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    Who's up for a revolutionary evolutionary ride? DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 30: FILLMORE EAST, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 1/2/70 captures the Grateful Dead as they make their first foray from the experimental 60s into their early 70s acoustic Americana period. Yes, this one is a little bit country and a little bit (psychedelic) rock and roll.

    When the "Magnificent Seven" - Pigpen on percussion, T.C. on keys - first took the stage on 1/2/70, evidence was clear that the trip was about to take a turn. From their western wears to the twang in Jerry’s “broken-string blues,” it appeared they'd brought the Bakersfield sound to the Big Apple. They worked through much of what would become Workingman's Dead, stunning the crowd with laid-back numbers like "Uncle John's Band," "Casey Jones," and "Black Peter." Just the same, they satisfied 60s stalwarts with magical versions of "Dark Star," "St. Stephen," and "That's It For The Other One." Sonic alchemy, indeed!

    DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 30: FILLMORE EAST, NEW YORK, ​New York 1/2/70 has been rounded out with a bit of 1/3/70 (the subscribers-only bonus disc features the bulk of 1/3/70). It was recorded by the great Owsley "Bear" Stanley and has been lovingly mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman.

    DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 30 is limited to 20,000 individually-numbered copies*.

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

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  • JimInMD
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    That sounds like a worth endeavor, Ziffle.. I think I am going to consolidate what I have and rebuild in the same order myself. I do seem to have lossless versions of the NRPS material.

    Good thinking.

    One other thing about the Road Trips.. perhaps it's just me, but I think somewhere in the middle of this series, Mr. Norman figured it all out.. I think it's when he mastered his game.

    PM me if you want the missing parts.

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    You know what's underrated?....

    .... anything that's not 70's Dead.
    Good to hear from you Ziffle.

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    Jim's Road Trips eval + comment on 5/15/70

    Entirely agree with Jim's remarks on the Road Trips series. Very much underrated.

    Some additional comment on 5/15/70 - the HDCD encoding is superior, opening up the dynamic range considerably. What is especially neat, is to find (preferably lossless) copies of the two New Riders sets, which feature Jerry on pedal steel and Mickey on drums. One highlight, Bobby joins in for a country style version of Me & My Uncle in the late NRPS set, harmonizing the lead vocal with Marmaduke. The Dead's sets are just missing a few songs, but it is great to fill in the missing material, put it in the right sequence with the NRPS in the right place, and enjoy one of the few complete "Evening with the Grateful Dead" circulating. Works out to 3 hours (early show) plus 4 hours (late show). Incidentally if you do this (ripping the CDs), the HDCD encoding will be preserved so long as you make no modifications whatsoever to the audio (e.g. equalizing).

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    All this recent talk of the DaP 24 overbass....

    ....made me plop it in. Didn't hear it when it first came out, and I don't hear it now. I'm only 51, and my hearing is fine. Maybe I need to upgrade my speakers to hear it. Oh well. Along with the rush of the drivers it is.
    Speaking of drivers. Don't text and drive keithfan. We can wait.

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    D&C Night Two, Boulder 7/6/19

    Casey Jane's Addiction, you're damn right it was hot. Best D&C show I've attended so far. Last year's closer didn't have the mojo. Friday night, despite the irony of shutting down for an hour long rain and hail deluge during Cold Rain And Snow, wasn't stellar either. But Saturday night had a spark. We got hammed on Shakedown Street, my friend bought an overpriced if cool earring, then meandered up to about ten rows back, floor, on Bob's side.

    Everyone around us was so cool... really a great crowd vibe that night. I never moved during the entire set, not to pee, not to get a drink, or anything else. This is highly unusual. I could feel the magic, and wouldn't have missed a minute for anything. This music is alive and well, and Bob, Billy and Mickey are killing it. Mayer is amazing. He doesn't come on strong, he eases himself into these songs and they fit him like a glove. Oteil had that Amazonian warrior facepaint on again, and he was on a whole 'nother level. I'm sure Bill and Mickey would say they prefer playing with him to Phil. That's not a knock on Phil, it just is what it is.

    Buy the cd or download or whatever off nugs.net It's outstanding. And, fingers crossed, let's hope they do it again and again and again next year and for years after. There's a nice feature in this month's Guitar World on Bob and his new D'Angelico. He says it will take "years" for him to get everything out of it. Bless him.

    Saw Rose Hill Drive play a stellar Led Zeppelin set at the Fox Theater in Boulder last night. Those kids got talent.

    \m/

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    Keithfan2112, dig your posts, but I can't be the only one thinking it would be a shame if you careened into a guardrail, or oncoming traffic, just to provide us with another cool post.

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    Nice write up on Road Trips Jimbo.

    Still a mystery why there was no 1972.

    Austin 11/15/71 is my favorite. Complete show, Immaculate recording, immaculate performance, cool album art, has dark star, opens with a trucking with such awesome Reverb and volume to Jerry's guitar it sounds like he plugged in in my living room. I think there's a Brokedown Palace on there too. It's like a greatest hits record. Bonus disc totally awesome, especially the China cat which was missing from the main set.

    1974 wall of sound is my second favorite. Awesome recording for 1974, perhaps the best audio representation in my humble opinion.

    I would like 1973 more if it weren't for this buzz that I hear throughout a large bit of it.

    1978 is a must-have in my book because it has some of the only 70s Godchaux era Shakedown Street material. Lookout Stagger Lee! Also has that renowned Stella Blue which I'm still saving my Virgin listen for. I also really dig the Scarlet fire with the delay pedal that either Jerry or Bobby uses I forget.

    Oh cool. My car has Supernatural properties. I should have just sideswiped a very long concrete guardrail as I was texting, but I looked up and turned out of it I guess just in time. I say out of it because I really was halfway in to the concrete. Like my car can pass through concrete. Maybe it occurred while I was saying the word Godchaux and Keith didn't want me to go the way he went. That was crazy. I got to go contemplate what just happened.

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    Apologize in advance for my comment 11/20/78 set II Cleveland

    I can't think of 1978 without this show! I have posted many times before about this show and it's unique Second Set.. Nothing else like it from 78 due to Mr. Weir being a little "tardy" for the second set. Probably will never be released due to the patching that goes on. After a long Jam to open up the set we get the first Jack-A-Roe of the year. Also a Shakedown into If I had the World to Give... That is all, until i bring it up again next year.... sorry again bob t

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    D&C Boulder Night Two 07/06/19

    Just now checking out the recorded live stream of this show...through the first set and it’s hot...a little elevated from the first night IMO

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    Road Trips re-evaluation

    After reading Jim's post I feel I was a little hasty in dismissing this series. I agree, all releases mentioned are superb - 2/14/68, and all the bonus tracks included in that release in particular-but lots of great music tucked away in there. I suppose I have overlooked them due to the box sets, Daves Picks, 30 Trips etc that have come out since the Road Trips disappeared.
    To state the obvious, it's incredible how many great releases we have had over the last 27 years or so. I never dreamed I would have access to all this when I first read of the tapes back around 1983 in the Blair Jackson book "The Music Never Stopped." I wondered then if I would ever get to hear any of the live music he recommended at the back of the book. Yes...and how!

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Who's up for a revolutionary evolutionary ride? DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 30: FILLMORE EAST, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 1/2/70 captures the Grateful Dead as they make their first foray from the experimental 60s into their early 70s acoustic Americana period. Yes, this one is a little bit country and a little bit (psychedelic) rock and roll.

When the "Magnificent Seven" - Pigpen on percussion, T.C. on keys - first took the stage on 1/2/70, evidence was clear that the trip was about to take a turn. From their western wears to the twang in Jerry’s “broken-string blues,” it appeared they'd brought the Bakersfield sound to the Big Apple. They worked through much of what would become Workingman's Dead, stunning the crowd with laid-back numbers like "Uncle John's Band," "Casey Jones," and "Black Peter." Just the same, they satisfied 60s stalwarts with magical versions of "Dark Star," "St. Stephen," and "That's It For The Other One." Sonic alchemy, indeed!

DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 30: FILLMORE EAST, NEW YORK, ​New York 1/2/70 has been rounded out with a bit of 1/3/70 (the subscribers-only bonus disc features the bulk of 1/3/70). It was recorded by the great Owsley "Bear" Stanley and has been lovingly mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman.

DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 30 is limited to 20,000 individually-numbered copies*.

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

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...Keithfan my friend, hope all is well. How about the performance from 10/26/71 Rochester NY, sequence- ‘Truck’n >>Drums>>’The Other One’. I think it’s a great performance!
“This is something new” the band tells the crowd of fans at ‘The Palestra’ after finishing a Primo performance of ‘ Comes A Time’ and then the dead jump into ‘One More Saturday Night’! Oh yeah, play it loud!!! Primo Show all around really in my Dead Head Opinion lol ha ha 🙏❤️😎take care everyone. God bless.
...Almost forgot about 4/29/77 , a Sweet version of ‘Sugaree’, ‘Scarlet Begonias’ & ‘Going Down the Road’ feeling bad! Love’n it all! Smile Smile Smile!

...Keithfan, I also enjoy the 7/21/72 performance in Seattle. PRIMO ‘Truck’n>>Drums/Bass>>’The Other One’! 😉✌️
Dig the ‘Cumberland Blues’

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Grateful Dead Meet-Up 2019 will feature 6/17/91 from Giants Stadium, and "as a special treat, this extraordinary screening will also feature a reveal of the Grateful Dead's 2019 boxed set, featuring the Dead's legacy manager, archivist and producer David Lemieux."

https://terracetheater.com/movie/grateful-dead-meet-up-2019

https://thelittle.org/event/May19/grateful-dead-meet-2019

...I love the Grateful Dead, all eras, I shit you not. Lol ha ha...but Im really not too excited for this release. Even though it’s from the 48 master recordings( I’m a huge fan of primo high quality audio🙏). And the set list is more than grateful!
I was there. I attended this show and I had a Blast! It was in a grateful time in my life. As I look back, I try to recall every performance / show I attended with a special part some where hidden in thy body & soul. This performance at Giants Stadium I remember like it was yesterday. If I sit or stand still, close my eyes and focus. I’m right back where it all began, boom, it hits close to my heart, maybe that’s why I’m steering away from this release?. It sure brings back a rush of old memories, good & bad, All and All a lovey story about love, death & travel, just think of jack kerouac writing...I know this is going to be a Primo Event for the Band and their Fans!
Long live the ‘good ol Grateful Dead’ !
“There’s Nothen Like a Grateful Dead Concert!”
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The band really tried to make these shows special. The pages going around with Jerry's guitar on them were the bomb.

It's sad that we will never see these two shows released in a box-set with blu-ray video.

Edit: These two were taped for release.

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Yahoo!!!!

It's gonna be fun

and the box set announcement

save yer dollars and cents for that

i predict box will be a bunch of 91 shows

or maybe all Port Chester shows in Bear-quality sound

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Per the link below:
As a special treat, this extraordinary screening will also feature a reveal of the Grateful Dead's 2019 boxed set.

I take ‘reveal’ to mean a showing of the Box itself.

So hopefully we get the pre-order announcement soon.
Maybe delivery in August/September, similar to PNW.

Mmmmmmm.......Box Set.........

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Stoltzfus when you said June 3rd, I figured that was the announcement of the box set, not the announcement for the announcement. But that's okay, at least I can relax for a couple months now knowing exactly when the date is. The other guy said he heard something different from you, but clearly he knows not.

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Ha, false prophet. No time to copy dead.net description. Exile you crack me up.

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Face melter

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I might be mistaken but I think they used the film event to do a box set reveal last year but I’m pretty sure we all knew the details of the release prior to the film. Right??

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I was also kind of thinking that's how it went down. August is awfully late for the reveal. Even 30 Trips was early as June for a Sept release.

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I am not sure if I have listened to this show or not.. but I am quite sure I have not seen in on a big screen.

This is good news.. I enjoy the Bruce year (+).

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...Daves Picks#31 Release is at the end of July 2019...🙏❤️😎

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....and agree to stop the false prophet digs. Life's too short.
I'm also going to jump in and say that the 10.9.80 acoustic set at the Warfield is good, but the 10.10.80 acoustic set is grate!
I haven't been to a MUATU event yet....that is going to change this year.
48 tracks? I'm guessing track 34 is picking up Phil's farts.

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I listen to 12/6/71 from time to time still. Just noticed Pigpen only sang three songs that night. None in the 2nd set. Must have been feeling shitty. I like this show.

This is a fantastic show. One of the only ones they ever opened with Eyes of the World, I believe. And certainly the Bruce factor out of the gate is Immortal. They weave in and out of Dark Star the entire show but never actually go all the way. Great interplay and I can't wait for 48 tracks. Wow.

And of course, we've probably seen at least the Eyes of the World and Saint of Circumstance featured on the "In-Concert" series that was briefly on network television in the 1990s where those clips were featured and I happened to be able to record it on VHS at the time. I then found a way to transfer that to cassette tape and from there it eventually made its way to a CD.

Then I finally found archive.org. The rest is history as they say.

https://archive.org/details/gd1991-06-17.137545.sbd.miller.flac24

Sixtus

....I like it as well. It was in my last last five. I already have a new last three. The latest last five report will land within two hours. Give or take twenty minutes.

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That this years MUATM's will be part of their new YouTube streaming concept. So the question is.. Free, you have put up with commercials or Subscription, or a hybrid.

I'm honestly surprised they are not going with the Nugs model.. but instead of livestream, you can just buy the stream and watch it whenever you want.

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I also listened to 12/6/71 this past week and it was eons better than I remembered it. With the exception of Weir missing a line in Truckin' ( I'd be disappointed if he didn't), it's a near perfect stroll through their new school tunes, which they had a nice shine on by 12/71. The Other One with Bobby McGee in between into Wharf Rat is gold. Closes out with one of their best UJB (as far as their non-extended Jam renditions go).

The PNW box was announced on June 12, 2018. I bought mine on the first day. They arrived at our homes in early September.
Seems like the dates for this year's box release according to the MUATM announcement will be close to last year. So, we should know something soon. Can't wait. Don't be fooled by the 1991 MUATM date, they won't be dipping into 1991 for awhile.

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I typed Bolo the PRANKSTER all caps

never trust a Prankster

and certainly dont trust me on the box set

I was hoping we _would_ hear today...

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GD 6-4-1995 Shoreline
GD 10-19-1971 Minnesota (Keith's first show. 1st-Tenn. Jed,Jack Straw,Mexicali,Comes A Time,Sat. Night & Ramble On Rose) ...get some
Muddy Waters 5-30-1973 Ebbit's Field~Denver,Co.
S.C.I. 3-20-1998 4th Ave Tavern~Olympia,Wa.
The Stooges~The Stooges (1969) (Oh my..an'a..boohoo...)
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Great Midnight Hour!

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Now the proud owner of a new Rega Saturn cd player-complete with actual cabinet, to place it in,, as opposed to whatever happens to be lying around as has traditionally been the case, I finally gave this a listen. I am well impressed with the sound quality, I have to say. The 3rd cd, as every one has already said, is the one. Maybe the correct playing order is that, followed by the rest of it. I like the first 2cds well enough, though. While I am here, I could share my last 5-apart from the above, they read
Live at Dusseldorf 3/28/79 Steve Hillage
Live in Ohio 4/28/74 King Crimson
The Contact Sessions The Thirteenth Floor Elevators
Power Plant The Golden Dawn
and last but definitely not least, the only recorded evidence of of Snakegrinder and the Shredded Field Mice. On vinyl. Genius.

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I'm glad everyone had their therapeutic purge, now it's time to move on or take it to the PM. Capeesh?

So I'm getting a head start on the Winterland June 1977 Complete Recordings anniversary run. Let me just say I love the Scarlet Fire on here. The beginning is really cool, because they take a while to get into the vocals, so you can just kind of space out and relax for a bit. There's this mesmerizing Jam section towards the end of Scarlet that is really just a thing of its own - never heard them go off quite like this. It's a couple minutes long, and a mellow moment, but a damn fine one. Don't mind the microphone problem on the first verse. Of all the things, it's hard to imagine this box set goes for $400 used on eBay. It does have all the biggies though. The Cornell box doesn't even have a conjoined Estimated Eyes.

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Come on guys and gals let’s stop this bickering . I’m sure the good people of rhino will do what’s best for us all 🤞and deliver some box set news as and when . In the mean time let’s not forget it’s all about fun and enjoying the music we’ve already got ( to be honest I haven’t finished PNW yet !! ) At least you people over the pond have got MUATM and let’s not forget dead & co shows . We've had diddly squat over in limey land since nov 1990 .
P.S . LMG I saw the doors alive cover band in my home town ( St Albans ) last week and they were fantastic - thought of you when they played 5 to 1 😺 .
P.P.S. I’m currently loving dicks picks 19 at the mo . I do love me some 73 dead . 😸😸😸
Be good and be save and as Pete Townshend said at the isle of white in 1970 “ smile you buggers , pretend it’s Christmas “

Double dose

January 2-3, 1970

That's It For the Other One ->
Cosmic Charlie
Uncle John's Band
High Time

Meet up at the movies - looks cool. Would be interesting if daves picks 31 is selected as same show as film. I was just checking out another show from Giants stadium yesterday from June 1993. Nice Candyman

Been rockin out , May 1978 Dicks Picks 25 disc 1 for the last couple weeks. Straight fire. That first disc is near perfect from start to finish.

Peggy-O
Let it Grow -> Deal

Had Dave's Picks 30 spinning over the weekend too.

Box set Winterland March 1977, sign me up

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...I’m grateful to have met so many beautiful people here! Let’s keep the good positive vibes going so we All can ‘Smile Smile Smile’ 😎✌️Have a grateful day everyone, peace be with you all. 🙏

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They only took the wall of sound down because they couldn't get the "odorama" to work. I still have the card from that performance.

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Keith fan made a great suggestion. Move on or take it to the PM. Not because he is any kind of moderator or anyting, but because everyone is tired of your personal feud. So what are you do? You announce you're going to write a short response and then you write a novel. Nobody cares about what you're talking about. Show some respect for the rest of the board and take it to the private forum that you have at your disposal.

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Take it to the p.m. please. Really, you're so full of negative vibes both of you, but I haven't seen a response from exile, which I'm happy for. Someone made a suggestion to p.m. each other, so go ahead and do that. The room is not interested in any of this.

I think if you both want to be stand-up guys and redeem yourselves to the room, you should go back and edit your posts down to one positive sentence and take all of your comments to the p.m. Nobody wants to read this. If you are truly people who stand for the good vibes of the board like you say you are, just remove what you've written. Click edit and write something like Good Day Sunshine. Or smile smile smile. Or primo peggy-o's. But please spare us of all of it and cut / paste to p.m.

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enough with the personal disputes. Take it offline, please. Thank you.
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Hey LMG & EOMS. Your "existential" spat, like all too many before, doesn't belong here. LMG, I just about always enjoy your posts and look forward to reading more in the future. You too, Exile. Doesn't sound like anyone else thinks you need to defend your good names, but if you're passionate about doing so, please take it to PM (as in "PERSONAL/PRIVATE" Messages) where it belongs.

Possibly;
1) more Mickey Toys
2) More Keyboard/Bralove toys
3) They were collecting live tracks for possible release ala Without a Net..
4) some/all of the above.......don’t think the rest were doing anything that different that would of required more tracks? Would think the midi stuff would still source to the mixes via their individual rigs direct or mic’d as usual?
I believe I read somewhere that they used 64 for Built to Last? That’s probably as much as convenience as actually needing that many?

OTIS/J Roddy & the Bidness; tell your boy Billy we really enjoyed, the wife especially as she’s not “one of us” lol, so likes the more straightforward R&R......to me they seemed like a band trying to be as tight and “professional” as possible, you know, trying to “make it” (Not that that’s a bad thing) But the whole time I felt like “what if this guy started ripping up some Zepplin”? You can sometimes really tell who a musicians main influences were, and I’m betting Page was it for your friend?

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mixed blessing

The Other One has like 15 seconds between verses

that rubbery 86 sound

interesting Sugar Magnolia/end of show

The Race Is On

if I were desperate for GD, I would listen again.

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If anyone was at the SPAC show on 6/27/85 (great show by the way, listening to it now for old times sake).

https://archive.org/details/gd85-06-27.sbd.miller.27863.sbeok.flacf

Bobby breaks the tension created when VGuy and KeithFan were dangerously dangling from balcony by reaching deep into his bag of tricks and telling the funniest joke in the world.. developed in WWII as a secret weapon used to end the war. This appears as song 5 on the Miller seed on the archive, "Get Down From The Balcony." tsk tsk boys.

Here is the origin of the joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui9UedkCQCg

An now you know the rest of the story.

Midnight Hour > Bertha. Such a strong opener to an under-rated show.. Certainly releasable one day.

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Would love to see an Ark box or even something off the cuff like a Spectrum box set (I grew up a few miles from there) The anticipation is killing me. Super pumped for the MUATM. I only caught about a dozen shows with Jerry and 6/17/91 has always stuck out to me and I have always considered it the best Dead show I saw live. Can't wait to relive it again :)

While we are awaiting the box set announcement, I stumbled upon this

https://www.bullmoose.com/p/30601567/jerry-garcia-band-garcialive-volum…

looking forward to this as well.

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How could I have missed that? Downright crabby, but in a good way.

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