Dave's Picks Volume 27: Boise State University Pavilion, Boise ID 9/02/83

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"The Grateful Dead picked up their instruments and hit the first note with perfection. They never missed a note for the next three and one-half hours. People followed the flow of the tunes. Down on the floor in front of the stage was a sea of heads keeping time with the music. No one sat still. No one, except the youngsters behind us sat still. They were still and stunned." - The Power County Press

And what a stunner it was, that show at the Boise State University Pavilion in Boise, ID on September 2, 1983. Dave's Picks Volume 27 contains every stitch of music from this mid-80s show (our first in this series), one that's as good as any other in Grateful Dead history. When the Dead were on, they were ON! Straight out the gate with a definitive take on the old standard "Wang Dang Doodle," the band swiftly switches back to a setlist of yore, firing off 70s staples like "Jack Straw" and "Brown-Eyed Women" and wrapping things up with a terrific trio of "Big Railroad Blues"/"Looks Like Rain"/"Deal" (don't you let that epic guitar solo go down without you). Primed for the second set, they tackle the complexities of "Help>Slipknot!>Franklin's" with heart and ease. It's clear there will be no stopping their flow - Bobby and Brent hanging in for a fantastic pre-Drums "Jam" and Jerry and Bobby in the zone on a not-to-be-missed melodic "Space." Not a skipper in the whole lot!

Dave's Picks Volume 27 has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman and it is limited to 18,000 individually-numbered copies*.

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

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August 20, 2018 - 5:01pm

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No offense meant to cowboys, Indians or drummers

Two cowboys waiting in their fort for the Indians to attack. They listened to the distant pounding war drums. One cowboy muttered to the other, "I don't like the sound of them drums." Just then, a distant voice came over the hill, "It's not our regular drummer!"
August 20, 2018 - 4:12pm

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Box set ideas

I'd like to see a box set of the 7 Greensboro shows, or just the 4 from '89 and '91, the others only for completism's sake. They are really good latter era shows, one that gave us the 23 min Eyes as filler on DP 17, and the earlier run begat the Hey pocky Way on So Many Roads. Spacebrother and I agree on 4/1/91 needing to come out in some form, I think a box of those shows would be affordable and a good representation from Dave for a city visited several times, and that still has quite a bunch of fans. I would love to get a Port Chester Box and don't care if that means getting Three From the Vault again, I have bought Monty Python and the Holy Grail like 6 times in different VHS and DVD versions. That I would hope would be put through Plangent. A remixed multi-track of the retirement run would be awesome. The Ark I'm less familiar with, but I will defer and lean on having listened to at least one of them after having my curiosity piqued by their constant mentions here over the years. And why not a rest of the Winterland shows bundled together (assuming 10/74 gets its own box) because the other 2 February '74 shows are worth putting out, as I would imagine most of the remaining Winterland shows would be worthy as well.
August 20, 2018 - 4:04pm

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Vguy72

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Will transparent coffins be a success?....

....remains to be seen.
August 20, 2018 - 1:14pm

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complete runs

Keithfan - absolutely would buy a Port Chester 71 run as well. For no reason at all, here is my top 5 "complete run" wish list (well, at least today) 1. Retirement shows 2. Warfield/Radio City 3. Port Chester 71 4. The Ark 5. MSG 1990
August 20, 2018 - 11:11am

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I could get into some

I could get into some Winterland October 1974: The Complete Recordings. A lot of it HAS been released between the 5 Disc Movie Soundtrack, Steal Your Face, and various Bonus Tracks (The 2nd of 3 Scarlet Begonias from that run and the 2nd of 2 Weather Report Suites come to mind); but that being said, I've come to enjoy these shows in their "whole" form. I would also hope for a different approach to the drum mix - something less "boomy" (in fact I would say that with a full box set release, I would be looking forward to some significant improvements in this area). The way the drums are now make a lot of the songs feel kind of...stodgy I guess is the word that comes to mind. To get a glimpse at what extras we'd be getting, I put all of the songs into a list and sorted them alphabetically. I'd look forward to a couple of Berthas, Black-Throated Wind, Brokedown Palace, Brown-Eyed Women, another China Rider, a pair of Cumberland Blues, a couple more Eyes of the World, Greatest Story Ever Told, 4 freakin' Jack Straws, Loose Lucy, a couple of Losers (no not shirdeep and Terrapin Moon), a couple of Me & My Uncles, another Mississippi Half-Step, Peggy-O (love the '74s), a couple of Promised Lands, the 3rd Scarlet Begonias, a couple more Truckin's, and another Wharf Rat and Uncle John's Band. Of course I would also love to get the entire Port Chester run from 1971, as well as the Fillmore East run. I'll have to do my spreadsheet trick with those shows too.
August 20, 2018 - 10:54am

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Vguy72

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The big boys playing on a little field....

....it was little league sized. Also, today in Grateful Dead history, this nice little show occurred in 1972.... https://archive.org/details/gd1972-08-20.sbd.miller.83733.flac16/gd72-0…

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"The Grateful Dead picked up their instruments and hit the first note with perfection. They never missed a note for the next three and one-half hours. People followed the flow of the tunes. Down on the floor in front of the stage was a sea of heads keeping time with the music. No one sat still. No one, except the youngsters behind us sat still. They were still and stunned." - The Power County Press

And what a stunner it was, that show at the Boise State University Pavilion in Boise, ID on September 2, 1983. Dave's Picks Volume 27 contains every stitch of music from this mid-80s show (our first in this series), one that's as good as any other in Grateful Dead history. When the Dead were on, they were ON! Straight out the gate with a definitive take on the old standard "Wang Dang Doodle," the band swiftly switches back to a setlist of yore, firing off 70s staples like "Jack Straw" and "Brown-Eyed Women" and wrapping things up with a terrific trio of "Big Railroad Blues"/"Looks Like Rain"/"Deal" (don't you let that epic guitar solo go down without you). Primed for the second set, they tackle the complexities of "Help>Slipknot!>Franklin's" with heart and ease. It's clear there will be no stopping their flow - Bobby and Brent hanging in for a fantastic pre-Drums "Jam" and Jerry and Bobby in the zone on a not-to-be-missed melodic "Space." Not a skipper in the whole lot!

Dave's Picks Volume 27 has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman and it is limited to 18,000 individually-numbered copies*.

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

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