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drljefe
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El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Topic Author's Reply - May 4, 2012 - 01:37am PT
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Thanks for keeping this thread going!
jockamo fee no ah nah nay
jockamo fee nah nay!
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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cowpoke, the Dead played the Orphium for three nights. They were super special shows in that it was their reunion shows. Not that they never played during their hiatus, but this was their official "we're back" sets.
I was lucky to have a friend... I remember it was the first time I'd seen them play a whole set without stopping, starting with Playin'...
And man!, that is one rippin' Eyes.
[Funny how they don't show Bobby for the whole video, except for a short shot of his back around 10:25.]
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cowpoke
climber
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k-man, I love that set of videos from the soundchecks leading up to the 76 Orpheum run and I kinda wondered if my dream was my brain's invention of what it would have been like to have been there. Wish it was a memory rather than a dream. [Click to View YouTube Video]
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drljefe
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El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Topic Author's Reply - May 8, 2012 - 06:16pm PT
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ummmmm,
it's May 8th.
edit: lemme guess, k-man, you were there, right?
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zBrown
Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
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Last time I checked there were something like 7000 GD shows available.
I started with someone else's top ten list, then added ones that I'd attended (funny I wasn't at any of his top ten). I don't even know how many I have now.
Bob Wier tie-die?
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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That last shot is Great, Weir playing an SG, Garcia in 'tails & a rare non-black tee, and Lesh w/ the Alembic! Whoa Boy!
Naw, I don't ever think I saw a 5/8 show...
But let me check ;-)
I was a young & naive kid when I got to SF to see one of those Orpheum shows... Strange story on how I managed
to get the tix, but so it goes.
I swear, there was the very cute gal in the seat in front of me, just a few years older than I...
Although she was with her man, she kept sliding her arm behind her seat, where she'd find and rub my leg.
At one point, she got up, turned to me and winked, and wandered up the aisle.
It was about an hour later that it dawned on me...
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TwistedCrank
climber
Dingleberry Gulch, Ideeho
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5/8 Holy Kamolee has it been 35 years already?
Yeah, I was at Barton Hall. You knew when Jerry looked over his shoulder about 1/2 way into Row Jimmy that the group was beyond firing on all cyclinders. I'll never forget that nanosecond. Ever. Nothing was out out place that night, my face was melting off and, as I recall, I had a looming exam in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, or some such droll, that would have otherwise consumed me at the time. When it was all over, when we were to wander into Collegetown to unpeak, we exited the barn and it was snowing. Fuggin first week in May, we had no concept of temperature, or time for that matter, and we got pelted with the first snow of the next winter. Fuggin magic. My face still hurts from smiling so big.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Wow, we finally know where Owsley's truck is, how cool is that?
It showed up in Hemmings Collector Blog.
It's still in the Bay Area. This 1954 Studebaker was responsible for hauling the bands new "Owsley" gear around in the early days.
Long Strange Trip Indeed.
It’s not often you’ll find mention of any Grateful Dead news here at Hemmings, but the arrival on the market of a psychedelically painted 1954 Studebaker one-ton pickup changes that.
Collector and special-interest cars earn their appeal from their rarity, performance, breakthrough feats of engineering, excellence in design, or, in some cases, their notoriety. Recently discovered by art dealer Steve Cabella of San Francisco, this Studebaker 2R15 allegedly gained its notoriety when the Grateful Dead’s financial backer, landlord, sound man, and supplier of LSD, Owsley Stanley, bought the machine to haul his custom-made sound gear back and forth to the band’s gigs. An artist friend of Stanley’s at the time gave it the distinctive psychedelic paint job that it still wears today.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Topic Author's Reply - May 9, 2012 - 03:14pm PT
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nice one there, twistedcrank.
i made the reference to k-man because he seems to have caught so many "legendary" shows, esp 77's.
Me, i was probably burning army men or building jumps for my wind-up Evel Kinevel.
I think most of us wore out a copy or two of 5/8/77.
Actually, the first set from the previous night, 5/7/77, is one of my alltime faves.
The best 1/2 $tep!
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Kalimon
Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
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She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes . . . and I knew without asking she was into the blues.
She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls . . . I knew right away she was not like other girls . . . other girls.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
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In case anyone is interested, here is the "must have" list that I was given a long time ago. I've misplaced the name of the person who gave it to me. While searching for it, I was amazed by how much I've accumulated.
2/27/1969 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA
2/11/1970 Fillmore East, New York, NY
5/11/1972 Civic Hall, Rotterdam, Netherlands
6/10/1973 RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C.
8/6/1974 Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, NJ
6/14/1976 Beacon Theater, New York, NY
5/9/1977 War Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, NY
5/18/1977 Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA
4/16/1978 Huntington Civic Center, Huntington, WV
7/8/1978 Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO
12/28/1979 Oakland Auditorium, Oakland CA
10/14/1983 Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT
10/9/1989 Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA
9/13/1993 The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA
Feel free to criticize and postup your own favorites.
Speaking of cute gals. Y'all remember Pigpen!
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Topic Author's Reply - May 9, 2012 - 04:54pm PT
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Lotsa good shows there.
83 Hartford was my first tape. Love that second set.
The 89 Warlocks is a modern gem.
Gotta say, I'm shocked that Cornell 5/8/77 isn't on your list, as it is widely considered one of the finest shows the Dead ever played.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
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5/9/77 is. Maybe it was a typo in the original. I'm gonna have to load up that disc and see what's gong on. I'm sure I hav 'em both.
Garcia hardly ever wore black in the old days. Phil and Bill didn't even wear shirts.
Denver 9-24-67.
Bob Wier digs DA Brim
Tie-die Phil
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zBrown
Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
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GD road trip!
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zBrown
Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
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Da Brim, even Owsley!
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TwistedCrank
climber
Dingleberry Gulch, Ideeho
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Best show? Best run? Best tour? Best hot-seat rental? WTF?
It's all fun and games til someone puts an eye out.
And thanks to whoever reminded us of the Orphem 76 run. The 7/18 second set sequence doesn't even fit on a single CD - not that anyone uses them anymore. They had me at Lazy Lightnin->Supplication->Let it Grow->drums->Let it Grow->Wharf Rat->TOO->St. Stephen->NFA->St. Stephen->Wheel->TOO->Stella Blue->Sugar Mag.
That was one of my first tapes...
edit: Phil wo/ a shirt. OMG. Note to self: must scratch eyes out.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
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Or get all 7000+ shows.
7/18/76
Disc 1 (1:07:35 audio, 417MB SHN)
SET1
1. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo [9:52]
2. Cassidy [4:20]
3. Row Jimmy [9:47]
4. Mama Tried [2:59]
5. Scarlet Begonias [11:17]
6. Looks Like Rain [7:10]
7. Tennessee Jed [9:14]
8. New Minglewood Blues [4:56]
9. Loser [8:00]
Disc 2 (1:07:22 audio, 402MB SHN)
1. The Music Never Stopped [6:49]
SET2
2. Might As Well [5:54]
3. Samson And Delilah [7:10]
4. Candyman [7:50]
5. Lazy Lightnin' [7:29] >
6. Supplication [1:20] >
7. Let It Grow [6:51] >
8. Drums [3:24] >
9. Let It Grow [4:45] >
10. Wharf Rat [15:51] > % Cut (Phil's intro to TOO included)
Disc 3 (57:32 audio, 322MB SHN)
1. The Other One [6:23] >
2. Saint Stephen [8:35] >
3. Not Fade Away [7:01] >
4. Saint Stephen [0:59] >
5. The Wheel [6:02] >
6. The Other One [3:16] >
7. Stella Blue [10:58]
8. Sugar Magnolia [10:05]
ENCORE
9. Johnny B. Goode [4:15]
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