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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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May 8, 2019 - 10:25am

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Audio

All of the vocalists on the bonus disk were heavily weighted to the right side of my headphones. Pretty unusual experience for these releases. Did anyone else have this issue so that it is how it was laid down on the original recordings or should I look to my ripping/disks as the problem?
May 8, 2019 - 8:51am

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marye

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folks with shipping issues

If the problem persists, send me a PM and I'll ask the Doc to investigate.
May 8, 2019 - 8:16am

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Lovemygirl

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*Re/ Woodstock performance

Your welcome, 🤠...$800 For now! 🙏❤️😎
... individually...Yes,my friend 😉
May 8, 2019 - 8:06am

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NCDead

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Lovmygirl

Thanks for the information, I have been expecting this. Glad it is getting made. 38 disks will have to see what the price is.

ETA
$800 for 38 disks and 36 hours of music seems awfully steep.

Hopefully they will release the sets individually
May 8, 2019 - 7:38am

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Huskerwing

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tracking number? 237 carrier?

I got a bad tracking number as well. Customer noservice emailed back saying the warehouse stated mine would ship out asap and to follow my order status at the site. 48 hours later and no updated info on shipping or tracking. Nothing.

Update: just got a new email from customer noservice. Says my order shipped on 5/2 and I should allow 7-10 business days for it to arrive. Tracking number still doesn't work. So I go from bad tracking number, to "it will ship asap" , to it shipped over a week ago just wait. Smells like a runaround. I don't mind waiting at all but I'd like a working tracking number.
May 8, 2019 - 6:56am

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CaseyJanes

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Legal Weed, Shrooms & Roy Buchanan

Nice take Jim...couldnt have said it better myself, but glad I didn’t have to type all that 😊.....shame that Colorado didn’t get it done with the shrooms, but it was a very close vote and a deeper connection with the universe tells me that this won’t be the last of it. My guess is that it will be back on the ballot next year in some form...Let’s hope so!

Roy Buchanan is phenomenal...inspired me with my most recent guitar purchase which is kind of a reliced Tele custom. Has not arrive yet but Will try to post a pic once it does. Hendrix Freak is no doubt our resident Buchanan expert. Have not seen him around here lately, but he wrote a bio about Roy which I have not read, but here is the Amazon link if you are interested:

https://www.amazon.com/Roy-Buchanan-American-Phil-Carson/dp/0879306394

He also wrote the liner notes to the 2018 vinyl release, Roy Buchanan: Live at Town Hall....I own that vinyl which is very good, and I have also read the liner notes which was a good read and educational about Roy and tell of some of the live shows that Hendrix Freak attended.

Gave my first full listen through Daves 30 last night. Love Pigpen throughout this one. As others have already said, he truly shines here! I also love T.C.s additions to the mix. Not sure I can say it’s my favorite Daves as earlier stated while very buzzed on Saturday night, but I don’t think that I could do that with any of the DaP so far. I do think it is pushing its way into the top 5 for me.

The Schwag are live in KC this Saturday night. They are always Grate....speaking of shrooms, oh yes!

Rock On Dead People!

KCJ
May 8, 2019 - 6:51am

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Lovemygirl

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Grateful Dead Full Woodstock Performance Release

...the Dead’s full performance to be released in Woodstock 50 Ann. Boxset along with other performing attends, PRIMO!!! 8/2/19🙏❤️😎
May 8, 2019 - 6:38am

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deadegad

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I concur: War on Drugs, or, just Pot, Collateral Damage . . ..

And I don't even smoke pot or anything. . .. I remember Gore Vidal speaking of "The Sound of Fools Rushing In!" To be 'busted' for watering a couple of pot plants in the woods!?!? God help us.

I've read interview(s) with Jerry mentioning Roy B as an inspiration. Move me brightly?
May 8, 2019 - 5:15am

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JimInMD

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Legal Weed

I don't think 2018 data is out there yet.. but in 2017 there were 1,632,921 marijuana arrests in the US, over 85% were for possession only (not sales or manufacturing, etc.).

Of the 1.6M arrests, we can surmise this had a major affect on many and probably changed the course of many lives probably not for the better.

Pot arrests affected more than a few of my inner circle and I saw it stymie career prospects for several very close friends. It had a lasting effect, some of them clearly had less productive lives and several were ultimately jailed for marijuana related offenses (and one LSD incarceration). One of my close friends and a college roommate at one point got a one year sentence on a first offense because he was caught watering three outdoor plants in the woods in a pretty remote area near where he lived. They tend to be tougher in rural, more conservative areas and he was a city boy from DC, so they locked him up. Bet that was a hard call to mom and dad.

Keeping it illegal did/does irreparable harm to otherwise decent people. Then there is the impact on prisons, the black markets and cartels/criminal organizations. We have hundreds of thousands dead in Mexico alone over the last 30 years. Many countries in Central and South America have been destabilized by narco-fueled corruption and its influence on politics and policing. There are entire geographical areas that are dominated by drug fueled gang warfare and are basically lawless, a situation I would argue would be better if drugs were not so profitable. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre estimates that at least 432,000 people from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras have been displaced from their homes as of 2017 because of drug related gang activity. Many end up leaving their home countries and wind up as refugees elsewhere (many in the US and Canada, but also neighboring countries). I realize most of this is because of Cocaine, but these crime organizations started with Pot.

This issue is complex and nuanced, but FDR making pot illegal in 1937 has done little good and tremendous harm. It's possible that no matter what policies and laws are created to deal with this issue, there will be some harm as a result, but keeping it illegal and doubling down with harsh penalties was perhaps the worst thing we could have done.

My two cents.. but I don't think society is helped by putting people in jail.

Now back to our regularly scheduled drums and space.

Oh.. and Roy Buchanan has come up multiple times on these threads over the years.. I think HendrixFreak brought him up somewhat recently??? not sure. Influenced many including Jerry Garcia.
May 8, 2019 - 4:04am

#1930

Roguedeadguy

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Roy Buchanon

Have yinz heard this dude? An amazing blues guitar slinger who somehow escaped my attention until just recently. He hung himself in a jail cell after being arrested for public intoxication. Tragic.

Looks like Denver voted down the shrooms initiative. Maybe the squares just aren't ready for that yet.

Gonna see Lettuce at Bell's Beer Garden in Kalamazoo. First of many summer concert excursions I hope :)

I gave the 1-2 a good listen at work the other day. Overall its terrific, good sound. Dark Star was hard to get into, with the caveat that I was at work, which I often find to be the case with Dark Stars. Those really need the *cough cough* proper environment. St Stephen / The Eleven though is incredible, maybe one of the best versions I can think of. I see that some folks are saying that 1-3 is even better, we shall see.

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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.

Buttons, and caps, and lines oh my!

And a big Sunny Rocky Mnt. how do you do!
Nice to see Wjones and the always entertaining CaseyJ back with us.....
CJ, was worried you some how smuggled in your magic carpet, got turned on to some ultra government top secret veggies, lifting off somewhere between HCS and Dark Star, and decided to fly the length of the Columbia, eventually needing to crash in some uncharted PNW forest, only to be kiddnaped by a secret clan of Uber Sasquatch....”ancient alien theorist say yes!” Who we’re so high, intelligent and kind that we would never hear from the likes of you again, not that there’d be anything wrong with that lol
Couldn’t help but pick up on the less than Bolo type clue about “we weren’t listening to the return bus instructions” ha, bet a few of us here know where that’s going! Lol

BOX: yep, looking like whoever said the announcement was going to be after Dave’s 31 is gonna win the prize...
Prize you say? .......yea,
“Upon your death you will receive divine consciousness.....which is nice”

Ok you got me started

Its not a matter of snoozing and losing

Its about a SHITBRAINED SYSTEM AND LAMENESS ON THE PART OF THE PTB AT THE GORGE.

luckily for you all, i am headed to work...keeping my day job and all that

Have a pleasant day, y'all

Ahh..

Forgot about the Uber Sasquatches. They are everywhere.

RIP Jeff Austin

“My mom let me go to Grateful Dead shows when I was 12 or 13 years old. The things that taught me,” Austin told Relix in 2009. “And I think about these kids – it’s like a sense of community, a different sense of giving and caring – we’re all here together. If you create something, you’ll have this beautiful bubble that will occur.”

😓

Jeff Austin

What a bummer. Heard over the weekend he was in the hospital. These guys got me hooked into bluegrass in 2001-2002 era, and I was lucky to see them a bunch in the early aughts. Jeff was unquestionably the leader of that band. He was a great songwriter and a better singer. Time to put on an old Yonder show.

C Janes

The link to the book was cool. It reminds me of the stories I have had traveling with the dead in the 80's. It is like losing a faithful dog that was always there to make sure you were ok. You never forget those times. Some people may think it's just a concert but it was more then that. Those people would not understand unless they were there.

Carlo

Right on!

Carlo...reminds of that bumper sticker

If I have to explain, you wouldn’t understand (insert dead graphic)....I think you will enjoy the rest of my story....stay tuned!

Yonder - 12-13-1999

https://archive.org/details/ymsb1999-12-13.shnf/ymsb1999-12-13d1/ymsb19…

Check out the Morning Dew then Shady Grove

10-4. Oro and Cjanes

10-4 good buddy.

About that 74

I told you all I have been exploring 1974 much more since accepting the sonic issues that go along with it. I'm full blown rampage now, which is ironic considering my last full blown rampage was 1974.

I have also observed there are only about a half-dozen Dark Stars from 74. That is almost a criminal act.

What I don't get is the popularity of DaP 2 Dillon Stadium. Awful audio. Is it simply because it's hard to get that it's so expensive on eBay? The show doesn't sound like anything special to me, maybe the poor audio is not helping. Can we all agree it's one of the worst sounding shows of 74?

And I will be needing rankings of all Eyes of the World from this year. I've come to the conclusion that they are the best ones, but if 73 needs to be included then so be it. Not interested in two drummer Eyes unless it's One from the Vault.

If you see the little red rooster

Won't you please drive him home

~ 10.5.84 ~

74 eyes

10 19 74

6 16 74

8 6 74

Berkeley, July 1988

Greek Theatre, 15, 16, 17 July 1988 just arrived today. It doesn't sound as good as a Normanized Plangent deal, but it sounds pretty good for a radio broadcast. Six discs for a little over thirty dollars.

Slaked my thirst while waiting for the box announcement. Not to mention the announcement is just the dangling of the carrot... the ship date can't be before Fall '19, at this point.

Jerry's vocal on the seldom played "Believe It Or Not," is extremely soulful. I'm just sayin'.

\m/

Eyes of the World's

11/17/73 is my favorite '73 version so far.

Coattail Skeletons 7/19/74 has a Dyno-MITE version.

box prediction

Now I'm thinking it may be the long awaited Boston Ark 69 shows. It's the 50th anniversary of the shows and Bolo said it's "about time those incredible shows were released". Bolo's clues may be hinting at Noah's Ark.
From Bolo's post:
Religious references: "grace of God", "glorious", "soul"
Storm reference: "Kesey's Thunder Machine"
Animal references:
1. "China"-----China CAT
2. "dark side of the moon"-----(pink floyd)-----ANIMALS
3. "Starbucks"------(Moby Dick)-----WHALE
4. "Cheetos"-----(Chester Cheetah)----CHEETAH

Right? Is anyone with me on this?

Good call Gollum

Ark would be cooooool

What does a yellow dog say?

"Ark, man...Ark"

Your avatar is awesome

But Liberace?....

....🤔 I have nothing.
Wait. Liberace tickled the ivories. Tusks are made of ivory. ELEPHANTS!
i still have nothing....

Not too familiar with....

....The Yonder Mountain String Band. Dipping my toe in now. Sad news for sure.

boxo predictionos, etc.

May 77 - Number 3 Palladium April 29-May 4!
1st Leg April '78 Curtis Hixon>Huntington,WV 4-16-1978 What about Sporto?

June '85
OR
June '91

Alaska '80? Msg '79 or '81?

P.S. Mike Edwards, Mr, Pid, dstache, OneMan, ComicBodger, Space Face? I beg you call the tune... :-)\\

Stuart Walker? sherbear? marye? monsieur Joe EVERYONE?

Happy Summer and carpe diem...

Love, Jeff

1974 Eyes

9/11 at Alexandra Palace is a good one. Very long, very spacy. After 1974 they always seemed in too much of a hurry when they played it. The 1976 ones especially-too fast, too short. And that seemed to set the template for the song for ever after.

In case you were wondering...

...yes, those IPA's were good last night :-/ :-)

P.S. Traffic Lights x4 and Chimneys.

Box set 2019

Multi-track from October 1969 or April 1971

Could be something from Fillmore West 1970 acoustic electric

Or more from 1989. Philadelphia Spectrum 3 shows

Dead and Company shows

Hey looking for someone to pick up an extra pin from a couple shows. Anyone going to Bristow , Charlotte , Atlanta or Dallas ? I had plans to go to Bristow , Charlotte and Atlanta but my dog had heart attacks last week. Had to cancel all plans and keep him company

Mbarilla

Check your PM

Box Set?

Hopefully it’s a spectacularly Plangentized offering.

The real worry is Vault safety. Hopefully Warner has a better fire prevention system than Universal Music.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8517618/universal-music-fir…

High Time to pick up the pace of releases, that way if something does happen in the future hopefully all the good sounding shows will have already been released.

this time around

I probably won't be able to get the box...my wife looks at me strangely

Fire!

Wow, that article is sad. Especially Cheech and chong and rodney dangerfield. The Captain and tennille not so much.

?

And what about Spinal Tap.....I was really hoping they’d rerelease an audiophile version of Smell the Glove!

yes, please prevent the destruction of the GD vault

would be a bummer of cosmic proportions if that ish were lost

PTB:

CAPTCHA sux. I can handle one screen of "find the bikes, ya damn fool", but 6 screens of buses, crosswalks, and festering sores is too much.

It's not like we are trying to hack into Fort Knox or something

on a tape of Mother McCree's, Jerry offers the audience...

a chance for a "boo break" due to unenjoyment.

Let's have a "boo break" for lame-ass co-workers.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dylan, Dead, Stones, fin

First Girl of the North Country since 8/27/14 tonight in Stockholm (also first Can't Wait since 2012).

Not my video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaFCERlqVPo

Sounding good. The Can't Wait is nice too...sounds like Stayin' Alive, haha. Waiting for a late summer / fall US announcement.

Anyone check out the new Rolling Thunder Revue box and Netflix special?

Gonna catch Dead & Company in ATL this weekend. Saw the Stones last Friday, first and only time for me. Worth it! Amazing that Mick had a valve in his heart replaced two months ago, he was all over the stage non-stop like it was the 70s. I got winded putting on the t-shirt I bought at the show.

MBARILLA

Just saw your post, I can check in Atlanta if you still need it. Thoughts to your dog!!! You are prioritizing correctly.

Universal Fire

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/magazine/universal-music-fire-bands-…

Here's an article I had just read before coming over here, and, sure enough it's already being discussed. I can't believe UMG lost millions of masters and were able to keep it silent for 11 years. The exceedingly long list of artists who were impacted is truly sad. Buddy Holly, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, The Who, Tom Petty, The Carter Family, even a Martin Luther King, Jr speech that was recorded and released. Decca and Chess records. Unbelievable. Who knows what kind of brilliant work lay unreleased and unheard until the conflagration meant they would never be heard.

Also, I remember Dave made a joke on the Hofheinz 11/18/72 release page about not being able to hear Hoyt Axton Explodes without a turntable, though now it may be impossible for them to even think about a re-release as his masters are also thought to have been destroyed. I hope the artists get a massive settlement from UMG, which is worth $33 billion.

All in the family

In All in the family season 6 'Archie, the babysitter'. Gloria hires a babysitter and the babysitters boyfriend who comes over to hang out with her, brings over 2 albums. One is Blues for Allah and the other is the rolling stones. You can see both sides of B.F.A album with jerry and the band and the front pretty clearly. The boyfriend says " I brought over the grateful dead and the Rolling stones" and Archie says "yeah I've heard of those grave diggers before". Good episode.

Lost Tapes

I was shocked to read this, never heard about it. Very sad indeed.

You can never believe they don't have fire system in these places and take a greater value in the stuff they have.

The BBC tossed out a chunk of Doctor Who's cause they needed the storage?

A wild spec I heard years ago on TCM was that 1/2 the movies made before 1950 are GONE.

Dennis

I think the films were watched over by people who don't give a shit. Then you get people like Dave L. And the others who protect their music and concerts with love and respect like they should be treated.

Up In Smoke....

....first I've heard of this as well. 100,000 masters? Oops indeed. Note to selves. Celluloid does not handle heat very well. That's why I keep mine in Montana. On the Canadian border. As Red Foreman would say, "dumbasses!"
One of my favorite TV dads. Up there with Archie Bunker and Al Bundy.

😊😍😁

https://youtu.be/QFhH8sSIvsA

UMG Fire

NOT THE ASIA MASTERS!!!!!

But seriously, it's the greatest prog-gone-pop-rock album ever. Credit where it's due - producer Mike Stone pulled that record out of his ass.

I would have said maaaaybe Duke was better, but they crossed the line with Dukes Travels
- that song is as progressive rock as 1980 could possibly sound.

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Hot Rize~Take It Home
String Cheese 9-3-98 Strawberry Music Fest.,Camp Mather~Yosemite,California
Herbie Hancock~Head Hunters
G.D. 4-14-71 Lewisburg,Pennsylvania
Hot Tuna 71-7-3 Fillmore~San Fran.
:O)

Shocking photo

Listening to the Englishtown half step this morning and towards the end of an absolutely fantastic version was brought to tears during the Rio grande refrain at the thought of that father and daughter picture from earlier this week .
Come on Donald stop being such a bell end and cut these guys some slack , the worlds not just a rich mans playground .

Bruh...

As much as I have issues with the current administration, people come to this lil' area to escape all that.

May God welcome the father and daughter's souls to heaven. I am sincere in that.

Please let this board be a refuge from the ills of the world (wake up to find out that there's lots of ills in the world).

Grateful for life
Dead for life
Grateful Dead promote life
"the Grateful Dead are the antidote to the atom bomb" - Joseph Campbell

Apologies

Sorry , never meant to bring politics onto this site - it’s not even something I’m that bothered about anymore - as we say over here “ same shit different colour “ I guess the music caught up with me .

Re: Wake Up To Find Out

I think you have to at least put 6/18/74 on the list of top performances in the 73/74 period.

I have to say.. although I do like 73/74 versions the most.. it is one of the few songs where the rearrangement did not ruin it for me. There are some true gems post hiatus. I believe it to be one of the better original songs in their cannon. When I used to hear the opening chords at shows, I perked up a bit and paid attention. It rarely disappointed.

ok. Back to your regularly scheduled Estimated > Eyes.

(Edit: Or Eyes>China Doll) :D

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