Looking for Deadheads and interested Civilians

[August West]

I appreciate all the responses. And I will respond. Today is a doctor's appointment and maybe 2 of them. But I will be back after that.

 

[August West]

Baltimore Civic Center, it was sometime in 1980 (I'm thinking autumn, but I could have that wrong).
We had an extra ticket (we had pretty good seats, too -- just behind tapers, as I recall), and I ended up I inviting a friend to go. She had no idea what she was getting herself into, but she was such a trouper, she enjoyed the music as much as she could, and I was smitten (for life, as it turned out).

They played in Baltimore on 05-04-1980
5/4/80 Grateful Dead - Baltimore Civic Center, Baltimore, MD
I: Mississippi Half-Step> Franklin's Tower> Feel Like A Stranger, Althea, El Paso, Easy To Love You, Brown-Eyed Women> It's All Over Now> Don't Ease Me In> Promised Land
II: Scarlet Begonias> Fire On The Mountain, Samson and Delilah, Ship Of Fools, Playin' In The Band> Drums> Space> Black Peter> Sugar Magnolia
E: U.S. Blues
If you would like to relive the audio portion of that night, let me know. And I haven't figured out how to pm so if you pm me we could arrange it.

 

[GD Fan]

Been digging into the Feb 1974 Winterland run lately. Really interesting stuff there including some slightly unusual takes on certain songs.

I really love the sound in 1974 (sorry, Mickey!). Although I could do with fewer Chuck Berry covers - three in the same show seems rather a bit much.

 

[GD Fan]

 

[AlfaNovember]

With thirty years hindsight, I can say the Summer '88 show where I got on the bus was ... not good. But the music that imprints on your brain at 14 years old is there for life, and so.. yeah, I still love 'em. 1970-1972 quite fiercely. Maybe I'd go as far as a Help-Slip-Franklin from '74. Or the acoustic Radio City sets from '80. And now that I'm a middle-aged blues dad, I recognize that all those Pig songs I never really understood were pretty damn great too.

At one point early in the development of LinkedIn, the algorithm decided that I should be professional "friends" with Bob Weir, owing to some Marin County people in common. I chose not to pester the man, as grateful as I was for his help getting through adolescence, but it was a bit of a thrill.

 

[August West]

Does anyone subscribe to the Dave's Picks series?

 

[khensu]

I might be a just couple of years too young... I remembering hearing the name the Grateful Dead (maybe on the radio) and somehow I got the impression that they were hard rock or heavy metal... I'm not sure if it was the band name, or maybe I heard something about "acid rock" and I was thinking about the kind of acid that eats metal...

So I was super-surprised when I first heard their music, or maybe I'd heard some of the music but didn't know who's music it was.

Not my favorite band (I don't have a favorite anymore) but they were a good band and it's good music. I have a Greatest Hits CD and at least one more (which I can't remember off the top of my head).

I also have a CD by New Riders Of The Purple Sage (Jerry Garcia). I had the LP and I probably bought it without knowing there was any relation to The Grateful Dead.

Ha! My initial thoughts, knowing nothing about them at the time, was exactly the same.

I was "turned on" while visiting a friend in Tucson while attending U of A. This would have been late '86 or early '87. He was playing a cassette of some live show. I asked him who it was and was shocked to hear it was them. I asked him for a few tapes. The rest, as they say, is history.

I saw 14 shows, the first being at Compton Terrace outside of Phoenix, 8/18/87. My last shows were also at Compton in December of 1992 (one of the shows with the great Here Comes Sunshine breakout).

My Roon library is well over 50% Grateful Dead shows (1000+ shows). I even wrote a handful of show reviews published in the Deadhead's Taping Addendum (the volume after III).

 

[khensu]

Does anyone subscribe to the Dave's Picks series?

Absolutely! Unfortunately, I missed out on Volumes 1 - 3, but I've got the rest

 

[August West]

Absolutely! Unfortunately, I missed out on Volumes 1 - 3, but I've got the rest

Did you get 45? (the latest one)

 

[ahofer]

played with a jazz sensibility. They could take a theme, blast off into improvisation land and return to the theme. Think John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things" as their model.

Oh dear. I don’t mind the dead, but…I’ll just stop.

 

[Krusty09]

Absolutely! Unfortunately, I missed out on Volumes 1 - 3, but I've got the rest

I may have 1 or both or none for that matter but if I do I will send to you since I only have a couple and don't care much. They are in storage and I will look this week when I get home from my biz trip.

If I have them they are yours.

 

[khensu]

Did you get 45? (the latest one)

But of course! I've done the yearly subscriptions since the second year.

 

[khensu]

I may have 1 or both or none for that matter but if I do I will send to you since I only have a couple and don't care much. They are in storage and I will look this week when I get home from my biz trip.

If I have them they are yours.

I would happily pay a reasonable amount for any of them. I definitely wouldn't pay what they go for on ebay or discogs. That's crazy town. Thanks!

 

[Krusty09]

Just so we are on the same page I am talking about a cd not vinyl.

If I have them you can buy me a beer or pay shipping . I am not offering this for money.

 

[August West]

I was at the 2 Portland shows in Dave's Picks 45. And I have an interesting story if you want to hear about it.

 

[khensu]

I was at the 2 Portland shows in Dave's Picks 45. And I have an interesting story if you want to hear about it.

Sure. I love hearing GD concert stories. I don't have any great ones myself. I locked my keys in my car at one of the Compton Terrace shows. That was a fun night.

 

[August West]

My friend and I "snuck" a 10.5" reel to reel deck into the Paramount Theatre. There were ac outlets on the first row mezzanine (aka loge). It was a Sony 755 reel. It was big and heavy. We walked it in through the front doors of the theater and hid it in a janitor's closet. When we were let in we rushed upstairs and brought the deck over to our seats.
We taped the show at 7.5 IPS on 10" reel. No cuts. And great sound.

 

[mhardy6647]

A small Grateful Dead snippet.
Way back when I had a friend (whom I'd met on the CB radio... it was the 'seventies!) who was studying psychology at another local university. We kind of got him interested in the Dead, and he went to at least a few shows. On one occasion, he had tickets (pretty good seats, as I recall) to a show at the old Capital Center in Largo, MD for a show that I wasn't going to. I had been fiddling with photography at shows (in those days, no one seemed to mind). For whatever reason, my friend Ron was interested in giving it a go, so I lent him my camera and telephoto lens and he carted it along. Well, he took a bunch of surprisingly good photographs (he was a neophyte photographer, at least as I remember). Long story short, he got quite interested in, and pretty adept at, photography and parlayed his photographs into fodder to trade for tapes in those halcyon days.

As I recall, he used High-Speed Ektachrome pushed to ASA (ahem, ISO) 400.
I have a print of one of his photos from the above-mentioned Cap Center show. This scan of the print is mediocre at best (i.e., doesn't do the original justice), but -- I still think it's a nice photo, especially given less than ideal circumstances and a freshman (so to speak) photographer!

Probably (ca.) 1979 or 1980.

 

[mhardy6647]

Oh, still have the camera, and the lens. The light meter's died on it* but it still works fine.



If it's of any interest, you can see my son's assessment of it on his photoblog:

Mamiya/Sekor 500TL with Mamiya/Sekor Auto 50mm f/2

Camera: Mamiya/Sekor 500TL circa 1966 - 1973 Lens mount: M42 screw mount Shutter: 1 - 1/500s plus bulb Depth-of-Field Preview: Yes...

icouldbeahero.blogspot.com

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* Meters are for wimps, anyway!

 

[mhardy6647]

Oh.
This is my (only) other bit of GD ephemera.
An "aircheck" from a Cambridge, MA radio station (WHRB*) early 1970s interview with Mssrs. Garcia and Weir.



I do not know whether the interview was unique (i.e., recorded at/for WHRB) or something that was distributed to them -- but, regardless, to me it's a prett cool artifact.

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* Harvard Radio Broadcasting