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Boomer The Great

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All time favorite Grateful Dead set? 1
#23986992 - 01/06/17 04:22 PM (7 years, 24 days ago) |
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What is your all time favorite Grateful Dead set?
There are too many for me to choose from personally. Especially when I still haven't heard them all
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natedawg
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Either american beauty or shakedown street.
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sanchothestoner
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Re: All time favorite Grateful Dead set? [Re: natedawg]
#23987034 - 01/06/17 04:35 PM (7 years, 24 days ago) |
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alpine valley, downhill from here. summer of 89, i believe.
-------------------- I fucking hate you... God damn, I love you... But we both know if we stick together, we'll just tear ourselves apart You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy, when skies are grey You are my heroin, but there's an abscess... God damn, I miss the vein!
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sanchothestoner
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or march 31st and april 1st, spring of 88.
those two were fucking killer, especially the april fools one.
mr fantasy > hey jude > all along the watchtower > knockin on heaven's door 
and one of those nights has ballad of a thing man, which was only played very, very few times. like 3 i think.
-------------------- I fucking hate you... God damn, I love you... But we both know if we stick together, we'll just tear ourselves apart You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy, when skies are grey You are my heroin, but there's an abscess... God damn, I miss the vein!
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natedawg
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Europe 72
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sanchothestoner
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Re: All time favorite Grateful Dead set? [Re: natedawg]
#23987066 - 01/06/17 04:46 PM (7 years, 24 days ago) |
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lmfao
-------------------- I fucking hate you... God damn, I love you... But we both know if we stick together, we'll just tear ourselves apart You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy, when skies are grey You are my heroin, but there's an abscess... God damn, I miss the vein!
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Sham87
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Grateful Dead Live at Old Renaissance Faire Grounds on 1972-08-27
Set List: Promised Land, Sugaree, Me & My Uncle, Deal, Black Throated Wind, China Cat Sunflower-> I Know You Rider, Mexicali Blues, Bertha Playin' In The Band, He's Gone, Jack Straw, Bird Song, Greatest Story Ever Told, Dark Star-> El Paso, Sing Me Back Home, Sugar Magnolia, Casey Jones, One More Saturday Night
I believe they were frying on this date.
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   ...once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest places if you look at it right...
Edited by Sham87 (01/06/17 05:01 PM)
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Re: All time favorite Grateful Dead set? [Re: Sham87]
#23987074 - 01/06/17 04:50 PM (7 years, 24 days ago) |
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That's a good one...
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zZZz
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Best ones probably never made it on record.. I like the ones where they were still pretty young and like theyd just jam out and trance out n shit, U know, before bob weir became a member of the bohemian grove, that sneaky snake..
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Re: All time favorite Grateful Dead set? [Re: zZZz]
#23987134 - 01/06/17 05:09 PM (7 years, 24 days ago) |
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Re: All time favorite Grateful Dead set? [Re: zZZz]
#23987193 - 01/06/17 05:28 PM (7 years, 24 days ago) |
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zZZz said: Best ones probably never made it on record.. I like the ones where they were still pretty young and like theyd just jam out and trance out n shit, U know, before bob weir became a member of the bohemian grove, that sneaky snake..
you just reminded me of their 65 shit. there was one set that was fucking killer!!! owsley had the amps sounding like lightning and phil's bass was fuckin THUMPIN. billy's drums were great and pigpen hadn't drank his vocals chords out yet, so he sounded AMAZING.
i'm too lazy to get up and find it, but i have the record of that show. most the tracks, the dead doesn't even play anymore or barely even played em. but that makes it kinda cool, idk. they're all young and reeeeally getting into the jamming and experimenting.
-------------------- I fucking hate you... God damn, I love you... But we both know if we stick together, we'll just tear ourselves apart You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy, when skies are grey You are my heroin, but there's an abscess... God damn, I miss the vein!
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Boomer The Great

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Get up and look. You lazy SOB
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Lucis
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Here's a couple which are good.
10/10/82
11/24/78
4/15/78
12/27/81
6/22/73
6/16/74
11/14/87
10/29/85
9/6/80
2/13/70
10/22/89
5/13/83
9/28/75
11/6/77
6/18/83
11/30/80
6/8/90
5/5/90
10/18/89
10/28/79
2/28/69
9/20/91
I first taped this segment off the grateful dead hour years ago, so had it on tape for a while before I got around to hearing the whole show, anyway this is one of my favorite jam segments I have heard, check it out, the jam after truckin is amazing.
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Way too many to narrow down to one. Different shows for different times and spaces.
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Re: All time favorite Grateful Dead set? [Re: AroundtheSon] 1
#23994459 - 01/09/17 06:11 AM (7 years, 21 days ago) |
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AroundtheSon said: Way too many to narrow down to one. Different shows for different times and spaces.
Yes, none of the shows I posted above I would call all time favorites, I didn't even list greek theatre runs of 85 and 89, which are some favorites of mine, as a rule I find I like the sound on west coast shows the best, they were more loose and trippy, and known for being more balls to the wall rock and roll out east, not saying things didn't get strange out east, but prefer the west coast shows sounds. I would recommend shows from Frost Amphitheater, Greek Theatre, Shoreline, Red Rocks to name a few.
I am curious how some of you younger guys/gals like the grateful dead, I am in my early 30's, and never got to see Jerry dead, but I have never heard another jam band which makes me feel like their music does, and I kind of find that strange because I have tried to get into other bands material, but it just never gave me the same feeling, I really don't know what it is. Many people describe something special about the dead which goes beyond words, I think that's what I am feeling.
I try to turn younger people onto them, but they will often be turned off by the country type sound the boys sometimes express in their music, at least this is what my brothers girlfriend said, that they sounded country, which I can see on a song or two they sound this way and might not be everyone's cup of tea, but as a whole the country sound was just one small part of their music, there are many genres one can hear within their music, funk, country, rock, world, reggae, all sorts of genres, that's one of things I like about their music. I prefer 1979-1990 though, which was the Brent Mydland era, yeah Jerry was ragged from heroin addiction and smoking tons of pall-malls, but the music is really interesting sounding, like the Scarlet>Fire from 10/21/83, so interesting sounding, and I think the boys were playing some of their best music between the years 89-90, like the sound of many songs had matured. If you listen to Jack Straw, Cassidy, Deal from the earlier years compared to the later years, you will see what I am talking about, the songs got more jammed out as the years went on, they matured fully.
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mt cleverest
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Re: All time favorite Grateful Dead set? [Re: Lucis]
#23994827 - 01/09/17 10:44 AM (7 years, 21 days ago) |
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Venetia 72 sunshine daydream is also gold
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Re: All time favorite Grateful Dead set? [Re: mt cleverest]
#23994944 - 01/09/17 11:38 AM (7 years, 21 days ago) |
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When it's the middle of summer and it's approaching 100 degrees outside, I like to take 2-3 hits of acid and put on sunshine daydreams on my tv. I pour myself a big glass of ice cold mango lemonade and just fry out with a box of whippets.
Some of my best memories are from these kinds of days. I tried watching the tape a couple weeks ago, but it didn't quite work right. I guess because it was cold and windy outside.
The unrelenting heat really puts you there. Like I feel like I'm on stage or something.
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mt cleverest
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That makes sense. The dead play inspired improv so I would think the audience vibes plus environment are a big factor, and on that set they were channeling summertime goodness. First time I saww that sunshine daydream video it was summertime, I was on mushrooms and I literally thought they were wizards.
@fennario I understand that their country component is the reason why a lot of people get turned off of them, but the band just wouldnt be the same without that country/folk style. its part of what gives them that good ol american feel and one of the main reasons I like them so much and could listen to them all day while sober. I think most younger people come to discover the dead like me -thru people suggesting them as some of the best tripping music, but youre probably not gonna stick with them in soberlife unless you can dig americana. Ive stuck with them but I'm not a massive deadhead or anything, I really only like to listen to their 72-77 period and 89-91
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the acid test recordings
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Re: All time favorite Grateful Dead set? [Re: zZZz]
#23995113 - 01/09/17 12:34 PM (7 years, 21 days ago) |
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zZZz said: Best ones probably never made it on record.. I like the ones where they were still pretty young and like theyd just jam out and trance out n shit, U know, before bob weir became a member of the bohemian grove, that sneaky snake..
never heard that rumor, care to explain more?
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Re: All time favorite Grateful Dead set? [Re: Lucis]
#23995129 - 01/09/17 12:41 PM (7 years, 21 days ago) |
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Fennario said:
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AroundtheSon said: Way too many to narrow down to one. Different shows for different times and spaces.
Yes, none of the shows I posted above I would call all time favorites, I didn't even list greek theatre runs of 85 and 89, which are some favorites of mine, as a rule I find I like the sound on west coast shows the best, they were more loose and trippy, and known for being more balls to the wall rock and roll out east, not saying things didn't get strange out east, but prefer the west coast shows sounds. I would recommend shows from Frost Amphitheater, Greek Theatre, Shoreline, Red Rocks to name a few.
I am curious how some of you younger guys/gals like the grateful dead, I am in my early 30's, and never got to see Jerry dead, but I have never heard another jam band which makes me feel like their music does, and I kind of find that strange because I have tried to get into other bands material, but it just never gave me the same feeling, I really don't know what it is. Many people describe something special about the dead which goes beyond words, I think that's what I am feeling.
I try to turn younger people onto them, but they will often be turned off by the country type sound the boys sometimes express in their music, at least this is what my brothers girlfriend said, that they sounded country, which I can see on a song or two they sound this way and might not be everyone's cup of tea, but as a whole the country sound was just one small part of their music, there are many genres one can hear within their music, funk, country, rock, world, reggae, all sorts of genres, that's one of things I like about their music. I prefer 1979-1990 though, which was the Brent Mydland era, yeah Jerry was ragged from heroin addiction and smoking tons of pall-malls, but the music is really interesting sounding, like the Scarlet>Fire from 10/21/83, so interesting sounding, and I think the boys were playing some of their best music between the years 89-90, like the sound of many songs had matured. If you listen to Jack Straw, Cassidy, Deal from the earlier years compared to the later years, you will see what I am talking about, the songs got more jammed out as the years went on, they matured fully.
HELL YEAH BRENT MYDLAND!!!
the dead was at there best with brent. he really pushed the band to new heights.
btw, i'm only 23 and i'm a pretty hardcore dead head. there music hits me like only one other band has. i'm also super into the 60s and acid scene, so the grateful dead fall right in there. ken kesey and the merry prankster, as well as the dead, were a huge part of my identity development. i felt like i found who i was with there music. i may still be lost, but the grateful dead has guided me through very dark times, along with my other fav band.
i will say, that there is no band like the dead. they are so mystical and the way they get down and jam is just so great. the grateful dead are amazing beyond words.
-------------------- I fucking hate you... God damn, I love you... But we both know if we stick together, we'll just tear ourselves apart You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy, when skies are grey You are my heroin, but there's an abscess... God damn, I miss the vein!
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26 yr old here and the Grateful Dead is in my top 5 bands. I love the XM radio station makes my drive to and from work so much better. So nice to have it playing on my jam box kicked back at the beach by the fire with some shark rods outs and a dose of mesc HCL.
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Lucis
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mt cleverest said:
@fennario I understand that their country component is the reason why a lot of people get turned off of them, but the band just wouldnt be the same without that country/folk style. its part of what gives them that good ol american feel and one of the main reasons I like them so much and could listen to them all day while sober. I think most younger people come to discover the dead like me -thru people suggesting them as some of the best tripping music, but youre probably not gonna stick with them in soberlife unless you can dig americana. Ive stuck with them but I'm not a massive deadhead or anything, I really only like to listen to their 72-77 period and 89-91
I always found their country tinged tunes to be just as trippy, like in a goofy trippy way, I mean listen to Mexicali blues with a head full of acid, Big River is a favorite of mine sober or not, it shreds, especially '74 versions.
I love America, and the grateful dead are America as fuck.
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https://archive.org/details/gd1968-01-17.sbd.cotsman.11795.shnf
Classic Anthem-of-the-Sun-era show. Dark Star>China Cat>The Eleven medley is super interesting. A couple of songs were debuted that night, I believe China Cat's one of them.
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rudebuoy

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I agree with the Venetia show, probably the best.
heres a couple more solid shows
can hear phil loud and clear in this one 8/6/74
5/26/73
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