(08-22-2021, 08:40 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Legbone & I restrained a balcony jumper at a Phil & Friends show at BGC. LB was one of my best restraint Krew partners. Between the two of us, we could takedown just about anyone. 

That jumper was fine, except he was trippin ballz. The poor gal he landed on was not.

(08-23-2021, 02:32 PM)Greg Wrote: She didn't want to deal with you, so she was handed off to the EMTs

Quote:Watch: Last night, Dead & Company majestically recreated their famously sour set from Woodstock

David Pescovitz
9:03 am
Tue Aug 24, 2021 



Last night, Dead & Company performed in Bethel Woods, New York at the site of the original 1969 Woodstock music festival. Their performance 52 years ago was infamously plagued by a confluence of problems that Bob Weir once said was "was probably the worst set we've ever performed." Of course Weir was exaggerating, but it wasn't a high point in their musical career either. So Monday, Dead and Company had a re-do of the same song sequence and the results were wonderful. Setlist below after the music. Here's Bobby Weir on what happened at Woodstock, from a 1989 interview quoted today in Rolling Stone:

Quote:"It was raining toads when we played," Weir told Rolling Stone in 1989. "The rain was part of our nightmare. The other part was our sound man, who decided that the ground situation on stage was all wrong. It took him about two hours to change it, which held up the show."
"He finally got it the way he wanted it," he continued, "but every time I touched my instrument, I got a shock. The stage was wet, and the electricity was coming through me. I was conducting! Touching my guitar and the microphone was nearly fatal. There was a big blue spark about the size of a baseball, and I got lifted off my feet and sent back eight to 10 feet to my amplifier."

front page thumbnail: crop of "Dead & Company at Madison Square Garden on November 1, 2015" by Brianga (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Quote:ROCK
Jerry Garcia's Guitar, Wall of Sound Equipment & More Grateful Dead Items Going Up for Auction
By Gil Kaufman
8/25/2021


Larry Hulst/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

Jerry Garcia with the Grateful Dead perform at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, Calif. on July 15, 1984.


Legendary jam band also offering classic shows on Coda Collection.
Sotheby's announced the upcoming From the Vault: Property from the Grateful Dead and Friends on Wednesday (Aug. 25), which will feature a variety of items from the legendary San Francisco jam band.
Among the items up for bid culled from the collections of Grateful Dead Productions and the group's inner circle are late lead singer-guitarist Jerry Garcia's stage-used 12-string Guild Starfire guitar (estimate $50,000-$70,000), as well as 1990s-era stage racks used by Garcia and fellow singer-guitarist Bob Weir (estimated $10,000-$15,000 each) and Garcia's beloved McIntosh 2300 amplifier with "Budman" sticker ($5,000-$7,000).
According to a release announcing the online auction -- slated to take place from Oct. 7-14 -- it will explore "the vast cultural impact of the Grateful Dead, and is highlighted by stage equipment from all eras of Grateful Dead tours including surviving components from the legendary Wall of Sound, as well as Jerry Garcia’s stage-used equipment and other touring equipment. There will also be personal items from crew members “Big” Steve Parish and Lawrence “Ram Rod” Shurtliff, including the latter's psychedelic jumpsuit (estimated $20,000-$30,000).
A public preview will be on display at Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries from Aug. 19-30, and the full sale contents will be revealed in a public exhibition at York Avenue Oct. 9-13. “The Grateful Dead are renowned around the world as one of the most famous and beloved bands of all time — attracting an incredibly devoted and loyal community of fans formed over decades that transformed the group into a touchstone of pop culture that goes far beyond just their music," said Richard Austin, Sotheby’s global head of books & manuscripts in a statement.
"In carefully curating the auction to capture the spirit of the band and the community that it supported, it is especially gratifying to have worked directly with Grateful Dead Productions and their inner circle to select objects that chart the earliest beginnings of the Grateful Dead throughout their legendary career, while illustrating the vast influence of the band’s musical and cultural legacy."
Other items in the sale include:

• Garcia's frequently used, cigarette-burned blackface Fender Twin Reverb shell ($2,000-$3,000).
  
  
• A chemistry set from legendary "King of LSD" chemist Owlsley "Bear" Stanley ($10,000-$15,000).
  
  
• Garcia's skull-embroidered custom Nudie pants; worn during a few shows in Texas ($20,000-$30,000)
  
  
• Pieces from the band's legendary "wall of sound" system -- the largest concert sound system ever made at the time -- created by Stanley for the Dead's 1974 tour, including McIntosh amps, hand-built stage cabinets used by Weir, Garcia and drummer Mickey Hart (est. from $2,000).
  
  
• Hart's stage-used Sonar drum set with cymbals and hardware (est. $10,000-$15,000)
  

The Dead and Rhino Records announced on Wednesday that they've teamed with the  Coda Collection to host a series of exclusive archival content, kicking off with the streaming debuts of three concert films from one of the band’s most beloved eras (1989-1991). The shows include Live in Foxboro 7/2/89, the group's summer tour opener from Foxboro, Mass., which will premiere on the channel on Wednesday.
The other films include Live in Washington, D.C. 7/12/89 (which will premiere on Sept. 8) and Live at Giants Stadium 6/17/91 (coming Sept. 29), which features Bruce Hornsby on keyboards and the first "Dark Star Jam" since 1974

Quote:GRATEFUL DEAD T-SHIRTS BECOME MOST EXPENSIVE ROCK SHIRTS EVER SOLD AT AUCTION

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[url=https://loudwire.com/author/philiptrapp/]Philip Trapp Published: October 20, 2021
Sotheby's / iStock

Last week, a vintage Grateful Dead T-shirt from 1967 sold at auction for a record-breaking $17,640.
That makes it the most expensive vintage rock shirt ever auctioned, per the San Francisco Chronicle.
In the same Sotheby's auction, called "From the Vault: Property from the Grateful Dead and Friends," a 1977 Dead tee went for $15,120. That one's said to now be the second most expensive vintage rock shirt ever sold.
Both garments are in great shape for their age. The 1967 T-shirt, a yellow Russell Southern Co. brand tee with a screen-printed logo, is one of the first the Dead ever mass-produced, albeit in small quantities.
It hails from the era around the act's earliest performances in the San Francisco area, and it was originally owned by Dan Healy, an audio engineer who often worked with the Dead, as reported by Defunkd. The shirt's logo was designed by Allan "Gut" Terk, a Hells Angel and "Merry Prankster" known as a key 1960s California countercultural figure.
The 1977 tee was also Healy's and comes from a gig at Cornell University. It's faded with red ringers and sports the band's classic "Steal Your Face" logo on the front.
Max Bittle, an expert vintage tee collector, remarked, "The Cornell concert is widely considered to be the pinnacle of Grateful Dead live shows. Obviously, it's amazing that an event shirt even exists and to see it go for more than $15k is just mind-blowing. When the auction went live I thought it might fetch $2-4K, so to do as well as it did is just simply amazing."
See more images of the Grateful Dead shirts below.

1967 Vintage Grateful Dead T-Shirt

Sotheby's



Designed by the Hells Angel, Merry Prankster, and graphic artist Allan 'Gut' Terk, a key figure in California counterculture in the 1960’s. Friends with Ken Kesey, he was the painter of the Pranksters' 'Further' bus in 1964 and designed the Acid Test Graduation posters. By 1967, through his work for the Dead, he was acclaimed in the Bay Area music scene for his T-shirt and poster art.

1977 Vintage Grateful Dead T-Shirt

Sotheby's



The legendary 8 May 1977 show at Barton Hall, Cornell University. Many consider this to be the 'Holy Grail' of the Dead's performances, and recordings of it were collected and traded for years. In 2012, a recording of the performance from the original soundboard was selected for inclusion in the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress, due to its cultural significance.