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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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January 14, 2019 - 7:57pm

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MDJim, yeah, I was just posting about that Dreambowl show, guilty as charged, that is probably my favorite show from the 30 Trips box. Now that I see your reference to the 1970 show from 30 Trips I am going to have to give that another listen - doesn't that have a cool Dancing in the Streets with a soulful strut jam? As far as 1970, also looking forward to DaP 30 and picking up the 5/15/70 Road Trips when it comes out again later this spring.

Deadheadbrewer, is that Motown Box the Hitsville USA Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971? I have that box and it smokes. If you dig that Motown and soul, check out the 3 Stax box sets with all of the singles from 1959-1975 or for a smaller set, the Stax 50th Anniversary 2 disc collection - the Stax stuff has a funky, raw edge to it, whereas the Motown stuff sounds a little smoother to me, but both are absolutely essential. For another great soul collection, check out the Soul Spectacular box with stuff from a bunch of labels, both large and small, a really excellent mix of stuff. Also, check out the Funk Box and the Soul Story volumes 1 & 2. Personally, I am of the opinion that much like the Grateful Dead, one cannot have too much soul music. Particularly dig comparing the Isaac Hayes version of Never Can Say Goodbye with the Jackson 5 version, both excellent, totally different sound, with Isaac's voice about as deep as you can go, and Michael Jackson's voice about as high as you can go.
January 14, 2019 - 5:20pm

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MDJim

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Bolo

The last I heard he took a job as an intern in the Turkish Embassy. But that was a couple months ago.

Bolo Bolo Bolo.

Well, I did my part.
January 14, 2019 - 4:09pm

#133

icecrmcnkd

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Good Ole Grateful Dead

Just fired up 6-24-76 for tonight’s listening.

Hey BCE, this new site isn’t that bad once you figure it out. It actually works better on my phone than the last site. I don’t recall any recent Bolo sightings, but Jim may have some insight into Bolo’s current state of high intrigue. Hopefully Bolo is working on getting that smashed cockroach out of the Rhino CD-making machine.

Docmarty, I got one of my DaP28 replacements and it definitely starts skipping at 1:40 of Let It Grow. The other replacement must be on the Terrapin Transport with Guss’.
I don’t hold out hope for the quality of that replacement, but hey, let’s hope that I am pleasantly surprised.....if it ever shows up.

And about 11-10-67, sounds really good on vinyl.
January 14, 2019 - 3:45pm

#134

Born Cross Eye…

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I AM BACK!

30 Trips
Just one of my favorites is 1968 entry, 10/20/68 Greek Theatre. Cut to the chase, baby!

But then the 1967 entry is great, too. 11/10/67 Shrine Expo Hall. I had a 1 disc bootleg of the show, sounded muddy - just plain rotten (Black Panther Records, BPCD 008) but I listened to it many times and loved it. Somehow,
it went-a-missin' and never found it after 20 some years. Then the show pops up in this box in its full sonic glory and it's a masterpiece!

But then I like all the shows that were included in this box.
Ya just can't get enough Grateful Dead!
January 14, 2019 - 3:21pm

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Born Cross Eye…

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I AM BACK! Born Cross Cross Eyed in 1956

I only *think * I'm back! I think I just may be back!
Or back on butt-crack cocaine.
I HAVE BEEN MISSING SINCE this new dead.net makeover last October or November or whatever 2018!
I've tried to figure this new dead.net out, tried many, many times and failed, and almost gave up. I just stopped reading these threads.

Much gratitude to MDJim (Thank you for the advice!)
and long-shot kudos to Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Keith Godchaux,
and Jerry Garcia,
and of course our wonderful board moderator, "marye"

Since I gave up reading these threads, is forsenicdoceleven and/or bolo24 back posting their lil old hearts out?
January 14, 2019 - 11:53am

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Lovemygirl

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* 30 Trips Re-run

...MDJim, funny thing you posted that with the new year starting your gonna go through the 30 Trips Box again starting with the 1966 performance. I told myself the same thing the other day. After Daves Pick #29 comes safely home and is digested thoroughly for about a week I’m going to embark on a 30 Trip re-run journey starting with 1966 and going forward in chronical order. I want to hear my favorite band musianians growth both musically and creativity thru each one of their songs. The box contains just a glimpse of the Grateful Dead’s treasure trove of musical genius. I’m ready! :)
January 14, 2019 - 10:54am

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docmarty

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Dave's Pick 28 Replacement

I got my replacement disc the other day. Played it today and all fine through the previous glitch in Let It Grow.....then it got stuck during Sugaree. B****r I thought....then I gave it a clean and all fine. How's everyone else getting on with their replacements - I've seen very few comments apart from someone a while back who had the same glitch in Let It Grow
January 14, 2019 - 9:57am

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Deadheadbrewer

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Last five

John Wesley Harding--Here Comes the Groom
Colonel Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit
Dick's Picks Vol. 14 (11/30 & 12/02--1973)
Hank Williams box set
Motown box set
January 14, 2019 - 8:58am

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MDJim

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Re: Recent Posts

Ha!! best meds ever. How true.

I have always liked 1976, but realize it's not everyone's bag. For me, with the Grateful Dead, one year cannot exist without the year before and it explains the direction of the year to come. ..perfectly understanding some are less enthusiastic about what was to become and in some cases where they just came from. But it makes sense to me. I really enjoy the sound quality improvements in some of the resent 76 releases. I think there is more of that to come thanks to Ms. Betty and ABCD...

Did someone mention 1974 China Riders? First, Minas.. good to see you posting again, I hope you are feeling better and all is well. Dave's Picks 13 has been in rotation at my house since it was released. It's a house favorite, the whole show to me is great.

Finally.. I think it was Charlie3 that keeps beating the 69 drum from 30 trips (Dream Bowl 2/22/69). I gave it a complete spin yesterday shoveling out from the first real snowstorm here in 2019.. the shoveling lasted all the way to Lovelight which made light of the heavy work. Then I brought it all inside and I decided to continue the 30 trips vibe into 4/15/70 San Francisco.. what a great show and both sounded so great. Reminds me that these are in fact very good times for GD music.

In short, I concur with many of recent posts.. and they did their trick to get me revisiting some classic shows. Waiting patiently for Dave's Picks 29 and beyond. I really think I am going to give the whole of 30 trips a fresh listen in 2019, starting in 1966.
January 14, 2019 - 7:33am

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Lovemygirl

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* recent Daves Picks

... Grateful morning to everyone!
I’ve been pulling past Daves Picks off my shelf over the last week while waiting for Daves Pick #29 arrival...enjoying it all!!! Best Meds Ever ;)
This morning I played Daves Pick #7, started with the second disc with a wonderful sequence of ‘Scarlet Begonias’ >>>’Fire on the Mountain’ >>>’Good Love’n’ ... a Grateful way to start the day!

John Perry Barlow

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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.

And soon it will be...

30 Days of Dead again, or at least I hope so. I haven't heard anything about it on here yet (service has not been just exactly normal lately), but I can't remember if there was any advance warning in previous years. That, together with the impending 2019 subscription launch and all the information that comes with that - and of course Dave's Picks 28 arriving. Its gonna be a busy month ahead.

Just finished listening to the awesome "AndOarAgain", the new 3CD reissue of Alexander Spence's legendary 1968 "Oar" album. As has been said before, the reissue of the year, with "Anthem of the sun" coming a close second. 😀

Hovering over Avatar / Background color / Comments sections

Marye~
I don’t know if you saw my post a couple days ago, but you cannot hover on a smart phone (iPhone 8+ / iOS 12). Besides that, clicking on the avatar photo or drop-down arrow is not working on a smart phone, either.

Background color ~
The two things in the comments sections that I thought made it feel personal and intimate (besides everyone’s warm and loving comments 😉) were the background color of the page and the font used for the subject of the comments. I can concede the font, but I think bringing back the familiar color of the background would make this new experience more comfortable. This white makes it feel like it’s just any other site.

Comments sections ~
I agree whole-heartedly with what many are saying about the comments sections on the product pages. I rarely post, probably only a dozen times or less since becoming a member of this site. But these “discussions” are the only reason I regularly come to this site. I know the site was only unavailable for a couple of days or so, but I really missed it. It’s something I like to check in on almost every day. It’s familiar user names like “marye” and many others that let me know I’m in the right place. I’m just not sure about the redecorating yet.

Snow and Rain

Tell Me

All that you know

I'll show you

snow and rain

Snow and Rain

snow and Rain

Hovering over avatar...

You are correct that you cannot hover on a smartphone, but on my phone tapping on the avatar brings up the pull-down menu. Then you can either choose something fom the menu or hide it by tapping on the up-arrow "^" next to the avatar. Hope this helps and hope it works for you.

Now time to watch the formula 1 race from Austin, TX.

Simonrob

Like I said, clicking on the photo or arrow does not do anything on an iPhone 8+.

My Problems Got Problems...

Lots of confusion here, almost like the new user interface was designed to limit user interfacing.

I was initially unable to log in due to my password not being recognized, used the reset password feature and the link that was provided via email logged me in but would not actually allow me to reset the password. It appears that I have been logged in since that time.

I am also in the camp of liking the comments for a product linked to that product. This is the main reason that I come here, the comments on the product pages and the caravan of usual suspects migrating from one Dave's Picks comment thread to the next.

The other issues would be the white background, which is pretty blinding after a short period of time reading comments, the relatively limited number of comments per page and the already noted need to scroll up to read comments from old to new, and then the need to scroll back down to move to the next page. Hopefully the bugs are still getting worked out.

Smartphone / Dumbphone

Sorry, I didn't realise you were talking about an iPhone. I have an old Android-based Samsung which works as described in my earlier post.

My daughter had an iPhone once - once was enough. I have heard, however, that iPhones are quite popular.

Comments

The comments can be viewed on the product page, just click on the comments button and they appear. But if you want to post it then sends you to the Community page.

40 years ago tonight

Hot times in the old Winterland arena; great show from the Hamza El Din first set opener to the closing US Blues. The loudest I ever heard Jerry was during that night's Other One -> Stella Blue->Sugar Magnolia. VolleyBall games before the show, and a screening of Magical Mistery Tour(or Animal House??) A great Saturday night all around.

Thanks IceCrmCnKd

Now that you pointed it out, I do see the comments tab on the product page. Of course it didn't actually show me any comments when I clicked it, but I expect that they will work it out. Also discovered that my difficulty logging in was due to using my email instead of my user name. Doh!

Re: It Was 40 Years Ago Today...

Great story Cousins.. wish I was there. I bet you were psyched to see that one get released.

Gives me a great excuse to revisit these shows, it's actually been quite a while since I last listened to them.

We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Kvetch-fest

... to declare that after seeing everything GD, from Robert Hunter solo acoustic to the latest version of Dead and Co., collecting thousands of hours of tapes, and buying pretty much everything this site has to offer, I never in my wildest dreams expected, during last night's Bobby and the Wolves show, the second set to open as follows:
Good Morning Little School Girl, Sunshine Superman>Dark Star. Smacked my palm into my forehead, I did.

Sunshine Superman>Dark Star?

Wow.. I might have danced a jig myself. Good to hear. In Truth.. Bobby has stepped it up a bit in the last few years, which is really great to hear.

Ok.. back to complaining. Get off my lawn, hippies.

Dave's Picks Volume 3 October 22, 1971

Well, they're not going to change it back to the way it was, so I figured I may as well get used to it. Looks better on my laptop than the phone.

I'm a sucker for anniversary shows, so I just popped this one on. Ever notice they seem to have missed or cut off the first milliseconds of the opening chord to Bertha? Just a smidge.

Looking forward to this '76 show, haven't heard of any of it yet.

Took the Cannon Shot Ride

Yeah, no idea where the hell I ended up after posting that last comment. I would bitch some more if I didn't hold marye and Dr. Rhino in such high regard. It'll all work out. (come on baby, work out....)

savoir faire is everywhere

working my way back to you baby.

Too early to say,,,, maybe I'm finding my way?

Avatar photo link - Update

I just want to let TPTB know that the avatar photo link is now working on the iPhone 8+. Thanks for the effort!

Anniversary Shows

Also Keithfan don't forget about the bonus cd from the 50th Anthem is 10-22 as well

re Bobby show

woohoo, off to nugs.net. Thanks for the heads up.

NCDead

Thanks for the reminder. I did forget about the Anthem release. I bought that one just for the live show. In addition to my CD collection, I store all of my shows on my smartphone, each show in its own folder with unique artwork. Since I used the CD album cover artwork for the studio album on my phone, I created artwork for the live show, which of course needed a title. If anyone wants a copy of the album art for 10/22/67, I give you Anthem Of The Moon:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HPjGa4Ua3-yv3YbsP5o6oPD5TuC96-92

Talk about a couple of pieces to compare: The Other One from 10/22/67 and The Other One from 10/22/71. That will be the ride home + Dark Star bonus track from 10/21/71

New site looks good, had no…

New site looks good, had no trouble using my login.

Ahhh, here it is....

Was just wondering if we could still comment on releases. Are the past release comments all permanantly zapped then?

It's going to take somew getting used to this new layout.

I've been touching on the anniversary listening program, and there are some great October releases. Particularly the later era stuff. Decided to deviate from that program and watch VFTV One. Haven't watched it in a while ande what a greeat underrated show that is. Sure hope they bring that series back.

https://oneida.bandcamp.com…

https://oneida.bandcamp.com/album/anthem-of-the-moon

(Keithfan2112)

new check

seems to be getting easier to get here

added edit - looks like some color is creeping in from the sides, maybe the all white is going away

Last 5

been in a late-era mood this week:

3/27/88 (Not the official release)
3/31/88
9/29/94
10/14/94
2/21/95 (not the official release)

If anyone wants any of these shows let me know! My copies all sound pretty solid .

Spacebro et al

The former Store threads live! https://www.dead.net/forum/72336 This approach is allowing the conversations to continue when something becomes unavailable in the Store.

and also

if there's one you're looking for and can't find, let us know.

and I laughed......

still trying to figure out pm system. But I did laugh when all of a sudden there was every pm ever sent, you know, the ones that when you deleted them you were told, they could NEVER be recovered!!! :-)

My phone has the same option, "check deleted messages?" NO! I deleted them, are you uploading them from the government database?

Shipping Notice...

...received.

Cue the passenger pigeons and donkeys travelling through the mountain passes uphill both ways in the snow...

With any luck it's on my doorstep already. This all happened very fast.

Sixtus

We are everywhere

We are indeed everywhere - U.S. Blues played at the halftime interval of the Arsenal vs Leicester game last night!

Shipping notice....

....received. Posting this on my work computer because posting from my phone is a chore. How about a dead.net app?

Thirty Days of the Dead

It's the most, wonderful time, of the year....

Dead-net app, nice call Vguy

Shipping notices you say?
Haven’t received mine yet.
How about the announcement of early bird DaP 2019 subscription?
If I win Mega Millions tonight I’m buying all of you a subscription - offer only valid to those who were members of the previous site from 2007 - to a few days ago when the transition to this new site happened. Offer valid for up to the total number of CD pressings for the DaP 2019 release, as determined by TPTB prior to the conception and/or writing of this post, whichever came first, minus the number of defective/damaged CDs. Offer void to members/employees/doppelgängers/wannabes of spam/scammer/hacker/unsavory character/etc., etc., websites/operations/storefronts (reCAPTCHA flashback) etc., etc., etc........
.....crosswalk (reCAPTCHA flashback).....
..........traffic light (reCAPTCHA flashback) .........
......etc., etc., .......

Wait, what?.......

........buses (reCAPTCHA flashback)

Mmmmmmm........
do’hnuts......

......I am a robot......

......mmmmmm.....reCAPTCHA crosswalks.......

Re: Frank Parry

I love that post.

got here without having to jump through a bunch of electronic...

hoops.

do robots dream of electronic hoops?

another perfect day, mi amigos. (if you get the Motorhead reference, I applaud you.)

well, looking forward to the new DaP. haven't had much time to listen to the GD; partway through 6/26/73. antici.....pation...

Just got my Dave's 28…

Just got my Dave's 28 shipping notice! Woo Hoo! The Dave's Annual Subscription email should be arriving soon too.

Shipping/30

Got shipping notice yesterday too, excited for this one. Fantastic tour, most of which is release worthy. And then 30 Days, can't help but love this time of year!

in prep

In preparation for this release (shipping notice today!) I'm listening to Chicago 6-27-76, 10 days later, a smooth Help>Slip>Frank. These four shows in June would make a nice mini box with the full Norman treatment.

MaryE, more trouble

As of this moment, the site still doesn't recognize my password and I have to use the emailed one-time link to log in. And there is a NEW problem. It appears I now get logged out except on THIS page.
Was trying to comment on the Welcome Back thread but opening that page kept logging me out. After two emailed link re-entries to the site, I re-entered the site without logging in, stopped by the DaP28 page and then to the Community Thread page then clicked "post a comment" and was suddenly logged in! Something is rather wrong... More than before.

Original purpose of going to Welcome Back thread was to point out that my favorite new site feature has a probably unintended side effect: The front page "recent comments" section is a great way to keep us comment-mavens up to date. Thank you all for that! BUT, I see that threads for the 2019 DaP and 7" subscriptions have been created. Can't access the threads ("access forbidden"), but does your marketing dept really want us knowing about impending purchase opportunities this way?

Traffic is down....

..... normally I would attribute that to a solar flare. But I know better. Check. Check. One two. One two.
And what the hell does that search comment bar do?
edit. I typed in Dark Star. I mean, why not? Screens still bright as the sun, but it took me to random DS posts. I see the intent, just not the reason.
Good luck backing out. Jeez....

yikes

ya know, that does sound a little weird, Seth and Vguy. I'll pass this on.

Vguy

Could you be a bit more specific as to what you'd like to see from the Search, as contrasted to what you are getting?

Marye

Thanks for providing all the assistance and support on all these releases, and also with the transition to the new site. Its truly appreciated!

- Slow Dog

The Look, Here

...after several days of nearly burning my retinas on the "ALL WHITE" border/background, I've come to realize that one of the fun/colorful/unique/personalized aspects that is now missing are the pictures of people's avatars. Even if the all-white is kept, the addition of the avatars at least would give some otherwise lacking "personality" to the pages and 'ourselves'. I'm not surprised if traffic here has slowed down - it seems some easy things could be done to make the pages a little more user-enticing.

Just my two pesos.

Be well, People!
Sixtus

Now....let’s see what category of images reCAPTCHA gives me......
I’m hoping for the 9 squares being a Whack-A-Mole game but instead of mole heads it’s Dancing Bear heads.

Nope, got crosswalks

Why do I always get crosswalks and buses?
Even a robot can figure those out.

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