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Was in NYC over the weekend and saw Miles Davis bassist Marcus Miller play the last show of his residency at the Blue Note Jazz club. He had old Miles Davis band mate Mike Stern sit in on guitar. It was incredible!

We try to hit Smalls when in NYC b/c you can stay all night vs many where you buy tix for an hour or so and then get shuffled out. Covid really killed jazz clubs. The green mill in Chicago was always our go to post dso/deadco/JRAD but now the music stops at midnight vs 4am pre covid.

73/03/28 Springfield Civic Center, Springfield, MA Cumberland Blues, Here Comes Sunshine, Mexicali Blues, Wave That Flag, BIODTL, Loser, Jack Straw, Box of Rain, They Love Each Other, El Paso, Row Jimmy, Around and Around, Brown-Eyed Women, You Ain't Woman Enough, Looks Like Rain, China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider. Promised Land, Loose Lucy, Me and My Uncle, Don't Ease Me In, The Race Is On, Stella Blue, Big River, Mississippi Half Step, Weather Report Suite Prelude>Dark Star>Eyes of the World>Playin'. E: Johnny B. Goode For your approval, this colossal thirty song odyssey from East Coat Spring 1973. Only time Cumberland and HCS were ever attached. Seventeen song first has some thing for everyone punctuated by the closing China>Rider. Early second set merely a precursor to the otherworldly closing triad. The Star clocks in at a cool 32:08, going all the way out and back. A showpiece for the band in 1973 glory. Official release Dave's Picks 16. Praise DSO. https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1973/03/28

Indeed, the sort of thing that one may normally whistle past the graveyard in knowing that I happened to attend both of those shows. They were both in 1993. And they were both the 7th out of 7 shows in a row for me. 1. March 18 - Cap Center. The Way2Go>Wave horror was somewhat diminished in that they didn’t take the place of songs, i.e. they followed China>Rider and then got Estimated>Terrapin to follow. Make no mistake, I (likely) wasn’t thrilled at the time, but at least they didn’t shorten the set, at least from a song count standpoint. This set had Bruce on accordion. 2. June 23 - Deer Creek. This show was like a trip on the struggle bus (pun intended), until it wasn’t. After the Way2>Wave was a run of music that everyone here should hear. Terrapin> JAM!> Drums/Space> Dark Star> Wheel> Good Love e: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds So while Way2Go was sometimes pretty good by this point, Wave2theWind was never on my wishlist. But these shows had some other things to console us, despite that horror… Here’s the Deer Creek show. Get in there today, that jam is a monstrosity. Terrapin as we know it as well as reality begins to be left behind at around the 12-minute mark. https://archive.org/details/gd1993-06-23.sbd.miller.108984.flac16

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