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Kalimon
Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
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Dec 27, 2010 - 11:00pm PT
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Yeah Jefe! What a killer song . . . awesome lyrics and the goofy circus like, yet extremely complex sound the boys wove around them. Everything promised is delivered to you!
I really love Pate's pedal steel Garcia photos. Whew! Everyone's doin' that rag . . .
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yosguns
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Durham, NC
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Jan 13, 2011 - 09:28pm PT
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k-man, thanks for the post. Good stuff.
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Kalimon
Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
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Jan 13, 2011 - 11:15pm PT
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Thanks pocoloco 1, nice video link. What a treasure to see vintage footage with high quality sound . . . Neil Young at Massey Hall too!
Peace.
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Kalimon
Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
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PigPen BUMP!
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Kalimon
Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
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Classic pocololo 1 . . . the elemental Dead: Billy, Bobby, Jerry, Keith, Phil and Ron.
GUD stuff indeed!
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 14, 2011 - 03:10pm PT
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The weather down here, so fine...
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 20, 2011 - 11:03pm PT
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KW-
Nice.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 26, 2011 - 10:19am PT
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Ooh hoo, where's the dog star?
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Kalimon
Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
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Feb 26, 2011 - 11:18am PT
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Drifting and dreaming . . .
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Feb 26, 2011 - 12:09pm PT
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I saw the Dead and the New Riders of the Purple Sage at Pauley Pavilion in 72. The girl I went with loved the Dead so much, she found a way to get back stage. Being the passionate, frisky girl she was, somehow an incident happened in the bathroom that got the band in some trouble with UCLA, I never knew until just recently that it became a rather infamous incident in the bands history.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 26, 2011 - 01:11pm PT
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Hey k-man
34 yrs ago tonight at the Swing Auditorium...
Care to share your memories on this show, famous for the debut of Terrapin Station and Estimated Prophet?
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Feb 26, 2011 - 03:18pm PT
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@Can't Say, I heard about that Poly Pavilion escapade, funny. A good friend of mine was in the front center for that show. I'm not sure it was good for him. {wink}
I just listened to the first disc of Dick's Pix #26, 4/26/69. This is a couple of months after the wonderful (Live/Dead) Filmore West shows. Truly the Dead showing off their turn-on-a-dime charms, many cool song changes--check this out if you can. [The second set isn't quite so hot, seems the Electric Theater was juicing the band a bit.]
And...
Hooray!! for the Swing!! Whoa, that long ago, eh? Jeeze...
The place was pretty small. My cousin and a couple of his friends were visiting us from Chile and we all got tix. I think that was actually my first "enhanced" show, I remember feeling pretty good. And my cousin? What can I say, they were no innocents. But they were unprepared for what took place.
I'd followed the Dead pretty tight, and knew their song lists. So when they opened with Lady with a Fan, whoa, the hole place seemed to lift up off the ground a bit. Lesh's base line just sounded so unusual, unlike anything we'd heard before. And the inter-twining of the guitars, the magic was complete. Garcia was so excited about his new tune, and I'd never seen it before (or since), but he actually was doing Townsend-style windmills with his picking hand. Garcia: how I like to remember him, black hair, black beard.
There were these two chicanos right next to me. We were dead center, about 5 or 6 folks back from the stage. These chicanos, they were stoned to the gills, on reds was my guess. Anyway, the guy right next to me would shout in between the songs "Hey Garcia!" (imagine Cheech's accent, but toasted on reds), "Garcia, play one for my sister. Hey Garcia." He wouldn't stop. I had a hard time not laughing, but I found it pretty funny.
When they broke out Estimated Prophet, I literally thought the room was spinning, slowly. Now that is one F'ed up bass line!, and Wier's guitar.
My oh my, my poor cousin.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Feb 28, 2011 - 12:38pm PT
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My buddy raves about a flick he once saw titled Sunshine Daydream, it documents a '72 show set in Oregon. Odd, there's just not that many films of earlier GD shows. For some reason this film was never officially released (copyrights?).
Anyway, he told me you could find segments of the film on YouTube. Here's the China Cat Sunflower.
Wow, what a time, what a place. I love the early days when Garcia played with a clean, Strat sound... Here, a Sunburst Stratocaster, never seen that one before.
Ah... Jack Straw
And the Beautiful Dark Star
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 28, 2011 - 01:26pm PT
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K man-
I have SSDD. I'll dig it up and burn it.
It is awrsome.
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