Grateful Dead

.... agreed. No one ever talks about that song. Except now. Might be garbage. Might not.
Speaking of captchas, I've been playing this game on PS4 called Detroit : Almost Human. Fits the bill.
Favorite TTATS shows? I'm not a huge fan of the '81 show so much. Otherwise....all in.

Agree with everything you said. But I will buy the Hornsby show. After the Godchauxs left, I think the Dead sounded best on a great night when he was in the band. Big fan of DP 17. I can get into some 1980 if it's mixed correctly.

First show of the year? Not sure

Sounds like first performance of just a little light

A good tune

It’s on Amazon for $66.49 which a lot less than what I paid for it on Amazon about a year and a half ago.

Is available in the store? Should I be as surprised as I feel to see those being sold on here?

I highly suggest you obtain it on vinyl.
Sounds better than the CD.

Yes, I am an AI enabler.....

Not much mention of 1972 and 1973. I omitted them from my own list as those are two of the shows that didn't really do it for me. The Playing in the Band in '72 is jammed out and ends with Phil on a bum note, a rarity for Mr Pitch Perfect, and it's kind of emblematic of that show. This may be one of the few Bird Songs that doesn't really grab me. The Dark Star> China Cat is good and interesting, but although it's up my alley setlist-wise, and I've tried it a few times thinking I'll change my opinion... And like 9/24/72, 11/14/73 is right in a period where a lot of high quality shows have been released: Winterland '73 was 11/9-11, 11/17 is DaP 5, 11/21 is RT4.3, and it has the only triple Other One, which I was happy they kept in tact for the release. But the playing seems lethargic. Reviews on Archive say Phil was sitting on a stool for most of the second set and didn't seem into it. Don't know how accurate that is, but something's missing and as Jerry said, "when Phil's on, the band's on!" Here he doesn't seem to be on so much. These two shows are good shows, definitely not defining for their year like some in the box are.

Also, just to chime in on the '84 show to give my post some positivity to balance out the somewhat negative: I really liked that show. It had a good recording, and a really fun sounding show. '87 is a good one, long the 1987 standard so I've heard. Surprisingly short first set, 46 min, I think.

That may be my favorite.

The 75 pick is great not only in performance but rarity. A little loose but essential.

Really, to me most of the 30 Trips picks are essential. Putting them all in one box was either a great move or disappointment for cost (or variety for the finicky).

Timing worked out in my acquisition of this set because that was the one time I could afford a big ticket item in thanks to a small inheritance from the passing of someone I love and miss dearly. That alone makes this set more important to me, besides the great show choices. In all likliness I'll never get another one like this. It even included a show I attended, that itself happened the same weekend as the passing of another relative.

Outside of the entertainment factor, I reflect and even meditate oftentimes while listening to these particular shows from this set.

From what I understand, which is admittedly not much, the captcha has a couple of functions. Ostensibly its an exercise to make sure you are a human, and I suppose for now it does the trick. But what you're really doing is providing some free labor for those who need to train "robots" to "look" at pictures and "recognize" what's in them. Shown enough millions of pictures of traffic lights, at various angles, with trees in front of or behind them, in all types of weather etc, the AI can start to work out what a traffic light is, but still no where near approaching a human brain's capability. Eventually the AI should be good enough to solve a captcha. Every time we complete a captcha we're providing that human feedback to compare to what the AI guessed, given its prior input.

A number of years ago somebody figured out that texts could be digitized in this way as well, which is why a lot of these also have pics of text; you type in what you see and help to digitize existing books. Fascinating stuff to me. And I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

Going through them all again since last week, but in no particular order. My faves: 67, 75, 77, 71, 84
84 was the real surprise for me, not my favorite period with Jerry's voice not premium, but yet the playing is stellar.
Disappointed with 78: great 1st set, 2nd set a snooze except Estimated. The opposite for 79: sleepy 1st set, but great 2nd set.