Grateful Dead

Wise words. And true ones.

MAYBE there won't be an announcement, it could be that the best of GD live IS THE BOX SET....wouldn't surprise me- its been on the front page of deadnet for 3 months, and no real announcement on DP#26 - that 1971 show was announced in January.....May the Force be with You (oh, and btw Luke dies in the last Star Wars movie- that seemed to be a big kept secret for some ; )

I don't think anythings been announced on Friday. If there is a glitch in the announcement, the Rhino folks would have to worry all weekend about it and then come in Monday morn to clean up the mess. And the customers fume all weekend. Monday is unlikely for an announcement too. Too many people at Rhino with Monday blahs, hangovers, or just taking 3 day weekends. Tues-Thurs are the most likely for announcements. I think most have come on Wednesday. But, yeah, hope I'm wrong.

....any releases being announced on a Friday. Hopefully i'm wrong this week.

I am hopeful! Currently listening to the anniversary of 04/06/71. DaP 26 c'mon or box set announcement. A Pig era box would be out of sight ('68 or summer or fall 70 would be particularly unbelievable - '71 would be fine as well). A Bettyboard '76 box would also be out of sight. If nothing is announced soon enough, then, heh, a '95 box would......well....maybe a '91 box would be out of sight.

29th anniversary of my first show. Had a Grate time, and knew I needed to see more. Was happy to find video a while back. Set1 https://youtu.be/qhz8YfKE6O0 Set2 https://youtu.be/X7PZHKN51YI

Today we head down to Brendan Byrne for the first of a two nights.Out of Space Terrapin Station-> The Other One-> Stella Blue-> Sugar Magnolia. https://archive.org/details/gd1987-04-06.140339.sbd.miller.flac2496 Set 2 https://archive.org/details/gd1978-04-06.140694.sbd.pcm.miller.sirmick… Road Trips: Vol 4, Number 4: Spectrum 4.6.82

This week's Jam is from:March 28, 1969 Student Center Modesto, CA http://www.dead.net/features/jam-week/april-06-april-12-2018?intcmp=hom…

April 6, 1969http://gratefuldeadoftheday.com/04-06-1969 Avalon Ballroom San Francisco, California Lossless Bootleg Bonanza: Grateful Dead – San Francisco, CA (04/06/69) gd69-04-06-Avalon-Ball Grateful Dead 4-6-69 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco Download FLAC/MP3 https://themidnightcafe.org/2014/10/28/lossless-bootleg-bonanza-gratefu… SBD>FM>MR>C>D>CD>EAC>SHN Part of The Music Never Stopped Project 2002 shn em up initiative Thanks to Joe Jupille edits/encoding by J. Cotsman –Set 1– 101-d1t01 – //Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl% 102-d1t02 – Tuning 103-d1t03 – Beat It On Down The Line 104-d1t04 – It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue 105-d1t05 – King Bee –Set 2– 201-d1t06 – //Cryptical Envelopment–> 202-d1t07 – Drums–> 203-d1t08 – The Other One–> 204-d1t09 – Cryptical Envelopment–> 205-d1t10 – Death Don’t Have No Mercy 206-d2t01 – Turn on Your Lovelight 207-d2t02 – Tuning 208-d2t03 – Viola Lee Blues –disc 1 total time–61:55– –disc 2 total time–38:31– Notes: –this is from a reel recorded in ’69. There are a few minor discontinuities/blemishes in the recording –there may be missing songs before Schoolgirl –several minutes are probably missing from the beginning of Schoolgirl. –there is a splice in Schoolgirl @ 1:26 –the first couple notes of Cryptical(1) are clipped –the band is forced to finish Viola Lee acapella after the plug is pulled on their instruments, presumably, for playing past Avalon curfew –Sound Forge was used for a slight pitch correction and a few minor edits

Dead of the Day: April 6, 1971http://gratefuldeadoftheday.com/04-06-1971 Manhattan Center New York, New York For our Dead of the Day, we return to the Hammerstein Ballroom for the last night of the 1971 run. The show gets off to another rocking start with a Bertha opener. The first set continues with some great tunes, including a first-ever Oh Boy and a five-year breakout of Hog for You Baby. The real magic, though, is in the second set, which jumps out of the gate with a Greatest Story > Johnny B. Goode that is pure shake your bones rock and roll. After a solid Loser, the band goes into an immense, bluesy, and totally impressive Good Lovin’. Pig is all over the tune, going crazy and telling people to take their clothes off as only Pig can. Bill the drummer also delivers, providing a rolling beat and a lively, intense Drums segment in the middle of the Good Lovin’. Coming out of the Drums segment, the band fires off an electric jam that is mesmerizing, leading right back to Pig. After Good Lovin’ winds through its 24 minutes our so, a smoking Sugar Mags > GDTRFB > NFA > Truckin’ ends the night. That four song closer is blow-your-mind tasty, fervent, and oh so pungent. Like the other shows of this run, there is not immense, spacey jams, but the Dead deliver a supreme, powerful performance all the same. The last three songs on the recording here are filler from some other night. These three nights at the Manhattan Center were incredibly crowded; on this night there might have been 10,000 people in a hall with a 2500-person capacity. Some people who were there talk about having to move away towards the back just so they could breathe. Others make no mention of the crowds and just talk about the bliss of being in the presence of the Grateful Dead and so many of their fans. For instance, one commentator on Archive explained that he “attended this show with my sister – my first Dead show and my first rock concert. I stood up front about 15 feet from Phil Lesh and had my little 16 year old mind thoroughly blown.” He went on to say that Pigpen played his “Hammond organ with a bottle of Cutty Sark on top” and that “hundreds of longhairs on acid were dancing and grooving,” making for “one of the peak experiences of my adolescence.” That sounds about right. Long live the Grateful Dead!