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Phil Lesh Appreciation Society: Enter the Philzone...

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#63
Zootsuitbass said:
Well,,I like that bass just because I associate it with my favorite year.. 1980. The band was BURNING,,, Jerry was practicing long hours a day,healthy. All the new go to heaven stuff was played in. Brent was solidly in. The Warfield/Radio City runs are huge!
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No doubt! 1980 was actually when I started moving away from seeing the band. I saw most of the shows I saw between '76 and '79 and then discovered Bootsy, Fela Kuti, etc. I checked in every so often after that, but I found that Brent bothered me more and more, especially the keyboard sounds. While that first east coast tour he did in '79 was pretty wonderful and the blast of new energy felt good, I began to miss Keith, who I felt let the band breath and go to more places. It's probably not fair to attribute all the changes to Brent, but it just felt different as they went into the 80s. Of course, my friends' older brothers all said that about the 70s and that I missed the good stuff that happened in '68 and '69, so what are you going to do? :)

Anyone here ever play an Irwin bass?
 
#65
StrangerDanger said:
I'm a little younger than you guys. This was my first Dead show:
The Omni, Atlanta, GA (Wednesday, 3/30/94)

Here Comes Sunshine
Feel Like A Stranger
Jack-A-Roe
Same Thing
Lazy River Road
El Paso+
New Speedway Boogie
Promised Land

Scarlet Begonias ->
Fire on the Mountain
Playing in the Band ->
Dark Star (1st verse only) ->
Drums ->
Space ->
I Need A Miracle ->
Stella Blue ->
Sugar Magnolia

E: Liberty
16 Songs

I wasn't yet 19 and that Omni Run had a profound effect on me. I named my daughter Stella.
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I was at that run and a couple others at the Omni. Good times, some good shows.
 
#70
I'd like in too... My first shows were the "Formerly the Warlocks" run in Hampton '89. I basically got kidnapped by this girl who used to make me copies of shows in high school. She'd seen about 15 shows by that time and kept telling me she was going to make me go with her next time, so I beat her to it and bought tickets to a few shows in October at the Meadowlands. Apparently some of her friends at college got lucky and got us tickets for both nights....

Never had such a good time...
 
#71
TigerInATrance said:
I'd like in too... My first shows were the "Formerly the Warlocks" run in Hampton '89. I basically got kidnapped by this girl who used to make me copies of shows in high school. She'd seen about 15 shows by that time and kept telling me she was going to make me go with her next time, so I beat her to it and bought tickets to a few shows in October at the Meadowlands. Apparently some of her friends at college got lucky and got us tickets for both nights....

Never had such a good time...
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What a great time to do your first Dead shows! That run is legendary!
 
#72
N.F.A. said:
What a great time to do your first Dead shows! That run is legendary!
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Looking back, I'm pretty sure that I was clueless as to just what exactly was happening those two nights.

For one, I'm fairly certain there wasn't more than an hour or two I wasn't being congratulated on making it to my first shows with some sort of substance.

And then also, I didn't have the historical context that I had a it later on.

Now, though, wow... What an introduction to live Dead!!!
 
#73
TigerInATrance said:
Looking back, I'm pretty sure that I was clueless as to just what exactly was happening those two nights.

For one, I'm fairly certain there wasn't more than an hour or two I wasn't being congratulated on making it to my first shows with some sort of substance.

And then also, I didn't have the historical context that I had a it later on.

Now, though, wow... What an introduction to live Dead!!!
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Yeah, if you don't already have them, find some good copies of those shows. They're out there for sure. Great run!
 
#77
^ Cool deal. I bought an official DVD in hopes to see myself in the filler section. (A Cardinal Stadium He's Gone Jam on the Winterland dvd. Can't see me even though I was standing right there where the camera was...)
 
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