Grateful Dead

Nice to see that DP 19 is still popular , I’ve said it before but this show just about has everything a deadhead could want .Guilty pleasures moment :- large G&T with DAP 16 & 21 and Donna singing you ain’t women enough . I know she has her doubters but I for one think she’s the cat’s wishers 😺

You evil bastard! Your an enabler! Turning those poor kids down the road of never ending want, no, need! Lol 😆

Edit; davidsdavis....cool link!

I like both the hard media AND all on HD.
A) I’m old school and like all the “stuff”.
B) if like Jim, it all goes to shit, I can walk over to the shelf and start over again.
C) I of course prefer the freedom and ease of any tune or show available with a couple mouse clicks. I’m also fortunate to have a custom, dedicated music server (YFS-Ref 3), that ripping actually improves the sound of the CD, so there’s that to! Also, I never use any conversion of any kind, always wav. Storage is reasonable enough now and I’m a anal purist. I’ve heard demos on ridiculous system where you can sometimes tell the difference, even with so called lossless conversion.....any conversion is still doing something. Imho the only way to guarantee bit-perfect rips is using wav, but that’s just me and yes I am probably nutz, but the small amount of hassle/costs etc are worth it.
But I think I’m missing something? NCdead said $1K for a HD? Now I’m a dinosaur and not a computer guy at all, but last backup drive I bought was around a hundred bucks for a 3 TB, and that was several years ago? Perhaps he’s got so much stuff etc? Anyway, back up, and even backup the backup. Im so paranoid I don’t even have my backup connected. I connect it only occasionally after I’ve ripped a bunch of stuff. Of course I could lose stuff in the interim, but that’s the beauty of having the hard goods. I may lose the time, but I still have all the music sitting on the shelf...
The “experts” suggest that you keep your backup, or more appropriately your backup, backup at another location in case of fire or other catastrophic event. I haven’t gotten around to that yet but I’m going to. Storage costs have come down so much it’s crazy not too.

Edit; I can totally understand downressing for mobile use etc, but again, that’s the beauty of having the mother drive as pristine and unadulterated as possible. Then you can copy to other drives/sticks for other, more convenient uses...

Physical all the way. You can pass em down to your kid or kid's . It's a way of spreading the dead disease. A good disease indeed.

So great to read this
Hmm, I hitched from Maine or near Boston (high school) and back to the following shows if I recall right
Colt Park 8-2-76, Palladium NYC 4-30-77, Hartford 5-28-77, up to Ithaca for 11-4/5/6/1977 and after that I was 18 and had friends with cars or moved to Berkeley where I could walk or ride BART

I love this Spectrum show. The whole Spring 73 tour is a monster, followed by a Gila monster in the Fall 1973 shows. If you are interested, you can read a little bit about all 53 Spectrum shows here . The Dead played to virtually one million people there and legend is that every show sold out
http://www.gratefulseconds.com/2019/10/one-million-tickets-sold-for-15-…

After my first HD crash I have always backed up drives and backed up the back ups...I have about 6 TB's of MP3's and Apple Lossless for my car on various drives plus about 12 TB's of FLACS and WAV files...I love the physical product in my hand, just like someone else said...but I carry two iPods in my car at all times, one an older 250 gb classic for muisc and the other a newer 160 gb touch that is mainly used for podcasts and audio books...I also use flash drives filled with stuff from my blues and jazz stuff that I usually put on shuffle in the car...

Hippiechick...I am still here, and check the board every day. Good to see a post from you. My recent Dead and Dead type listening has been the great Daves Picks 3, featuring a couple of October 71 shows, and two Jerry Garcia Band shows a friend passed on to me - "Let it Rock" featuring 17 & 18th November 1975, and "Don't Let Go" featuring 5/21/76. I don't listen to much ( well...any) JGB, so these were a very pleasant surprise. On my soon to hear list is 11/7/71-one of my all time favourites.

But to ne honest, the music that has really blown me away over the last week or so is the Gong box set "Love From Planet Gong". Gong entered my life in 1974, and I've got countless recordings on album, cassette and cd but...Cheeze Louise ...I have never heard them sound as great as they do on the versions of the studio and live shows included in this box. Incredible sound and music - every home should have one.

listening to Dicks Picks 23 (9/17/72) today....I think I sometimes overlook this one because of the other great shows that have been released from fall 72 but it's so nice to be reminded of how amazing this show is.

I just cancelled a meeting at work because I'm not done with the monster Other One yet....sorry boss, work will have to wait...

on the subject of physical CDs, I still enjoy them the way I enjoy actual books. I love holding them, I love looking at them. most days I listen to music streamed from my phone or laptop, but I'm not ready to give up the actual physical products just yet.

I have had several hard drives break, but never a CD. Trainwrecked mentioned 30 Trips Around the Sun on hard drive. I think that is way too risky for all that money. And where has dave rock been??