HAPPY CORNELL DAY!!!!! Because on this day in 1977 the Dead ROCKED.
This year the date and the actual days of the week match up just as they were in 1977. That means that my first live shows Deadaversary are this coming Thursday and Friday May 12th and 13th. Friday the 13 days always hold a special place in my heart.
Meanwhile, there's the Cornell show. The original Soundboard (Betty Board) of which got out in the wild before some dweeb started holding it for ransom. Literally as he wants the Boys to pay biiiig bucks to get their own frelling tape back. Not that I'm bitter about that or anything. Still, because it was released into the wild before that all went down you can hear crisp copies of it on the Internet Archive.
The show it really just that fine. And the Morning Dew....hell yeah. The Scarlet -> Fire is of course fabulous, but then ALL of the versions of those songs soared in May of 1977. It is of interest to note that the show was chosen to be archived at the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry. Indeed.
Hmmm...what icon should I use for this post that honors 5-8-77? Well of course the May '77 box set logo. Now I'm off to crank up the show and dance around my living room.
PS. Here's the link for Blair Jackson's post about the Library of Congress thingy in 2012: http://www.dead.net/features/blair-jackson/blair-s-golden-road-blog-cornell-77-enshrined-ages
Love this quote: "Want to know how many times 5/8/77 has been downloaded from Archive.org? Are you sitting down? I added up the numbers beside each version: 928,006 as of May 23! I’m guessing that adding in all the copies that were made (tape and digital) in the years when the Grateful Dead was actually around, and when collecting was at its apex, the number could easily reach 2 million. Incredible for a so-called bootleg recording."
And here's the Archive link: https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?and[]=date:1977-05-08%2A
PPS. Here's a link to the article at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by the archivist of the Grateful Dead Archive at UC Santa Cruz: https://rockhall.com/story-of-rock/features/all-featured/7745_grateful-dead-live-at-barton-hall-1977-concert/
Meanwhile, there's the Cornell show. The original Soundboard (Betty Board) of which got out in the wild before some dweeb started holding it for ransom. Literally as he wants the Boys to pay biiiig bucks to get their own frelling tape back. Not that I'm bitter about that or anything. Still, because it was released into the wild before that all went down you can hear crisp copies of it on the Internet Archive.
The show it really just that fine. And the Morning Dew....hell yeah. The Scarlet -> Fire is of course fabulous, but then ALL of the versions of those songs soared in May of 1977. It is of interest to note that the show was chosen to be archived at the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry. Indeed.
Hmmm...what icon should I use for this post that honors 5-8-77? Well of course the May '77 box set logo. Now I'm off to crank up the show and dance around my living room.
PS. Here's the link for Blair Jackson's post about the Library of Congress thingy in 2012: http://www.dead.net/features/blair-jackson/blair-s-golden-road-blog-cornell-77-enshrined-ages
Love this quote: "Want to know how many times 5/8/77 has been downloaded from Archive.org? Are you sitting down? I added up the numbers beside each version: 928,006 as of May 23! I’m guessing that adding in all the copies that were made (tape and digital) in the years when the Grateful Dead was actually around, and when collecting was at its apex, the number could easily reach 2 million. Incredible for a so-called bootleg recording."
And here's the Archive link: https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?and[]=date:1977-05-08%2A
PPS. Here's a link to the article at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by the archivist of the Grateful Dead Archive at UC Santa Cruz: https://rockhall.com/story-of-rock/features/all-featured/7745_grateful-dead-live-at-barton-hall-1977-concert/