Grateful Dead

[matt reeder]

I just want to say that Europe '72 is the shit. I never got this band until I listened to that album, and now every time I hear the Dead I want to hear more, and get lost in that world.

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

An 80 disc box set is on the way for you Dead heads out there...

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/premi ... t-20150602

What song is it?

[darth_vedder]

An 80 disc box set is on the way for you Dead heads out there...

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/premi ... t-20150602

What song is it?

That one with a long jam, followed by a duel drum solo.

[vegman]

Anyone here doing the GD50 shows? I didn't consider it since my wife would have probably killed me. They sound pretty good on youtube.

[E.H. Ruddock]

We are going to a house party broadcasting it on the side of their house. Local theaters also showing the shows on the big screen

[spike]

Anyone here doing the GD50 shows? I didn't consider it since my wife would have probably killed me. They sound pretty good on youtube.

yeah, avoiding downtown.

[vegman]

Chicago night 1 was pretty damn solid. I really wish this lineup would have done an actual tour. I haven't been a fan of most of the post-GD lineups but I'd pay to see this one.

[super nintendo chalmers]

Yeah, I think I'm going to order the PPV tonight and tomorrow.

Last night's set looked pretty great. I had a great time out at Santa Clara, but part of me was wishing I sacked up and made it out to Chicago.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Trey is killing it tonight

[i got bugs]

Watching it tonite

Kinda bummed bec they already played most of my fav songs

[swan]

All things considered, these shows have been pretty good, and great fun. Trey has been excellent, and it's awesome to watch him having so much fun like a kid playing with his musical idols. I feel like there are a lot of the best songs/jams that I was expecting to hear but have been left out thus far. Hopefully tonight is a monster to end it.

[BigRedLedbetter]

And We Bid You Goodnight is the only logical answer for their last song played. I just adore this fucking song.

[Kevin Davis]

We took the family to the Shedd Aquarium today (we have a membership that expires soon and we promised the kids one more trip), clearly not piecing together that the aquarium is right next door to Soldier Field. The place was a fucking zoo, swarming with filthy hippies in varying states of consciousness who appeared to have exhausted their lives' savings buying $500 tickets and coaxing the dying miles out of their rusty hatchbacks and buses on one last long, strange trip across the great plains for to see the Good New Grateful Dead truck off into the sunset one final time. Parking, which usually costs $22 at the aquarium, was a handsome $49, with most of the lots on the museum campus being converted to event parking and priced for the occasion. The aquarium, usually thick with the smell of the deceased fish used to feed the varying species of ocean mammal housed by the facility, hung heavy with one of the few earthly smells less pleasant than that of dead aquatic life -- patchouli. The Field Museum had banners for an exhibit cleverly titled "Everything is Dead," that had a bunch of dinosaur skeletons drawn in the style of the Dead skeletons. On the way out I think we heard the band soundchecking, but it might have been the sound of someone in the parking deck playing a shitty Phish bootleg really loud while tailgating. Hard to tell.

But man, especially after completely forgetting that this event was going on, it was tough to be so close and not want to grab a ticket from one of the many scalpers. Even though I am firmly of the mind that the Dead have been gone since 1995 and have had precisely zero interest in any of the various "post-Jerry" versions of the band, it really felt like all these bearded, dreadlocked pilgrims were gathered en masse to experience a moment in history. Fare thee well, Grateful Dead.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Golden Road was fun last night

[darth_vedder]

We took the family to the Shedd Aquarium today (we have a membership that expires soon and we promised the kids one more trip), clearly not piecing together that the aquarium is right next door to Soldier Field. The place was a fucking zoo, swarming with filthy hippies in varying states of consciousness who appeared to have exhausted their lives' savings buying $500 tickets and coaxing the dying miles out of their rusty hatchbacks and buses on one last long, strange trip across the great plains for to see the Good New Grateful Dead truck off into the sunset one final time. Parking, which usually costs $22 at the aquarium, was a handsome $49, with most of the lots on the museum campus being converted to event parking and priced for the occasion. The aquarium, usually thick with the smell of the deceased fish used to feed the varying species of ocean mammal housed by the facility, hung heavy with one of the few earthly smells less pleasant than that of dead aquatic life -- patchouli. The Field Museum had banners for an exhibit cleverly titled "Everything is Dead," that had a bunch of dinosaur skeletons drawn in the style of the Dead skeletons. On the way out I think we heard the band soundchecking, but it might have been the sound of someone in the parking deck playing a shitty Phish bootleg really loud while tailgating. Hard to tell.

But man, especially after completely forgetting that this event was going on, it was tough to be so close and not want to grab a ticket from one of the many scalpers. Even though I am firmly of the mind that the Dead have been gone since 1995 and have had precisely zero interest in any of the various "post-Jerry" versions of the band, it really felt like all these bearded, dreadlocked pilgrims were gathered en masse to experience a moment in history. Fare thee well, Grateful Dead.

This reminds me why I pretty much hate any live show these days. Maybe it's just me getting older?

[vegman]

Looked like a really good time and the shows sounded much better than I was expecting. I'm hoping they say "What the fuck" and do some more this fall, on the East Coast.

[i got bugs]

Loved bobby's let trey sing shirt

I think I liked the songs he sang the best.. althea n China/rider were really good

[i got bugs]

Only thing that bummed me was no black muddy river..

I'm guessing that was Jerry's last song so they let that be.. they actually played a version of him singing it aft the ppv

[super nintendo chalmers]

They actually played a version of him singing it aft the ppv

I thought that was really nice, loved those photographs. I'm glad Bob didn't try Muddy, it was kind of bad enough having him do Days Between. But they pulled it together and thought it ended very nicely.

I was really impressed with Drums and especially Space on these shows. Saturday night got pretty dark, it was awesome.

[i got bugs]

Do you know offhand when that specific bmr was from??

No one seems to know including google