The Dead

[Hot Sugar]

I'll be glad to see the Dead before TBF.  Take a trip to Denver with a couple of people that never have seen those boys, two of us will teach them a bit about that music history.  They play in a band that does covers and their keyboard player has taught them a couple of Dead tunes, but they don't know much about the Dead scene.  I was reading the best memories of TBF and I thought about seeing the Grateful Dead in Telluride, I think that is why its so hard to remember the early years at Telluride.  I wonder if I'll know any of the songs?   Maybe I can get those guys to come to TBF next year, expand their horizons.

I'd love to see the Dead in Telluride. And you should definately bring them, the more the merrier

[dayton]

hot sugar, i gotta ask, what is that picture on your avatar???

[BluegrassDustin]

hot sugar, i gotta ask, what is that picture on your avatar???

Here's your answer.

[Hot Sugar]

hot sugar, i gotta ask, what is that picture on your avatar???

It's a pink floyd album cover. I wanted to upload a picture of me in the Beartooth Mountains but it didn't work

[dayton]

excellent
that is awesome man

[Auntie Hope]

hot sugar, i gotta ask, what is that picture on your avatar???

Here's your answer.

So, it IS an elephant trunk! 

Auntie Hope 

[Hot Sugar]

hot sugar, i gotta ask, what is that picture on your avatar???

Here's your answer.

So, it IS an elephant trunk! 

Auntie Hope 

I thought it was a slipper floating in a fountain

[420Sugaree]

The Dead in NYC Mar 30  —  appearance on The View & 3 venues that night

3/30/2009 Roseland Ballroom, NYC — flac16 torrent info page
(this torrent includes Bobby, Phil, and Warren on "The View" 3/30/09)

The Dead 3/30/2009 Blender Theater at Gramercy, NYC —  flac16 torrent

The Dead, Angel Orensanz Center for the Arts New York, NY —  2009-03-30.torrent

here's a bunch of pics

here's more pics

YouTube — The Dead-Eyes of the World 3-30-09 Roseland Ballroom New York, NY

YouTube — The Dead-Sugar Magnolia 3-30-09 Roseland Ballroom New York, NY







who's your daddy?

 Listening to: Sugaree

[420Sugaree]

The Dead have recently given permission for the LMA to host and share AUDience recordings of the boys.

browse items by date

Stream these shows now:
dead2009-03-30.Gramercy.TLM-170.flac16
info page

dead2009-03-30.roseland.mc930.muletaper.flac16
info page

[BillyBeru]

The Dead in NYC Mar 30  —  appearance on The View & 3 venues that night

who's your daddy?

Yo Monte,

That picture of Jerry looks to be taken somewhere in SF - any chance it's outside the Fillmore? I can't tell if it's the original Fillmore, Fillmore West or none of the above. Either way. it's a great shot.

 

[420Sugaree]

I cut my teeth over here, Billy


the boys testifying before a US Congressional Panel in 1985
"Marijuana is NOT addictive."


- can you say -
Colo "permit"?

[dayton]

one more day brothas and sistas and spring tour will be upon us
Till the morning comes
It'll do you fine
Till the morning comes
Like a highway sign
Showing you the way
Leaving no doubt
Of the way on in or the way back out
big smile

[420Sugaree]

Very-good article in the Music section of the NY Times - April 12, 2009

Bring Out Your Dead

"THE GRATEFUL DEAD’S live recordings represent a special order of surfeit. Nearly 2,200 Dead shows exist on tape, of the 2,350 or so that the group played. Most of those are available online — either for free streaming on Web sites like archive.org and nugs.net, or for download on iTunes, like the “Dick’s Picks” series and the more recent “Road Trips” archival series, which uses master-tape audio sources."

"Because of the culture of taping and collecting around the concerts, the audience developed a kind of intellectual equity in the band. And as the fans traded more and more tapes, in the nonmonetary currency of mind-blow, a kind of Darwinian principle set in: the most-passed-around tapes were almost quantifiably the best. If a tape wasn’t that good, its momentum sputtered, and it became obscure."

"A cache of soundboard tapes made by Betty Cantor-Jackson, the Dead’s live recording engineer, were scattered far and wide when her house in Nicasio, Calif., went into foreclosure and her possessions were sold at public auction."

"The sound quality of the “Betty Boards,” which began circulating in 1987, was exceptional: so good that for the initiates, it nearly reinvented listening. She made her own stereo mix on a separate feed from the house P.A. mix, strictly for posterity, and she considered the mixes from 1977 among her best. (“I want you to be inside the music,” she once said of her audio ideal. “I don’t want stereos playing at you, I want you to be in there, I want it around you.”)"

"But the standards by which we judge the Grateful Dead have changed since then. Over the past several years it has become possible to know entire periods with the same detail and definition with which we once saw individual concerts. In some sense we’re rolling back the microscope to get a closer view."

"Maybe that’s the best one can do at the highest level of engagement. Not to try to listen for the best night ever; not even to listen for the best period ever. But to try to figure out why we’re listening at all."

June 9 and 10, 1973 - my 1st time taping began w/ The Grateful Dead
AUD.fob mic used for GD at RFK Stadium - recording on a Sony TC-110 cassette recorder
Sony ECM-99 single-point stereo mic (2-channel, no matrix -- I think it was an X-configuration)

[dayton]

we're listenting (i can only speak for myself) cause we love the music, the people, and the family 
plus, there aint nuthin wrong with good people havin a good time at a grateful dead dance party... woot!
before archive went down with the all the sbds i got so many shows cause i had a feeling that something like that wouldn't last too long.... although, i think ya can still get some betty boards on archive.org, i think....... also, i've found that oade audience recoardings from the early 80's on are also of a higher quality than some of the other audience recordings out there...
 
leaving soon for greensboro...
just found out last night that the shows this tour have on-site camping!!!
that is awesome. what a way to bring back the scene in 09     cant beat on-site camping, thats for sure... its gonna be a shakedown city instead of a shakedown street if ya ask me......
tell me this town aint got no heart

[420Sugaree]

Greensboro - yesterday
70 thousand people??? or was it more like 17 thousand at Greensboro Coliseum?

get yer Jerry-atrics


nice Jack Straw - 10:42
good jam - finishes strong