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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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  • Vguy72
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    10.1.94's Space into Last Time....
    ....fuckin' Space Invaders video game effects. Liam would be proud. Pissed off of course, but proud....edit. No weed in the wooden box. :( One can't fail for trying.
  • Angry Jack Straw
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    Mine arrived today. Scheduled for Monday, but the UPS truck pulled up around 5:00. Odd for a Saturday. I saw the driver coming up the driveway with a big box in hand so I met him at the door. "I wasn't expecting this until Monday." So you are why I am working today he responded, clearly not happy. "Do you have any pot you can sell me? It's the Grateful Dead." He turns and walks away in disgust. Those who got the download are missing out on a nice box. Even the kids thought it was awesome. Vguy, the number is in a classy little box between the CDs. Similar to a small jewelry box or some place to hide a key. It comes with a cool passage, distinct in Native American undertones. Very well done. I'm holding off on listening until tomorrow. Watching some old episodes of Parts Unknown. Tony was no Jerry, but he was a awesome dude nonetheless. 10/1/94 is the only show from TTATS that I have listened to past 87. Even then I have only listened to the So Many Roads. I have said many times, fall 94 was the dead cat bounce tour. Unexpectedly good.
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  • LedDed
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    They say...
    ...by the way, has anyone figured out yet who "they" are? The grays? The man? The IRS? At any rate, or so I've heard, "they" say that doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. Hell, I think it's just being a stone-cold gambler. I buy lottery tickets every drawing, using the same numbers, and goddamn it I'm going to hit big one of these decades. Just you wait and see. I really wish my box had arrived today. Alas, it is not to be and I don't know if UPS delivers on Sunday. I've had those non-descript amazon white vans drop stuff on Sunday though, and that feels like Christmas. Although most of my dead.net WEA product arrives via the Good Ol' USPS, and on our street the mail goes into those group box kiosks. You got your box, and on a special day there will be a key waiting inside for one of the parcel boxes (few, and larger). You're always hoping for a key, and when you see it your heart skips a beat. My theory is that the ubiquitous amazon white vans (Sprinters and the like, windowless) are not adorned with "amazon" graphics for several reasons. For one, they'd attract looters and thieves. For another, we'll all get desensitized to them, and one of these times when one pulls up, you'll run out arms wide ready to embrace yet another Grateful Dead offering, and they'll (it's, "them" again) leap out and pull a hood over your head and throw you in the back. When you wake up, tied to a chair in a cold room with only a single, bare light bulb hanging above you, you'll hope like hell Liam Neeson is about to break in and save your ass. \m/
  • MDJim
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    I have to laugh at these posts.. yesterday a friend of mine sent me an email he got from one of his friends. It's long.. names omitted to protect the guilty. It was written a year or so ago.. so I'm sure it's floated around a bunch. To the author, I hope it's ok to share. The title was Next Level Obsession. ______________________________________________ I love Deadheads with OCD. Not my post but I appreciate the work. Thu Oct 19, 2017 6:49 pm #1 When I was in high school, there was a girl who would always ask me if I had acquired any new Losers of the “sweet Suzy” variety. And so whenever I received a new batch of tapes from some remote part of the country, I’d note any Losers with the “sweet Suzy” verse and then surprise her with one at the next gathering of our mutual group of friends. These gatherings were almost always centrally concerned with new tape acquisitions or new knowledge regarding the Dead. We were a group obsessed with the band and everything swimming through the vast universe of the band, including apparently any Losers with the “sweet Suzy” line. My memory is foggy when it comes to my findings of the “sweet Suzy” Losers, except one distinct time in which I can remember telling her, “Hey, Shannon, I found a ‘sweet Suzy’ for you.” I don’t know which show it was , but I’m pretty certain it was a 1971 Loser. What lives in my memory is precisely where we were and me saying those exact words to her. It must’ve been a revelatory moment for me regarding the rarity of the “sweet Suzy” Losers, for I have never forgotten that moment after 20+ years. Fast forward to a few months ago, in June of 2017, when I found myself thinking of those great tape-trading days of high school, the discoveries, the euphoria of acquiring a new batch of tapes. And for some reason my mind turned to the “sweet Suzy” versions of Loser, and how I would search out copies of this song without a handy Deadbase at my fingertips, nor a more convenient “etree mobile” app which allowed me to effortlessly flip through shows and fast forward to the two particular instances in which “sweet Suzy” is sung with the simply movement of a finger across my iPhone. Wow, how times have changed with regard to searching for a particular part of a song. So a few months ago I decided to complete the project once and for all. I needed to know when “sweet Suzy” died, and I kind of wanted to arrive at a reason for her death. Sadly, I found her apparent death on October 20th, 1974, then realized she had risen from the dead on January 10th, 1979, only to be buried once again for eternity. Even more tragic is the unknown reason for her death. What I did find, however, is an obscure protraction of her death. Think about all the hours I’ve logged listening to “Last fair deal in the country, sweet Suzy!” and the amount of accumulated thoughts about Suzy, what she must’ve looked like to Hunter and Jerry, what she must’ve meant to Jerry on the nights that he sung her into the song with such love and tenderness and longing, what she must have meant to him on the nights that he abandoned her and left the audience singing her in their own empty words, and what he must’ve thought on January 10th, 1979 when he resurrected her one last time. What drove him to do it? The Dead performed Loser 346 times. Only a few of these shows do we not have the recording. I tally 88 known Losers that include the “sweet Suzy” or just “Suzy” line. Remarkably, of the 54 Losers performed in 1971, only one show did not feature the “sweet Suzy” line. That show is 7/2/71 at the Fillmore West, oddly the last show at that venue. The very first Loser performed on 2/18/71 at Port Chester features a “sweet Suzy” in the first slot and a rare “Suzy”-only in the second slot. All three “Suzy”-only versions were sung in the second slot of the song in 1971, but of the three remaining “Suzy”-only versions in 1972 and 1973, Jerry sang it in the first slot of the song. The first show in which Jerry sings “sweet Suzy” in only one of the two slots is the 22nd performance of Loser on 4/21/71 in Providence, Rhode Island, and it appears in the second slot. There are no other shows or patterns in 1971 of note except to say that toward the middle of the year, immediately following the 7/2/71 Fillmore West show, Jerry starts to exclude the “sweet Suzy” line in one of the two slots more frequently. Between 2/18/71 and 5/30/71, Jerry performs Loser 31 times, and he is fairly regular with the “sweet Suzy” line in all of the Loser versions, singing it both times in all but 2 of the 31 times. But once 7/2/71 hits, the remaining 23 performances of the song are variable when it comes to the singing of the line. Between 7/2/71 and 12/31/71, Jerry sings the line twice during the song only 13 of the 23 times. What this means is that Jerry started the slow death of “sweet Suzy” officially on 4/21/71, booted her from the song for the first time altogether on 7/2/71, and then proceeded to ween her from the song thereafter. 1972 sees the demise of Suzy even more. Of the 39 times Loser is played in 1972, only 4 times does Jerry sing “sweet Suzy” in both slots of the song. 13 times he abandons “sweet Suzy” entirely. 1973 isn’t any better. 25 performances, 7 “sweet Suzy” lines, and none of those 7 times does Jerry sing the line in both slots of the song. 1974 saw “sweet Suzy” virtually die. Of the 10 times Loser is performed (remember, there were only 40 shows this year), only 3 times does “sweet Suzy” make her appearance, the last being on 10/20/74 at Winterland, and it’s sung in the second slot of the song. I fitting farewell to the Grateful Dead at the time and to sweet Suzy, whoever she was. And that is all we know of the mysterious girl called Suzy in the song Loser. For the next 4 years and 45 performances of Loser, not a trace of “sweet Suzy” is found – that is, until the first show of 1979, in Uniondale, New York, on January 10th. Making her appearance one more time – and her last time – was “sweet Suzy” in the first slot of the song. It’s so brief and nondescript. If you blink, you miss it in the recording. There’s no emphasis, no powerful resurgence, no eruption from the audience. It comes and goes in a second and a half. And then it vanishes. Ghostlike. Forever. I knew I had never heard a “sweet Suzy” in the 1980s or 1990s, but I wanted to be sure, and so I listened to all the “Last fair deal in the country….” verses (two per song) of all 169 remaining performances. I sometimes dreamed that I’d find one, hidden within a show that was not on many popular radars. I held out hope that there was a version of the song in the post-Brent era that escaped our listening ears because it was a Vince show. No. I sometimes imagined I heard it because I was listening so hard for it. I truly wanted it to be there. I wanted so badly for Jerry to sing those two words again; I’d even take a delayed and whispered “Suzy.” Alas, it wasn’t going to happen. I have thought about so much along the way. I thought how crazy I am for doing this. I thought how empty this project is. I thought how meaningless and stupid and utterly ridiculous….In short, I thought I had perhaps come to an end of sorts with the band. When I began the journey, I actually was listening to 3/24/73 Spectrum and noticed that Jerry had only sung the “sweet Suzy” line in the second slot. And so I wanted to know what other shows in the March/April ’73 period did this. And then I wanted to know all of 1973. And then I decided I’d do all of the Losers and tally them all up. I searched high and low on the Internet to see if someone had already done this. I found no one. But, above all, I felt like I had to do this. I was reminded of my high school years, and always bringing Shannon new “sweet Suzy” Losers. I simply felt it was my calling to know them all. So, Shannon, if you’re out there, and happen to stumble across this, here are all your “sweet Suzy” and “Suzy”-only Losers. Enjoy… Below are the years and dates in which “sweet Suzy” or just “Suzy” appear. After the date, you’ll see a “1” or “2” or “none,” indicating for that particular show where “sweet Suzy” is sung, “1” being the first slot and “2” being the second slot of the song. “None” obviously means neither slot of the song featured this line. If you see a “Suzy” next to either the “1” or “2,” then that means just the rare “Suzy” was sung. For the inaugural Loser on 2/18, I like that “sweet Suzy” was sung in the first slot and just “Suzy” was sung in the second slot. There are a few shows in which we do not have the recording of Loser: 10/21/72, 11/18/72, 9/12/73 (this one is unclear as to whether the song was player there at all, but I kept it in anyway), 9/28/77, and 2/6/79. Other than those, they’re all here. The penultimate note: the Loser from 5/11/78 does not feature a “sweet Suzy” but rather a Jerry “Yeeeeaaaahhh Arrrrgghhhh” which is the only one of its kind. The ultimate note: I have retained the spelling of “Suzy” as this is how it appears in Hunter’s Box of Rain. 1971 (53) 02/18 1 2 "Suzy" 02/19 1 2 02/20 1 2 02/21 1 2 02/23 1 2 02/24 1 2 03/03 1 2 03/14 1 2 "Suzy" 03/18 1 2 03/20 1 2 03/21 1 2 03/24 1 2 04/04 1 2 04/05 1 2 04/06 1 2 04/07 1 2 04/08 1 2 04/12 1 2 04/13 1 2 04/17 1 2 04/18 1 2 04/21 2 04/22 1 2 04/24 1 2 04/25 1 2 04/26 1 2 04/27 1 2 04/28 1 04/29 1 2 05/29 1 2 05/30 1 2 07/02 none 07/31 1 08/05 1 08/06 1 08/14 2 "Suzy" 08/23 1 2 08/24 1 2 08/26 1 10/21 1 2 10/23 1 10/26 1 2 10/29 1 2 10/30 1 2 10/31 1 2 11/06 2 11/07 1 2 11/12 1 2 11/14 1 11/15 1 2 12/06 1 2 12/10 2 12/14 1 2 12/31 1 1972 (24) 01/02 1 2 03/21 2 03/22 none 03/26 1 "Suzy" 2 03/27 1 04/07 1 04/14 1 04/16 1 2 04/24 1 04/26 1 04/29 none 05/10 none 05/13 2 05/26 1 06/17 2 07/18 1 "Suzy" 07/21 1 07/25 none 08/20 1 08/22 1 08/25 2 09/03 none 09/09 none 09/15 none 09/17 none 09/21 2 09/24 2 09/28 none 09/30 2 10/09 1 10/18 1 10/21 ????? 10/23 2 10/27 1 2 11/14 none 11/18 ????? 11/22 none 12/11 none 12/15 none 1973 (7) 02/21 none 02/26 2 03/16 2 03/21 none 03/24 2 03/28 none 05/13 none 05/20 none 05/26 none 06/09 1 06/26 1 07/31 none 09/07 none 09/11 none 09/12 ?????? 09/17 none 09/20 none 09/26 1 "Suzy" 10/21 none 10/27 none 10/29 none 11/10 2 11/23 none 11/30 none 12/06 none 1974 (3) 02/24 none 05/14 1 06/18 1 06/30 none 07/25 none 08/04 none 09/10 none 09/14 none 10/17 none 10/20 2 1975 None 1976 None 1977 None 09/28 ????? 1978 None 05/11 "Yeaaah arrrgghh" 1979 (1) 01/10 1 02/06 ????? 1980 - 1995 None Thanks, xxxxx
  • Vguy72
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    ....the midi flute Garcia plays is beautiful. Then it goes into the mutron tone we all know, then back into a mutron/flute thing. Jerry plays two different tones at once. Pretty neat and pretty incredible. Miss you. I can see how someone's first show being this one could hook you. God bless the GOGD.
  • Vguy72
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    ....I don't know what you're talking about LedDed. Now exuse me while I rearrange my bookshelves. It's gotta be just exactly perfect. It's for the grater good.
  • LedDed
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    "Wait a minute kids while we get this just exactly perfect..."
    I love it when Bob would say that. I wonder if Deadbase lists how many times he spit that out from the stage. It was tongue in cheek, and endearing. This was a raggedy bunch folks. This music was only ever perfect in it's glorious humanness, flaws and warts and all. I play lots of guitar. There's a thing called, "relicing," where you can pay the Fender Custom Shop or some guy in his garage to scuff up your brand-new guitar and make it look old. Like some clown who goes and buys "distressed" jeans at the mall. Please... my guitars get beat up because I play the hell out of them, and except for my Gibsons (only because the string tension against the angled headstock can snap the neck if they fall over), I don't give a shit if one of the kids knocks it off the couch or a drink spills on it or whatever. I love that stuff. Gives an item character. I will no longer even pick up certain people's guitars. I feel they would experience a cardiac event if my nails (I play with a heavy hand) should leave microscopic scratches in the finish. Museum pieces all, never to be - gasp! - really played or used as the medium of expression they were designed for. Just ask the collectors who keep these "investments" in humidors, to be looked at only, and just don't you dare stare too hard in any one place for very long. I bought a brand-new truck in 2002. For months, I would park at the edge of the lot and struggle in vain to keep it perfect. Once I finally let that shit go, it was a tremendous relief. My $100 Jimmy Page coffee table book arrived damaged from UPS, they'd crushed the box and there's about a 1" divot on the cover. So what? Now when my friends thumb through it I don't cringe if they haven't washed their hands. I understand paying money for something and appreciating it being in new condition, but some of this borders on the obsessive and misses the point. Warren Zevon was just like that, with the T-shirts. Joey Ramone. It's OCD and a few other insanities rolled into one. I respect that we are different, and I don't know if I find these gripes with product minutiae annoying or just hysterical... but I guess with the Dead fanbase, you get that in all kinds of ways. One of my discs does have a flaw, there's like a metallic shriek/white noise in some song. Maybe more than one. I wouldn't know which, because with many thousands of songs I just skip ahead to the next one. I can't be bothered enough to care. It's all about the music...
  • LedDed
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    First world problems... yawn
    This morning I got up and put on what I thought was a perfectly crisp, clean white T-shirt. Imagine my horror upon discovering a stray eyelash had fallen onto the left shoulder, and to top it off a tiny wrinkle was discovered below the right underarm. Then, at lunch my Big Mac arrived shoddily assembled. The cheese was unevenly melted and not at all centered on the patty! And the pickles had been hastily thrown on and I think there may have even been a few brown sesame seeds atop the bun.
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    I got this show in a tape trade about 30 years ago (Portland 1974), and it was incomplete, missing 6 or 7 songs. A few years ago, the complete show started circulating and we all discovered that those tracks were omitted because the vocals were seriously low and I guess someone thought they'd do us all a favor and leave them out. The songs that were left out correspond almost exactly to the songs you mentioned. Sounds to me like they did everything they possibly could to match them up with the sound of the rest of the show. It'll never be perfect, but they did a hell of a job and it's nice to hear it sounding so much better. There's just always shit you can't fix when you're working with two-track tapes.
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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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Dam I was at a bunch of those that musicnow, Angry Jack Straw, etc posted.10/20/84, 11/7+8/85 she belongs, High Time, great Let it Grow. That other Rochester 6/30/88; green onions, believe it or not, another great night in good old crochfester. Saw 80, 82, 83, 84, 2 in 85, and the 87/88 Silver Stadiums. Also at 7/4/86 and 10/18/89.....small world eh? Perhaps we partied with some of you? Speaking of, Angry JS Oxford 88 was indeed a real barn burner! Decent shows too. Wish they’d release those philly 89 shows, Hell the rest of that tour...perhaps the shoreline shows too, though I have not heard those yet... Somebody mentioned 6/28/85, that whole stretch was awesome, but really liked Hershey, perhaps my personal favorite Dew, and my first Tom Thumbs. WELCOME Bizzarro Jim! Glad your back even if it’s just your alter ego ; ) Glad to hear your felling better. It’s been a ruff summer up here in the mountains with the smoke this year, but nothing compared to ole stoltzy out in Seattle etc... That shit will mess you up! Love 4/18+19/82 “never more quotteth the Raven” I believe I heard they had a nitris tank right on stage? Golly, so many great posts lately, unfortunately been too busy to hang around and play. That whole unpleasant nonsense last week kinda reminded me of one of my favorite South Parks, where Cartman knocks on the walls; tap, tap, tap “mam, I’m sorry to tell you but you have hippies”.... VGUY; what does Cartman hate more than anything.... a hippie ginger Jew!
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Ok.. after these listening parties and "singles", this box sounds pretty f-in Awesome! Not long now! ;)
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anyone get a shipping notice?1 more Dave video left for the 5/21/74 show with maybe the unboxing video after Labor Day weekend? doesn't look like it'll get here for the weekend, so i went for the Zappa Roxy box for something to do while waiting for the NW box.
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...shipping notice email yet. I typically get those a couple days, maybe, ahead of the official release date. I do feel fortunate that product usually arrives (here, at least) a couple days later. I'm sure they ship the units all at the same time, or in one giant wave. They don't, for instance, take into account all the customs bullshit for our friends overseas and mail their stuff ahead of time. I'm sitting here looking at my Dave's Picks 4 case, #11935/12000. Hopefully, I get a low number this time. It matters only in it's matterlessness. \m/
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1st 5 87-07-04 Sullivan Stadium Foxboro MA (w/ Dylan) 88-07-02 Oxford Plains Speedway Oxford ME 88-07-03 Oxford Plains Speedway Oxford ME 90-07-12 RFK Stadium Washington DC 91-09-24 Boston Garden Boston MA Last 5 (next 5 too) 93-09-30 Boston Garden Boston MA 94-09-29 Boston Garden Boston MA 94-10-01 Boston Garden Boston MA 94-10-02 Boston Garden Boston MA 95-06-15 Franklin Cty Airport Highgate VT No shipping notice on my end...
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sending in order today. Rhino add some new patches to the store ? Got a couple tees from here recently, looking to add a patch or two
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I'm listening to Dave's 9 today. Every day I'm staying in the neighborhood of 73/74. If I'm not mistaken this is the closest official release to any of the new ones coming our way.
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I couldn't figure out if I was better off listening to the free samples or waiting. I caved and listened to Bird Song. Now the itch is worse. One thing I wasn't expecting was for Bird Song to sound so different than 1972. Keith's keyboards really change the texture. Also I thin Jerry might be done with the Aligator and brownish (sunburst?) Stratocaster guitars from 72. Not 100% sure.
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Ditto on the Hollywood Bowl...great great time, unfortunately about half the folk I went with have shuffled off the mortal coil...never have found a board of the show but do have a couple of different sourced AUDS that are pretty decent...I felt the same way about shows after '89...my last run was December '94 at the LA Sports Arena (the one with Branford sitting in was pretty good I must admit)and I only went to those because I was working for the caterer that worked for the local promoter...Damn Jerry and his fresh Squoze OJ!
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Hi-ya kids. hi-ya hi-ya Dave's Picks 9 is a fantastic release. If it is any barometer for the box those '74 shows should be hot. My own prep has included Dick's 19 10/19/73, Dave's 2: 7/31/74, & Dave's 17: 7/19/74.
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I was at the second night - 10th - loved every minuteMy only other one was 3.10.81 at the Rainbow Although it gets good reviews I was severely disappointed All I remember is all very slick washed over with Brent's organ Thereagain i'm not keen on anything they did in the 80's If you don't already know it check this out https://themidnightcafe.org/2018/08/26/lossless-bootleg-bonanza-gratefu… DM
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I tried to figure this out from reading some of these posts, but is there a recording available of the GD Hollywood Bowl (LA) show from 1974? I was there. I was just a kid. It was an intense experience. Maria Muldaur and Commander Cody were the warmup acts. I went with my older brother and his friend. I have the two spring 1977 boxes, and I've ordered this one. I was at the May 11, 1977 show in St Paul. It was a beautiful concert. A real gem. It's great to have it on CD.
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I think the best copy that circulates is the Charlie Miller / Rob Bertrando audience FOB recording. I am not aware of any soundboards that circulate (not that they don't exist). Wish I had better news. The audience sounds pretty good as many WOS audience tapes did sound quite nice. Another interesting tidbid, the GD played at the Hollywood Bowl three times, in 67, 72 and 74. Audience tapes circulate for all three shows but no soundboards. It's quite possible the venue prohibited soundboard recordings. I know the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City had a similar rule and the only reason we have the On Broadway CDs from the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band and JBG is because Parish draped a sheet over the mixing board and tape machine and hid it from the management. Perhaps someone else can shed some light, it's quite possible soundboard tapes from shows were not made.
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Ordered the Long Strange Trip BluRay today. Placed one unit in the cart, clicked proceed to checkout, and got the standard ‘your cart is empty’ message. My old method of getting around this didn’t work today, the cart icon in the upper right had a 0 next to it, and clicking on the cart did nothing. So, I clicked on the SYF in the upper left corner and it went directly to my cart with 1 unit in it. I filled in all the required info for billing and shipping, and received an email confirmation. So, the moral of the story is to click on the SYF in the upper left corner when you get the message saying that your cart is empty. Hope this works in the future.
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Thanks for that new word ("dernier"), Jack Baller, and great Mario Mendoza reference . . . So my first show was 6/24/91, and then I went a little crazy for the GD, because I ended up seeing 23 shows, but my dernier five/six were Vegas 5/14-16/93 and Shoreline 8/25-27/93. Twenty-three shows in 26 months, and out. I have enjoyed the officially-released shows from 1992-1995, however. I'm very excited that the Long Strange film is finally coming out on DVD! I did not bite on signing up for Amazon Prime, but was starting to wonder if there ever would be a DVD release . . .
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Dernier (der-NAY - as I pronounce this word) is contemporary French for last cry or the final one(s) and some other translations. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dernier Borrowed from French dernier, a contraction of derrenier, from Old French derrain (“final, last”) (by analogy with premier), from Vulgar Latin *deretranus, from Latin dē (“from, away from”) (from Proto-Indo-European *de (“towards”)) + retrō (“back; backwards; behind”). The word often appears in the term dernier resort or (in French) ressort (literally “last resort”), meaning the final court or authority to which a legal matter can be appealed. From a contraction of earlier derrenier, a derivation of Old French derrain (through analogy with premier), itself derived from Vulgar Latin *dēretrānus, from Latin dē + retrō. As far as I know, its time to air-out Grateful Dead: May 4, 1972, Olympia Theatre, Paris, France from Europe '72: The Complete Recordings (GRA2-6023 - released 9/2011) However, 5/3/72 is also excellently sublime, as is 5/13/72 Lille Fairgrounds, Lille, France. Of course, there's the character "Mr. French from the CBS Television series, "Family Affair" (portrayed by actor Sebastian Cabot) and the PBS TV series, "The French Chef" with Julia Child. Can you imagine her at a Grateful Dead show? I can. Can she pass the acid test? Yes! Oh, my wacky humor! Viva la France! Viva la Bolo24!
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Busted out the cassette tape of my tape trading days of Vancouver 6/22/73 for my car today. I think the box set quality will be a bit better - LOL! Stoked for this box. Where's that unboxing video?Also glad the Long Strange Trip DVD will be released. I've been waiting for this!
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FirstOrono 4/19/83 Portland 10/18/83 Providence 4/26/84 (the one that hooked me) 4/27/84 Saratoga 6/24/84 The last is much harder to pin down. I lived in the Bay Area until early '95, caught Oakland, Cal Expo and Shoreline shows with decreasing frequency as things wound down. These were commuter shows, with no time for the scene, extra curriculars, etc. With only the music, I couldn't take it anymore, particularly when Jerry went to the teleprompter. So... it was any of those three places and the two Highgate shows '94 an '95.
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Great to hear from you Oxford 88. You've got some funny stories. Can you refresh my memory and say again what tours the "chip aisle" guy was from as well as the empty lot bicycle rider?
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As Debbie Boone would say - You light up my life! Hoping everyone works hard for that Labor Day Weekend!
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....still plays cassettes in his car. Fuck yeah. Speaking of "good to hear from you's", good to hear from you as well rdevil. And to Bob. You light up my life as well. I'm enjoying the still waters here recently. Shipping announcements should be inboxing very soon. Dusted off Mickey's Mystery Box CD tonight. Grate record. Grate memories being shared here. Wubba Hubba. Come on back jrf68....I know you're peeking/peaking.
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Things seem to be a little bit weird everywhere. It must be an election year. I am super stoked for this box, like many others - I really like 1973 and 1974.. I assimilate this to the first May 77 box, which I personally put in the same regard as the Cornell box. Perhaps it's a prelude to the next summer 73 box which is surely to come. 6/22 PNE is especially poignant to me, one of the best shows of the era to my ears. I have listened to all the shows in this box closely.. but years ago and I don't plan to join the listening party. I think we are all accustomed to seeing through Dave's hyperbole. What I hear from his words, however, is pure gold. What I hear is they gave Norman et. al. freedom to make this sound as good as it can and as a special bonus, they applied plangent technology to the remastering process just for fun. I guess time will tell as far as how it sounds, but couple this step up in remastering costs with the newly returned 73 tapes and using the same care to some of the remaining 74 tapes (keep in mind there were only 40 shows in 74, few unreleased are remaining at this point). This is what I want to hear. I could be wrong, this could be a complete dud.. but I think not. There are many reasons we should be excited by this release. I got my shipping notice today, and was totally stoked.. it could mean I could get this by Labor Day.. but then I realized this was for the singles 45. Well.. on the bright side, it got me motivated to think about just what this offering is. A high water mark.. If I were to guess.. I think it will sell out between March and July next year and we will get the 5k left warning just before Thanksgiving. Just a guess. I am super stoked for this box.. a true high water mark for the band.
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....just feed me shows. Buffet style. And this ain't your Mama's buffet. This is prime Dead. You may lean towards later years, as do I from time to time, but face it. 73-74 is prime real estate. Interest is raising....
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Been a while since I spent any real time on these boards. Seems as the crowds have gotten much bigger with all the usual consequences (we have all been here before). Great to see most of the old schoolers still weighing in and keeping things light- Did we already cover the Jim Jones jokes, or were the punchlines too long? (this note's for you VGuy). To answer the questions posed- The ghost of Lennon was left in the chip aisle somewhere between Akron and Buffalo in '86. The empty parking lot Evel Knievel crashed into the only car in the lot at Cal Expo in '91. Thanks for keeping these memories alive rdevil. My kids just roll their eyes at this point. Peace all and enjoy the new box.
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Anyone else head over to Canadaland between those shows to see the Falls? We wandered around town asking people where we could find the "barrel rides." The bewildered looks were priceless. Looking forward to this box as well. Prime era no doubt. I'm most curious about 5/19/74. When listening to the post Truckin jam on the copy I have, I always suspected that there was a cut in the tape. The band is in a slow, mellow groove, then all of a sudden the music "jumps" and speeds way up. Always seemed disjointed to me.
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It would be extremely helpful if the creators of this box set would post the dimensions of the box. Some of us have limited and/or uniquely defined shelf space, and it would be a great courtesy to know whether this one will fit or not. Thank you.
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Here's hoping this box is in the 4th dimension.
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Angry Jack, there's a soundcloud clip from the announcement in Rolling Stone on this very page. It's the bottom link. It is astounding! Listened to it again last night, as a matter of fact. Great little Mind Left Body Jam, which I believe is unusual for Truckin Jams to have. But I would recommend checking out the sample to see if it matches your tape. It does transition from slow to fast pretty quickly. Didn't think it was disjointed, think Jerry just got enthusiastic. Speaking of Jerry getting enthusiastic, his work on the Not Fade Away> Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad> Not Fade Away on Dave's 26 11/17/71, is mindbending. He rips his way through all three sections. Maybe it was the excitement of being in New Mexico for the first time and playing one of his favorite songs, Not Fade Away, in the same state where Buddy Holly recorded the version he loved. But Jerry plays his ass off. That tape definitely lived up to and beyond Dave's hype. :)
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...no, not That man. Thank God. The man (or woman) who will drop this box off hopefully next Saturday or Monday. Labor Day weekend here is commencing with meaningless NFL preseason low on the tube, drowned out by the incredibly muscular, nuanced 5/7/72 Bickershaw Festival "The Other One." Lots of Dead jams rival the Dark Stars, many "Playing In The Band" performances, etc. I think Dark Star carries the mojo due to the title, the space lyrics, and myth as much as the music. They did that shit all the time, stretching out on other tunes. Just that "Dark Star" is weird right from the get-go, while "Playing, Other One," etc. have more of a traditional song structure to come back home to after the weirdness subsides. Pigpen still being there at Bickershaw makes it special as well. It WAS a different band after his absence. Not necessarily better or worse, but this is the guy who along with Jerry was really the glue. Their first front man, drunkenly rapping and keeping things moving while the rest of the band tripped their brains out on stage. The Dead were, really, a crappy blues band in the very beginning. I was a crappy blues guitarist, in the beginning. Most early bands and players in a rock context start with blues derivatives. It's simple, and everything comes from that well. I'm burning Lester Young into iTunes while I bask in the delight that is Bickershaw. Man... awesome. Saw the Magpie Salute in Boulder last night. Great show, my friend got thrown out for being drunk. I was probably drunker, but I hold my booze well and am not loud and belligerent. Except here, of course. Could have sprinkled a few more Black Crowes tunes into the set, the only disappointment. Happy weekend everyone play hard and stay safe. \m/
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....that's not me, but I have a few friends that ask me to go out to "down a few". No thanks. I don't feel like getting in a fight and/or going to jail. Been in jail once and not a fan. When I drink too much, I usually just smile like an idiot and wave people along. "Have a nice night!"Ask boblopes. He knows. I flirt with pretty women and just go with my flow. Settle down easy.
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So a loud, belligerent drunk and an alligator walk into a bar together. The drunk chops off the alligators tail and paints him yellow. What? Already heard this one.. never mind.
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I am looking for a decent audio copy of Dark Star's recent Red Rocks show. I would appreciate any suggestions.Have a great holiday...and only a "few" more days until the box set is in the mail. Mr. Pete-----------> aging hippie
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That Bickershaw 5/7/72 show might be my favorite of the whole Europe 72 tour. One could even argue it is the best not only of Europe 72 but all of 72. I know, tall order and certainly debatable but that show has several things going for it. So besides the obvious stellar playing PigPen is there as LedDed has said and I agree. No doubt even in his physical state at the time he was still the man. So there is that plus the Dark Star > Drums > Other One > Sing Me Back Home 2nd set jam. The Dark Star is good, but The Other One is massive, and it really rocks (note some fine organ playing by PigPen on that one). The Dark Star/Other One combo was last played before then at the 11//7/71 Harding Theater show. It wasn’t played again until 12/31/78. So pretty much after this show those songs did not pop up together too often whether it be as part of a sequence of songs or even just in the same set/show. However this show also has a Lovelight, one of the last PigPen versions. Having a Dark Star, Other One and Lovelight in one set wasn’t common at the time. Really to me this show reminds me of the 2/13/70 Fillmore East show due to these three songs played in 2nd set. Certainly Bickershaw wasn’t played the same as 2/13/70, but seeing those three songs in one set kind of makes these shows cousins, again at least to me. More importantly I look at this show as sort a changing of the times...It was one of PigPen’s last shows and it contains a nice mix of “back in the day” big jam songs with the newer material of the time. Shortly after Europe 72, PigPen was done touring which altered the setlists and shows. Don’t get me wrong the entire rest of 1972 is still a fantastic year but the last 6 months of shows that weren't quite the same as March through May run. And when I say “not quite the same” I simply mean different but still tremendous nonetheless.
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The word has it that the shipping box has a nice design on it by Mr. Vickers. However, my source has not given me the dimensions of the shipping box or the actual product dimensions. My source has not given me the details on the shape of the individual show containers, whether they're standard digi-paks w/ plastic trays or heavy paper sleeves, such as the E'72 sleeves or Road Trips containers or larger containers like the May 1977 or even larger like the Get Shown The Light (or the back door). My source of information is NOT bolo24, but an upper management United States Postal Service employee who saw a lot of shows.
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Nugs.net is usually a good play to search for various bands concert soundboards. While I found some 2018 DSO, unfortunately the nugs site did not have their more recent summer tour shows, or the one you are looking for. Try Archive.org as I did find one source for a audience recording you could download. https://archive.org/details/DSO2018-07-08.aud.akgc480ck61.akgc414.midsi… "Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."
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My daughter asked me what is the best album ever!!! Not limited to the Dead. I know if you ask our favorite show, we usually have about 50 to throw out with no problem.. My wife said Abbey Road.... Dear Alex and Annie I am so confused.... Pet Sounds, Sgt. Peppers, Bitches Brew, Brothers and Sisters, Highway 61 Revisited, Are you Experienced, Dark Side of the Moon...etc etc.. you all know them all!!! thanks bob t Just 1 album.....
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....like. Ever? In my limited experience, I would have to say Sgt. Peppers. Back to front, it's about as solid as they come. The critics are right some of the time. DSOTM is a very close second, as is Physical Graffiti. Regarding the Grateful Dead's rating, they deserve a totally different category. But I'm biased as fuck. And I'm not ashamed to post it....
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Best studio album = Quadrophenia Best live album = ABB @ Fillmore East Rock on
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I could never. Physical Graffiti would be a good single album for being marooned on a desert island, due to it's length, stylistic diversity and overall excellence. One could argue that Dark Side Of The Moon is as good a creative idea executed perfectly as there ever could be. But best album, man I'd have to go to a list and ten would be the minimum, just like with bands and you have to really leave a lot of great stuff out even at that number. The only thing I've carved in stone are the two best hard rock albums of all time, Back In Black and Appetite For Destruction. It was hard to keep Toys In The Attic off there, but then it would be three. Day to day I'm not sure whether Appetite or Black is number one. Reason being: no filler, incredible guitar sounds, a vocalist at the pinnacle of his career and immaculate, sledgehammer crisp production value. I agree, the Grateful Dead are in their own category, and it's initially due to Owsley and his live recordings. No other band I'm aware of has the sample size of wonderfully recorded live shows available for your listening pleasure. It's because of these thousands of shows over decades, with small variances in sets and songs night to night, evolving through personnel changes and improvements and declines in player's health, overall musicianship and creative spark. There's just nothing else that stays fresh to my ears like the Dead because I never have to listen to the same thing twice, if I don't want. I listen to the Dead like I do jazz, not knowing exactly what's coming, and it's never the same twice.
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.... definitely up in the echelon. I recall riding my bike with my neighborhood friends "cranking" it on our walkmans. Number Of The Beast came out shortly after. Don't get me started.Axl Rose sux. So there.
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Easy peasy. American Beauty. As comfortable as your dad's favorite pair of slippers. Wait...Innervisions. Yeah, that's the ticket! Hmmm...but what about Disraeli Gears or Wheels of Fire? No, no, no - Aja? Deja Vu? The eponymous Crosby, Stills & Nash album? Never mind...
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American Beauty is my favorite album of all time and yes, I am totally biased.Just look at the song list though... that’s not a greatest hits album. The album has a quality and feel to it - hard for me to do it justice with words. I know that the live stuff is where it’s at and I agree. It’s still my favorite studio album of all time anyway.
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