addicted to this music
Here is the Irvine Meadows soundboard from 2003 tour that The Dead did. Great tour for sure. I think everyone was just happy to see these guys playing again.
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Here are a few tracks that they released some time back from Big Cypress New Years Eve 1999. Anyone else there? That was like 8 hours of straight music!
The winter of 1978 was a hopping time in Grateful Dead history. With the band members having just returned form an exotic trip to Egypt, everyone was jazzed and ready to go. The band had a crazy time over there and even though it cost them nearly a half million dollars, the trip was an experience we could only dream about.
This show here is last of the five show run that they did at Winterland Arena in October of 1978. They had John Cipollina as a guest that night as well as Hamza El-Din and other members of the Sufi Choir.
Enjoy!
After their long 2 month break, they come back here rejuvenated and ready for one of their best years yet. This is the first time they played Black-Throated Wind, a song that would become a regular in their setlists until about 1974. This show was part of a benefit that they played along with Yogi Plegm and NRPS (New Riders of the Purple Sage). Good show, definitely worth checking out.
Early 70’s for the Dead was crazy times all around. With Keith and Donna having just joined and Pigpen close to his end, they were going through some serious changes and adjustments. They had started to become really popular and were experiencing all of the craziness of being famous. Overall the Grateful Dead tore it up all throughout ‘72. Here is the first show of what turned out to be an incredible year.
This show was part of the 2003 Winter tour that followed the New Years come back of Phish after their hiatus. I don’t think anyone really cared at that point what they sounded like, but they were just happy the band didn’t actually break up. We had started in LA on that tour and went all the way through. They definitely did not have the feel that they showed in 2000, right before the hiatus, but it was still a good show. I cant really say I have ever been to a bad show. Some have been mediocre, but most really good.
It was still cold in Denver, but we had wintered in SLC so the air in CO was not really that bad.
The show was packed and spirits were up, and we all got in that night as well. I enjoyed the second set the most, I love almost every song on that set. Enjoy
Set I: Runaway Jim, Water in the Sky, Twist, The Squirming Coil, Brian and Robert, Stash, The Wedge, Birds of a Feather, Lawn Boy, Walls of the Cave
Set II: The Moma Dance, Limb By Limb, Thunderhead, The Divided Sky, Carini, You Enjoy Myself> Lion Sleeps Tonight
Encore: NICU1, Mexican Cousin
Anyways, sweet show… download that sucker. Listen to it. Love it.
I can remember running around during this show like some crazy hippie, not really knowing that it would be the end to a whole period of good music these guys played.
I never really repeated the experience I had in summer and fall of 2000 until it was over. Weather was sweet, had not a care in the world, and we had just finished a whole summer of cRaziNess. I wish I had pictures of all that.
Heres the show to go along with that ticket, pretty epic really…