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    "To my ears, the best Dead shows are those that not only fit the criteria that make them amongst the best of a year, but that are also completely unique for their era—shows that fit perfectly into their year of performance, but also fall somewhat outside of the norm for that year. Harpur College, Veneta, Cornell, Cape Cod, and Augusta are all shows that are objectively excellent, and if they are not the best from their respective years of performance, they are certainly unique. Miami 6/23/74 falls into that category: not only one of the very best shows from this outstanding year, but also one of the most interesting and unique. It’s certainly worthy of many, many deep listens." - David Lemieux

    ¡Ándale, ándale! ¡Arriba, arriba! We're back with a hot one from Miami, F-L-A. DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 34 features the complete show from the Jai Alai Fronton, 6/23/74, one with unparalleled sound quality due in equal parts to the Wall Of Sound and the beautiful sonic clarity of Kidd Candelario's tapes. The first set is chock full of dynamite takes on classics like "Ramble On Rose," "Mississippi Half-Step," and "Cumberland Blues." The second set delivers on the JAMS - one leading into a gorgeous "Ship Of Fools," one rare instrumental version of "Dark Star," and a "Spanish Jam," this is Miami after all! The show also offers up a "first" and an "only" - the former, a Seastones set featuring Phil and Ned Lagin and the latter, the sole Grateful Dead performance of Chuck Berry's "Let It Rock."

    Limited to 22,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOL.34: JAI ALAI FRONTON, MIAMI, FL 6/23/74 has been mastered from the 7.5 IPS reel-to-reel tapes to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman. ¡Agarrarlo mientras esta calientito! (Get it while it's hot!)

    *Limited to 2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

    Subscribed to Dave's Picks? With this release, you'll also get a bonus disc with selections from Miami 6/22/74. Excellente!

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    *Re/ Daves Picks #34 start shipping

    Daves Picks #34 starts shipping today ! So grateful things are running on time from the Dead Team, bless them all.
    Next USPS takes over, praying everyone parcel arrives safely to your addresses.
    Rock on my brothers and sisters, Have a Grateful Day!🙏❤️😎
    Also the sound quality of Daves 34 taken from the Wall is Beyound Primo, It’s Heavenly sounding! The Mixit top notch Normain! One of the best sounding releases in the Whole Daves Picks series and in my opinion the grateful dead’s Entire discography !!! Killer from start to finish. No skipping songs on these disc , unless you’re not a Seastones fan, that might be heard the most among all the reviews and thoughts n majority of the Grateful Dead fans and collectors 💀🌹
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  • musicnow
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    DSCHIAN

    check your inbox :)

  • nappyrags
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    attention

    If anyone is interested there's a new batch of Charlie Miller remastered '91 shows making the rounds at all the usual spots...

  • SkullTrip
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    KeithFan & Angry Jack Straw

    Likewise here.
    Under 60. Started seeing shows in the 80s. Rarely venture past the 70s, especially for full shows.
    When I do, it's only for a specific song or two (such as the Shakedown>Jack Straw from 7/9/89).
    Categorize me as you will.

    On a side note, 2/22/69 really is something special. Always sounds fresh even after hearing it a hundred times.

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    12/26/81 / 12/31/81

    Fun times, for sure.

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    A Day at the Dentist. An all time classic into the Eleven jam. Even my kids ask me to play that one. Great stuff.

    Much like Keithfan, I am well under 60 and only saw the band from the early 80s on. I rarely listen to anything after the 70s. When I do, it is always a song or two (like the sequence referenced above). Never a full show.

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    12/31/82 is a hoot as well. The first set is Joan Baez, sort of loosely backed by the GD in some parts. Some encore on this one.

    12/31/81
    Oakland Auditorium Arena - Oakland, CA
    Set 1:
    Land Of A Thousand Dances
    Do Right Woman
    The Boxer
    Tunisian New Year Song
    Me & Bobby McGee
    Bye Bye Love
    Lucifer's Eyes
    Children Of The 80's
    Banks Of The Ohio

    Set 2:
    Shakedown Street
    Me And My Uncle
    Mexicali Blues
    Cold Rain And Snow
    C.C. Rider
    It Must Have Been The Roses
    Beat It On Down The Line
    Big Boss Man
    New Minglewood Blues
    Don't Ease Me In

    Set 3:
    Iko Iko
    Playin' In The Band
    Terrapin Station
    Playin' In The Band
    Drums
    The Other One
    Not Fade Away
    Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad
    Morning Dew

    Encore:
    Dark Star
    Bertha
    Good Lovin'
    Baby Blue

    ….and while we are at it, 12/31/82 is a tower of power of fun.

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    Quack quack quack

    It doesn't get better then this scarlet/fire.

  • hendrixfreak
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    I'll suggest an '81 show...

    12/26/81
    Oakland Auditorium Arena - Oakland, CA

    Brief comments: setlists alone don't tell the story. The boys come out with their pants on fire! The opening segue smokes. Jer does a beautiful Candyman and a surprise/unique Big Boss Man. The jamming is great, the show flows and I have no idea if the tape is in the vault, but my aud gets a lot of action. Marye has said she was at this show and concurs on its hotness.

    And yes, Mr. One, I have often said here that the older heads - I started at the shows at 15 in '72 and I'll be 63 this summer, gods be willing - and I'm not sure how long I'll care. Age has a way of turning corners on my outlook. I could see another ten years of interest...
    Set 1:
    Alabama Getaway
    Promised Land
    Candyman
    Little Red Rooster
    Big Boss Man
    Me And My Uncle
    Big River
    Bird Song
    It's All Over Now
    Big Railroad Blues
    Let It Grow
    Set 2:
    Scarlet Begonias
    Fire On The Mountain
    Estimated Prophet
    He's Gone
    Drums
    The Eleven Jam
    Truckin'
    Black Peter
    Around And Around
    One More Saturday Night
    Encore:
    Don't Ease Me In

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    it seems like we can't really share the women like in the song

    Just thinking out loud after a good Jack Straw.

    Mr. Ones, you may be right in general about the younger crowd liking the 80s stuff better, but I'm under 50 and I prefer the 60s and 70s. I didn't read far enough back to see any "contrarian" comments, but I know you and I are on the same page here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrg-RgF5F8o

    I can't wait any longer. At first it was just the unreleased Dark Stars and a show or two. Now I'm full-on soundboard. The '72 Dead at Long Beach (12/12) - unreal Playing in the Band and from Truckin' to the end. Now I have on Roosevelt from July 25th '72. In addition to the regular show on archive, I found a matrix of just Dark Star that is really nice.

    I was able to get in the Sleeper of '78 (DaP 15 - I called it 14 last nght in it's entirety except LLR because I've actually SEEN street cats f***ing, quite by accident, and it's a memory I don't like to evoke. It feels like the Colgate show to me for some reason, maybe the tone of the recording.

    After that I did May 1977 (5th Show) Tuscaloosa 5/17. Yeeeeeah. I have a lot of favorites, but this Scarlet Fire is one of the longest and one of the bestest. AND it's the quacking duck version. Hmmm, dare I dig up the quacking duck interview with Jerry?

    Today I gave Rhein another listen and Berkeley 8/25. Wow. If you want to hear Bobby in his prime, go no further than The Other One on the Dave's Picks Berkeley show. I have no idea what the number is. I just call it "This Ain't Kentucky Man!" after Jerry cuts off Bobby mid-sentence. Anyway, Bobby comes in loud and clear with that beautiful
    sounding Gibson ES-335 and he plays some great chops.

    This is going to be a great Dave's Picks no doubt.

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"To my ears, the best Dead shows are those that not only fit the criteria that make them amongst the best of a year, but that are also completely unique for their era—shows that fit perfectly into their year of performance, but also fall somewhat outside of the norm for that year. Harpur College, Veneta, Cornell, Cape Cod, and Augusta are all shows that are objectively excellent, and if they are not the best from their respective years of performance, they are certainly unique. Miami 6/23/74 falls into that category: not only one of the very best shows from this outstanding year, but also one of the most interesting and unique. It’s certainly worthy of many, many deep listens." - David Lemieux

¡Ándale, ándale! ¡Arriba, arriba! We're back with a hot one from Miami, F-L-A. DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 34 features the complete show from the Jai Alai Fronton, 6/23/74, one with unparalleled sound quality due in equal parts to the Wall Of Sound and the beautiful sonic clarity of Kidd Candelario's tapes. The first set is chock full of dynamite takes on classics like "Ramble On Rose," "Mississippi Half-Step," and "Cumberland Blues." The second set delivers on the JAMS - one leading into a gorgeous "Ship Of Fools," one rare instrumental version of "Dark Star," and a "Spanish Jam," this is Miami after all! The show also offers up a "first" and an "only" - the former, a Seastones set featuring Phil and Ned Lagin and the latter, the sole Grateful Dead performance of Chuck Berry's "Let It Rock."

Limited to 22,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOL.34: JAI ALAI FRONTON, MIAMI, FL 6/23/74 has been mastered from the 7.5 IPS reel-to-reel tapes to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman. ¡Agarrarlo mientras esta calientito! (Get it while it's hot!)

*Limited to 2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

Subscribed to Dave's Picks? With this release, you'll also get a bonus disc with selections from Miami 6/22/74. Excellente!

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6 19 76

Soooooo good

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Fellow Canadian deadheads be heartened - DaP 34 arrived this morning in all of its new-packaged glory. Canda Post may sometimes be slow and annoying, but ultimately they get the job done!

... Speaking about killer versions of ‘The Other Ones’, I cant help but remember & think the 40 +minute versio on Dicks Picks # 23 is Primo with a capital P!
Dick's Picks Volume 23 is a three-CD album. It was recorded on September 17, 1972 at the Baltimore Civic Center in Baltimore. It contains the complete concert, except for the encore, which was "One More Saturday Night". Another Primo 72’ performance by the Grateful Dead!
Also, It contains the longest CD version of the song "The Other One" to date, clocking in at nearly 40 minutes, holy Toledo my brothers & sisters! Its mind blowing & a pure example how the dead can take a song and add to its overall sound, structure & vibe into som new forbidden fruit just waiting to be consumed into Grateful Dead’s own trademarks & style / structure & arrangements to boot! We lucky fans are blessed with a vault filled with Magic & love !
Each volume of Dick's Picks has its own "caveat emptor" label, advising the listener of the sound quality of the recording. The one for Volume 23 reads:

"Dick's Picks Twenty-Three was mastered from the original 1/4" analog tapes, running at 7.5 ips. The mix you hear was done live to two-track at the show, and the results are remarkable. We hope you'll dig it as much as we do." And I must concure, I love it!

***Track listing -
*Disc one
**First set:
"Promised Land" (Chuck Berry) – 3:39
"Sugaree" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) – 7:59
"Black-Throated Wind" (John Barlow, Bob Weir) – 6:34
"Friend of the Devil" (John Dawson, Hunter, Garcia) – 4:19
"El Paso" (Marty Robbins) – 5:11
"Bird Song" (Hunter, Garcia) – 10:55
"Big River" (Johnny Cash) – 5:22
"Tennessee Jed" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:05
"Mexicali Blues" (Barlow, Weir) – 3:57
"China Cat Sunflower" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:18
"I Know You Rider" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) – 6:16
**Disc two
"Playing in the Band" (Hunter, Mickey Hart, Weir) – 18:48
"Casey Jones" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:12
***Second set:
"Truckin'" (Hunter, Garcia, Phil Lesh, Weir) – 12:19
"Loser" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:20
"Jack Straw" (Hunter, Weir) – 5:22
"Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:38
"Me and My Uncle" (John Phillips) – 3:16
***Disc three
"He's Gone" > (Hunter, Garcia) – 10:21
"The Other One" > (Bill Kreutzmann, Weir) – 39:07
"Sing Me Back Home" (Merle Haggard) – 10:50
"Sugar Magnolia" (Hunter, Weir) – 9:25
"Uncle John's Band" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:22

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got a meme yesterday from my buddy -

"Hard to believe we've already been in quarantine for an entire Grateful Dead song"

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Today I did receive a CD through the post from America. It was something I pre-ordered before lockdowns and the like. It shipped on April 23 which means it took 33 days to cross the pond. My Dave's Picks 34 shipped a week later, so will maybe, possibly, hopefully arrive a week from now. Time will tell.

Pre-crisis shipping time was typically around two weeks.

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Yeah, this is it! That's a good catch man because I Googled it too a few years ago. I think I may have heard 15 second clip of it in documentary which I think is called Amazing Journey. That's how I know of its existence. But I did check The Kids Are Alright at the time, and unfortunately it's not the one. I even checked the Smothers Brothers TV show recording to see if that was it. I checked the Sellout remaster, 30 years of Maximum R&B box set.....nothing. and here it is. Thanks man.

And Dennis - thanks again, that Echoes sounds waaaay better than the youtube.com version. I have to double-check before I swear this but I'm pretty sure even the 5.1 works in 5.1 through my phone's 8th / inch headphone jack into stereo RCA inputs in my receiver. At first I thought it was just give me 2 track stereo in the front and the back like usual, then I was pretty sure I heard different stuff coming out of the back speakers. And of course someone wanted to watch TV after a minute and I listened to the rest on headphones.

With all of this Pink Floyd talk I thought that I would add that David Gilmour live at Pompeii is well worth watching and listening to. Damn! Comfortably Numb just soars into the atmosphere. I Wish I Was There.

@Simon Rob. I hope your Dave's follows that educated-guess timeline to you very soon. One Way or Another: This Lockdown has got to end (Reminds me of a lyric in New Speedway Boogie). Imagine that the lockdown ends and as you report back to work your new Dave's arrives as you head out the door?!?! Call out sick Rob! Stay home and safe and open a Bass Ale at 8AM while listening to your new cd. Invite Boris J over. His hair looks strangely familiar?

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March 31 was my last day at work before retirement. That means that so far the first two months of my retirement have been spent in lockdown. To make matters worse the weather has been great, but at least I have a garden. Currently listening to Dave's Picks 1 which is behaving itself. No sign of rot and it sounds great. Haven't played it in a while. Next up GarciaLive 13 which is what arrived earlier today.

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Great suggestion DP 19. Found a used one on ebay. First chance to listen this morning and it's everything you said it would be. Strange that Mind Left Body is separated on this but remains part of Dark Star on other shows.

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Someone posted here a couple of weeks ago that these last 3 Dave’s might be the 3 best consecutive in the entire series. Of course, I had to go to my shelf to check.
If I was only allowed to keep 3, and they had to be consecutive, I would go with 9,10,11.
Missoula MT 5/14/74
LA, CA 12/11-12/69-Bonus disc!!
Wichita, KS 11/17/72
Anyone else have an opinion?? I sure hope so.
Stay healthy, stay safe.

Oops! I think that I read about your retirement a while back. Enjoy the garden and let's hope your cds arrive soon.

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Dave's # 5 , 6, & 7. 5 & 6 are 10 out of 10 powerhouse, must have relaeses. Since I have to pick 3 in a row # 7 gets to come along for the ride, my #4 has rotted away and gets excluded from this fun little game. I guess I should write down the dates, 11/17/73, 12/20/69, 2/2/70, and 4/28/78. Great idea Mr. Ones!

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For me, it would surely be 11, 12, & 13 (unless Dave unleashes a truly phenomenal show this summer!)

#11 Wichita, 11/17/72
#12 Colgate, 11/7/77
#13 Winterland, 2/24/74

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Check your PM

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....That makes it interesting!
Based solely on personal preference;
8- 11/30/80
9- 5/14/74
10 12/12/69
or
16-3/28/73
17- 7/19/74
18- 7/17/76

I probably like 16 the best of all, but like 5/14/74 over 7/19/74 and probably would take 12/12/69 over 7/17/76....maybe?

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Butch (or anyone) - Awhile back I combined Dark Star and Mind Left Body into one track on DP 19 so they'd stick together on shuffle play. PM me if you'd like a copy.

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I was putting shows attended on my home page and noticed that I was at some of the same shows as Nappyrags, VGuy, and Good Old Grateful Dead. Do you guys remember seeing me? I had long hair, a beard, and was wearing jeans.

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Experience Regina! Ha!

Now that's hilarious! I haven't watched that terrible video for years!

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Think I ultimately agree with Mr Ones on 9 5/14/74, 10 12/11-12/69, 11 11/17/72. The silver goes to 13 2/24/74, 14 3/26/72, 15 4/22/78. My second runner up would probably be 24 8/25/72, 25 11/6/77, 26 11/17/71 & 12/14/71. In each and every scenario, there just aren't three in a row that are all killers; somehow one of them just isn't there. But these are the overall strongest three in a row to me.

Most of my listening lately has been taken with the Owsley Foundation's most excellent Never the Same Way Once box of Doc and Merle Watson. Lots of repeats, but killer playing and singing from the hills of North Carolina. Wish they had done a Shady Grove, but it's all good. And talk about a great live recording! If this had been put out as a live album in 1974, it would've sold at least as much as Old and in the Way the next year.

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The first two responses are the only logical answers.

5, 6, 7 with 7 getting a free ride or 11, 12, 13.

So tonight marks the end of the E72 journey. No surprise, but over the past two months I had the pleasure of listening to 22 concerts that far exceed anything I ever saw them play live. Taking into account some of the venues, it had to be the experience of a lifetime.

4/8, 5/3, and 5/26 remain my favorites. The biggest surprises on my second full go-around were 4/14 and 5/7. Those two nudge 5/11 and 4/26 out of my top five.

In aggregate, I feel The Other Ones outshine the Dark Stars ever so slightly. Each arguably have their pinnacle performances on this tour, but as a whole I will take the former.

Honorable mention goes to 5/13 in Lille. If nothing more than they set up in a park(ing lot) if I understand correctly.

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Some things can only be explained by drugs. Like the decision to make a sequel to the Flintstones movie. I suspect the decision by Grateful Dead Merchandising to market a Workingman's Dead hat, a Workingman's Dead apron, a Workingman's Dead leatherman, a Workingman's Dead jacket, a Workingman's Dead hatchet, a Workingman's Dead tool roll, a Workingman's Dead key chain, and a Workingman's (notice they omitted Dead for this item to avoid confusion) dog jacket may have been the result of a chemically induced enthusiasm.

I think you meant to say, "The Things I blame on Other People Doing Drugs"

The Second Flintstones movie. So funny.

Things I Blame On Drugs? Waking up that day, large, strange hematomas on strange parts of my body.. brand new frisbee, less than 24 hours old, lost. Looking forward to that first cup of coffee only for my old, dear friend from high school waking me up with the seemingly rude reminder.. "oh, so you don't remember what happened last night at all, do you?"

Yea.. that. coincidentally, the last time Me & Mr. Lemmon 714 ever hung out and not so coincidentally, the last time I ever saw my favorite frisbee. That was a very long time ago ..but I digress.

that... and that Flintstone's movie for sure.

Back to your regularly scheduled drums and space.

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Status: ''Your item departed a transfer airport in FRANKFURT, GERMANY on May 26, 2020 at 8:01 am.''
Hopefully not to another Airport, like Shenzen, Brussels or elsewhere.
If not so, It might be out for delivery soon. Oh, I forgot the customs.

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USPS keeping me informed!
Having finally(?) left LA on 20th and then Salt Lake City on 21st I’m now told it left Detroit on 26th. Still moving east and it might get out of the US in the next month or two. Does the Pony Express still deliver?

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Interesting question about a favorite 3 DaP in a row sequence, kind of tough because some of my favorite individual releases aren't part of a favorite 3 sequence. Here's a couple runs that seem like contenders to me:
28, 29, 30 - 6/17/76, 2/29/77, 1/2/70
16, 17, 18 - 3/28/73, 7/19/74, 7/17/76

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Baltimore Civic Center, Baltimore, MD – 9/17/72’ Dick's Picks #23. As the first set of this September 1972 show in Baltimore closes, notes peal from Jerry Garcia’s guitar while Bill Kreutzmann kicks the band into a gallop, both actions emblematic of the surety permeating the playing of the Grateful Dead captured on Dick’s Picks Vol. 23, To say the band sounds inspired is to understate the precision and passion with which they play on this recording of Owsley “Bear” Stanley.

Little wonder the group next launches into a near twenty-minute exploration of “Playing in the Band.” and makes it sound succinct. With a collective confidence rooted in their innate sense of improvisation, the Dead performed like they could do no wrong at this point in their career and rightly so: having returned earlier in this same year from a conquest of Europe, their first visit to the continent, the group had every reason to feel sure of themselves. For one thing they possessed a wealth of new material to choose from, some of which Garcia/Hunter pieces, like “Mississippi Half Step Uptown Toodleloo,” wouldn’t be recorded till the next year. That tune is, nevertheless, as much of a piece with originals like “Jack Straw” as covers such as “Big River” and “Me & My Uncle.”

As with their grasp of composition, The Grateful Dead had elevated the sophistication in their musicianship too by teaching themselves to carefully navigate that ever so fine line between structure and spontaneity. That balanced approach lent itself to memorable jamming, as in the segue from “China Cat Sunflower” into “I Know You Rider,” but numbers such as “Tennesee Jed,” which didn’t accommodate much stretching, still helped maintained the necessary overall discipline

But that’s not to say the inclination to take chances had disappeared. During the segues near show’s end that envelope “The Other One” and “He’s Gone,” the Dead performed with a purpose and this focused approach manifest itself on “Casey Jones,” as well as the colorful highlights Keith Godchaux supplied, equally on electric and acoustic piano. Slightly over twelve minutes, this robust version of “Truckin'” might well serve as a microcosm of the elevated level of the group’s chops this autumn in the early 1970’s.
Dicks Picks #23 ( 3-CD package)reaffirm the impact of its music, rendering the Grateful Dead’s progression through their thirty-year career sound all the more wondrous.
🙏❤️💀🌹
Have a grateful Day Everyone! ✌️, More Grateful Dead Please...

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Sorry I woke up grumpy, I'm a teacher and can sniff out (Google search) copied work like a bloodhound. Unless your name is Doug Collete and you write for Glide, copying and pasting someone else's article into a post without proper citation is not cool. Please dont do this, it is wrong to plagiarize someone else's intellectual property. If you agree with another's sentiments, use it, but put their due credit, especially when its multiple paragraphs. If you are Doug then I'll shut my assumptive mouth, cheers and nice writing.

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That's me just had a card through my door demanding £13.52 to arrange delivery of my Dave's Picks, for the second time (out of two) this year. I can see a pattern developing here. It looks like it's no longer going to be affordable for me to subscribe from the U.K. in future. :-(

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Just received the limited edition t shirts for this pick, wow, are they nice, perfect fit and awesome design, hope any and all who wanted one got one cause they are sold out now.
Gave a good listen to this pick yesterday also, nice 74 sound, great recording and love the set list. Love the let it rock on this release, too bad the boys did not play this one again, what a great tune and done very well. This was the first seastones, I bet those people in attendance were like, wtf is that, short but sweet and very experimental. The second set is just great, that jam>ship of fools is to die for and I can't remember another time when they went out of Around and Around into Dark Star, very different. Love the Casey Jones encore. Lots of love for the big river and the other cowboy songs on this release. I have not listened to the bonus yet, but I know it will be hot.

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I think the Zap-Man covered this in a song.

And the cocaine decisions that you make today
Will not be discovered till it's over 'n' done
By the customers you hold at bay

BTW Mham-man and shows you've been to.

You asked about remembering see you there. Long Hair...Beard....Jeans.

I saw you there. Would it have hurt to have gotten a hair cut? A beard trim? Did your mother know you went out with holes in those jeans? I bet she would've been proud, huh?

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Watching an old movie last night "Till the End of Time", (Dorothy McGuire, Guy Madison & Robert Mitchum), but in this movie they used the term deadhead. It meant a water logged log that floats with just a little head sticking up. Never noticed that in that movie before.

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my 18 year old self remembers a little joke

A man at a bar noticed a guy at the end of the bar with a head the size of a tennis ball.

"Wha'appen?"

"Well, I was stranded on an island. Weeks went by. One morning a stunningly beautiful mermaid appeared just offshore."

"Hi there, handsome. I can grant you three wishes", she said.

"Really? OK! Number one, I want to be back on the mainland."
"Granted..."
Number two, I want to be in a bar so I can get hammered."
"Granted..."
"Number three...you're so hot...how about a little head?"

BAM, all three wishes were granted.

When I first saw some of the merchandise being offered. . .. I thought "have they lost their minds-body-jam!!!" Next I thought maybe they did their market research and in fact are marketing geniuses. Dead.net are the Next MadMen (TV show, series). I think they would make great "Gag" gifts from one Dead Head to another. The axe really should be limited edition and numbered.

Can you imagine the customs charges on the axe to Europe? Jesus, Mary and Joseph!

I am waiting for a news story from Europe that says a postman/customs official got chopped up after an exorbitant demand for a customs tax for The Working Man's Dead Axe! Well, afterall, it was the two years into the Lockdown when it finally arrived. Quarantine-Crazy-Syndrome. "He was a quiet man" said the newspaper. Neighbors say that if you listen closely. . .. that in the wee, small, hours, of the morning you can hear the man screaming "Lizzie Borden."

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Yesterday I was trying to get my dog walked before the rain came, but per usual, as soon as I got about 15 minutes out on the walk it started to rain, not too heavy, but a nice spring shower. I was wearing a Cats Under the Stars shirt. I'm at Sheffield and Diversey and a guy in a jeep with his window rolled down stopped in the left hand turn lane says something to me.

I can't hear him because my earbuds are in and Bobby's trying to transition to Dancin in the Streets on 6-10-76. So I pull out my earbuds and look at the guy again and he's wearing a tie dye. He says something about me being on a mission. I didn't quite hear him so i just smiled and nodded and he waved. Then 5 seconds later I realize he said "Walking along in the mission in the rain". Whoa. What are the odds that this dude knows Mission in the Rain and quotes it to me while its raining while I'm listening to one of the 4 shows out of 2,500 where they played it?

Cosmic.

Carlo, thanks for the pic tip. Hopefully its working....

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My son just had his online English final for his English class at his Catholic high school. Analyze a poem was the assignment. “Box of Rain” by Hunter/Lesh was the assigned poem.

Very nice! Carry on all and be well! We are everywhere!

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DEADEGAD: 😃

Slow Dog; radio I Ching!
We are everywhere.....avatar looks good!

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Unfortunately, this is the price you have to pay to have the disc delivered. I think that the Royal Mail have become more insistent since we left the EU, they don’t seem to let stuff through like they used to.
Personally, I’d welcome the payment demand since it would mean that the cd was in the UK. Mine is still a long way from my home.

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Ha..

Careful with that axe, Eugene..

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DaP 8 - 11/30/80 - Fox Theatre - Atlanta, GA - Only Matrix - Return of the electric Birdsong - Superb Scarlet-Fire -
DaP 9 - 5/14/74 - Adams Fields House - Missoula, MT - Great WRS & Dark Star>China Doll - Hauntingly beautiful
DaP 10 - 12/12/69 - Thelma - Los Angeles, CA - Long 69 show with an Alligator & Caution...Lots of Pigpen

3 very different versions of the band. If you played these for someone who has never heard the band, they might be surprised to find it is the same band. Me and My Uncle is the only song played on all 3 and only a handful of songs overlap from 8 & 9.

This was almost as easy as picking my 3 favorite (in a row) from the Dicks Picks series, which would be 15, 16, & 17 for the same reasons. 3 very different eras. DP15 (9/3/77) is one of my favorite Dead shows ever. The energy at this show is ridiculous. I'd pick this show over Cornell anyday , or any other Spring 77 show for that matter. YMMV. DP16 (11/8/69) might be the most jammy show they ever played. DP17 (9/25/91) is just a great Bruce/Vince era show. Love that Terrapin>Boston Clam Jam.

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My sense of humor can get even worse and I had to censor an additional thought regarding the Working Man's Axe. I almost posted it. Quarantine is getting to me, almost.

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#13-2/24/74 Winterland.
#14-3/26/72 Academy Of Music.
#15-4/22/78 Nashville.

I had to have #13 so I structured my picks around it. "Whatever's happening in the rest of the world whether it be wars or kidnappings...this is a peaceful Sunday afternoon with the Grateful Dead." One of my favorite releases period. And I get a 72 with a bonus disc to boot.

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… at least you didn't waste it.

Old saw about - "spent most of my money on wine, women & song. The rest I wasted"

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