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3 Dylan covers in one show. the most I seen in one show. and I'm not counting the Dylan & The Dead tour.

NO! no meth clubs! they'd just smell like cat pee (ammonia)

"I honestly rarely get political in here but i definitely think Math Clubs in schools should be more encouraged and properly funded than any sports program." Honestly I first read this as Meth Clubs. Come to think of it that would explain some people's posting behaviors on message boards. Now where's the damn Anthem 50th?

For 25 i read the venue only held roughly 7K, so yeah do the Math. You are either inside the gate or outside the gate. The venue can only hold so many. If the show sells out and you missed out, you snoozed. That's life. That's reality. Dave's Picks is obviously very successful. Here's to a successful business model that funds many good paying jobs and funds many more high quality GoGD archival releases!

....this Truckin' is insane. Can I buy eight? No? :(

I honestly rarely get political in here but i definitely think Math Clubs in schools should be more encouraged and properly funded than any sports program. people who can do math really well can actually solve world problems with it. can a professional athlete say the same? no probly not. and this is coming from someone who does not excel at math. you're in math club? what a loser! no that person isn't they are probly well on their way to get a great job cuz they are awesome at math while you will probly later in life struggle to make your dinner cuz you suck at math and beat rocks together like that caveman you are lmao. this isn't directed at anyone in here. just that math was brought up.

This is all gravy. Not every release is as good as we would want it to be, but some of them are just incredible. As someone who got started as a young teen collecting tapes in the early eighties before cds were even on the market, some of these releases take my breath away. The Dead's music has provided me with so much happiness in my life and to be able experience so many other shows that we could not see live, is just amazing. I miss seeing the band, I miss Jerry, but these releases bring back so many good memories of this great experience, just enjoy them!

As a constant reader of these threads and someone who has previously expressed vehement opinions about both GDM product re-selling and Dave/GDM's 70s fixation, I want to chip in here. I rarely comment these days but "dreading"'s testimony and some responses to it got me wanting to speak. I thank "dreading" for his post. Testimony/data is always good when people are forming opinions. Too often small amounts of information feed people's emotions and their opinions form primarily from the emotions. I have mixed feelings about reselling and I want to hear more from the resellers. JimInMD summarized my feelings about the 30Trips release perfectly. I opted out on buying 30T but 15 shows called my name day after day, night after night. I have bought 11 of them from resellers over the last several years. Most of them I bought from one Ebay-er after we discovered we lived only 7 blocks apart. Some of the shows I want are just too expensive at current secondary market prices for MY wallet (75, 79, 84, 85). The removal of 10 boxes from the primary market does rub me the wrong way. Yet I personally experienced how that fed the single-show secondary market. More wrong or more right? Or just both? I just can't make that call. His points about release choices being driven by past market behavior carries authority from his stated involvement in music retail. It would be nice to see more numerical data rather than generalized observations, but his statements are still useful. I do believe that 60s/70s has better sell-through than 80s/90s. As a proponent of releasing more 80s/90s, I hope to hear testimony refuting my belief and supporting my wishes, but I am glad to just get more reality/experience-based information. The ultimate information source on this issue is GDM. Anything you want to tell us GDM? Hello GDM? Please don't go silent again "dreading". You may get some anger directed your way but we are all just typing here. Your information is much appreciated. We get very little information here while our feelings fester... Oh, and 5/23/82 "hard to listen to"??? Really!!! It sounds bloody perfect and is a great show. The 5/21,22,23/82 box set is overdue! Carry on people.

.... plenty of room for some Canadian philler. Go stealth mode Dave. Do it....and why is the entire online world so damn sensitive these days? A side effect, I guess, of being an anonymous bitcher. Technology is cool sometimes, but most of the time, it's frustrating. Go smoke a bowl. And if you don't want to converse with JiminMd, Mr. White, then why did you waste your precious time doing it? Go crunch some numbers.

Not sure why it offends your sensibilities that much to be loose with a description of how the tapes were attained. You admit a deal was struck and some form of monetary compensation for the return of the tapes, presumably through royalties or a straight percentage, either way, sounds like a quacking purchase to me. It may be whatever they needed to call it to avoid saying they bought the tapes, but a financial deal with ABCD seems to be in place and the source of our rich bounty of the last couple years. I call that a bargain, the best I ever had.