Grateful Dead

It's a beautiful day here in SW OH.... sunny, mid 60's.... spent some of the afternoon cleaning out my car and shining up my Road King... having a cold one and enjoying 29..... I really like this release. Was always one of my favorite tapes. Reading the liner notes... never thought I'd see The Dead, Muhammad Ali, and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman in the same sentence.

Got it Friday and I have had the Betty board since 1988... I have listened to this Dave's Picks more than any other since the 72 Wichita show... I love Tennessee Jed through the end of the show especially the Santa Barbara filler that i thought we would never see on a board!! Not saying I don't like Disc 1 with the first Terrapin and Estimated, and killer Playing>wheel>Playing, because i do.. For me it really starts with the Help>Slipknot>Franklin's. This Franklin's reminds me of the 6/9/77 one just not as long and drawn out... Throw in the one from 5/9/77 Buffalo show and what a great bunch of Franklin's Towers.... The Promised Land after is awesome also, doesn't have the typical let's get the spider webs out start of a show Promised Land. The Eyes is awesome, great Phil solo and then the Dancing really starts off the awesome 77 versions that follow, so different then the 76 versions!!! Not gonna spoil the 2/27 filler!! Have a good Sunday bob t

I used to have the vinyl reissues of the US Capitol Records releases, the ones with purple labels, several had the green labels and 1 or 2 were the original black labels with the "rainbow" ring. The 1968 white album, Abbey Road, & Let It Be were the original Apple/Capitol green apple labels with Let It Be had a red apple label.
I got rid of them not long after the compact discs were released in 1987, they weren't in pristine shape so I didn't get much money in return form Princeton Record Exchange in Princeton N.J. I still have several 45 r.p.m. Apple singles
At the time I thought the compact disc was the greatest thing in the world, but I have found out the CD does have flaws too. I sorta wish I had kept them every now and then.
I recently listened to the 1st issue CDs, and I think they sound great. I wish that Capitol would release the Christmas recording on CD with improved sound and nicer packaging. The bootleg Yellow Dog CD (YD 031) sounds very good for a 1992 bootleg CD.
I think I may have an original Christmas Album (SBC 100), but the label sort of just doesn't look right, it looks like a photograph of the original labels in color. The front of the jacket has photos of The Beatles in boxes with a blue background. I bought it at a record "convention" and sale in Philadelphia PA in later 1981. I remember the event because MTV had just come on the cable television spectrum and they were promoting themselves, where I met VJ Mark Goodman.

BEATLES: I cant imagine life without all of the studio releases. I have the monos & stereos on vinyl. Kimda like the Dead in that I can always find albums to match my mood or situation.

SWING: One of the first Betty Boards I obtained in the 80s when the trove hit the trading market. The digitized bersions on the archives was a strong improvememt over my original third gen casette. This Normanized CD is THE BOMB - aside from the “new” somgs debuted to make it an historic show, the band was outstanding in nearly every way. This new mix comfirms my owm subjective opinion that this was one of the better 77 Playins.

Looking forward to #30 already!

Fun hearing some people revisit The Beatles.

Picked up their Mono releases several years ago. They're quite stunning. Mastered from the original analogues and on the original pressing equipment. It's like hearing them all again for the first time, and they come to life in monophonic sound. If there are any vinyl collectors out there, I can't recommend these reissues highly enough. If you can find them for retail price, grab them as they are gaining value on the secondary market quickly. Avoid the new stereo reissues as they are digitally sourced.

Listening to For Sale right now. Love this underrated record as it has a very nice country feel to it.

Highly recommend diving into the new White Album set too. The Esher Demos are quite awesome as are the abundance of outtakes. White Album in mono is also a lot fun, and quite different from the versions we all have ingrained in our head.

Most Millennial and iGen kids will never understand The Beatles.

An aside, I've only heard the Terrapin from the new release and it sounds amazing.

She is singing with Jerry again. I remember the time I saw JGB with both her and Jackie in attendance, the show didn't start until after midnight and ended around 3 am, they played Dark Star that night and it was pretty magical. Such a soulful voice.

In case you missed it there's a really nice album cover image here:

http://www.gratefulweb.com/articles/daves-picks-volume-29-pre-sale-deta…

Resized down to 1000x1000 to make file size a bit more reasonable for embedding image into digital audio files:

https://i.imgur.com/A3MtbR5.jpg

Enjoy!

Generally I'm the guy who says a release isn't heads and shoulders over what I have, but the 3 bonus tracks are FAR superior to the ones I have. Wish the rest of that show was there.

Shit, I forgot that one...there goes another $20! It’s an obsession, but man is it pleasin!

Also picked up Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. The Stones are another band that I have largely ignored over the years. This is only the 2nd Stones album I’ve ever purchased, and I think the first was a greatest hits compilation. I think the reason for my ignorance towards The Stones and also The Beatles is mostly a generational thing. By the time I was born these bands were already towards the downturn of their commercial popularity, and they seemed very “main stream” to me growing up. Guess I was looking for something more cutting edge....

Got my copy of Dicks 36 from Real Gone (but ordered through eBay seller). I was surprised that it was packaged in plastic jewel case as opposed to the soft cardboard like Dave’s? I thought I had read from someone on here that the Real Gone copies were in the soft packs? Doesn’t really make a difference to me but thought I would mention it.

So now you know my next 5....good timing too. I’ve been hearing rumors of boomers in town........but first another ride on The Swing!

Happy Sunday Funday to you all!!!

...of Beatles albums you bought Casey. I wouldn't want to be without Rubber Soul, though. Its got two of Lennon's best ever songs on, "In My Life" and "Girl", as well as "Norwegian Wood", "Nowhere Man"-lots of great songs in fact.

Another one I liked by The Beatles was a compilation put together by George Martin that came out about 10 years ago, called "Love". Tracks from all points of their career segue into each other in surprising ways-beautiful opening with "Because" sung unaccompanied. It might not seem like much, in the telling, but it works really well.

No Dave Picks yet here in England-but that's alright. As soon as it looks like it will never arrive...it does.