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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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  • frosted
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    My favorite

    Wavy Gravy was my favorite candidate when he ran as Nobody for President.

    Pat Paulsen was a close second. Anybody remember him?

    Other than that, I will respectfully add no fuel to the fire, but just encourage everyone to vote. Take nothing for granted!

    I really like this DaP 28 too.....

  • Vguy72
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    Political bantering....

    ....guess if there was one day this was going to come up, it would be today. And yes I voted, and no I'm not telling. Firestorms tend to erupt when one voices their political tendencies, which is sad and lame. For both sides. Personally, I wish Kasvot Vaxt was on the ballot. Easy pick.
    ....edit. And no CaseyJanes, I haven't watched Ozarks yet, although it did peak my interest. It was that or The Haunting of Hill House. Flipped a coin. Came up tails. Ozarks was heads...

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    Right on DaveRock!

    "Hawkwind, on the other hand, were THE anti establishment band, often playing for free at festivals. If you have never heard them, the live "Space Ritual" recorded in 1972, is the one to go for. Its up there with Deep Purple's "Made in Japan " in my estimation."

    Space Ritual IS pretty awesome. If, like me, you really dug Spacemen 3 or Loop but ignored Hawkwind, you NEED to check out Space Ritual.

    Dave, are there Hawkwind fans on your side of the pond who revere Thatcher and tell people to "cut your hair and get a job"?

  • JeffSmith
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    The indelible certainty of the political posters here makes it pretty clear we're losing the possibility of creative problem solving and respectful dialogue. In any case, there're places for polishing personal political mythologies, but I don't think that's what this forum's here for. Play Dead. Onward (through the fog).

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    Grateful Dead in the Ozarks?

    Not sure if anyone watches Ozark on Netflix or not (spoiler alert), but last night my wife (who's not a Deadhead) shook me awake as I was dozing off while we were watching Episode 4 on Season 2 of Ozark. At about the 38 minute mark of that episode a plot line begins involving a set of Dead & Co. tickets that will eventually be used later in the episode as a bribe (don't you let that deal go down indeed). Apparently Dead & Co. are playing two upcoming shows in Missouri & another two in Nebraska! (please God, let this be true!) I declared to my wife, if that happens then I'm going to all of em....(a quick muffled laugh & eye-roll from her) and then I promptly fell back asleep.
    And then, I wake up to find a very nicely done Black Throated Wind > Deal on my doorstep. Unbelievable......Can someone please tell me how they do that?

    Last 5:

    Pittsburgh, PA, Pittsburgh Civic Arena - September 24, 1973
    Niagara Falls, NY, Niagara Falls Convention Center - April 17, 1984
    Oakland, CA, Coliseum Arena - December 28, 1988
    New York, NY, Felt Forum - Madison Square Garden - December 4, 1971
    Chicago, IL, Kinetic Playground - April 25, 1969

    Today.....something from the 90's.....hmmm.......any suggestions?

    Edit: And what do ya know, I look up and....today is my Dead.Net, One Year Anniversary......It was on this day, one year ago, when I completely plunged down the rabbit hole after discovering "30 Days" on November 1st....close to some 200 shows later, I'm very happy to be here, digging deeper, and I've met a few friends along the way. Thanks to all for the warm welcome, and especially ForensicDocEleven, MDJim (or is it JiminMD?), and Oxford 88 for loading me up with so many great shows. I'm forever Grateful.

    Play Dead People,

    KCJ

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    I was thinking along those…

    I was thinking along those lines myself. Thanks for your input!

  • Dark-Star
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    If people measured Obama with the same measuring stick they use for Trump, everybody would be calling Obama a racist. The guy has a history of commiserating with anti white people. He hung out with Farrakhan and suppress pictures of it, he had his portrait taken buy an artist known for painting pictures of black women holding decapitated heads of white people. Do yourself a favor and look at the entire picture. CNN and MSNBC do not report on such things. Do yourself a favor and don't rely on them for your news. And exercise some intellectual honesty. Is Trump really a racist? I don't know, but I dunno that I have watched the media twist his words frequently to paint him as a racist. I'm not saying he doesn't make some questionable remarks but I am saying that a lot of people are all too eager to jump on that hate bandwagon that has been exaggerated by the media for propaganda purposes. The same people who condemn hate speech. If you really want the bad feelings and negativity to go away, you need to stop taking sides and start listening to everybody. You may learn something about yourself.

  • MDJim
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    I think you will be pleasantly surprised DaveRock. The recording and mix, in particular, are exceptional. Good to hear about your positive experiences in the city..

    Please folks.. resist the temptation and don't let things dissolve into tit for tat and discord.

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    Talking of live concerts..

    ..I saw a couple of great ones in London last weekend at the London Palladium, no less. On Saturday night it was King Crimson, who played with incredible power and dynamics for several hours. This is the new three drummer line up, and it worked perfectly, the sound, the set list-even the audience was great, respecting the request not to use mobile phones during the show. They actually listened during the quiet parts, too.
    On Sunday, I saw Hawkwind at the same venue, backed by an orchestra. It felt very strange seeing them at the Palladium, which was a bastion of the establishment when I was growing up. There was a television programme called "Sunday Night at The Palladium" in the 1960s, which was a favourite of mums and dads, and featured "light entertainment". Hawkwind, on the other hand, were THE anti establishment band, often playing for free at festivals. If you have never heard them, the live "Space Ritual" recorded in 1972, is the one to go for. Its up there with Deep Purple's "Made in Japan " in my estimation.

    No Daves Picks yet. I wait with bated breath.

  • direwulf
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    Yeah politics sucks but you cant get out of a shitstorm by pissing into the wind. I agree with ya, if my grandfathers, one who liberated France from D-Day on and another who was a B-17E navigator shot down and imprisoned in a Nazi POW for four years camp were alive to see what Trump and his followers were doing to this country while remaining silent about the rampant Nazism and every day racism popping up in the Republican party, they would be beyond furious. Funny one of them was a staunch Republican too. Unfortunately most Baby boomers are spoiled post-war economy whiners with no sense of how good they actually had it and have lost it all for everyone because of overconfident pompous ineptitude and rampant greed.

    Our best hope now is that they only completely screw the younger generations out a livable planet before their all dead in 15 years.

    The Greatest Generation I revere, but the Boomers damn alot of them are losers, all about the show but no substance. Popular vote should win elections not data-mined gerrymandering to flame the last gasps of a generations illusion of profundity and power. Sadly for them history will probably not paint them favorably, especially with their climate change is fake bs, long moral arc of justice indeed.

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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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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. 😀

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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... 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.

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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.

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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....)

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

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

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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.

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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

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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 .

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

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...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

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

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

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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......

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

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

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

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

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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...

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

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!

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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.

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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?

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..... 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....

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

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...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!
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....to be honest marye, I'm not sure what i was expecting when i saw it. Old dog, new tricks. Still learning.

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from what I've been hearing people are now able to go in and fix their munged avatars. Is this not happening for you?
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That was easy and fast. Now we know one of the reasons for the new site. Last year was a near freak-out!

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Woo hoo!

That ordering process went extremely smooth compared to the old site.

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.

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