Grateful Dead

Not long before the Summer '73 box is announced. I've never been wrong before...........

It should always be about the band and the music and getting that music to as amny interested parties as possible. I've subscribed every year since the final year of the Road Trips series, including every Dave's Pick. I have absolutely zero interest in reselling or parting with any of it and frankly would be perfectly fine if they were all reprinted. There's plenty of money to still be made by Rhino, the band members and family trusts if/when they decide to reprint FW'69. Even the people who run this page and/or work (or worked) for them have stated that they underestimated the demand for it. 13 years later, and it appears MOST people would be fine with a re-release. If you're the type of person who buys these with the expectation of making a profit from the back end of it, you don't really care about the music or the band. They flipped the script on Get Shown The light and the E'72 trunk, as well as the Dave's Picks series. Might as well do that with FW'69. Depriving the newer fans who missed out, and older fans who missed out, is like depriving the masses of Cornell '77 and 8/27/72.

Thanks for the tip.. I just dumped my bitcoins and am all in with Tulip Futures. The prices for these things will surely never go down, and they're just so incredibly beautiful. At this point.. I guess I am a collector. I would hate to miss a release especially knowing they go out of print, seemingly forever.. Sometimes I laughingly wonder if I should have them insured.. I think if I were a pipe smoker I would be reaching out to Mr. Pete's Turkish carver. Oh.. and I have a pretty good custom made wooden paddle collection, some are true works of art and I cannot bring myself to scamper down the river with them beating them on rocks.. Add in a little more art and all is good with the world. And now my new passion.. Tulips. I am a little worried about David though.. listening to 3/1/1970 at the Family Dog.. I was sure we would be seeing this on Today's Dead complete with setlists and links. ah.. 1970 Grateful Dead. What a year.. I lent my FW69 box set to Keithfan so he could check it out. I just got it back in the mail this morning. Weird, there are circular stains, watermarks or something on all the CD covers and it reeks like my college dorm room. They still sound fantastic though. Life is grand.

Not to beat a dead horse here, but I'll also chime in along the lines of "collecting"....which I personally view as the pursuit and gathering together of the things you love. It can be anything...as people have noted: GD, stamps, cars, star wars toys, my little ponies, insect thoraxes, artwork....it goes on literally forever. And, what is it again about all of this stuff that gives it its' value? It is the desire and wanting of the individual person. And, since every person is unique, every person attributes different value/desire to different things. Now, the fun starts to happen when there is overlap between individuals and groups, and that's when you get these incredible fan bases to congeal, share, evolve, and grow together - as well as share the group-desire for more of the same things that we all love. The result is mass releases of things like certain cars, toys, or music. I suppose the other piece of this that hasn't really come up, but is also a reason I am still continuing to acquire GD shows and other fun physical items, is that I want my children to also be aware of these things, and be able to not only share with them, but eventually pass it along at some point in the inevitable future. That is important to me. But again, each individual is exactly that - an individual with different reasons and thinking and wants and needs. That is what makes all of this so lovely in the end. BTW, it was very early on in my stint on these here boards that the FW69 shows came up, and I had mentioned in a post in passing that I had also missed out - and lo and behold within moments there was a very kind head who had offered me up a copy. This was my very first foray into swapping of lossless files via the web and these boards. It was my "first step into a larger world". For that, I am thankful; and will always be more than happy to return a favor or simply help out where I can. Have a kind day, All. Sixtus

Wagons, Ho! Time to mooove on! Dave's Picks Volume 26 Wednesday, November 17, 1971 Albuquerque Civic Auditorium, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Release Date- April 27, 2018 Label- Rhino Format- CD (Sarcastically speaking: cassettes, LP vinyl, open reels [reel-to-reel], wax cylinders, smoke signals, flatulence, etc.) I'd like to think that one good old Deadhead had a wee part in this release, the *prince* of 1971 - Forensicdoceleven, or Doc. He is currently on a sabbatical from dead.net posting. I'm looking forward to this release and to see how fast the "extra" or the units that are not included in the 2018 DaP subscriptions sell out. 46 minutes or less?

Exactly. Explaining economics to most people is like trying to teach a wooden bird how to spell. Never gonna happen. The value of something is worth exactly what the last person just paid for it. No more. No less. You can talk about utility curves and all that theoretical garbage about how it impacts the value to each individual purchaser all you want. In the end, the last transaction is all that matters. Let me ask you this. When selling a house in your area, does the realtor ask you what you think it is worth or show you how much the house just down the street sold for and tell you about what you are going to get? Like you said earlier, some folks would be better off if they just listened. But they don't.

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."-Oscar Wilde Another good quote from the same play-Lady Windermere's Fan- "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it."

Bitcoins at $20,000.Man, I wish I had bought some Bitcoins when they were $1.

"End of May" Count your biscuits baby

I guess the old economic addage still pertains here..."somthing is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it."People who collect buttons might pay ten grand for one if they perceive it is worth it to....them! The market place is a beautiful thing. This is how we figure out what the traffic will bare for a "thneed." Don't you just love capitalism! When my pipe carver friend, in Turkey, gives ma a price for carving "another" Grateful dead pipe I either accept it or not. At this time I have never said...no! If I told you what I have paid for hand carved Garcia pipes you probably would tell me that I am a crazy old man. And..you'd probably be right. But...what is art worth? Again...the eyes of the beholder. So..I guess when you go on Ebay or some other site and find a cd/box set you have been looking at and the price seems, to you fair, hit the pay button. After all...you only live once! I am reminded of that every day as my old deadhead friends pass to the big concert in the sky. Life is to be enjoyed...like Garcia Volume 10, Dave's Picks 25, etc., etc., etc. Mr. Pete-------> aging hippie p.s. Al Di Meola's new cd...OPUS....is a nice break!