Dave's Picks Volume 27: Boise State University Pavilion, Boise ID 9/02/83

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"The Grateful Dead picked up their instruments and hit the first note with perfection. They never missed a note for the next three and one-half hours. People followed the flow of the tunes. Down on the floor in front of the stage was a sea of heads keeping time with the music. No one sat still. No one, except the youngsters behind us sat still. They were still and stunned." - The Power County Press

And what a stunner it was, that show at the Boise State University Pavilion in Boise, ID on September 2, 1983. Dave's Picks Volume 27 contains every stitch of music from this mid-80s show (our first in this series), one that's as good as any other in Grateful Dead history. When the Dead were on, they were ON! Straight out the gate with a definitive take on the old standard "Wang Dang Doodle," the band swiftly switches back to a setlist of yore, firing off 70s staples like "Jack Straw" and "Brown-Eyed Women" and wrapping things up with a terrific trio of "Big Railroad Blues"/"Looks Like Rain"/"Deal" (don't you let that epic guitar solo go down without you). Primed for the second set, they tackle the complexities of "Help>Slipknot!>Franklin's" with heart and ease. It's clear there will be no stopping their flow - Bobby and Brent hanging in for a fantastic pre-Drums "Jam" and Jerry and Bobby in the zone on a not-to-be-missed melodic "Space." Not a skipper in the whole lot!

Dave's Picks Volume 27 has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman and it is limited to 18,000 individually-numbered copies*.

*Limited to 2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

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August 5, 2018 - 7:51pm

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Terrapin Moon

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August 5, 2018 - 6:39pm

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Vguy72

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Look at all that spreadsheet goodness....

....where does one start? Close your eyes and just pick.
August 5, 2018 - 5:59pm

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Terrapin Moon

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wait a minute....this doesn't

wait a minute....this doesn't sound as good as Europe '72
August 5, 2018 - 5:33pm

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alvarhanso

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Releases by year

Here's a website I've been using to try to make a spreadsheet of all the full show releases, been at it off and on for a few hours, amd up to 1979, with 154 shows put out between 1966 and 1978, it's quite a lot. The site is missing some of the most recent releases, and I'm leaving out most of the random few song releases. I'll figure a way to post it when it's done, but the numbers below are off quite a bit. Europe '72 by itself is 22 shows, by my count it's 33.5 1972 releases counting 11/18/72, and I count 25 1977 releases (counting 11/2, which has almost all been released, but not counting the October '77 Road Trips, which is a smattering of songs across several shows), and 20 1990 releases (counting 3/24 which has almost all been released over various compilations). http://www.deaddisc.com/GDFD_Dead_By_Date.htm Eta: just saw icecreamkd's post came through as I was typing.
August 5, 2018 - 5:24pm

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icecrmcnkd

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My list below

Is missing DaP26
August 5, 2018 - 5:11pm

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shirdeep

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August 5, 2018 - 5:10pm

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icecrmcnkd

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Official Releases

Not included are compilation Road Trips and the bonus discs that went with them. A few other bonus discs may be missing.Rockin' the Rhein, Hundred Year Hall, and Steppin' Out are not included. Most years/eras are well represented except those where high quality recordings are lacking: 65-68, mid-80's. The 90's are not that well represented. There are gems to be found there, and they probably sound pretty good. But, as I posted below, those will probably be held until later as a tool to keep revenue coming in. (formatting got altered slightly when I pasted in the text) GD 1965-66 Birth of the Dead GD 1966 Rare Cuts Oddities GD 1966-07-03 30Trips GD 1966-07-29 Grateful Dead-50th bonus disc GD 1966-07-30% 7-29-66 bonus disc filler GD 1967 Grateful Dead GD 1967-10-22 AOTS-50th bonus disc GD 1967-11-10 30Trips GD 1968 Anthem of the Sun GD 1968 AOTS-50th GD 1968 AOTS-50th-remix GD 1968-01 RTv2n2-filler GD 1968-02-14 RTv2n2 GD 1968-02-23 DP22 GD 1968-02-24 DP22 GD 1968-03-17 DS6 GD 1968-08-24 2FTV GD 1968-10-20 30Trips GD 1969 Aoxomoxoa GD 1969-01-23% DS12-filler GD 1969-02-11 GDCD4054 GD 1969-02-22 30Trips GD 1969-02-27 FW69 Box GD 1969-02-28 FW69 Box GD 1969-03-01 FW69 Box GD 1969-03-02 FW69 Box GD 1969-04-17 DS12 GD 1969-04-26 DP26 GD 1969-04-27 DP26 GD 1969-05-23 RTv4n1 GD 1969-05-24 RTv4n1 GD 1969-11-08 DP16 GD 1969-12-11 DaP2014 bonus disc GD 1969-12-12 DaP10 GD 1969-12-20 DaP6 GD 1969-12-21 DaP2013 bonus disc GD 1970 American Beauty GD 1970 Workingman's Dead GD 1970-01-18 DS2 GD 1970-01-23% DaP19 GD 1970-01-24% DaP19 GD 1970-02-02 DaP6 GD 1970-02-04 DS8-FDATGH GD 1970-02-05 filler-Dancing in the Streets GD 1970-02-13 DP4 GD 1970-02-14 DP4 GD 1970-04-15 30Trips GD 1970-04-18 FDATGH GD 1970-05-02 DP8 GD 1970-05-15a RTv3n3 GD 1970-05-15b RTv3n3 GD 1970-12-31% filler, NYE’s bonus disc GD 1971-02-19 3FTV GD 1971-03-18 30Trips GD 1971-04-25% L&G GD GD 1971-04-27% L&G GD GD 1971-04-28% L&G GD GD 1971-04-29% L&G GD GD 1971-07-31 RTv1n3 GD 1971-08-06% DP35 GD 1971-08-07 DP35 GD 1971-08-23 RTv1n3 GD 1971-08-24 DP35 GD 1971-10-21 DaP3 GD 1971-10-22 DaP3 GD 1971-10-26 DS3 GD 1971-10-31% DP2 GD 1971-11-14% RTv3n2 bonus disc GD 1971-11-15 RTv3n2 GD 1971-12-06% DaP22 filler,DaP2017 bonus disc GD 1971-12-07 DaP22 GD 1971-12-31% NYE's bonus disc GD 1972-03-21% DaP2015 bonus disc GD 1972-03-25% DP30 GD 1972-03-26 DaP14 GD 1972-03-27% DaP2015 bonus disc GD 1972-03-28 DP30 GD 1972-04-07 E72 GD 1972-04-08 E72 GD 1972-04-11 E72 GD 1972-04-14 E72 GD 1972-04-16 E72 GD 1972-04-17 E72 GD 1972-04-21 E72 GD 1972-04-24 E72 GD 1972-04-26 E72 GD 1972-04-29 E72 GD 1972-05-03 E72 GD 1972-05-04 E72 GD 1972-05-07 E72 GD 1972-05-10 E72 GD 1972-05-11 E72 GD 1972-05-13 E72 GD 1972-05-16 E72 GD 1972-05-18 E72 GD 1972-05-23 E72 GD 1972-05-24 E72 GD 1972-05-25 E72 GD 1972-05-26 E72 GD 1972-07-21 DS10 GD 1972-07-22% DS10 GD 1972-08-25 DaP24 GD 1972-08-27 SSDD GD 1972-09-03% DP36 filler GD 1972-09-17 DP23 GD 1972-09-21 DP36 GD 1972-09-24 30Trips GD 1972-09-27 DP11 GD 1972-11-15% DaP11 filler GD 1972-11-17 DaP11 GD 1972-11-18% GD 1972-12-31% NYE’s bonus disc GD 1973 Bear's Choice GD 1973 Wake of the Flood GD 1973-02-26 DP28 GD 1973-02-28 DP28 GD 1973-03-28 DaP16 GD 1973-04-02 DaP21 GD 1973-10-19 DP19 GD 1973-11-09 Winterland 73 Box GD 1973-11-10 Winterland 73 Box GD 1973-11-11 Winterland 73 Box GD 1973-11-14 30Trips GD 1973-11-17 DaP5 GD 1973-11-21 RTv4n3 GD 1973-11-30% DP14 GD 1973-12-02 DP14 GD 1973-12-04% Winterland 73 Box bonus disc GD 1973-12-10 DS8 GD 1973-12-19% DP1 GD 1974 From the Mars Hotel GD 1974-02-24 DaP13 GD 1974-03-23% DP24 GD 1974-05-14 DaP9 GD 1974-06-16% RTv2n3 GD 1974-06-18% RTv2n3 GD 1974-06-26 Set2 DP12 GD 1974-06-28 Set2 DP12 GD 1974-07-19 DaP17 GD 1974-07-29% DaP2012 bonus disc GD 1974-07-31 DaP2 GD 1974-08-04% DP31 GD 1974-08-05% DP31 GD 1974-08-06% DP31 GD 1974-09-09% DP7 GD 1974-09-10% DP7 GD 1974-09-18 30Trips GD 1974-10-16% GD Mov sndtrk GD 1974-10-17% GD Mov sndtrk GD 1974-10-18% GD Mov sndtrk GD 1974-10-19% GD Mov sndtrk GD 1974-10-20% GD Mov sndtrk GD 1975 Blues For Allah GD 1975-08-13 1FTV GD 1975-09-28 30Trips GD 1976-06-09 RTv4n5 GD 1976-06-12% RTv4n5-filler GD 1976-06-18 DS4 GD 1976-06-21% DS4-filler GD 1976-06-22% DS4-filler GD 1976-06-28% DS4-filler GD 1976-07-16% DaP18 filler,DaP2016 bonus disc GD 1976-07-17 DaP18 GD 1976-09-24 DaP4 GD 1976-09-25 DP20 GD 1976-09-28 DP20 GD 1976-10-03 30Trips GD 1976-10-09 DP33 GD 1976-10-10 DP33 GD 1976-12-31 Cow Palace GD 1977 Terrapin Station GD 1977-04-25 30Trips GD 1977-04-29% DS1-filler GD 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1978-12-31 Closing of Winterland GD 1979-10-27 30Trips GD 1979-11-05 RT-dwnld GD 1979-11-06 RT-dwnld GD 1979-12-26 DP5 GD 1979-12-28 RTv3n1 GD 1979-12-30% RTv3n1 bonus disc GD 1980 Dead Set GD 1980 Go To Heaven GD 1980 Reckoning GD 1980-05-06 RTv3n4 GD 1980-05-07% RTv3n4 GD 1980-05-15% Go To Nassau GD 1980-05-16% Go To Nassau GD 1980-09-02% DP21-filler GD 1980-09-03 DS7 GD 1980-09-04 Set2 DS7 GD 1980-11-28 30Trips GD 1980-11-30 DaP8 GD 1981-05-06 DP13 GD 1981-05-16 30Trips GD 1981-12-09 DaP20 GD 1982-04-05% RTv4n4-filler GD 1982-04-06 RTv4n4 GD 1982-07-31 30Trips GD 1982-08-07 DP32 GD 1983-09-02 DaP27 GD 1983-10-14 DP6 GD 1983-10-21 30Trips GD 1984-10-12 30Trips GD 1985-06-24 30Trips GD 1985-11-01 DP21 GD 1986-05-03 30Trips GD 1987 In The Dark GD 1987-07-24 VFTV4 GD 1987-07-26 VFTV4 GD 1987-09-18 30Trips GD 1987-10-03% VFTV3-filler GD 1988-03-27 DS5 GD 1988-03-31% RTv4n2-filler GD 1988-04-01 RTv4n2 GD 1988-07-03 30Trips GD 1989 Built to Last GD 1989-04-02 DS9 GD 1989-04-03 DS9 GD 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August 5, 2018 - 5:04pm

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LedDed

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shirdeep

I thank you on behalf of my deadfriends every where. You are the finest. \m/
August 5, 2018 - 4:15pm

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mbarilla

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"You better Roll Away the Dew"

"If you get confused just listen to the music play" ~ 9.2.83 ~ "While the firelight's aglow ~ Strange shadows from the flames will grow ~ 'till things we've never seen ~ Will seem familiar ~ ~ 12.30.83 ~
August 5, 2018 - 4:07pm

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shirdeep

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"The Grateful Dead picked up their instruments and hit the first note with perfection. They never missed a note for the next three and one-half hours. People followed the flow of the tunes. Down on the floor in front of the stage was a sea of heads keeping time with the music. No one sat still. No one, except the youngsters behind us sat still. They were still and stunned." - The Power County Press

And what a stunner it was, that show at the Boise State University Pavilion in Boise, ID on September 2, 1983. Dave's Picks Volume 27 contains every stitch of music from this mid-80s show (our first in this series), one that's as good as any other in Grateful Dead history. When the Dead were on, they were ON! Straight out the gate with a definitive take on the old standard "Wang Dang Doodle," the band swiftly switches back to a setlist of yore, firing off 70s staples like "Jack Straw" and "Brown-Eyed Women" and wrapping things up with a terrific trio of "Big Railroad Blues"/"Looks Like Rain"/"Deal" (don't you let that epic guitar solo go down without you). Primed for the second set, they tackle the complexities of "Help>Slipknot!>Franklin's" with heart and ease. It's clear there will be no stopping their flow - Bobby and Brent hanging in for a fantastic pre-Drums "Jam" and Jerry and Bobby in the zone on a not-to-be-missed melodic "Space." Not a skipper in the whole lot!

Dave's Picks Volume 27 has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman and it is limited to 18,000 individually-numbered copies*.

*Limited to 2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

SYF

Unless you are a compulsive completist.. I wouldn't bother. It's ok..

I once thought I had a Chinese friend....

....but it was just my imagine Asian.

* SYF song selection/ track list

...the albums song selections were mostly picked by Phil and the others were picked by Garcia... :)Since the official release, there has been complaints and praises for the LP... I for one dig it, I love this LP ! At the time of production, quadraphonic technology appeared ascendant. In anticipation, the album was mixed for the QS standard – one of several competing vinyl matrix formats. Rather than a dedicated stereo mix, during mastering the quadraphonic mix was folded down to two channels. Lesh explained that he and Bear decided to mix "the whole thing in 'quad' ... Band chronicler Blair Jackson explained why Lesh's method for song choice didn't mesh with Deadhead expectation: "[It] had none of the natural flow of a Grateful Dead concert. It was as if someone had thrown all the songs into a hat and then pulled them out randomly, which is not the way the Grateful Dead operated at all. Their sets, while definitely eclectic, were built piece by piece according to what songs felt right to play at the moment. Garcia's choices would affect Weir's choices and vice versa. Steal Your Face consisted mainly of short songs that were usually played in the lighter first set, and it was devoid of any extended improvisation. Considering the material that was available from that five-night run, the song selection was mystifying to say the least."[13] Garcia saw the album as a specific statement from the same era as the movie, noting "[Phil] picked out what he liked for his own reasons. If anyone wants to have some concept of what Phil likes, that's a good album. ... We don't interfere with each other on that level."[13]

Exactly lovemygirl....

....Steal Your Face has no flow. (I read between the lines). Glad you like it. I tolerate it. It's right up there with What A Long Strange Trip It's Been. With the plethora of realeases over the last 16 years, they both collect quite a bit of dust, even though the music is clean. ....the again, good luck guessing a JRAD setlist. Ghaa!

Steal Your Face (LP) 2017 reissue

This album is my least favorite live Grateful Dead album, however this reissue sounds excellent. The sound is far superior to the original 1976 release, and more than a few steps above the 1989 Compact Disc 1st edition issue. I agree that the Mississippi from 10/19/74 is a good performance, especially the sound on this on reissued LP. Why I don't like Steal Your Face is because of the song sequence, it is not very compelling to me, not even after 42 years. It just doesn't stand up to Live/Dead, Skullfuck & Europe '72. I bought the original LP not long after my 6/22/76 and 6/24/76 shows at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, near Philadelphia, Pa. Yes, I have all three versions: the original 1976 album, the 1989 CD, and this 2017 remastered LP.

Heaven Help The Fool Boise Space....

....I hear you Bobby. See what repeat listenings can do? Moving this show from a B- to a B as of now.

Reflections....

....a few heads stated they felt Garcia was playing a different song during the Boise Throwing Stones. No he wasn't. He was playing the Boise Throwing Stones. Does that make sense? Makes sense to me. And the GDTRFB leaves no prisoners. Everyone is released! Ghaaa!

Deads Live albums

I'm not so keen on Steal Your Face either, I'm afraid. I was really surprised when I started listening to tapes, years later, just how good those October 1974 shows were-and how mis-represented they had been on Steal Your Face. I have felt this about other official live albums they released in their life time, too. Bears Choice is a bit of a shocker-considering some of the music played at those shows, and while Skull and Roses and Europe 72 are okay (especially the last two sides of the old album of Europe 72) they are again much weaker than the shows they were culled from. Again-especially Europe 72-I have listened to every show from the European tour this year-and every one is stellar. But you would never realise just how good the tour was listening to the old Europe 72 album. It seems as though the band thought the record buying public would prefer to hear their songs, rather than their jams. The one live album that has stood the test of time for me unquestionably, is Live Dead. They got THAT one right.

Live/Dead/Europe '72/Dead Set/Reckoning....

....got them all right. Next year, they're gonna bust out the AoxomoxoA and Live/Dead 50th's. Ohhhh shit. Better buckle up. AoxomoxoA is my favorite studio release btw.

And it's all over now....

....Baby Blue. A treasure. And a tear ran down my face, because it was stolen.

...I also have love for

...I also have love for ‘Bears’s Choice’, This release is also not very welcomed in the Dead’s fan base, but there’s some there that grabs me; you can hear the wooden floor planks and all...

Shirdeep man!

You know how offensive at least one of this community's core members finds Manson.Please be kind. If you need to oppose JimInMD's outburst (and you have been here long enough to know that Jim is NOT one of our easy-to-rile members, but rather a voice of reason in our often stormy environs) WRITE something. Posting another Manson vid seems really dickish to me. I almost wrote something against Jim's response to your first Manson post (freedom, historical significance, outsider culture, yadda yadda). Now I am really glad I didn't.

Manson....

....has no place here. Fuck that asshole. You want the truth? There aren't many people that would have me put on some leather gloves, so my knuckles wouldn't be tarnished as I pounded his smirky face into a bloody pulp. The veil is lifted. Have fun in hell you piece of shit. (someone had to say it). Fact of life. Some people just need to get their ass kicked. (I speak for the trees). Problem?

Bears Choice....

....is head and shoulders above SYF. Who knew there were so many other choices/USDA prime cuts out there back when it was originally released? We are a spoiled lot....Oh yeah. I would pay to see Manson thrown into a wood chipper. Is there a problem?

SYF

I think we'd feel entirely different about SYF if it had a third disc. What would have been the perfect jams?

I wouldnt listen to the Beach

I wouldnt listen to the Beach Boys then cuz Charles Manson known as "The Wizard" befriended a beach boy at the time and co wrote a beach boys song and its now uncredited. that same beach boy slept with a gun under his pillow ever since. read Marilyn Manson's biography his "My Monkey" incorporates elements of that there "mechanical Man" song. played it. I don't even know what to say about it. it's like this big sprawled out rambling mess lol "I sent my monkey off to the country now my monkey's dead" WHAT??? lol and now monkey gone to heaven. shirdeep is communicating and that message is: Monkey

Gun under the pillow....

.... I've done that. Long story. Last five.The Bangles - Different Light Megadeth - Youthinasia GOGD - 4.15.70 Rush - Farewell To Kings The Cars - Panorama and so it goes....

The Bangles Different Light....

....don't laugh. Good vibes in that record. Such good vibes, they were invited to open for the GOGD. That says something. Dust it off and walk like an Egyptian.

Shirdeep I hear your "monkey" message loud and clear

Lay My Lily Down

I don't always listen to new releases right away. I had an idea that Bob's recent, "Blue Mountain," was full of boring acoustic campfire songs with, perhaps, lyrical wonder but no musical spark. That was about half true. A solid album and graced by two brilliantly produced nuggets, "Lay My Lily Down," and "Ghost Towns." I won't post links, youtube it if you want. I am shocked that Bob has, at least on these two tunes and to a perhaps lesser extent on others, adopted the pillow over the microphone dull, decades old ambiance reminiscent of recent T-Bone Burnett productions, Daniel Lanois, Robert Plant, etc. I don't know what to call it, so I'll call it "contemporary music by current artists making classy recordings that sound decades old and give me hope that great music will continue." God Bless everyone. Happy Sunday.

Vguy72 question

Hi Vguy72 - you mentioned in a post about the 50th anniversary reissues. Do you know if the live albums are going to be reissued or is it just the studio? Cheers

Live albums I do like

Two live Dead albums I did like-and still do-are Historic Dead and Vintage Dead. Slightly shady releases, but for live albums from 1966 they sound really good. Unlike the later ones I mentioned, these do seem to accurately reflect the bands sound and style, as subsequently revealed on tapes from the year in question. I don't think they have ever been released on cd, either.

shirdeep

Can you please stop posting all of the YouTube links. They're distracting and not relevant to any Grateful Dead discussion. Thank you.

Steal Your Face

I have this on an LP which is an old radio station promo copy. Its all beat up, and doesn't sound so good anymore. Probably been played 100s of times. I'm tempted to hear a good, new copy. I think the format of the album is well suited for an LP. Its mostly shorter songs, not twenty minute jams. It doesn't "feel" like a live set --- more like an album that happens to be live tracks. Which is okay sometimes. 20-25 minutes of an upbeat, bouncy side while I'm grilling some steaks is perfect. I like the E72 LP for the same reason. Also, curiously, that album isn't on Spotify. Almost everything else that's a general release is. Neither is the GD movie soundtrack, which is what you go to for the live show feel from that run. Maybe they're holding it back for a box set release later :)))))

Ledded and laying lilly

When I saw Bob live in Dallas for this cowboy tour, Lay My Lily Down was one of my fav's that night. When I got the show I played the living shit out of that tune. Just my two cents, but I'm ok with Sheepdip posting youtube vids. I certainly don't check them all out, but they're easy enough to scroll by and once an awhile you get shown some good stuff you didn't know about. Once again, just my two cents. Two more days of work, then off to Lockn, yeah!

Oh no! A non Dead Link

My kid showed me this guy last night, I'll be getting some of this guy in. Leo Moracchioli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA0_vr_Ktl8

Of its time

I am happy for the 80's fans who have waited long for something from this era. I think I would have had a really good time if I had been at the show, this must be great as a souvenir and a slice of history for those lucky enough to have access to Dead shows at that time (they had given up on Europe by then). Listening now in a quiet room on a good hi-fi though, it is all to easy to be distracted by the deterioration of so many things from the 'Golden Era'(as I perceive it). I enjoyed it more than I thought and maybe now and then might give it another spin. No complaints though. I am happy to pay my subs and get to focus 4 times a year on a selected show from the vault, whether I end up listening to it once or 100 times.

Disagree Dennis.

Once I awhile shirdeeps vids are ok, but they're getting to be several times a day of nothing about the Dead. Charles Manson? Had his minions string up a woman 8 months pregnant over a rafter and stab her death as she begged for her baby's life. Fuck him and fuck shirdeep for posting this garbage. Shirdeep used to be cool when he posted rare Dead pics, but he's devolved.

Butch, SYF, new series etc

Butch, right on fuck that spoiled little bitch! Sorry folks that’s what happens when you poison the Golden well with hate! SYF, I will not argue with the critical comments. Would just mention, again, about keeping perspective. The methodology employed for live albums has mostly been to record as much material as possible, using the best equipment possible (budget etc) and then cull the supposed “best” versions of songs, add a little crowd mix and fade in out overlaps to give the “product” the feeling of an actual concert. Hell King Biscuit Flour Hour used to do the same thing I.e., 5/80 (recorded that off the radio on graduation night whilrpe my giant extended family was all out in the back yard, hee-hee, what a freak! But I digress. So yeah, it has no natural flow, and of course anything from then without big jams is just......? But there are some great versions, and if it was redone as well as the Movie Soundtrack, well..... Mainly though I love this album for nostalgia. It brings back so many memories from when I was 14 and just getting on board. Have always loved the pictures; Bill with that giant bong, Phil with the different colored socks, and man nothing filled the imagination of a budding audio geek like those pics of TWOS! Remember youngins’ there was no internet, and the dead was hardly the well known entity they would become, for good or for ill? That album and a few others were like are only gateway to the dead! So looking at those pics, and digging that amazing, now iconic art...and of course what that album jacket as well as Skull fuck got used for, perhaps more than to retrieve the platter, ahem, yeah..... I will always have a spot deep in my heart for this and skullfuck if only because of what they meant to me at that time in my life etc. Today, hands down, imho, Live Dead will always be the benchmark for not only live dead “albums” but perhaps the greatest live album ever! I dug it then, but still a little to green behind the gills to fully “get it” then. That did change with time, like the first time I “saw the electric light shine” and after getting dropped off at home very late, put on the headphones and figured, “I should probably listen to live dead” Amazing, also, seemed like it was only ten minutes long LOL Tried playing my electric with no amp, but thought I was making too much noise and would awaken the rents, who would instantly KNOW! LMAO! Too funny, cause I lived in the basement with a literal McIntosh, JBL wall of sound, used to come home baracho at all hours, worked as a roadie and sound tech, so again, coming and going at all hours, and they never got up. But of course that night I was sure they’d be on to me! I distinctly remeber after like 12 hours or so thinking “ah, this is what they mean by your either on the bus or off” like, this is never going to end LOL. You know, it will be less there, but it’s always going to be there! NOTE; I personally really think Nightfall of Diamonds is right up there in the top echelon; an actual full show, not cut ups, great audio, super set list. I think this one really flies under the radar. NEW SERIES; I’ve been saying this for years. Not specifically like who was it Kayak Guy? with the Betty Special Select concept, but the general idea of more releases, even if you have different tiers or levels of product. The super multi’s, that deserve the extra care and exspense get released say 4 or 5 times a year, with a box or 2 for the top tier, with perhaps a level, or two more below, including a quick and dirty Cassete SB type level ala 27. Those could certainly be pumped out a bit more steadily. If it’s a matter of staff, Hell im qualified and available. Me and Vguy will spit out enough product to make you dizzy! I fully understand and agree with who ever (sorry?? Memory shot) laid out the great marketing plan that is probably in play about releasing older stuff first since it will attract folks from tha era, as well as the rest, before all us geezers croak, while saving the later years for the youngins from that era. Makes sense, no matter what your fav, I think most folks really love to get official releases of shows they were at, in any form. But they are gambling on this remaining as vibrant, and thus as economically viable, as it is now. Why not get as much out now as possible? What if suddenly they lose their audience? I believe after the band folded, that was sort of the goal. I believe I read something from Mickey about trying to make every show somehow available ala cart so folks could just order what ever they pleased. But then Phil put the kibosh on it with “Im not selling the catalog to a Corp/won’t ever let trucking apear on a Chevy commercial” etc.. At the time that kinda made sense, just like finding someone to Front the huge digitizing costs etc to make it available made some sense. But much time has passed since then, and tech and the music industry have radically changed. So yeah, why the hell not have tiered releases, priced and released according. As our lovely English friends might say RIGHT, BRILLIANT!

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Some are really good-the blues and jazz ones from a while back were great. And that one of King Crimson with Adrian Belew on vocals was alright. I don't think shirdeep posted any of these-he has different taste to me-but hey ho. I wasn't so keen on seeing Mansons face peering out at me when I scrolled down, mind you.

I have all four kiss solo

I have all four kiss solo albums. I still have yet to give a full listen to Peter's and Ace's.

People Are People got a lot

People Are People got a lot of CD play from me

SYF on Spotify

SYF is on Spotify although it isn’t named as such - it’s listed as Grateful Dead Records collection and is with the other albums issued on Record Store Day as a box set, Mars, Wake of the Flood, Blues for Allah although these again are not listed under their actual original titles. SYF is actually called live at Winterland San Francisco CA 10-20/74 after each individual song title.

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Sirdickshit!

“English pig dog, I fart in your general,direction,Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of Elderberries!

Deep Elem,

to have a little fun....The dead heads will put you on the rocks!

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felt like I was watching a Time Life compilation late night infomercial. but wait! there's more....

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This isn't fun anymore....

....thanx. Like I said a few days ago, social media is a cancer. Behold it in all it's glory. My safe corner of the internet is compromised. Way to go home.. . "Who do you think you are? What do you mean when you put us all down Walking round in circles Your nose to the ground You think you're saying something Because you're making a sound You say you've seen it all You don't care to see no more But you don't get up an go until they throw you out the door." ....Looks like Vince is the smartest man in the room right now. Shazam.

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