[Brad Isaacs]

Skiing, especially powder variety in Canada, (fitting for a boy from Wyo.)
Flying, as in flying myself and a couple buds to some out of the way gem to get a round in.
Backpacking with my boys
Reading a good book
Being with my wife

[Carson Pilcher]

Jim and Jud nice to see some folks that appreciate good music on here
 Jim that sound like a serious rig

i am a big audiance tape fan so would love to hear some of your stuff
some of my faves were

William and Mary 4/15/78

Springfield 5/11/78

Stanley Theater 11/30-12/1/79


Lake Placid 10/17/83

on and on

Jim, Jud and Dave,

I have most of the vault on a Hard drive.  Pm me if you want to figure out a way to get a copy.  Some of the shows are audience, but most are SBD.

Recently, I have been transferring an entire tour (i.e. Spring of '69) onto a dedicated iPod.  I leave it in my car and then I systematically listen to the entire tour.  I'll then get intrigued by another tour and listen to that one as well.

We all have our favorites, but 5.2.70 takes the cake for me.  Great acoustic set, then everything under the sun in that blistering electric set.  Once a time machine is invented, I am heading to that show, running into Bear and then dancing my rear-end off.  As Jerry said early in the show, "Relax, we've got you all night long".   

[John Kirk]

Hello Carson and other Dead Heads,

I enjoy the Grateful Dead's live music from around 1968 to 1972 best.  However, I am not as well versed on live Dead as a devoted fan of their music.  But the early stuff is a more driving style of music.  It rocks harder.  They became pretty sedate as the years went by.

I like collecting great songs on my iPod, that's a big passion these days.

[Terry Lavin]

Hello Carson and other Dead Heads,

I enjoy the Grateful Dead's live music from around 1968 to 1972 best.  However, I am not as well versed on live Dead as a devoted fan of their music.  But the early stuff is a more driving style of music.  It rocks harder.  They became pretty sedate as the years went by.

I like collecting great songs on my iPod, that's a big passion these days.

I agree about the decline of the Dead. They got tired and stopped executing at the right level. Their music was monochromatically mundane with aimless meandering jamming and lame lyrics. The live shows from the mid 70s and forward are almost unlistenable and one suspects the band was half whacked.

[Dave Falkner]

Terry  are you sure you are not talking about phish
 
I will agree they were consistently better pre 82   as late as 1990  they were doing incredible things   e.g  Madison sq Garden Sept 1990

[Bill Gayne]

I often listen to the Dead channel on Sirius. My kids seem good with the Dead. My oldest son recently asked me why I listen to "hippie" music when I'm not a hippie? A paradoxical question for him.

[Jim Sherma]

Must admit that I'm kind of surprised getting into a Dead discussion on this board but...

There were high and low points all through their history. '69 is clearly a big high point, as is a lot of '73. I really thought a good bit of the '76-79 era is somewhat overrated and can get very bogged down feeling (I have a soft spot for 11/6/79 Philly with the slowest Black Peter ever). IMO the good bits of '85 and early '86 were underrated. '89 and Spring '90 got real good as well. My feeling when touring in the mid to late '80's was to hope to see at least one of the two or three meltdowns on a given tour. There were certain to be some clunkers as well in that era (4/6/85 Philly and Harrisburg '84). I'm not sure that Jerry's playing was ever as inventive and jazzy after the '86 coma as prior to it. I really liked the quick jazzy riffs of the '85 time period (examples Shakedown 3/27/85 - Eyes first solo Alpine 6/29/86). After the coma I thought the shows got more even for a while but the highs were not quite maintained through a full show as they could be prior (example 10/12/84 Augusta, Me). Once they went to the Midi-heavy work and the quiet stage in '92 or so I lost the fever to see them. I was at 5 of the 6 '90 Garden shows and considered them a very strong run, probably the last really strong run I saw live.

[Carson Pilcher]

Must admit that I'm kind of surprised getting into a Dead discussion on this board but...

There were high and low points all through their history. '69 is clearly a big high point, as is a lot of '73. I really thought a good bit of the '76-79 era is somewhat overrated and can get very bogged down feeling (I have a soft spot for 11/6/79 Philly with the slowest Black Peter ever). IMO the good bits of '85 and early '86 were underrated. '89 and Spring '90 got real good as well. My feeling when touring in the mid to late '80's was to hope to see at least one of the two or three meltdowns on a given tour. There were certain to be some clunkers as well in that era (4/6/85 Philly and Harrisburg '84). I'm not sure that Jerry's playing was ever as inventive and jazzy after the '86 coma as prior to it. I really liked the quick jazzy riffs of the '85 time period (examples Shakedown 3/27/85 - Eyes first solo Alpine 6/29/86). After the coma I thought the shows got more even for a while but the highs were not quite maintained through a full show as they could be prior (example 10/12/84 Augusta, Me). Once they went to the Midi-heavy work and the quiet stage in '92 or so I lost the fever to see them. I was at 5 of the 6 '90 Garden shows and considered them a very strong run, probably the last really strong run I saw live.

I understand all that you have said.  For me however, I have to broadstroke it with...I prefer all work from '77 and before.  Much prefer '72 and before.  I like the punchiness of '75 Boston and the GAMH show of course.  '74 seemed a little spacey, but the China>Rider transitions of that year were fantastic.

All that said, you give me ANY show from 1970 and before....I'll take it.

[Brock Peyer]

Church activities
Enjoying being outside with my kids
Cooking meat with fire
Seafood
Carolina Basketball
BBQ sauces

[Jim Franklin]

Pool.
Watching my children play sports.
Metallica.

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