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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 3, 2019 - 6:58pm

#251

Judysparty

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As usual... How Dare I Say That! My God! That's appalling !

C'mon people. First off, I'm not hiding or ignoring you like "the powers that be are". Go back to my post. I never Threatened anyone. Not once. Not even a little bit. OK. I use LARGE letters because the average age on this site sometimes is close to age 70. At that age, many people can't see things the way they used to. But if you like I can write in normal size lettering. Either way, people will always misinterpret my words or your words. It wouldn't matter what I said or how I say it, people will always blow it out of proportion.
Now, I said what I said, the way I said it, to get people to have some sort of reaction. I achieved that. That was my goal.
Too many times, most people just don't want to be bothered with reality. It's too much work. If the Dave's Pick 28 thread is not the place to talk about the problems we are having with this release, then I don't know what is.
I have tried the phone calls. I have done the emails. I have chose to blog about it because I've been patient for weeks, and actually months!
I have come to the realization that I can't do it alone anymore. I have also read other peoples complaints and problems here on this site. What I see is that we must unite and support each other. Stand together and be heard. Stand together and be seen. Someone hopefully, at dead.net and rhino might, maybe notice that we have had enough with status quo and that we need to do things differently to achieve positive results.
How is Customer Service sending us one useless disc after another solving a thing? WE don't deserve this insane nonsense.
We need to share our thoughts and devise a strategy to improve positive results from the people responsible to do so. I am calling on Dave Lemieux, because I think that the person whose name is on the whole CD series might be one person who might want to see that the Defective Disc issue is 1)- recognized and 2)- fixed the right and proper way.
Here's the thing, since Dead.net or Rhino insists on issuing Limited (numbered) Editions of shows. Then they should be prepared to spend money to resolve these kinds of problems that are coming up. The discs need to be done all over again, from scratch. Fixed. Then shipped out to the customers. Not this other nonsense they are trying to pull on us.
Also, we as deadheads, can be very, very patient people if it means we are going to get a quality product in return. So that being said, since we are the one's spending our hard earned money, we deserve a better deal by Rhino to get these things that should be done, done right.
I have thought long and hard over the B.S. that has been given to me, and I'm sure a lot of you have to. I honestly believe we can achieve positive results if we adhere to good responsible ethics.
My goal was to try to wake people up to this fact. Because we have to stand up and be counted. Not ignored.
They think that if they can ignore us long enough we will go away. And you know what? They are right. When you sell a numbered limited edition and it's bogus and doesn't get fixed, then it becomes obsolete. The whole Dave's Picks Series up to Volume 28 becomes, I don't know, worthless. It's lost it's collectors value then right?
That is what will happen when Dave's Picks 29 comes out. We will all go away, and then they don't have to deal with us or are problems until the next set of problems comes along.
We will be the losers here. We must get them to resolve these problems now. The right way.
Take what I have said and do whatever you think you must do with it. But there is one thing I have learned through the years. "If you are going to be one. Be one." PEACE!
January 3, 2019 - 6:29pm

#252

MDJim

Joined:
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Re: Strider88/MaryE

I am jealous.. what great shows to see!

As for grumpy Grumpins (or whatever the word is).. I take my lead on grumpiness from Mutley.

You Rasselfrazenrickaracketsbackenstabbenbastages. Or, stated more eloquently, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj3DBcpfMNQ

Wishing all of us, even the rassenfrassens a very happy New Year with no defective disks.

One add.. a tip of the hat to DaveRock. I must admit I am not as open and receptive as some but the world needs more folks that understand the value of tolerance, especially from people with different perspectives. It's not often you see people embrace difference, especially when it's out of our comfort zone... The GD and assoc. madness and people has taught me much and I am still learning. His posts are often quite open and tolerant even when opinions differ from what are likely his own. There's enough room for all of us, and when you start kicking people off the island.. before you know it you are the last one standing, and what fun is that?

As for MaryE, no words are suffice. And for Strider88.. if I ever got a hold of his ticket stubs, I would feed the dates into the wayback and hit each and every show.

Peace all, to my buds here and those I don't know so well.. to 2019. Onward. Oh, a quick shoutout to Otis.. what a great new years vibe.
January 3, 2019 - 4:37pm

#253

Mind-Left-Body

Joined:
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I Get It

I got to agree, the outrage is just a little bit more than what the situation calls for. Kicking.and screaming here isn't going to help. All things being equal, I would much rather be talking about the music than defective discs which are a marginal issue at best. So there was a problem, they're taking care of it, move on. To call out David Lemieux of Dave's Picks with profanity is nonsense. I once had an email discussion with customer support where they clearly did not read what I was saying repeatedly. Sure it was frustrating, but I did not get nuts on the message board. I escalated to Dr rhino and he solved my problem immediately.

Just by virtue of helping everybody who has had bad discs. marye is well aware of the extent of this issue and will surely get it taken care of moving forward. That is what has always happens here when there have been problems. And relatively speaking there have not been that many problems. They have had so many hundreds of individual releases with no issues whatsoever that I do think this is simply a matter of contacting the appropriate people through the appropriate channels and being patient. Some of you people make it sound like there's a conspiracy to rip off customers. The fact of the matter is, we have bonafide deadheads releasing the best stuff in the vaults for us, and we have direct contact with customer support management representatives who always get the job done.

The masses are not going anywhere because the music is that good, so complaining about it here is truly not doing anything except distracting people from talking about the music. I'm not saying don't mention it here. I'm just saying that it is a fruitless distraction to try and round up an online Posse to try to bully the guy who picks the music. You see the difference? There can be even tempered discussion about which disk somebody or the other person is having trouble with, which is fine. But verbal threats and profanity and capital letters is ridiculous.
January 3, 2019 - 3:06pm

#254

stoltzfus

Joined:
January 13, 2010

Grumpy Grumpkins

Snarly bunch here

Anyway, check out 12/31/79.
January 3, 2019 - 2:23pm

#255

daverock

Joined:
September 1, 2014

Musical discussion board? - Butch

I've never heard this board defined as that before. Anyway, it seems you are leaving, so goodbye to you, too!
January 3, 2019 - 12:50pm

#256

CaseyJanes

Joined:
November 6, 2017

Singles Volume 8 and Defective Discs

Deadhead Brewer.....your post concerned me as I have also recently started my own singles collection. I had only purchased vol 1-4 until today. After seeing your post I went to the 2018 subscription link and was able to order volume 5-8 as a subscription. This may not help you as you mention you already bought 1-7, but at least you know that they still have Vol 8 in stock (at least through subscription). Would surprise me if it was sold out...

My disc 3 is also fine on Dave's 28, so while definitely seems to be a widespread problem, it is not in totality. I did have one issue with a defective disc on the PNW box however it was addressed quickly and painlessly in just a few weeks by Dr. Rhino. Hopefully they make things right on 28 soon.
January 3, 2019 - 12:43pm

#257

Judysparty

Joined:
May 25, 2010

AMAZING!!!

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January 3, 2019 - 11:51am

#258

Butch

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August 2, 2017

It's ok to complain, just not here

I didn't see anyone suggest it was not okay to complain about defective product. I saw Trainwreck say he was tired of the "incessant" complaining from Sam. I've been here long enough to guess correctly in a multiple choice question that reads "Most likely to complain (about anything at all)"

a) MDJim
b) Lovemygirl
c) That's Otis
d) vguy
e) Unkle Sam

I would go with Unkle Sam (you do kind of dampen the mood "bro")

My disc 3 is fine on Dave's 28, so no need to spread rumors that every one is defective Judy. And using profanity toward Lemieux or anyone directly is simply not acceptable. Way too bellicose and aggressive over a stupid CD. You deserve your headache.

I have no doubt in my opinionated head that the site overhaul that we all hate was due to that guy shirdeep posting violent images and spamming the site. Now things are worse. I have no doubt in my opinionated head (yeah yeah everyone has one) that posting profane laden diatribe's at Dave Lemieux is the quickest way to get the comment board unplugged for good.

It's also laughable that the CD issues are being lumped together as some big problem on a linear scale that is getting worse with every release - FAKE NEWS. I've had one problem, discs slipping out of slip case during shipping got scratched (Get Shown the Light). New disc provided in less than a week. Talking to others, I know that box cutter situation was taken care of in a timely fashion, and they prevented some mishap due to good quality control on 30 Trips (before my time here, but I understand they delayed shipping for a month to fix a manufacturing problem).

It's okay to complain, but there are emails and phone numbers for that, so really, why bog down the musical discussion board? I don't want to read about the 20th defective disc. So there was a problem, go write 20 emails, don't write 20 posts. You just screw it up for the people who just want to hear about the awesome Slipknot on DaP 28 (disc 2:-) Or here's one Judysgarden, just stop buying the stuff. Leave the site and go on you merry way. Nobody's interested in your negative revolution here. This isn't the place. goodbye.
January 3, 2019 - 9:55am

#259

Judysparty

Joined:
May 25, 2010

DAVID LEMIEUX-> CONTACT INFO-> vault@dead.net

CONTACT INFO -> TWITTER-> @lemieuxdavid

CONTACT INFO -> Email-> vault@dead.net

HEY DAVE, WHERE THE F_CK ARE YOU?

****** SHOW YOURSELF DAVID LEMIEUX *******

The fate of FUTURE Dead releases is at stake here! Don't sit there with your head up your butt.
Make some noise! Let them know this unacceptable! Demand that we get treated fairly as the Consumers !
DEMAND ANSWERS AND POSITIVE RESULTS!!!
January 3, 2019 - 9:52am

#260

Deadheadbrewer

Joined:
February 2, 2010

Singles Vol. 8?

Drat. Got busy with the holidays and didn't order volume 8 of the singles collection, which now appears to have sold out. I just purchased volumes 1-7 a few months back, so assumed that there was no rush on #8, but alas! Before I pay the E-Bay vultures their blood money, does anyone happen to have one for sale, please? Private message me if you do. Thanks, and Happy New Weir, everyone!

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.

Ain't Got No Heart

It was a time in the early 80's that (at least where I live, fall 81?) the town went dry.. I mean there was nothing to be had.. for what seemed to be months. What's an energetic teenager to do, ….more homework? That's what this lull in activity here reminds me of.
______________________________________
Every year along about this time it all goes dry
Nothing round for love or money that'll get you high.
Henry got pissed off and he run to Mexico
See if he could come back holdin' 20 keys of Gold.
______________________________________

Yea.. strange, but I don't think it's just the new site (but that's certainly a big part of it). Rhino Quality Control and return issues, negativity and trolling, the elections and lack of optimism.. bad weather, who knows.

I don't think its permanent though…

A couple weeks ago I was struggling with a bunch of stuff including bad weather and bad luck.. I went into an afternoon with a couple hours of free time and came out (after the 4/24/72 TOO>Comes A Time and a solo winter river run and bike ride) with a whole different outlook on life. This was immediately followed by the 4/6/82 TOO>(a delicate) Morning Dew. World and personal problems = solved (at least for the moment).

I am getting ready to revisit the 80's/early 90's. I sort of started this on the anniversary of 10/8 and 10/9/89. A powerful moment in GD History.

I hear ya Otis.. I'm right there with ya..

Edit: If there is a silver lining.. the dry spell brought us domestic strains, sensimilla, hybrids, green (and good) Mexican and brown weed with seeds was gone, which dropped me off just about perfectly to my first show. One step back, two steps forward.

I miss everyone ....😔

....I didn't realize how much I posted here until I couldn't find a certain thread. I usually then give up and play some Dead and remember the good ol' daze. But hey now! Emojis!! 🙄 ✌️ 😃

....missing

right there with you VGuy; I too am finding there is a void where I used to spend a fair amount of time here, pokin' around. Yesterday it took me like 5 times to be able to actually remain logged in when I got to this page - it kept saying I wasn't logged in when I'd go to make a comment...the back and forth frenzy was a bit too much.

Hopefully it is temporary as we all get more used to the space here. Ebbs and Flows....

Sixtus

Remaining logged in...

I have the same problem. After logging in one has to get back to the comments page. Once you are back here, chances are you will not be logged in any more. It appears to be a caching problem unique to the new site. Once back on the comments page, refreshing the page generally results in being logged in, for me at least. Why this is so, I have no idea, but it is annoying in the extreme. The old (and trusted) site returned you to where you were after logging in. This new site is not that smart.

Revisiting Dick's Picks 1

Haven't listened to DiP 1 , 12/19/73,in a while, figured maybe it was time to revisit it. Kind of got me thinking about the excitement I felt when I found out it was being released way back when. As best I can recall, I got a GD Almanac mailer while living in Syracuse and there was the ad for DiP 1. Never having built up much of a tape collection outside of a few early '80s audience recordings, I was super stoked and ordered it up without hesitation. I was just switching over to CD's at the time, so the timing of the release was fortuitous. To this day that Here Comes Sunshine is one of my favorite versions of that song.

Aah, the early '80s highs and lows in NY. I remember when I started burning in 10th grade in '81 it was all brown and seedy, with lots of stems. By '83 it was fat, green and sticky, and domestic. Those interdiction efforts at the borders were undoubtedly a strong driver of the increasingly innovative domestic cultivation that seemed to take off in the late '80s. Anyone else remember hearing about "Operation Green Merchant" around '89 or '90? That was when the feds traced shipments of horticultural grow supplies from companies advertising in High Times and similar publications in an attempt to locate and prosecute indoor growers of the forbidden herb. Quite a positive change over time on that issue.

As far as the changes on this site, I have adjusted to navigating to these threads through the community link and dead store products link. Community->Dead Store Products->DaP 28 ;) It seems to me that there has been a slight uptick in postings lately. Ebbs and flows indeed.

Re: The Great '81 Brown Out

Yea.. that's my memory. I think it was summer or fall of 81. Prior to that.. all brown and seedy. Then there was nothing.. anywhere.. (except the stems and seeds you saved for just such a drought) for quite a long time, seemed like six months or something.. ah the 70s and early 80s.

Then the price jumped (significantly) but so did the quality, it was green and sticky with no seeds at all. I never looked back.

I was climbing a lot back then.. there are several climbs named Stems and Seeds around the country.. I guess Stoners and Deadheads have a sense of humor and like adventure. I wonder if the young'uns even get the reference?

Long Strange Trip Blu-ray

Got mine yesterday and watched the bonus disc last night, planning on watching the movie tomorrow.
Here’s a brief description that I posted on the LST page earlier today.

Subject: Bonus Disc
I found the non-concert footage the most entertaining. You actually get a couple of minutes of a Pigpen interview. I don’t know if I have ever heard Pigpen speak at length, only have heard him sing. The Candyman rehearsals are better than the live footage. The live footage has mediocre sound quality, and there are 3 partial songs, not 6 (the Candyman rehearsals don’t count).
The added ‘89 songs reaffirm what we already know, that there is quality video from ‘89 in the vault.

I noticed some issues with playback. If you stop then restart it starts at the menu, not where you left off. Also, pushing the ‘main menu’ button on the remote causes the disc to freeze.
The solution I found is that when you start the disc just let it start up and play through the short intro to get to the menu. It’s not a bad wait since the soundtrack is Mind Left Body Jam.
Sounds like the MLBJ is from 6-28-74 but Jerry’s guitar sounds different than on the Dicks Picks. So maybe it’s a different MLBJ, or maybe - and fingers crossed here, a new recording was in the returned reels???? That would be awesome to get a Plangentized/Normanized new version of 6-28-74.

Got my Long Strange Trip litho today....

....did any of you order it? It was limited to a count of 250, yet mine was 205/245. Strange indeed....And yes, Happy Thanksgiving. Going for a new record of four naps tomorrow. Wish me luck.

6 times

would not let me log in to this thread, had to go thru the back door and re log in 6 times, said I was logged in, but went to comment, said I wasn't. Come on now, lets fix this. Far out Michigan, lets legalize it all, everywhere, but I don't think it will ever happen in certain states especially in the deep south and in those poor states that are in the middle of the country.
On a completely different note, I remember quite well the winter of 80, or was it 81? Long term memory going like the short term all ready went :). I was living high on the hog , then, one day, I had to re up to keep the loyal in head stash. I called my man, he told me "man, it went crazy, now what you paid for last week has just quadrupled in price, from 180.00 per to 750.00 per ", and that was just for round town brown. There was a long silence on the phone as I was totally shell shocked. I said "no fu*king way" and hung up. That was the end of a great time in life. But it was here to stay and only got worse. Did it really get better? From brown to green? Some of the best stuff I ever had was from Columbia and the far east (Vietnamese, Thai, Columbian Red bud, Santa Marta Gold, afghani black hash, black and red hash oil, Nepalese temple balls) you just can't get that kind of product anymore. Now it's all weird names like Gorilla glue, sour diesel, strawberry cough, sticky icky?
I was checking out Grace Slicks' site and she was quite fond of Quaaludes, which were also outlawed in 1980, I blame it all on Nancy, but the Dead put out some great shows that year, what about Gainesville?

DP28

Yeh - seem to have to logout and login to post on individual threads.

DP28 -- anout the best Betty mix I have heard in a long while -- also love the clear tone Jerry using in 76 with the Travis Bean :). All in all great

Happy Thanksgiving

Enjoy the day fellow deadheads.

happy Thanksgiving!

so glad we made it, this far anyhow!

Happy Thanksgiving

Thankful for family, friends, health, happiness and The Swing!

Cheers all.. the countdown for the new year begins...

I just woke up from my third nap....

....looks like I didn't break my record. Oh well. I'm rested and have to go work in t-9 hours. If I was smart, I'd go to bed now. Unfortunately, I'm not very smart sometimes. Firing up RDR2 and some Fall '77 as background music. Works very well. Arthur Morgan is my other life.

Wow

I tried to post a comment six times today and got caught in the logged out/logged in ping ponging that defeated me each time. Tonight I went to this comment page and it said log in to make a comment so I logged in. I was immediately bounced back to the comment page with the post your comment box ready to go. Smooth as silk.

WTF?

Anyway all I wanted to say was Happy Thanksgiving.

Goodnight.

Wow indeed!

Indeed after logging in one is returned to the comments page. That finally works like on the old site. Well done someone.

Staying logged in

Also seems that you can now move to other pages and stay logged in.

5/26/77 - Has it been released commercially?

Has it not been released or did I sleep through that one?

Mahalo!!

Re: 5/26/77 Baltimore Civic Center

No, this has not been officially released.. It might not be the best show of the tour, but it's quite good and the sound is great. It will get released one day and Dave will hype this shit out of it.

The navigation is getting easier....

.... either that, or I got a little too high.

LSD

I had the misfortune of watching It's A Wonderful Life for the first time in 20 years or so tonight..

There is only one rational explanation that this movie exists.. made in 1946, it's clear to me that this movie is about Jimmy Stewart's early experimentation with LSD.

Edit: I suspect he might have taken The Brown Acid. It's the only rational explanation. If only Wavy Gravy were around to talk him down and feed him breakfast or something. Now Christmas has this bas acid tinge to it.. perhaps that explains The Grinch.

Over and out.

Hey Now Jim

I sent you a PM but can't tell if it went to ya so check your mail and tell me if ya got it or not.
Thanks man. Good to hear from you.
:O)

Jimmy Stewart on acid

You never know. Apparently Cary Grant benefitted from taking about 60 trips.

Cary Grant

A well-documented acid head.

I wish everyone out there a…

I wish everyone out there a Happy Thanksgiving and hope you are enjoying your Dave's Picks 28. I myself have not received mine yet. I was informed that my disc shipped, and after waiting a few weeks, I contacted customer service by sending them an email (as there is no option to actually speak with someone that can help) to let them know I didn't receive it. I was given a case number 4482892 and the email said I would receive a phone call within 2 business days. After another week, I called the order-takers and was given an escalation case number 4519371 and told I would receive a phone call within a day. After another week went by I called again and this time, I think I got an honest person on the phone that told me the warehouse has just about collapsed with cases regarding missing and damaged merchandise and that I likely won't hear from anyone for another week or so. It has been over a month since I was told my disc shipped. Come on folks... what is happening? Is this anyway to run a business? I realize I am not waiting for life-saving medicine, it is just a music CD, but to be told "don't call us, we'll call you" and never get the call is incredibly frustrating. The order-takers seem to be powerless to help and I can't get through to anyone that can make a difference. Please get it together!!!

Deepspace!

Send me a PM and let's see if we can straighten this out. Sorry for the trouble.

Did someone step on a duck or something?

ok.. I'll bite. Most fun at a show ever? 6/20/83 Merriweather Post. The planets were properly aligned and the spaceship achieved liftoff.

One of my favorite GD memories, getting One From The Vault & Dicks Picks 1 and the realization that one by one, little by little.. they were going to start releasing soundboards from the Vault. Heaven.

This site isn't that hard to navigate. There's always turnover here.. but there are lots of folks that have seemingly walked off the edge of the earth.

Grateful Dead

I've been listening to a lot of Grateful Dead lately. They're really good.

Most Fun Ever

12/15/72. First time. Went with a friend who knew nothing about the Dead but I paid for his ticket and he drove. I triple dosed (without his knowledge) and he smoked and drank his ass off. Towards the end of the first set he passed out and collapsed on the floor right in front of the stage. I was gone mentally and was freaking. But lo and behold the crowd formed a protective circle around his body and reassured me everything was ok. He came to and we both put ourselves back together during set break. Second set was the greatest music I've ever heard live. Truckin>Dark Star>Morning Dew>Sugar Magnolia to end the show. We both stumbled out of that show in a completely different state of mind and we both knew we'd never be the same again. To this day he is a intense deadhead.

Re: Most Fun Ever

Holy Cow.. Great story.

I have to ask.. did he figure it out (the triple dose thing)? I am not sure I could have hidden that from anyone.

No

He was more wasted than me. Never underestimate the power of large quantities of alcohol and pot on a 19 year old mind. Plus he knew nothing of psychedelics at the time. That was to change very soon.

A Memory Of 12/15/72

I was 18 years old. I had never been to a rock and roll concert. I was really high. I did not know what a mirror ball was. When the mirror ball turned on during Sugar Magnolia it was like being abducted by aliens and shitting in your pants simultaneously. And that's a pretty cool feeling.

Shitting ones pants is a good feeling?....

....hmmmm. I'd rather not.

Ha..

Well.. that beats my first show. Great story.

agree

great story - stuff like that is what always kept me coming back to this board (the story, not the pants-shitting)!

Haven't been listening to full shows lately but have been diving into songs or extended jams that I love. The meat of 2/28/69, 11/17/72, etc. So much great stuff out there. Jim, I remember the liner notes from one from the vault. "This represents the beginning of the release of the vault tapes. More To Come."

More to come, indeed

Pants

Just a little preparation for what our first listens of good shows will be like as we enter our late 70's. By the time Dave's Picks 100 comes around, many of us will be putting on a fresh pair of depends before we put on our headphones, just in case we achieve liftoff.

Hey Guys

I didn't actually poop in my pants. C'mon. It was a metaphor.
Actually just trying to humanize this new website. Trying to add some conversational fun to a website that now resembles a hallway in a mental hospital.

You had me at poop....

.... c'mon. It's me! What do you expect? Peggy-O and A National Acrobat are my favorite songs of the week so far!

Metaphorical poop.

I guess its easier to clean up than the physical version.

Re: Simon Metaphorical Poop

I am not sure about that.

Dead & Co Summer Tour announced....

....aaaaand. No Vegas. Bummed.

Vegas in the Summer

I bet it can get pretty hot in Vegas in the summertime. We wouldn't want all three original members to have simultaneous strokes while performing, would we?

Let's hope for a Fall or Winter tour showcasing sin city.

Man, I miss Grateful Dead Ticket Sales (GDTS). The only hassle was filling out the index card and getting the letter out on the correct date. I see Live Nation is up to their old pre-sale tricks. The last two years I participated, logged in at exactly 10:00 EST and crap seats come up for big dollars.. then later that day/week/month low and behold.. much better seats become available at face value. I know they have a monopoly and we have no choice, but they flat out suck and I see fewer shows because of it.

Bring back GDTS guys.... it worked, they were great and are dearly missed.

Live Nation

Phish manages to set aside a handful of tickets for each tour to be distributed through their ticketing solution. I believe the issue is that i believe i have heard that John Mayer's manager is running the show. I may be incorrect on that, but yes i once did the verified fan presale, but no longer since there is better tickets when the general public tickets go on sale.

What about...

...Gainesville, baby?

38 years ago today! If you haven't heard it, or if you have, today is a great day to crank this one up to 11! And, if you are doubtful about AUDs, this is one of the best I've ever heard (Oh, and because it's an AUD, you can still DL it... Thank you Archive. I'll slip you some cash tomorrow when I get paid.)

https://archive.org/details/gd1980-11-29.nak700.wagner.miller.90104.sbe…

Dave mentioned that Swing was one of the most frequently requested shows... but I've got to think with the rabble-rousers round here, Gainsville has got to be close behind!

Peace

(Edited to remove the excessive exclamation points I used in the original post. I'm just really a big fan of this show :)

Careful McMurphy...

...riling up the inmates will draw the ire of Nurse Ratched.

The Annual What About Gainesville...for Real This Time

No seriously...what ABOUT Gainesville???

The time has come to open the well if even for a non board tape to please The Masses in a way no other can ('cause , well, the boards don't exist, right?). Patches show up in official releases, sometimes on the multiple and in key moments. Why not throw one of these out there and see what happens. It's worth admission for the Shakedown>Franklin's alone.

Thanks for this reminder today Charlie3.
Otherwise, I enjoy this latest round of banter, inclusive of the poop (even if metaphorical) and new/old tour discussions .
Feels more like home again.

Sixtus

Re: Banter

We are just a bunch of acid rock crazed lunatics who, like caged monkeys, sometimes feel the need to sling proverbial poop at one another and then act seemingly normal.. as if nothing unusual just happened.

I am staging Gainesville up to play a little later. Muse of the day, thanks Otis who whoever it was that got us back on track. I've been meaning to get on an 80's tangent for some time. Enjoyed all the 85 hype a while back too. The Idaho 83 release was a worthy offering for that year for that matter.

Re: Banter

I'm digging the increased banter, couldn't resist the One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest reference after reading mhammond12's post referencing similarity between these threads recently and the grim feel of the hallway in a mental hospital.

My dead listening lately has been the PNW box on a loop, I can't seem to move on. Every time I go to put on a disc it occurs to me that it sure would be cool to listen to something from that box again, round and round I go with no end in sight.

Parallels Between Cookoos Nest and The GD

It should almost go without saying the parallels and influences between that classic novel and the GD..

All I can say is the GD and music in general is my own personal Prozac.

I bet I am not alone in this.

My father approached me about ten years ago and said... I really feel One Flew Over the Coocoo's Nest was the greatest move ever made.. to which I carefully explained the cross references of the GD to Kesey's mad mind. I think it was the last thing he expected to hear from me. About the same time (perhaps coincidentally).. he decided, being very much against drugs and the drug culture (thanks to me and my bro) that pot laws were stupid. I take full credit..

and perhaps it is one of the greatest movies ever made, it certainly ranks. The book is a must read.

I lifted a rock on this site....

....and low and behold, a constant thread. Reminds me of the old daze. TBH, haven't really been listening to the Dead a lot lately. Been listening to a lot of 80's metal. Slayers been on the menu recently. Did spin disc one of DaP 21 Boston Garden '73 after I got home from work tonight however. But I get stuck in a rut when it comes to musical adventures as you know. Slayer is peaking currently. Nurse Ratched would approve....👍'cause she's an evil SOB. Die By The Sword.....

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