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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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    Ah yes, freshman year in college.I lived by the Bluto Blutarsky/Spicoli motto too. Simultaneously on academic and disciplinary probation, earned a 1.0 GPA (a whole point higher than Bluto’s) for the year, and wasn’t allowed to return the following fall. Yeah, that would certainly piss off anybody’s parents, but I one-upped it and got a DUI/possession of greenery the weekend after spring semester ended. My first Dead Show was 4-6-89, and I was still on probation for that DUI at the time. Guess I kind of violated probation by going to that show..... Totally worth the risk. Aaaahhhh, memories of a young and dumb kid......
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    Capitol Theater, Port Chester, NY, 2/20/71. Just arrived, a real nice listen. Just released on cd. Sound quality tremendous, to my ears, for a radio broadcast.
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    Your post reminded me of a college buddy who was nicknamed Spicoli. He entered same year as me and lived across the dorm hall. Always out drinking and smoking weed from day one. Never saw him in a class, but he was at every single party I ended up at. I only partied Thurs, Fri, and Sat, but he would come floating in every night around 2 and play Nintendo in my room. Would wake up some mornings for class, and he'd be asleep on the floor with a game controller in his hand, and Tecmo Bowl or Mike Tyson's Punchout on TV. My roommate didn't care much for his late night antics, but not much to be done about it. He couldn't lock him out, because there was no air conditioning and the door had to be left open for circulation. So after a few weeks, my roommate finally asked him to stop coming in at night. Spicoli agreed, but showed up anyway with KFC for him. Actually roused him from sleep to present it (drunk and high, of course). Ah, the good old days. Like the "real" Spicoli, he was very entertaining and fun to be around. Big Zeppelin fan. He flunked out out after the first semester and I never saw him again. Can't remember his real name. Anyway, thanks for the memories icecrmcnkd. Spicoli, if you're out there, ring me up bro and we'll put on a little Zep.
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    Never had heard / heard of Wave To The Wind...watched the 3/25/93 video (Danny Tanner). It's not terrible, I didn't find it a very compelling song itself but the interludes were fine for some pleasant Jerry noodling. Sounds like Eyes if it was written by early 90s Sting. Started to rewatch The Other One documentary on Netflix, maybe will finish it later. From what I remember, I think I enjoyed it more than the Amazon Long Strange Trip. Obviously a different scope, and I enjoyed all the video and insight on LST but something about the pace/direction didn't hold my attention. I guess I didn't expect to learn anything new from a piece like that, but didn't come away as gleaning anything from it. Unrelated (Or is it?), saw Weird Al a few weekends ago. Cross that off my seventh grade self's wishlist...now just have to meet Jennifer Love-Hewitt and that list will be Closed, thank you very much. He did Dare To Be Stupid as done by the Grateful Dead (ie ~Truckin'). And closed with the Saga Begins...fun show.
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    ....a sign spinner on a street corner going off! Noticed he was wearing a Cats Down Under The Stars tee. Dancin' hard. I pulled up and rolled down my window. "Whatcha listening to?" Guy was maybe 24 years old. He pulled out both earbuds and replied " The Dead! Reinhalle 1972!" Dude has good taste. His name was Liam. Traded numbers. Said he just started listening to the Dead a couple of months ago. Spotify brought him there. Said they've all he's been listening to since. Bought the Cats shirt because it looked "bad ass." ( No argument here). The Wheel keeps turning. I honestly forgot what his sign said. Oh well.... Drove past him on my way back from my destination. Still dancin'. Gave me a thumbs up and grinned hard....
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    ....down to that union hall. The Knick. 3.25.90. All night long!!....I remember when my dad got our first VHS player. The top loader with the ka-chunk buttons. Remote connected by a cable. Blew my mind. I believe the first thing we watched on it was Roots. The ability to pause play was amazing. Ahhh, the good ole days....
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    Quite a lot of good photos enclosed in that link-thanks. I seem to remember she wrote a book a few years ago about her experiences with the Dead-Dancing With The Dead, I think it was called. Its a while since I have read a book on the band, but I was tempted by that one-seemed as though it could be a bit different.
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    pre-miller Lossless Bootleg Bonanza: Grateful Dead – Los Angeles, CA (03/25/66) Grateful Dead 03/25/66 Troupers Hall Los Angeles, CA Download: FLAC/MP3 https://themidnightcafe.org/2016/10/31/lossless-bootleg-bonanza-gratefu… This is flac encoded & tagged version of shnid: 38 Stealin’ [#1:37] Jam [7:41] Hey Little One [4:46] Hog For You Baby [2:49] You Don’t Have To Ask [5:56] Cold Rain And Snow [3:24] Next Time You See Me [2:30#] S:MR>DAT>ZA2>CD Transcribed by Teddy GoodBear: Troupers Hall was the meeting room for a retired actor’s club in Hollywood. The rent for the gig could’nt. have been much. We did everything ourselves, all in two days. We plastered handbills all over Hollywood. Stage decor was a few lengths of paisley cloth purchased that afternoon at a fabric store. For a box office, we had a card table and a cigar box. Our not-quite-full house must have had over a hundred people; and when the night was over, our net take was $75. At 2 o’clock in the morning, we went to Cantor’s Deli on Fairfax and spent it all on dinner for everybody — with dessert. — Grateful Dead Family Album (page 43). Recordings: 30 SB. The complete list circulates in SBD. The beginning of Stealin’ is clipped with a significant portion missing. The end of Next Time You See Me cuts with a significant portion missing. Sometimes this recording incorrectly circulates as 01/??/66 or 01/22/66. To see a recording box label, (as per Michael Wanger letter, see 07/??/66), from Golden State Great Rosie McGee picture of this show https://rosiemcgee.smugmug.com/GratefulDead-1/Grateful-Dead-Photos/i-n7…
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    icky song. just plain icky. wwtt?
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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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Submitted by daverock on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 14:41

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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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Submitted by Vguy72 on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 14:47

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....I sense another Partridge Family / Brady Bunch debate forthcoming.
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Submitted by deadegad on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 15:05

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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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Submitted by SkullTrip on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 15:05

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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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Submitted by deadegad on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 15:07

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Yeah but I sill love Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!
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Submitted by SkullTrip on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 15:14

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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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Submitted by KeithFan2112 on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 15:45

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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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Submitted by bolo24 on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 15:44

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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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Submitted by hendrixfreak on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 15:56

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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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Submitted by Mind-Left-Body on Wed, 04/11/2018 - 06:31

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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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Submitted by highstrikerjay on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 16:39

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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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Submitted by JimInMD on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 17:53

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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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Submitted by daverock on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 17:54

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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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Submitted by icecrmcnkd on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 17:54

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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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Submitted by SkullTrip on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 17:55

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Gotta transport those rockets somehow...
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Submitted by icecrmcnkd on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 17:58

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Rockets are too big for the trunk. But what about Love and Rockets?
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Submitted by SkullTrip on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 18:25

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...are so alive. They pretty much power themselves.
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Submitted by MinasMorgul on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 18:52

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Daddy's home
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Submitted by SkullTrip on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 18:59

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Daddy's drunk. Again.
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Submitted by icecrmcnkd on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 19:13

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Moe’s was having 3-for-1 specials all night long.
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Submitted by danc on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 19:17

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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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Submitted by Vguy72 on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 19:27

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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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Submitted by Terrapin Moon on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 19:51

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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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Submitted by Vguy72 on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 20:03

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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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Submitted by Vguy72 on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 20:17

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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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Submitted by Terrapin Moon on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 20:17

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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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Submitted by libertycaps97211 on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 20:17

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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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Submitted by Terrapin Moon on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 20:22

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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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Submitted by icecrmcnkd on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 20:48

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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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Submitted by jrf68@hotmail.com on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 21:56

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Thanks for the help with the Janis folks.:o)
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Submitted by Terrapin Moon on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 22:18

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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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Submitted by SkullTrip on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 23:53

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Bolo's back on the bacon. Or mayhaps not. Seems it could go either way.
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Submitted by SkullTrip on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 23:46

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...charade you are.
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Submitted by daverock on Wed, 04/11/2018 - 04:11

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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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Submitted by JimInMD on Wed, 04/11/2018 - 06:48

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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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