Bruce wrote - 

>Well, seeing as July 8 was my birthday yesterday (saw The Dead at Red Rocks
for any Dead head folks .... was utterly awesome, not seen them since 1980).

Details, details, damn it! 8^) How was Joan Osborne as part of the band?

I've only ever seen the Grateful Dead (and other jam bands) trashed on
audities (with the exception of someone who admitted to being a trader in
their "other" life, sorry your name escapes me right now) so it would be
interesting to get a positive opinion. Being in Scotland, I'm not likely to
get firsthand experience of the reformed line up.

Cheers,
Richard.

NP - Workingman's Dead - the remastered and expanded version from the Golden
Road boxset - just got to a live version of a song called Mason's Children
that was left off the album for being too "poppy" and you know what? It is
pretty damn "poppy" 8^).