They first played it in 82. The 87 release made already getting tickets more difficult. Which is probably why the hardcore fans were not happy about it.
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The hardcore fans didn’t love or hate it as a song, but definitely hated what it did to the scene.
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He played that live before it was released. So, people who wrote their own set list — which many people did — could only guess at the name. I wrote it as Enjoying The Ride, which I still think was a better name.
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Coincidentally, I was chatting with a long-time Deadhead in the gym today. He cited Bob’s yelps in that song as his least favorite thing about Bob. I think it’s a great song, with some thunderous guitar licks.
Maybe 10 shows between ‘85-’95 and was blessed with the last song at that last show on Spring Tour ‘95 in Atlanta being “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds”. I have the memory of it being played note-for-note per the original, complete with the harmonies. Very much a ‘leaving them wanting more’ moment…RIP, Bobby
I can forgive him for the occasional “losing himself in the music” moments. It happens, at times, on Let It Rain as well. But they are both amazing songs.
I got “married” in the Spectrum parking lot at a Dead show, using the pull-tab from a PBR tall boy as a wedding ring
Consummated in a Chrysler Town & Country station wagon
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/grateful-dead/1981/spectrum-philadelphia-pa-2bd604da.html
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When they recorded In The Dark, they tried to record it like a normal album and apparently it was horrible. So the producer set up a stage in a warehouse and just put them up there and said “go ahead and play…” and captured it that way. I would say In The Dark, American Beauty, and Workingman’s Dead are all great studio albums.
That is a dream setlist.
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And ironically the last song Bob played live….
Can confirm, delicious.
I had it on tap at a friend’s house. It is really good.
As a slight aside, I once worked with the person that created the name and the flavor combination for Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia ice cream flavor.
He had a plaque on the wall from Ben and Jerry’s acknowledging he was the person that submitted the idea, name, and flavors that went on to become the ice cream.
I asked if he received any residuals, commission, finders fee, or anything. He pointed to the plaque and said, that’s what I got and I’m good with that.
FWIW, even in a professional setting, he looked about exactly as one might imagine as the person who would dream up Cherry Garcia.
Cherry Garcia might be my favorite ice cream flavor of all time.
Good story bro, no seriously, well done.
Not surprised but I might ask was the “Priest” a deadhead or was he George Carlin?
Spent today reading the thread and viewing other tributes as I was not a participant in the 65-95 and beyond musical movement that was the renamed Warlocks band. My known understanding of the band was only that my cousin was a deadhead, my wife enjoyed their music and my basketball hero and doppelganger (at + 9 inches of height and much skill) hero, Bill Walton, was a fervent (is there any other?) deadhead. I am now wanting to understand more about these boys/men from Palo Alto who bonded together in '65 for a lifetime of music while bringing along such a diverse and large group of followers.
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That’s the same period when I got into them. I’d guess I saw them somewhere between 20 and 30 times, did much of the east coast summer tour in ‘91 or ‘92. No idea at the time that Jerry was a shell of his former self, the drugs and diabetes wrecked him. Glad for the archives of earlier much better stuff on Youtube, Spotify, etc.
13 concerts in the late 80s, early 90s. It was a lot of fun. I was a golf shirt wearing, preppy dude, and folks at the concerts made me feel welcome. It was a great scene.
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< I’ve posted this story before, so again I apologize again for repeating, again >
I was hanging out in the Spectrum parking lot before a show once and a girl who was there with us said, rather offhandedly, “When I used to be a DeadHead …”
My girlfriend said - under her breath - ‘You never were’
“Excuse me, Little Miss DelCo???!!!"
“If you can say ‘I used to be a DeadHead’ then you never REALLY were … you fake-ass SLUT”
The cat-fight that ensued was awesome; alternating between terrifying and hilarious
Jill was NOT to be fucked with, and was a force, in so many ways
Q: What’s the difference between a DeadHead and a ParrotHead?
A: A tan
I just surprised myself. I wondered what a parrot head was and guessed right. If the Stillers win tonight, I’m buying the magaritas.
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