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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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  • Oroborous
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    Yaaassss, that 1/2 Dark Star is a top shelf one for sure! Can’t get enough...

    DP 19; perhaps my favorite Dicks. Every time I listen to it. It’s like I forgot and I go oh yeah, now I remember! lol
    That’s another top notch Dark Star! Funny thing is I wasn’t really aware of that one until I got a copy from my cousin....fortunately I was able to pick up a used copy recently for a decent black market price. Might have to break that one out tonight.

    TOGA; I liked your recollections....similar for me. Actually was “working for the state” that summer as I’d been “laid off” for dipping my pen in the company ink lol.
    So Basically partied (surprised I didn’t start growing spores out my skin that summer hee-hee), played music, and went to the beach everyday.....and that awesome 85 summer tour! Gas and supplies were basically my only responsibility that summer!
    We were camped out just across the bridge in some trees next to the path for that parking lot. Great spot! My buddy and I both just bought these awesome coolers that had a shoulder strap. Just the right size for loading up to wander the lots ALL night. Seemed like before that you’d finally find something cool going on and sure as shit Murphy’s law you’d be outta beer and have to schlep back to the camp site. Of course by the time you got back to wherever, whatever was going on had come and gone. Yes sirree that cooler was one of the best purchases ever. Actually still have it and another to boot!
    Our whole band had been living together and was there that year with two of us in a older but mint Audi wagon and two in the drummers car.
    With just two of us in that wagon we had room for everything....the guitars, chairs!, tents, multiple coolers full of good Canadian beer we went to Canada for, several zs of vegetables, and many other luxuries of tour. And though we weren’t quite in the same league as HST (see back cover of fear and loathing) we would of made him proud😉
    So like the idiots we were, are?, we started racing through Pennsitucky of all places to get to Hershey. Hardly any traffic, just 2 cars of freaks thinking they were #$&*& Jackie Stewart or something. Fortunately we had radar detectors and somehow the force was with us! Eventually Pulled into Nazareth, a, I mean Hershey, basically just in time to devour more veggies and basically chug a sixer of Carlsberg Elephant beer (no small feat for one person, especially, basically on an empty stomach!) and the rest of that night is history as they say.....perhaps more on that night some other time/anniversary etc... I will say that was one of my favorite Dews ever! Another great/different set list!
    Yeah, summer 85 Dave per favor!!

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    GarciaLive 11!

    This is also available for pre-order at Amazon. It is fairly normal that these releases appear on retail sites before they are announced on the Garcia Family website.

  • Charlie3
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    Hey JiminMD, after reading your post as well as Kiethfan2112's post about the 5/15/70 Dark Star I am even more eager to hear it.

    On the topic of Dark Stars, I discovered that I have a dilemma - I had no plans of picking up any of the 50th anniversary Woodstock stuff, but in browsing amazon I saw that there is a 10 cd Woodstock - Back to the Garden 50th Anniversary Experience set with a Dark Star as well as Mama Tried and High Time, going for about $114. While it was pretty easy for me to rule out the Woodstock 38 Disc monster expensive box, I'm not so sure how this will shake out. Will I start jonesing and decide the only thing to do is pull the trigger so I have the Dark Star? I'm sure there is other cool stuff in the Woodstock 50th anniversary releases, but for whatever reason, it just doesn't really pique my curiosity, although I suppose I am open to persuasion that it is worthwhile. Now, in contrast, my curiosity about the upcoming Dead box set is nearing a fever pitch.

  • Dennis
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    GarciaLive 11?

    Someone posted a link to a site to buy GL 11. This is not available on the Garcia site. Any further words? No sure about ordering from a unknown site.

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    Dark Star Road Trips 5-15-70

    This one is a top 20 for me. They jump into Space early, then the gong show, and then at around 10 minutes they go into a pre-FG jam, and then after a really cool 5 minute build up that reminds me of the great 2/11/70 DS, they go full-on Feeling Groovey, and Jerry solos on top of it with a tone to that Gibson SG that will leave you picking your face up off of the floor. That few minutes makes my "greatest Dark Star moments" reel.

    Difficult to compare the two. 1/2/70 is so good with that 10 minute FG / Tighten Up at the end - and that's just the last 10 min of a 30 min performance. I haven't listened to it in a week, but I will be shortly. They let me wear my headphones at work, it's sick. I'm not talking earbuds either, I mean the Plantronics Backbeat Pros. It's sick man, it's all just really sick....

    Stoltz - when I first got into the Dead I cherry picked that DP 16 UJB Jam from a buddy and put it in my 4 disc "best of" compilation. And those were the only 4 discs I listened to for years. I know that Jam better than I can spell Stoltzfuz.

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    11/8/69

    Uncle John's Jam

    :)))

  • Exile On Main St.
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    Sorry about that everyone. I kept typing and then my screen would go white. Reboot seems to have fixed it. I watched Gimme Shelter again last night for the first time in a long time. Daverock it's strange that you mentioned that guy behind Mick curling up his face. I always noticed him and thought, man he looks like he wants to jump off on stage and tear Mick Jagger to pieces. The website Carl appointed me to had a really refined version of it. I think I referred to him as Merrian yesterday but it was Meredith Hunter. Crazy that he brought a gun.

    Daverock I also picked up that get Yer ya-ya's out deluxe version. I'm Free is just incredible. I wish there was more live stuff available from the Mick Taylor years. I have Ladies & Gentlemen, and I have the Brussels Affair. They need to release more! Every few months I go to their website to see if any more have come out in that archive series of theirs. Just a lot of Ronnie Wood.

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    ...system was down for a bite.
    🙏❤️😎

  • JimInMD
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    The last two releases are extraordinary.. I have not compared the DS's from 1/2 and 5/15, but my memory is that the one from January soars and the one from 5/15 is very good. I might have to take that Dark Star challenge myself.

    ..but these last two releases are both off the charts good. We are a lucky bunch.

    I'd love more than ten posts per page. You blink and you have to scroll through several pages to find out what's going on.

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    I don't know if these are going through going to reboot

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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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I know this might be a reach, but maybe it is a Chicago run. He referenced High Fidelity which was a movie based in Chicago, and Til the morning comes was not only a Dead song but a Peter Cetera song and as we all know he is was in Chicago. Now what Chicago run could it be?

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I’m going on record and say it is 3 last shows Brent played. 07/21/90, 07/22/90, and 07/23/90. Played at Tinsley Park (Chicago) with a Queen Jane on night one.

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I’m currently listening to 7-21-90 and He’s Gone is just finishing.

Sadly, no hula hoops.

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Fuck that reCRAPTCHA shit.

My previous post required around 20 reCRAPTCHA screens.
This past weekend I ended up just deleting a post because the reCRAPTCHA wouldn’t end.

If TPTB are trying to dissuade us from posting on this site, they may end up getting their wish.

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A while back I was thinking it might a box of Uptown Theater shows.

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I was thinking it might be a 69 show but I don't think TPTB would release a 69 show right after releasing a 70 show. Now if it's a Chicago show I'd go with 1/30/78, 1/31/78 or 2/1/78 the reason being that it's been awhile since we had an official release from 1978.

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Hit me like a diamond bullet in the brain-its 1976, surely. The reference to putting the Dead cds away for a while, to take them out when the morning comes could be a reference to their sabbatical at the end of 1974, and subsequent re-emergence in 76. Taking into account the fact that there hasn't been proper 76 box yet-a couple of Dicks Picks were 4 cd 2 show sets - then this seems most likely. I would prefer Fall 1972-but I can't see it myself.

For all fans of the post Syd, pre Dark Side Floyd, I would recommend the new remaster of Phaedra by Tangerine Dream. Its part of the new box set, but all the studio albums have been released individually. They are as cheap as chips and this one, the best of the bunch, sounds amazing. They seemed to me to take the space music Pink Floyd played as a basis for their own development. Mainly electronic keyboards, but you can't dance to it.

Whoops, I've got that "I'm not a robot thing" to do now. Maybe they think my post is potentially subversive.

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I think you might be onto something Daverock. Also, from the first Bolo clue:
"Trapped....from earth......for what seemed like a decade......." "grace of God" "good to be back although my soul is still drained and weakened"

the decade= 65-75, grace of God = Blues for Allah

I'd love a 76 box. I've been listening to a lot of 76 lately. The instrumental blend is so perfect, really as good as pre-hiatus.

Happy 4th folks! I'd love to tag along with you, in spirit, HF on the Yampa! I'll be quiet, (in spirit), and you won't even notice I'm there.... it looks wonderful!

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...good morning my brothers & sisters out there in DeadLand...concerning Bolo’s last post/clue, it’s the next Daves Pick, #31, if I read it correctly?!
Have a grateful day everyone, and have a Happy Holiday 4th July, be safe be alive and rock on !!! God bless.
🙏❤️🤠

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...I’d like More 1979 please, Ill take my 3 sugars and cream with coffee,lol!
Also some 70’-72’, 76’, 82’-89’ or 90’-94’ would be welcomed as well, as long as the “Audio Quality” is Primo! 😉 which is my top priority for a Full Performance vs a Compilation Piece like the ‘Road Trip Series’...who am I kid’n, I love it all, “feed me Seymour!” Lol ha ha...

Been listen’n & enjoying my, ‘Fillmore West 1969’ boxset, my favorite boxset Release to date, for now...
peace be with you all my fellow brothers & sisters. Long live the Grateful Dead! 🙏❤️💀

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high fidelity would mean that the shows were recorded to reel to reel.

2-track or multi-track recordings or both. That should narrow it down a bit.

Edit:

Looks like it's Betty Boards from '76 along with 7/18/76.

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First off, let the guy hang here without projecting his comments as clues. Okay, but because his subject line was about our patiently waiting -- a kind but total mis-read, this place is getting hot -- I put my naivete aside and join the speculation.

I don't have much, and he leaves us wondering if he's taunting about DaP 31 or the new box, but...

"every once in a while" could be completed as "get shown the light," a reference to Scarlet Begonias? "Under the bed" (no one puts their GD CDs on the floor under the bed, Bolo has book and CD shelves) ... probably means something. And "til the morning comes" could be a reference to when Morning Dew arrives. (Any shows with Scarlet and Dew?) Also, his line breaks are suspicious -- inviting a naive idjit like me to seek a pattern.

Goddammit Bolo, ya got me going again. Well played!

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from underneath a bedroom cabinet and it has my Download series CD's ...I had lost the files due to an HD crash so yes yes and yes...threw Vol 12 disc 2 in and had a great listen to St Louis '69...cracked up hearing Jerry say "Ok we have to stop playing or the police will take our road manager to jail..." at the end of an aborted "Caution"...also the bonus stuff at the end of the show is a rehearsal of The Eleven & Duprees recorded at the Avalon...have to star ripping these discs back to a couple of externals I use now, 8 TB both...some fun

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Never in a million years would I have thought that some folks might construe my latest post to be some sort of clue regarding the identity of a box set or DaP31. My apologies, as I'd NEVER want to mislead, confuse or otherwise discombobulate any of the kind souls here on this forum (cough...cough).

But, of course, the post was a clue. Not for the aforementioned products people are breathlessly anticipating, but for a "What's Taking So Dang Long?" contest. Something to do as we all mill aimlessly around while DL casually looks at his watch and ponders the summertime flora and fauna of Vancouver Island.

A careful read of my last entry will reveal a specific venue and associated concert(s). The first person to post the correct answer will receive an assortment of GD-related goodies valued at more than $100, but less than $1 million. As a bonus, if you can name the song that was played for the first time at said show(s), I'll throw in some extra ephemera.

Only one guess per screen name (no screen names created after July 1, 2019). Just post your conjecture here, and the earliest correct answer will get the goods.

Cheers and good luck!

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Oooh...

I think it's Harding Theater, November 7, 1971 (and the previous night).

I wish I could hide away!

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Long time listener. First Time caller.

Going with:

06/03-04/76

Oregon - Paramount Theater

Mission in The Rain on 06/04

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I’m going to say the same answer as RoosSQ
However you’ll notice that my screen name was created before July 1st .
( happy to share my winnings though )

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I'm guessing the full Fillmore East run from 9/17/70-9/20/70, since "Till the Morning Comes" was first played on 9/18.
Though I could be wrong.
I mean, I usually am.
Until I'm not.
But even then just barely.
I'd dig a '76 box, but "September 70: Fillmore East the Complete Recordings" is my official guess.
Officially.

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12/26/70
12/27/70
12/28/70
Till the Morning Comes
1st time played
09/18/70
Last time played
12/26/70

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Everyone is guessing dates from 1970 for DaP #31 with the "Til the Morning Comes Line"....I seriously doubt it is from 1970, that's what DaP #30 was from!!?!!

Perhaps it's the Harding Theatre..

The Felt Forum is tucked away under MSG and sort of hidden in the bowels of the NY Subway. Not that I have ever gotten a single one of the bolo riddles so far...….

If we can believe Bolo.. this is not a clue to the next release, which probably means it will be Dave's Picks 31.

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It will be announced tomorrow and will be one of the 4th of July shows.

In my best Colbert voice,,,,, send me award!

Are they for the Box Set or DaP31? Or both?

Predictions:
DaP31 - 6/3/76 Paramount Theater - Portland, Or.
5 songs make their debut/1st performance:
1. Might As Well (opener)
2. Lazy Lightnin' >
3. Supplication (both middle of 1st set)
4. Samson And Delilah (2nd set opener)
5. The Wheel (encore)

I know it's not a favorite but I think this show has my favorite version of 'Looks Like Rain'…BW and DJG are spot-on with vocals and harmonies as JG 'rains' notes around them.

Box Set:
Texas '72 - 11/19, 11/22, 11/24, 11/26. Rhino needs to hit a home run with this one…the last thing they need is another box set sitting in their warehouse. If that happens we may only see box sets every 2 years?

Box Set Dark Horse:
December '69: 12/20, 12/21, 12/26, 12/28-12/31. Includes the legendary Ark run. It would also be the 1st time Rhino tied a Box Set and a DaP together: last shows of '69 and the 1st shows of '70.

I have no idea if the shows are in the vault but it would be a win-win either way!

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He said "under the bed" and what is under the bed? Box spring and flip it would mean a spring box (set). Or mabey not. I had to guess something. Talk about a shot in the dark.

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Why the fuggazi isn’t this show released?
Have never heard the Bob set, but if it’s Half as good as the JGB one with none other than Billy the K on the skins......

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Harding

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Sheesh. This contest was over almost before it started!

Congrats to Richard Torres, correctly guessing the Harding Theatre, two 1971 shows, Hide Away made its GD debut.

Send me your address via PM and I'll get you your box o' goodies. Unless you're the same Richard Torres from the NSA who oversaw the implantation of an evil minibot on my cerebral cortex during my first alien abduction. If you're that guy, forget I was even on here.

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Also i predict new box is portchester nov70 with pristine complete 48 track recording

And bonus show 11 20 70

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FYI all the nov 7th 1971 Harding show has been available on amazon now quite a while now ( in the uk anyway ) . Pleeeeaaaasssseeee can we have a uk/Europe distribution centre , otherwise any large box is a no no on account of getting absolutely stuffed with import tax . 🙀

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. . ..I can hear your voice.
It's cool shit like that that keeps me coming back...n

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