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February 13, 2020 - 8:15am

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clayv

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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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April 17, 2020 - 1:47pm

#301

Sixtus_

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Yup

...but that one was easy, right? Great moment though, before launching into that SICK Estimated....

Now Wadeocu's most recent one, with all 'dem thar's in derrr....I'm stumped.

What about Gainesville again?

Sixtus
April 17, 2020 - 1:43pm

#302

icecrmcnkd

Joined:
October 20, 2015

So close, yet so far from Gainesville

Week of April 20-26, 2020

Welcome back to the Tapers’ Section, where this week we have Grateful Dead music from 1973, 1979, and 1980.

Our first stop this week is from the Dead’s only show in the west Texas town of El Paso, on 11/23/73, where we have Eyes Of The World ; Around And Around > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Casey Jones, Johnny B. Goode.

Next is the opening of the second set from the Dead’s 11/25/79 show at UCLA, where we have this terrific sequence of Shakedown Street> Bertha; Looks Like Rain ; He's Gone > The Other One.

Lastly this week we have the start of the second set from the opening night of a four show tour of Florida and Georgia. These were the first shows after the three-set extravaganzas at the Warfield and Radio City Music Hall in September-October 1980. From 11/26/80 in Pembroke Pines, FL, we have Cold Rain And Snow; Samson And Delilah ; China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider > Estimated Prophet >Eyes Of The World > Space.

Be safe, and check back with us here next week for more music from the vault.

David Lemieux

https://www.dead.net/features/tapers-section/april-20-26-2020
April 17, 2020 - 1:42pm

#303

wadeocu

Joined:
April 1, 2008

Aussie Bobby

That's 7/8/78 just before they launch into the big second set jam.

How about this one: "Hey wait a minute, wait a minute, one of the tahrs did already fall down so I'd like you to cool it from the wahrs and the tahrs. Just dont mess with the wahrs and the tahrs and things is gonna be just fine."
April 17, 2020 - 1:35pm

#304

icecrmcnkd

Joined:
October 20, 2015

“Details, Man”

I just listened to that a few days ago.
April 17, 2020 - 1:33pm

#305

icecrmcnkd

Joined:
October 20, 2015

Red Rocks 78 Sixtus

Don’t remember which night.
And I certainly don’t know what was meant by that comment.
April 17, 2020 - 12:58pm

#306

KeithFan2112

Joined:
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Clever Androids

And I just listened to that the other day, crap.

I have the whole 8/6 show on Soundboard, and the quality was good, so I uploaded it to my phone a few years ago, suited it up with some album art and titled it the exact verbiage, "Don't Climb on the Fence Idiot!"
April 17, 2020 - 12:50pm

#307

Sixtus_

Joined:
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You Guys Are Good

Clever Androids...that's always been a fav of mine; it's said with such whimsy.

I'm impressed (but not surprised) how good This Collective is at the game.

"I'm moving to Australia"

Sixtus
April 17, 2020 - 12:50pm

#308

KeithFan2112

Joined:
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Keith Europe '72

A couple of people asked about my "great piano controversy of Europe '72" comment. Keith is low or inaudible on most of the shows in the box set. I noticed it as I began picking up these shows back in 2014 one at a time. To be clear, he's just fine in the mix on the previously released E72 material on Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead and Rockin' The Rhein. Hundred Year Hall not so much.

But let's forego subjectivity and go with empirical observation, as this is the cornerstone of the scientific method.
The best way to "show" you what you're not hearing on a large part of the E72 box set is to have you compare Greatest Story Ever Told from Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead with the E72 box set version, which is on the 5/7 Bickershaw Festival show. On the box set version, there is some banter about fireworks at the beginning of the track before they go into the song, so the time stamps we're going to compare are different, but they're the same parts of the song.

On the E72 box set 5/7/72 Bickershaw GSET, you can hear Jerry fiddling with the wa wa pedal at the 1:30 mark, and then Phil launches into the song. After the first "left-handed monkey wrench" verse, there's an instrumental break from 2:47 - 3:10. Notice there is no piano whatsoever in that 23 second clip. Now fast forward to the "cool clear water well you can't ever tell" verse from 4:09 - 4:32. Hear any piano? Me neither.

Now go to the Steppin' Out version, which is the same recording (Disc 1, track 2). The firework banter is removed from the beginning, so the time stamps are different as I mentioned, but rest assured, it's the same performance, as stated in the liner notes (and you can still hear Jerry fiddle with the wa wa pedal, which he doesn't do on any other E72 version of GSET). If you go to the same spot after the first "left-handed monkey wrench" verse, which runs from 1:13 - 1:36, you are now listening to the same 23 second instrumental break, but voila! There is a kick-ass mother f****n' piano solo from the man with God in his name, rolling down the keys at the end of it all because he OWNED that 23 seconds. Then again after "cool clear water well you can't ever tell" verse from 2:34 - 2:57, you'll hear the same thing happen (literally ;-)

So....it was Rockin' The Rhein and Sunshine Daydream that MADE me KeithFan2112. Imagine popping on 4/7/72 and barely being able to tell there's a piano player in the band. Grrrr. Now interestingly, they appear to have used at least disc 3 from the Rockin' The Rhein version IN the E72 box set. I know this because Sugar Magnolia appears here, which is THE performance that made me a Dead Head, so I listened to the two side by side and believe me, I would notice if as much as an audience cheer was missing. The only difference besides the removal of the 5/24 bonus tracksis the place in the middle of the medley where they put the track separator for Wharf Rat; the mix itself is identical (I would bet my own left nut on this one). I am reasonably sure the whole E72 show was culled from the Rockin' The Rhein mix, but a fellow poster here believes only discs 3 & 4.

Regardless, what I find adds insult to injury for my boy Keith, is that the E72 liner notes taut his performance on 4/24 as though he had an exceptional night setting the keys on fire; the fact of the matter is he plays like that every night but simply can't be heard on half the set. When you listen to the Rhein version of Dark Star, it makes me shudder to think what we may be missing from the box set versions.

I gave one example, but it's pretty pervasive. There are spots that aren't as bad. Today's 4/17 show has a fairly loud Keith, as did yesterday's. But take a showpiece like Playing In The Band and compare most of these E72s to Veneta, Houston, or Berkeley (or really most of the two-tracks from the latter half of '72), and you'll hear the difference.

This was all bitched about at length when The E72 Complete Recordings were released:

https://archive.org/post/401638/keith-is-low-in-the-mix
April 17, 2020 - 12:12pm

#309

bob t

Joined:
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Here's a fun quote but it is actually in the song

Phil says after "what a long strange trip it's been", Howard Cosell said that!!! good luck Bob t
April 17, 2020 - 11:24am

#310

Vguy72

Joined:
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Whats the difference between a hippo and a zippo?....

....one is really heavy, and the other one is a little lighter.
ba-dum-dum-tshhhh

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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

Thank you Jeff!!!

Amazing work! 10x better than what I was able to come up with.

Thank you/A Sincere Apology/McCoy Tyner??

A big thank you to all who posted China Cat suggestions-I played all of them & more. Very hard to rate, as there is less than 1% of separation, but......I’m dumb enough to try.
2-23-68~on the mellow side, still developing but confident, and......Jerry!!
3-16-68~oddly, less developed sounding than the above, pre-formed, skeletal almost
5-24-69~Raw, loose, and spirited!!
11-17-72~longer jam, Phil!! Keith!!
Bobby!!
7-31-74~longest jam( I found), Keith well up in the mix, Phil also, my favorite Bill Sommers!!

A couple of other notes:
4-24-72~VERY Slow pace, 1 word......Hashish!!
5-11-72~much more normal tempo, solid.

One thing I dislike about texting as opposed to speaking, it’s difficult to hear one’s tone or sincerity, but after re-reading my most recent post, I was appalled at myself for only saying that the US will survive Coronavirus. Of course, the entire planet will survive this, and my most humble & sincere apologies to DAVEROCK, COLINGOULD,SIMONROB,PERITHECAT,FRANKPARRY, and EVERY ONE of my overseas brother’s & sisters. We are truly all in this together. Occasionally I am extremely shortsighted in my thinking, much to my detriment.

Lastly, I was positive someone here made some recommendations on McCoy Tyner albums. I went back 48 pages and could not find them. Maybe I’m confused, but if you made these, or read them, could you remind me please?? Thanks!!

Stay safe & healthy all.

Mister 1 and McCoy

I've always liked the opening cut on "Time for Tyner", "African Village".

One of the first Blue Note albums I got, along with Lee Morgan, The Gigolo. (more great stuff)

2nd Box Set of 2020 mentioned by DL in video

What could this be?? I'm not a big fan of 1976, although recordings & Jerry's intensity do shine....need some new music! A while ago one or two of the powers that be, maybe the BoZo guy, mentioned a couple of clues for another box set- not sure any thoughts? Also, now got DaP #35 on my mind as this is typically the one 1980s release of the year, I think we have a 1984 or 1985 show on deck for that release.....I also have a feeling 10/14/80 will somehow see release this year in some form or fashion

Love This Box

I know 76 isn't everyone's cup of psychedelic tea, and I can certainly understand why.
I've always been a fan though, especially of these June shows.
This box is on par with Winterland 77 for me in terms of overall sound quality.
And it's fast becoming one of my favorite releases so far (aforementioned Winterland 77, Europe 72, Winterland 73, Fillmore 69, and May 77 being the others I listen to most).

On a side note, each time I read about the band being "in transition" during any particular year, I can't help but smile. To my ears, the Grateful Dead was always a band in transition or, better yet, evolution. Show by show, month by month, year by year. You can hear them constantly shifting gears, discovering, and growing.

Anyway, just my two cents. This sheltering in place has left me with a lot of time to think and listen.

Re: Skulltrip

Mirrors my take so far.

76 isn't my favorite year, but there are two things I like most about the GD. First, the songs or perhaps more specifically their meanings & emotional. Second, the diversity & I guess intensity of the performances.

Not for everyone, and I get that.. It's certainly got that '76 tone and pace, no hard feelings.

One final comment.. thanks to the sound engineers. Tip of the hat to Ms. Cantor-Jackson and to Mr. Normal and the folks at Plangent (Jamie Howarth and John Chester). This one sounds almost as good as if it were recorded on 16 track Master Reels in a giant truck parked behind the venue. This one sounds ridiculously good.

I think Jeffrey Norman went to college at Hogwarts.

Edit: I do like '76.., not a '76 hater at all.

2nd 2020 Box Guess

My guess is they are packaging American Beauty and Workingman's 50th anniversary releases with a full show(s) from 1970.

Thank You Jeff!!!

I just got Jeff's transfers of the June 76 artwork, and I would like to say THANK YOU, MY MAN! I was feeling incomplete without the artwork loaded. You rock!

Peace

Work? Done with that!

Another milestone reached. I have just finished my last day at work. I reckon 50 years work is quite long enough. Now I have all the time in the world to do what I want. As long I can do it from the confines of my house. The first possibility that comes to mind is that I am now in a position to listen to much more Dead (and other music) than before. Now that I will be collecting a pension rather than earning a salary means that I am now officially old. Not senior, just old. Senior suggests rank and in my world view that is unacceptable. Now when will this here box set arrive?

Happy retirement Simonrob

Hey, great news - join the club! It’s a wonderful opportunity to listen to more and do all the things you can!

@Simonrob

Congratulations! Enjoy it. You've earned Sir.

Right On Simonrob

Congrats and cheers to the first day of your well earned rest of your life.

Thanks, Jeff!

Joining the chorus to thank Jeff for June 76 artwork. And thanks to all the others who've posted box set individual show art over the years whom I've never thanked before. (Maybe it's ALL been Jeff?) Thanks to everyone. You definitely make the digital experience more complete.

Congrats Simonrob

Happy retirement and hopefully a speedy Box arrival.

Jeff, scans

I’ve never downloaded them before, but I probably should.
Can you post that link again to all the previous scans?

Thanks

Gratefulhan

Check PM

Gold watch

Top stuff, Simon. I hope you have a long and happy retirement. I dropped out over 6 years ago, and its a great development. First a honeymoon period, then a "now what am I going to do ?" time, then a whole new thang. I feel as though I am getting younger with each passing year. Unfortunately, this isn't reflected in my outward appearance.

Mr Ones...no offence taken in your comment about hoping the U.S. overcome the virus whatsoever.

I'm 50 today!

I don't normally talk about my birthday, but here I am, commemorating fifty trips around the sun today. And congratulations to you, SimonRob, for finishing fifty years of work!

Not sure what I'll pick yet to listen to. There is 3/26/90, but I might go for 3/26/72, from DaP 14. That would nicely launch me into my trip to Europe. I purchased the E72 box immediately, but have never listened to it. I was crazy busy with kids and work when it came out, and I've always been a tad "afraid" of it. I'm concerned that after hearing what it contains, I might not want to listen to any of the other releases that adorn the shelves of my Dead Room. I also wanted to "properly" listen to each show from the box, but it's become apparent to me that I might never have the time to sit alone in the dark with each and every disc from that box. So, it's Bon Voyage for me; Europe '72, here I come!

The steamer trunk DOES say, "Deadhead Brewer" on it. ;-O

My guess for the fall box is "Fare Thee Well". It's a box of all that hasn't been released from the 1974 Farewell shows. It contains some video, which will be shown at this summer's Meet Up At the Movies. This box we just received is the "Welcome Back!" box, and then later this year the 1975 hiatus is bookended with the farewell box.

Simon Rob / retirement

Simon Rob, congratulations on the retirement, you will have alot more fun now. Besides going to see the Dead on 9/11/81, retirement is one of the best things that has happened to me in this life.

Thanks guys!

Good to receive so many positive messages. It will take a while to get used to all this time on my hands, but I can't see it being a problem.

thank you jeff!

thank you for the art work. awesome.

Simon Rob, etc.

Congratulations on making to retirement. Enjoy yourself, as much as possible during this crazy time.

Still working my way through this wonderful new box. As others have said, sound quality is A+++. No dudes so far. We have a lot of top sound quality releases for 1976. Not sure what was going on then but really good stuff. The only exception I think about is Dave's 18 from July 76 in San Francisco, while I love the show and bonus disc, the sound quality is B-.

Next box, I still have my money on Fall 1980.
Be well folks! And Happy Birthday Deadheadbrewer! Beautiful day in MN, I wish we could enjoy it.

Mr. Ones and Simon Rob

MR. Ones - There was a jazz related thread back around March 12 where someone mentioned several McCoy Tyner albums. I was able to locate Sahara which was highly recommended and downloaded it on the 12th. Very good suggestion that I have been enjoying ever since. Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson and On the Corner were part of the discussion, too. Can't remember who made the Tyner recommendations - sorry.

Simon Rob - Congratulations on your retirement! I retired nearly five years ago and have no regrets. I do have a part time job that keeps me out of trouble, though. My wife also keeps me very busy with home improvements. Thankfully, she loves the Dead and doesn't complain when I'm listening while checking off her "To Do" lists...

wow, this box is great, so…

wow, this box is great, so is the poster!! i cant believe these arent sold out yet. be well folks. stay safe and help others.

The Poster

My poster looks defective - it seems to be invisible. Is this an issue I should take up with Rhino?

Edit: Peace :)

maybe you should, my poster…

maybe you should, my poster looks perfect. no defects and packaged flat, not rolled.

Otis,re:poster

The poster cancar is referring to is listed for sale in the 1976 special edition shop as "gold foil print". Limited edition $45.

Happy Bday DHB

You never listened to E72?
My suggestion is while you are quarantined at home you make a copy of the shows for your car - CD-R’s, music player, flash drive, whatever plays in your car.
Then, when work starts again listen to it on your commutes.

Be warned though, you could end up like Keithfan who sometimes remains sitting in his car in the driveway after getting home.

adding name to list

of Thank You's for JeffSmith. It's nice to have everything snazzed up and ready to go. :-)

retirement

Congratulations Simon Rob
Retirement is a crazy gift of time. Carpe Diem.
"The only problem when you are a grand pa is to be married to a grand ma "(Groucho)
Retirement is good for everyone but the dead; Imagine a 75 boxed set!

Waiting on the 76 box.

First time post but I read the threads multiple times a day. Hard to describe but the weight of the day eases a bit when I slip into this community. I held off on the box but ordered this week based on so many of your feedback and comments on sound quality. There’s something, many things really about this band that make them infinitely listenable...so much to explore. Many thanks for the learnings and sense of humor on these posts. Cheers!

Waiting on the 76 box.

2 box sets

I hope they release the complete recordings from Winterland, every single show. That would make a great box set! I would also like to see them release the complete recordings of the Fillmore East and Fillmore West, what a killer box set that would be!

Mr Ones / McCoy Tyner

You might be remembering my post from awhile back: Last 5, all McCoyTyner edition, from shortly after he died. I found it back around page 70. Here they were:

Inception, Today and Tomorrow: These are his first two. They're more of a straight forward bop style, relatively accessible for a casual fan.

Real McCoy, Tender Moments: Two Blue Note Classics. Real MCoy is probably his best known and Tender Moments is just as good. They're more evolved then those 1st two, way beyond the usual Blue Note formula.

Sahara was #5. This is an amazing, intense listen. It gets chaotic, almost dissonant at times but McCoy holds it all together. If you're into wild, raging Other Ones, this one is for you.

The Wheel 1976

No better year.... slow and methodical!!!!

What the Hell

I never had trouble with double posts.. it's that damned alien virus fricking with my computer.

Sometimes it's ok to Question Yourself

11/17/72 Wichita is one of those shows that I know is great.. it gets great reviews. I have attempted between five or seven listens and it still doesn't click to me.. but each and every listen was distracted, which is frustrating. So I have hope.

I have had the same luck with 76 Wheels. I shared some comments and music with one of my high school buddies that was instrumental in getting me into the Dead in the first place. And his advice has always been on point. I shot him a pic of the box and anyway.. he now has the music and his comment was, Always liked 76, those Wheels....

Seriously, sometimes it's just me. I am sure this box will change an old pre-existing condition. Combined with the fact that as of tomorrow, I will be blissfully finished with work projects, which will give me ample to time to listen to music uninterrupted.

Enjoy all.. be good, be kind.

11.17.72....

....I'm off tomorrow as well. Gonna blast it.
Do it Jim. Kansas gets all the grate shows.
Its still in my top five Dave's.

Chicago Auditorium Theatre....

....5.13.77
Music Never Stops
Ramble On Rose
Cassidy
BE Women
New Minglewood
FOTD
El Paso
JACK-A- ROE
L.L. Rain
Scarlet->🔥
....makes sense.

Bob Dylan drops unreleased track: "Murder Most Foul"

"Greetings to my fans and followers with gratitude for all your support and loyalty across the years.
This is an unreleased song we recorded a while back that you might find interesting.
Stay safe, stay observant and may God be with you."
Bob Dylan

A box by any other name

I have just unearthed Dick's Picks 30 and Dave's Picks 14, all culled for the Academy of New York March 1972. On the first we have excerpts from the first set of 3/25/72 ( with Bo Diddley), a great spiralling Playing from 3/27/72 (size isn't everything) and the entire 3/28/72.
On Dave's Picks I am looking at the entire 3/26/72 show, and a bonus disc featuring extracts from 3/27/72 and 3/21/72. 8 cds of the Dead at their most rockingest and warming up nicely for Europe
There was also a cd released with an unrelated album ( I think) featuring the Dark Star from 3/23/72 amongst sundry others.

eep hour

I'm guessing we get the next big release in June. Workingman's Dead came out in June of 1970, so there is a connection. The next Dave's Pick, will take up April and May. But, 99% of the time I'm wrong about these guesses. I was sure we would get a 1969 box last year, boy was I ever wrong, I usually am, especially at an hour so early in the morning as this.

I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy

Morning rockers!!!

Was going to wait until next year to post things like this again, but in these trying viral times of ours, this darkness gotta give...………

For any new folks out there, or maybe even you old folks too, any self-quarantiners that are in need of some smiling 71s to brighten your Andromeda Strain of a day, PM me and I'll do my best to help you out. No limits, no restrictions, no questions asked, no answers offered...………

Rock on my friends, and stay safe!!!

Doc

That Dylan song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NbQkyvbw18

edit - Just listened,,, wow. Anyone out there know how to download off youtube. My software don't work no more.

edit, edit - ok spoke too soon. Song is up on amazon for a buck. If you know my gdrive, it's there.

re listen chicago may 77

Thanks Vguy, I listen today the chicago show you mentioned; it a bit like jokes, the shortest are the best (2cd show)
It' a great show delicate fluid and seriously rocking.
for the next box I bet on a 71. (Port chester)and/ or april boxed set 'Manhattan transfer, wonderful show of Princeton..Fillmore ...)
stay safe everybody

Cancar -

I was just joking. No harm intended.

This new Bob Dylan song has had me with tears in my eyes all morning. All of the feels coming out right now.

Peace

I'm with JimMD....

I think I read just now Jim commenting on The Wheel from '76 and another poster on hard-to-get-into shows. That triggered the following thoughts.

This is an interesting phenomenon. So I'll do a cannonball into the pool. I really don't hear anything special about 5-8-77 Cornell. It's a fun May '77 show, nothing special to me at all. It's not even close to other shows on that tour. For me. Frankly, everyone else's take on it is a complete mystery to me. (So is much of the world, FWIW.)

So I avidly joined the throng when the band returned in June '76. I'm quite sure I attended one of the two Boston shows in this new box, one of the Capitol shows and the Beacon in this box. At the Capitol show that opens with Help on the Way, we were in perhaps row 6 or 7, slightly right of dead center. I clearly remember the intimacy and the buzzing of the amps in the backline. Had not heard that at my shows in '72-'73. The '76 shows were great to experience in person. 20-30-40 years later, the '76 tapes just didn't do it for me. Too languid.

Okay, but time is a tricky beast. When the '76 box was announced, I seized DaP vol. 28, 6-17-76 and gave it a spin. Sure there were a number of songs played so slow I'm tempted to skip ahead. But first set songs such as Cassidy, Music Never Stopped, Scarlet, have this funky loose greatness to them. Second set, Help medley, and especially Let It Grow, the jamming is intense in slightly above mid-tempo fashion that now captures my imagination.

I ordered the box almost immediately. It arrived yesterday. It's going to spin (and so am I) tonight.

This is a long-winded way of saying that, apparently by accident and alchemy, my entire attitude towards '76 has changed. But get this -- I prefer June to later in the year. The freshness of their return to the stage is what I'm smoking. Later on, they were on their way to '77 rocking.

There's the experience, then there's the tape. And time. Lots of freakin' time.

That is all.

I'm with You HF...

...on your assessment of the early part of this '76 tour. I mean, I love it all, but the first two or three weeks of this tour definitely sound different to my ears than later in the year, even the end of the summer.

As you've noted, the early shows have this languid, loping, utterly drippy feel to them. The slower tempos obviously allow for more breathing room; each beat is seemingly stretched to it's limit with both care and aplomb. Songs are explored in new ways, providing new auditory avenues that help to open our ears and minds. By the time they hit the end of June and early July, songs were already morphing, speeding up as the summer progressed (see Eyes of the World as a good example, or even Dancin' In The Street by the time we hit Dick's Picks 20 in September). Notably different sounds, and they are already well on their way to congealing into that '77 sound.

I dunno, I've always been fond of this period for these exact reasons. Merely a snapshot in time, but it provides an extremely unique take on the band at a turning point in their bountiful history.

Happy Friday DeadFreaks.

Sixtus

otis, oh totally cool my…

otis, oh totally cool my friend. i was slow as heck on that one!! head in my butt with everything going on. be safe and have a great weekend. we are on lockdown in pa, and taking care of those that need it.

Hartford 8/2/76

While I missed these smaller theatre shows, I did see the first return of the band to a large, outdoor venue, Colt Park,
and it was awesome! Lots of craziness here as I have relayed before. Suffice it to say that somehow I ended up with a Japanese flag on a long 10" pole which I waved high & wide as instructed during the encore of U.S. Blues.

This was also the show where one of my buddies passed out on the ground for a couple of hours. As people stepped over him they kept asking if he was ok. I assured them he was fine and had just imbibed one too many capsules. Upon awakening, he began to shimmy up one of the guide ropes of the sound tower. The guys in the tower were none too happy and they began to shake the rope to get him off! Luckily we talked him down. Crisis averted. Nothing out of the norm for one of my Dead shows! Lol

Rock on

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