I'm joined by guest Phil Stacey as we discuss the Grateful Dead bootleg Cornell '77.

Show notes:

• Recorded at CompCon world HQ

• Talking about Dead show recorded on 5/8/77 at Cornell University

• Phil: Listened to this hundreds of times

• Jay: Very impressed by the bootleg

• Phil: The show was so random

• Dead had taken some time off from touring from '74 to '76

• By spring of '77, band was firing on all cylinders

• Phil's parents wouldn't let 8-year-old Phil see the Dead on that tour

• A lot of live albums are unnecessary

• But a great live recording is transcendent

• Phil: Early Chicago with Terry Kath on guitar was a great live act

• The Dylan and the Dead live album was a dud

• Phil Lesh: The Heineken Years

• Clapton's MTV Unplugged album was awful

• Jay: Solo Clapton is terrible

• Phil doesn't like Thin Lizzy

• The Dead has 36-minute versions of songs on their bootlegs

• Phil has around 125 Dead boots

• Figuring out which songs flow well into others

• Phil: The version of "Morning Dew" on this bootleg is the best

• Plenty of snow at that show, inside and outside

• Love when bands change up the setlist every night

• When you get sick of songs you love

• Somehow we start talking about "The Day After"

• AC/DC's music is more complicated than you think

• Phil would set his time machine to 5/8/77

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