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These guys are destroying the Deads music in an amazing way right now, check them out live if you can before they aren't doing it, which I fear is soon.
 
Watch this whole video and look for Benevento's solo and how the band hops back in, so damn fresh to my dead ears.
 


 

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DaveC's recording of the September 4, 2004 show by the Benevento/Russo Duo with Mike Gordon at the moe.down Music Festival in Turin, NY is now available on the live music archive:
 
https://archive.org/details/duo2004-09-04.at822.flac16
 
Huge thanks to Dave for making the recording. Enjoy!
 
Aloha,
Brad

This may be old news, but the Barr Bros are playing in Gatineau this Friday night. http://www.maisondelaculture.ca/Salle-Odyssee/spectacles/chanson/the-barr-brothers.html
$35
Too bad it's the same night as Zeus.

why can't all threads be as great as this?   impressive detail on the listening experience! fuuuuck.

Right off the bat, I absolutely loved the sound of this 1978 show. Wonderful separation, clear instrumentation and a touch of the crowd showing their pre-first note appreciation. You are probably in for a good one if they are opening with Mississippi Half Step. Back when I was collecting tapes there was a common understanding that if the Dead opened with Jack Straw you were in for a great show but what my experience taught me, while that wasn’t an untrue statement, Half-Step was another one of those openers. Saddle up because here we go!
 
Jerry and Bob traded fantastic first set choices. Cassidy was the second song, TLEO made a sneaky appearance. Looks Like Rain had the crowd offering some cheers back and It Must Have Been The Roses came out, I would have been losing at those back to back choices, before Bob delivered an always welcomed cowboy combo. For a guy who didn’t concentrate on country songs, Garcia should be considered up there with some of the best pickers out there like ………Brown Eyed Women was an unsurprising follow up and then a stunning version of Let It Grow that soared beyond my expectations. It just fucking smokes and seemingly never gives up. Garcia was fanning at points, offering some great chordal options, spotting perfect nots while Phil and the drummers plowed it home. Bob and Keith found wonderful spaces inside of them and no one wanted to be the first to give (although Bob was the first to try and luckily no one gave in). One of the best versions I have ever heard. By the time they get to the finish line they nail it and Jerry sets them all off. This is a cant miss version that all you Heads and Headettes are gonna want to have the sex to. One of the premier moments on the box set thus far.
 
Another ripping Samson to open set 2 with that perfectly dirty/gritty tone we have all come to love from Jerry on this song while the drummers and Phil are slamming this one home. I’ve been listening to these shows on my pc speakers, which aren’t bad speakers whatsoever but once I get this stuff on my big ole home stereo I suspect songs like this will take on a new meaning. A gorgeous Ship Of Fools slowed everything down and allowed Garcia to growl some of his lines. He was clearly having a great time. This is the one I would play for Elvis Costello if he ever came over to hang out.
 
And just like that we find ourselves within the perfect combination of Estimated > Eyes Of The World. By May of 1978 Estimated has a foothold and I have always giggled in my brain because there was probably a pile of entitled Deadheads complaining that they do it all the time but I gotta say, if you heard this version and walked out bitching then I have to wonder. Were you really there at all? Jerry’s lines sound like he is dancing on that stage and it all just somehow rolls into a fun paced Eyes Of The World with hardly stepping on anyone’s toes…..which……is all a must hear. There is some major traversing of mazes which will definitely put any Head’s face to a smile. To this point, this is my favourite show of the box set. Hey. Wait. Am I saying that every time I write? It’s been in my head each time I start typing but this is good. Real fucking good.
 
The  Drumz after Eyes is rather engaging and tribally slithers into a long introduction to Not Fade Away. I could have listened to this for an entire set but once Bobby started learning how to play the slide onstage during it you knew things were drawing to a close which brought on GDTRFB. How different this combo had become since it was first introduced in 1970? They didn’t change the key but it sure didn’t sound nearly like it used to and I am sure some older Heads complained, naturally of course which I am also not going to begrudge an opinion such as that, but I am not one of them.
 
Bob sounded like he was ready to finally put the slide away and our favourite freaks brought Around and Around down, which reminded me of Buffalo in 1990. One should never create expectations or ideas in your head because until you experience something you just don’t know and Around*2 was that song for me. I was absolutely flattened by how much I enjoyed it in concert when it used to feel like something I would lose interest in if I heard it on tape. Since then I always draw back to those emotions that fateful night, which I am so happy for because this is a great version.
 
US Blues closed the show with some more growling Garcia which reminded me of another theory I developed back in my tape trading days. If the Dead played US Blues, or Johnny B Goode, to close a show it was their way of showing you they felt like they had a great night. Another one of those “Ask Phil” questions in my head but I know I won’t ever get an answer that suits my theory so I would probably let it slide aside from the inevitable “uuuugh, uuuuugh” I would experience if I had the chance to talk for a moment.
 
At this point I figure if you are looking for one show to download this would be a great start but let’s remember that the 1979 show is up next. That was one of the shows/dates that completely jumped out at me when they announced the box set. I had the second set on Maxell XL II’s and they were in heavy rotation. Jesusfuck, the pre-Drumz…..just you wait………
 

And there you have it folks, a Jack Straw opener. Should be a hot show ;-)
 
As I had stated earlier I had this wonderful second set which I can’t wait to hear in all this glory because of how incredible it is, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise the Straw started the night off. Brent is now in the band and clearly added a new dimension along with his inspiration. Over the years he became a focal point who could throw Garcia into wonderful moments of clarity, which also coincided with the sound Jerry would continue to seek. He was one who loved to turn the bass down and the treble up on his guitar, doing his best to make it as much as an acoustic instrument as possible. His love of that high lonesome sound never let up and with the years ahead we would hear more and more of that develop, especially during the mid-80’s. But man, what a departure already within this Jack Straw and we are getting some nice Phil bombs.
 
Candyman was another hark back to the early days but this time Jerry is starting to sound like that grizzled old bear who would continue on. Brent was already providing the perfect accompaniment he so desperately needed on that side of the stage. I shudder at how much things may have drastically changed had the Dead made a different call on the keyboards.
 
Cowboy combos reared their perfectly timed heads with Me And My Uncle segueing into Big River and we hear how Brent was going to help provide a new voice. If you listen closely you get a glimpse into the future. Things have seemingly slowed down just a touch, probably to help the new guy get assimilated and Uno but the band has already started to catch a smoove groove they are going to end up feeling comfortable with.
 
Brown Eyed Women reared her ugly head in this set but this time I felt more of a connection to her than I normally do. It’s not a song I connect to but it’s versions like this that I get why people do. We also get to hear Brent providing the high harmonies he will become known for.
 
And then there we go. We get a fucking Brent Mydland song and one of my favorites of the few he offered over the years. Easy To Love You, you’reg-damn right it is buddy. The band already sounded like they had been playing it for years. Jerry and Phil clearly loved Brent songs and it’s a shame there weren’t more of them offered and that he left us in 1990 shortly after following their summer tour. The band was on such a high at that time but we’ll get to that story another day. I’m almost in tears listening to this one.
 
Luckily the tribal stomp of Minglewood Blues took away my Brent blues. I’m a big fan of this number and this is when the song started to take on a whole new meaning. Great solos in this one. The underrated and too rarely performed Stagger Lee followed. I am loving this first set. It’s beyond anything I expect from the Dead, let alone adding a new member once Keith and Donna have left. Brent immediately puts his stamp on ‘BAND MEMBER’
 
I was absolutely blown away when Lost Sailor came out. This had to be an early one so I sat back and sure enough it perfectly walked into Saint Of Circumstance which ended up being the epic shit that combo is. Wow. Thank you Grateful Dead. The fluttering lines from Jerry during Deal afterwards almost felt like an afterthought even though it smoked but what is coming to start out the second set has made this set feel impatient (my problem, not yours) because I was dying to hear what was in such heavy rotation back on my tape deck in the 90’s…………………..
 
DANCING IN THE STREETS > FRANKLIN’S TOWER! ! GDAMN! ! !
 
This is prime Disco Dead with some exquisite sounds coming out from inside Brent and Jerry. One can almost immediately feel the strong connection these two were going to display in the coming decade plus and if you pay close enough attention you can notice an unmistakable odour that ownership has been trying to excavate since October 27th, 1979. I’m willing to bet that if you were to walk into the Cape Code Coliseum tomorrow it still smells like Bill Walton hadn’t showered during the entire post-season following his playoff MVP performance in 1977 because the segue into Franklin’s is that slinky. By the time it all wears down I have no idea who might be more tired, the band or the crowd. Jerry does add some light fanning at the end of this combo to help finally bring things to a close so that everyone can catch their breath. In order to track this stuff onto three cds they had top stop there which signals to me we are in for a nonstop finish until the encore. I don’t remember it being like that on tape but the 90’s were a long time ago.
 
He’s Gone was an absolutely perfect call after that and the crowd voiced their approval. Brent’s vocals slipped in perfectly on the harmonies and that there should have been his selling point to everyone wondering back then if he was the right man for the job, especially following the 30 minutes of madness to start the set off. A great version that hints at a Caution Jam but eventually leads to Phil dropping a major bomb for The Other One. He is all over this and sending Jerry all over the place while Bobby is doing what Bobby does best, finding those spaces in between the two of them. Both drummers were working their collective bags off and if I had one complaint it’s that this was not a longer version. Things keep pointing their way to Drumz but Phil remained steadfast and dropped another massive run of clusters that explodes into an atom bomb. We eventually get treated to that second verse which felt like it might not get there, during which it sounds like they had to go to an audience reel because they must have not noticed the sbd tapes had stopped. Phil stuck with the drummers for a tiny bit while suggesting a couple of slap notes, his one major weak link, before he left them on their own. He was clearly feeling it for this show.
 
Again, another engaging Drumz which I hope is going to remain a theme going forward because that segment on tape can lose the best of us. Not Fade Away comes out once Jerry, Phil, Bobby and Brent get back on the stage and I cant help but wonder why this didn’t happen way later into their career coming out of space, not that I am complaining. I positively love these groovy NFA’s but once they got locked into something they were comfortable with they stuck with it. I suppose Brent providing strong B3 chords changed that dynamic.
 
The Jerry ballad slot was starting to take hold and Black Peter provided that nights entertainment. I really don’t think there is a ballad I didn’t care for but it’s almost impossible to rate my favourite because it always seemed to be that whatever he decided to throw at us was my favourite that night. I never felt like he was wrong in that slot and this version is further proof. Jerry’s voice was half kid, half grizzled. Really fantastically weird for that song for these ears since I was such a fan of the older and fatter version of that man telling us this story. It meant more to him as time went on but it obviously was already speaking heavily to him. It’s always been a spiritually philosophical song to me and further proves that everyone needs to continue to learn in order to grow. Every aspect of life lessons can teach us, including dying. It’s a fucking brilliant song and one of Robert Hunter's best piece of lyrics while also being heavily underated. Around Squared ended the set and they encored with One More Saturday Night which pretty much tells me they performed Samson & Delilah the following evening.  
 
One final point, Jerry seemed to have a lot more sounds and command of said sounds during this show so I am guessing that Tiger has made her way into his hands for this show.
 

 

Thank you for this thread. I'm listening as you post.

The Grateful Dead have announced plans to put out a massive 80-disc box set consisting of 30 previously unreleased live shows. "30 Trips Around The Sun" will be released through Rhino Records on September 18.
 
The box set will go for $699.95. The purchase comes with a bonus vinyl 45 which features a 1965 version of "Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" as well as the final song from their final performance at Soldier Field in Chicago in '95, "Box of Rain."
The limited release will see 6,500 numbered CD sets and 1,000 lightning bolt shaped USB drives available for purchase.
 
List of Shows:
Filmore Aud SF, CA 7/3/66
Shrine Aud LA, CA 11/10/67
Greek Th Berkley, CA 10/20/68
Dream Bowl Vallejo, CA 2/22/69
Winterland SF, CA 4/15/70
Fox Th St. Louis, MO 3/18/71
Palace Th Waterbury, CT 9/24/72
Sports Arena SD, CA 11/14/73
Parc des Expositions Dijon, FR 9/18/74
Lindley Meadows SF, CA 9/28/75
Cobo Hall Detroit, MI 10/3/76
Capital Th Passaic, NJ 4/25/77
CC Providence, RI 5/14/78
Cape Cod Coliseum S Yarmouth, MA 10/27/79
CC Lakeland, FL 11/28/80
Barton Hall Ithaca, NY 5/16/81
Manor Downs Austin, TX 7/31/82
Centrum Worcester, MA 10/21/83
CC Augusta, ME 10/12/84
River Bend Cincinnati, OH 6/24/85
Cal Expo Sacramento, CA 5/3/86
MSG New York, NY 9/18/87
Oxford, ME 7/3/88
Arena Miami, FL 10/26/89
Zenith Paris, FR 10/27/90
MSG NY, NY 9/10/91
Copps Coliseum Ontario, Canada 3/20/92
Knickerbocker Albany, NY 3/27/93
Garden Boston, MA 10/1/94
Delta Center SLC, UT 2/21/95

Read more: http://liveforlivemusic.com/news/grateful-dead-to-release-massive-box-set-of-previously-unreleased-shows/#ixzz3c0VzlF7i


 

My recording of the Saturday, November 14, 2015 show by CloudCity at the Mercury Lounge in Ottawa, ON is now available for downloading and streaming:
 
https://archive.org/details/cloudcity2015-11-14.ca-14.flac16
 
Enjoy!
 
Aloha,
Brad

Alabama Shakes were here in Dublin, Ireland for 2 sold out shows (last night & tonight).
I was given a couple of free tix, and I'm really glad that I went to tonights show.
Great band !
That woman (Brittany Howard) can sing (and play the guitar), and the band was on fire.
I won't be buying up all of their albums, but I'll go check them out again if the opportunity comes around.
They played for almost 2 hours and ended with a 4 song encore that included "Sound & Color" & "Joe"
But the highlight for me was "Don't Wanna Fight"
good times...
 
 

Incredible show last night! 41 songs and over 3 hours!
 
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/paul-mccartney/2015/air-canada-centre-toronto-on-canada-13f45175.html
 
Some video I took....
 
The Long And Winding Road > Maybe I'm Amazed:




Band On The Run:



Let It Be:



Hey Jude:

I've been wondering when George's stuff would become available digitally on-demand for a while.  Apparently it all just dropped on Apple Music, Deezer, Google Play, Rdio, Spotify, Tidal…
 
Confirmed in apple music.  But where's the Concert for Bangladesh???
 

 

As heard on Conan O'Brien:
 
"The Grateful Dead announced today that they will be releasing an 80 CD boxed set. No word yet on which song it will be."

Did soundcloud pull the Father John Misty tracks?

My recording of the Saturday, September 19, 2015 show by Built To Spill at Club Soda in Montreal, QC is now available via BitTorrent:
 
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=582408
 
Enjoy!
 
Aloha,
Brad

This looks promising
 
  
 

You are talking about the Horticulture Building, not the Aberdeen Pavilion (just so nobody is confused)

Victory!! 
 
Loving CityFolk so far!  The Tubes were amazing. 
I love the new venue. The only issue I have so far is the sound in the Ravenlaw tent is so echoey and terrible.  Don't think I'll be spending much time there.

Here is Johnk set enjoy
Casey did a great job recording it

Melanie and I cant stop talking about Lucas Haneman. I cant believe he is local to Ottawa. Bouche got a few shots of him. John K was wonderful as well but who in their right mind would ever want to follow Lucas?
 
I guess this guy, who happened to perform Unbroken Chain and Box Of Rain after I got him to sign my 2013 Furthur Vegas poster with a "How about that Phil Lesh!"