This really kicks some serious ass....from 30 years ago now

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My favorite Dead song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_282xHOrSwI

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1. And another...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy31GxHbS0E

Jerry flubs his first line in the exact same way as the show you posted.

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2. Finniculi Finnicula.....

I love this version. Thank you!

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3. Jesus Christ!!!! Mickey is possessed!!! n/t

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5. I love the way Jerry rebuffs Bob twice

as he tries to turn things back to lyrics. 8:00 min mark on....

A bit sloppy, but man look at how they are holding on for dear life, Brent, etc. Like a motorcycle getting away from underneath you when you first get on....

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4. Hahahahahaha!!!!

At 8:27, they can't stop it. This is really wonderful.

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6. see above

Bob's first attempt is around 8:00. And Mickey is a demon on this one!!!

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7. Damn I've played this twice now....

and this is alright....I mean for the mid 80's...this is A-OK!

I've been going through this thing lately, where I can't stand to watch Jerry past the late 70's...but damn, this rocks very very hard.

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9. If you don't own on DVD, I'd urge you to get it

Two shows two days apart on the Dylan tour (notice pedal steel). July 24 and 26, 1987. My 30th b-day on number two, and the day Brent would die 3 years later.

I think it forces things to be tighter and because they've got a lot of show to do, are starting early, and are not just in their comfort zone as Dylan's band, they are sober, even if it takes a bit for Jerry to wake up.

Not on youtube, but Cassidy and Birdsong, both in next-to-last spots in first sets, are remarkable. Send me your address if you want miracle...hahaha....

That shirt is a new one I got in the lot of 6 I was telling you about.

http://www.amazon.com/Grateful-Dead-View-Vault-IV/dp/B00008H2EL/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1209266521&sr=8-3

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10. Hey you know, I will ramble a bit. here....

I was telling someone special to me last night why I love the Grateful Dead. I was equating it a bit to the people that REALLY understand jazz. You know, not the people who say they like jazz because it is cool to like jazz...but rather, the people who really get it.

I guess the best I can do to explain this....and I've tried so many times before.

Do you have a copy of Binghamton May 1979?

The jam after He's Gone....

I was at this show.

It was fucking hot because the air conditioning was not working. It was really bad....men and women with their shirts off inside at night...brutal brutal heat.

And they managed to pull out about 3 minutes of this BEAUTY after He's Gone....and I've often described it as the band members telling each other they loved each other.

Are you familiar with this?

This is why I love this band.

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11. Hey...couldn't find it at archives....

but I have heard a Binghamton show or two, just not sure which year. And if the HG is a standout for me, I couldn't say. I'd love to hear it.

But as for He's Gone in general, that song winds up being one of my favorites when it finds its way to a pretty place rather than staying in blues mode.

I don't know if this one is similar to yours, but one I saw in midwest is here at this show:

http://www.archive.org/details/gd91-06-25.fob-akg-mahoney-oneill.miller.28403.sbeok.shnf

Lovely.

Hard to put things in words, isn't it?

:hug:

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12. Amazing....

That jam has subtle hints of the show I am speaking of. Did you know that?

We must be on the same page.

So it was 12 years later in 1991, and it is not the same jam at all. But the theme is very similar.

And this theme is one I do not hear as part of this song normally...

They brought it to a climax in the show I am referring to...

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14. Yeah...in musical terms

it's moving from blues scale to the major 7 (I think you'd call it), that softer sounding nursery rhyme thing. I figured the HG you mentioned would be of this prettier variety. In other words, not setting up a transition to Smokestack, Truckin' or Miracle.

I truly remember these moments at that show. Shrooming, standing with my wife and feeling bathed in love. You know how it goes. A personal high-point, even if not a renowned show.

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16. Do you have the specific date?

I'd love to track it down. Maybe I just overlooked it?

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17. 5/9//79 my friend. n/t

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18. Here ya go....

The jam at the tail end of "He's Gone"

http://www.archive.org/details/gd1979-05-09.nak700.glassberg.motb.85421.sbeok.flac16

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22. listening now...

like a triumphant procession through the stars or something. And then to prove me wrong, Truckin'!

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19. Ah...Broome County...I've got this

Just not the encyclopedia some folks are. I'm listening now. Man you saw some good shows. This one is indeed famous, it seems, always being DL'ed at the archives site.

You folks on either coast were so lucky. Us mid west heads saw lots of shows, but the landmarks were elusive.

:hi:

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23. Here's some of the great ones I saw....

Binghamton November 1977 (sick sick end of show....Truckin'....Jesus Christ)
Barton Hall Cornell University May 1977
Binghamton May 1979
Binghamton 1983
Rochester 1980 (a slow Iko....what a show)
Cornell Barton Hall 1981 (Shakedown)
Pittsburgh 1989 several shows (loved these shows)

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25. Nice...all those Binghamtons

No wonder I can't keep things straight.

Only bad thing about those shows is that they never played a Days Between. :silly:

Seriously, though, and I know you like it too, the first time I heard DB was at Deer Creek and I cried and all my friends got worried I was having a bad time of things. A late masterpiece in which the singer knows he's leaving soon.

We'll continue this another day soon, OK?

:hug:

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26. OK darkstar....

thanks for this discussion. :hug:

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13. I don't know that particular show, but I really like that comment

And they managed to pull out about 3 minutes of this BEAUTY after He's Gone....and I've often described it as the band members telling each other they loved each other.

Very well put. I've heard a moment or two just like that. It is a wonder to behold :bounce:

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15. Hey! Nice to have joining in one of our late nite

geek outs. What a beautiful world, huh?

:hi:

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20. beautiful world indeed!

:woohoo:

:hi:

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24. Hello fishwax!

:hi:

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27. hey philboy!

thanks for the jack straw link -- last time I saw any of the dead family bands live was at the Willie Nelson Family Picnic in 2003 when they were all touring as "the dead"--it was in texas, on (as luck would have it) the fourth day of July, and of course they played Jack Straw :):woohoo:

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8. Lyrics!!! These are some lyrics!!! puh.....puh....puh.....puh

We can share the women, we can share the wine.
We can share what we got of yours cause we done shared all of mine.
Keep on rollin, just a mile to go;
Keep on rollin my old buddy, youre movin much too slow.

I just jumped the watchman, right outside the fence.
Took his rings, four bucks in change, aint that heaven sent?
Hurts my ears to listen, shannon, burns my eyes to see;
Cut down a man in cold blood, shannon, might as well been me.

We used to play for silver, now we play for life;
And ones for sport and ones for blood at the point of a knife.
And now the die is shaken, now the die must fall.
There aint a winner in the game, he dont go home with all.
Not with all.

Leavin texas, fourth day of july,
Sun so hot, the clouds so low, the eagles filled the sky.
Catch the detroit lightnin out of sante fe,
The great northern out of cheyenne, from sea to shining sea.

Gotta go to tulsa, first train we can ride.
Gotta settle one old score, one small point of pride.
There aint a place a man can hide, shannon will keep him from the sun
Aint a bed can give us rest now, you keep us on the run.

Jack straw from wichita cut his buddy down,
And dug for him a shallow grave and laid his body down.
Half a mile from tucson, by the morning light,
One man gone and another to go, my old buddy youre moving much too slow.

We can share the women, we can share the wine.

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21. listening now...

like a triumphant procession through the stars or something. And then to prove me wrong, Truckin'!

:hi: