Grateful Dead

Another example is the 05/26/93 Road Trips. When that first came out I was like why? And I basically shelved it after some listens to set 1. Only very recently did I pull it out for the sake of some variety and finally really clued into listening to the Playing in the Band. I did a double take. Is this still the ‘93 show I had put on Or had I skipped way backwards to another era? Ah that’s why this one was worthy. Super glad to have it.....now. All these years later. If we trust Dave, each Pick has something to offer.....of course some more than others. But all worth some listens from time to time. The ‘86 TTATS - equal to ‘73-74 - no way. But fun to listen to less often. Absolutely.

I was at that show. It has a reeeeeeeally good Sugar Magnolia. if you like 94, I recommend 6/17/94 and 6/19/94.

Man I'm cool with this release. It has it's warts but overall some folks need another listen. I'm happy. Last 5 BB-Ill Communication 4-3-98 Island Tour Phish 7-11-03 PJ 4-26-03 PJ DaP 1 Extra Ween Chocolate and Cheese

Admittedly haven't listened yet because I am away - but I expect to fully, fully enjoy the release when I'm back - whatever "warts" and all. With almost all of the Dick's Picks, Dave'Picks, box sets, Vault releases, Download Series, etc, I think I have roughly 22 to 25 days of Dead music I could play straight without repeating a track. What I appreciate most is the VARIETY! Sure 68-69, 72-74, 77 or a few select years, may be THE best or THE best recorded, but it would be BORING to just have that. What keeps me buying is variety. And releasing 80's shows and 90's shows, and any earlier releases 65-70, represents variety. Rarely do I have the time to listen to full shows all the way through anyways, so even if a show is pretty average at parts, but has a particularly great "section", at this point that is enough for me to buy it. Example, the recent 11/06/77 release. Given that 11/04 and 11/05 was already released as well as many other shows from 77 that are IMO more enjoyable overall than 11/06/77, I can question it's release. That being said, I still love having it - and actually for the tracks that are most unliked by others - I LOVE the Scarlet / Fire transition. With Garcia's guitar dropping out for alot of it, is it an all time great version like 05/08/77 or 07/07/89? NO. But I actually love hearing the mellow groove the other band members create without him - it is a UNIQUE transition and a unique Scarlet / Fire for that reason - and once in awhile that unique mellowness is exactly what I am in the mood for. And for this 09/02/83 - the what I hear are unique post-Eyes Jam, unique type of Space, Wang Dang Doodle > Jack Straw, and some of the other highlights make it worthy of release at this point. Also Phil's intro to the crowd - Beware citizens!! It are those small tidbits unique to every show that makes me want to buy them all. So release them all from any era I say!! For DaP 28 - hoping against hope for some uncovered '70.

Wow, this sounds better than I thought it would! Seriously, this is a fine sounding release, believe me, I have heard ALOT worse than this! Dave L. and Co. need to mine the '80's and '60's more, because this sounds perfect to these ears. Anyway, I heard that there are "recording patches", does anyone have the start-stop times of the sound patches? It is not listed on the release as there being any "patches". Again, this a real fine release and the GD camp should not be so worried about the recordings because this is just fine. Oh yeah, the music - the band is cooking and playing with fire. More please!

hell yeah shirdeep '94!

So now that I've had a chance to do a couple more listen throughs of DP 27 I'm liking it more and more. Yes, the vocals are overriding the instruments more than I'd like. I do like the quicker tempo on some of the tunes. This is a time capsule of the only concert the Dead ever played in Idaho. It's from the soundboard master and back in those days low generation copies of it on the tape trader circuit would have been coveted. So this was mastered on cassette and not reel-to reel. A CD made from a soundboard cassette is better than one than one that can't be made because the Betty Board has been lost in an attic somewhere. Keep 'em coming Dave and thanks Jeffrey for your great work on these.

My appreciation actually went up the 2nd listening

with all due respect to Bobby...lol... I was afraid of a wardrobe malfunction moment watching 7/7/89 last night.

To answer your question I did regular delivery. My email said the 31st but it got here on the 30th. I'm in the SF Bay area