Keith played wonderfully! early on, circa 72-74 with his interplay he was pushing the rest of the band to explore even more creative musical forms. I guess he got a little taken by whatever after '76. A wonderful player nonetheless
Imagine all the soundchecks that weren't recorded! :S well the deadheads are still 100 × more lucky than any other audience because we have the archive thank God for the archive!!!!
I know! We're SO lucky to have been witness to a viable operation, to this day, and recognize the spirit as much as the music. Four years later in the 30 sum years I've been listening and I have yet to prove The Grateful Dead isn't infinite. Stay Safe and Enjoy the shows .
Yep these shows at the beacon were my first dead shows, I was 19 and tripped on purple haze, had a great time, I remember some of the center speakers were from the wall system ,, happy to have seen them since I missed the shows at the racetrack in jersey in 73.
Interesting that you talk about the speakers from the wall system back in 73 because in 73 I managed to get out of school early and hitchhike to Baltimore where after the show I was just trying to get a ride up out of there back to Central Jersey and while spying around the back of the theater I saw in a dumpster a speaker cover like the frame of one of the speakers they used in Europe a 72 tour and it was beautiful tie-dye unmanaged to go into the dumpster grab it tear it off the frame and stuff in my backpack but sad enough somebody came into my freaking room and stole the thing I'm still pissed and when I get my hands on it I'm going to just take it with me cuz I think I know where it is anyway no more bitching signing off sayonara
Well I just realized is that the beacon in New York I thought that was some other beacon theater there's only about 50 of them just like Capitol theater I always think to talk about the Capital theater in Passaic New Jersey but there's a million other Capital theaters
Healthy soundcheck ~ Summertime come & gone my oh my Funky Fade Away Thanks The boys were all s adorable, especialy diggin that dignfied innerview at the end.Hell yeah it's a dance band... it's a jam band... it's a cover band & it's the original band... Jehovah's favorite!
blows my wadd to think there's nobody in the audience during this.........AND........that this just recently debuted on youtube..........boner time for sure. I got it hooked up to the big screen and watching it for the 5th time now full blast. Happy B-Day, Bob Weir. you rocks the bells!
Thanks for all you post up here, Mr. Voodoonola! Huge Crazy Fingers fan here, so of course I'm wondering if more video of this show exists? IMHO the best CF ever...besides of course the GREAT grouping of CF>Dancing>Cosmic Charlie>Help>Slip> Franklins.... Would be a dream to see it!
Guy asking Bobby Weir why are the Grateful Dead still with us in 1976? A couple of answers spring to mind like, because they love music and playing music, because they were just hitting their stride, because they were selling out the garden three nights in a row every time they played there?
Really cousin Brucie go back to your AM radio I mean when you think about it if you don't know who cousin Bruce is he was a teeny bopper DJ you would you know spend records and talk like a speed freak on I think it was 77 WABC if I can remember but when FM radio started getting started he was still doing his a.m. teeny bopper thing I'm surprised to see him interviewing the dead people
You know I was wondering about that there must have been a reason that that was done obviously the dead were talking about crowds being too big and all yeah that makes sense
You know I've got a friend that said that he could never ever get into the grateful Dead and ever since then I just never looked at him the same way like I just figured he's either deaf dumb or stupid
Like night and day next to the walking dead company; The Grateful Dead had so much more inventive, vibrant energy and better, exploratory musical ideas/conversations without any ridiculous rockstar bs.
Well I thought I saw Jerry Garcia sitting on the floor sitting right on the curb waiting to see the Dead can you imagine actually that would make some interesting video just bunch of people waiting online sitting down smoking cigarettes and there's Jerry sitting down talking to people saying stuff like well I hear this band is going to be so hot and people are like don't I know you
+Jeff R. Garcia is playing the Travis Bean tb500 guitar which he played from 1976 until the fall of '77 when he got his modified Wolf back. He laughed when he first saw the Travis Bean but quickly changed his mind once he started playing it. Although he played this guitar for such a short period compared to his others, he played so many legendary shows using the Travis Bean. Winterland run of '77, the epic Spring '77 tour including the historic shows at Cornell, Boston, Buffalo, etc... Englishtown in September. He did not play it for long but he sure got a lot of mileage out of it while he played it.
They've all been on sale somewhere or another in the past 10 years. One of his TB100 and two TB500s, the primary ones. I believe there was another as well, not much info available as it was only played at a few shows. However, it was a TB1000 as well.
