lotsajizz wrote on Feb 21
st, 2010 at 6:29pm:
there not the best at what they do--they're the only ones that do what they do...Bill Graham, commenting on the Grateful Dead......live is where it's at....check out archives.org's selection and go for there.....key shows for starters 8/27/72, 5/8/77, 3/24/90, 3/1/69, 2/13 & 14/70, 11/1/85, 10/16/89, so many more.....
Love the Dead! Well, I should preface that. I used to love the Dead, but once Jerry died I lost interest in the crapolla that has followed. I went to the first Further Fest as Liberty State Park. Watching them perform in the shadow of Lady Liberty was great, but all I could think about was how much better it would have been had Jerry been there. Plus the scene changed so much after 1987 with the release of In The Dark, and the single Touch Of Grey that I started to get a little weary of the patcholli reeking "new" Dead Heads looking for "a miracle". Not to mention that my 1967 pop top VW mirco bus was broken into at a Chaple Hill, NC. show, and I was robbed of a Samsonite suitcase with about 400 soundboard tapes, and about 75 tie dye shirts that I was selling to cover the cost of that particular jaunt of the tour. Kinda left me with a bad taste in my mouth for all these new acolytes to the band.
Jizzy, is that '77 show you mention the Cornell show? I seem to remember that date. Anyway, if that's the show I think than that is the best Scarlett/Fire that I have ever heard! The whole show is stunning, as were so many of those 77 shows.
I saw the Dead over 100 times, and wish that they still brought me the kind of excitment they did all those years ago. I still listen to them on ocassion, but I have no desire to be a part of the scene anymore. As Holden Caulfield would say, they're all phonies.
Riffy