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Ship Of Fools ~ Jazz Is Dead April 14th, 1999 | Fox Theatre | Boulder, CO

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Finally some good news in 2016. 

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The White House’s Pete Souza has shot nearly 2 million photos of Obama. Here are his favorites.

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SUMMER OF DEAD: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, California, July 21, 1974

The indispensable Dead Listening blog hit the nail on the head in discussing this show: “there is no better way to enjoy a good AUD tape than when it’s an outdoor recording. When you combine a good audience tape, with the great outdoors, and the Wall Of Sound, you find yourself primed to experience some of the finest examples of live music field recordings out there.” 

Recorded by Rob Bertrando, this Hollywood Bowl gig is a fantastic listen – it captures a slightly less exploratory/jammed out version of the Dead in 1974, but that is OK! The first set is pretty tight, highlighted by a driving, ecstatic “Scarlet Begonias” that I had to listen to several times. Rewind that tape! Over in the second set, the massive “Playin’ In The Band” sandwich delivers on every level – even Donna’s screeches are totally righteous, and “Wharf Rat” into “Truckin’” looks wrong on paper, but feels so right. Keith sounds great throughout, too, very engaged and on top of things, often switching over to the electric piano for a jazz-funk feel. And Garcia brings a mournful stillness to “Ship of Fools” that’ll break your heart. 

Choice Cut: “SEASTONES.” Thirteen minutes of intense molten electro-noize from Lesh & Lagin. “Do you dig this?” a perplexed head asks his neighbor. Oh yeah, we do.  

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Grateful Dead Tapers in Telluride, CO (1987). My interview with David Gans is on Classickicks.com

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