[Zack]

. . . was never completed, of course. So let's compile one. We've got:

Lazy River Road (Hunter-Garcia)
Eternity (Weir-Wasserman-Dixon)
Way To Go Home (Hunter-Welnick-Bralove)
Days Between (Hunter-Garcia)
Liberty (Hunter-Garcia)
Childhood's End (Lesh)
Samba in the Rain (Hunter-Welnick)
Corinna (Hart-Hunter-Weir)
Wave to the Wind (Lesh-Hunter)
Easy Answers (Weir-Welnick-Hunter-Bralove-Wasserman)
Believe it or Not (Hunter-Garcia) (Built to Last outtake)

First, what am I leaving out? (I have not heard Easy Answers so it's obvious my research is incomplete).

Otherwise, I think Days Between and SMR are both masterpieces, but there's no upbeat rocker to anchor the album. I like Eternity very much, and LRR too. The Vince songs - eh, I'm sorry but they just don't work for me, especially Samba, the most un-Dead song the band ever played repeatedly. A few new relatively obscure covers like Robbie Robertson's Broken Arrow could have rounded an album out, especially the delightful Whiskey in the Jar, which was never performed by the Dead, but certainly going by the rehearsal version on the SMR box the rest of the band liked it a lot (me too!)

Believe it or Not would probably not seen new life. It was better than half the stuff on BTL, so Garcia must have had a strong reason for ditching it (lyrics hit too close to home?)

But the big question, could or would a viable album be created by the post-BTL songs? Would it be good, as well as viable?

Cheers . . .

[Emoto]

BTL? SMR?

[Tennessee Jedi]

poor Emoto ..... cant keep up with the youths of the 21st Century ....
Built to Last = BTL
So Many Roads = SMR

[Tennessee Jedi]

also -
BTO = Bachman Turner Overdrive

[Zack]

Or, you could say whether you think there could have been a good last album culled from the new material from 1990-95.

(BTW this youth of the 21st century was born in 1964.)

[Zack]

Sorry, BTW = by the way

[Emoto]

poor Emoto ..... cant keep up with the youths of the 21st Century ....
Built to Last = BTL
So Many Roads = SMR

Dude, you are sooooo right about that.

And, thanks.

FWIW, I am fairly ok with regular abbreviations like IMHO, BTW, FOAD, etc., it is only with Dead-specific ones that I tend to draw a blank. Anoter few years here and I should be all set.

[Tennessee Jedi]

Or, you could say whether you think there could have been a good last album culled from the new material from 1990-95.

(BTW this youth of the 21st century was born in 1964.)

Not sure Zack dude
I liked the the tunes from ITD and BTL but not the albums.
Probably be a situation like that.
If you are asking if the material is good enough for a album I would say yes although there are some definate dogs.

[Tennessee Jedi]

Sorry, BTW = by the way

1968 here - ya old timer ....

I almost never venture into the 90's - you doing research ?

[strumminsix]

what about pre1990 material never recorded?

[Tennessee Jedi]

what about pre1990 material never recorded?

such as ?

[milobender]

Hasn't everything they've done been "recorded"
I never really cared much for the stuff from the studio... much rather have the live recordings anyway...

[seamones]

Don't forget the "If The Shoe Fits" rounding out Phil's trilogy of misery.

Actually, I thought Wave had *some* potential, but I find the others totally unbearable.

[confusions_prince]

I swear there's a 95 or 96 interview with Weir where he's talking about recent studio material including some of the songs you mentioned. Anyone else familiar with this?

[ebick]

FOAD

Well I'm glad to see you have the most useful and important ones!