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    Dave's Picks Volume 28: Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 6/17/76

    This year's Dave's Picks series comes to a close just as the band's getting back together again in '76. By the time the Grateful Dead hit New Jersey’s Capitol Theatre - for the very first time - on 6/17/76, they were buzzing from their reunion, armed with new and revived material, the Rhythm Devils reformed with the mischievous Mickey Hart once again behind the kit. They'd skived off the unwieldy Wall of Sound and scaled back the venues from cavernous arenas to intimate theatres. Quite the treat!

    During the first set, the Dead's playing was nuanced ("Cold Rain And Snow"), detailed ("Looks Like Rain"), and intricate ("The Music Never Stopped"); the singing struck softly ("Row Jimmy") and raised hairs ("Ship Of Fools"). But it’s the big barreling energy of the second set you’ll want to brace yourself for, replete with a disco'd "Dancing In The Streets," a low-down funky “Help”>”Slip”>”Franklin's” and a wind 'em up to wind down "Let It Grow">"Wharf Rat">"Around and Around." Can you keep up? There's only one way to find out.

    This complete show, balanced out with a couple of bonus tracks from 6/23/76 and 6/28/76, was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman.

    Dave's Picks Volume 28 is limited to 18,000 individually-numbered copies*.

    Grab a copy before they're gone, gone, gone.

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

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  • daverock
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    Bruce's party piece at Wembley

    Yes, Bruce was there. It was very strange on the 1st night-10/30/90. Bruce led the jam out of first set closer, Let It Grow into one of his own compositions, Valley Road. I had never heard it before, and by the look on the bands faces-neither had they. It didn't seem sympathetic to Let it Grow at all-and as I remember it both band and audience stood there with bemused faces as Bruce obliviously and enthusiastically played on. It had all gone very quite by the time he had finished, and the band shuffled off stage. It wasn't bad-just unexpected.

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    Checkeroo.. Ha..

    From the Urban Dictionary:

    Not a full scale check of the surrounding area but a quick scan around.
    I'll just have a checkeroo to make sure I didn't leave my stash behind in the hotel room.

  • Roguedeadguy
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    You Have Step Uptown and Checkeroo are my favs! I'm totally buying that.

  • Sixtus_
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    Daverock, if I am not mistaken, ole' Brucey was on that Europe '90 tour, and he added some awesome stuff. The shows you mentioned are my my radar; and I also remember finding a pretty good near-sbd copy of the 20-OCT-90 show in Berlin years ago, and what I find hilarious now is that (A) I've easily found a copy of what I found back then on the interwebs (see link below) and (B) how obvious it is that whoever wrote down this setlist was either waaay tripping or had no idea what they were listening to:

    https://www.discogs.com/Grateful-Dead-Live-In-Berlin/release/3850365

    The Shakedown the night prior is also one for the ages.

    Sixtus

  • daverock
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    1990 isn't a date that normally follows on from the word "Europe", but thanks to the generosity of one of the posters on here, I finally got to hear a recording of the Wembley 10/31/90 show. I enjoyed the music at all three London shows in 1990, but haven't heard them since, and have always assumed that they were great if you were, less so if you weren't. Wrong again! The opening Help/Slipknot/Franklins is superb-a great feel to it. I enjoyed the whole show, so I dug out the Paris show from 27th, in the 30 Trips box. This may be even better. I haven't listened to the whole show yet, but its got a great China Cat/Rider nestled in there. Bird Song features in both shows too, leading into Promised Land to close the first sets. Good stuff.

  • Roguedeadguy
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    I haven't been on the new site much . . . But it looks like a lot of the old gang is here. Man I've missed this random banter about the Dead, music, life, and whatever.

    Been really diving into 73 lately. I've always loved Dave's 21, and then the PNW box, of course, and now I'm on Winterland 73. The cojtinued emphasis on the songs, but with the increasingly looser amd freer jams intersprersed. The emergence of Playin as a jam vehicle. Good stuff.

    Concurrently, also been slowly working my way through the Warfield run. 9/30/80 is my fav, so far, and also the last one I listened too (but I repeat myself). The sound quality is the biggest differntiator as the shows are very similar, so far. Good stuff, and would make a great box set some day.

    Just put in for the week of New Years off from work and have that blocked off to listen to as many 12/31 shows as life permits.

    Peace out

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    I would love a few 93 shows to get released, I enjoy a good Days Between and other late era songs that have not been heavily released.

  • Sixtus_
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    re: Bruce

    I am 100% on board with this idea. We've only been treated to a few official Bruce-infused releases, and we're overdue. I'm particularly partial to the '91 Boston Garden run, but pretty much anything throughout '91 proper would be appreciated and applauded. The energy he brought to the band during this era was entirely palpable especially when her and Jerry would duel back and forth. It was clear they were both having a good time.

    Sixtus

  • MDJim
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    We are certainly due a good Bruce show or two.. I would bet there are a few being discussed for future release. Not sure how they are going to treat the Vince era shows. I think the last one released (besides 30 trips) was Cal Expo?? and before that Dicks Picks 27?? I recall a little grumbling when those got released. One day we will see more from this era, however..

  • unkle sam
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    Been looking around in the community area and it seems a lot of the comments are scattered all over the place, not like before when we all conjugated in one spot, plus, I don't see any of the on line trolls here anymore, which is a good thing. Just makes me think how many of those trolls were not fans, just trouble makers? Outside agitators they used to be called. I would love me some Bruce and Vince 90's shows released in this series. Dave? Whatdya say?

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Dave's Picks Volume 28: Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 6/17/76

This year's Dave's Picks series comes to a close just as the band's getting back together again in '76. By the time the Grateful Dead hit New Jersey’s Capitol Theatre - for the very first time - on 6/17/76, they were buzzing from their reunion, armed with new and revived material, the Rhythm Devils reformed with the mischievous Mickey Hart once again behind the kit. They'd skived off the unwieldy Wall of Sound and scaled back the venues from cavernous arenas to intimate theatres. Quite the treat!

During the first set, the Dead's playing was nuanced ("Cold Rain And Snow"), detailed ("Looks Like Rain"), and intricate ("The Music Never Stopped"); the singing struck softly ("Row Jimmy") and raised hairs ("Ship Of Fools"). But it’s the big barreling energy of the second set you’ll want to brace yourself for, replete with a disco'd "Dancing In The Streets," a low-down funky “Help”>”Slip”>”Franklin's” and a wind 'em up to wind down "Let It Grow">"Wharf Rat">"Around and Around." Can you keep up? There's only one way to find out.

This complete show, balanced out with a couple of bonus tracks from 6/23/76 and 6/28/76, was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman.

Dave's Picks Volume 28 is limited to 18,000 individually-numbered copies*.

Grab a copy before they're gone, gone, gone.

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

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why are you doing this to an old man?

is this a Prank?

my cool post from earlier today is MIA.

"I'm a lost sailor", not a *$^%&! robot!

I'll adapt. thank you GD for being cool.

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Definitely a strange new world. I don’t know how to send a PM anymore

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Uhhhhh....where Are We?

Thought I was on the DaP28 page but then feel like I got shot into a cannon and landed somewhere else. Time will tell. UPDATE: Time Told. I am exactly where I thought I was....but wasn't.

I certainly can appreciate an update and some change; we could all use an overhaul once and a while it seems.

Good Day.
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Where am I?

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because it is not too good on a laptop and keeps launching new pages with every click.

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I managed to send you a PM but for some inexplicable reason it seems to have been added to a PM discussion we had around 10 years ago! I hope you feel inclined to look for it.

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Well...I’m glad! It takes a little bit to get everything just exactly right, ya’ll be happy to know we’ve got everything just exactly right.
🕺🏼💃🏻🕺🏼

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Hello? this is Gollum.

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still not sure how to get here without posting a comment, when I go to the "product" page (dp28), has a tab for "comments", but only to post?

happy, happy, joy, joy. Just glad I got my subscription, unless the "buying" side is working better :-)

Still doesn't seem to like :-),, :-(

sidebar, I guess the archive was just having a "moment",,, seemed ok just now.

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This is difficult and confusing for me. I need to turn into a robot. I promise no automated spam submissions, honest. Trouble is I will have to lie to be able to post this. Can robots lie?

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...Here's hoping the new and improved Dead.net will be able to sell me digital downloads in the near future.

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ok, this is very weird. did anyone else's avatar get changed to a photo they did not choose?

Hmmm. Ok?

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...getting used to. In my best decrepit Ozzy voice calling "SHARON?", I am calling MARYE? I can't find my way around anymore! Where are we? Am I logged in? Can I log out? Time for more lemon kush!!

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Funky is right....it's like someone sucked all the air right out of the room. I can hear voices, the music's still playing, but where did everybody go? At first, I couldn't even log in, and thought for sure they had finally figured out that I am really a just a lonely bot, but here I am, with my Arrowhead Avatar correctly in place, and ready to rock!

I have no doubts that the old place needed a few updates, especially behind the scenes, for the fine folks who are running the machinery. My guess is that things were probably a lot less efficient than they should have been with the old format, and in the long run this will help tremendously. I agree with Jim that the comments sections are the backbone of the site (other than the music of course)....but this in itself was probably difficult to manage in the old format due to the size of those sections. I'm sure there will be some additional improvements, once they get the kinks ironed out.

Anyways, I hope everyone makes it back to the party (most everyone at least :-))....I told my wife yesterday that I missed my Grateful Dead friends.....her reply: "Oh I'm sorry honey, that sounds terrible for you"

she thinks I'm nuts..........Here's my last 5:

Grateful Dead Live at Greek Theatre - University of California on 1968-10-20 Listening Now - Miller SBD on the Archive
Grateful Dead Live at Sports Palace on 1981-10-19 - Miller SBD - 1st Set (will make it back to 2nd set today)
Ween - 12 Golden Country Greats - Vinyl
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream - Vinyl
Dick's Pick's 34 11-05-77 Rochester, NY - Vinyl

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Yeah, it's kinda like waking up in Kansas – we're not in Oz no mo. But we'll get back as soon as the next tornado leaves the station. In the meantime, bread crumbs may be helpful . . .

Funny you're listening to 10/20/68 C-J. I'm not far away in 1/20/68 Eureka. Short, but perfect on a foggy, damp Saturday morning. After the April '67 Phil 'n' Jerry Show on KMPX, with sufficiently cleansed palate, I'm heading back to PNW for the '74 shows. Rock on, y'all.

QUESTION: Does this new site HAVE to make you redo reCAPTCHA even when you preview a comment for which you just passed the reCaptcha exam?

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Have a fine copy of 6/17/76. Can't say I am excited about it being DaP28, but I'm not upset about it either.
Bring on the 2019/DaP29 announcement! Give this new site something to sing about!
How about finding soundboards of 3/21/70 Early & Late? THAT would be an amazing DaP!!!!!!!!!!

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I mentioned last week that I never bought Download Series 4 (the show from the night after this new Dave's release), so the second Dave's arrives at my door I'm going to buy the 6-18 show and treat them like it's a mini 76 box. Should make for a fun week of listening. June 76 is really fun and interesting stuff. Definitely a unique moment in time for the band.

Hope everyone is well!

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After posting that last comment I was sent to page 6 of this message board.
Why wasn’t I sent to the most recent post of this page?

And another...
Those navigation numbers on the bottom of the page
First......1,2,3......Last
Put a copy of those on the top of the page too so that you don’t have to scroll to the bottom of the page just to move to another page.
Thanks.

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....sucks. Should have gone with a tie-dyed background instead of bright white. Missed opportunity. Clunky as hell. Hopefully they're still fine tuning this site to be just exactly perfect. Emoji anyone? 😎 And what's up with that fuzzy, cobra head avatar to my left? That's not me....😐

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This is so white, so bright, I'm gonna become snowblind. I'm gonna go and watch a welder at work just to get some relief.

Make it hard enough and people will stop. 1st the stupid robot thing now this. I just hope those who want Dave's 2019 will actually be able to see it

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.... I'm Vguy72, not VGUY72. I'm not yelling!! And I just posted this and it took me to page 5 of something. C'mon dead.net IT. Time for some fine tuning. marye did warn us though....the search comments bar is..... interesting? I don't get it. Old dog. New tricks.

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I ordered this in that tiny sliver of time it was available...twice. At least i think I did. I did this accidentally because I didn't get a confirmation email. I thought the order didn't take. I still haven't gotten an email actually. But hey, the site is revamped. I do have a charge to my account from dead.net so it seems to have gone through. While we're revamping things, I have a suggestion: make the Dave's Picks 2019 a larger run. 30,000 or 40,000. I'm sure they'll sell and less will end up on ebay...

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I can't even see while I am typing in the subject line because there is a window covering 90 percent of it. I never comment either...they say CHANGE IS GOOD??? Well not in this case ...this blows. I don't know where I am half the time. Maybe we should rethink this. Hey if it ain't broke ...don't fix it??? Sorry for the sarcasm but I MISS MY OLE DEADNET.COM.

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Well, at least the user icons are larger and easier to see. And it seems faster. The white background was probably due to so many accessing on their devices, with smaller screens. I would imagine they'll go to something less harsh after time. A work in progress. Doesn't seem too buggy.

....the Archive had an overhaul a couple of years ago. I hated it. Now, I accept it and work with it. It works. Guess this site will work as well in the long term. Emojis tho!! 🤣😂😃

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1) Last night my password wouldn't work. to log in I had to request I new one (account info was remembered by the system).
To comment today I again had to request a new password after my new password wasn't recognized.

2) Wanted to post about this from IceCreamKid:
"After posting that last comment I was sent to page 6 of this message board.
Why wasn’t I sent to the most recent post of this page?
And another...
Those navigation numbers on the bottom of the page
First......1,2,3......Last
Put a copy of those on the top of the page too so that you don’t have to scroll to the bottom of the page just to move to another page."

That experience happened to me too (at first, thought my comment had not posted, then saw the page number) and his request is one I firmly second. If you have comments appearing newest first, scrolling to the bottom the page to change pages is annoying and there should be the same page list/links available above the comments as there is below.

Hope that my password problem goes away. Hope the vast fields of white do get filled in with something interesting but not distracting or obfuscatory.

The site did seem to need an overhaul. Hopefully, this overhaul will be beneficial. Thanks for trying, GDM crew.

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Wow, what a cluster. Hope it's easy to subscribe again in a few weeks. Maybe they'll send a clickable link via email.

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Does the new site require fewer clicks to get where you want to be or to achieve what you want to achieve than the old site. So far the answer is a big fat NO. On the old version, if I was on this page and wanted to post a comment, I logged in and was taken back to this page again. Now, after logging in, I seem to have to go through five other pages before I can get back here where I can post a comment. Additionally loads of new tabs get opened in the process. I guess I will get used to all the extra click-work, but is this a step forwards in user friendliness and intuitiveness? Not to my way of thinking. Conclusion: FAIL.

PS: Still suffering from burnt retina syndrome due to the whiteness, the brightness of it all.

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lol I tried to train my robot to access this site and it was so hard for him he shot himself last nite. Now I have a dead robot, a crappy new dead site and a big mess to clean up ( robots also lose control of all body functions when they die) I guess they were just tired of reading our comments, so they buried them, just like I had to do with my robot this am. Who should we send the eye doctor bill to, this screen is so white, I can't see anything but this white screen for minutes after leaving the site. You will lose fans with this upgrade. But the selling of the product is way more important.

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The site keeps asking me to enter my email to get the latest news even though I've been on here for 11 years. When I type in my email and click "submit", nothing happens. There are some bugs in this new format for sure...

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...was spent by me trying to figure out how to login. Now I'm Wond'ring Aloud if I can pass the robot test. My next big challenge will be to place an order for the Dave's Picks 2019 subscription, and hoping that all the Heads who want one will be able to pre-order, too. Last year I believe the subs were rolled out around October 24th.

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Thanks for these reports. Keep 'em coming.
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as long as I can subscribe to Dave's Picks without issue, I can give myself some time to get accustomed to the "new dead.net".

if the background weren't so white (snowblind/BlackSabbath/myeyesareblindbutIcansee), we'd complain that we can't see the images/text.

btw: listening to 6/26/73 this weekend. yummy.

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Happened to check the site on my phone and found that Special Edition Shops does not appear under Music, and I only happened on this page by scrolling almost to the bottom of the home page and found the last 4 comments posted, 2 of them were here, and I followed the link. The Constant pop-ups asking for my email are beyond annoying as they cover the screen in black and don't allow you to do anything until you find where the window is and then close it. Then when you do, a new one pops right up.

If the new Dave's subs go on-sale this week, I hope there are no major issues. Not too confident about that scenario, though...

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Even the captcha seems convinced on this point most of the time. Hang in there, we'll get through this. Meanwhile, it would be very helpful if you would include details about the device and OS on which you are having these problems. Thanks much!
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until things are a bit less nonlinear, if your browser has a history pulldown, it is your friend... I am not saying this to be annoying, I'm saying it because it is helping me a lot!
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Once you find the page you want, bookmark it.
It’s too much effort to search every time, especially since the pages I’m looking for are at the bottom of the community page listed under products. And then you have to search more to find the product comment page.

That’s how it works for me on an iPad.

I like the white color and ‘normal’ font. I was having trouble reading the posts on the old site with the yellow background and small font. (On an iPad).

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