Grateful Dead

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10-2-77
10-29-77
4-23-77

Guy, remember the max creek and jiggle shows in the living room in Providence R.I.. .when we bought that Woodstock acid and drove home to Massachusetts in some kind panic because we took to much and thought we weren't going to find southboro? In the good old days of 1988!!!

The Swing is the show that turned me onto the Dead, and has remained my favorite ever since. There's just something about it that makes it stand out to me. 5/25/77 sits in the same stratosphere, as does 5/9/77 (Buffalo has always outranked Cornell in my book).

This gem is my dream release, and pretty much tops off all of the '77 must-haves on my list. Every release after the Swing will be gravy. Damn good gravy, mind you. But Dave's 29 will leave me satisfied for a long time.

It's always been on my list of top shelf shows.. I did get Cornell first, and sort of wore it out to the point of memorization. Thanks Mom.

I have not done the same with The Swing, so to me it's that much more special and honestly.. perhaps partly because of this, I like it better.

A few have commented that this Swing Aud show is not your typical 1977 show, and I agree. I don't know that there are too many 77 shows that are going to give us anything groundbreaking and out of the ordinary, relative to what has already been released, but this is one of them, as far as I'm concerned. Almost every song is in the top 5 on headyversion.com, and the only other show where that happens from 77 is Cornell. And Cornell is click bait for votes on that site, so, there's something to this show. I think the performances are just that much better, and so's the set list. I am very much looking forward to the cleaned up sound, because my copy has a lot of flutter in it.

Very cool – hi-res cover art for Dave's 29! No need for anybody to try to coax a color-corrected image from scans of the printed CD packaging. Just exactly perfect. I'm with Keithfan: THANKS DR. RHINO, DAVE, ET AL for what looks like maybe the artists' proof or at least a "pre-printer" version. NICE!

The hi-res covers I cobbled together of previous Dave's are still up on dropbox for anybody that's interested:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qx5j9ydoc7bzm8z/AAD8yK_vCv_kQ-oLkLJQVCEla?dl…

What a pleasant surprise. This phone outage is causing havoc in my daily routine. Can't login to my personal email from work either. The guy who sits across from me is big into the Allman Brothers, but also into the Dead (this lucky bastard went to Dick's Picks 15 - amazingly, or not, his biggest memory is the walk to the stadium from the car). He forwarded the DaP 29 email to my work address a couple of hours ago, and I already have the artwork setup as my desktop background. It wasn't that long ago we were saying how nice it would be to have a nice high-res copy of the artwork available, and here it is, 2400 x 2400 - Thanks Dr. Rhino and marye. Love the colors and the picture. I don't mind the skeletons, and whoever the new artist is appears more to my taste (simple, not too much going on). I wasn't too crazy about last year's artist, except for the bonus disc painting.

Thanks for the tip, I checked amazon and it is in fact Hot Buttered Soul that has the extended versions of Walk on By and By the Time I Get to Phoenix. I have considered picking it up in the past also, but since the 40th Anniversary edition was so cheap I couldn't resist picking it up today. Looking forward to checking it out.

I might be wrong-but I think that's where you will find the extended versions of Walk On By and By The Time I Get To Phoenix. Its been on my list to buy for about 15 years-so much to listen to-so little time.

Nice looking cover on Daves 29.