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    "We left with our minds sufficiently blown and still peaking..."

    We're headed back to that peak with the newly returned tapes from Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena, Binghamton, 11/6/77. The Grateful Dead's last touring show of 1977 finds them going for broke, taking chances on fan favorites like "Jack Straw," "Friend Of The Devil," and "The Music Never Stopped," carving out righteous grooves on a one-of-kind "Scarlet>Fire" and a tremendous "Truckin'." An ultra high energy show, with a first set that rivals the second? Not unheard of, but definitely rare. Hear for yourself...

    DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 25 features liner notes by Rob Bleetstein, photos by Bob Minkin, and original art by our 2018 Dave's Picks Artist-In-Residence Tim McDonagh. As always, it has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman and it is limited to 18,000 individually numbered copies*.

    *Limited to 2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

    Get one before they are gone, gone, gone.

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  • stoltzfus
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    I saw a Willys the other day. True.
    hey y'all 2/27/81 2/27/81 2/27/81 "let there be pre-86 80s Grateful Dead to fill the air"
  • DP36
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    Jump like a Willys in four wheel drive
    Hey all. I’ve enjoyed the wonderful posts intermittently over the past couple few months. Been super busy coaching high school wrestling and teaching math and science, so may have missed a little. Good thing we have both sports and academia. Who’d wanna choose between ‘em? Who’d break up Boxilla? Who argues about various GD time periods? Who would start listening to GD later in life? Oh, welcome to Maine. I was a fan of the GOGD from about 8th grade on. I became obsessed later in life when the archive and I met around ‘05-‘06. Back then I was able to download shows, and I took full advantage. I then became, and still am, consumed with the official release stuff. Wholly crap there’s a ton of released material! My commute is about 12 miles out of Atlantic City and back on the Expressway with a little bit of suburbia to round out the 23 minute drive. Driving is dangerous in jersey, no matter what time of day. I can’t concentrate enough to enjoy music the way I want to while I drive. My inferior car radio is usually tuned to Temple Jazz / Classical station. It’s purely background as I use it to calm my nerves and keep me driving safely. I don’t know, maybe it’s my base model car stereo or the fact I’m afraid to zone out a little while I drive. I can zone out grooving while cooking dinner or sitting on the couch during deadicated listening sessions… driving?….eh, notsomuch. I say bring on autonomous cars! Then I’ll kick back and enjoy some GOGD on the go. I’ll be the first person to turn over my keys, sit back and relax. Yes. I trust the computer programmers, and engineers hella more than I do the average vacationer texting, or the person who gets off work tired texting, or the person who left home pissed off texting, or the person putting on make up…texting, or the teenager / twenty year old person instagramming, facebooking, snap chatting, and texting. This whole driving cars thing is crazy; albeit necessary. Random shit. I much prefer time machine travel. Cheers all!
  • Guss West
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    I am a road warrior. 1-2k miles/month. GOGD all the time, everytime. Rotation of DP and DaP along with the 96 pack of burned goodies. One GOGD disc is too much, a thousand is not enough. Have fun in the snow, you darn yankees. Hope to take the snow tube out for a maiden voyage tomorrow!
  • David Duryea
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    3/12 or 3/19? Danish or Pico?
    Dead of the Day: March 12, 1966http://gratefuldeadoftheday.com/03-12-1966 Danish Center Los Angeles, California The Dead of the Day is from 1966, and, really, that is all we should need to say. The Viola Lee is phenomenal with really crisp riffs and an almost pop delivery to the vocals, making it clear the Dead are still exploring their sound and at least somewhat influenced by the Top 40 radio of the day. But do not be lulled into complacency as the picking jams during the second half of the tune are lights out. As the show goes on, we get a couple of first time played songs, including You See a Broken Heart, which was not just the first time, but, also, the only time it was played. The Ice Cream Break banter is pretty humorous towards the end, and then the Dead go into another sweet blues jam in the Stormy Monday rendition that rivals the end of the Viola Lee. In all, the show is an enticing piece of early Dead. Taken as a whole, it might not be as well constructed as some others from the era, but it absolutely shows you something about the evolution of the band’s sound. This is primal Dead at its most raw, still searching for how it will rise out of the water and start walking on the land.
  • Born Cross Eye…
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    Ah, the lowly cassette
    Pretty darn tough and very few tapes coming out of the cassette housing, fidelity and tape hiss issues were a problem.I still have a few left, all GD and 1 or 2 JGB tapes. Almost all CDs except for some vinyl. I've got 2 decks at home but nothing in the car nor a boombox. I'm looking for nice hand-drawn and hand lettered j-cards for 5/8/77.
  • Lovemygirl
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    DP 8 vinyl
    ...this release is Primo, beautiful work all around for this release.Don’t miss out ! and order a copy while they are still available! Gratefully presented in high quality :)
  • shirdeep
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    driven tapes
    tapes always n tha car 9 28 75 full show 9 27 76 set 2 6 9 77 set 2 9 2 78 set 2 4 22 79 set 2 also a box of random reconstruction an legion of mary tapes nothin beats rowing down tha bayou with tha boombox blastin thelma 69 an pow wow tapes tha gators love it
  • Old Chief Smokem
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    It was a great Saturday: house to myself, a nice fire in the stove, a few IPAs and something edible and DP8 on vinyl. It's crazy; I have probably listened to that show on CD/ digitally I don't know how many times, but it seemed to take on a different life on vinyl. It was warm and had depth (I'm sure being able to solely focus on the music helped as well). It felt like you were sitting on stage with the boys. It was clear, funny, raucous, and amazing. By the time they got electric, I was up and dancing around my living room like a nut- I wonder if the neighbors caught a glimpse. Haha! The Cold Rain and Snow was a nice surprise- a longer instrumental intro than normal and maybe a little rough around the edges, but I'm glad it was included- wish it was on the original release. Overall, it was just an incredible way to spend the afternoon/ evening. Can't wait to do it all over again- though I don't think the wife has any plans to take the boys anywhere anytime soon. The packaging/ book/ the whole thing is just awesome. Definitely glad I grabbed it. Is it time for a Box announcement yet? Ark, please!
  • Sixtus_
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    re: The Drive
    I, too, am stuck with a 15-mile commute which, in turn, repays me with a 45 minute car ride if I'm lucky...usually longer. BUT, as others have noted, it certainly affords me some down-home GD time. Whoever it was that declared they have a shoe box full of CDRs...me too! I actually bought these snap-together small banker-type boxes a few months ago that are the perfect CD size so that definitely helps. But yeah I have a mad conglomeration of ripped CDs, mixes (aka Sixtus' Picks) and even (blasphemous!) a few actual copies of Dave's Picks hanging around in there. I also have a cassette deck still. Yes. that is correct. A cassette deck. I will spin a copy of DaP 18 from time to time in there, just for nostalgia's sake. But the warble is ever-present, of course. Sad will be the day when I go to get my next car and will have to negotiate simply having a CD player in there. I couldn't even imagine not having one... Traffic is the bane of my existence. Sixtus
  • daverock
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    I hardly drive at all now-maybe about 10 minutes every week, just to keep the battery running. So I felt quite nostalgic reading about other people listening while in the car. My favourite journey for doing this was when I used to visit my parents, which was an 11 hour round trip, done in two journeys. I loved listening to whole shows from beginning to end, without a break-something I never do now. The shows that seemed to work best, and my favourite at that time, were ones from 1973. 26th May at Kezar Stadium was one that worked really well. But my all time greatest listening experience in a car was in 1990, when I went to the West Coast of America with my then girlfriend. I only took one show, as she didn't like the Dead much-and that was Stanley Theatre 26th September 1972. It was amazing driving ( or being driven to be precise-I couldn't drive then) through the wonderful American country side listening to the Dead. When we got to San Francisco, as we were driving over the Golden Gate Bridge we were listening to Playing in the Band from that show. After we arrived we went to Haight Ashbury and then on to the City Lights book shop owned by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. What a great day that was! When we got back to England, I heard that the Dead were going to play 3 nights in London in October-November, which was the perfect homecoming news.
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"We left with our minds sufficiently blown and still peaking..."

We're headed back to that peak with the newly returned tapes from Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena, Binghamton, 11/6/77. The Grateful Dead's last touring show of 1977 finds them going for broke, taking chances on fan favorites like "Jack Straw," "Friend Of The Devil," and "The Music Never Stopped," carving out righteous grooves on a one-of-kind "Scarlet>Fire" and a tremendous "Truckin'." An ultra high energy show, with a first set that rivals the second? Not unheard of, but definitely rare. Hear for yourself...

DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 25 features liner notes by Rob Bleetstein, photos by Bob Minkin, and original art by our 2018 Dave's Picks Artist-In-Residence Tim McDonagh. As always, it has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman and it is limited to 18,000 individually numbered copies*.

*Limited to 2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

Get one before they are gone, gone, gone.

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Incredible clip of Tom Waits singing Rain Dogs. I haven't come across anyone else in music who approaches things quite like he does. Hats off- a true original.
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....I sense another Partridge Family / Brady Bunch debate forthcoming.
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Who had the better Consigliere? Mr. Kincaid? or Alice The Maid? I wonder who Jerry liked or disliked more?
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No debate there, man. The Partridge Family all the way. They had instruments that they almost played. And a quasi-psychedelic bus. And Reuben Kincaid! Those Bradys were just a canned act. Cue audience applause -- now!
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Yeah but I sill love Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!
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I'm with you there. Though Laurie Partridge held her own. At least until Charlie's Angels came along.
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Here is the live Tommy mp3 I spoke of yesterday or the day before, but forgot to post. A good friend reminded me. This is most of Tommy. I omitted Fiddle About, Cousin Kevin, and I think Tommy's Holiday Camp (Keith Moon would throw a FIT!) This is comprised of the best versions from Live at Leeds, Isle of Wight 1970, and Woodstock (Live at Hull had not been released yet). I think I doubled up on Sparks for very good reasons. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gvnDVUzNQyjrs9XpNzKqkhGazTbb9cJI Let me know if it's properly accessible. For you audiophiles it went like this: CD => WAV => mp3 (320kbps); so while technically lossy, the word I've heard (read actually), is that the loss at 320kbps is in frequency ranges out of our hearing capability and metadata. When it came time to rip my Dead library digitally, I took the Pepsi Challenge on headphones and the big stereo, and Icannot distinguish between WAV and 320kbps mp3. Unfortunately, the Tommy WAV is MIA, sorry about that. Size = 101MB
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...as in, "Knockin' On Heaven's"... Sounds like ol' Jer might be figuring out how to plug in his MIDI from beyond the pearly gates! Either that or the "Space" from 7/8/78 that I broadcast into the universe from SETI's Allen Telescope Array a few years back is finally being acknowledged/answered by our alien brothers and sisters!
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Manzarek might have once asked Pigpen if he could use his organ and Pigpen didn't know this guy from Adam and refused him. From that you get what reads much like an over-wrought, heavily embroidered "story" about the GD from some skinny griper from LA. As a writer, it sounds like one or two molecules of memory and 99% BS larded on because poor little Ray's sensibilities were offended. Early '67 and a giant "support system" of blah blah blah? Sounds more like little Ray was intimidated by the general scene. Please pardon me, folks: F*** Ray Manzarek and his tight-ass LA BS.
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KeithFan I downloaded it okay. WOW. I've only ever heard the Tommy LP and this is WHOA NELLY!!! I can't believe my ears. Do you have a list of which songs came from which albums? Just a comment on the thin Doors - isn't it possible that the thin live sound is due to the recording quality? I mean, if you listen to '74 Dead, it's thin, but only because of the limitations imposed by the WoS rig, inasmuch as recording the music is concerned. There's no question that in person, the Wall of Sound was much fuller than what we got on tape. There is, of course, no substitute for a bass guitar in rock n roll, but if bass pedals and bassy low end organ is being played at the live Doors gigs, I imagine their sound would have been rich enough in person. But I'm guessing. I've never seen the Doors or heard a live record. Thin, I was not offended by anything you wrote, but commend your handling of the situation in subsequent posts. You are an officer and a gentleman. or was it a gentleman and a scholar? Laurie Partridge might be the most beautiful brunette of the 70s. The blue eyes, the bell-bottom jeans, the plaid button down shirts, the feathered hair style (did I miss any 70s attributes?) Oh yeah, I was reminded of the bra-less nipples through the t-shirt look, and the hairy armpits.
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I hardly ever listen to The Doors (anymore). That being said, I think L.A. Woman is up there in the pantheon of great studio albums. It's not Blonde on Blonde or Abbey Road, etc., but it is solid and definitely worth a listen.I think it is their studio album that has the most chance of appealing to a music-lover that does not otherwise consider themselves a Doors fan. Really looking forward to DaP 26! Still kind of wondering why they didn't go 12/14 and 12/15/71 (so as to get a Dark Star and that Lovelight medley on 12/15 - also back to back nights). But I hope it's because 11/17 was just too darn smoking and too much of a sonic upgrade to pass on.
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..purportedly made the brown acid at Woodstock. I guess that explains those freaky eye shades he was always wearing on tour. It's a toss up. Checking the weather in Vancouver.. perfect windy weather to record the box set release video... That Bolo video reminds me of the beginning of Close Encounters of the Third Kind..
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I had forgotten about the old supposed split in ideology between San Francisco bands and L.A ones. I always assumed THAT was BS-but thinking about it, maybe in the mid 60s the bands from LA made better records, but the bands from SF were better live. LA bands like The Doors, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, Love-all made brilliant records in 1966-67-but all were apparently less impressive live. With SF bands the reverse may have been true. Although Electric Music For The Mind and Body by Country Joe and the Fish was a classic. And After Bathing At Baxters was good, too. So maybe what I am saying is BS.
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I have some Doors concert recordings, will have to go back and check if they sound ‘thin’. Doors had a keyboard player who faked bass. Rush has a bass player who fakes keyboards. I like both Doors and Rush. But I like Grateful Dead best!!!!!
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Gotta transport those rockets somehow...
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Rockets are too big for the trunk. But what about Love and Rockets?
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...are so alive. They pretty much power themselves.
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Daddy's home
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Daddy's drunk. Again.
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Moe’s was having 3-for-1 specials all night long.
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By the end of the 60s, Sly and the Family Stone, Santana, Steve Miller Band, Creedence made GREAT music in the studio, much of it equal to or surpassing that of the popular L.A. bands. And where does the brilliance of the Mothers figure in this comparison? Great, original, loved and reviled....
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....(cue Obi-Wan). "Now that's a name I have not heard in a long, long time."
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finally listened to Wake of the Flood all the way through since it came to my house in the Beyond Description box set. and I haven't listened to a studio album in a long while. "we need a box set announcement now! YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF FUCKING ANIMALS!"
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....what are ya gonna do about it! What are ya gonna do about it! What are ya gonna do about it!." Morrisons rants aren't like Pigpens, but they get the point across....box set please?Welcome Terrapin Moon. I like your style.
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....your plane is crashing into the waters off some uninhabited island. You have a crate of every Who song ever recorded. You also have a crate of every Doors song ever recorded. Which one do you attach the parachute to? Answer wisely. Doors. (this is an unbiased poll. No "but I have a cargo ship of every Dead song ever recorded" answers.) I admit. It was a tough call for me ;)
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it's the only thing I know about him. Animals was my second real pink Floyd album (I won't count Echoes). I special ordered it at a record store in February '02. there's nothing that can replace special ordering an album at a record store and picking it up
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Have to go back to 23 and then all the way to 19 for a similar result. Topical and inspiring. More of same for awhile please!
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I think id take the doors and I don't even listen to the doors. I have a bit the who I just don't listen to em anymore and I think I like Who's Next out of what I have. but all this Doors talk is making me think of that Kids In The Hall skit about being a Doors fan
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LOVE Animals, my favorite Floyd album.Love Echoes too. By the way, which one’s Pink? I’ll jump out of the plane with The Who collection. Alternatively, I’ll throw both collections out of the plane and maybe the plane will keep flying until I reach my destination on the deserted island of Club Dead.
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Thanks for the help with the Janis folks.:o)
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unpopular request but, i'm hoping for some spring '92 to get released at some point. could make for a nice mini box.
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Bolo's back on the bacon. Or mayhaps not. Seems it could go either way.
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...charade you are.
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I always thought Roger Daltreys scream towards the end of this song was copped from Jim Morrisons in When The Musics Over. Not a bad thing-its one of the best Who records.
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7-27-73 2 CDs7-28-73 4 CDs 7-xx-73 1 CD Seven 7’s in the dates, and 7 CDs in the Box.
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The Ice Cream Kid makes a valid point, 1973? I suspect 1973 represents a large portion of the newly returned tapes and it fits with recent focus on returned reels. I was going through my collection this morning. The shows directly after Pig's passing (3/8/73) are the Spring '73 Nassau Coliseum shows. Excellent shows btw. 03/15/73- Nassau Coliseum - Uniondale, NY 03/16/73- Nassau Coliseum - Uniondale, NY 03/19/73- Nassau Coliseum - Uniondale, NY I went to add up the # of discs it would take, etc. and realized my 3/19/73 started with the last song of the first set, Playing in the Band. The soundboards for the first set were incomplete when I pulled this down from the archive all those years ago. Then I looked back out at the archive and sure enough.. there is a new Miller seed that has the complete show. It was added less than a month ago, on March 11th, 2018. Big Man, Pig Man (no Pig Man). HaHa.. Charade You Are. When Dave's Picks 13, 2/24/1974 was released.. on the release video (the one where he narrowly avoided being mauled by the group of bad tempered, LA sound grooving, rabid seals) Dave said this should have been released a long time ago but it was overlooked, because... "it was just too obvious." 1973 is just too obvious. I still think it's a Summer '73 Box, but Spring seems to fit the clues a touch better. The closer we get to nailing this, the more likely Dave will be to dust off his log rolling shoes and drag himself out on the rocky beach to dodge surly sea lions and record for us a release video.
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