NFT: Grateful Dead 1990

Lots of arcane footage in Long Strange Trip. You should enjoy it. For me, it's 1971-1977.

I watched it and thought it was good.

On Netflix there is a doc called "the other one" about Weir. I actually thought that one was better (mainly b/c its shorter I think), but both are really good. I'm not even that into the GD.

a true Dead fan you need to see "The Festival Express "

Enjoying the sites and sounds6. 80' were some good shows I got to enjoy in person. Enjoying the trip back in time.

but I'm not the kind of guy who went to hundreds of shows, can name setlists, etc. I look forward to watching the series.

Don't mean to be negative, but speaking of eras, am I the only one who wasn't a big fan of Donna Godchaux? I mean when her voice was prominent (late 70s). Nothing personal and I love some tunes from that era, but I didn't miss her when she left..

Glad to rem9 and relieve it all again.

Looking forward to it. At six months old, the Dead was the first concert I went to

Late 80s to 90s was my time with Dead. I didn't see that many shows outside of NY/NE but there weren't too many soundboards I missed. Wish I still had my tapes. Happy times. Funny really that the Dead had fans my age. JGB from these times are also great.

November 5, 1970, one night of the four night stand at the small, renovated Capitol Theater in Port Chester, NY.

In the second row. Dead acoustic set, New Riders with Garcia pedal steel, Dead electric set. Pigpen an about 25 minute "Lovelight." Total of seven hours. After those four Port Chester dates, ten years before the Dead played another acoustic set.

And the very next night saw Jefferson Airplane at the Albany State gym, where they set up on wooden risers like they were going to play for a high school dance.

No basketball arenas or baseball parks, thank you.

Long article on the Dead's four dates in Port Chester, November, 1970 - ( New Window )

But you know how I like to post pictures with captions? Well, I did the same with a couple of tattoos using some Dead lyrics.

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

"The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean."

In comment 13510413 trueblueinpw said:

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Late 80s to 90s was my time with Dead. I didn't see that many shows outside of NY/NE but there weren't too many soundboards I missed. Wish I still had my tapes. Happy times. Funny really that the Dead had fans my age. JGB from these times are also great.

Larry- Are you familiar with the Relisten app (Mac) and Deadhead Archives (Android) ? No reason to miss the old tapes or anything anymore. The quality of the re-mastered/mixed issued music from the band is a lot better in many cases, but I can't imagine you being disappointed in these catalogues if you are comparing to original tapes.

Pretty much every show they ever played at your fingertips.

don't know why I called you "larry" must have confused your name with true blue larry or someone with a similar handle.

i saw a string of 4 shows at MSG that fall if I recall. The brent years were my favorite, though I've gotten into the late 70s a lot more as time has gone on.

Just loved the how much better a guitarist Jerry got in later years, though he was inconsistent, obviously.

He pretty much mastered the fretboard by the late 80s.

I could discuss his playing all day long...what a genius.

In comment 13510917 Mike in Marin said:

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don't know why I called you "larry" must have confused your name with true blue larry or someone with a similar handle.

No worries, just don't call me late for dinner.

I knew nothing about relisten but I'm going to check it out. I did know about archive.org but hadn't been there in a while. I used to get pretty into my cassette covers and even put all of my ticket stubs on the cassette covers and the boxes I used to hold the tapes. No idea what prompted me to toss those bits of my youth.

that did it for me.

I remember the Scarlet-Fire at MSG 1994 ( I think? )..so that's October something or other. It just kept going and Jerry was on FIRE. A nice ovation after the song.. which was rare. I think those there knew that it was something special from Jerry. He must have been lucid.. maybe his dealer was caught in traffic.

I watched the first episode of Long Strange Trip 2 nights ago. Great footage. I'm excited to see more of it.

before Pigpen died. I liked their bluesier sets more than later stuff.

In comment 13510418 SB 42 and 46 and ? said:

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November 5, 1970, one night of the four night stand at the small, renovated Capitol Theater in Port Chester, NY. In the second row. Dead acoustic set, New Riders with Garcia pedal steel, Dead electric set. Pigpen an about 25 minute "Lovelight." Total of seven hours. After those four Port Chester dates, ten years before the Dead played another acoustic set. And the very next night saw Jefferson Airplane at the Albany State gym, where they set up on wooden risers like they were going to play for a high school dance. No basketball arenas or baseball parks, thank you. Long article on the Dead's four dates in Port Chester, November, 1970 - ( New Window )

I listened to those Port Chester tapes until they wore out! Some of the best.

In comment 13512072 yatqb said:

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before Pigpen died. I liked their bluesier sets more than later stuff.

I'm younger for the dead. Started going to shows 89.


I, too, prefer 68-72

In comment 13510418 SB 42 and 46 and ? said:

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November 5, 1970, one night of the four night stand at the small, renovated Capitol Theater in Port Chester, NY. In the second row. Dead acoustic set, New Riders with Garcia pedal steel, Dead electric set. Pigpen an about 25 minute "Lovelight." Total of seven hours. After those four Port Chester dates, ten years before the Dead played another acoustic set. And the very next night saw Jefferson Airplane at the Albany State gym, where they set up on wooden risers like they were going to play for a high school dance. No basketball arenas or baseball parks, thank you. Long article on the Dead's four dates in Port Chester, November, 1970 - ( New Window )

Massive amounts of jealousy.