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Pretty decent AMA last night. There weren’t a whole lot of questions. It’s worth checking out.

Someone asked Dennis if he had a show that he thought should be made into an official release. He went with 6/30/74 from Springfield, MA. I thought that sounded familiar.

Yep, I’ve got that one. I obviously got it in a trade. Whomever I got it from included some cool labels that were a take on the later Dick’s Picks covers.

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The only problem was that they forgot to include text on the edge so you can’t see the date when it’s on the CD rack.

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Dennis pointed specifically to the Playin’ > UJB > Playin’ that closed the first set which he described as, “45 minutes of heaven.” But yeah, this a great show. There are some technical difficulties with the sound during Don’t Ease to start. You can listen to it here:

1974-06-30 Springfield, MA @ Springfield Civic Center Arena

Set 1: Don't Ease Me In, Black Throated Wind, Peggy-O, Jack Straw, Loser, Greatest Story Ever Told, Cumberland Blues, Dire Wolf, Playing in the Band > Uncle John's Band > Playing in the Band 

Set 2: Seastones 

Set 3: China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Big River, Scarlet Begonias, El Paso, U.S. Blues > Truckin' > Nobody's Fault But Mine Jam > Eyes Of The World > Stella Blue, Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > One More Saturday Night

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I think I posted this years ago on the 40th anniversary.  It's now about the 45th anniversary.  But I exchanged texts with my 94 year old uncle today as he and his 'ladyfriend' saw the Pyramids at Giza in person after a lifetime of waiting.  And I thought of Jerry's album cover for "Cats Under the Stars."  And then sure enough, his daughter, my second cousin, Leah, who was a regular at Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael (Phil Lesh owned it) right by their house and I communicated and it just solidified how this music brings so many disparate people together.  And in case you don't think we're living in a simulation, I put my phone down to put my budding astronomer daughter to bed and there it was just like the 8:00 mark on this video...the spiral light of Venus.  Rising first and shining best.  

A rare and different tune we all are:

 

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What’s better than sitting on the porch drinking, smoking, and listening to LL Rain during a thunderstorm??

Not a goddamn thing!

I’m listening to the LL Rain from 5/26/77 (just to piss off wtb), which is perfect!

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I never thought Black Peter was funny at all. Ymmv.

This was the best one I saw. The whole show was great. Hotter ‘n Hell on a Sunday afternoon. No beer sales on Sunday in PA so we picked up carry out 6-packs from some bar. Really cool scene around the stadium. They had a firehose spraying the crowd down front by the stage. CSN opened. This was the first of the shows that went on the View from the Vault DVD releases. There was a cool moment during Row Jimmy when a multi-colored hot air balloon passed over the stadium.

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