NEMD Grateful Dead Appreciation Thread

^ Years of posting at forums that revolve around rambling about favorite shows etc has programmed me that way, lol

DoorsofPerception said:
My all time favorite is def 1970-05-06 though.
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Love that mini show(in honor or Kent State shootings)! One of the first shows I listened to upon discovering the archive. Great SQ and hot versions throughout. Funny though, now I hardly touch anything pre-fall '72:|

Speaking of January '78, i've got 1/14/78 spinning now, though somewhat sloppy and lack of a ballad, it packs a ton of energy!

1978 will always be a top 5 year for me and some great 33 year anniversaries are upon us 4/19, 4/21, 4/22 and 4/24 is a fucking SICK run of shows!!! And happy belated anniversery to 4/15 and 4/16...sure most of you know about 4/16 but don't overlook 4/15....unreal 1/2 Step opener and the only Dew of '78 does what a Dew should do!
 
Can't wait for Gratefulfest this year, anyone going?...For those who don't know it's hosted just outside Cleveland at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park...a GREAT venue!! I'm most excited to see Melvin Seals again!

July 1st-4th
Gratefulfest #12
3 more unforgettable nights with Darkstar Orchestra!
Also- Very special guests 7 Walkers featuring GD's Bill Kreutzmann!
Plus, Keller Williams back for his 8th Gratefulfest! And Rusted Root! W/
JGB, Railroad Earth, Boombox, New Riders, David Gans, Donna Jean Band
Klyph Black & Rumor Has It, Katz-n-Jammers, The Spikedrivers, & many
more Grateful guests to be added soon. Fireworks, clowns, skydivers
fire performers, swim, cliff dive, grateful vendors, family, friends!
Why go anywhere else?! Super low prices. Lots to come. Stay tuned!
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I'm a total Deadhead. Anyone going to FURTHUR Shoreline in June? It's gonna be siiiick. Saw them on NYE and that was awesome.
I've loved the Dead ever since I first heard them... I'm taking a trip down to Long Beach, CA.. beginning of August.. There's a great band.. Cubensis.. which plays in the So Cal area.. and I've been dying to hear them again.. www.cubensis.org I do admit there's nothing like a Dead show.. but since Jerry's gone.. I have to take it where I can get it.. btw.. does anyone remember wbs.com in like '95 or so? used to chat in the Grateful Dead room..
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CUBENSIS is so fucking amazing... I live in Long Beach and I see them every week, they SHRED. You should definitely check them out if in the SoCal area... They play like 3 times a week. I enjoy them just as much or more than DSO. They started in 1987, before DSO.
Cubensis - Jack Straw 01/09/2011 --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qi1s57NSbs
 
^ Thanks for that link, I'm a Straw freak and am always curious to hear a new interpretation(the 'Bobby' guy is killer!). Splintered Sunlight, a Philly based GD tribate band is right up there with Cubenis....love seeing them play....it's loud, awesome playing and everyone dances....I love being around people who are really enjoying the music:) One of my biggest gripes with seeing Furthur is the amount of assholes there who like to talk during Morning Dew:\

I go see this GD cover band outta Reading, PA called Good Lovin Jam Band(lame ass name) once a month...but they are just 'fun', not good, like Splintered Sunlight. They are playing this weekend at a minor league baseball game for Deadhead night, should be fun:)
 
So...how were the shows everyone on the east coast?

Furthur still throws down like they have been right? I've got 3 nights at Red Rocks again comin up with all three tickets on lockdown.
 
been hearing that it's a bit hit or miss this tour. haven't seen one myself so take that for what it's worth.

but i did have some friends that raved about the alpharetta show.

either way, you'll obviously have a blast.
 
Anyone ever see the band Zero? I saw them once in Grateful Dead land North of SF while living in Oakland then later in Eugene when I was living there, Merel Saunders played with them in Eugene, probably about 1993-4. It was right after one of the big summer mushroom harvests, everybody was trippin. What a great show and I shook Merels hand after it was all done. I could swear he was speaking to me with that keyboard, actually he was speaking to me.

Ill never forget that harvest. My roomie came home with a garbage bag full of about 40 lbs. I went to the post office to send home a few elbows and standing in line it seemed like it was nothing but hippies also sending fungus home back East, we all just kinda smiled at eachother. It had been dry for so long, even in Eugene. It was if it had finally rained in the desert.
 
i saw zero in 96 or 97 in atlanta. great band.

same time period i was really into the zen tricksters as well.
 
Like all great things that I've come to love, I hated The Grateful Dead the first time I listened to them. I thought "Touch of Grey" was OK, and "Fire on the Mountain" was all right, but I thought that everything else was boring and stupid.

Then, it happened, I found one or two more songs that I liked, then one or two more, and then one or two more, and then that was it for me... I just fell in love with The Grateful Dead.

There's a live version of "So Many Roads" that's so incredible, it has brought me to tears on many a late night, home alone, the wind tangled in my window blinds... ;)

I'll be right back, I've got to go listen to some Grateful Dead now...

EDIT: Here's that "So Many Roads." I'm not sure why this version stuck with me, but it has...

Grateful Dead Live at The Omni on 1995-03-27 (March 27, 1995)
 
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I saw further for the first time at all good this year. I love their music. I'm only 18 and wish everyday that I was instead, 48, so that I could've lived on tour. I love the thought of going on tour. This summer, I went to 2 music fests on my own, All Good being almost 9 hours away. And yet, I knew I was going to make it. I just had a good feeling. I knew I was destined to see further play. I was dosing and had the greatest sense of connectivity to other people I have ever had in my entire life. I was missing a contact but that didn't matter to me.

My favorite song they played had to be Terrapin Station as I was so high, I imagined the earth shaking. I also enjoyed "and we bid you goodnight" as I'd never heard it before. I read as much as I can about tour though, as I dream of it all the time. I read "Growing Up Dead" and read loads of stuff on deadnet among other things I pick up on this ride we call life. I have felt like an alien my entire life but seeing them live just made me feel like I belonged, that I was part of a community so full of love, I could burst. I met quite a few really awesome people that weekend on the mountain.

I was dancing and I just kept laughing with joy. I wish I could experience that every day. It was beautiful and even better than I ever imagined.
 
Logic

Las Vegas shows back in the 90s I was on the strip playing nickle slots and ordering double shots of free scotch while tipping the waitresses that handed out the free stuff. The drum circles were right out front of Circus Circus and I wound up out front sitting on the curb. A little girl of about 8yrs old walked right up to me and started talking to me. She asked me how many shows I had been to and I told her, It must have been around 60 at the time. This little 8 year old stated that this was her 150 and something show. She was such a cutie bragging as she was lol.

Ill have to check out that book you mentioned.
 
nice pigpen.

a bunch of my friends have some pretty rad stories from 90's vegas runs.

i obviously never got to see the dead there, but have seen multiple panic and phish runs in vegas.

nothing quite like it.
 
I'm hoping to see panic several times on their fall tour. They're doing 5 shows in my state but I might only be able to make one if I decide to attend Alchemy this year. Lots of big decisions but I really want to see Panic as they're going on an indefinite hiatus next year. You planning on attending any ChickenScratch?

and Pigpen, I bet you were like woah! when that little girl said that.
 
logic, i'll probably just see the alpharetta show, might go to NYE for one last blow out. i kind of hung it up when mikey died and only catch a few shows a year these days. but, by all means my friend, see as many as you possibly can.
 
I was at a Bear's Picnic from 8/11-8/15, 7 Walkers was the headliner and was boring as fuck.

The band that blew my mind that weekend was Ekoostik Hookah....holy shit, borderline heavy metal/country jam band thats been around since '91, suddenly GD is a little boring....too bad Hookah only tours in the midwest.
 
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