Grateful Dead

Sitting in the car instead of going into my apartment. On drive home from work my iPod (on shuffle) coughed up the 12/5/71 Dark Star (inc Me And My Uncle & Sittin On Top Of The World). Can't stop the music until this majestic creature goes to bed!Picked up my DaP26 before work. Was able to glance at the essay. Enjoyed the explanation of why this show is being released now. Mollified my "Era" issues and gave insight into "how the sausage is made". But now that ShuffleFate has left me freshly-supped on that divine Dark Star, will these two Other Ones really impress me? Gonna try to hear all of 11/17 tonight... I generally don't care about the numbers, but getting number 18000 sounds pretty cool! (13902 for me)

....they're just numbers, but I'll play. Dave's 2 #2834. Dave's 6 #2062. Dave's 10 #3877. Dave's 14 #9357. Dave's 18 #6850. Dave's 22 #1369. Dave's 26 #13318. What is considered a low number anyway? FOR SCIENCE!! Some of my most prized possessions btw....

My first show.

About a year ago we were getting anxious and hot'n bothered about the release of the of "Get Shown The Light, May 1977" box. Four fantastic shows that were fan favorites for years. Some folks got lucky with early delivery of the box, while others got the box on time, and sadly there were some had to wait for a later delivery.The original edition sold out very quickly and an "all-music-edition" was made available for the price of the original edition, sans a book and more fancy packaging, which is still available from dead.net. Thanks to wissinomingdeadhead for the May 1 prompt. Or it is May Day (May 1st)

Landfall here in western Michigan. Limited Edition No…. (hmmm, had that number written down I thought….recall a 5 and a 1, or a 1 and a 5, something along those lines…). Any event, after a dinner bowl of Indian Pulao, popped the bonus disc into the hatchback along with a 30” reissued Steve Cabellero skateboard to head out and land surf a local trail network. Saw a green heron, few wood ducks, either a hawk or an eagle soaring through the lakeside tree tops. At the final downhill, hit one of those transition points that drops into irreversible commitment, Cryptical>The Other One then perfectly on cue for the ride home. Exactly what it’s like. And oh yeah, this was the first day in 200 to comfortably hurdle the 70 degree mark. Magnolias now thick with fragrance. Yup, what we do with this wonderful music is just as important as the music itself.

1977

Yes, it's real, happens to me all the time as well. I keep wondering, what the hell does this mean - what is this a sign of? Just keep to the path, I guess. Oh, and it's "Albucrappy." \m/

I can't help chiming in when the jam from 10/31/71 comes up - this jam sounds exactly like the song Soulful Strut by Young-Holt Unlimited released in 1968. While it is commonly referred to as the Tighten Up Jam, in reference to the song Tighten Up by Archie Bell and the Drells released originally in 1967, I am pretty sure if you actually listen to Tighten Up, Soulful Strut and the 10/31/71 Jam back to back it will be clear that the source of the jam is Soulful Strut. Give a listen, Soulful Strut is a great tune, really a beautiful instrumental song.

The first pressed CD (mass produced CD’s are pressed, just like vinyl, but on a thin film of metal instead of vinyl - they are not burned) would be #1, and it would be dropped onto a spindle. #2 would be dropped on top of it, and so forth until the last spindle would have #18,000 on the top.The numbers are printed on the cardboard CD holder. If a box of cardboard CD holders was opened and cardboard CD holder #1 was taken out and then filled with the CD on top of the spindle, then CD 18,000 would be in cardboard CD holder #1. But since there would be multiple spindles to choose from, and multiple boxes of cardboard CD holders, and each holder has 3 CD’s, it’s highly unlikely that the production number of each CD is going to match the number printed on the cardboard CD holder. I subscribed and also ordered an ala carte copy because I was moving and wasn’t sure if the subscription would reach the new address. Fortunately, both made it. Subscription w/ bonus disc #17036 Ala carte #2115. Thus, it would appear that #18,000 was combined with a bonus disc and the two were shrink wrapped. This process then worked towards lower numbers until all the bonus discs were shrink wrapped with a DaP26. But, since there were probably pallets of boxes of DaP26’s, the workers who were running the shrink wrapping machine probably just grabbed random boxes off the pallet and loaded the DaP26’s into the machine without giving any thought to the number printed on the back of the cardboard CD holder. So, what’s the lowest # someone got along with a bonus disc?

...one of my favorite picks from the whole series! 1968 greatness.