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Official Grateful Dead Thread

The way I understand it was dead.net received the cd's earlier than expected, so they shipped out to anyone who had already ordered. as is typical with that site, take it all with a grain of salt. If they say it is out of stock order it anyways because they probably f ed it up. The vinyl is RSD only I believe, maybe 7500 copies. I will be in line next Friday AM. Wahoooo!
 
What is your history with the band?
meaning:
did you attend shows?
If so; Favorite Show Attended?
when did your interest begin?
did you come to enjoy them after Jerry?
were you around for the cassette trading days?
taper?
etc.

I'm just curious, and striking up conversation.

Me:
did you attend shows?
Yes, my total might be into the hundreds

If so; Favorite show attended
too many to try to list, but a few:
'75 Forum, L.A., This show hooked me, more than the previous shows. I knew what to expect going in, and they delivered.
'77(?date, year?) San Bernardino; the first Terrapin Station - blew my mind.
1981 Salt Lake City, Salt Palace. tiny crowd that only took up about half the space from the soundboard to the stage, in a small semi-circle. People were spread out further than that, by choice, but, the crowd was small and intimate - the show, great!
1982 Santa fe N.M., where I met up with my first mentors in taping.

when did your interest begin?
My first show was in '72, at the Palladium in H.Wood, Ca.

did you come to enjoy them after Jerry?
No. From long before Jerry passed. I was a Jerry head though.

were you around for the cassette trading days?
Yes, obsessively and insanely so. The lack of ability to get shows quickly enough drove me to find tapers, which quickly led the way to a set of microphones and a deck, and lots of tours, from Colorado/New Mexico, westward.

etc.,... anything else of interest?
At first, I loved the band. Then I found that the songs that I liked were the ballads by Jerry and Robert Hunter. So, by definition, I'm a Jerry head, but not so much of the rest of the band, especially not the post-Jerry ensembles.
I was not very fond of the Jerry fans, as they were largely out of control at the concerts. How long can you listen to a large bellied drunken guy yelling, Jerrrrryyyyy, in your ear all night?
I came to dislike the entire experience in 1989, when the intimacy disappeared, and the hoards started showing up at concerts because it was trendy; I heard Touch of Gray, on MTV, and thought it was so awesome. I was totally done with it by 1990, and have never really felt that close to, or intimate with the scene since then.
At first, it was more akin to a close knit family. Then it became this giant monster of a beast that totally lost that family feeling.
 
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My first show was 7-7-86, RFK Stadium. I loved it, even though I've since come to know that it was very far from the best show they ever played. But I was hooked anyway.

I saw exactly 50 GD shows between then and the very final show they did at Soldier Field in 95, although the majority of my shows attended were 87-89.

I couldn't muster a favorite, but several great ones I saw were 6-13-87, 4-15-89, and 7-22-90. It's an era of my life I treasure. I am not a "hippie", though (not that there is anything wrong with being one!). Just a regular guy who loves the Grateful Dead.

I was into tape trading in the late 80's, and then SHN trading in the 90's. Now of course it's all FLAC and all music server based for me, except for the official CD and Vinyl releases, of which I buy pretty much every one.
 
My demographics

First Show: Red Rocks August 1984
First Wharf Rat (Sober Show): LA February 1989 (Spencer Davis guest)
Favorite Show(s): Spring Tour dates 1990 (4)
Cassette Trader: Oh Yeah. Former taper

Seen perhaps 100+ shows. Nothing post '95. I personally don't care for the post Jerry scene. Pre In The Dark was really fun. The "flower-punk" crowd that soon arrived always turned me off. I seem to remember a period where a number of people turned up missing, were assaulted, just a lot of violence. Also venues became overrun with "miracle ticket seekers". Took me a few years of recovery to head back to shows. Friend in grad school talked me into a spur of the moment road trip from Denver to LA. Thanks Anne. Rejoined the bus.

Saw most shows in southwest with a run in Boston ('91), and a few runs in the Bay area thrown in.

For 30+ years it's all about the music.
 
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Miracles happen all the time. Just finishing up the first disc and it's easy to hear why this sold-out so damn fast.
Here's to hoping more matrix recordings are made in Dave's series.
 
libertycaps said:
Miracles happen all the time. Just finishing up the first disc and it's easy to hear why this sold-out so damn fast.
Here's to hoping more matrix recordings are made in Dave's series.
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Hunter's Trix are my usual choices for shows and Dusborne's matrixes are also incredible.

Does it say who matrixed it? Dave?
 
Compliments of Garcia

That is kind of a different title to this one.
I have two copies of it, and both are titled as just Garcia

What do you know about it?
 
mfrench said:
Compliments of Garcia

That is kind of a different title to this one.
I have two copies of it, and both are titled as just Garcia

What do you know about it?
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discogs:
"Compliments is Jerry Garcia's second solo album. It includes one newly-written song by John Kahn and Robert Hunter but is otherwise cover versions. The original title of the album was Garcia with a sticker on the record sleeve that said Compliments of"

Raynie:
Probably his worst record. I'd always heard bad things about it, came across a copy a few months ago. Listened to it once and sold it on ebay for a loss. A few bright spots on it, but pale in comparison to any respective live renditions
 
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