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

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heatherlew

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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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July 28, 2018 - 2:20pm

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Vguy72

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WTF?....

https://amp.kptv.com/story/38754573/detectives-investigating-assaults-w… stones. Literally. Shit like this boils my blood. What's up with people these days? Does that get them off? And in what way? To hurt other people? It doesn't compute for me. Cops are on it though. Throw away the key. People need to better themselves. Not stoop to crap like that. Puts a bad name for the rest of us. Congrats asshole. Hope you had a grand time chalking that event up when you got home. Give me a rock or two and your address, big man.
July 28, 2018 - 12:52pm

#1242

SPACEBROTHER

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Got mine

#484/18000 Nice! Uploading to iTunes, then a listen. I can already tell that this will be one of my favorites. Love Dick's Picks #6 and the 30 trips '83 shows. A little under a year before my first grateful Dead concert. Finally into my era.
July 28, 2018 - 12:16pm

#1243

JeffSmith

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Close, but no . . .

Tracking info from UPS/Mail Innovations made it look like Dave's 27 would land today, a day or two early. Then I received an ominous auto-tracking message, "The status of the shipment has changed." More specifically, "Exception Reason: Mis-shipped; Package routed to wrong post office (Pecos, TX). Package will be transferred to correct post office for delivery." Arrrgggg! Shoulda known it was too good to be true. . . Not that bad really with the Watkins Glen soundcheck and Saturday show more than rising to the occasion.
July 28, 2018 - 12:07pm

#1244

Oroborous

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Nappy/ Commander Cody

The ooolllllleeeeee Commander!Yes in deedie, always was fun seeing the commander. First time, probably 80 or so, they had one roadie who basically just kept making trips to the bar with one of those old big round wait trays. And the dude nonstop would bring a load of like 20 at a time of I believe Molson Golden’s and then head back and load back up at the bar. Usually just about the time he got back from the bar run the band would be tipping back that finally swallow and ready for a fresh one.....poor bastard was the hardest working man in the outfit! LOL By the end of the night, there wasn’t an amp or flat surface anywhere that wasn’t piled with Molson bottles....I can still see it in my minds eye. Guess still being relatively young, it made quite an impression? Ahhh, what a night, they still had a few of the long timers, and they could still bring it! Psychedelic Texas Swing, ye-doggy! Didn’t think they wrote that, like you said Nappy, they didn’t write so much, but man their version of that song as well as most had a whole different mojo level that’s for sure. Fun song via a fun band! Thanks for the post, neat version, the lead almost sounds like a young Willy!
July 28, 2018 - 11:59am

#1245

Vguy72

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80's PCisms....

....as a fellow 50 year old, I hear ya Seth. Things were simpler and more inoffensive then. "Thin Ice" is abundant these these days. If I sneeze, I feel like I "offended" someone, somewhere. Pussies are rampant. Everyone feels like they deserve something. Speaking of the 80's, my son and I watched Ready Player One last night. If you played video games in that decade, that movie is a celebration of memories. Im biased though. Atari 2600 anyone?
July 28, 2018 - 11:54am

#1246

daverock

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Stepping into character-LedDed

It seems obvious now that a lot of bands are performing a show which doesn't necessarily reflect how they really feel. But it wasn't always thus-for me anyway. When I was in my mid teens, I thought that what bands sung about reflected their lives. I assumed that the way they were on stage was how they were in "real life". People who got screwed up-or who died seemed even more authentic-as I thought they were walking it the way they talked it. I got disabused of this notion, initially in 1973. It was quite a shock to me when David Bowie drew the distinction between himself-and the character he was on stage-at that time Ziggy Stardust. It was confusing in 1973 when he announced his retirement. Everyone assumed that he meant he himself was retiring - but he obviously didn't-he was just retiring a character he had been acted as-in preparation for taking on a new role. Sometimes its hard to work out what is real and what is not.
July 28, 2018 - 11:36am

#1247

klaussmith

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I had this shirt

Cool,I had this shirt on tour that summer. They added the Frost and I was at 11 or 15 of these venues for 16 shows.
July 28, 2018 - 11:35am

#1248

Seth Hollander

Joined:
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favorite "kill the Deadheads" tune

Try this!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x9p1RGza8U Brown Sugar is a GREAT Stones song IMO and lyrically VERY ugly. Just like "Sympathy For The Devil" and "Under My Thumb". The former two have never tripped my PC alert becuase they are rather widely focussed, but UMT has often creeped me out with it's more one-on-one mysoginy. Still, a great bassline that floats my music-appreciation boat! I am moderately PC (at 50yo, my values are based on 80s PCisms that are far behind the current standards), but would NEVER give up listening to pre-80s Stones (simply The World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band). Nice to read people thinking about serious stuff in a serious way while still talking about "our" music. Very cool discussion, IMO.
July 28, 2018 - 11:26am

#1249

phil hubbard

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Great Art as usual, copperdomebodhi!

and LOL your comment...
July 28, 2018 - 11:24am

#1250

phil hubbard

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Good points.....all of em, LedDed!

Hard to gauge these days what stories we can still tell and I agree-lots of unsavory lyrics from our favorite band! Food for thought....

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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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