Grateful Dead

There's fire on the mountain and I've been under non-mandatory evac orders for 7 days now. Our "go bags", select sentimentals, external HDs, important papers, meds and, of course, my GD collection have been duly loaded into the 4WDs for hasty retreat all week. The fire crested ridges less than a mile away and was eerily visible for several days/nights. The Diablos and other hot-shot crews, dozers, S.E.A.T.s & helicopters from across the country have now achieved nearly 40% containment, so guess I'll bring everything back in, but leave it all stacked in the studio until the monsoons end wildfire season hopefully in July. . . Have you tried to pack up your Dead lately? I'm glad I saved the packing boxes from Boxilla and Europe '72. For the DPs, RTs, Dave's, smaller boxes, other CD's and LPs I fortunately had a bundle of corrugated boxes just the right size for CD's or vinyl ready and waiting (12-1/2" x 12-1/2" x 6" work great). Might be worth thinking about. . . Am I having second thoughts about physical product vs digital music? Nope, not really. Spent too much of my youth devouring new music while propped up against big speakers, sharing some smoke and gazing at tripped out album art. I'll leave the digital transition to the more sensible younger gens. Going back out now to flag a contingency fire break for a USFS D6N dozer that's rumbling up toward our house.

I would have to put the 69/70 release at the very top of the list, as that was a major addition to the available canon of GD music. Otherwise I would agree with Mister Jack Straw’s list.

Also, Miller recently remastered his previous shnid=26437 SBD transfer:https://archive.org/details/gd1986-03-27.121600.sbd.miller.flac16

https://archive.org/details/gd86-03-27.sbd.miller.26347.sbeok.shnf/gd86…

Oroborous, great to see reference to that 1953 Theodore Sturgeon classic, which won major Sci-Fi/Fantasy awards. Meant to note earlier Carl Jung as the source, he evolved the term, western theory and wrote on synchronicity, also Koestler's Roots of Coincidence which gets further out there. Like giving a good close listen, being open or becoming ready to be open to this experience.

Thanks for the shout out Jim! Ever changing and always subjective, the following picks have received universal praise and are considered the top of the series: DaP 5: 11/17/73 DaP 11: 11/17/72 DaP 13: 2/24/74 DaP 18: 7/17/76 DaP 21: 4/2/73 DaP 23: 1/22/78 Whereas the following seem to be near the bottom of the barrel (which still makes them good shows!) DaP 7: 4/24/78 DaP 20: 12/9/81 DaP 22: 12/7/71 The rest depends on your taste. As for me, I also really enjoy 7/31/74, 2/2/70, 11/4/77, 3/28/73, 7/19/74, 8/25/72, and the latest: 11/17/71. Maybe I'll post an updated personal ranking soon. Edit: I suppose Space is technically right when he calls the Thirty Trips Around The Sun set "Mostly 80's and 90's shows". But, he's still a misleading little instigator because we're talking 30 shows here, with 14/30 from the 60's and 70's and 16/30 from the 80's and 90's. That's a 47% to 53% ratio. Also, and there's no way to assess this, I would guess that most people who bought the box did so out of general love for the Dead, need for complete collections, or love for the early shows, rather than the fact that it was "mostly" 80s/90s shows. Judging by the secondary market pricing, the most popular shows on the set are from prior to 1980. Rhino even chose to release the 1967 and 1977 shows later as individual vinyl offerings. They didn't do that for most popular 80s shows (9/18/87 and 10/26/89). When I saw the box on sale, my first thought was: "WOW. 30 shows! A lot of them amazing! I NEED THIS!". My second thought was: "11/10/67...2/22/69...4/15/70...11/14/73...9/18/74...9/28/75...10/27/79....droool".

Oroborous, I have missed your comments. All ways liked your posts, I too, like the way you think. JiminMD, like the way you think too, you are Mr. Positive Vibes around here. Vguy, so sorry for your loss, I have been there, it is tough but you will get by, you will survive. I have found that it takes years to get over some losses, it's a hard and heavy road for most and only you can take that trip. It's like going down the road feeling bad, at first, it's a sad, unhappy place, "don't wanna be treated that way", then, as you go down that road, it gets better, more upbeat, happy, bad now means "bad, as in badass". "Going down the road, feeling BAD". Your sadness will lessen and only fond memories of friends and family that have shown you the light and helped you get down that road, now gone, but remembered with love will endure. Your set list sounded wonderful, you sent his soul off with a very colurful trail. There is so much to comment on here, gee, you go away for a couple of days and you miss so much. Too much to verify and comment on, but great posts by all of you. Thanks, I needed that. All I can say about this new pick is, thank you Dave, thank you.

How about Revolutionary Hamstrung Blues? It may not be the best, but its probably the rarest. In fact, its so rare, I haven't actually heard it. Whoops-double post.

Thanks for posting the video addresses Dennis.

How about Revolutionary Hamstrung Blues? It may not be the best, but its probably the rarest. In fact, its so rare, I haven't actually heard it.