeah, I got some first hand knowledge - we got busted FOB during the 1st set. ☹️ My buddy Rob took the official fall and was unceremoniously booted, and ever the former hockey player I found him roller blading around the parking lot post show. There was rare August Northern CA precipitation somewhere along the line, thus the pre-drums song sequence.

Do you remember Brent's jam on Big River 6-25 Blossom? If not relisten. Summer '85 gets off to a sizzling start with the Frost and Greeks. All 3 Greeks have their own special stuff going on. Alpine is OK. Jerry's guitar is completely absent for the set 2 opener Keep On Growing in Alpine night 2. And launching into Mississippi first note there he is! Next 4 one stop cities are all solid, with special mention to the energy at Blossom. How 'bout that Comes A Time > Bird Song > Deal in Hershey? (In fairness to the uneven nature of it the period that Rude alluded to), there is little jamming in that Come a Time > Bird Song) Then 2 really solid nights at Merriweather and somewhat of a forgettable night in Pittsburgh. Wait until you get to that fall tour, especially Halloween and beyond...

You haven't heard Behind Blue Eyes until you get hold of a good original pressing of Who's Next and throw it on a nice vinyl rig. Some stunning shit is possible, and don't make 'em like they used to. Which makes me wonder out loud relative to this forum - Chuck, did you save your LPs from back in the day (and take good care of them)? There could be a potential gold mine of stuff there!

Bobby joined Paul Simon for The Boxer at Outside Lands in SF in 2019. Sadly it was forgettable.

Jesus, you two. Get a room. 😜 Everyone knows that 8-6-71 is THE Hard To Handle. 😎 (Disclosure: Due to the mind boggling nature of the quality of the 8-6 audience tape I am massively biased. Fuck, there may not be a better audience tape in the entire decade!)

I think that taken as a 3 night whole that '89 Cal Expo run is as good as any shows I attended.

There's a set 2 only with AKG mics and an Uher deck (rare and very nice German portable cassette) that's also a pretty sweet listen for that 8-3-82. It's worth seeking out.

That Keith Gotto '76 Hartford is a pretty solid audience capture , which is good because no board circulates!

That 8-1-94 Stella stands alone with 3-21-94 Richfield OH as the "Garcia vocal jam" late era Stellas. The man had virtually no chops left, but he could still muster a way to bring it.

Hey - saw 'em both then! The Laguna Seca isn't ringing a bell though. And speaking of rare songs, when Believe It Or Not slipped into the ballad slot at Laguna Seca it felt like something that was probably there to stay. Alas, no.

Caught that in Pittsburgh summer '88...might have been the only one??

That could be the "best" show (scene, location, band kicking it down, etc) I saw. I recommend finding Sean Weber's spaced Schoeps omni recording as the source if it's on archive. That's the go to. Taping wasn't allowed due to David Lindley opener, so it was all stealth. I mean, seriously Lindley? You're going to unilaterally stop Heads from capturing this show because you're freaked about about your set going to tape? Get over yourself! This was right before I made the jump from taper section to FOB, and as we were completely unprepared to not be let in at the gate we dutifully trudged back to the car and put the gear away. When the Dead came on, however, there was nobody stopping open taping, so if you'd got your gear past the gate you were good. Some grizzled old big bearded hippy was running shotguns on a tall stand way over past the stacks on Phil's side. I was initially shaking my head at the guy's tactics, but when China Cat worked its way into Crazy Fingers I recall thinking this guy ain't looking so dumb after all. 😆

That angry taper banter is absolute gold. As an aside, the new '82 Red Rocks references, IMHO, are the Nak 700s with DBX noise reduction that were recently transferred from my Beta copies. Here's 7-28: https://archive.org/details/gd1982-07-28.142567.Anon.Severson.Weber-Small.Donaldson.Ammons.Noel.t-flac1644 More epic, however, is the same source from 7-29 which features an extended explosion by Phil like no other, which no other taper captured nearly this well. The board is useless, as it actually distorts (more like cuts out) during this savage passage; watch your levels...but I suppose that is for tomorrow.

Those summer '74 Slipknot jams were indeed fascinating. And what a sequence that is. How many were there? Likely deserves its own thread. No more than a handful, and certainly some were more fleshed out than others.