What a Long Strange Trip

[Point Break]

The Dead’s song has been rattling around in my head for days. Then I pull out the top tee shirt on the pile and……




It sure has been a long strange trip.

 

[Rasputin22]

 

[Bump-n-Grind]

it aint over yet!

 

[Liquid]

The Dead’s song has been rattling around in my head for days. Then I pull out the top tee shirt on the pile and……




It sure has been a long strange trip.

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You manifested it!

 

[Al Paca]

First saw them June 1972 Hollywood Bowl. First concert stateside after Europe 72 tour. Pigpen’s last concert (he didn’t sing). NRPS opened with Garcia on pedal steel.

 

[Al Paca]

Well this thread died a quick death. And we didn’t even hear from my good buddy Eddie.

 

[Bump-n-Grind]

this one was fun ..... both days. still having flashbacks from that one!!

1973: The Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers Mega-Concert

In 1973, the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers played a mega-concert at RFK Stadium. The event paved the way for later events including HFStivals.

boundarystones.weta.org

 

[WhoaTed]

this one was fun ..... both days. still having flashbacks from that one!!

1973: The Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers Mega-Concert

In 1973, the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers played a mega-concert at RFK Stadium. The event paved the way for later events including HFStivals.

boundarystones.weta.org

Yea man, the “mini Wall of Sound” tour. Steve and the crew were wiped out after setting up then tearing down the full-size array that toured the country the following year. The full-size “Wall” array that toured in ‘74 was quite groundbreaking tech in many ways, it was just too big and complex to handle on tour (there were at least two full setups on the tour that alternated stops).

 

[Steam Flyer]

Yea man, the “mini Wall of Sound” tour. Steve and the crew were wiped out after setting up then tearing down the full-size array that toured the country the following year. The full-size “Wall” array that toured in ‘74 was quite groundbreaking tech in many ways, it was just too big and complex to handle on tour (there were at least two full setups on the tour that alternated stops).

Yep. A landmark experiment in how to sell out major venues twice a week, all across the country, and still lose money.

 

[oldsurfer]

They should never have let Bear build the wall, hell it blew out all the tweets the first time out!

 

[low bum]

Before my time. I'd give anything to hear that crystal clear sound. Or so I was told. Frankly I'd give anything to hear him play through a Pignose balanced on a car hood.

 

[shaggy]

The Dead’s song has been rattling around in my head for days. Then I pull out the top tee shirt on the pile and……




It sure has been a long strange trip.

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Kinda want that shirt.. I have a couple dating way back. I think my mom was one of the first to discover the brand back in the 90's, the boulder shop on the mall is cool and I think it is still there. The dudes seem to have their shit together, their vibe is consistent along the lines of the smiley t's of the 70's... Good stuff

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Following your lead with the Hawaiian shirt thing since we are doing the snowbird delieo in AZ.. My collection is growing... .

And Golf. Picked up a set of clubs from a good will type thing here that are carbon. Bag+clubs+driver+balls+tees = $21. (all post 2018) They are dead guys clubs, but yea... LOL

 

[MagentaLine]

Dave's not here man.

 

[Bump-n-Grind]

And Golf. Picked up a set of clubs from a good will type thing here that are carbon. Bag+clubs+driver+balls+tees = $21. (all post 2018) They are dead guys clubs, but yea... LOL

well then he don't need em any more!!!! swing away!

 

[Point Break]

And Golf. Picked up a set of clubs from a good will type thing here that are carbon. Bag+clubs+driver+balls+tees = $21. (all post 2018) They are dead guys clubs, but yea... LOL

I picked up my clubs same way. Guy checked out right after buying them. Widow just wanted them gone and sold them pretty cheap. Full set of Calloway Big Bertha clubs and bag. I’ve added a few but it was a darn good start.

 

[oldsurfer]

Before my time. I'd give anything to hear that crystal clear sound. Or so I was told. Frankly I'd give anything to hear him play through a Pignose balanced on a car hood.

My B-day, Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders @ The Inn Of The Beginning in Cotati. Tiny venue, sweat drippin off the walls.

Inn of the Beginning - Former Rock 'N Roll Venue In Cotati, CA

Old-timers recall that the Grateful Dead were regulars and Janis Joplin did a set shortly before her death in Los Angeles in 1970.

rockandrollroadmap.com

 

[low bum]

I love this blog: http://jgmf.blogspot.com/ - one of the best and deepest rabbit hole blogs you can fall in to.

 

[Chris in Santa Cruz CA]

Yea man, the “mini Wall of Sound” tour. Steve and the crew were wiped out after setting up then tearing down the full-size array that toured the country the following year. The full-size “Wall” array that toured in ‘74 was quite groundbreaking tech in many ways, it was just too big and complex to handle on tour (there were at least two full setups on the tour that alternated stops).

Beach Boys refused the offer to use at an early day on the green or something and sounded lIke shit. They had a wall of McIntosh solid state amps that went along with it. The first deadheads I met has two of the dual 12” cabs from that wall and a McIntosh amp for use at their house parties in 1980. Jerry used one of the McIntosh amps in his rig along with A quad jbl cab. He used various preamp sections of tube amps but used mainly a fender twin head tapping the preamp section.

 

[Mid]

well then he don't need em any more!!!! swing away!

and more so , bet he would been chuffed to know they were continuing to cause joy and pain to another .

 

[giegs]

The first show I remember going to as a kid was one of the last shows at Giants Stadium. My uncle who was running lights got my family backstage passes for my birthday. Going through general admission towards backstage some old (to me at the time) pointed down at my sister and I and said "whoaaa, rugrats!" During one of Jerry's solos I asked my mom if that was Moses up on stage. One of those vividly foggy memories that was probably more formative than I know.