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    An institution in American rock music, the Grateful Dead continue to surprise the ears with new arrangements and altered styles. If their playing continues with the force that was heard in San Bernardino, the spirit of the Dead will live on. - Sun Telegram

    We are more than pleased to kick off this year's Dave's Picks series with the much requested and quite spirited complete performance from Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, CA 2/26/77. The Swing ’77 show was a unique beast, unlike any others from this era: as the band’s first concert of the year, it bridged the gap between the new and re-emerging sound of the returning 1976 Grateful Dead and the precision excellence of the spring ’77 Dead. Debuting two of their most intricately crafted songs of the 1970s, “Terrapin Station” (to open, no less!) and “Estimated Prophet,” the Dead demonstrated right from the start of this new touring year that they were not going to be a nostalgia act; they were going to be as adventurous and ambitious as they were at any time in their career.

    Join the adventure as they soar through tried and true ("Playing In The Band," "Tennessee Jed"), well-loved covers ("Mama Tried," "Samson and Delilah," "Dancing In the Street"), and epic new jams.

    Rounded out with three songs from Santa Barbara, CA 2/27/77, this one was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman.

    Dave's Picks Volume 29 is limited to 20,000 individually-numbered copies*.

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

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    Weir / Dark Star / 30 Trips 1972

    This 9/24/72 show is the one where Bobby's way up in the mix. He plays some really cool stuff here in first 12 minutes.

    I may prefer 2nd half '72 Dark Stars. Icecreamconekid is right - we ain't getting younger. Release the '72 shows.
    All of them. One big box. One box to rule them all... Sockatoomee, sockatoomee, sockatoomee, sockatoomee.

    Really cool "best of" song review, featuring the song title, short review, and "key later version". Jimbo, your Eyes of the World is in here.

    https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/10078-the-grateful-dead…

  • icecrmcnkd
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    2-14-70 Dark Star on vinyl

    Long Strange Trip Soundtrack on vinyl.
    Get the Limited Edition Expanded version from Amazon, has extra LP’s.

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    * ‘Cold, Rain & Snow’

    ...always love when the Grateful Dead start a show with this number! 12/2/73 Dicks Picks #14 starts off with a beautiful ‘Cold, Rain & Snow’ and ends with a primo ‘Morning Dew’!
    I’m listening to 2/14/68 Road Trips Volume#2 Number #2 this afternoon, love my PigPen! ; )

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    ...thx for setting me straight. Little that I know....I know little.

    Anything these days is better than a hissy old cassette, although I did of course cherish my swath of XLII's.

    SIxtus

  • CaseyJanes
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    Did someone say 420?

    Barely noon here, but close enough....bubble, bubble, bubble....exhale!

  • stoltzfus
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    "bubbling banana"

    I know what's _really_ bubbling. I count four hundred twenty bubbles in all.

  • stoltzfus
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    cold rain and snow

    day 3 of school closures due to snowy weather in "the city in the rain"

    did a bunch of shoveling ("every day I'm shovelin'") to clear the side road this morning. the cell playing YouTube. Ever shovel snow to Black Sabbath's Paranoid album, followed by a GD73 Eyes of the World (exact date unknown)?

    :)))

  • ShaggyFraggle
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    My copy finally arrived...

    in Canada. #13875 (I think it's telling me to listen to One from the Vault next). I'm pretty new on the bus, so I haven't heard this before. But I'm a bubbling banana for it. Terrapin and the jam sequences are of course incredible. I'm particularly loving the journey through Playin>Wheel>Playin. But I must say that I'm most surprised by the shorter tunes. I'm usually pretty quick to dismiss Mama Tried, but this version is so unique and groovy and sad. It's a cowboy dirge. Best I've heard.

  • Dennis
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    Thanks for the heads up on those two 70 shows, I seem to have both, but downloaded these. Will find which is the best and most complete :-)

  • DeadVikes
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    HDCD Playing

    Sixtus, playing hdcds in a blue ray or 4k player will not upgrade to HDCD. They will still play in regular 16 bit CD format. To enjoy the HDCD format, you need an HDCD player. It has always been strange to me that Grateful Dead Productions or Rhino has decided to release all of these releases in HDCD, when 99.5% of them will ever be played in HDCD players and therefore will not enjoy the benefits not this added process.

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An institution in American rock music, the Grateful Dead continue to surprise the ears with new arrangements and altered styles. If their playing continues with the force that was heard in San Bernardino, the spirit of the Dead will live on. - Sun Telegram

We are more than pleased to kick off this year's Dave's Picks series with the much requested and quite spirited complete performance from Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, CA 2/26/77. The Swing ’77 show was a unique beast, unlike any others from this era: as the band’s first concert of the year, it bridged the gap between the new and re-emerging sound of the returning 1976 Grateful Dead and the precision excellence of the spring ’77 Dead. Debuting two of their most intricately crafted songs of the 1970s, “Terrapin Station” (to open, no less!) and “Estimated Prophet,” the Dead demonstrated right from the start of this new touring year that they were not going to be a nostalgia act; they were going to be as adventurous and ambitious as they were at any time in their career.

Join the adventure as they soar through tried and true ("Playing In The Band," "Tennessee Jed"), well-loved covers ("Mama Tried," "Samson and Delilah," "Dancing In the Street"), and epic new jams.

Rounded out with three songs from Santa Barbara, CA 2/27/77, this one was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman.

Dave's Picks Volume 29 is limited to 20,000 individually-numbered copies*.

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

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So we still don't have a track listing for this. Weird.
The guessing is killing me! Lol

Rock on

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Thanks everyone for making this a great forum to be a part of and to read thru, this was a good one. Now, on to 1/2>3/70 #30.

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Right on Uncle Sam
I'd think most may agree, this thread helped get our collective mojo back.
Whether it was the awesomeness of the 'Schwiiiing' or just that the time was right, the metamorphosis is hard to ignore. I trust it will carry over with the momentum in tow aiming at the prime time rockabilly-fest in 2/3/70.

Peace All
Sixtus

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The more things change.. the more they remain the same.
Be good all, I hope things equalize on the DaP 30 thread.

Seriously, here's to humanity, civility, good karma and doing, and saying, things that help us all.

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Yes thanks to all for making this a great thread. Furthur!

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...see you guys later Aligator! 😉
🙏❤️😎

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Hey all, if you missed this release, I have one available. $25 plus shipping. Send me a PM.

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I hope I'm not breaking any rules and can delete this if I am. I have some Dead cds and Dave's Picks for sale and wanted to put them up here. I'm not trying to get rich, just movin' out some clutter. Send me a message and payPal preferred. shipping is included for all of them listed. Thanks

San Francisco, The Warfield 10/9 and 10/10/80- Record Store Day CD- $16 shipping included
Dave's Picks 27- Boise State U, 9/2/83- $30 shipping included
Dave's Picks 28- Capital Theater, Passaic, NJ, 6/17/76 - $30 shipping included
Dave's Picks 29- Swing Auditorium, San Bernadino, Ca, 2/26/77 - $30 shipping included
Dave's Picks 30- Fillmore East, NY, 1/2/70 - $30 shipping included
Dave's Picks 30- Bonus CD- Fillmore East, NY, 1/3/70 - $30 shipping included

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