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Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: The Complete Recordings Boxed Set
WHAT'S INSIDE:
6 Complete Shows On 19 Discs
• 6/22/73 P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C.
• 6/24/73 Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR
• 6/26/73 Seattle Center Arena, Seattle, WA
• 5/17/74 P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C.
• 5/19/74 Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR
• 5/21/74 Hec Edmundson Pavilion, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Mastered in HDCD from the original master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering
Masters transferred and restored by Plangent Processes
Original Art by First Nations Artist Roy Henry Vickers
Photos by Richie Pechner
Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 15,000
Includes an immediate digital download of "Eyes Of The World (P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada 5/17/74)"
"We were in the Pacific Northwest...between somewhere in Washington and some other where in Oregon. The road took us to the lip on a ridge, from where we could see around us for many miles in all directions … It was breathtaking to behold, but as we watched, we had a firm realization that we were witnessing something even more beautiful than our eyes could ever take in … Life causes life. Heaven and Earth dance in this way endlessly, and their child is the forest. And so there we were, epiphanously watching that grandest and most glorious dance of life—of which we are just a tiny part—awed by a magnificence without beginning, without end..."
Bob Weir, “Sell Headwaters—Everyone Wins,” San Francisco Chronicle
The Pacific Northwest offers up a rich feast of land, sky, and water. It is ripe with influences, abundant with symbols, deep and spirited. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that the Grateful Dead played some of their most inspired shows on these fertile grounds. It does, however, sometimes take a breath for the elements to re-align years later. It seems for us, they finally have and we are able to present not just a glimpse of the band's extraordinary exploratory tour through the region, but a two-tour bounty as the PACIFIC NORTHWEST ’73-’74: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS.
For PACIFIC NORTHWEST ’73-’74: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS, we've paired two short runs made up of six previously unreleased shows - P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, B.C. (6/22/73); Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR (6/24/73); Seattle Center Arena, Seattle, WA (6/26/73); P.N.E. Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada (5/17/74); Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR (5/19/74); and Hec Edmundson Pavilion, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (5/21/74). Each show has been mastered in HDCD from the original master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. The transfers from the masters were transferred and restored by Plangent Processes, further ensuring that this is the best, most authentic that these shows have ever sounded.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST ’73-’74: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS comes in an ornate box created by Canada’s preeminent First Nations artist Roy Henry Vickers (more on this tremendous artist soon). To complement the music, the set also includes a 64-page book with an in-depth essay by Grateful Dead scholar Nicholas G. Meriwether and photos by Richie Pechner.
Due September 7th, this release is limited to 15,000 individually numbered copies and available exclusively from dead.net. You'll want to grab a copy while you can and sit back, relax, and enjoy all the exclusive content we'll be rolling out over the next few weeks.
Looking for something a little more byte-sized? The collection will also be available for HD digital download in FLAC and ALAC, exclusively at dead.net, on release day. You can pre-order it now too.
Get it while you can.
Heat wave....
....just checked the national weather. Looks brutal out there. Stays hydrated people! At least it's 105 with 10% humidity here. Easy Peasy.
Sept 7th....
....not only is that the PNW release date, but I just found out Hot Tuna w/ Kimock are playing that day at the Vegas Brooklyn Bowl. 35 bucks.
Night Flight
The IFC Channel (Independent Film, I believe) has back episodes of the classic USA Network late-night staple, "Night Flight" available on my Comcast and maybe yours, too.
Back in the day before 10,000 channels and youtube, killer late-night music TV was a rare thing. Night Flight was so cool, the coolest, cooler than Mtv even. I miss the days of Mtv meaning something, I don't know why, maybe because everybody was watching. Like the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, you were part of a community and everybody had something to talk about later. A shared experience.
While some of those spam posts are annoying, I don't believe in censorship except in the most vile and extreme cases. I've said a bunch of really stupid shit on here, and they have never censored me.
Current listen: Joe Bonamassa's "Rock Candy Funk Party." Absolutely rippin'.
;-p
i used to dvr things on IFC
i used to dvr things on IFC until they started censoring things in Carrie and started putting commercials in the movies. ugh sucked I jumped off lol
Deleting spam is not censorship
The purpose of spam is to scam you. It’s not free speech.
Re: Mattbrown
Brewer.. I took your advice and scrolled through his posts very fast.. backwards. I swear it read pee on your box sets at exactly 3:00 am.
Reading so fast backwards is making me sleepy..
...Butch said, "I didn't realize how different they had become by November." I thought the same thing except my words were... I didn't realize how different they had become by the weekend. yes the recording is a bit.. well... it's one hot show.
Finally, great to see another classic brought up again today also.. 10/18/73. A fine and dandy show. One of my all time favorites also.
Ok.. just finished a half a watermelon and had a thirst that only went away after drinking three quarts of water. Very sleep now... Must sleep.. no time to brush teeth, out...…....
Happy Canada Day!
No real Grateful Dead content here, but I'm just honouring our neighbours to the North, Canada.Happy Canada Day to Dave Lemieux who does a great job here at dead.net. Happy Canada Day to any and all Dead Heads who regularly / semi-regularly here.
I am a citizen of the United States of America.
Wowzers!!....
....Dark Star->El Paso->Dark Star-St. Stephen->The Eleven-Drumz->Space->Morning Dew->Lovelight. Dead & Co's second set last night. Also, Happy Anniversary to Arrowhead '78. I know what I'm playing today. Again.
sorry for the temporary pollution
The enthusiastic Mr. Brown will trouble us no more, at least under that name... Moving right along...
Re: To the rescue
I'd like to think there's a special place in purgatory for spammers and hackers here.. like a sterile, padded white room where they play nothing but Captain and Tennille 24/7. On holidays, special occasions perhaps some Milli Vanilli, Backstreet Boys and Justin Bieber just because deadheads have a heart.
Thanks MaryE.
The band said Arrowhead was....
....the hottest show they ever played (even Vegas?). If you want the full experience, crank it up, go outside, and bust out the Slip N Slide....
Slip N Slides
You should see the slip n slides they make now. My ex gf (who still lives here with her 10 year old son.. long story..) has these birthday parties for her son every year.
The first year was totally disorganized and a total disaster.. kids and parents showed up.. the them was soccer, it started thunder storming at exactly the same time it thunder storms on summer days. She frantically starts screaming.. Jim, find something for them to do.
The next year we started down the water sports rabbit hole.. a big, I mean big $99 kiddie pool saved the day as It was Vegas hot.. the next year I bought a mega, mountain sized slip n slide and we still had the monster kiddie pool. It was like having a small water park in the back yard.. but it's a lot of work and I had buy a compressor to blow all these damned things up. Still, they have a blowout and my main concern is that no one breaks a leg or dislocates a shoulder. 10 year old's play hard and play for keeps.
I wish they had slip and slides like this when I was young.
Sorry for the diversion.. has absolutely nothing to do with the GD except that its almost all I listen to when he's in the car/truck with me and when I stream shows I always invite him to watch with.. he knows several songs by name. My goal is by next year he can name more songs as they play then Sixtus' son. Game on Woodstock.
Edit: This slip n slide has steps and takes a solid half hour to fill up using a compressor, the inflated ramp is a good four and a half feet high and I set it up on a big slope to begin with. Slip n slides on acid on a hot day would be mega fun. Just saying.. the kiddies sure dig it, his parties have become legendary. My main concern is that no one breaks a leg or dislocates their shoulders. It's like a big, wet, kiddie mosh pit as they barrel down this hill three or four at a time with reckless abandonment.
Sorry. back to your regularly scheduled, hot summer day GD rainout memories or whatever else we talk about on these threads.
Don't forget water balloons and Super Soakers....
....and sunblock. Apply ever hour or you will be sorry. I love the heat. Just picked some jalapeno peppers from our garden. The tomatoes are suffering though. They look so sad. Recent DP 16 talk made me bust it out. The best thing about the Grateful Dead? You actually get like 8 (11?) bands in one package. You know what I mean.
GD rainouts....
....never experienced one. Got close during a Vegas '92 show. A storm cell was moving in during set break. We were on the floor. I saw it coming. Told the group we should move up the bowl to the higher seats. Seeing as how we were all glassy eyed, it required little convincing. Another cell was coming from the south. Lighting strikes everywhere. They met maybe two miles to the west, then opened up a deluge all around us during drumz/space. Heard some heads were leaning against a chain link fence and got the after effects. I also recall seeing a triple rainbow before a Phish show in Park City in '98(?). They tuned up Somewhere Over The Rainbow prior to the first set. Hahahaaaaaaa....fuck yeah. I need a riding time machine mower. But the waiting list is in the future. Stupid time.
World Cup update....
....an intruder tried to interrupt a Red Square military parade.https://gfycat.com/VastSpiritedGuineapig
....there is hope for our world. Russians are bad. At least that's what we're spoonfed. It's mainstream, therefore true! rant over.
I’m on board with Arrowhead
Probably should crack a beer too.Spent a few hours at the pool today, sunny and mid 90’s. No slip n slide though.
Then rode my bike.
Now hiding out in the AC and just started 7-1-78. Sound quality is superb. Can’t believe that the box hasn’t sold out.
GD rainouts
6-22-91 was cold (like high 50’s) and cloudy with rain in the area but I don’t recall it raining on the stadium.
Soldier Field 93 first night it rained during Drums/Space. It was my girlfriend’s second show and I made her sit through Space in the rain. :)
6-8-93 (said girlfriend’s first show) was indoors but there were thunderstorms. Had to pull into a rest area to ride out a severe storm on the drive after the show.
At least I never got a snowout like happened in spring 93.
Biers=Beers....
....soccer=football. Dead=Majestic. I'm learning on the fly.
Modesto
I've never been there, but at least one cool thing has happened there.
https://themidnightcafe.org/2017/09/11/repost-bonanza-grateful-dead-mod…
This was one of the first shows that got me on the bus. It might have been the guy in the front seat waving to me . . ."C'mon man, get in. You'll like it, trust me." I remember hearing it on Sirius one night, after an inappropriate amount of indulgences, and WOW. I really didn't know much about the Dead other than hearing a couple of the albums, and that lots of people out there thought they were the greatest thing ever. For the first time, I started to understand why.
I listened to a lot of the Grateful Dead channel for about a year after that, and then started hanging out here and buying Dave's Picks and box sets and, well . . . you know the rest.
I bring this all up because I heard this show, again yesterday, on Sirius, while me and Mrs. Deadguy were driving down to visit some friends. It's still really good. Maybe not quite Fillmore West 69 box good, but really good. Fun to hear it again, with so much more perspective and context.
1970
With the monster Pacific Northwest BOX due in September---and I've done my share of back-flips in my mind's eye over that one--I'm itching for news on the next davepick.....anyone else out there hoping for a 1970 show? Spring, Summer, Fall.....DARK STAR?!?!
PIGPEN wants to be heard
"C'mon man, get in. You'll like it, trust me."....
....that's what my friend told me when he put on E72 for the first time! Then In The Dark came out. We needed a bigger bus. Awesome and never a regret. Blew a lot of money and brain cells, but I'm still here.
Don't nobody catch cold out there
Weir's quip before Terrapin at Arrow-oven-baked-deadicated-head Stadium ... man!I've been in full-pads for two-a-days, run marathons in the'80's, blah, blah - never have I been as hot as on 7/01/78, my first GOGD show. We were in the sweet spot, straight back and too high. I made a recording with a little cassette player on a 120-minute cassette. I always thought the show was meh, until I heard the box version and then was pleased that I'd at least been there. I wonder what the weather was like 7/08? lol
Slip N Slide music....
....The Beastie Boys fit in nicely. Think about it. My new dog likes them. Whodathunk?https://youtu.be/5x5NCDYB1Lc
Feelin' like a dunce!
Didn't realize the party had moved over here! 10 days until Albuquerque and 12 days until Boulder!
Gonna be a long, long crazy, crazy week!
Firing up the charcoal.....
....Jack Straw from Wichita, cut his buddy down. Arrowhead delivers the goods. Smokin'.
Some random responses
@Cross Eyed - one the best 4th of July fireworks shows I ever saw was Canada Day in Victoria on July 1 a few years ago. Walked from a late dinner at a bar a few blocks down to the waterfront near dark as it was starting. Non-stop fury, with a bunch of lovely Canadians walking around in their red shirts having a great time. Those works measured up to anything I've seen in the US over the years. Props to Canada, that country knows how to run their joint, both on Canada Day and otherwise.
@Jim slip and slides - we always set one of these up in my childhood backyard in the summer where we had a moderate hill to work it on. Ours was just a thin sheet of yellow plastic, just unroll it and hose it down, and you took your chances that there weren't any sharp rocks under it as you whaled down the hill. Easy cheap thrills when you're a kid.
@Roguedeadguy - I guess the biggest thing to come out of Modesto was George Lucas who based his debut American Graffiti on memories of his younger days there IIRC. He made the wise move to get out of there and onto Lucas Valley Road in the countryside west of San Rafael where he set up the Skywalker Ranch. There's a great trail up into the Marin hills above that where you can look down onto the ranch, and then climb higher for a 360 degree view of one of the most serene spots in the country. He chose well.
Listening to E72 vol 2 right now. Not usually a huge fan of Greatest Story, but that version from Olympia Theater is hot. I never minded the compilations the way some do, so this release works for me, mixed in with my selection of various full E72 shows.
Best Venues for Grateful Dead Shows played 100% in the Rain
- Saratoga Springs 83
- Merriweather Post Pavilion 83,84,85?
- Red Rocks 85
- TBA
Thank You Willie Nelson
To have invited the Dead to play at your gig 40 years ago in Kansas City. 7/1/78 rocks out. Short but sweet.
Let me leave you dear readers with an old Taos proverb;
" Just like a rolling stone, too stoned to roll, better use my bowl".
S. Hammer
Hammer quote....
.... pretty big name in Northern New Mexico strider. My second home. I rock one of those white oval stickers on the back of my Jeep. Taos. I played with some Hammer kids back when I was a kid. Small world.
Investing in Europe '72
In anticipation of the Northwest Pacific box, I think I burned out 73 and 74 shows, probably listen to everyone I own about 5 times each at this point since the announcement. So now I'm working on 1972. I just bought some Europe 72 on eBay, decent prices. There are some shows that seem to consistently run more than others, but generally they're not too bad, not as high as old Dave's Picks. And the original Road Trips have come down since Real Gone started re-releasing them. But anyways these Europe 72 are so consistenty good. I find in choosing the only thing that is really important in choosing is the setlist. I almost done understand how they did it. How they managed to sound like the whole tour was recorded in the studio. Not just a good sound I get all that the 16 track tapes and everything but they still had to sing and play well. I've been involved in the choral aspect of music for many years and they sound just magnificent. Ironically the songs that are overdubbed for the original record are the ones that sound the least authentic.
Glad I could entertain a couple people with the air conditioning story. Slow dog noodle you probably weren't impressed because I forgot to mention that listening to the Dead is the only thing that kept me from divorcing the encroacher ;-) The Dead heals.
Butch
Funny air conditioning story - I can relate.
You caught my attention with your comments on Dick's Picks 16. This was one of the first that I picked up early in my Grateful Dead explorations. There was a while when Uncle John's Band Jam was in every Grateful Dead mix I made. I'm listening to the Dark Storm medley right now, thanks for the reminder. Flow or a couple links about bear. You can get some insight into his recording process and participation here. I'm driving so I couldn't search too much but I know one of the album liner notes possibly, or maybe it's just another article gets into a lot more depth about how he recorded stuff and what his goals were for the sound. But these links are good start if you're interested in that sort of thing.
http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2010/07/bear-at-board.html?m=1
http://www.thebear.org/albums.html
marye, thanks for taking care of mattbrown - nice to know there's someone keeping the street safe here :D
Vguy world cup update
reminded me of that Dylan song Jerry did,,,, Tangled Up in Balls
slip n slide came out in '74
slip n slide came out in '74
no it wasn't I could've sworn they said it did on vh1's I Love the 70's
finally decided to pull the trigger.
why?
50% for the 3 "ship of fools".
50% for the cool box it comes in.
***please don't dent the box during shipping!***
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I tried to find fault in PFox's logic....
....but I can't. Especially the last caveat. The powers that be do glance over these posts. I'm proof....
Glancing Over These Posts
Surely they must think we are insane.
I heard somebody clamoring for a Dancing in the Streets tonight.. It's a disco dancing at the Shoreline! I bet they get a help/slip/franklins too.. either tonight or tomorrow.
Music.. sweet music...
Synchronous Dancin'
Heard the original Vandellas version of Dancin' today in a restaurant.
Synchronicity much?
Mayer is Dead to Me!
If I Had The World To Give
I'd give it to you.
Slow paced or whatever.. freaking fantastic.. way to go Oteil and John. What a great song.
Never understood why Jerry dropped that one. Just three performances all in the fall/winter '78.
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