The friend was Dick Latvala, who at the time was the official archivist of the Grateful Dead, the keeper of the band’s fabled vault of live recordings, and an unapologetic enthusiast who would listen to old Dead shows for twelve hours at a stretch, notebook in hand. The teacher grudgingly lent him five of the worst-looking reels, and Eaton took them down the road to a friend’s house. The other boxes contained dozens more tapes, similarly degraded.Įaton told the teacher that it was impossible to evaluate their worth, since they couldn’t know what was on the tapes, or even whether they were playable. Most of them were unmarked, or at least too encrusted to read, but Eaton had an idea what some of them might be, and he felt a surge of excitement. In the first one, Eaton found, in addition to some rotting cookbooks, several dozen reel-to-reel tapes, caked in mold and silt. Each had “Grateful Dead” stencilled on its side. Inside, amid piles of junk, were three road cases, of the kind that rock bands use to cart around their amplifiers. The teacher drove Eaton to a barn he owned, and they ran in through the rain. Still, one could always tender expertise. He’d also heard that the teacher wanted to sell what he had for a million dollars, a sum no studio engineer was likely to supply. Eaton had heard that the teacher had something that he and others like him were eager to get their hands on. One night in the winter of 1996, Rob Eaton, a recording engineer who’d worked with Duran Duran and Pat Metheny, showed up at the home of a high-school chemistry teacher in Petaluma, California. You can have the 320s heres.Īnd although the second set play have been shortened to the weather, it is a wonderful Eyes of the World>Weather Report Suite that starts the set.Īrchive's Chris U says the band woke up on the right set of the bed here. Tempe is not considered in the top-tier of these shows but I would gladly trade many of my tourdates for this Rainy Arizona Afternoon.Ī typically wonderful 14 sing set-one ends with a typically wonderful Playing In The Band. Meanwhile, the Dead were amidst Maybe The Best Tour Ever, starting with The Seven and making the Magic Winterland shows in November and the Delightful December in Boston, Ohio, ending up with Florida. So I was heading towards the bus, which would stop in Boston in exactly 23 months.
Not true, I was cold in Maine in the attic, but I was four days past my first true Trip. I was dreaming it was raining in Arizona. I woke the day 45 years ago (i wish), felt your side of bed (wished even harder), the covers were still warm. This show includes Help>Slip>Franklin, Pink Floyd, Alligator and then there' s set two :) Phil invites two dudes from Phish (a band I have never seen) and they do some remarkable stuff during a three night run. You all know most of these so i will let you discovered them on your own from my dropbox link so I'll only make a few comments on each. Try to listen to the great WXRT in Chicago shows, which gives you great versions of the 19 shows (also put on thr radio Chi-town shows in 1976, 19.Įleven excellent shows I liked after 1995 This bring you to my 11 Shows That I Like After 1995. I want to highlight the Gary Lambert and David Gans Broken Angels band with Phil in 1998 which started this all and give it major props. I choose 11 since my amp goes to 11 and for Phil who I love.
There are almost ten bands in the last 20 years and I'm not trying to say these are the "Best" show by all these bands. So in order to not drive myself crazy, I stuck with my list, which you get here if you so desire. So I realized that if I asked 100 Deadheads about ten shows they liked in the last 20 years, they would all have dfferent lists too. I talked to my friend Juliet who goes to about 6 shows every tour every band and she had a Completely Different List. I read a book lately and recalled some pretty remarkable shows after the Grateful Dead ended 23 years ago in 1995.