To steer this back to the music...

I need more great "Scarlet > Fire"s other than the 5/8/77. Not that I'm getting tired of it or anything, I just want to hear more kinds of it.

Listened to that first one and it's pretty great. By the way, I figured out a way how to rip those streams to MP3 if you don't already know how. I can let you know how to do it if you don't.

Also the Dark Star from 1970-09-19 is one of the best things I've ever heard.

I don't know your method, but if you take a link, for example:

-http://www.archive.org/details/gd1977-10-02.sbd.cantor.gmb.86354.sbeok.flac16

just replace the world "details" in the link and replace it with "download", you will be able to download each file in mp3.

Also, I LOVE that Dark Star. I love how it descends into an almost completely silent section after the intro into the first verse. An occasional cymbal scrape or bass string plop, followed by the ominous sounding, alien-like riff, that brings it back up, before changing keys and going into the "uplifting" sounding jam

Well that's thirty thousand times easier than my method. Mine involved downloading the vbr playlist, opening it in Winamp with the output set to write wav files, then converting those wav files into mp3s.

And yeah, that Dark Star is freaking transcendent. I listened to it while falling asleep last night and it blew my mind, specifically the alien-sounding part you mention.

Dick's Picks vol 2 has an AMAZING Dark Star.

http://www.myspace.com/gratefuldead/mus ... 1-11283189

I'm looking forward to listening to those Dark Stars.

This is one of the best 1977 shows:

http://www.archive.org/details/gd1977-0 ... eok.flac16

Set 1

Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
Jack Straw
They Love Each Other
Mexicali Blues
Peggy-O
Cassidy
Loser
Lazy Lightnin' ->
Supplication
Brown Eyed Women
The Promised Land

Set 2

Scarlet Begonias ->
Fire On The Mountain
Estimated Prophet ->
He's Gone ->
Drums ->
The Other One ->
Wharf Rat ->
The Other One ->
The Wheel ->
Around And Around

Encore
Johnny B. Goode

http://www.archive.org/details/gd71-08- ... sbeok.shnf

Hollywood Palladium
Hollywood, CA
August 6th, 1971

Set 1

Bertha
Playing In The Band
Loser
Mr. Charlie
Cumberland Blues
Brokedown Palace
Me And Bobby McGee
Hard To Handle
Casey Jones

Set 2

Saint Stephen
Truckin' ->
Drums ->
The Other One ->
Me And My Uncle ->
The Other One
Deal
Sugar Magnolia
Morning Dew
Turn On Your Lovelight

Streaming audio, btw...

Bump for people to see the links in this thread.

Anyone who posts in this thread should be interested in the list positions i've put in the first post as the replacement for the tiers. It's basically a one-stop place for every list the Dead (or indeed any artist) appears on in the DDD list pages without having to search for it. The positions are for the lists currently on the main DDD page. If you're interested, the other artists that currently have this in the first post are Steely Dan and Radiohead.

And?

so are they supposed to be as messed up as this ?? the name obviously drew me to it , but was nothing like i was expecting it to be

Haha, oh man.

That is not normal Grateful Dead.