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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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    Here's to quick employment, Erik
    it's fubar how expendable employees are maybe you collect or maybe you pay
  • Thin
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    Phil gems - Crazy Fingers!
    I will say that among recent Phil gems, one of favorite moments is the crazy hypnotic bass line figure he plays at the beginning and then at the end of Crazy Fingers (especially when he was playing in Furthur).
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    Eddie Kramer is a Genius
    He managed to produce KISS so well that they ended up on the map after 3 unsuccessful records. KISS gets a bad rap for what I would say or obvious reasons, but if you put all else aside and listen to the Eddie Kramer produced KISS Alive! double LP, it's one of the best hard rock albums of the 70s.
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    50 years ago today (listen and download)
    Dead of the Day: March 16, 1968http://www.gratefuldeadoftheday.com/03-16-1968 Carousel Ballroom San Francisco, California Our Dead of the Day takes us back to some primal Dead with the show from March 16, 1968. The first set opens strong with a Dark Star, which is just as solid as you would expect. An especially fresh and upbeat China Cat comes next, almost slapping you with its phenomenal, boisterous, psychedelic jubilation. What’s more, China Cat morphs right into an Eleven, which doubles the sensational, playful pleasure. Pig comes slinking along after that with his sly, confident, and conspiratorial vocals, trying to catch those young ladies who have let their guard down with a funky, bluesy Schoolgirl to close out the first half of the night. The next set gets off on the right foot with a powerful Morning Dew with Jerry’s guitar just dancing through the jams as Phil throws in a few bombs. It Hurts Me Too then gives way to a quick but smoking Other One suite moving from the ethereal sound of the Cryptical into the driving power of the Other One and then back again. The set ends with an up-tempo, searching, and utterly fantastic Alligator> Caution> Feedback before the always welcome We Bid You Good Night encore. It was a relatively short night, but the Dead were sharing the bill with Jefferson Airplane who surely played their own long sets and were likely the bigger draw. Grateful Dead March 16, 1968 Carousel Ballroom San Francisco, CA https://themidnightcafe.org/2017/02/08/lossless-bootleg-bonanza-gratefu… Download: FLAC/MP3 This is a tagged version of shnid: 109944 Recording Info: SBD -> (4 Track) Master Reels -> Dat (44.1k) Transfer Info: Dat (Sony R500) -> Sound Devices 744T -> Adobe Audition v3.0 -> Samplitude Professional v11.1 -> FLAC (2 Discs Audio / 1 Disc FLAC) All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller charliemiller87@earthlink.net June 20, 2010 Patch Info: SBD -> Master Reel -> Cassette -> Dat -> CD (shnid=9388) supplies: Feedback (1:13 – 1:15) (1:23 – 1:42) And We Bid You Good Night (0:20 – 0:22) Notes from the original uploader: — Some minor diginoise in Caution — Patches needed due to unfixable Dat errors — Thanks to Rob Eaton for the Dat — Thanks to Joe B. Jones for his help with the pitch correction –Set 1– 101-d1t01 – Dark Star -> Officially Released 102-d1t02 – China Cat Sunflower -> Officially Released 103-d1t03 – The Eleven ->Officially Released 104-d1t04 – Good Morning Little Schoolgirl –Set 2– 201-d2t01 – Morning Dew 202-d2t02 – It Hurts Me Too 203-d2t03 – That’s It For the Other One 204-d2t04 – Alligator -> 205-d2t05 – Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) -> 206-d2t06 – Feedback 207-d2t07 – And We Bid You Good Night Beginning of 1st set - Dark Star>China Cat Sunflower>The Eleven - Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, 3/16/68 were released on Disc 1 of So Many Roads.
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    Ericndjen
    Eric, hope it sorts itself out for you and that you a new gig sooner rather than later.I will hold my thumbs for you, (in Sweden we dont cross our fingers). Me, am now retired since a couple of months and digging deep into Japanese modal jazz, no longer have to worry about the day job.
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    Re: Clickbait
    True that, Vguy. To quote one of my favorite films: "We are indeed in the arena of the unwell."
  • David Duryea
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    I can't believe how far RS has fallen in just 50 short years. Just look how this guy begins the article: "Mickey Hart extends a hand over his desk and smirks. "Would you like some water?" the 74-year-old longtime Grateful Dead drummer asks. "Beer? Vodka? Anything? Opium?" It’s hard to tell if he’s joking. In his sprawling compound on the top of a hill in the rural paradise of west Sonoma County, where Hart both lives and records music in a custom-built barn-size studio, the chance that mind-altering substances are regularly consumed hardly seems out of the question. But it seems a little early in the day to start actively messing with reality." Turn in your credentials, Andrew. It's never too early in the day to start actively messing with reality.
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    I'm sure you'll right the ship Erik....
    ....go get 'em. Hart talks Trump. Ummmmm. No he didn't. Clickbait article by RS. Par for the course. Trump stuff invades every iota of anything out there. Sad....interpret that as you will.
  • JimInMD
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    Sorry to hear..
    Good luck getting back up and running, Erik. Wishing you the best.
  • Erikandjenn
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    Hey gang!
    Haven't been on board the past 2 weeks because I lost my retail job of 17 years w/o warning. I'm looking hard for a gig and prospects are promising. I miss everyone and hope to be back soon.No fighting while I'm gone please ;) Your friend, Erik
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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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Thanks for this post space! Great insight to a critical time in Dead history. Grateful as always...
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Feel very lucky and blessed to have seen the Boys @ Autzen Stadium 8/22/93 and again in '94. But like spacebro mentioned, the dip from '93 to '94 was tangible. Had the opportunity to see a '95 Portland show, but decided to pass. TBH, i wasn't nearly the rabid fan then i am now. So much amazing music happening in the mid-90's. I was much more into warehouse raves and disco biscuits at the time. Heh.
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If you have not already heard, leave here at once, it's 4/23/77 ROLL AWAY THE DEW! I think it vanishes in a few hours!! FEATURES>JAM OF THE WEEK at least an hour of one of the top ten all time shows
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My Dave's Picks vol. 25 has finally arrived here (original order was MIA, thanks to Brazil's awful customs/mail services), and I'm totally amazed with the "Mississippi..." version here! Can someone recommend another version as fantastic as this one, please??
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That half-step is possibly the best one. Glad you finally got your DaP25. Hope 26 didn’t go missing.
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download series volume 1 - April 30 1977 with a few highlights from previous night, maybe available on itunes ? hopefully you can access these from Brasil. I remember traveling through the nordeste of Brasil and this was one I enjoyed a bunch. Especially Peggy-O" "Looks Like Rain" "Mississippi Half Step Uptown Toodeloo" all 3 in a row. "Brave the Storm to come" Others were "Friend Of The Devil" St. Stephen -> Not Fade Away > Stella Blue > St. Stephen !!!! "I've stayed in every blue-light cheap hotel" ~ One of the best https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead_Download_Series_Volume_1 its a great download. May 1977 has quite a few of the other top tier performances 5.7.77 5.12.77 5.17.77 9.3.77 11.5.77 , all of these dates have been released, the only one that maybe easy to find and purchase is 9.3.77 aka Dicks Picks 15 a couple from other years are 8.5.74 aka Dicks Picks 31 and 7.12.89 RFK Summer 1989 Box set. I was just commenting on Daves Picks 26 page about this one and the Half-Step you mention and then I saw your post. what part of brasil are you at ?
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Finally after much delay...15039 is on the player as I type. On 1st listen, Set 1 is great, I now 'ave a deeper appreciation for 1/2 Step - killer!
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Is that a replacement, or was it ‘lost in the mail’?If replacement, does it have a number?
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BCE got it off of Amazon from recently discovered overstock...
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At first, thanks to all who have been visited my mirrors, mostly XL 'Cats under the stars' mirror listed in cat shop. The mirror is ready for shipping worldwide, you can find it here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/595957100/cats-under-the-stars-mirror-jerr… I'm working currently on another mirror dedicated to Jerry. It's 'The Wheel' mirror, with the lyrics applied on the back side of the mirror. Hasn't been listed yet, but for Jerrys's birthday I listed psychedelic Jerry's hand made as a wall mirror: https://www.etsy.com/listing/632494283/psychedelic-jerry-garcia-hand-de…
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It was lost in the United States Postal Service system.Much frustration with the delay, now turned to joy. The only date I think I see on the label is in the lower section under the 2nd bar code and above the description, which reads: 01/2018. There is also the 3rd of 4 bar codes on the label in that box.
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While it's not surprising that tix to the P&F Headcount Benefit Friday at the Apollo tumbled down several echelons of the firm's socioeconomic caste without claim, I still consider their availability a great fortune. Having never visited, attending any performance at that historically significant venue for the (my) first time would have been cause for a bucketlist deduction, but this was clearly special. Though tired, I returned home to discover that 2018's stellar - and costly - box set run would continue with the wish-list-topping (now that Szell is out) release of BOTT material for Dylan's 14th Bootleg installment. Because the amazon.uk page appears to address a Japanese import edition, I shouldn't imagine that the price quoted for this (purportedly) 6-disc release will be as exorbitant for the conventional Euro & US versions./K https://www.amazon.co.uk/More-Blood-Tracks-Bob-Dylan/dp/B07GVXL5DQ/ref=… Shout out to the old Eleven - I miss you guys! :)
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Rather wondering when someone was going to mention it; I thought it was just ephemera that bore some metaphysical correlation to page 5 of the accompanying text.
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Technology fosters a certain audiologic pedantry that discounts the practical difficulties of archival transfers. Still, while a bit of the 2-track blues is understandable, Plangent alchemy has affected significant sonic upgrades to existing sources. Portland 74 is a well-known quantity to most, but the Truckin' Jam is a luminescent passage that defies contempt for even acute familiarity. While my favourite GDTRFBs tend to grind like roughly upshifted semi gears in transition from the preceding track, this strong rendition ascends from NFA with deliberate fluidity; also, Keith's bubbly, assertive, sometimes catalystic play makes many first-set standards remarkable. The daughter of the woman who cleans house for me**, age 10, was so entranced by the PNW outer & small wood boxes - suggesting it would make for good jewelry storage - that I gifted it immediately; heck, I was only going to shelve it for the next 50 years (according to actuarial tables), but it's become the center of focus for child - if only for a short bit - who exhibits more enthusiasm than I'll ever muster after unboxing. Still, it's easily the most aesthetically pleasing musical release from top-to-bottom that I've ever seen. Couple disks heading back, but that's been par for the course since the beginning, and I've never had a problem with speedy replacement. **This really isn't saying much in-and-of-itself: in Appalachia, if you've got something then it's implied that you will try to help others, and the most dignified way to do is offering work that you might otherwise undertake yourself. You'd be surprised the difference even a little makes here at altitude. :)
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...she's what's yer life's been missing. Caution: the related video library is quite nearly addictive as the ETOH in Billy's 64 oz., genetically attached megathermos.
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Phish tix in the po'box this p.m.; unlike Lockn where I at least feign roughing it in rolling 4 **** accommodations, I've decided my Outback and bricknmortar lodgings will do just fine on what should be an adventurous run from Hampton to Vegas between 10/19 and Halloween Night in Sin City. I'm only taking one show in Rosemont to facilitate a leisurely slog west, to include a one-night cabin rental in Grand Teton before spending another night in SLC (never visited either!). Near-universal wifi and a mobile workstation have revolutionized my quality of life more than quilted toilet paper, hot water heaters, and Trader Joe's Cookie Butter (though none are indispensable at this point). I've got trail running routes mapped along the way in addition to having identified a couple Y's where I can day pass into lap swimming. Happy.
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If anyone is looking for this or any of this year's Dave's Picks, shoot me a PM. $25 plus shipping. The bonus disk is an additional $25.

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