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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.

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  • #2201
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    Hold on hendrixfreak....
    ....I need to make some more popcorn and mescaline.
  • #2202
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    Noon-ish is not the best time to catch a full-blown show.....
    My memory has clearly telescoped events, because I almost think I remember rolling over in my sleeping bag and, for breakfast, snorting a pile of 'chocolate' mescaline off one of those mini-cereal boxes. I definitely took some blotter. But even if we'd 'slept in,' it must of been 10-ish or something. Surely we'd had some water and a snack, probably provided by a merciful neighbor. We were still 15 and we looked like what we were: goddamm-near children! Ah, so I was saying, we dropped acid and snorted mescaline and fired up the pipe with Numero Uno and, hey, is that freakin' Jerry on stage? Wait, Bobby. Phil. Bill. The piano guy. Jer kept dipping his cigarette into a brass ashtray and, when he re-lit it, it flared up. I didn't hit the blow til '75 but later, I thought, freebase. I hope someone can clarify this, but I think I recall the band starting just a bit after NOON(!). As far as I was concerned at the time, they fucking rocked the place for hours. I do recall, as I often feel, feeling goofy about a camera while tripping. But I managed to snap off three shots, of which two survive, which catch the three guitarists blasting away on Playing in the Band, then turning towards each other to converse more intimately, finally arriving in a tight circle and sending tides of sound across the crowd. I think this was the time I experienced Phil's bass as physical, purple pulses in my chest and the realization that vibrations, rather than corporeal reality, were at the heart of existence. I clearly remember the gospel treatment at the end of He's Gone and at the end of Sugar Mag, Weir thrust his arm skyward for stop time, ran back to his amps, downed the rest of a Heineken and raced back to the mic for the coda. Still, I was 15, down front at one of the biggest gatherings of humans in history. I did look back over the crowd, but, as usual, there wasn't much profit in looking back. Not with the Grateful Dead killing it in front of me.
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    The Soundcheck
    The Allmans rocked big time. They'd slayed us at RFK after the Dead when, exhausted and dehydrated, we had retreated to the shaded overhang of RFK and been simply psychedelically rolled over by the ABB. They smoked the Dead that day. Back to the Soundcheck. I got up and hiked around the scene while it was still afternoon. A very loose scene with lots of elbow room, cool air, breathing. I returned to our space, easily located, for The Band. It was nearly sunset when the Grateful Dead took the stage. We had all the room we needed. I started the soundcheck boogie-ing upright, shakin it to the rock 'n roll. I had snorted some mescaline and taken maybe a half tab of the blotter. Everyone knew this was unprecedented in GD history. Here we were, groovin' on a cool pine forest evening, high but not pressed and our favorite band was blasting away on the finest sound system we'd ever heard. I do not recall individual songs, just the transition between comprehensible songs and jams that had us smiling for reasons we knew not. [Beautiful Jam from So Many Roads is blasting in the background as I write these words.] I do clearly recall the feeling of complete ease as I nestled down into my sleeping bag, head on cool gallon jug, looking up at the band just jamming away. We rode it out after the band departed and the next thing we knew, it was morning and the crowd was bustling, hustling, and by noon it was show time all over again.
  • #2204
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    Hendrixfreak
    I hope you are writing these in a word processing program and saving them.You probably should combine your memories and pictures and put it out on the internets where it will hopefully be forever preserved. Maybe upload the final version to the archive someday.
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    Any headphone listeners out there? Or maybe you don't need them. I find the bass on this GSTL recording overwhelming. Bertha and Help On the Way are good places to start. I don't get the same thing with the SB I have if this show. I think Jeff Norman boosted it somehow. Anyone else notice it? Garyfarseer - what kind of medicine?
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    The greatest missed show on Earth
    Long story shrunk to size... We had to get home on 10 June 1973 because we were exhausted, dehydrated, broke, without tickets, food, water, anything, so we thumbed back and tried to blend into humanity. I was 15. I lived with my parents, of course, and they needed to see some evidence that I was alive. They never even said a word about my setting out for a multi=day excursion in jeans and a t-shirt. We just did it. We heard the 10 June show was smokin' and we were pissed. We were NOT going to be caught short like that again. No effin' way. So when the news broke of a show with all three of the greatest rock bands of that time -- the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers and The Band -- we were on it like white on rice. Tickets cost $10.50? We had 'em. And we'd just seen the Allmans at Madison Square Garden in, May? I smuggled in a bong. A young cop caught me. An older cop said, "Let him go. It's a bong. Don't worry about it." Jesus, this whole law enforcement thing was confusing! But my view was broadening... Late July 1973. The older brother of a hot schoolmate of ours was driving to Watkins Glen. We signed on. Me, Mark L, David W, and a few others. We brought our backpacks. We had a little food. A shit-ton of Numero Uno. No alcohol. I had a sheet of blotter. Someone's adept use of the map enabled us to skirt around the worst of the traffic and we actually accessed the grounds in fine fashion, probably 12 hrs ahead of the hoo-ska-boo that eventually developed. The van's inhabitants split into units and we never saw our driver-host again, until a week later, just before the 31 July - 1 August shows back at Roosevelt Stadium. (Biggies, waiting for release...) So we hike over to the "gate," passing food trucks that specialized in big scoops of weed. We snickered, fully equipped. We were still 15. We entered the gates around midday and for some reason no one took my ticket, so I immediately doubled back to the chain link fence and passed my whole ticket to a have-not. Instinct, communal instinct. Later, my parents said that friends of theirs in Europe had seen footage that included my entrance into the concert site. The stage was perhaps 2/3 of a mile away. As we walked down the gently sloping hill towards the stage it was obvious we were a bit early. In earlier shows we were leery of getting too close because of the physical crush, the volume and the collective high that sometimes ... got a bit hairy. But fresh off missing 10 June, we marched down and claimed a beautiful space about 20 yards from the stage, just a bit left of center. On our way, we'd grabbed a few one-gallon water jugs that were set out free by Bill Graham in response to the scene at RFK in DC 6 weeks earlier. I found myself high on mescaline, laying on my sleeping bag with my head resting on a cool one-gallon jug of potable water and passing a doobie when the crowd sputtered and roared. It was late afternoon and the Allman Brothers had just taken the stage.
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    Throughout the fall of 1972 and through the winter-spring of 1973 I had ingested numerous psychedelics, including the wonderful agent known as mescaline and naturally a few substantial doses of the Lady Herself. At one point, with my buddy Moose, we were sitting atop a van-sized boulder in a 2,000 acre wooded preserve near home and we focused on the visual margin between the rock beneath us and the ground in the background and felt that we had lifted the boulder upon which we sat perhaps several inches into the air, then lowered it again to its natural resting place. But I digress... June 1973 and me and David W are hitching to RFK in DC about 200 miles away for the 9-10 June 1973 shows. It's summer. So obviously we go in t-shirts, jeans, sneakers, with a ticket and few single dollars/dead presidents in my pocket. Next to the sheet of oval 4-way blotter. A little smokum in the sock, in case we got stopped. Look, we're 15, okay? 16 was months away. We were just up for adventure, loud rock 'n roll and, um, a closer look at the scene. I remember that some of the serious traveling hippies with LSD-dead eyes were there selling pipes, but also passing them around. We had long hair but we were little kids! These folks looked 50 but were probably 20, i.e., impossibly old, grizzled and of unknown origin. But no one actually bothered us, nor was there any attention. Everyone treated us as adults. So we slept on the ground on the grassy parts outside the stadium that night. No water, no food, no equipment. The next day, temperatures climbed towards 100. We were smoking a joint by the grate that blocked one entrance and a black cop motioned us over. We approached cautiously. "Hand me some of that, will you?" he asked. "WHAAAT???" was our initial reaction, having already experienced the pleasure of being cuffed and harassed by the cops for having a beer in the park. Turned out, cops can be cool, too. We burned two with the cat and we bid each other a good day. He was clearly amused by the scene, but in a groovy way. This was 1973 and racism and violence over the Vietnam War made longhairs outcasts, just like minorities of every stripe, then and now. Short story long, me and David split a 4-way and the Dead played that afternoon, opening for the ABB that night. The lines for water were long. We survived on The Lady, a little water and some "Numero Uno" substance we thought was hash but turned out to be opium. Worked for us that day, though, the heat was excruciating and I'm sure a lot of folks needed help in the heat. I got up close for Chinacat at the end of the first set. I was mesmerized. Bobby played a Gibson SG, which in my mind meant "bass guitar." Phil was playing a big possibly semi-hollowbody bass that said to my untutored eyes, "rhythm guitar." But I was already a huge Phil fan (being a Jer fan was too obvious) and this had me confused. At some point some idiot hurled a lit M-80 onto the stage (June 9, right? obviously in close proximity to July 4??) and it rolled up to Jer. In that day, he had a stage mannerism of sort of shuffling in place and I saw him move his right foot forward in perfect time and using the tip of his cowboy boot sent the live M-80 back out over the crowd. I don't even recall hearing it explode. The music was pretty loud.
  • #2208
    icecrmcnkd
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    Nice warmup HF
    Patiently waiting for the grand finale....
  • #2209
    hendrixfreak
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    Backstory and launch....
    The briefest of backstories: Six years old in 1964, persuaded my mom to buy me a Beatles LP at the checkout counter of the local discount store. Played it on monaural phonograph with one 12" speaker output. Rocked as child. 13 years old in 1970, convince mom to drive me and a friend to a Chambers Bros concert. We dug the music but were too young for 'action.' 15 years old, summer of '72, catch The Byrds and New York Rock 'n Roll Ensemble at college outside Saugerties NY where The Band rec'd Big Pink five years earlier. We drove by Big Pink. (Still Pink.) We were 15. (An older brother was actually driving...) Since 1971, been spinning American Beauty and Skull & Roses LPs on the same phonograph as in 1964, only now it's in the basement where our ping-pong table and hang-out couch are located. 19 Sept 1972, I jump in a car full of older heads with an ounce of hash in my pocket, 33 days after my 15th birthday, and we proceed to the Roosevelt Stadium in lovely Jersey City, New Jersey, and catch my first Grateful Dead show. I had already been 'experienced,' but did not drop at this show; too chaotic, large crowd, determined to survive and catch my ride home. I listened for familiar songs, jams, anything -- nothing! Everything was different. Records, shme-cords. This scene was crazy. Maybe 10,000 people screamin' high groovin', freakin', dancin', gyratin', handing you things you knew best to pass along... I was alone in the giant crowd with the music louder but sweeter than anything I'd ever heard before. The music rocked, I just couldn't grab onto a big Jerry jabbin' guitar riff that would remind me of Skull & Roses. Obviously, this was no American Beauty. As Jer once said, recording in a studio is like building a ship in a bottle. Playing live is like being on the ocean in an open rowboat. And that's kinda how I felt -- out there, surfin', knew I'd have to get home ... 3 hours into the show, I do remember saying to myself, "Well, all righty then, damn good show, YOU CAN STOP PLAYING ANYTIME, I'M GOOD. GOTTA GET SOME REST... MUST SNAG RIDE HOME..." Part II, coming ...
  • #2210
    icecrmcnkd
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    Thanks dmcvt
    The photos of the stage show how high it was. Need safety railings to keep the musicians from falling off.
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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.

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sat, 06/30/2018 - 11:02

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....just checked the national weather. Looks brutal out there. Stays hydrated people! At least it's 105 with 10% humidity here. Easy Peasy.
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sat, 06/30/2018 - 13:01

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....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.
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Submitted by LedDed on Sat, 06/30/2018 - 14:33

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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
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Submitted by Slow Dog Noodle on Sat, 06/30/2018 - 14:48

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Not sure what that has to do with the dead. Sounds like you just needed to.....vent?
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Submitted by Terrapin Moon on Sat, 06/30/2018 - 15:38

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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
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Submitted by Erikandjenn on Sat, 06/30/2018 - 17:47

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I immediately turned on Night Flight!
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Submitted by Deadheadbrewer on Sat, 06/30/2018 - 19:26

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If you scroll through it really fast backwards, it reads, "DaP 27 is a compilation of the best sounding boards from 1968".
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Submitted by JimInMD on Sat, 06/30/2018 - 21:45

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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...…....
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Submitted by MilesM on Sat, 06/30/2018 - 22:35

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You’re post had me laughing hysterically. Same thing here in Ohio sweltering heat. I can’t get no relief.
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Submitted by Born Cross Eye… on Sun, 07/01/2018 - 08:39

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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.
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sun, 07/01/2018 - 09:27

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....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.
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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.
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sun, 07/01/2018 - 13:18

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....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....
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Submitted by JimInMD on Sun, 07/01/2018 - 13:47

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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.
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sun, 07/01/2018 - 13:42

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....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.
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sun, 07/01/2018 - 13:55

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....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.
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Submitted by icecrmcnkd on Sun, 07/01/2018 - 14:01

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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.
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Submitted by simonrob on Sun, 07/01/2018 - 14:08

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Hot weekend, endless sunshine, lotsa football and a box full of various Belgian biers in the fridge. What could possibly go wrong? (Hint: Nothing went wrong). Bah, work tomorrow.
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Submitted by icecrmcnkd on Sun, 07/01/2018 - 14:15

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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.
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sun, 07/01/2018 - 14:15

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....soccer=football. Dead=Majestic. I'm learning on the fly.
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Submitted by Roguedeadguy on Sun, 07/01/2018 - 14:15

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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.
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Submitted by JackstrawJay on Sun, 07/01/2018 - 14:23

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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
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sun, 07/01/2018 - 14:24

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....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.
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Submitted by Deadicated on Sun, 07/01/2018 - 14:46

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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
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Submitted by cosmicdavid on Sun, 07/01/2018 - 15:21

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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!
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sun, 07/01/2018 - 16:15

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....Jack Straw from Wichita, cut his buddy down. Arrowhead delivers the goods. Smokin'.
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Submitted by frosted on Sun, 07/01/2018 - 16:53

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@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.
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Submitted by Strider 808808 on Sun, 07/01/2018 - 18:10

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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
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Submitted by JimInMD on Sun, 07/01/2018 - 18:38

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I made it halfway through this show today running errands and grabbing a bite. Hot.. both outside and inside. Can't wait to finish it off tomorrow.
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Submitted by Vguy72 on Sun, 07/01/2018 - 19:48

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.... 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.
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Submitted by Butch on Mon, 07/02/2018 - 04:38

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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.
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Submitted by KeithFan2112 on Mon, 07/02/2018 - 06:55

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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
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Submitted by kyleharmon on Mon, 07/02/2018 - 13:02

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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
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Submitted by PatagonianFox on Mon, 07/02/2018 - 17:57

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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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Submitted by JimInMD on Mon, 07/02/2018 - 18:28

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That's the spirit.
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Submitted by JimInMD on Mon, 07/02/2018 - 19:42

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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...
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Submitted by Guss West on Mon, 07/02/2018 - 19:48

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Heard the original Vandellas version of Dancin' today in a restaurant. Synchronicity much? Mayer is Dead to Me!
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Submitted by JimInMD on Mon, 07/02/2018 - 20:13

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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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