"Alright folks, here's the one it's all about."

[Miles Archer]

I own most of the commercially released Dead albums...all of the Dave's Picks, Road Trips, Dick's Picks, etc...special box sets like the complete Fillmore 1969 (source of "Live Dead" ) and the full Europe 72 concerts.

The "Last Days of the Fillmore" version of "Johnny B Goode" has always been my single favorite Dead performance. They did Johnny B Goode MANY times onstage, but never like this. Jerry's dangerous and precise. Bob's vocal is perfect. The whole band is completely synchronized and lit up like a Christmas tree. When I heard of Bob's passing, this was the first song I thought of.

Rest in Peace.

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[underpants]

1. My brother passed 3 months ago today. 300 shows

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[Miles Archer]

2. My intro was "Anthem of the Sun."

First time I heard the Dead, but it was a friend's album. First album I bought was "Skull & Roses." I was hooked once I heard that one.

One thing I always say about the Beatles is that they were not a rock & roll band, they were a cultural phenomenon, and "rock and roll band" was a subset of all the other things they were.

The "Psychedelic Royalty of San Francisco" was essentially Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and the Grateful Dead.

Jefferson Airplane mastered the art of 2-to-3 minute hit singles. Quicksilver...viewing them on the basis of the first two albums...wasn't built to last, especially after Dino Valenti got out of jail and rejoined the band.

But the Dead...what a tenure. When they were "ON," no one could touch them. And the whole "figuring it out on stage" thing...Weir learning to play slide guitar onstage before he ever considered learning it BEFORE going onstage...there weren't a lot of bands that had that kind of fearlessness. And they spawned SO MANY disciples, "jam bands" like Widespread Panic, MOE, Phish...

My condolences regarding your brother. If you saw 300 shows, no one needs to tell you what this band was all about.

[underpants]

4. The '86 Celtics go see The Dead.

Short
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[Pluvious]

5. One Dead show, I remember Bill rocking out on the right side of the stage for many songs, back...

In Pauly Pavilion (UCLA) - Summer of '80 iirc

The Dead had just returned from their shows in Egypt, and had brought
back a group of Egyptian drummers which performed a long jam with them.

It was all quiet Trippy, to say the least

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My favorite Bobby story, is from one of the shows with the Midnights I had the privilege to attend, when in the middle of a long solo jamming session he was performing - which really had us all dancing in our seats - all of a sudden a string on his guitar broke, and he had to stop playing...

At the time he was the only one on the stage as his backup performers had left him alone to perform, and Bobby waited there in a little bit of frustration 'till an aid came running out to grab his guitar and then took it off stage to go put on a new string, leaving Bobby there with no guitar in his hands facing the audience that was still coming down from the great jam that he had been performing.

Bobby was obviously not prepared to entertain us with any witty banter while we waited the return of the guitar, so he mumbled a few things and made a few humorous remarks and then said I'll try and tell you a favorite joke of mine.

He then proceeded to tell us this complicated story about some big deer that he hit accidentally with their truck - and I for the life of me can't remember how it went nor the punchline, but I do remember the whole audience pretty much groaning collectively, and then thankfully the aid brought out his restrung guitar which he proceeded to tune and get back in to the show.

lol, another fun night.

[LuckyCharms]

6. It might be this one...

Not verbatim, but something like this:

There was a poacher who was poaching deer on illegal hunting land, and he killed a deer, made sure it was dead, and carried it over his shoulder to his truck. Now a ranger came along and saw the poacher carrying the dead deer and asked, "what's that?" The poacher replied "what's what?" And the ranger said "is that a deer on your shoulder?" The poacher looked and yelled "Ahh get it off me!"

Groan worthy...like his "Yellow Dog" story.

[Pluvious]

7. lol - a true groaner indeed

If it wasn't that one, it was one equally bad lmao

I still vaguely recall something about a truck, but I could be misremembering

I just remember when he finally did get to the punch line, the audience was all ready and primed to laugh, but alas we did not, we instead collectively groaned and shook our heads lol

[LuckyCharms]

8. His Yellow Dog story...it's so stupid that it's funny!

[Pluvious]

9. Facepalm !!!

I didn't see that one coming lmao

Thanks for sharing

[LuckyCharms]

3. Pittsburgh Civic Arena 4/3/89

Johnny B Goode encore.

We were on the second level, and people were dancing so hard that the whole mezzanine was bouncing up and down.