Author Topic: Egypt 78 (Read 172 times)

lbpesq · « **Reply #15 on:** October 09, 2008, 07:37:24 AM »

Mine came yesterday. I got to listen to Egypt, Disc 1, before my kid hijacked me to play his new Wii game. Sounded o.k., but not the most inspiring show I've heard. Really looking forward to the Winterland disc (NOT Warfield) from the next month, as I attended these shows and my memory is that they were mucho excellent. I also added the 3 disc Fillmore 1969 set. I dropped the ball when the 10 disc set came out, and I can't rationalize spending $550+ for one on ebay. The discs are coming to the office with me today. I really like the shirt. I can't read Arabic, just looks like a cool design to me. Also, it's a high quality Liquid Blue shirt - no cheapos!

Bill, tgo

glocke · « **Reply #16 on:** October 09, 2008, 05:36:51 PM »

I also added the 3 disc Fillmore 1969 set. I dropped the ball when the 10 disc set came out, and I can't rationalize spending $550+ for one on ebay. The discs are coming to the office with me today

You know, I just dont understand why they dont reprint these...

glocke · « **Reply #17 on:** October 09, 2008, 05:36:57 PM »

I also added the 3 disc Fillmore 1969 set. I dropped the ball when the 10 disc set came out, and I can't rationalize spending $550+ for one on ebay. The discs are coming to the office with me today

You know, I just dont understand why they dont reprint these...

kmh364 · « **Reply #18 on:** October 10, 2008, 04:35:28 AM »

Sorry, I had Warfield on my mind.

I frequent ethnic Arabic communities for the culinary delights they contain, and I have friends and co-workers alike that happen to be Arabs. If I'm gonna wear something on me that contains a foreign language, I try to make sure it says what it's supposed to and not something derogatory. On top of that, GD Store ain't giving anything away, so they should at least make sure the quality is commensurate with the price. It's hard enough to try not to appear illiterate in English, much less doing the same in Arabic, LOL!

I bought the Fillmore '69 10-disc for the $100 or so it cost back then, which I thought was high, LOL!

FWIW, I much prefer the Dead's '77 run to the '78 vintage myself.

Cheers,

Kevin

hieronymous · « **Reply #19 on:** October 10, 2008, 06:48:02 AM »

I'm used to Japanese being misspelled all the time. You know the episode of the Simpsons with the soap company and mascot that looks like Homer? It's supposed to say Pawa Kurinu (Power Clean) but instead it reads Hawa Kurinu - they left off two little marks so it doesn't mean anything. Or the Kanye West song that he did with Daft Punk - in the video Japanese is always appearing and the word ganbare which loosely means break a leg (as in good luck) is misspelled by one character so it reads gasobare which again doesn't mean anything.

But my wife and I say it all the time to mock Kanye West, so maybe you have a point.

The best is when people that don't know Chinese or Japanese get tattoos in Chinese characters. Some guy sued a tattoo place in San Francisco and won because they told him they were going to write one thing but they wrote something totally random, like Shaolin 3rd level 4th grade.

These recent disks (Egypt 78 and the Winterland set) are a bit of a disappointment, though my expectations weren't too high too begin with. They strike me as more like historical documents rather than great shows. After listening to them in the car, I put in a couple of disks from the Winterland 1973 box set and was blown away all over again! Maybe the best part is that Bobby doesn't play any slide on the earlier stuff...

kmh364 · « **Reply #20 on:** October 10, 2008, 12:16:07 PM »

I agree...Bob got carried away with the slide stuff now and again. Try those View From The Vault soundtracks. They're end-of-era performances where Jerry sounds real tired and Bob doesn't quit with the slide! LOL!

Englishtown, NJ '77 is still near-peak for the Keith and Donna post-Pig era for me.

jacko · « **Reply #21 on:** October 16, 2008, 04:32:13 AM »

3 weeks and nothing;-( I've mailed dead net to see what's going on.

Graeme

phylo · « **Reply #22 on:** November 11, 2008, 05:12:15 PM »

Rhapsody has 'em now. Along with a bunch of other stuff that they didn't previously.

The dead (Jerry) were always critical of this performance. And in some parts I certainly see why, but alot of it sounds like the kids having a great time, if not the best performance of all time. I will be going back to the Shakedown; as well as the other 'new' stuff for 78.

elwoodblue · « **Reply #23 on:** November 11, 2008, 06:58:01 PM »

Thanks for the tip phylo,
I've been having trouble getting deadnet to respond to my correspondence...dunno what's up.

jacko · « **Reply #24 on:** November 13, 2008, 05:49:03 AM »

mine eventually arrived last week. I quite enjoyed the performance although Donna Jean's singing leaves a little to to be desired ;-)

Graeme