Grateful Dead

Listening to Classic Vinyl on my Sirius (very rare I move from the GD station) and I hear that wed morning 9 EST David Lemieux is doing a 90 min special on the GD station for the new MAY 1977 BOX SET!!! 5 complete shows (they didn't say which ones). I feel like Ed Grimley at Christmas.... I couldn't be more excited!Sure hope it wasn't just a wishful flashback :-)

like yer thinkin up to 74!!! LOL!!

i need a fix...............cuz i'm goin down!!!

These two shows would make an excellent box set along with another show on the tour with a good source.

But the idea of flipping in the middle of a song (3X no less) is totally hack, though I do understand the limitations.

Hey Gang,We are releasing Dicks Picks vol 3 and 4 on vinyl March 19th. You can pre order now at www.BrookvaleRecords.com These are from the original tapes and mastered for vinyl by Jeffrey Norman. See below for his comments. Thanks for your time. FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES! Mr Norman talks about mastering vol 3 and 4. “I was excited to get the chance to remaster the early Dick’s Picks’ releases for vinyl…they were originally mastered for CD in 1995-96, and I was looking forward to hearing the 1/4″ source tapes once again, 17 years later. What I didn’t expect was the dramatic improvement the new mastering gives to these classic releases. The original CD resolution is 44.1KHz/16bit (as is any released CD), while the mastering I am now doing for the vinyl releases is 96KHz/24bit. I’m now using a state-of-the-art analog to digital converter (Pacific Microsonics Model 2)….and I’ve probably gotten better at doing this over the years! I used the original CDs as a guide for the new mastering, but when listening to the CDs I feel like I’m listening in black and white, while the new mastering feels like I’m listening in color. It’s very exciting! A few observations: the mixes for Dick’s Picks Vol. 3 and Vol. 4 couldn’t be more different. The Pembroke Pine show (Vol.3) is quite bass strong and powerful. The Fillmore East show (2/13-14/12) on the other hand is very bright and a little bass shy. Both represent the ears and interpretations of the mixers at the time (Betty Cantor Jackson at Pembroke Pines, and Bear at the Fillmore East), and both capture the quality and excitement of these shows. I did some equalization on both shows to enhance the presentation but kept true to what the original mixers intended. As typical of all Grateful Dead shows, both these two shows are very dynamic….there’s a wide range of volume from quiet to very loud. I tried to keep the dynamics intact, with very little limiting, using limiting mainly as protection against digital overs. In choosing the songs for each side of vinyl, the goal was to be true to the flow of the show and keep the fidelity as high as possible. There is a physical limitation to the length of a vinyl side….if it gets too long there is a loss of bass and level. Ideally the sides would be no longer than 20 minutes, and for the most part that was accomplished. However there are a few sides that are longer than ideal, but because of the way the music lays out there was no way around a few longer lengths. Also because of those side length constraints, there are some songs that had to be split in two (i.e. Vol.4 Dark Star, The Other One, and Lovelight)…sorry, you’re going to have to flip the record to get the entire “good stuff”. Considering that these tapes are 40 years old (in the case of Vol. 4, Fillmore East), they sound phenomenal! There are some issues on the original recording that can’t be fixed (i.e.. L/R movement side to side in Vol. 3 Eyes of the World), but that in no way takes away from this great music.”

2/5-8/70 – Fillmore West;2/11-14/70 – Fillmore East (Let's be honest, Dick's Picks, Vol. 4 doesn't really do this justice); 4/4-6/71 – Manhattan Center; 4/25-29/71 – Fillmore East; 6/9-10/73 – RFK Stadium; 7/27-28/73 – Watkins Glen; 2/22-24/74 – Winterland; 6/22-23/74 – Miami; Anything from Europe '74; 10/16-20/74 (how about this ~15 disc set for October '14?); Pretty much any multi-night theater run from '76; 3/18-20/77 – Winterland; 4/25-27/77 – Capitol Theater; 12/27-31/77 – Winterland; 7/17-19/89 – Alpine Valley; 10/11-15/89 –East Rutherford (in fact, go for any run on this tour); The complete MSG '90 run, or Europe '90. Take your time, though.

now that i've digested this beast. I love it, the music is top notch and now that you exquisitely marketed the hell out of it and got your $200 bucks a pop it's time to release the rest of the shows from each stand at the going rate. Everyone here knows there wasn't a bad show that spring, by the Summer Tour they were about to self combust (RIP Brent). The last night of the stand mentality was okay but, let's have the rest of the best... I've been seeing the band since 2/4/78 and continue to see FURTHUR as well as spend my hard earned coin on the products, so Europe put me into having to work overtime hours to afford it and though it was great and the setlists were somewhat static I love it! I'd love to be able to purchase entire runs from Uptown Theater,Chicago or Spectrum, Philly. Red Rocks, Greek, Frost etc hell It would be nice to have to the option to buy any show from 1989 and where are the videos man? You guys gotta have at least a couple of spot on 92-95 shows to share!? The cover bands in that AVMT night out at the movies were fantastic, release that Alpine show with the covers project bonus disc...Let's keep talkin' about August 1972 will that movie ever get released? What the hell happened to the JERRY GARCIA BAND SHOWS??? How can you guys not want to collect all of this bread man... take my money please. Give some of that church/warfield 90-95 jGB. RANT MODE OFF NOW. Thanks for the extremely expensive offerings that I will continue to buy. Gerry

I'll second those '80 shows mentioned a couple posts back.

Hello Everyone, Brookvale Records just announced they are releasing the Dick's Picks series on VINYL!. www.BrookvaleRecords.com Full story here: http://brookvalerecords.com/the-grateful-dead-dicks-picks-vol-1-vol-2-n… I am new to this FORUM - can you guys help me spread the word?