May 1974

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The MT show is by far my favorite in the month. Some of the finest musicianship that had come out of the Grateful Dead, IMO.

Would pick any early 74' show to give someone to listen to if they said give me some Dead to listen to!

 

https://archive.org/details/gd74-05-14.sbd.murphy.1823.sbeok.shnf

how many times did you see the boys?

 

touch head? brent head? just curious..

The exact number I'm not sure of.

My first shows were at the GWF in Dec 89'.

Would fit in as many shows as my schedule would allow between school and work.

I wasn't privileged.

Ah, the one and only Montana show, in which either Jerry or Bob (accounts differ) got hit with either a bottle or plastic pitcher (accounts differ).  They never came back to Big Sky.

From one of the comments on the archive post above:

"I was there - this was the day after the Aber Day Kegger, which got the Guinness world record for the greatest number of kegs at on kegger (10,000) - some yahoo from the back of the crowd threw one of the plastic kegger pitchers from the back of the field house (which is a very large basketball stadium - holds several thousand people) and hit Bob Weir right in the forehead. Luckily it didn't hurt him - but it freaked him out enough, that the band didn't play much longer - which was a real bummer, because we were counting on them playing long into the night."

Saw the Phish in the Adams Field House 21 years later and it smoked.  My last Phish show for 14 years,

 

 

so good. 

I made it to the Reno show (5-11?) with a bunch of freaks

Quite a show and quite a weekend.  Whew!

I think most of those shows from Reno to UCSB rocked!

5-19(?)-74 Oregon was in my rotation for years.   

The post Truckin' jam from 5/19/74 is one of my favorites, they played a few jams with that flavor in 74, the PITB>Scarlet>PITB from 8/6 has a similar one. The China-Rider from 5/25 is smokin' also a favorite moment of mine from early 74.

 

https://archive.org/details/gd1974-05-19.131464.mtx.dusborne.flac16