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i'm sorta late to the dead as a live band, i've always loved workingman's dead and american beauty but never really "got" the appeal of the endless live releases except for a few shows here and there (pembroke pines '77 was my gateway but also their other live periods only sorta resemble what kind of band they were in '77, so it's been hard going). anyway i'm listening to live/dead for the first time and i'm officially mad at every dead fan i know bc instead of rattling off years (72, 77, blah blah blah) they should've just told me to listen to the "dark star" on live/dead bc i would've been converted immediately

 

Haha hahhaha word. The dark star scares a lot of people off though. I think if a lot of people skipped it and went right to st stephen>eleven>lovelight they'd get it better. But everyone's so different its hard to know what to rec to get someone into it. Gotta find your own way

 

9 new Betty Boards out there including the incredible Hundred Year Hall 72 show

Grateful Seconds : The Nine New Grateful Dead Betty Boards Are Here

 

Also, bob just announced a few solo dates and that his long awaited solo album of cowboy songs with the boys from The National is coming out 9/30

 

stoked for this new bobby album now we just need him to get the midnites back together

 

It's insane to me that a band with Billy Cobham and Alfonso Johnson wrote this song

altho they did also do Jazz is Dead so they're forgiven

 

also, so many new Bettys:

Grateful Seconds : Another Day, Another Ten: Uncirculated Boards Parade Continues with Three Bettys from 72-73
Grateful Seconds : New York Got The Ways And Means: From Betty Batch #2, First Three Nights At the Academy, March 1972
Grateful Seconds : 14 More Uncirculated Grateful Dead Recordings, When Will It End??
Grateful Seconds : The Nine New Grateful Dead Near-Betty Boards Are Here

 

ALSO! A bunch of solo/JGB just went up on Spotify

 

RIP Jerry, 21 years ago today

 

Grateful Dead Live at Dillon Gym, Princeton University on 1971-04-17 : Free Streaming : Internet Archive

Dope show, one of the best Good Lovin' raps and a great matrix. Love & miss u forever pig.

 

All about "Friend of the Devil" today

 

You ever heard the controversial electric/slow versions?

 

Wow that's fucking wonderful. Why is it controversial?

 

Iunno. People are lames. It also never really found a spot in a setlist, I guess. It doesn't have enough of a peak to really fit in a first set and slow second sets tend to be emotional ballads. So it kind of feels clunky in that context, but some people just don't like it at all. Supposedly that version is based off one by Kenny Loggins too, heh.

 

Day of the Dead was a lot of fun yesterday.

 

Nice! what were your favs

 

I own Loggins albums both solo and with Messina, so that's nothing but a plus to me.

But yeah I loooooove that version. I want more things from them that sound like that. Haha

 

Hmmm. What about it? They didn't usually get so slow except for some of the ballads but I'll think on it

 

tbh, i bet Chris' choice decade of the dead would be the 80s, where I'm least versed

 

It's so hard to put a finger on. It's loose like you expect from the Dead, but not in a jammy way so much as a shimmering way. They're floating around the core of a great song, not playing just to play. And it knocked me on my ass.

 

I definitely know what you mean to some extent...shimmering is an appropriate word. Me I hear them dancing around the melody and sticking to the form more often than not barring your 15+ minute jams so it's hard to recommend anything based on that...but here's some nice ballads that I think of as "shimmering." I'll think on it

 

wait they told the yellow dog story omg i need a video of this ASAP

 

morning dew and sugaree were probably highlights! i was high out of my mind though and tbh the whole thing was a blast.

 

cry every time tbh

 

Was listening to Dead XM radio today and franklins tower was on, got asked to change it and came back 20 minutes later and it was still on and everyone in the car was very confused