I can sort of understand why it is only 3 shows.
Their live support infrastructure scattered like the wind, long ago. If they use one of the huge sound/lighting companies, it would be great, but in no way afford the sonic and visual refinement that one expects from a GD show.
Much of the musical cohesion was a result of decades of playing together on a regular basis.
I can see them coming out and...rendering...several Grateful dead songs. Nothing about that is bad.
But coming out and acheiving those epiphanous moments of sheer musical magic and undefinable brilliance....I wouldn't count on it.
That said, I'm pretty warped. I just couldn't bring myself to see any incarnation of them after Jerry died. Hell....I couldn't listen to tapes for a couple of years. It was just too painful.
It must have been VERY hard on them...being the sonic pinnacle as they were, only to have to stop because an integral part of the magic went away. They spent years doing what they did, and then had to stop. That had to be a brutal and bitter pill to swallow.
Therefore I fault no one in the band for anything they ever choose to do or not do.
They have given so much to so many.
Their live support infrastructure scattered like the wind, long ago. If they use one of the huge sound/lighting companies, it would be great, but in no way afford the sonic and visual refinement that one expects from a GD show.
Much of the musical cohesion was a result of decades of playing together on a regular basis.
I can see them coming out and...rendering...several Grateful dead songs. Nothing about that is bad.
But coming out and acheiving those epiphanous moments of sheer musical magic and undefinable brilliance....I wouldn't count on it.
That said, I'm pretty warped. I just couldn't bring myself to see any incarnation of them after Jerry died. Hell....I couldn't listen to tapes for a couple of years. It was just too painful.
It must have been VERY hard on them...being the sonic pinnacle as they were, only to have to stop because an integral part of the magic went away. They spent years doing what they did, and then had to stop. That had to be a brutal and bitter pill to swallow.
Therefore I fault no one in the band for anything they ever choose to do or not do.
They have given so much to so many.