I second this notion and while you’re at it, vote for Chris Gardner for Best Charlestonian

I wanted to share a few of my favorite Bob Weir musical moments. This is just what I can recall off the top of my head.

Dark Star -> El Paso 8/27/72

This is one of the most famous Grateful Dead concert moments of all time, and for good reason. After the band gets through an awesome “Dark Star,” and Jerry gets ready to blast off into “Morning Dew,” Bobby decides he has other plans, and forces the band to go into “El Paso.”

It’s funny because the “Morning Dew” would have obviously been awesome. But the result is a video that got my non dead loving friend, @davidj-edwards, to start telling people about the band. I know I’m not the first person to show this prank to a friend and have them love the hell out of it.

Jack Straw – 10/20/84

I might have shared this version of Jack Straw in the past, but god damn is it good. I did some reading on this show and discovered that Bobby was pissed this night because the people wouldnt listen when he asked them all to take a step back. You can definitely hear the frustration in his voice, listening to this. Give it some time as the beginning is a bit rough but it gets better by the end.

Dark Hollow – 9/26/80

I don’t think this is the exact one from the Reckoning Album but it’s definitely from the same tour. “Dark Hollow” is such a great song to hear Bobby sing. Reckoning and these acoustic tours in general are some of my favorite dead shows. This is 9/26/80, according to the Youtube description. The one from Reckoning is 10/07/80. All of it worth listening

Good Lovin’ – 3/9/81

This is kind of a sleeper but I love it. Good Lovin’ live at Madison Square Garden. Bobby does “Turn On Your Lovelight” near the end, and gives a tribute to Pigpen. I’ve had it saved ever since the first time I saw it.

Looks Like Rain 6/9/76

Bobby gets real loud at the end of this one and emotive. It’s great. 76 is a year that doesnt get talked about much. It’s got some of the chillest dead recordings, if not a little sloppier than 77, but still quite good.

Bob Weir & Wolf Bros – “Eyes of the World” (Chinese New Year 2021)

Latter day Eyes of the World. One of my favorite Grateful Dead songs. There is another version that I listen to a lot, which goes into What’s Goin’ On. But there isn’t a video. See below as the last in this post. RIP Bobby. Love you buddy.

Hey there Mapache! Thank you for joining the community and sharing your music. Excited to take a listen!

Hello, this is the first nested reply on the Extra Chill Community

this feature was developed in preparation for the Extra Chill app.

the indentation still probably needs some work, but we will work on it over time as we use more nested replies

for now, this is a feature that has been requested, and is now available

i am on an absolute roll here, fixing things and adding new features left and right to the platform.

tanyone who has been exploring must have seen this over the past few months. there has been hardly a day that’s gone by where i havent pushed an update that continues to bring this thing closer to the light

and check this out!

the Extra Chill App is underway!

okay, you can now log in with Google to Extra Chill

yahhhh baby

Hey, by the way, if you came to this page looking for live music in Charleston, SC, then you should check out our live music calendar at events.extrachill.com

The calendar provides a comprehensive event listing of concerts in Charleston and you can easily find something to do on any given night of the week where you might want to see live music

If you find this, please share it with your live music loving friends!

The next thing I am working on is the Artist Shop system. This will allow artists to list and sell their merch on the Extra Chill Artist Platform.

This will provide a direct avenue for monetization for both artists and Extra Chill. I am thinking that it will begin to attract more users to the platform, I am hoping that also leads to engagement in the community forum, thus creating the full-blown ecosystem that I envision for this platform.

Honestly, the shop will be completed way sooner than you might think. It is already rather close to being completed.

Hello everybody, I’m here to let you know that there is now documentation for our ecosystem available at: https://docs.extrachill.com

That site is dedicated to informing users how to use Extra Chill as the platform continues to grow.

This forum will be used for public discussions about the platform, but the actual documentation is now located on its own website, which also contains documentation for our platform’s other features.

2026 is going to be a big year for Extra Chill. We hope you will join us on our journey to create a massive online music community.

Alright. I just updated the editor to use WordPress’s Gutenberg editor. It should be much much easier to compose and send messages now throughout the forum.

This editor provides a modern way to handle rich content like videos and music embeds. It makes your messages appear much closer to how they will appear after published in the editor.

Very happy to have achieved this as well.

P.S. I didn’t share here that Extra Chill is also now open source, we have our own GitHub repository where all the code that runs this website is stored. That means anyone can have their own copy of Extra Chill, or they can take this platform and extend it for their own use case in any way they want.

Here it is, if you’re curious or wanting to contribute: https://github.com/Extra-Chill

@thedevilslettuce hey now!

i actually agree with you though, I don’t think he deserves the Bonnaroo Sunday slot

Bonnaroo can and should do a lot better.

@ravenel_fridge i’m actually planning to be there this year

i do love My Morning Jacket, and Bruce Hornsby

and Sheryl Crow, and enjoy a lot more of the artists on that lineup

definitely agree with you about it not being locally-focused enough. at this point, i’m over caring about that

there is not much we can do as the people on the ground … they are making way too much money to start throwing bones to locals who don’t move the needle

as much as that sucks, it’s true. 

We are cooking along here. This platform has gotten some serious polish in recent months. Some things are definitely still broken, but that is okay. We are working towards it.

One thing I tend to do, is build and build and build without coming back to polish and refine the stuff I had already created until much later. 

This has been a process of learning, so it makes sense for me. It’s been a pretty ambitious undertaking, to build a platform like this. 

Not many people really post in this forum currently, but I’m hoping to change that.