Tag: dave’s picks
Grateful Dead – 9/24/76 Williamsburg, VA (Dave’s Picks 4)
Contrary to what Becker and Fagen alleged three years earlier, William & Mary did just fine. Better than fine, really, with the band playing better than usual — Keith Godchaux’s interest and agility on the keys contributing the lion’s share…
Grateful Dead – 7/31/74 Hartford, CT (Dave’s Picks 2)
Like the debut of Dave’s Picks, the second installment plays to the band’s strengths — hard for even the pickiest Deadhead to complain about a three-set show from the summer of ’74. I’m a sucker for that year because the…
Grateful Dead – 2/24/74 Winterland (Dave’s Picks 13)
Dave’s Picks 13 is a good show, which doesn’t make it distinctive for 1974. But 2/24/74 does have the distinction of my favorite Bill Graham intro, now officially preserved. “Whatever is going on with the rest of the world, whether…
Grateful Dead – 6/22/74 Miami (Dave’s Picks 2020 bonus)
As a Springsteen fan, I thought seeing Bruce pull out “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” as early as September now and then was the height of Christmas-related setlist perversity. I was wrong. I’ll have to hand that title to…
Grateful Dead – 6/23/74 Miami (Dave’s Picks 34)
With more than 10 appearances in 1973, Ramble On Rose starts night two in Miami by taking its final bow for 1974. It would be 15 months before the next one in Durham. Although Phil took a second to get…
Grateful Dead – 7/19/74 Fresno (Dave’s Picks 17)
The Grateful Dead’s official-release record of 1974 (as of June 2021) skips only the Springfield show at the end of June and rejoins the band back in Fresno not quite three weeks later. Unfortunately, the first-song “get the recording’s mix…
Grateful Dead – 7/29/74 Landover, MD (Dave’s 2012 bonus)
The Grateful Dead spent the 4th week in July 1974 on an odd cross-country, three-show dash: Hollywood to Chicago, then Chicago to Roanoke, VA. From there, the band and Wall of Sound rolled down 64 and up 95, just around…
Grateful Dead – 7/31/74 Hartford (Dave’s Picks 2)
With the Landover show under their belt after a hasty 2-gig, 8-day dash across the United States, the band has completed a hard left up the East Coast to Hartford so it can start making its way back down again….