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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 – 3/23/74 Cow Palace (Dick’s Picks 24)
This night in Daly City would be kind of a headscratcher to memorialize as Dick’s Picks 24 ahead of quite a few other shows from the following months, really, except for two things. This concert marked the public debut of…
Grateful Dead – 5/14/74 Missoula, MT (Dave’s Picks 9)
Six weeks before the Grateful Dead rolled into Missoula, Montana for only their second out-of-town date of the year, filming began for Rancho Deluxe about 300 miles to the southeast in tiny Livingston, MT. Apparently, things were pretty happening in…
Grateful Dead – 5/17/74 Vancouver (Pacific Northwest box)
The 1974 half of the voluminous and often luminous Pacific Northwest ’73-’74 box finds the lady and gentlemen in British Columbia, midway through a month of dates. What hasn’t quite been found as the lights go down is the mix…
Grateful Dead – 5/19/74 Portland, OR (Pacific Northwest box)
Let’s cut to the chase: almost the entire first set in Portland features either vocal mic technical trouble or a lack of exceptional playing, to the point where you’d consider it somewhere between just OK and borderline unreleasable. The nascent,…
Grateful Dead – 5/21/74 Seattle (Pacific Northwest box)
If you checked to see if there was an opener that went unrecorded before Me & My Uncle, you’re not alone. But no, in the name of mixing it up, the Grateful Dead did open this Friday night in Seattle…
Grateful Dead – 6/16/74 Des Moines and 6/18/74 Louisville (Road Trips 2.3)
While some folks would take grave offense at the occasional partial-show Dick’s Picks or Road Trips release over the years, I’m not a full show purist. One thing the choice to cherry-pick does do, though, is raise the stakes. Try…
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 – 6/26/74 Providence & 6/28/74 Boston (Dick’s Picks 12)
The Dead took two days off, if you can count traveling from Miami to Rhode Island “off.” That Miami show’s second set had such a nice improvised interlude before Ship Of Fools to start things off that they decided to…