@mrcompletely Acrobatic. I'm always astounded. Turning corners so fast and frequently that there are no corners. The songs are almost incidental to the flow of the playing.
The official 3-CD reduction of the Pacific Northwest box seems very on point. A great archive release to keep in print as a canonical #gratefuldead "album."
@mrcompletely Agreed! More a statistical novelty than peak Dead. See my other post from tonight. Vancouver is the version I'd have included. Nonetheless, I understand why Seattle is included.
@mrcompletely I played a '76 Dave's Picks on a drive to pick up a cousin from a distant train station and thought that it was boring as a show, and also that it would be interesting to take the vocals out of a bunch of 1976 material and create a long "sleepy Dead" (minimalist?) instrumental mix.
@mrcompletely I would expect nothing less from Mr. Completely. I would know and remember the music/shows (on physical media) better, if the spines reinforced the important info, as cassette cases once did.
It's currently the sweetest, softest Spring-into-Summer evening where I am... Great weekend so far. Biked the neighborhood yard sale Friday, collecting little treasures to give to the 1-3 year-olds we saw at brunch and a bbq today. Brunch hosted by someone we met when she was nine. BBQ hosted by our young neighbors, whose toddler is letting us try out being grandparents. Spring + humans vibing together is an amazing reminder of the reasons to be hopeful.
@mrcompletely Also, Memphis was not "relatively sane." It was as riven and un-repaired as in 1968 and before. Truly a broken place where the entirety of US history continued to be apparent.
@mrcompletely I think Durham was probably equally broken in my time there, but there was a college town inside it, which was real, even if not representative of the whole.