Like clockwork, Enthusiasts! The Grateful Dead Organization does not take breaks, especially now that it’s been purchased by Disney. Four releases a year, plus a big box set and maybe a little one, and all of it on time and under budget. It’s amazing how much more professional the band is since it broke up.

In this latest installment of David Lemieux Talks About The Dead By A Lake, we learn that the next Dave’s Pick will be 12/3/79 from Chicago’s Uptown Theatre–which is pronounced thee-ATE-uhr–and it is a spectacular show from an overlooked year. It is IMPOSSIBLE not to enjoy ’79, unless you were an American in Iran. Then, you have a rather compelling reason to not like 1979. The rest of us can simply crank up the choogle.

And what choogle it is! A Jack-A-Roe! An 11-minute Althea! A Lazy Lightnin’>Supplication AND a Sailor>Saint! A Scarlet-Fire that is almost, but not quite, as long as Dave’s video! (I’m not making that up, but you can do the math yourself if you want to.)

Enthusiasts, you know how we here at Fillmore South feel about David Lemieuxseatemysister: he is an island of competence in a sea of dumbfuckery; an oasis of cheer in a desert of shitty cranks. He’s a fella you could leave with your sister. Even the slutty one.

This love and respect does not, of course, preclude goofing on him.

THINGS DAVID LEMIEUX BECOMES DISTRACTED BY DURING THE VIDEO

  • Birds.
  • The lake.
  • His own sunglasses.
  • The fact that Katherine and Audrey Hepburn were not related.
  • Some kid nearby starts flying a kite, and David is TRANSFIXED.
  • He just stares for, like, 90 seconds.
  • Open mouth, the whole shebang.
  • Attacked by a randy beaver.
  • Attacked by Randy Beaver. (Guy who lives down the street from David. Not right in the head.)
  • More birds.
  • Noticed the lake again.
  • The intractable conundrum that is man’s inhumanity to man.
  • Even more birds.