The Dead

That picture of Jerry looks to be taken somewhere in SF - any chance it’s outside the Fillmore? I can’t tell if it’s the original Fillmore, Fillmore West or none of the above. Either way. it’s a great shot.

:thumbsup

420Sugaree · April 10, 2009, 5:23pm

[center]I cut my teeth over here, Billy

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the boys testifying before a US Congressional Panel in 1985
“Marijuana is NOT addictive.”

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can you say -
Colo “permit”?

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dayton · April 11, 2009, 5:34am

one more day brothas and sistas and spring tour will be upon us
Till the morning comes
It’ll do you fine
Till the morning comes
Like a highway sign
Showing you the way
Leaving no doubt
Of the way on in or the way back out
big smile

420Sugaree · April 11, 2009, 5:35pm

Very-good article in the Music section of the NY Times - April 12, 2009

Bring Out Your Dead

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“THE GRATEFUL DEAD’S live recordings represent a special order of surfeit. Nearly 2,200 Dead shows exist on tape, of the 2,350 or so that the group played. Most of those are available online — either for free streaming on Web sites like archive.org and nugs.net, or for download on iTunes, like the “Dick’s Picks” series and the more recent “Road Trips” archival series, which uses master-tape audio sources.”

“Because of the culture of taping and collecting around the concerts, the audience developed a kind of intellectual equity in the band. And as the fans traded more and more tapes, in the nonmonetary currency of mind-blow, a kind of Darwinian principle set in: the most-passed-around tapes were almost quantifiably the best. If a tape wasn’t that good, its momentum sputtered, and it became obscure.”

“A cache of soundboard tapes made by Betty Cantor-Jackson, the Dead’s live recording engineer, were scattered far and wide when her house in Nicasio, Calif., went into foreclosure and her possessions were sold at public auction.”

“The sound quality of the “Betty Boards,” which began circulating in 1987, was exceptional: so good that for the initiates, it nearly reinvented listening. She made her own stereo mix on a separate feed from the house P.A. mix, strictly for posterity, and she considered the mixes from 1977 among her best. (“I want you to be inside the music,” she once said of her audio ideal. “I don’t want stereos playing at you, I want you to be in there, I want it around you.”)”

“But the standards by which we judge the Grateful Dead have changed since then. Over the past several years it has become possible to know entire periods with the same detail and definition with which we once saw individual concerts. In some sense we’re rolling back the microscope to get a closer view.”

“Maybe that’s the best one can do at the highest level of engagement. Not to try to listen for the best night ever; not even to listen for the best period ever. But to try to figure out why we’re listening at all.”

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June 9 and 10, 1973 - my 1st time taping began w/ The Grateful Dead
AUD.fob mic used for GD at RFK Stadium - recording on a Sony TC-110 cassette recorder
Sony ECM-99 single-point stereo mic (2-channel, no matrix – I think it was an X-configuration)

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dayton · April 12, 2009, 12:22pm

we’re listenting (i can only speak for myself) cause we love the music, the people, and the family
plus, there aint nuthin wrong with good people havin a good time at a grateful dead dance party… woot!
before archive went down with the all the sbds i got so many shows cause i had a feeling that something like that wouldn’t last too long… although, i think ya can still get some betty boards on archive.org, i think… also, i’ve found that oade audience recoardings from the early 80’s on are also of a higher quality than some of the other audience recordings out there…

leaving soon for greensboro…
just found out last night that the shows this tour have on-site camping!!!
that is awesome. what a way to bring back the scene in 09 cant beat on-site camping, thats for sure… its gonna be a shakedown city instead of a shakedown street if ya ask me…
tell me this town aint got no heart

420Sugaree · April 13, 2009, 6:52pm

[center]Greensboro - yesterday
70 thousand people??? or was it more like 17 thousand at Greensboro Coliseum?

get yer Jerry-atrics

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nice Jack Straw - 10:42
good jam - finishes strong

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dayton · April 13, 2009, 11:38pm

those pics are sweet 420sugaree
love the one of phils light up base
the show was stellar
the estimated prophet was a highlight for me
and the beautiful 80 degree sunshine weather without a cloud in the sky was great
we arrived to the lot around 3 in the afternoon. left the lot around 3 in the morning, and there were still at least 10,000 people still partying and raging when we left. on site camping is the bomb! food vendors, craft vendors, everything, dance parties, and more. its what i woulda imagined a grateful dead show to be like…
i got a writer friend for the blue banner here in asheville and he reported that there were 29,000 people in attendance. gboro coliseum holds about that many, right? well, however many were inside, it seemed there were that many outside too

as with attending the dead shows in 2004, i can honestly say, i missed out when the grateful dead were actually touring… man, i so woulda been there!

Hope_Lin · April 14, 2009, 5:57am

Sorry you missed out Dayton. It was pretty cool back in 2004! We did the Tampa Show.

Auntie Hope :festivarian2 :green

dulcigirl · April 14, 2009, 2:04pm

Anyone going to the shows at The Rosemont (Allstate)?

420Sugaree · April 16, 2009, 3:56pm

The Dead at Verizon Center - 04/14/09

Big RR Blues, like Jack Straw from the previous show, starts out weakly but it gets going later in the tune. It’s passable, w/ nice slide work. Sounds sweet - decent licks. Weir-d ending? Tipper Gore plays percussion w/ the boys during Sug Mag? I see it both ways. It disappoints on a Jerry musical level, but it’s fun to see everyone making the scene and enjoying some good music. Finally some pics are floating around. I thought this source sounded better of the first upped.[center]

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420Sugaree · April 16, 2009, 5:41pm

[center]Fans grateful for The Dead says this source regarding Charlottesville show last night.

Looks like Bob hasn’t changed clothes for 3 shows

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420Sugaree · April 16, 2009, 11:05pm

[center]April 15, 2009
John Paul Johns Arena
Charlottesville ,Va

wooooo—hooooo, Bertha
much better, that is, much stronger start by The Boys!

got that bluesy-slide-thingy going
and organ-voices doin that Pig – BBM

Bertha - 8:45 vbr mp3

Big Boss Man - 9:13 vbr mp3

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Kaptain_Karlos · April 17, 2009, 12:06am

:wave Hey 420Sugaree - If you are attending the shows, how are the boys doing musically? Do they sound like the good ole Grateful Dead, or have they come up with a new sound. I heard Phil perfers to de-emphasize Jerry and wants to move on with the music. I’ve got tickets to Shoreline and am hoping to hear and feel the Grateful Dead again. Do you think I’ll have any luck?

Kaptain Karlos :dance

P.S. Great job on the pictures and posts… they’re making me jones for a show.

livluvgrow · April 17, 2009, 12:26am

Wow Sugaree those are phenominal pictures. My wife and I couldn’t catch a show do to our living in FL. We just went and spent NYE with Phil and BOB in San Francisco, so we thought it best to sit this out and prepare for summer. I am looking at your pictures and now I regret badly that we couldn’t fit one in.

Hot_Sugar · April 18, 2009, 4:56pm

Just under a month before I get to see them at The Gorge!!! I’m extremely excited for this. There are so many great bands of the past that I missed because I was born late, but a few months from now, I will be able to say that I saw The Dead!!! :cheers

flyfishindave · April 20, 2009, 2:40pm

The boys are rolling through cities and pulling out nuggets each night…i’m so happy to see them going deep in the archives!

:thumbsup