Grateful Dead

After giving this a couple of listens I can say that I'm glad to have it. The sound is not as good as some of the other official releases but it didn't bother me too much to enjoy the show. If I want to listen to perfectly recorded music I can spin some Steely Dan or some other impeccably recorded studio masterpieces. When I listen to live dead recorded decades ago I accept that the recording quality is not going to be perfect. This show is a snapshot of the band at a time when the impact of some lifestyle choices were probably starting to catch up to various members of the band and they sound different than in earlier years. But I like '80s dead, that was when I saw most of my shows and when I first acquired some often sketchy sounding early '80's live recordings on cassette ( and was glad to get them). This release sounds better than all of my cassettes (except my cassette of 8/13/75 which was pristine and included an extended intro by Bill Graham not included on the official release). The point being that while the sound quality is clearly not perfect, it is not so bad as to limit my enjoyment of the show. I don't think that I would like the dead so much if it weren't for diversity in sound over the years, and I am glad to get a listen to as much as possible. So far, I have been happy with Dave's choices for these releases, and I am guessing the trend will continue.

Europe 72 was overdubbed. http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-europe-72-overdubs-guest-pos…

Take Veneta or any of the Europe 72s or whatever you consider an excellent recording, assign a number to it from 1-10 and then assign a relative number to DaP 27. (But really this exercise was for dilbert)

If you recall, and if you don’t go back to the original page for the posts, many people hate the excessive reverb added to 5-8-77. A lot of people were actually pissed off at the sound quality of that release.It’s very unrealistic. Remember that Betty had a separate feed and adjusted the signal before recording. Betty was not in the arena, but was in a make shift studio, whether it be backstage or downstairs.

The audio of this show is just awful. Is this your first non-cassette release? Tell me, on a scale of 1 -10 where does something like Cornell 77 rank. And then how about this Boise show?

Anyone else notice that printed on the plastic wrap in light blue ink right below the bar code it said ‘Disc Made in Mexico’?Seems that production is back up and running. Hopefully they resolved their QC issues.

This isn’t the first time that ‘sold out’ shows reappeared. Happened with several Eur72 shows. Also, I previously received a replacement DaP due to defective discs and it was a numbered copy even though it had ‘sold out’. And, recently there was an eBay seller with unnumbered DaPs that were surplus promo copies. The number on the cardboard holder is arbitrary. It’s not the production number of the CD, it’s the order that the cardboard holder went through the printer.

I didn't see any digs at you space brother. Are they PMing you? No need to start with profanity and name calling. Good vibes about. Streicher is that 25 days include drums and Rhythm devils?

Confirms that this SBD recording still sounds way better than the AUD recording. Preconceived notions. If you despise Brent and the 80’s and expect (want) this to sound like crap, it will sound like crap. If you love Brent and the 80’s and expect (want) this to sound awesome, it will sound awesome. As I posted before, this sounds so much better than the hissy, muddy cassettes I used to have. Happy for this release and the ability to add to a less represented part of the 30-year collection. Thanks Dave and crew! My only complaint, and this is the same complaint as many releases, is the overlap transition between CD’s 2 and 3. Why does this keep happening? These aren’t cassette tapes. DAVE!, if you read the posts here you would be aware that many people load these onto music players/iTunes/etc. Overlap transitions sound completely stupid!!!!! Please STOP! If it’s Jeffrey doing it, tell him to stop. I actually go through the extra step of splicing out the overlap and burning CD-R copies. But a lot of people don’t, and just have to suffer through it. Charlie Miller makes his shows ‘seamless transitions’. Why can’t Dave and Jeffrey? Seriously, it takes more work to make an overlap transition than to just leave the recording the way it is on the master.

So I have finally been able to give DaP 27 a good listen. I haveread most of the reviews of this release and honestly I fall in the middle of the road. As far as sound quality goes I agree it has its issues. At times it sounds like the vocals are loud or the keys are up too high in the mix. There are a few audience patches. The one during Eyes is pretty bad. Yet these issues weren't to my ears, persistent on every song. There are periods of balance with sone songs, at least as much as could be achieved given the source. Performance-wise, I have to agree with the theory that the boys were delving into high-octane party favors. I do think for some songs it paid off. Big Rail Road, Deal and GDTRFB were pretty good. Help > Slip > Frank was nice too even with the vocal nonsense during Help. The Jam before drums and the Space after it were very unique- I like both a lot. Converseley Throwing Stones went off of the deep end in a bad way. Like someone else said it almost sounds like Jerry soloed too a completely different song. Although it kind of worked in a way too, so I am not quite sure on that. Overall I like this show, it is inconsistent but when songs and some jams get going it is a lot of fun. I like many others, admittedly have gaps in my listening and 1983 is one of them. So I too went and listened to Dicks Picks 6 10/14/83 for a comparison. Although I may think that 10/14 show is better I still like this current DaP 27 as well. More importantly with Dave's Picks, Road Trips and Dicks Picks, along with box sets and one off releases, there has been a large amount of the "big" shows released. When I think of big shows I usually think of the great and widely available, usually SBD source shows from the tape trading days. So of course I think of 3/2/69, 4/28/71, 8/27/72, 5/8/77, 7/8/78, 9/18/87, 9/10/91, etc... I mean I had all of these on tapes and they have been officially released, most in their entirety. Yet there have been some releases that I certainly do not hate, but just do not do it for me. DaP 20, the Boulder 81 show is one. I don't feel that the show is terrible, but it just doesn't really seem to get going. Another that someone just mentioned is DaP 25 11/6/77. I dont think that the show is bad and it has some great jams, but the proceeding 3 shows are better overall to me. My point of all of this is that when a show that is not in the "big" category or even some that are, gets released I think there is a greater hit or miss factor, even when not considering sound quality. Yet despite this I think it is worth a chance every now and again for Dave and Co. to produce a release that might just be a sleeper. Whether the show wasn't all in the vault or if it is Betty Board upgrade, I think we need to get the under the radar shows. I always think if the Road Trips from 4/6/82. I had never heard that show until I purchased it from Real Gone Music. I really like that show and I have been repeatedly surprised by the playing on that one. I dont know what else to say other than Thank You, Dave L. and crew! Please keep these shows coming. Oh and yeah I want 10/18/72, 2/15/73, or 12/1/79 next please.