Rest in Peace Bob Weir (1947-2026)

Earlier this afternoon I was watching a movie. When it was over, I looked at my phone. There were messages from friends from all over the country. They were all saying something like, “I hate to be the one to tell you, but Bob Weir has passed.”

I didn’t know what to say. Now I don’t know what to write. I’m still processing the news.

I first listened to the Grateful Dead in high school. I bought Skeletons From the Closet – a collection of their “greatest hits” from one of those Columbia House deals where you got 12 CDs for a penny or some such thing. I liked quite a lot of it, but found some of it to be a bit weird (strangely, I absolutely loved “Rosemary” one of the most un-Dead like things they ever recorded.)

But I didn’t venture any farther than that until college. I had a buddy who had a handful of shows he’d recorded off a guy he knew in high school whose brother was a collector (the kid would allow him to tape one show every time my friend would take him to McDonald’s for lunch.) He’d play those tapes loud while we were driving around Montgomery, Alabama, and I totally dug it (I also thought the idea of these unofficially released tapes was just the coolest.)

From there I bought American Beauty, and I’ve been on the bus ever since.

In 1994 the Dead came to Birmingham, and my friend asked me if I wanted to go with him. The tickets were like $30 (!), which I thought was way too expensive for my budget, so I figured I’d catch them the next time they came around. Obviously, they never did come around again for the next year Jerry was dead.

I did get to see Bob Weir in various bands over the years and always loved the shows. The last time I got to see him was on the Americanarama tour in Nashville. That was the time Bob Dylan toured around with bands like Wilco and My Morning Jacket. Weir did just a few gigs with them as a solo artist. Before that show, we were all standing around outside the gate, waiting for them to open it. It was an outdoor venue, and the fence keeping us out wasn’t very high.

Suddenly I hear a familiar sound. I’d know Bob Weir’s guitar sound anywhere. Sure enough, I peek over the fence, and there he is, standing all by his lonesome on stage with his guitar. It was a soundcheck, and I could hear him clear as day. He ran through several songs, including a great version of Dylan’s “Most of the Time.”

People all around me were chatting and paying no attention. I kept giving them glares and quietly telling them all to shut up. Didn’t they know one of the greats was on stage giving us a little private concert?

I was enthralled. And Bob wasn’t just going through the motions; he was really playing and singing those songs. He was always the consummate musician. Later that night he joined Wilco for a rousing version of “Bird Song” and an incredible cover of The Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows.”

I had tickets to see him with Dead & Co. in Texas for their “final tour” but I got sick and couldn’t go.

I’m rambling now. Like I said, I’m still processing this loss. I’ve loved The Grateful Dead and Bob Weir for longer than I’ve lost just about anything else. If there is any comfort in this, it is that his music will live on without him. Those songs are timeless. And the fact that so many of his shows were recorded means we can still be listening to them for decades to come.

I’m not good at knowing what my favorite performances of anything are. So I don’t have a list of Bob Weir’s greatest moments. But someone mentioned this performance of “Greatest Story Ever Told” and by god it is a good one.

Various Artists – Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, Vol. 17

Various Artists
Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, Vol. 17: You’re Jammin’ Me

Beginning with the Grateful Dead, Dylan’s songs have always provided ripe pickings for the so-called jam band scene, so it seems fitting to dedicate a volume of NSD to the best of these covers. Not surprisingly, this volume has fewer songs than any other so far, given these groups’ tendencies to stretch things out. So we have nine tracks (three new songs, six new artists to the series), averaging almost nine minutes each. We kick things off, of course, with the Dead, and end with the band that did the most to keep their grateful spirit alive, Phish. But my favorites here are two rarely covered songs from the pen of Born Again Bob, “Solid Rock” and “When You Gonna Wake Up,” given powerful run-throughs by Widespread Panic and Little Feat, respectively.

If you like this sort of thing, there’s plenty more to be had at the Live Music Archive (www.archive.org/details/etree), which features free dowloads from artists who have given their explicit approval. Also, this seems like a good time to heap praise upon DylanCover.com, a veritable encyclopedia of information on all things DylanCover, which has been a boon to my research as I’ve put this series together.

As usual, thanks to the tapers, the original uploaders, the folks who’ve sent me recordings, the fine artists who’ve created cover artwork, and especially the performers and composer. Due to the many different sources, I am not including lineages. I have done nothing to the original files but normalize the levels and fade in and out on each track (using Cool Edit). Please keep the suggestions and files coming–if you’ve got something good, please PM me.

Enjoy!

01 Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again – Grateful Dead (Jul 18, 1989, Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI)
02 Isis – moe. (Mar 10, 2004, Observation Lounge, Norwegian Sun Cruise Ship)
03 Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues – Tea Leaf Green (Sep 21, 2001, Henflings Firehouse Tavern, Ben Lomond, CA)
04 Outlaw Blues – Radiators (Oct 31, 1991, Tipitina’s, New Orleans, LA)
05 Like a Rolling Stone – Zero (Dec 31, 1996, Maritime Hall, San Francisco, CA)
06 Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) – Phil Lesh and Friends with Chris Robinson (Nov 25, 2005, Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL)
07 Solid Rock – Widespread Panic (Oct 29, 2006, Vegoose Festival, Las Vegas, NV)
08 When You Gonna Wake Up – Little Feat with Sam Bush and Vince Herman (Jan 28, 2006, Grand Lido, Negril, Jamaica)
09 All Along the Watchtower – Phish with Buddy Miles and Merle Saunders (Oct 22, 1996, Madison Square Garden, New York, NY)

New Riders of the Purple Sage & The Grateful Dead – New York, NY (09/17/70)

Grateful Dead, with New Riders of the Purple Sage
September 17, 1970
Fillmore East,
New York, NY

This is flac encoded & tagged version of shnid: 27591
gd70-09-17.aud.sirmick.27591.sbeok.flac16

source: see shnid:16090

{*Acoustic set, NRPS set, and Sugar Magnolia are MAC>R>C>CD.
Recorded by Jack Toner, with a Sony TC-110 with built-in microphone.
*Dark Star from MAC>?>C>R>CD. Unknown taper/equipment
*Saint Stephen>Good Lovin’ from MAC>?>C>R>R>CD. Unknown taper/equipment

NOTE: This supercedes the previous copy which was labeled MAC>R>C>D>CD.
That copy is a mislabel, and in reality has one more cassette generation
than this one (the main source for that version derives from the tapes
used for this one). Additionally, this source includes the NRPS set,
and does not have the cuts in Dark Star.]

-Acoustic Set–
101-d1t01 – Tuning
102-d1t02 – Truckin’
103-d1t03 – Monkey & the Engineer
104-d1t04 – Dark Hollow
105-d1t05 – Friend of the Devil
106-d1t06 – Ripple
107-d1t07 – Tuning
108-d1t08 – Brokedown Palace
109-d1t09 – Box of Rain
110-d1t10 – Rosalie McFall
111-d1t11 – Cold Jordan ->
112-d1t12 – Swing Low Sweet Chariot//

–NRPS Set–
201-d1t13 – Six Days on the Road
202-d1t14 – I Don?t Know You
203-d1t15 – Superman
204-d1t16 – Henry
205-d1t17 – Portland Woman
206-d1t18 – Cecilia*

–Electric Set–
301-d2t01 – Sugar Magnolia*
302-d2t02 – Dark Star ->
303-d2t03 – Saint Stephen ->
304-d2t04 – Drums ->
305-d2t05 – Good Lovin’ ->
306-d2t06 – Drums ->
307-d2t07 – Good Lovin’

*The last portion of the NRPS set & the first part of the Dead’s electric
set are missing. This portion of the show has never found its way into
general circulation.

notes:
this is a remaster of shnid 16090:

hiss and nouse reduction has been applied throughout
a considerable number of small droputs, pops and clicks have been fixed
numerous volume adjustments have been made
I found that from St Stephen through to the end there were a number of
sections where the channels appear to have been switched, these have
now been corrected.
d2t01 20 seconds starting from 2:50, 44 seconds from 4:33
d2t05 first 9 seconds
d2t06 from 2:07 to the end
d2t07 first 3:43, 1:33 from 5:21
the tape wobble at 4:26 on d2t01 has been partially repaired by patching
in 2,61 seconds from the following repeated sequence
final mastering with iZotope Ozone

SIRMick
January 2nd, 2005

Grateful Dead – Oakland, CA (10/31/91)

Grateful Dead
10/31/91
Oakland Coliseum Arena
Oakland, CA

OTS; Nakamichi CM 300 CP4s >Sony WM-D6C [MX-S 100s w/Dolby C]
MX-S Cassette Masters Transferred Via Denon DR-M12HR w/Dolby C Engaged >Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48kHz)
WAV >Audacity (Amplify, Track Splits, Down Sample To 16bit/44.1kHz, Minor Edits [Tape Flips] & Fades) >Fix SBEs >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

Set I

Tuning
Help On The Way >
Slipknot! >
Franklin’s Tower
Little Red Rooster
Loser
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (tape flip)
Let It Grow

Set II
Disc II:

Tuning
Scarlet Begonias >
Fire On The Mountain >
Truckin’ >
Spoonful > *
Dark Star > *
Ken Kesey Rap $
Drums > (tape flip)

Disc III:

Space >
Dark Star > *
The Last Time *
Standing On The Moon >
Throwing Stones > (tape flip)
Not Fade Away

Encore:

Werewolves Of London *

Final performance of Werewolves Of London

Jerry Garcia – Guitar
Bob Weir – Guitar
Vince Welnick – Keyboards
Bruce Hornsby – Piano, Accordion
Phil Lesh – Bass
Bill Kreutzmann – Drums
Mickey Hart – Drums
Gary Duncan – Guitar *
Ken Kesey – Rap $

OldNeumanntapr Notes;
This was probably the best Dead show I’ve ever seen, and recorded, both in terms of set list and performance. This was my only Halloween show that I’d seen of the Dead, and the band was ON FIRE! After retiring ‘Help On The Way > Slipknot’ for so long it was nice to hear it return. This was my third ‘Dark Star’, and probably the best of the three, and was the only time I’d seen them do ‘Werewolves Of London’. It was quite appropriate for Halloween. Gary Duncan made a return from playing on the 27th and it was cool to see and hear him on ‘Spoonful’ and ‘Dark Star’. This was also the only time I’d seen Ken Kesey and that was really special. There was a guy going through the tapers section that night passing out little raised stick-on pumpkins for Halloween, so I took one and stuck it to the front of my D6. It’s still there!

I went to this show with my ex wife Nikki and my friend Dave. This was the night that I got flustered driving through Oakland going to the Coliseum and accidentally made a left turn onto the railroad racks before making a quick getaway. Hey, I never liked city driving! Dave laughed at me, of course.

When we were coming home, back to San Luis Obispo County, we stopped for a late meal at the Denny’s restaurant in Gilroy. I remember that there were two guys in the lobby talking loudly on big oversized cell phones of the day, and Dave looked at me and said, ‘What do you bet they’re talking to each other!’ Too funny.

We took our new ’91 Honda Civic sedan to this show and Dave was impressed with the cruise control on the way home through the Salinas Valley.

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Grateful Dead – Oakland, CA (10/27/91)

Grateful Dead
10/27/91
Oakland Coliseum Arena
Oakland, CA

Set I
Disc I:

Tuning
Sugar Magnolia >
Sugaree
Walkin’ Blues
Althea
When I Paint My Masterpiece (tape flip)
Candyman
Cassidy
Touch Of Grey
Announcements From David Graham

Set II
Disc II:

China Cat Sunflower >
I Know You Rider >
Samson & Delilah >
Ship Of Fools >
Iko Iko > *
Mona > * (tape flip)
Drums >

Dias III:

Space >
The Wheel >
I Need A Miracle >
Wharf Rat >
Good Lovin’ (tape flip)

Encore:

Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

First performance of Mona since March 25, 1972
Last performance of Mona

Jerry Garcia – Guitar
Bob Weir – Guitar
Vince Welnick – Keyboards
Bruce Hornsby – Piano, Accordion
Phil Lesh – Bass
Bill Kreutzmann – Drums
Mickey Hart – Drums
Carlos Santana – Guitar *
Gary Duncan – Guitar *

OTS; Nakamichi CM 300 CP4s >Sony WM-D6C [MX-S 100s w/Dolby C]

MX-S Cassette Masters Transferred Via Denon DR-M12HR Cassette Deck w/Dolby C Engaged >Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48kHz)

WAV >Audacity (Amplify, Track Splits, Balance Channel Levels, Minor Edits [Tape Flips], Fades, Downsample To 16bit/44.1kHz) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53 [Sept. 2024]

(Audience Cassette Master Recorded, Transferred, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr)

OldNeumanntapr Notes;
This was the first Grateful Dead show after Bill Graham’s death from the helicopter crash. It was a very somber night, and they opened with ‘Sugar Magnolia’ in honor of Graham, as it was Bill’s favorite Dead song. ‘Mona’ was a treat to hear. I’d never seen Gary Duncan, from Quicksilver Messenger Service before, and Carlos is always special. I finally managed to drag Shane, my best friend from high school, along to a Dead show, and as I was setting up the recording gear in the tapers section he turned to me and said ‘This looks too much like work!’ I smiled and said that it wasn’t work, it was fun. He had fun watching all the deadheads but still just doesn’t get it. I guess the bus came by but he didn’t get on.

I was up and back from SLO County to the Bay Area three times in a row that week. Once for this show, once for the 10/31/91 Halloween show, and once for the Bridge Benefit on Saturday night followed by the Bill Graham memorial concert in Golden Gate Park on Sunday. It was quite a week!

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Watch Bob Dylan Cover The Grateful Dead’s “Stella Blue” in Barcelona (06/23/23)

Listen To Bob Dylan Covering “Truckin'” In Tokyo (04/11/23)

Bob Dylan’s setlists have remained pretty static for years now, especially so on his recent Rough and Rowdy Ways tours. Last night he changed things up and covered the Grateful Dead’s “Truckin'” for the first time ever.

I haven’t seen the bootlegs yet, but Ray Padget has a stream up of this song over on his wonderful Flaggin’ Down the Double Es Substack (I highly recommend subscribing to it, for it is full of wonderful Dylan thoughts.)

It is a nice recording and a pretty great version of the classic.

Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead – Dead Man When Will You Arise

Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead
DEAD MAN WHEN WILL YOU ARISE
Pink Panther
1987 – THE RESURRECTION

It’s interesting that it took The Dead (specifically Jerry Garcia) to bring Bob back to life – one of the great Dylan puns!. This is the conception of the Never Ending Tour – Bob recommitted himself to his old songs, many of which he hadn’t played live in decades, & then, after road-testing his concept in Europe with Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers during the late 1987 Temple In Flames tour, in 1988 he took his songs on the road for what has now been a quarter of a century of continuous global touring (& still counting). He is now sort of his own disciple, selling & preaching the gospel according to Bob & his congregation is massive & totally devoted.

This is not Bob’s best music, but is much better than the vicious reviews that legions of critics have written to attack Dylan & The Dead. But I must say that Dylan & The Dead (Columbia) has little, if anything, to commend it. It is very short & Bob’s vocals are buried this has been explained as Bob demanding that his vocals not be so high in the mix, but I don’t buy that. If you listen to the audience tapes (yes they exist) that is how the concert was mixed from the soundboard – that’s how the fans heard it live.

This is one of the best recorded early periods of Bob, with clean tapes (including many soundboards) available for almost all the rehearsals & the following six US concerts.

There are much better choices available than the tracks eventually chosen & authorised by Bob & his boombox.

The San Rafael rehearsals have been carefully compiled by Alan Fraser & available on The Complete Rehearsals (So Far) (dylantree). This includes a fascinating interview between David Gans & Gary Lamber sourced from The Grateful Dead Hour #705, broadcast week of 25 Mar 2002, specifically about the Dead’s Postcards Of The Hanging (Arista) of Dylan songs, with one (Man Of Peace) including Bob from the 1987 rehearsals. Previously unaired songs from the rehearsals were also played on the radio show (but are not on Postcards).

There is also The Unreleased Live Album (Moonlight) which is reportedly (maybe) an alternative album put forward by The Grateful Dead which was rejected in favour of Bob’s choices – Dylan & The Dead (Columbia). This alternative album has been put together by someone with access to pristine (& mixable) master tapes & it also includes (unexplained) an outtake (different mix anyway) of Silvio from Down In The Groove.

Silvio is shrouded in mystery, but it is clearly a collaboration between Dylan & The Dead.
The official album credits Garcia, Mydland & Weir with “vocals”. There are three Down In The Groove Silvios in circulation – the eventual Columbia track, the early pro o/demo album & the Moonlight versions, all have female backup vocals from Carolyn Dennis & Madelyn Quebec with a few woop-woops from (presumably, maybe) Garcia-Mydland-Weir.

My guess is that the three guys played on the track but there were legal problems crediting it.
What is more fascinating are the lyrics – said to be from Dead lyricist Robert Hunter’s notebook set to music by Bob, but the lyrics are a bit too “Bob” & in retrospect spookily biographical (see below). Bob’s Resurrection Shuffle?? You work it out.

Silvio (#1, #2 or #3) is not included on this compilation as that will simply freak out Columbia & Websheriff, as would the Dylan & The Dead tracks. Silvio (surprisingly) was also never rehearsed (that we know of) or played at the 1987 concerts.

& then there is Dead Man, Dead Man from 1981, which was played in the 1987 Dead concerts,
which now takes on autobiographical tones similar to Silvio. But that’s Dylan for you!

So since it is the season of resurrecting Bob’s worst albums in a new & better light (Another Self Portrait), let’s have a competition to pick tracks for Another Dylan & The Dead album!
Only rules are that they must come from 1987 & feature both Bob & members of The Grateful Dead;
& it must fit on one CD.

The following tracks may help you, but don’t limit yourself to these.

First prize is a bottle of cheap, nasty, horrible Russian vokka personally autographed by Vladimir,
Second prize is a crate of the stuff.

Sources: best available mp3, most converted directly from FLAC to mp3@320kbps.

Sound: generally excellent, sometimes very good, never poor.

Rating stars: lots of ’em.

The Grateful Dead Hour #705,
Broadcast week of 25 Mar 2002

01.David Gans & Gary Lamber Interview

LB-7243;
The Complete Rehearsals (So Far) (dylantree);
Compilation: Alan Fraser;
Soundboard cassette masters transferred to DAT then CD-R

Club Front
San Rafael, California
June 1987

02.Stealin’, Stealin’ (trad.)
03.The Times They Are A-Changin’
04.When I Paint My Masterpiece
05.I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
06.The Ballad Of Ira Hayes (Peter La Farge)
07.I Want You
08.Ballad Of A Thin Man
09.Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
10.Dead Man, Dead Man
11.Queen Jane Approximately
12.The French Girl (Ian Tyser & Sylvia Fricker)
13.In The Summertime
14.Man Of Peace
15.Union Sundown
16.It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
17.Joey (Bob Dylan – Jacques Levy/Bob Dylan)
18.If Not For You
19.Slow Train
20.Tomorrow Is A Long Time
21.Walkin’ Down The Line
22.Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking
23.Maggie’s Farm
24.Chimes Of Freedom
25.All I Really Want To Do
26.Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms (trad. arr.)
27.John Hardy Was A Desperate Little Man (Alvin Pleasant Carter)
28.The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest
29.John Brown
30.I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
31.Don’t Keep Me Waiting Too Long (?)
32.Simple Twist Of Fate
33.The Boy In The Bubble (Paul Simon – Forere Motlobeloa)
34.Heart Of Mine
35.Pledging My Time
36.SeÒor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
37.The Wicked Messenger
38.Watching The River Flow
39.Under Your Spell (Bob Dylan & Carole Bayer Sager)
40.I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams)
41.Blues Stay Away From Me (Alton Delmore, Rabon Delmore, Wayne Raney & Henry Glover)
42.I’m Free (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)
43.They Killed Him (Kris Kristofferson)
44.Oh, Boy (Sunny West, Bill Tilghman, Norman Petty)
45.John Brown
46.Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash)
47.Gotta Serve Somebody
48.Hideaway (Freddie King) & C.C. Rider (Chuck Willis)

Bob Dylan (guitar), Jerry Garcia (guitar), Bob Weir (guitar), Phil Lesh (bass),
Brent Mydland (keyboards), Bill Kreutzman (drums), Mickey Hart (drums).

LB-7243;
The Complete Rehearsals (So Far) (dylantree);
Compilation: Alan Fraser;
Soundboard cassette masters transferred to DAT then CD-R

Man Of Peace released on Postcards Of The Hanging,
Grateful Dead Perform The Songs Of Bob Dylan (Arista / GDCD 4069), 19 March 2002.

Sullivan Stadium
Foxboro, Massachusetts
4 July 1987

49.I Want You
50.Ballad Of A Thin Man
51.Chimes Of Freedom
52.All Along The Watchtower

First concert with The Grateful Dead.
First 1987 concert.

Bob Dylan (vocal, harmonica), Jerry Garcia (backup vocals, guitar, steel guitar, slide guitar),
Bob Weir (backup vocals, guitar, vocal), Phil Lesh (bass), Brent Mydland (keyboards), Bill Kreutzmann & Mickey Hart (drums).

First live performance of John Brown since Studs Terkel Wax Museum, Chicago, Illinois, 26 April 1963.

Live debuts of Queen Jane Approximately and Joey.

First live performance of Chimes Of Freedom since Town Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 1964.

Slow Train, Joey released on Dylan & The Dead (CBS 463 381), 6 February 1989.

John Brown was selected by The Grateful Dead for release on their version of Dylan & The Dead – Unreleased Live Album (Moonlight Records / ML-9636).

LB-8022;
Remaster: Charlie Miller;
Soundboard;
SBD > Cassette Master > CD;

Transfer: CD > Samplitude Professional v10.02 > FLAC
(3 Discs Audio / 2 Discs FLAC)

Patch:
Sennheiser ME80 > Cassette Master > CD
(shnid=3858) supplies:
Space (1:24 – 1:42)

John F. Kennedy Stadium
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
10 July 1987

53.Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
54.Queen Jane Approximately
55.Gotta Serve Somebody

Second concert with The Grateful Dead.
Second 1987 concert.

Live debut of The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest.

Queen Jane Approximately interrupted after only a part of the first verse.

Monicasdude

On the east coast leg of the tour, both Dylan and The Grateful Dead are conspicuously unsteady,
but The Grateful Dead pulled together at the beginning of the west coast swing, and Dylan tried harder for a night.
Philadelphia probably has the most interesting setlist, although it was the shortest show.

LB-8021;
Remaster: Charlie Miller;
Soundboard;
Equipment: SBD > Cassette Master > CD >
Samplitude Professional v10.02 > FLAC,
(3 Discs Audio / 2 Discs FLAC);
Patch: Sennheiser ME80 > Cassette Master > CD (shnid=3859) supplies: Terrapin Station (0:11 – 0:23)

Giants Stadium
East Rutherford, New Jersey
12 July 1987

56.Tomorrow Is A Long Time
57.It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
58.John Brown
59.The Wicked Messenger
60.Joey (Bob Dylan & Jacques Levy)

Third concert with The Grateful Dead.
Third 1987 concert.

Live debut of The Wicked Messenger and Touch Of Grey.

The Wicked Messenger was selected by the Grateful Dead for release on their version of Dylan And The Dead ñ
Unreleased Live Album (Moonlight).

Paul Williams

The only live Dylan / Dead performance of Tomorrow Is A Long Time, at the third show of the tour
(Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey), is as bad as the performance on the rehearsal tape.
The vocal is again listless (it starts, “If (mumble) not a crooked highway / If tonight was not a crooked trail.”) and the music shapeless, structureless, clumsy and plodding. Presumably, this is what happens when singer and band are both intimidated by the other, and neither is able to provide any kind of leadership, either at rehearsals or on stage.

LB-8486;
Equipment: 48k dat > midiman delta dio 2496 > cooledit > wav > flac;
cooledit used to convert to 44k at highest quality,
for splitting tracks, patching, and editing

Autzen Stadium
Eugene, Oregon
19 July 1987

61.Maggie’s Farm
62.Simple Twist Of Fate
63.The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest
64.Heart Of Mine
65.Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
66.Ballad Of A Thin Man
67.Highway 61 Revisited
68.Tangled Up In Blue
69.All Along The Watchtower

Concert #4 with The Grateful Dead.
1987 concert #4.

Bob Dylan (vocal, harmonica), Jerry Garcia (backup vocal, guitar, steel guitar, slide guitar),
Bob Weir (backup vocal, guitar, vocal), Phil Lesh (bass), Brent Mydland (keyboards),
Bill Kreutzmann & Mickey Hart (drums).

First live performance of Dead Man, Dead Man since New Orleans, Louisiana, 10 November 1981.

First live performance of Watching The River Flow since Norman, Oklahoma, 23 November 1978.

Queen Jane Approximately released on Dylan & The Dead (CBS 463 381 2), 6 February 1989.

The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest, It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue and Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 was selected for release on the Grateful Deadís version of Dylan & The Dead –
Unreleased Live Album (Moonlight).

LB-6576; Dylan & The Dead, (Disc 3);
Soundboard;
Equipment: Dell Inspiron 8200 (Hardware), Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600 Build 2600 (OS),
Exact Audio Copy V0.9 Beta 4 (Secure Mode Extraction), Multiquence v2.50 (Crossfading),
Sound Forge 6.0b (Build 185) (WAV Editing), CD Wave Audio Editor 1.7 (Tracking),
mkw Audio Compression Tool 0.97 Beta 1 (SHN Compression), md5summer v1.1.0.24 (MD5 Generation),
SHNTool 1.01 (Sector Boundary Verification)

Oakland County Stadium
Oakland, California
24 July 1987

70.The Times They Are A-Changin’
71.Man Of Peace
72.I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
73.It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
74.Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
75.Shelter From The Storm
76.Slow Train
77.Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

Concert #5 with The Grateful Dead.
1987 concert #5.

I Want You released on Dylan & The Dead (CBS 463 381 2), 6 February 1989.

LB-4775:
Primary source: Soundboard Sony multi-track PCM master >
mixdown cassette [recorded on Sony TCD5M] > Sony F1 PCM Beta tape >
Beta PCM clone > CD [recorded on HHB standalone];
Secondary source: Dead soundman Dan Healy’s audience master – microphones hung in front of the house sound booth above the crowd > Sony F1 PCM Beta tape master > Beta PCM clone > CD [recorded on HHB standalone]
Remaster: CD’s received in trade > Macintosh with DigiDesign AudioMedia III soundcard >
Pro Tools [speed match, seamless edits, normalization and tracking] > AIFF >
xACT (FLAC level 8 files with sector boundaries verified)

Anaheim Stadium
Anaheim, California
26 July 1987

78.Mr Tambourine Man
79.Dead Man, Dead Man
80.Simple Twist Of Fate
81.Watching The River Flow
82.Chimes Of Freedom
83.Queen Jane Approximately

Concert #6 with The Grateful Dead.
1987 concert #6.

Gotta Serve Somebody, All Along The Watchtower, Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door released on Dylan & The Dead (CBS 463 381 2), 6 February 1989.

Chimes Of Freedom was selected by The Grateful Dead for release on their version of Dylan & The Dead –
Unreleased Live Album (Moonlight Records / ML-9636).

Partial soundboard.

Jerry Garica – Gotta Get Down, Musical Escapades of November 1973

Jerry Garcia
Gotta Get Down: Jerry Garcia’s Musical Escapades of November 1973

A Mix By /u/MrCompletely and /u/wilbard

Tracklist:
1 Finders Keepers (JGMS 11/05)
2 Cumberland Blues (GD 11/14)
3 Catfish John (OAITW 11/04)
4 Playing in the Band > (GD 11/21)
5 El Paso > Playing jam > (GD 11/21)
6 Wharf Rat > Playing jam > space > (GD 11/21)
7 Untitled Improvisation (PFA 11/28)
8 White Dove (OAITW 11/04)
9 Someday Baby (JGMS 11/03)
10 China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider (GD 11/25)
11 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (JGMS 11/05)
12 Jerry’s Breakdown (OAITW 11/04)
13 Stella Blue (GD 11/10)
14 Expressway (To Your Heart) > jam > (JGMS 11/03)
15 space > (GD 11/23)
16 Playing jam > (GD 11/21)
17 Playing Reprise (GD 11/17)

Deadheads all know November ’73 to be a high point of the Dead’s early career. The band played nearly a dozen great shows, including some all-time classic performances. But the Grateful Dead was just one of the projects Garcia had going on at that time. The same month featured him on banjo with Old & in the Way in their last full show, on guitar with his Merl Saunders side project (with Bill Kreutzmann on drums), and even in an experimental night of far-out psychedelia at the Palace of Fine Arts alongside Mickey Hart (who was not playing in the Dead at the time), also featuring Ned Lagin and Phil Lesh. Also of note, during the same month Rolling Stone published a long cover-story feature article on the Dead’s evolving “business” model. In the previous month of October, the Dead had just released Wake of the Flood, the forward-looking first album on their own newly-established independent label.
This is a mix meant to capture the wide range of live output Garcia was producing during the month of November 1973. While we were working on this mix, we came across a smaller-scale version of the same concept done recently by another guy here. As he writes:
There’s a paraphrased quote in Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads: “Garcia has said that all he needs is one day off a week, and that in an ideal world, he’d be playing six gigs weekly: two with the Dead, two with the Jerry Garcia Band, and two playing with an acoustic group like the Black Mountain Boys.” November ’73 might be the closest he came to achieving this omnivorous vision.
This mix is centred around one of several epic Playing in the Band sequences that were played that month. Overall, the styles covered range from jazz-funk fusion, to bluegrass/country pickin’, to blues, to ballads, to the pure experimental space that was being explored by the end of the month, by the Dead themselves and in the Hart/Garcia/Lagin/Lesh project.
Not only does November ’73 contain much $$$ Garcia playing (as displayed in every single track in this mix), it was also a particularly intense transformative period. Many threads that had been developing came to a head. For instance, the cosmic experimentation that culminated in the Palace of Fine Arts gig led directly into the more far-out sounds that were to be played through December and in 1974. (Note that the PFA segment we’ve included is an audience recording; we think it’s good enough quality to make an enjoyable listen, but if it’s too jarring for you that’s understandable. The stream link below also includes tracks from a similar set recorded in SBD on 6/6/75 in case you’re interested.)
Setlist creativity was also there in spades. Playing in the Band is especially interesting to trace. Perhaps inspired by the successful one-off experiment with a split Playing sequence a year earlier on 10/18/72, Playing’s placement in the second set was being experimented with increasingly during the fall of ’73. The 11/01 Evanston show saw the first Playing > UJB > Playing, which was a precursor to what was to come in more developed form in the classic, epic Playing palindrome sandwiches at 11/10 Winterland & 11/17 UCLA (Playing > UJB > Dew > UJB > Playing). We decided to include the next, lesser-known version from 11/21 Denver, where Playing became the vehicle of a wholly unpredictable affair. With this performance, Playing completed its transition from self-contained song to being a true launching-point song for unplanned improvisational sequences, having broken free of even the planned segue structures of earlier in the month. Given that the Other One segues of the early 70s almost always touched on the same few songs, this moved Playing into a category of its own, foreshadowed only by a few multiply-segue’d Dark Stars of late ’69 and 1970. In a very real sense we can see the maturation of the “main sequence” Grateful Dead second set structure happening in realtime.
The Other One is the other tune to watch. There’s the TOO-segue-filled second set of 11/14 San Diego, which hearkens back to the old 71-72 style versions. And there’s also the unique version of TOO in 11/23 El Paso that gives way to a long “Tiger-y” space segment (from which we included a portion here), anticipating the spacey explorations of the coming weeks and months.
This is meant to be a seamless mix that takes you through it as if all the month’s sounds were played in one evening. Put it on and enjoy from top to bottom. But it’s not meant to be comprehensive, by any means. Most people already know the big shows like Winterland, UCLA, and Boston (if you don’t then get on that!). And the lesser-known GD shows like Evanston (only set 2 survives), El Paso and Tempe are very worth your time too. The whole OAITW show on 11/04 is excellent (their final full concert performance, with Garcia’s banjo chops by then fully re-established), as are both the JGMS Betty Boards (11/05’s soundboard just emerged for the first time last year).
Thanks to /u/arghdos for hosting on his YT channel.
Enjoy,MrCompletely & wilbard

New Riders of the Purple Sage & The Grateful Dead – Port Chester, NY (11/08/70)

GRATEFUL DEAD & NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE
Sunday, November 8, 1970
Capitol Theater
Port Chester, NY

–Grateful Dead Acoustic Set–
Dire Wolf
I Know You Rider
Dark Hollow
Rosalie McFall
El Paso
Operator
Ripple
Friend of the Devil
Wake Up Little Susie
Uncle John’s Band

–New Riders of the Purple Sage Set–
Six Days on the Road
Superman
Whatcha Gonna Do
Glendale Train
All I Ever Wanted
Fair Chance to Know
Portland Woman
Cecilia
Truck Drivin’ Man
Last Lonely Eagle
Louisiana Lady
Honky Tonk Woman

–Grateful Dead Electric Set—
Morning Dew
Me & My Uncle
Mystery Train ->
My Babe
Around & Around
New Orleans ->
Searchin’
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
Casey Jones
Truckin’ ->
Dark Star ->
The Main Ten ->
Dancin’ jam ->
Dancin’ in the Streets
Not Fade Away ->
Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad ->
Not Fade Away ->
Drums ->
Good Lovin’ ->
Drums ->
Good Lovin’