Grateful Dead

I gotta listen to that again thank you mbarilla!

August 19 - 20 - 21 Dave L. send out a 1980 heater !!!!! Anyone on here selling an extra pass to LOCKN ? looking for a 3 day Friday-Sunday or maybe even just Saturday and Sunday if someone is still stuck with extra at that point in time trying to make the play down there for Dead and Company For anyone in Ohio Columbus area , I heard Bruce Hornsby is performing a free show on Friday night , I will most likely attend http://www.dispatch.com/entertainmentlife/20180627/bruce-hornsby-to-per…

we still have time to save another Betty from the budget constrained Dave's Picks series. it is fine, i guess, if they do the old Kidd reels as Dave's as they were part of the vault when Dave's was begun, but wasting the returned Betty's on this series is near sacrilege. 20 years ago the Betty's were shared on DATs from the PCM copies of the reels and here is a description of what makes a Betty and why we need unsalted versions in the best quality in their own series. <<<<<< from the Bountiful Universe of Digital Dead list 1998 >>>>>> WBOTB 2 October 1977 Tree *What's Become of the Betty's?: 10/2/77 Paramount Theatre, Portland OR** Hello and welcome to another round of the What's Become of the Betty's project (that's WBOTB for you youngsters). Recently we treed the show from October 1, 1977. We now have the next night for you, October 2, 1977, also in Portland. What is a Betty? As one collector wrote: _________________________________________________________________________ These tapes are from Betty Cantor's personal stash. For whatever reasons, she abandoned these tapes (and other property) in a rented storage locker back in 1986. After giving Betty repeated opportunities to catch up on back rent, or to remove her property, the owner of the storage facility legally sold the contents of the locker at an auction. The tapes were sold in batches to several people. One of these batches (62 shows worth) made its way into the hands of some deadheads, and was put into general circulation in the taper community. Bless them again! The first great wave of Betty Boards began hitting the streets by 1987. They revolutionized tape collecting. I still remember the joy I felt back in 88 or 89 when another batch of Betty Boards would come my way. By 1996, however, a lot of the Betty Boards in circulation are hi-gen and fragmented. Even many of the DAT copies out there are actually copies of old analog tapes. Given the quality of what was in general circulation, most folks have never really heard a Betty Board. Until recently, that included me. These tapes are great folks. You don't just get to hear the clang and hiss of a cymbal, but to hear the wood striking the metal disk, the clang and shake and wobble of the hissing cymbal. Believe me friends, you ain't never heard a Betty Board before. These tapes, although based on two track reels spun directly from the soundboard, should not be confused with soundboards that have been released in recent years. For one thing, many of the soundboards that the Dead have allowed to sneak out seem to have been slightly salted in one way or another to degrade the sound quality. These Betty Board tapes are pure and sweet, with no salting: they are better! For another thing, these Betty Boards reflect the limitations of working with 7" or 10" reel to reel tapes: sometimes a tape breaks off in the middle of a song; sometimes you can hear the tape spin up to speed at the beginning of a song. There are a few unpleasant reel flips here and there. Remember, these tapes were originally recorded many years ago by hippies on drugs! Interested? Here are the essentials for what we'll be treeing: 10-02-1977 Portland, OR (Complete show-- source tape: MR>P2>D1) 7" two track BBD reel w/ DBX-1 @ 7 1/2 ips > PCM501ES @ 44.055 kHz PCM501ES analog out > DBX-1 decoder > analog in PCM501ES PCM501ES analog out > Fostex D5 @ 48 kHz Notes: Casey Jones has brief low-level crackle possibly due to a bad microphone; Wharf Rat has a thirty-second section of analog tape damage leading to a cut during the song. There is an illegal bootleg available of this date that apparently has no cut in Wharf Rat, but the cut has been edited out and the song is about 30 seconds shorter than on the Betty reel. No EQ has been performed. You hear what is on the Betty reels, as best as we can get it to you.

...did someone say boxset ;)

You don't hear so much about that run, but I would be well pleased with any box set featuring a run of 1972 shows. Every time I play a 72 show, I feel convinced that this is the best year in their history. The other year that gives me this feeling is 1968. Everything form both years that I have heard is stellar.

The Winterland '74 Retirement Shows that many folks here have mentioned seem a super idea.I would add Texas '72 - a great, great run!

been out of town for a few days. spent time with extended family, so essentially no GD for those few days (worth it, as ultimately, family > GD) Oregon coast is nice I love that there is a place called Seastones Cottages there HEAVY PHUHQING WILDFIRE SMOKE IS IN THE AIR THROUGHOUT THE NORTHWEST! aagh. bring on my same old friends, the wind and rain. Green hills now veiled in grey. enough!!! climate change or no climate change, I have nneeeevveeeerr seen smoke this thick. well, in the morning I get into 11/17/73 disc two which is a Dave's. off to sleep stay grateful, everyone.

....nice one.

Vguy thanks for that historic note. Such a rush, I was at that show! It was added only a week or so before the sold out BCT shows, which I had already bought two shows to see. Yeah I'll go see San Jose too. That week was a game changer. Yeah I'm totally on board for the 74 Hiatus shows, and the Winterland Box. I'd like a complete Cal Expo box, too. And of course there's the Berkeley 72 shows, maybe what's left?? Oh and the Greek Box.

Worthy of my patented Ostrich laugh.