Starhead420 Posted June 24, 2011 Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 I am going to go with 77-78. I know its tough to pick just one little piece of the whole picture and call it your fav, but if you had to pick one what would it be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Tea Posted June 24, 2011 Forum MVP Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 I am going to go with 77-78. I know its tough to pick just one little piece of the whole picture and call it your fav, but if you had to pick one what would it be? You mean today?....cause tomorrow will be something different. I will give you my top 5 (in no real particular order)since they remain pretty consistent: 1) 1977-78 2) 1973 3) 1991 4) 1983 5) 1971 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP comesatime Posted June 24, 2011 Forum MVP Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 all of them + 89-90 !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanAY Posted June 24, 2011 Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 It's like Bill Walton says...it would be like deciding which of my children I loved best. That said, I'll take a stab: 1) 1972 (Pigpen's last tour, followed by the psychedelic jazz that would dominate pre-hiatus) 2) 1990 (You get Brent's best stuff, followed by Hornsby/Welnick) 3) 1977 (How does it get so low? Personal preference, I guess!) 4) 1978 (Not as sharp as 77, but with absolutely terrifying muscle and energy, like nothing since...) 5) 1971 (As Jerry called them, "a shoot 'em up saloon band") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP chuckvegas Posted June 24, 2011 Forum MVP Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 In very particular order: 1. 1977-78 2. 1972 3. 1973-74 4. 1988-89 - those setlists! 5. pre-1970 - yes, this is expansive, I know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Ammagamalin Crew Posted June 24, 2011 Forum MVP Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 Wonderfilled pictures of the years! I'd have to say 1983 (first show---- very subtle and unknown to me then---just a freaking culdrum smoldering!) 1985 with all the wild covers and the Comes, Cryptical, ect that came back, 1987 because , hell , Jerry was BACK! then 1988 because To Lay Me Down came back to us and summer 1990 especially Brent's last show when Jerry almost pulled out Nobody's Fault in the first set during the Truckin'>smokestack. I did like 1993 but by then I had found Emmylou and the Nash Ramblers with their smaller crowd scene. Stopped touring with GD in 1994 and started touring with ELH. That Deercreek 1995 Fire on the Mtn when Jerry sang only one verse had him playing slide and all kinds of great scales, so I thought he would finish the Fire with a Reprise the next night, but hey it got cancelled due to gate crashers, then the bridge fell in in St Louis and we got black muddy rivered in Chicago. "You Know The Rest" Steve Earle El Corazon! (The Heart) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgrmag2564 Posted June 24, 2011 Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 1980-'84 when I saw most of my shows. Merriweather...awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP cm_hayden Posted June 24, 2011 Forum MVP Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 77>74>72>71>69>84 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Dstone5553 Posted June 25, 2011 Forum MVP Report Share Posted June 25, 2011 I am going to go with 77-78. I know its tough to pick just one little piece of the whole picture and call it your fav, but if you had to pick one what would it be? So you are asking us to pick a year and leading this thread off, you pick two? I love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP John A Posted June 25, 2011 Forum MVP Report Share Posted June 25, 2011 1977 That was not an easy exercise. But if pressed there is just too much greatness in '77 for another year to over take it. And as Stone points out, how can you give us such a tough, if not impossible, assignment, then vacillate horribly right out the gate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP FunkyBass13 Posted June 25, 2011 Forum MVP Report Share Posted June 25, 2011 In very particular order: 1. 1977-78 2. 1972 3. 1973-74 4. 1988-89 - those setlists! 5. pre-1970 - yes, this is expansive, I know... I knew I liked you for a reason Chuck. That's a damn fine list, right there. Although, to be honest, I might flip #1 & #3, although that might change tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP acududeman Posted June 25, 2011 Forum MVP Report Share Posted June 25, 2011 '77.......done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starhead420 Posted June 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2011 1977 That was not an easy exercise. But if pressed there is just too much greatness in '77 for another year to over take it. And as Stone points out, how can you give us such a tough, if not impossible, assignment, then vacillate horribly right out the gate? Hahaha I didnt even notice that.. In that case ill go with 89 too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sakada Posted June 25, 2011 Report Share Posted June 25, 2011 76-spring 78 {BEST vintage of Jerry, taking GD & JGB into consideration} 89-90 {especially spring 90!!!} fall 79 europe 72 1966 !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted June 25, 2011 Report Share Posted June 25, 2011 no love for '85 yet?! allow me to be the first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP arm Posted June 26, 2011 Forum MVP Report Share Posted June 26, 2011 1974 Only because of what happened in 8 nights in the Winterland, in Missoula, British Columbia, places called Freedom Hall and Selland Arena, a Florida Jai Alai fronton, the Beehive of Industy, the Garden, the now-vanished International Amphitheatre, and the former mid-Atlantic colonies. But for that, I'd say 1973. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest crazy digits Posted June 27, 2011 Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 this is an unfair question as we all know but gun to head, 74'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octal Posted June 27, 2011 Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 "Months and years!" he would exclaim. "Why reckon the days? One day is enough for a man to know all happiness." Brother's Karamzov, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Mango Posted June 27, 2011 Forum MVP Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 1. 69 2. 72(particularly with Pig) 3. 73 4. 77 5. 83 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP jfolks Posted June 27, 2011 Forum MVP Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 surprised no one has said 65-95 yet... but if i had to choose a favorite (and by principle i never have favorites... the only favorite i have is my favorite band ), i would say 87-90. but damn, i love all the eras! (except i love the vince GD stuff the least). imagine how boring it would be if we only had the 72 sound or the 69 sound or whatever!! variety is spice of life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Still Truckin Posted June 28, 2011 Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 Although it was hard to take the lack of quantity, 75 was my favorite year! These were four ground breaking shows with many firsts - it was an incomparable thrill for me to be able to attend just one of these - the bob fried memorial boogie. Here was a well rested and rehearsed band rolling out for the first time help, slip, & franklin's, and crazy fingers. 75 also brought us the only opportunities to hear Blues for Allah and Stronger than Dirt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Ammagamalin Crew Posted June 28, 2011 Forum MVP Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 no love for '85 yet?! allow me to be the first. !985 got mentioned read the post above for the recognition of comes and cryptical returning let alone all the covers they did that year I mean come on Walkin the Dog! and Revolution, why don't we do it, Keep on Growing, She Belongs, also the JGB shows were out of control, check out some of his Stone shows fro '85!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tundrareef Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 1970 Raw Energy + Acoustic. Small venues. Jerry sounds so good. Pigpen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waynecs Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 October '68 through June '69 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJed Posted June 29, 2011 Report Share Posted June 29, 2011 Have wrestled with this question for years and have decided to opt for a conventional choice: 1977 Why? Song selection: Still get lots of St Stephens, Love the Help/Slip/Franklins. Plenty of great Terrapins, Scarlet/Fires galore, plus all of the other usual favorites. Setlists: I'd be psyched to hear DSO re-create just about any 77 shows, along with a few real favorites: 2/26/77, 3/18/77, 3/19/77, 6/9/77 and 11/6/77 And, of course, there's the whole Spring 77 tour which I think DSO should re-create, in its entirety, on the tour's 35th anniversary in 2012.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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