Grateful Dead Entire Shows

[Beezy]

Get yer groove on!


http://www.youtube.com/user/voodoonola

 

[Andy]

Thank you Melissa. That is totally awesome. :bow

 

[aclearspot]

Back in my high school and college days I went to dozens of dead shows. In an interview in Rolling Stone Garcia waxed on and on about Dolly Parton and I went country. As soon as I heard Garcia's guitar on the radio I would change the station. I became"anything but the dead" until 1991 when Bill Graham passed away. I ended up draggin wifey and the kids(along with 300,000 others) to Golden Gate park for the memorial concert. Damm the Dead had some great tunes, I became a fan again. I saw 'em quite a few times in the 90's. This song "Bertha has been one of my favorites since it came out. I thought it was a song a romance gone bad. I found out recently its about a floor fan at the dead offices. It seems one or all the guys were on LSD when the fan walked across the floor and Weir jumped out of the window to get away. http://www.live-grateful-dead-music.com/bertha-lyrics.html

In this picture you see the "the wall of sound" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Sound_(Grateful_Dead)
another view

I was lucky enough to see and hear this system at the Hollywood Bowl. It was like listening to the stereo at home.
The Wall of Sound consisted of 89 300-watt solid-state and three 350-watt vacuum tube amplifiers generating a total of 26,400 watts of audio power. This system projected high quality playback at six hundred feet with an acceptable sound projected for a quarter mile, at which point wind interference degraded it( all Mcintosh amps)
Thankyou Jerry

 

[aclearspot]

Jerry bending some notes on Bertha over the years

 

[Andy]

Jerry bending some notes on Bertha over the years

That was interesting. Some songs sure got better over the years, others were great right from the start.