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    The unexpected return of the masters of the Grateful Dead's triumphant show at the Albuquerque Civic Auditorium, November 17, 1971, yields great rewards. The Dead came in HOT for their first New Mexico show. Aided by clarity and precision and abetted by confidence and focus, they finessed old standards with definitive takes. With Keith now blending in seamlessly on keys, the first set offered up a triple shot of electric Blues, an exceptional "You Win Again," and a stellar "One More Saturday Night" to wrap things up. And the second set, well, it might just be unlike any you've ever heard. Archivist David Lemieux urges you to turn it up and do it loudly. We won't dare spoil all the surprises, but pay special attention to the rippin' "Sugar Magnolia," the aggressively monstrous "The Other One," and the highly-danceable "Not Fade>GDTRFB>Not Fade." Rounding out the 3CDs, you'll find selections from Pigpen's return tour at Ann Arbor, MI, 12/14/71. Subscribers will get nearly all of the complete show as this year's bonus disc.

    As always, Dave's Picks Volume 26 has been mastered to HDCD specs from the original analog tapes by Jeffrey Norman and is limited to 18,000 individually-numbered copies*.

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

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  • reijo29
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    JimMd how on earth are we going to find the car?
    I had that same moment at the Centrum in Worcester Massachusetts spring 1987. Yet mine was a bit more paranoid. I kept saying to my buddy we will never find the car or New York again. Forced my buddy to leave with me during drums. The car was there. Tried driving and I felt like I was driving into a ditch, I was not. Stopped immediately. Finally came down a bit and basically my little Datsun 280z helped to jump start a bunch of Heads’ stalled cars and vans. About 4am I was able to drive down the Massachusetts Turnpike going 25 miles per hour in the right lane. Heck of a trip
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    easter everywhere's slide machine...I was listening to that a few years ago while driving on very icy roads, going to pick up my wife. "slide machine" "trying to get back to you" it fit the moment very well.
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    Re: Albert Hoffman, Bicycle Day, My First Show
    Thanks for all the on-point posts today.. Shirdeep's bicycle post was a revelation to me.. so my first dead show (4/19/82), which happened to be my strongest psychedelic show (young and perhaps had one above my limit) was on the anniversary of the infamous bicycle ride on April 19th, 1943. The space from that show in particular, Raven Space in honor of Edgar Allan Poe as the show was in Baltimore was especially fun and gooey. I've given a show report from that night before.. the synopsis - on the way to our seats, who is this nice young gentleman under the stairwell making eye contact? Doses, yes please. First set.. very good. Second set, goodness I can no longer feel my hands. Raven Space, madness mayhem, then how on gods green earth are we going to find the car. More mayhem.. driving home with a taper meant we had to endure that Space again.. my nerves are shot and I can't take it anymore.. home and alive, up all night, school already. ahhhh.. The joys of youth. 1982 is a bit of a sleeper year.. a good year and under-rated albeit the recordings suffer a bit. So bicycle day was my first show. 36 years later, makes perfect sense.. I guess you could say part of the master plan.
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    RSD vinyl-matchewy
    I am planning on getting the Feb 1969 show on vinyl that is being released on RSD, but I have no intention of going out to a shop to get it on Saturday. The nearest one is about 40 miles away, and the only time I went on this day there was a massive queue-so I didn't get in. I just assumed it would be available on Amazon for a while after the day of its release, and that I would be able to order it from them. All the other ones seem to have been.
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    Happy Anniversary Jim!!!
    Always loved that show. Not sure I have ever heard a board of it. I still have never had the thin board issue, I just sink in and go with it. Just go with it, man...
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    First discovered The Elevators' "Easter Everywhere" and Roky Erickson's "The Evil One" in college. It was love at first listen. They've both been in regular rotation ever since.
  • Gary Farseer
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    A bad bad boy. Been doing so well on the Golden Road until about six weeks ago. I was at the local hippy hang out/restaurant about 6 weeks ago. I am full on shaggy, so shaggy, even a mother could not love it, me being it. I ask a young lady if she was going to sit at this table she responded back "No." I turned around and waited for the other couple of friends to show up. She turned around and asked me my name, I said "G", wink. She responded that she was Shauna. Shauna is a hospice nurse and she was brought in to stay with me over night after I got out of the hospital. She is so kind, she would sleep on the couch and all I had to do was call her cell phone and let it ring once and she would wake and tend to me. I was staying with family, so that kept the whole house from having to be awakened. She was there talking and laughing as I asked her, "how in the hell did you recognize me?" She responded "your eyes and your voice." So we are talking and all of a sudden a guy walks up and says, "G", wink. It was an old friend from childhood, a head that moved from my home town to San Fran back in 1986 or so. So then I asked him, "how in the hell did you recognize me?" He said he heard my voice laughing and booming across the restaurant. So anyway, he works for the red cross and also for hospice also. So then they hit if off and went on a long conversation for which I was basically a chair or stool or fool for lack of input. Well it turns out my friend Jim had moved to San Fran, then to Oregon then to Chicago, etc. but had now buried his mother and gad moved back home. He is a huge head. Not sure any can remember when we were having the WoS discussion back in early 2016 when Dave's Picks 17 came out. I discussed some of bear's thoughts, about him being in the air force, and how radar technology started him down the physics trail. I wrote about the owl and stereo and triangulation, etc. Different story for a different time. I also wrote about the WoS and the noise cancelling features and how they worked. I wrote about even BMW (???) had started to place microphones on the bottom of the car and then sending reverse sound wave, anti sound wave? laugh, back through the stereo system to cancel out the sounds of the car rolling down the road. One thing I discussed was Polk audio and how they were the first home stereo speaker system to use bear's research to create better stereo imaging. Jim had the Polk stereo system which had the noise cancelling system embedded. Still maybe the best stereo imaging I have ever heard. OK enough of that. This friend Jim is also a huge Zappa fan. As we discussed the fellas and Zappa and stuff he talked about seeing Dweezil and sound boards. So the reason I have been a little out of pocket is that he started feeding me some incredible Dweezil board tapes. Man that guy knows how to put out some tasty boards. I will explain more about that when we get on another Zappa tangent. I know many of you all are huge Zappa Freaks also. That is why I consider myself a bad bad boy...the Golden Road is never to be left for too long. A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...
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    IFC network is showing s t o n e r movies tomorrow, including C&C's Next Movie. Always loved that one. Today TCM is showing some interesting movies. Right now, "A Hard Day's Night" is on. I watched at "Having a Wild Weekend" staring the Dave Clark Five. I have also been rewatching some of the old Beach Movie's with Annette and all. TCM shows "Greenwich Village: The Music that defined a Generation," with interviews of Pete Seeger, Kris Kristofferson, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie at 6:15 Easter. It is short. Also tonight, they are showing "Hold On", destination way way way out, with Herman's Hermits.
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    And go Bruins! I’ve been watching them since early 70’s in the Orr Espo days and don’t ever remember them having this many good young players. They look might tough to beat.
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    Nice Catch Stoltzfus
    I dig those 13th Floor Elevators, and particularly some of the lyrics. Easter Everywhere was background music on a lot of trips.
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The unexpected return of the masters of the Grateful Dead's triumphant show at the Albuquerque Civic Auditorium, November 17, 1971, yields great rewards. The Dead came in HOT for their first New Mexico show. Aided by clarity and precision and abetted by confidence and focus, they finessed old standards with definitive takes. With Keith now blending in seamlessly on keys, the first set offered up a triple shot of electric Blues, an exceptional "You Win Again," and a stellar "One More Saturday Night" to wrap things up. And the second set, well, it might just be unlike any you've ever heard. Archivist David Lemieux urges you to turn it up and do it loudly. We won't dare spoil all the surprises, but pay special attention to the rippin' "Sugar Magnolia," the aggressively monstrous "The Other One," and the highly-danceable "Not Fade>GDTRFB>Not Fade." Rounding out the 3CDs, you'll find selections from Pigpen's return tour at Ann Arbor, MI, 12/14/71. Subscribers will get nearly all of the complete show as this year's bonus disc.

As always, Dave's Picks Volume 26 has been mastered to HDCD specs from the original analog tapes by Jeffrey Norman and is limited to 18,000 individually-numbered copies*.

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

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Here it is let the fun begin
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Thanks Dave! Cant wait to hear this show in all its glory
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I have a subscription but I was able to get a copy for a birthday gift for a close friend...no problems with the purchase....
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Can't wait to hear these two 71 shows straight through in great quality!
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I am an annual subscriber from the first year so I never miss a release.Anytime a Dave's arrives is a very, very good day(s). Thank you Sir!
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I believe this one is Doc approved. I get a little giddy when non-circulating, high quality reels get the Full Norman and release treatment. VGuy says, "Are those balloons.... full of nitrous?" Classic.. cracked me up.
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Can't wait to hear these 2 shows for the price of one. Thank god I subscribed to get the bonus disk to get most of the 12/14/71 show. I wonder what was left out from that 12/14 show and if they just don't have the rest of the songs in their archive or decided to leave some songs off because it can't fit on 2 CDs? Either way Keith and Pigpen both in the mix is a great thing.
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I'm ready for some more 71. ------------------------------------------ Bonus disc and no covers? 2013 Dave's Picks Bonus disc had two covers. Smokestack Lightning & Good Lovin...must've caused some problems. ------------------------------------------ I'm off to check out 5/21/74 and the 46 minute Playin in the Band
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We got a thing, and a thing, another thing, #27 #28 coming up in 2018. Looks like we got Anthem 50th and two boxes still to come.
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I'll bet the Bonus Disc / Covers "rule" does not apply when the song is in "public domain" (public domain means the artist and / or their legal entity has been dead / dissolved for x number of years). Maybe Good Lovin' and Smokestack Lightning are public domain tunes.
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jim wrote "Excited For This One", well I'm excited for the Other One. ar ar So three "other projects" going on the year... one of which is probably MUATM, but perhaps 2 boxes? And sounds like they'll be doing something that they've never done before.... I wonder if that could be a collection of early GD show fragments w/ Pig....
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UNBELIEVABLE !I was on the Phone for over 45 minutes trying to put in my order for the New Dave's Picks...What a Freakin' Nightmare !..I had to read my C C Number to the Guy 4 God Damn 4 times !!!!...He Hardly spoke OR Understood a word of English.!..What Happened to the good 'ol days when some Hippie Chick or Stoned Dude would answer the phone, take your Order and you'd be on your Merry Way ????....Not anymore Folks....If you speak Asian Indian or some other Language from across the Globe, MAYBE you can get an Order in,...How FRUSTRATING !...I had to repeat My e-mail, phone number, Shipping address, Billing address, zip code etc. over 6 times !..I'm beginning to think this isn't worth it anymore....I've been a ''Dead Head'' since 1967 and this is just TOO FREAKIN' MUCH !...WHY CAN'T I ORDER IN PLAIN ENGLISH !!!!!!!
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or a smart phone to order. it's faster. also, better to have a guy that makes sure he has the correct info than a fast stoner
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I'm no copyright law expert by any means, but I was under the assumption that the public domain songs are listed as "Traditional, arranged by..."? The 1st Dave's Picks bonus disc has Nobody's Fault But Mine...and that one is listed as such.
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Is this guy joking? You went to the trouble of posting this rant on the actual website thats offering the pre order... Why not try actually going through the ordering process on here? if it crashes, sure, call em up and try that route. Yeesh
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maybe it's you. have you ever considered that possibility Richard, or is it Dick?
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...to play out the release hand this year? Just drafted my 2018 third and fourth quarter budget for "things".... "This is going to be a really good year. We've got a thing and then we've got a Dave's Pick 27 and 28; we've got another thing aaaaaand this other thing."
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have just checked, and order page says sold out, WOW, only on sale for half an hour,
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Oh no! All gone? Here's hoping a kind soul will bring a miracle & help out with filling a flash once physical delivery has happened. Cheers all.
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Fake news! Russian troll
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In under 2 hours
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@davidadavisThanks for hipping me to this fantastic website. Bless you for passing it on.
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...this coming Saturday is RSD: 2-27-69 Fillmore West full complete show on vinyl
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Appeared to be available as I logged in, but now says unavailable. Subscribed, so am all set. Too early for Vol. 27 predictions? They may have to up the number for 2019 and make it an even 20,000. Glad to see the returns aren't quite yet diminishing. For those who missed out, I'm sure plenty of people have bought multiple subscriptions and the ala carte maximum number, so these will be popping up on Ebay, which I'm sure already have. Now onto watching the Seaside Chat....which I see now is actually from the basement.
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I was on computer, waiting for it to come up, got e-mail at 1:10 pm ,logged in, was available, by the time I got order put in, it was sold out. And they had 18,500 copies to sell this year, last year, they had 16,500 copies to sell, and I was able to get one 2 hours after notice came in. What cha gonna do,Jim
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Interesting video. It sounds like Dave is working on 3 things, in addition to Dave's Picks. Wow! 3 things! I'm going to guess that a mono version of Anthem of the Sun with a white cover on 200 gram vinyl is one of them. My second guess for Dave's thing is a Europe '90 box set. And #3, the thing they've never done anything like it before? It has to be a box of every note played on The Quick and The Dead tour. That is, all the Dead and all the QMS. Oh man....I can't wait!
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Which group do you prefer - The Doors or The Who?
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sounds waaay better than the archive copy. but damn they did kind of made it out to be we'd be getting two complete shows. well, anyways.....I am a real a-mer-ic-an~~~ fight for the rights of ever-y man~~~~...
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MUATM? MUATM? MUATM....thinking, thinking, thinking....MUATM... Wow...I'm sure it's really obvious, but I can't figure it out. Thin? Help please?
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12-14-71 what's missing here is... after Loser in the first set is Jack Straw, not there, after Next Time you See Me should be a Tennessee Jed, not there, then after Run Run Rudolph should be Black Peter, Playin in the Band and Casey Jones which ends the first set, not there. The second set is all chopped up. We don't get the opening Ramble on Rose or the Mexicali, starts off second set with Big Boss Man, then the entire jam from the second set is missing, Cryptical, Drums, TOO>me and my unkle jam>TOO, Wharf Rat and Sugar Magnolia, all missing. It does have the ending of the second set You Win Again,NFA>GDTRFB>NFA all included. So What's on that bonus disc? Not listed here. let's hope we get the Jack Straw and Tennessee Jed and the big jam from the second set. Gonna take some work to get this disc back in order. Russian Troll? Fake News? Really? Ever try calling in an order? It really is that difficult so not fake news and as far as trolls, Russian or otherwise, right. Fastest sell out to date? Could be a record. Glad I got a copy of this one.
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a la carte is dead. it is no more. it has ceased to be. you gotta buy 'em all or risk getting skunked. I used to do a la carte, but cannot do it anymore.
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Any one want to trade? I'd be interested in trading Vol. 26 (Brand New) for one of the other Vols. 1-24. PM if interested.
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You were obviously targeted for special call center treatment, all in good hell fun. Tell it to the fake President, he'll be all ears. I assume you'll be calling him too, speak English-only when you get his very limited attention. Primary a la carte availabity is pretty sketchy now, wow, but it's alive via secondary sources. This release might struggle to hold $40 on eBay at times in months ahead. Be patient.
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Meet Up At The Movies!
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Interesting tidbit of info in the video. It can be surmised that the bonus disc will mostly consist of... Tennessee Jed Black Peter Playin' Casey Jones Ramble On rose Mexicali Cryptical Drums Other One MAMU Jam Other One Wharf Rat Sugar Magnolia In the video, Dave says one song is excluded, but the big jam is complete and uninterupted, so it would appears that either Tennessee jed, Black Peter or Casey Jones will be left off. Either no "cocaine", "shackles, ball and chain" or "Sweet Susan" for you....until whenever they decide to officially release the other Ann Arbor show. I can't imagine that one NOT being released at some point, whether as a Dave's Pick or other project. I would consider 12/15/71 an essential show from that year. If you haven't heard it, check it out... https://archive.org/details/gd1971-12-15.sbd.miller.97718.sbeok.flac16 edit - I agree with the following comment, in regards to the Dave's Picks series. The cost of being a consumer of the later era's is considerally higher than the bulk of these smaller one full show releases.
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The 70's are great, but it would be nice to see something from another era . . . just for a change.
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To be clear, I have Vol. 26 (BRAND NEW). Looking to trade for one of the other Vols. 1-24 (preferably sealed). PM if interested.
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in regards to your post: ***SERIOUSLY***SOLD OUT THAT FAST???? UNBELIEVABLE Uh, yeah, they pretty much said everywhere that there was a very limited quantity that would surely sell out in hours.
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I'm not trying to start a rumor here, but why break up the 2 sets so dramatically? I know Dave likes to keep the jam segment intact, but wasn't there an easier way? Perhaps we will get a surprise on disc 2? Maybe......Dark Star from Ann Arbor? Here's hoping.
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Bolo we are still going through stage 1 of getting shut out, I think the Doors versus the who is closer to stage 10!! It did crack me up to see your question!! bob t
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I was on the website to order at 12.02 Iowa time (CST) this was 10.02 PCT. 2 minutes in and could not complete the order for some unknown reason; I am bummed!
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