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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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    Good morning dead people....if you haven’t ordered your copy of deadhead stories, I would do so quickly. As of yesterday there were only 60 copies left. It is very well done, with 11x8.5 color, and over 300 pages of awesome stories. Got mine on last Monday and already 1/3 of the way through. By far my favorite book about the Dead so far. There is one Grate story about the 2nd group to get in line for The Closing of Winterland...5 days early! By the time the show started the line was around the block!!!!!

    Link to deadhead stories site to order is here. All proceeds go to Charity.

    https://deadheadstories.org

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    Great story-thanks. Almost makes me wish I lived in America!

    Listening to 7/1/78 from the 1978 box set as I type. This was the one where the Dead played with many other bands as part of "Willie Nelsons Picnic", so its a single set show. But its got some great playing on it. Estimated is the highlight for me-great jamming leading into The Other One. Minimum slide show - it doesn't detract from a great Tennessee Jed, if you factor it out, and actually sounds quite nice and mournful leading out of Playing in the Band. Less is more, as they say. Great Jerry guitar in Wharf Rat, now, too- hey, this show is really alright!

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    ....it's all about timing. If you snooze, you lose. Fact checking from Vguy, who has spent more time in lines because he pushed the envelope. Nobody's Fault But Mine....

  • JimInMD
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    The Buttons, then the stems and caps.... and a three week delay in posting. Thanks to the good, quick thinking folks here at dead.net.. we set up a GoFundMe to get KCJ out of jail and back to work..

    Don't mind me, I didn't have time to read your whole post, but I did quickly skim through the text, and having gotten four hours of sleep this week alone, I am quite sure I absorbed the entirety of your post:

    ' ..sorry didn't post, gone for three and a half weeks, brought my newbe brother in law to a show against his wife's best wishes, dosed him.. then got him stoned.. and there was nothing left to drink but hard liquor and IPA's.. what's a guy to do? '

    It was Sixtus and his grower/attorney friend Cosmic Charlie that first come through with the plan that freed the J' family from the calamity that was sure to catch up to them. In the end, a clear case of mistaken identity.

    Tragedy narrowly averted.

    Great tale, KCJ.. good to hear you had fun and escaped the long arm of the law (meaning your sister in law in this case).

    In all honesty.. I really wanted to go to the Gorge this year (and perhaps Folsom Field as a close second), but the timing and ticket prices worked against me. Still, I love the PNW.. a truly great spot in the planet blue I plan to revisit as often as I can.

    Glad it all worked out.

    Edit: Did nothing but art (woodworking, live in a 115 year old Victorian - it ever ends) and a moderate bike ride today.. but listened to the Good Ole GD the whole while. Started at 7 am with 06/24/90 Autzen Stadium Eugene, OR which only fueled more high intensity GD.. so for the bike ride and table saw amped it up with 10/12/84 and 9/18/87 from 30 trips. Good golly. I realize 30 trips got mixed reviews.. but they are just wrong, it's pretty freaking awesome when an 84 and 87 show can get someone so amped up. Perhaps not my best purchase but, well.. No Regrets. Diplomatic enough?

    Back to your previously scheduled June '74 GD.

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    Some are starting them
    Others are forming them
    Most are standing in back

    Some folks are cutting them
    Others are snorting them
    Come on dude, spare me some slack

    No Cuts...more on these later :-)

    Edit: Hey Stoltzfus....missed you out there. I have a button for you and the Mrs. if you would like a couple of them?......please PM your address. Happy to oblige!!!

  • stoltzfus
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    I am listening to motorhead at park
    "Runaround man" lyrics
    Chase my tail
    Catch me if you can

    5 seconds later i see a tee shirt emblazoned with "catch me if you can"

    Totally true

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    Dont get me started on the entry lines

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    Hey now Dead Rockers......first let me apologize for my long absence. Landed back here in KC a week ago today at 4am, fresh from a 10 day trip to the beautiful PNW....back to work last week and then Friday a very large tree uprooted from our back yard and fell on our power lines, so we have been without power and internet for most of the past weekend, but onward!!!!

    Although I have been only lurking here the last few weeks, I have still been keeping up and appreciate the call (Oroborous) for my return......and so now that I have taken the opportunity to get everything exactly perfect, let my inspiration flow till my tale is told and done........

    Me, Mrs. Casey, and her brother (brother in law-BIL), all caught the red-eye into Seattle from KC on the night of June 6th. By the time we scooped up our bags and negotiated the rental car lines it was 2:30am. We checked into a blue light cheap hotel there by Sea-Tac that I had booked months before in preparation for our drive to the Gorge for two nights of Dead & Company. In the morning BIL and I hit the nearest dispensary to load up on some legal party favors while my wife finished getting ready to go.

    Now I’ve been to Colorado since legalization, but the “Cannabis Clinic” we found was on a different level than anything I’ve experienced before. There were a lot of options and we took full advantage., and the bud tenders were of course very helpful…..
    “What would you recommend for pre-rolls”, I say…..
    ”Do you like Indica or Sativa”, she asks,
    “both”, I answer!
    “Hash Infused”?
    “Sure that sounds Grate”!
    Went through a similar process with some other goodies, and out we came 30 minutes later with 4 tubes of pre-rolls (hash infused and also Willie’s Reserve), a couple grams of flower, 2 oil cartridges, a new pen (Seattle Seahawks – 12th Strain branded - for the oil), a couple packs of chewable candies, and last but not least, a plastic syringe filled with some hashy goo which we found to be very applicable to the candies….
    “Be careful with this she said”, “Only rice grain size portions”…..
    “Sure, no problem” I say…….(smile, smile, smile), out we go, back to pick up the Mrs., sharing candies along the way, and on to our hotel at Moses Lake about 40 minutes east of The Gorge.

    After stopping for lunch, and a very scenic 3 hour drive through the mountains and over The Columbia River (wow, what a site), we rolled into Moses Lake about 1:00pm. First stop….the liquor store, to load up on IPA for me, Jack Daniels for BIL & wine for the Mrs., a bag of ice, plus a disposable cooler if we could find one. I asked the liquor store dude if he had any styrofoam coolers, but no dice. Payed for everything else and walked out…..then, just as we were loading up I spotted some old buckets that someone had piled up…looked like trash in front of the store….and just like that we had a cooler  Time to check in to the room

    Ok, for those who already know the background story on my choice of accommodations, I apologize, but I think for context it bears repeating. I planned this Dead & Co tour stop in connection with my in-laws 40th Anniversary Celebration to be held on the Oregon Coast the following weekend (what timing….couldn’t believe my luck). I would have preferred to camp, and my wife agreed to do so, but she is no Deadhead, or camper for that matter, and so she only agreed to one night. I of course wanted to see both nights, and BIL also wanted to come to a show, so in compromise, I offered to purchase the VIP package which included 2 tickets to each show, 2 nights hotel accommodation in Moses Lake, plus bus ride to and from each show. Needless to say, she agreed, and so here were leaving the liquor store and on our way to the hotel.
    When we get there and walk into the lobby it is a quarter till 2:00 and there are already 25-30 Heads milling around in the lobby. The guy at the desk tells me that they are all waiting for the ticket packages that would be handed out at 2:00. First bus to The Gorge leaves at 3:00, 2nd bus at 4:00……that means BIL and I have 1 hour to check in, get ready, get our tickets/wristbands, and then be across the street to load up for the first bus.

    Back in the room we start getting ready and stocking supplies. Gonna be a little nip to the air tonight so I wear some jeans, one of my Courtney Pollock Tie Dye’s, Bolt hat, and my bright green Morning Dew sweatshirt tied around my waist for the later chill. I load up one plastic tube with 4 or 5 pre-rolls, pocketed my oil pen plus cartridge and then grabbed a half a handful of stems and caps that someone had mysteriously packed inside of my zip up shorts pocket that I had stuffed in my checked baggage…...what luck!!! Next we stock our new disposable cooler bucket full of IPA’s, bottle of JD, couple Cokes, and some ice. BIL is in his 30’s, about 10 years my junior and 13 years my wife’s little brother, and so before we go, she makes sure to tell me not to lose him….make sure he gets back OK! Of course, Of course…no worries BIL and I laugh!!!!! Now up to the lobby to grab tickets just before 3:00, and out to the bus….do I have everything? Nope, Oh shit…….I forgot THE BUTTONS!!!

    Here’s the background on THE BUTTONS….I think most of y’all know Agent Jeff Smith from our boards here, but if you don’t you should, because he’s one of the coolest Heads around these parts, always quick to share his fine art work of making our Dave’s Pick’s and Box Sets Digital Album covers pop with High Definition detail. Earlier this year, Jeff had helped me acquire some GD digital shows that I was missing from my collection, and in his mail parcel he included a button that he had made for the Dead & Co Boulder shows last summer. After seeing Jeff’s Boulder button, I asked him if he wouldn’t mind designing me a button for the upcoming Gorge trip and he kindly obliged with one of the coolest designs I could have imagined (see my avatar). I ordered 200 of the 2 and ¼ inches in diameter with sparkle background for the shows.

    Back to the room…grab 100 of the buttons, run across the street, and then finally after 28 years of being of being a GD fan, I AM ON THE BUS…..which is a fucking Greyhound!

    No folks, although we were just a few hundred miles north from where the famed vehicle now rests and rusts, this was no Kesey bus. There was no day-glow graffiti, or Merry Pranksters riding on top. The music was not blaring shows from long past as it should be, nor were there any stray travelers looking to hop aboard. And thank God Cowboy Neal was not at the wheel, because I don’t believe we would have had enough defibrillator machines to account for the carnage. Not surprisingly BIL and I were the only ones on the bus who had thought forward enough to bring a bucket full of beers, and so we sat quietly sipping beers and sucking on our oil pipes and eating edibles, hoping against a last minute ransack by the group of aging hippies on our supplies..

    After arriving at the scene/parking lot, and not listening closely to instructions about how to get back to The Bus……we straggled off with beer bucket in hand down the Golden Road (walking path) to the entrance of The Gorge, and things were starting to pick up as we were high steppin’ in to town, it was a rainbow full of sound…..there were fireworks, calliopes and clowns, and everybody was dancing!!!

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    Anyone see the Grateful Dead get name dropped on The PBS Newshour this evening? That's twice in 2 weeks!

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    Ain't nothing changed

    Still upright- So Fine :-) Hanging in there...

    P.S. This reply is stale, but late checking in. tehe

    P.S.S. Vehicles AND Traffic Lights.

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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.

I avoid alcohol as much as possible.

drunk on a waterbed

ugh

I thought your story would end up as a clusterbunch worthy of Penthouse Forum.

I was seasick as a kid, crossing on a ferry from Norway to England. An experience I DO NOT want to ever repeat.

I have never hitchhiked.

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...I was correct, Dave just stated/ confirmed that the second 45 track concert was recorded from the same run of shows as this MUATMs filmed concert release in 2019...the second show recorded is the night before performance! Primo!
🙏❤️😎

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Not showing anywhere within a three hour drive of me. This is the second one in a row I'll be deprived.

That would be awesome if the next box is from Summer '91. Bring it!

So I never drank tequila again... until, literally, about five years ago. The 40-plus-year interval seemed, um, judicious.

As for the potential of three-guys-meet-two-women-in-a-waterbed alternative reality, basically, back then, we were actually sweet young people who wouldn't have dreamed of groping each other.

On the other hand, I have never been in a bed with four other people since then. I swear!!

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road trip!
road trip!
road trip!

people drive or fly for hours or days to get to shows.

this is a show that just happens to be on a screen.

road trip!
road trip!
road trip!

C'mon, man! it'll be Jerry's birthday!

ROAD TRIP!

make it special, my man!

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Bro, I have never been able to wrap my spelling mind around your 'tag,' and I knew I had it wrong, but was too lazy to go look it up before posting.

s-t-o-l-t-z-f-u-s ... It's not that difficult, if one tries.

And I was the one who wrote [use ridiculous, comic voice]: "And 47 years of consistent psychedelic use has been good for me."

Yet, evidence shows that the gears are getting a bit creaky!

So, I'm off in the morning to an extremely remote plateau in the high desert, reachable by 6 hrs on pavement, 2 hrs on very rough dirt track and 5 hrs via backpack, to spend three days and take a stem-and-cap refresher course.

By the time I'm back mid-week next week, I expect the box will have been announced. Magic!

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It's on Jambase.

https://www.jambase.com/article/grateful-dead-meet-up-at-the-movies-201…

Looks like this isn't being offered anywhere close to where I live either. I was afraid this would happen after last years offering, which most of us had on DVD anyway.. oh well, I saw that coming.

Hope everyone is looking forward to the weekend. I know I am. Where fore art thou Bolo with words of twisted box set wisdom?

Stem and cap.. mmmm…

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...Dave L. Posted it on his twitter account, I don’t have the link on hand but you should be able to find it without any problems my brother. Have a grateful day ! 🙏❤️💀
...hello Spacebrother, it’s grateful to see your still around, welcome back old friend...🙏

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Maybe it will be a collection of New Years shows over a decade.

12/31/71- Winterland Arena - San Francisco, CA
12/31/72- Winterland Arena - San Francisco, CA
12/31/77- Winterland Arena - San Francisco, CA
12/31/79- Oakland Auditorium Arena - Oakland, CA
12/31/80- Oakland Auditorium Arena - Oakland, CA
12/31/81- Oakland Auditorium Arena - Oakland, CA

How can you think and learn in that heat. We have that here too (no AC in schools), but jeeze.. the kids can't be learning when they are half asleep and dripping in sweat. 6/13 is pushing pretty far into the summer too, what's up with that? A travesty I say!

A tip of the hat to educators and the school system. Made a big difference in the lives of many including me. Give the kiddies a window unit or something. How much could that cost?

Fourwinds???? You left off 12/31/82! A bigger travesty I say!!!
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12/31/1982 Oakland Auditorium Arena

Set 3: (w/ Etta James and the Tower of Power Horn Section)

Turn On Your Love Light
Tell Mama
Baby What You Want Me To Do
Hard To Handle
In The Midnight Hour

Edit: HF.. (similar to Mexican weed) the Tequila of the 70's does not compare with what makes it into the country today. Some of the extra anejo I have had blows away the best bourbons and cognacs.. (in my humble opinion). "Tequila, it's not just for blowing chunks anymore.."

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The email announcement that I received today announcing the MUATM stated that the 6/17/91 show is one of only two in the GD archives recorded to 48 track analog tape. Didn't say what the other show was.

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Stoltzfus, my man, I didn't grasp until now that you're in public service. Thanks mon!

As someone else mentioned, all my early teachers had a huge influence on my life -- except, of course, the parts of my life that I tell stories about. That part's all on me.

I did have a couple meanies in middle school. Our typing teacher, Mr. Garducci, would walk up behind you as you tried to navigate one of those giant, already antique typewriters with the tiny round keys attached to long metal shafts and he'd smash his yardstick across the machine and yell "Posture! Sit up straight!" For the love of God! So I never learned to type until I was out of college, hunkered down in a cabin on the Colo-New Mexico stateline, cultivating up on the hill and teaching myself to touch type. After a few prosperous years putting my biology degree to profitable use in the MJ biz I got busted and went into journalism (if done well, another form of public service).

Someday I'll share my escape-on-foot-over-an-11,000-foot-pass story as the bust went down in late '85, with only the clothes on my back, an aspirin bottle to store water and a pair of LL Bean slippers on my feet. Oh, and the greatest dog who ever lived, my beloved Genaro, a husky-collie mix and a great conversationalist. May he RIP. Never got another after he passed at age 12.

I offered to endorse LL Bean slippers (they worked great!) but I think the company wanted to go in another direction....

Hey MDJim: to my cap-and-stem refresher course, did you mean to say "yum," not mm?

I should say that trips are not about "fun" for me, at least not the past 40 years. Seems like I need to be ready to face the harsh truths about myself and the world as I work it all out in the backcountry, amid inspiring and sometimes daunting landscapes. I treat it like soul medicine -- tough to swallow, but ultimately good for me. I always return to civilization (if that word's still operative) working to be a better person and smiling more. I need that adjustment a handful of times each year just to stay human (if that term applies to me, some say I might be from Uranus).

At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

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... my good ol' head friend just asked if I'd listened to 7/18,19/90 Deer Creek. I had not, so I checked em' out. 7/18 is an all time barn burner, and the often overlooked 7/19 show (because it's companion is such a gem,) is stellar as well... maybe the best Desolation Row... Victim>Foolish>Playin>ChinaDoll>UJB 2nd set pre-drums... all played with passion and fire, just before Brent's demise, when he was arguably playing his best...

Whew. It's been a fun past two days of listening - Stoltzfus, I'm giving final exams here in the city, (though thankfully, I'm one of the few in the school with decent AC units...) Anyway... these two shows would make a perfect mini-box, a la RFK 89.

https://archive.org/details/gd90-07-18.sbd.wilson.12760.sbeok.shnf
https://archive.org/details/gd1990-07-19.sbd.miller.32354.sbeok.flac16

These are really some fantastic 90 shows... I wish Brent would have made it. We'd have a totally different opinion of 90s Dead if he would have lived.

RIP Brent

Peace

Crosswalks got me... as they usually do...

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Poems everyone! Poems laddie!
New car, caviar,
Four star daydream,
Think I'll buy me a football team.
Money get back,
I'm alright Jack,
Keep your hands off my stack.
Moonshine, washing line,
On the loose,
Dr. Seuss -
In his new
potato caboose.
(boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew)
When you were young,
You shined like the sun,
But it ain't all over
Baby Blue,
It's all just psychedelic to you.
There's criminal inflation
at the Terrapin Station,
And Castles of Sand
For You-Know-Who's Band.
So sleep on your toes
with Ramble on Rose,
And when the Pigs bleat,
Tight lips, cold feet -
The time has come
for everyone,
To pick out the easy meat -
With their eyes closed
here on Shakedown Street.

(to Isengard, to Isengard - they're taking the Hobbits to Isengard!)

Laddie reckons himself a poet.....poems everyone....poems....

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Hey LMG, thanks for the info, I figured someone on here would know what the other show was right away.

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....btw. the first one you mention was the last one you listened to....
Elton John - Madman Across The Water (current)
Elton John - 17-11-70
Phish - 11.3.18 Grand Garden Arena, Sin City (was present. And it was good)
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
GOGD - Fox Theatre 3.18.71
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Bonus Fives. The first two Elton John records. You see, I saw this certain movie recently, and I'm committed to listen to his entire catalogue. So if I seem redundant over the next few weeks, that is why 😉. Im like the moon. Phases....
Madman ended while I was typing this. Cue Honky Chateau. Imagine putting Honky on an album title these days. Oh Lordy!!

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The discussion of tequila reminds me of my drinking days in college. One night I was drinking with a couple girls and one other guy. We were drinking Jose Cuervo, with the worm in the bottle. The idea was that whoever got the shot with the worm in it had to consume it. By the time we got close to the bottom, we were all pretty sloshed. And when the girl who poured the shot with the worm falling into it saw that thing, we all roared and she shrieked, “I’m not tucking that fouching worm!” True story.

Very interesting that there seems to haver been a lot more research done with psychedelic drugs over the last five years or so - and that the results seem to be so positive. Earlier this week, in one of the main national newspapers-The Guardian-there was a double page centre spread on how tests with psilocybin suggested that it was possibly the best antidote to depression yet identified.

This was definitely my experience. Between 1987 and 1993, I found myself living in a flat surrounded by fields in which mushrooms grew between September and November. Consequently, during those years, I would trip once a week, maybe into December, and then nothing until the same season the following year. They were great years on every level, far and away better than the preceding ones had been. I always took them on my own, and then joined friends later in the evening. It all came to an end when I got a professional qualification in 1993, and had to leave the area to take up my new job. Which is where I still live. I never bothered looking for them here, although I was tempted to at first. In any case, it felt inappropriate, given the new role I had taken on. I haven't taken them since 1993, and although I no longer feel tempted to, I have no regrets whatsoever about taking them at that time.

As ever, the biggest risk with illegal drugs, as I understand it, is rooted, in their illegality. With acid, in my late teens and twenties, the massive contrast in potency-and in what was actually being sold as "acid" seemed to vary wildly. It felt a bit like Russian Roulette, to me. So I am not so chipper about all that.

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To say that psychedelic use is a great cure for depression it's kind of like saying cocaine is a great cure for depression. I'm never depressed after a line of coke!

I have two friends who microdose acid everyday to help deal with anxiety. Buddy one, he says it helps, and I'm not saying lithium makes people any more coherent than psychedelics, but he is a completely different person now. I think he's actually become manic. And very forgetful. He told me twice in the same 3 hour get together that he had begun micro dosing. He completely forgot that he told me the first time and started the story fresh about two hours into a poker game. The other day he texted that his car was stolen so I called him to make him feel better and to hear his story. We spoke about it for 15 minutes. The very next day he texted me that I was never going to believe it but his car got stolen. The manic part I spoke of his that he just comes up with these crazy ideas that he gets fixated on and goes on and on in a nonlinear fashion about it. Like an invention to replace windshield wipers. LOL he is a dear friend but he is greatly changed. When he was on real depression medicine he did very well but complained that it made him tired and required a nap in the day. This all transpired in the last year. He was on the Xanax for 6 months and now he's been microdosing instead for 6 months. I miss Xanax guy.

Special message to Hendrix freak. I am not at all criticizing you or your use of recreational psychedelics. I trip once or twice a year, or at least did before I had an accident last year. I like tripping. I just don't think that it can be used everyday without changing a person. And I am not saying that it has changed you for the worst. I don't even know you so it would be ridiculous for me to make any kind of judgment like that. I just want you to know that my comments above relate to my buddy. A case study if you will.

Then there is his partner in crime, buddy number two. We now refer to him as mr. Paranoia. I think he's a little bit beyond the micro part of microdosing. He's not even depressed. He just likes to do drugs. He has run his business into the ground so badly his wife came to me for advice. Just to give you some perspective she hates me. She's the kind of gal who believes if you criticise women you're a misogynist. So for example, I once mentioned that my girlfriend and I had a funny miscommunication due to her inability to write neatly. I literally went to the wrong airport because I couldn't make out what she wrote. She admits this freely and blames the constant use of typing on electronic devices as the reason her writing looks like spaghetti now. Buddy number two's wife laid into me about that story. The point is that these drugs they are doing on a daily basis I really turning their brains into mush. They both have families and children and I think the more responsibility you have the easier it is to get carried away on this stuff. Sure it sounds like there's an article that supports they use for fighting depression. I don't know what that authors political slant is. I don't know what the studies political slant is. Maybe they're talking it up or maybe in some severe cases of depression it's better than nothing.

Sorry for the long post. Haven't used just about every kind of drug under the sun, I am well aware of the flipside dangers to mind and health. When I was using regularly I made excuses for it and quoted the first study I could Google that seemed to support my habit. Looking back I know that all of the recreational drugs harm us if used daily. Cocaine, marijuana, shrooms and acid, opioids, etc. I believe most of us recreational users who begin using recreationally everyday kind of hide behind the label of recreation and cringe at the word addiction.

I tried changing my username to Minas Ithil but had technical issues. Minas Ithil was the White Tower before it was taken over by evil forces, becoming the Fortress of the witch King and being renamed Minas Morgul. A man with a dark streak always has a dark streak, at best he can shine enough light to keep the dog at Bay. You want to talk about a trip? Try fading in and out of fevered consciousness for a couple of days with no way to get help or even move your body without pain you never thought yourself capable of having. The thing about trauma and being close to death is that the cover of protection that you put up around your psyche to get through the days is lifted forever. You start to see things as they really are and not how your psyche wants them to be.

So, no box Announcement this week. 😡
Looks like we will have to wait at least another week!

Been Listening to Dick's 28 from early 1973 the last two days, just love this one. 73 was such a strong year for the boys. Have not come across one that I don't love.

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I don't care what the next box is I'm looking forward to it. It'll have cool packaging and be old (new) live Dead music that I don't already have... what's not to love.

I've done as many drugs as anyone here. I'm sure of it. Not that it's a contest, but I used to live for that shit. Now, I can say without doubt that the best one can ever feel is fresh out of bed early in the morning, or just after exercise. But to each his own... just don't get lost out there. Peace everyone.

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I recall in a toxicology class learning that the poison is in the dose - in other words most things can become toxic if taken to excess. Don't believe me? Google what can happen if you drink too much water at one time. Spoiler alert, it can kill you. Minas is correct to the extent that excessive use of psychedelics can cause some crispiness to ensue, however, moderate use did not seem to have the same impact, and use of other substances may complicate the issue. There was a period where I was probably tripping a couple times a week and I was crispy, although I was also high 24/7. At a frequency of dosing approximately once per week I was not crispy and did pretty well in my calculus class, a good indicator that I had not suffered any real damage. After regular consumption, lets say an average of once per week for a period of several years, my scores on standardized testing for post-bachelor degree education still came out in the top 1-2%, again, support that no real damage was done.

With regard to the treatment of depression and anxiety and the administration of psychedelics, mushrooms or ketamine for example, the dosing regimen that I have seen involve administration of a low dose, talk therapy for a couple weeks followed by administration of a higher dose of the psychedelic. That's it, two doses, and the depression and anxiety is alleviated for months or longer. Unlike cocaine's effect on depression, which is to briefly alleviate and then exacerbate it, the impact of psychedelics is persistent from one or two doses. How many Xanax do you have to take in that time? Also, Xanax is no joke, it is a benzodiazepine with some serious potential side effects, including negative impacts on cognitive abilities, the fact that you are physically dependent after a period of use and will have severe side effects if use is suddenly stopped. It is not innocuous.

Use what works for you at a frequency that works for you, but be aware that whatever you are using can probably be overdone. Sorry to ramble, but I could talk about psychedelics and the current research all day.

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What Charlie said, well done.
Doing anything everyday is probably not good for you, whatever it is! Yin/yang etc., Balance is the key to life. Compounded over many years/decades will most likely lead to health issues, or worse.
Also, everybody is different, and so every substance wether asprin or whatever, can effect people differently. That is one reason why I feel the methodology employed by law enforcement to determine a persons ability drive is unconstitutional........I’m not for a minute suggesting that there is no regulation needed there, only that the current methods are not right!
We old timers talk crazy about the old days, but it’s a much different world now. “Law come to get ya when you don’t walk right”....So have fun, but get to know your body, know what your taking, be safe, and more importantly be responsible!

This public service announcement brought to you by old burned out freaks, convicts, recoverers and others who’ve been there. 😉

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I was going to reply, but Charlie stated pretty clearly what my understanding is. I still do psychedelics from time to time, but not very often. I do not think they had an adverse affect me, in fact quite the opposite. Sometimes a mind and soul cleanse is good medicine.

Anyway.. back to your regularly scheduled drums and space.

Fox with a box... would you, could you at the fox?

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Just got in Springsteen's new album Western Stars (bunch of cowboy songs).

First song?

Hitch Hiking!

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They both have uncanny similar quotes on frequency of the use of psychedelics.
From the final interview of John Lennon that appeared in Playboy (1980); interviewer asking about drug use, "Acid?' John Lennon, "Not in years. A little mushroom or peyote is not beyond my scope, you know, maybe twice a year or something."
Jerry Garcia from Portrait of an Artist as a tripper, published 8/8/14;
Interviewer, "When was the last time you took psychedelics?"
Garcia; "Sometime in the last year, maybe mushrooms because I think its milder, easier to handle. "
Interviewer You've slowed down to to what? A couple times a year?
Garcia "Yeah, irregularly. Its not something I plan for. Its something that Im likely to do on impulse. I like to have DMT around."
Fascinating interviews. They both "knew". Check out those interviews.

I’m doing 82308.GEMS.

Wish I was spinning a Plangentized Vault Release.

Dave?.....

Dave?.....

Dave?......

June 76 Box
June 76 Box
June 76 Box

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I’m not a robot

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Tour de France Box

Released at the beginning of July to coincide with the Tour.
Consists of the 5 unreleased shows from France.

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Did the boys haul the Wall Of Sound to Engkand / France for that short September run in '74? Any of the venues outdoors?

LMG check your PM. Ba'gok!

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They did indeed use the Wall in that Europe run. They sent it by ship, and inside the speaker cabinets, they hid their stashes.

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drugs aren't for everyone, especially LSD, had some good times on the chemical and some not so good times, it all depended on the situation and the dose. Back in high school, we would dose a small portion before going to school, usually 50 or 60 mics, but sometimes a quarter hit was more like 100 to 150 mics and it was off to the races for that day (orange sunshine and yellow sunshine were very potent) I remember some times just sitting in study hall laughing my ass off at nothing, good times. The looks we would get from students and teachers both was classic wish I had it all on film, it would make a great movie. Living in florida for 35 plus years we did a lot of shrooms, every weekend during the season for years. The season runs from some times May till October, but mostly June till September. Back in the day (70's) almost every cowfield had shrooms growing out of the cow pies, but, due to law enforcements efforts to stop it, it became harder and harder to find them in most cow fields. Also, the owners of the land would sometimes enforce no trespassing signs by gunpoint, which was a bit scary. I remember one time the owner and his 3 sons had us pinned up against our car, all 4 tires flat, at gunpoint, telling us to never come back. Didn't stop us tho, we would come back at night or just have a driver drop us off and come back and pick us up 30 mins later with the goods, there was always a way to get around rednecks and their offspring. Some of us had our own private secret fields, which would produce every time it rained, and we took advantage of it. During the summer, it was nothing for us to have a crisper full of shrooms in the refrig and a pitcher full of juice on the top shelf. Those days are gone now, as most bovine owners add orange pulp to their feed which stops the production of the mycilen that is essential to production of the flowers, or the caps we all love. The best part of picking shrooms was the actual picking, going out into a natural surrounding, walking along and finding a bunch growing, it was a beautiful thing. Nevermind the mosquitos, or snakes, or spiders or other wildlife you might encounter, they were basically harmless and it was so worth it to receive the reward, which was always an evening in heaven. We picked the same field for 20 years and it never had an adverse effect on us or any of the countless others we turned on, every weekend during the summer. It was the best of times. I remember in 1995 or 6, there was a tropical storm named "Jerry" that hit the peninsula in July and went out into the atlantic turned around and came back, both times the bounty was plentiful and very potent. We saw it as a sign from God (and Jerry) Love you Jerry, miss you dearly. Once in the 70's we found a field that was at the end of a stream, the stream basically ended in a cow field, we hit the field just after an afternoon shower and when we approached, we could see a lavender haze floating about a foot off the grass, never had we seen anything like it before and we were struck by the beauty of it, primeval, ancient, god like. As we entered, fungus was everywhere, some small some very large (picked some that day that were as big as pancakes, 6 inches across and 10 inches tall) 22 lbs picked in 35 mins. The beauty of it all and the reward was a night of enlightenment that I will never forget. Sorry for the long post, back to the music.

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Listening to Highgate 1995 on its anniversary. Attended when in high school. In beautiful northern Vermont, visited by a miles long caravan of vehicles on a perfect summer day. A show that kicked off the eastern run of their (infamous) last tour, with many signs that things were going downhill during the summer. Jerry's struggles are well known. But a blind listen brings out some gems. Only have an audience recording, but its a great listen. Some missed lyrics -- of course. But Jerry and Bobby and the boys really sound into each song with some great playing throughout -- I'd head out to that show again tonight in a heart beat if given the opportunity :)

A few highlights:
First set -- Peggy-O, El Paso, Ramble on Rose, Black-Throated Wind, and Loose Lucy.
Also Jerry seemed laid back and happy talking to the audience "Phil isn't ready yet. You'll have to think of something really really nice to say to him :)"
Second set -- Here Comes Sunshine, cool Jerry medley of Rollin and Tumblin > That Would Be Something > He's Gone, Standing on the Moon

Recall coming out of Space, Phil standing on stage and making a box with this hands before going into Box of Rain.

Also, interesting factoid about this show. It is the last show where the Dead played a song for the first time -- Rollin and Tumblin.

Anyway some recollections from 24 years ago. Any Dead show could be special for its own reasons, but some were more special than others :)

Next up today 11-21-73 Denver . . .

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That makes sense (ship). I'm not the brightest but I can see through a brick wall if you give me enough time. I didn't even think of a ship, I just thought man how the hell are they going to fit all that on a plane, they would need one of those c-160 military cargo planes. I forgot about the sea.

I wonder how today's sound systems compare to the Wall?

Speaking of the wall, I got a kick out of your "poems laddie" KF. Looks like half Pink Floyd lyrics half Grateful Dead songs, and a spattering of Keithfan. Do I get bonus points for picking out the line from Arnold Layne?

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I've got a yen for some fresca. When I was young.

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....I get it, but by that time, Jerry would turn his guitar down so low....but I digress. sigh....he knew.

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OK I'm a little late to this conversation, but the idea of what was the first music I heard was intriguing. I wasn't sure, so I looked up singles in wiki. It seems my awareness of music began when i was 9, in 1963. Mind you these weren't the first singles I bought, these were songs I heard, probably on my first radio. In the bay area, the AM pop/rock station was KFRC. I don't know if FM was really hip yet. So I heard all this great music on AM radio. These were great years for lots of interesting music to hear on the radio.

Return to Sender - Elvis
Surfing USA, Surfer Girl - Beach Boys
Walk Right In - Rooftop Singers (Kind of a novelty song)
Walk Like a Man, Big Girls Don't Cry - Four Seasons
Blame it on the Bosa Nova - Edie Gormet (this was a big hit)
Puff the Magic Dragon, Blowing in the Wind - Peter Paul and Mary
Its my Party - Leslie Gore
Another Saturday Night - Sam Cooke
Louie Louie - The Kingsman
Wipe Out - The Surfers

Soon the Beatles would hit the Ed Sullivan Show, and everything changed. I think the first albums I bought were Beatles, and the Mama's and the Papas. Another early album was East West - the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

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Walk Right In is more than a novelty song...it was written and performed by Gus Cannon & His Jug Stompers in 1929...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4mGH_3lzhw

Gus also recorded Viola Lee Blues, Big Railroad Blues & Minglewood Blues...check 'em out good stuff

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