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    During the mid-1970s, the Grateful Dead saga was unfolding like a Greek classic. The Sisyphean Wall Of Sound had nearly broken the band. From it spawned a Medusa head of countless side projects, all deliciously fruitful but woefully not the same as the whole. The chorus lay in wait, pondering the reemergence of their heroes, and wondering if "THE LAST ONE" had really been it...

    But in early 1976, Apollonian light and healing would shine upon our intrepid wanderers once again. No more epic battles for the people with cops and lines and tightness, the Dead would return triumphant in smallness, playing intimate theaters and renting equipment along the way. No more ticket scams and greedy promoters, they'd give back with first ever mail-order ticket program, one that had a few kinks to work out but eventually served the fans well.

    Musically, June 1976 signaled a Golden Age of harmony and prosperity for the Dead. It marked an Odysseusian-like return for Mickey Hart. Donna Jean was in lock-step with the sirens' call. Jerry and Bob delivered orphic delight with solo musings like "Mission In The Rain" (the only tour they ever played it on), "The Wheel," and "Cassidy," emboldened by group effort. There was fresh repertoire from Blues For Allah, breathing new life to the Dead's continually morphing sound - as Weir once said of the '76 tour, they wanted to play "a little bit of all of it." Old favorites were re-envisioned with cascading tempos and unique sequencing, making the crowd question if they'd ever heard these songs before. And there was comfort and joy in the familiarity of watching the band make it up as they went along. By all means, it was clear that the bacchanalia of live Dead would reign on.

    And now the revelry from this epoch, evidenced by the near-studio quality sound captured on two-track live recordings by Betty Cantor-Jackson, lives on, bolstered by Jeffrey Norman's HDCD mastering. It's housed for posterity in a handsome box featuring original art work by Justin Helton. It’s documented in liners by Jesse Jarnow and photos by Grant Gouldon. And it’s ready for a spot on your shelf. 

    As part of our pre-order for this Dead.net exclusive boxed set, we'll be delivering downloads of each listening party - one for each show included in JUNE 1976 - to purchasers from now until the March 20th release. Order at any time before release and you'll receive all the listening parties to date.

    Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 12,000

    What's Inside:

    • 5 Previously Unreleased Complete Shows On 15 Discs
    • Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA 6/10/76
    • Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA 6/11/76
    • Beacon Theatre, New York, NY 6/14/76
    • Beacon Theatre, New York, NY 6/15/76
    • Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ 6/19/76
    • Sourced from Two-Track Master Tapes, Recorded By Betty Cantor-Jackson
    • Mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman
    • Restoration and Speed Correction by Plangent Processes

     

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    https://shop.realgonemusic.com/products/grateful-dead-dicks-picks-33?_p…

    Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks 33
    ...”Fresh from a year-and-a-half touring hiatus, and back to full, two-drummer strength, the Dead opened for The Who as part of Bill Graham’s historic Day on the Green concerts in 1976. This 4-disc set—which is among the cleanest soundboard recordings in the entire series—captures both dates in their entirety, and features one of the most monumental medleys (and that’s sayin’ something!) in band history with a 60-minute, 10-song journey through St. Stephen/Not Fade Away/St. Stephen/Help on the Way/Slipknot!/Drums/Samson and Delilah/Slipknot!/ Franklin’s Tower/One More Saturday Night on the first day. Day two offers excellent takes on two solo Garcia favorites, Might as Well and The Wheel, that were new to the concert repertoire and a particularly fine Ramble on Rose. Bill Graham had honored the Dead by selecting them to close the year’s stellar series of Day on the Green concerts, and that—perhaps coupled with the presence of formidable co-headliners The Who—sparked some of the band’s finest performances of the period.”

    Songs: DISC ONE 10/9/76 (Set One): Promised Land; Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo; Cassidy; Tennessee Jed; Looks Like Rain; They Love Each Other; New Minglewood Blues; Scarlet Begonias; Lazy Lightnin’/Supplication; Sugaree DISC TWO 10/9/76 (Set Two): St. Stephen/Not Fade Away/St. Stephen/Help on the Way/Slipknot!/Drums/Samson and Delilah/Slipknot!/Franklin’s Tower/One More Saturday Night; U.S. Blues DISC THREE 10/10/76 (Set One): Might as Well; Mama Tried; Ramble on Rose; Cassidy; Deal; El Paso; Loser; Promised Land; Friend of the Devil; Dancing in the Streets/Wharf Rat/Dancing in the Streets DISC FOUR 10/10/76 (Set Two): Samson and Delilah; Brown-Eyed Woman; Playing in the Band/Drums/The Wheel/Space/The Other One/Stella Blue/Playing in the Band/Sugar Magnolia; Johnny B. Goode

  • icecrmcnkd
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    Grand Funk RR

    On the Wikipedia page there is a photo from Flint where the wording on a Grand Trunk RR bridge was changed to Funk.

    This was commented on by Michael Moore, who is from Flint, in the movie “Roger and Me” (I believe that is the movie where he mentions the Grand Funk graffiti).

  • icecrmcnkd
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    Unnecessary jamming

    Generally frowned upon by the music industry and the majority of music ‘fans’.

    What a sad life to not enjoy extended jamming.

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    I guess Homer is in fact unhip.

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    Time to upgrade that old ford Pinto for a 1976 lime green AMC Pacer. Fortunately, I finally found my dream car audio system, the rest will fall into place nicely.

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-NEW-OLD-STOCK-IN-BOX-KRACO-KS-699-8-TRACK-…

    Partay on folks.

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    Funny to see them come up. They could certainly jam back in the day.

    I saw them awhile back, probably circa 2005 or so, at a local festival. They still put on a good show and this being Michigan, they drew quite a crowd. If you've ever wanted to see several thousand UAW members simultaneously rocking out in a park, that was your best shot :)

    Fun fact: There is an actual rail system called the Grand Trunk Railway, which starts in Montreal and winds through Ontario and into Detroit. That's where they got there name presumably.

    Like with many bands, they were best before they got big. The red album "Grand Funk" is a banger.

    Here's a funny bit of commentary I found on AllMusic.com

    Built on fuzzed-out blues riffs, simple lyrics, and at times *seemingly unnecessary jamming*, Grand Funk's songs are mild in nature.

    There is no such thing as unnecessary jamming. Unnecessary singing, maybe.

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    On that day almost 50 years ago, Grand Funk Railroad made their much-hyped British debut by headlining a free concert in Hyde Park, London. Naturally I felt obliged to attend. Being an open air job in England in rained of course. Not like at Bickershaw the following year, but rain never improved a day out. Opening act was Heads, Hands and Feet with Albert Lee on guitar. A bit of a supergroup, sadly I remember nothing of their set whatsoever. Maybe it was something I consumed. Second up was Humble Pie with Peter Frampton on guitar and the irrepressible Stevie Marriot. It was quickly apparent that Grand Funk Railroad were going to have to be a bit special to better Humble Pie's excellent set. Grand Funk Railroad had been widely hyped up as the loudest band in the world and beyond that us Brits knew nothing about them at all. What was instantly obvious was that Humble Pie had been louder than the loudest band in the world. Grand Funk Railroad's set lasted about an hour and was just a collection of uninspired heavy riffs, a bit like a poor man's Black Sabbath. High point was the drummer attempting a snare drum solo with his head. That that was the high point says it all. Nobody in the crowd had much in the way of expectations and so it turned out. But it was free. Rock on Humble Pie.

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    2nd 2020 box

    Will be a retrospective of the first five years of grateful dead it will be 10 to 15 shows.
    Every five years a similar box will be released celebrating all six eras of grateful dead.

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    Wow, flashback. These 3 guys were so big back in the late 60's early 70's. I was a big fan and did finally catch their live show back in 76, we're an american band tour. Mark Farner was a good guitarist and the power trio had the world by the balls back then. The first exposure to them for me was the Live 2 record set, which had smoking versions of paranoid, inside looking out, t.n.u.c. and into the sun. All very loud and rockin'. After that, I had to hear their first lp, the red one and on time, but their big hit was I'm your Captain>Closer to Home from the Closer to Home lp. Survival was the follow up lp to that and it had a couple of great tunes on it, I can feel him in the morning, feeling all right (traffic cover) and Gimme Shelter (rolling stones cover). My old roommate was from Michigan and had grown up with them, he knew them when they were Terry Knight and the pack. Terry Knight had somehow convinced the band that they should sign over the rights to all of their music to him and they were in court for years trying to get their music back. I hear Mark Farner got religion and was into gospel and religious music for a while. I guess all those drugs and groupies took their toll on Mark. But back in the day, they could fill up stadiums and pack any venue they played at and they held the record for a while as the loudest band ever, until the Who broke that record. Haven't had a flashback in a while, nice colours.

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    Nice clip of Homer Simpson on Grand Funk Railroad - I've never seen that before. I never heard Grand Funk in the 70s, but they were often compared to Black Sabbath in the British music press, and were always mocked. I liked Black Sabbath ( and still do), but I never got round to Grand Funk. I used to see their album covers when I was flipping through to see what Dead was on offer, too.
    In 1976, The Ramones first album came out and that was a complete game changer. Overnight almost all of the classic rock bands suddenly seemed dated . Any late 60s or early 70s band I hadn't already heard would have to wait 15 years or so for discovery.
    Not many bands escaped this purge, and the ones that did were the less successful ones in the time frame-1968-72. It was a case of....say goodbye to Crosby Stills Nash and Young...say hello to Iggy and the Stooges and the MC5.

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During the mid-1970s, the Grateful Dead saga was unfolding like a Greek classic. The Sisyphean Wall Of Sound had nearly broken the band. From it spawned a Medusa head of countless side projects, all deliciously fruitful but woefully not the same as the whole. The chorus lay in wait, pondering the reemergence of their heroes, and wondering if "THE LAST ONE" had really been it...

But in early 1976, Apollonian light and healing would shine upon our intrepid wanderers once again. No more epic battles for the people with cops and lines and tightness, the Dead would return triumphant in smallness, playing intimate theaters and renting equipment along the way. No more ticket scams and greedy promoters, they'd give back with first ever mail-order ticket program, one that had a few kinks to work out but eventually served the fans well.

Musically, June 1976 signaled a Golden Age of harmony and prosperity for the Dead. It marked an Odysseusian-like return for Mickey Hart. Donna Jean was in lock-step with the sirens' call. Jerry and Bob delivered orphic delight with solo musings like "Mission In The Rain" (the only tour they ever played it on), "The Wheel," and "Cassidy," emboldened by group effort. There was fresh repertoire from Blues For Allah, breathing new life to the Dead's continually morphing sound - as Weir once said of the '76 tour, they wanted to play "a little bit of all of it." Old favorites were re-envisioned with cascading tempos and unique sequencing, making the crowd question if they'd ever heard these songs before. And there was comfort and joy in the familiarity of watching the band make it up as they went along. By all means, it was clear that the bacchanalia of live Dead would reign on.

And now the revelry from this epoch, evidenced by the near-studio quality sound captured on two-track live recordings by Betty Cantor-Jackson, lives on, bolstered by Jeffrey Norman's HDCD mastering. It's housed for posterity in a handsome box featuring original art work by Justin Helton. It’s documented in liners by Jesse Jarnow and photos by Grant Gouldon. And it’s ready for a spot on your shelf. 

As part of our pre-order for this Dead.net exclusive boxed set, we'll be delivering downloads of each listening party - one for each show included in JUNE 1976 - to purchasers from now until the March 20th release. Order at any time before release and you'll receive all the listening parties to date.

Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 12,000

What's Inside:

  • 5 Previously Unreleased Complete Shows On 15 Discs
  • Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA 6/10/76
  • Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA 6/11/76
  • Beacon Theatre, New York, NY 6/14/76
  • Beacon Theatre, New York, NY 6/15/76
  • Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ 6/19/76
  • Sourced from Two-Track Master Tapes, Recorded By Betty Cantor-Jackson
  • Mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman
  • Restoration and Speed Correction by Plangent Processes

 

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5 12 74 disc 3 FIRE!!!!
10 30 73 disc 3 HAVE YOU HEARD THIS?
11 17 72 disc 3 WOW!!!!

great great great stuff

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I recently started listening for the first time to shows I attended. I've waited this long for fear that many of them would not be as good in retrospect (especially the '92-'93). But, after listening to 6/24+25+28/91, and after hearing 6/16-17/91 from the Giants box, I'm now thinking that a box of 6/22, 6/24, 6/25, and 6/28/91 would be sweet!

For fans of synchronicity, I started the 6/25/91 show as I jumped on the treadmill the other day, and just as I went to turn up the belt speed from a warm-up walk to a 10-minute mile pace, the Dead sang, "My old buddy, you're moving . . . much too slooow-ow-ow-woh, ow ow woh, owowow . . .

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Road Trips Vol. 3 No. 2--Austin 11-15-71
New release available March 27 2020 from ‘Real gone music’
💀Keith Godchaux's only been with the band a month but already he is fitting in like a glove. This fall 1971 show captures the Dead dancing down their improvisational high wire like only they can. On one side of the precipice are the free form jams of their earlier incarnations. On the other are the country-inflected tunes of American Beauty and Workingman's Dead, both released the preceding year. And no sequence captures the tension between the two quite like the first set's 'Dark Star'/'El Paso' sequence, during which the band improbably (and seamlessly) veers from their spaciest song to their most cowboy cover and back again. A true marvel of a medley. Then, speaking of cowboy, the second set goes full-on boots 'n' spurs (the show is in Austin, after all) for its first half-dozen songs, winding up with a barn burning 'Cumberland Blues.' And then another sublime medley of 'Not Fade Away' segueing into a 'Jam' that toys with the 'China Cat Sunflower' theme, followed by a rip-roarin' 'Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad' and back to 'Not Fade Away.' Blair Jackson's liner notes chart the course. HDCD sound mastered by Jeffrey Norman
Track Listings
Disc: 1
Truckin'
Bertha
Playing in the Band
Deal
Jack Straw
Loser
Beat It On Down the Line
Dark Star
El Paso
Dark Star
Casey Jones
One More Saturday Night
Disc: 2
Me and My Uncle
Ramble On Rose
Mexicali Blues
Brokedown Palace
Me and Bobby McGee
Cumberland Blues
Sugar Magnolia
You Win Again
Not Fade Away
Jam
Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad
Not Fade Away
Johnny B. Goode

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WOW! What an eyeopener – brings all the shipping madness into sharp focus. The perfect just-so story explaining what most all of us have been on the receiving end of for more than a year. While we can hope and pray Direct Shot eventually gets its distribution-shit together, maybe in the meantime it's time for MaryE to jump on her bicycle and JimInMD to saddle up Mr. Peabody's time machine and start delivering CDs again! Onward.

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Thanks for that article. I wasn't aware how widespread the issue was. At this point the only physical media I'm buying is the Dead, local artists in my neck of the woods, and the occasional box set from other select artists. I've gone completely digital otherwise, so I had no idea that this was an industry wide problem.

I guess I've been directing my angst over my missing Dave's 32 at the wrong party. That said, what's the over under on receiving my missing Dave's 32 before the June 76 box? Before Dave's 34? It's supposed to ship out at the end of the month from someone at the Dead offices, so we'll find out soon enough.

Missed 2-11-69 last week so playing it now.

Upcoming anniversaries (commercial releases):
2-23,24-68 DP22
2-22-69 30Trips
FW69 Box
2-26,28-73 DP28
2-24-74 DaP13
2-26-77 DaP29

We’re all going to be busy for the rest of the month.
Not a bad predicament to be in.

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Wow.. look at that list. It's hard to pick a favorite.. I don't think I could do it. Good job Cone Kid. People harp on the fall, but there's lots of birthday's to celebrate in the Spring too.

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I just received Dave's Picks # 17,18 ,21,24 and Road Trips vol 4 #5 in the mail. I picked them up on E BAY brand new and sealed. I'M listening to #17 right now and it sounds great!

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That song can still bring tears to my eyes. Always been bittersweet to me.

What I have always loved most about Garcia is the emotional content he was able to deliver.

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Right on Billy!

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The rumors on Reddit point to a Buffalo 5/9/77 5LP set for this year’s RSD release. How many here would get up early and wait in line for that this April?

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Two or three months ago , you mentioned the Freddie King Box Set, "Taking Care of Business", and I've been looking for it since then. I found a new sealed copy on e bay today for $450.00. I snapped it right up. I then went over to Bear Family Records and bought the follow up box set Texas Flyer, before it becomes scarce. They both look really cool and I can't wait to listen to them. Anyways, thanks for mentioning them because I never would have known about them. Garcia said one of his early influences was Freddie King. If you like T Bone Walker, there is a great box set on Mosaic Records, "The Complete Recordings of T Bone Walker 1940-1954". It"s 6 cds and it's still available on the secondary market at a fairly reasonable price. T Bone Walker was great and he influenced the likes of B B King, Jimi Hendrix,Eric Clapton, and many other great guitar players. Anyways, it really swings.

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6~15~93 that is.
Underdog show for sure.
Bobby going bananas during Estimated is an instant classic...
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VGuy, as someone who has lived in only Minnesota and Colorado, I have to confess that it pains me to hear people in places such as Las Vegas and Tampa Bay talking about our state sport! :) I always root for the "ice-state" teams to beat the interlopers from places that have never seen natural ice. :)

p.s. Is the Jack Straw opener from 6/25/91 a BOAT version? Maybe . . .

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Did someone say best ever Jack Straw?

...now back to you regularly scheduled hockey fight.. Sponsored by Dentists with kids about to go to college.

Congratulations on picking up a copy of "Takin' Care of Business" by Freddie King on Bear Records. I still haven't got this one, although I have most of the material on other cds. But there is nothing like a release on Bear Records - the presentation, books and last but not least - the sound of them. The follow up, "Texas Flyer" the one I do have is superb.

Another good Freddie King release is "King of the Blues", which includes the three albums he made on Shelter records, plus outttakes between the two two Bear Records sets.

There is also a great dvd out called "The!!! Beat 1966" featuring several performances from the TV show of the same name. The stage has great op art 60s décor, there are go go dancers, and a straight white middle aged host who literally runs out onto the stage after Freddie has completed a track, saying things like " Wow man, that was really outtasight! What are you going to hit us with now baby?" Priceless. The music played, though, is timeless. There also a few great tracks of slightly stoned looking Freddie live in Sweden in 1973.

I have a 4 cd T Bone Walker compilation on the Proper Records label, which focuses on his earlier years. I agree - he was a major, and often uncredited, influence on rock n' roll music, as well as the blues rock that followed. Listening to him, you can tell where Chuck Berry and B.B. King got many of their ideas and licks from. And from Chuck Berry and B.B King...to the moon!

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Was there and it was a good show next night not so good but my assigned seat was right in front of Jerry.

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I can't take this talk about these box set of Freddie King & T-Bone! My wife's out of town, not out of my life. :-) On the Freddie front I have Best of Shelter Years & TX Cannonball. T-Bone includes Imperial Collection 50-54. Anyone out there with any of these other boxes, hell I'd take a copy. Consider it your off site backup :-)

That 91 (6/25), is a ripper. BOAT is pure opinion, but I'll give you "damn rousing"!

I'm a fixator, I play given songs to death (ask my wife)! I've been playing Little Sadie, from Crooked Still's 11-26-2006 show about dozen times a day! WOW!

I looked through the list and once again no Andy Williams re-releases!

Everyone here only seems to listen to "cool(?)" music. Doesn't anyone listen to schlep vocalist from the 50's & 60's? A little Perry Como (I hear he does a nice haircut), the aforementioned Andy. Maybe a little Johnny Mathis? Any Wayne Newton fans? I have him doing the greatest hits of like 67. My Grandmother used to travel to Vegas every year (drove from Jersey), she RAVED about Wayne's shows and Liberace's. How bout Dinah Shore? When I was coming up these were popular people with my parents generation and NOBODY I went to school with was buying Andy Williams albums! I remember a guy in high school raving about Tull's Aqualung and how I had to hear it. One look at the cover and I knew I didn't need to listen to that book. So what guilty pleasures are in your musical past? Any big musical fans? We went to a family reunion a year or two back. My wife has Missouri family, they always show up with a guitar and ready to have sing alongs. Started in Kansas City from Oklahoma and the only lone voice who knew all the lyrics,,,, me. It startled the crowd to say the least. Me and the wife was on a road trip once and I got into a musical mode and sang every musical ever done for about an hour (and yes, she has stayed with me for over 40 years) I then told her about this 7th grade music teacher we had in school. Remember when you had music class once a week. Music teacher would wheel a piano in, pass out lyrics on sheets or music books (where songs were descripted as "American folk", "folk", "negro spiritual". Well this guy had every musical of the day and we sang them all. I then told Denise, "I guess he was gay?" Her come back, "says the man who's been singing show tunes for the past hour!" I don't why I've stayed with her for remarks like that.

Blather off.

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25 years ago was at my final Grateful Dead concert. I better give 30 trips copy a listen today.
My seat in the Delta Center was the very last row. “The first one now will later be last”, It was 9181 days since my first GD concert. Or 25 years , 1 month and 19 days later.
On a side note a tornado blew part of the Delta Center roof off August 18, 1999.
Also Salt Lake City is where Neal Cassady was born. “Born to be, Cassidy”/ Cassady.

How many remember his one-off special to appeal to the younger crowd? Was it ‘ The H Andrew Williams Kaleidoscope Company’? I remember Simon and Garfunkel being on it.

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would have been Randy California's 69th birthday and to honor him I purchased the 4 cd "Complete Potatoland recordings". Wow, to any and all Randy fans, this is a must have. Happy birthday Randy, I can just imagine the jam sessions you are having with Jimi and Jerry and all the rest up there in Valhalla.

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I bought one Andy Williams 45-Happy Heart, my mom was quite fond of it
and one Wayne Newton 45-Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast-I was quite fond of it
and one Fifth Dimension LP-Up, Up, And Away

The rest was all Beatles, Steppenwolf, Iron Butterfly, Three Dog Night, Etc. At Least Until Grand Funk Railroad & Black Sabbath came into the picture. "And now there's all this" to quote John Lennon.

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No David Glasser on this one? Hopefully he is too busy mastering the Fall 1980 box set.

3/28/90 in progress today. Wow! Just love Hey Pocky Way.

Peace folks!

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I just received a package from a generous friend on this site. It sure is going to be a grateful night tonight. Thanks bud !!!!!!!

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I thought he was working on next springs November 1970 Capitol Theatre box. mmm

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Am I jumping the gun or do they usually come out with one after the release date?

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Yes, great clip of Freddie King. That's actually from that dvd I was talking about "The!!! Beat" from 1966.

I was trying to think of uncool music that I liked, and was beginning to think there wasn't any. Then I saw that reference to Grand Funk Railroad, and realised I was wrong. I like them. That's now, too, not when I was younger. I only came across their first 5-6 albums last year. Stonking good bass player.

They have a listening party up on the site..

https://store.dead.net/special-edition-shops/june-1976/june-1976-15cd-b…

Note sure if I would call it party.. if the audio came with video too showing Lemieux drinking directly from the tap of a keg while log rolling and chasing a surly bigfoot with giant claws and nasty pointy teeth.. I'd call it a listening party.

..or were you talking about a single show stand-alone CD? They don't always do that, that's more hit or miss.

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Oh yeah!!!

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It shows up on the product page, but I can't get it to play. They did email me the tracks from 6/10 & 6/11, got 6/11 today, as a matter of fact. Had to download on computer as it won't download to phone, even though I have winzip on my phone. But even on my computer, the Listening Party play button is grayed out and non-functional. Maybe you really only get the tracks when you pre-order. Don't know how they will entice 12,000 orders with just a ballad version of Friend of the Devil...

Edited to add: the sound quality is just about perfect!

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Start in Madison on 2/15/73 make your way up to St.Paul for 2/17/73, down to Chicago for 2/19/73 and wrap up the week at 2/21 and 2/22/73 down in Champaign Urbana!! All the new songs you got to hear, and the whole genesis of Eyes of the World!!! bob t

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Great link Cone Kid.

"Bong Rattling Bass"

Followed up by Mountain, Mississippi Queen. Leslie West, another great, rotund guitarist.

It was all good until the end.. when I suddenly realized, much like my superego Homer Simpson, that we might not be hip anymore.. at least to the generation behind us.

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Well, I can't speak for you Jim, you may be the epitome of hip in the eyes of the next generation, but my 14 year old daughter has repeatedly assured me that I am not hip and she makes a pretty persuasive case sometimes. I'm still not conceding the point.

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....i play video games with the Y axis inverted. My son laughs at me.

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