"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!
Portland vinyl
Frank... also reduced on Amazon. Highly recommended, too. Strange how different it feels listening to shows on vinyl as opposed to cd. I think I break listening down to bite sized chunks with vinyl, and spread it out over a day or so. So I pay more attention. There' a very strong chance I drift off to sleep listening to a cd, which you can't really do listening to a record.
I wish they would reduce Dicks Picks 24-3/23/74- on vinyl a bit. £138.00 !!
Larry David
Extremely funny guy! Oh, and I certainly can't forget W.C. Fields, Laurel & Hardy, Jackie Gleason, and the Three Stooges, all my favorites.
Funny Bones
Jonathan Winters, Shelley Berman, Firesign Theater, Dick Gregory, Rodney Dangerfield, Charlie Hill (Native American), Steve Martin (his “I never smoke pot in the morning” routine),Redd Fox. I hosted a radio comedy show for several years on Gallup Public Radio in New Mexico , the Have a Nice Day Comedy Hour .
Important to see Jackie Gleason mentioned, add Art Carney. Any old Eugene, Oregon heads remember Reverend Chumley? Saw Jerry and Merle at the Lions Share in San Anselmo in early 1974 that had an outrageous comedian piano player open for them, Uncle Vinty.
Keeping it real.
Not Always Funny...
...check out Jackie Gleason's performance in The Hustler, about the least funny movie ever made. Jackie Gleason (Minnesota Fats), Paul Newman (Fast Eddie) and Piper Laurie (Sarah Packard) all turn in virtuoso performances.
Sarah Packard: I'm a college girl. Two days a week - Tuesdays and Thursdays - I go to college.
Fast Eddie: You don't look like a college girl.
Sarah Packard: I'm the emancipated type. Real emancipated.
Fast Eddie: No, I didn't mean that...whatever that means. I mean you just don't look young enough.
Sarah Packard: I'm not.
Fast Eddie: So why go to college?
Sarah Packard: Got nothing else to do on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Fast Eddie: What do you do on the other days?
Sarah Packard: I drink.
Next Dave's pick
Dave, please put out 10/9/82 Frost or12/28/83 S.F. Civic, both killer shows. Maybe a West Coast box , best of the Frost ,Greek, and Ventura shows, that would be rockin!
Jonathan Winters / Twilight Zone
Some serious acting. I have all his records. Robin Williams adored Jonathan Winters. I read somewhere Jerry Garcia loved Bob and Ray. Great comedy makes a person laugh but also think. If I wasn’t laughing I’d be crying. Like the tattoo I saw on someone that showed the two drama masks , one happy, one sad, and written under the masks , “laugh now, cry later”. Dick Gregory was a man among men, brave, pointed and hilarious. A powerhouse that cleared the way for other black comedians. Was a genius way ahead of his time. We owe so much to some of these people in the spirit of Free Speech.
BTK/12/28/83
Just watched some of that on YouTube after shakedown stream Friday. Holy shit, if I didn’t know better lol, I’d swear Bobs tweaked outta his gourd! He’s jumping around and moving like jagger with ants down his pants! Didn’t see the whole thing but what I did they were smoking...Jer maybe didn’t look his best, but fuck looks, he seas still rocking!
EDIT: don’t know 10/9 but had a good tape of 10/10 that I always though was killer.
DBL EDIT: speaking of goofy Bob, has no one but me not noticed the Barrettes from the awesome 7/2/89 video? Still can’t believe no ones commented?
Bobs Barrettes....
....someone did. I would've, but I forgot how to spell barrettes.
Funny how comedians came up today on this board.
I spent last night binging on Dangerfield and Carlin. Laughter, and music, is the best medicine. Fish oil is good too.
Marx Bros > Laurel & Hardy > Three Stooges. My take.
The protests have been peaceful the past few days and the voices are being heard around this shiny ball of blue that we call our own.
We are witnessing history. One can ignore it, but one can't deny it.
*RE/ Listen’n Too 90...
...started my day with putting on 3/29/90 from the ‘Spring 90’TOO ‘ Boxset ... just so beautiful a mixing job by Norman for this Boxset. The plus side this was recorded on Multi track for our listening pleasure and was the source used for this release. The first ‘Spring’ 90 Boxset was sourced from the two track recordings, still beautifully sounding , the second box just blows the first box away audio/mix/mastering quality. Each performance is captured in all it’s glory from the bands amps to your CD Player & tuner! To k on everyone, be safe be kind & remember to
“Smile Smile Smile” & listen to the music play💀🌹
Very good point about the Spring 1990 Box vs. Spring 1990(TOO)
Spring 1990(TOO) sounds SO MUCH BETTER than the recordings for the Spring 1990 Box Set. It's such a shame, I know I had noticed that the Spring 1990 recordings were sourced form 2-track soundboard, actually I think they were pulled for the box set from their mobile recording truck straight feed??? BOTTOM Line - the Spring 1990(TOO) box set is night & day better sounding recording, actually done properly from the multi-track sources...which is exactly what should have been done on the original Spring 1990 box set. IMHO the first Spring 1990 Box set has a few better shows than Spring 1990(TOO)- all in all both have great shows. Spring tour 1990 was certainly the pinnacle for the band, they just need to rerelease the original Spring 1990 box set in corrected multi-track format exactly like Spring 1990(TOO) was released. So two questions for now:
1) It has been rumored that DL did that '76 box early because there will be a Summer or Fall Box set this year also- guess on this? I feel like someone mentioned Summer 1990 Box Set at one point on the comments?
2) More to the immediate point - what wil DaP #35 be??? I think 7/13/84 will finally see a release....
Multi Track Recordings
Summer 89 through Spring 1990 were all recorded on multi track for the Without a Net release. The first Spring 1990 box used Cutler's live mix and then Norman mastered it. I believe Dave has commented on this several times, probably mentioned it when the Giants box was released last year.
The second 1990 box used Cutler's recording, but it was mixed by Norman and mastered by Glasser.
Think of all the other 89 shows that have been released and they are all Multi Track.
Some unmentioned comedians of yore
At least as far I saw saw... Bob Newhart, Don Rickles (they were best friends), Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner (also best buds), Sid Caesar, Milton Berle, Woody Allen, and the unbelievably funny Phil Silvers. Luckily, four of these guys are still with us. And speaking of guys, Elaine May, Mike Nichols's partner was just as funny a writer and performer as any of them.
Also 11/17/71 DaP26 is a phenomenal sounding release. That Cryptical> Not Fade Away is just astounding.
I Love Lucy
Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Lily Tomlin . . .
I think a lot about Tomlin's classic line, "I always wanted to be somebody . . . but I see now that I should have been more specific."
I spent a lot of time with cassettes of Emo, Steven Wright, and Bob and Doug McKenzie . . .
Billy The Kid
West Coast box you say?..."best of the Frost, Greek, and Ventura shows"....I like it!
"Life Goes On..."
Heard this Kinks tune today, and it just seemed to fit current events like a glove. I always liked how Ray Davies just seemed to have a way with the casual articulation of his cynical lyrics...on a side note, the tune references "grateful" and "dead" probably way more than any song should.....enjoy.
Carlin
My wife and I got to see Carlin live in Vegas a couple years before he died. Flamingo maybe? Can’t remember for sure but he was awesome...a true genius of words & laughter!
Sitting here in Clearwater Beach, wearing my Hulkamania T-Shirt, eating my veggies, saying my prayers, and listening to the GOGD!!!
Rock on dead people!
KCJ
Emo, McKenzie Brothers, Andy Griffith
Emo asks his audience “ you know the kind of people I can’t stand ?” several people yell out “who?” Emo “how were you to know , people who impersonate owls”
McKenzie Brothers were hilarious , Beer Hunter , take off hoser , for the great white north.
Andy Griffith was a comic genius , it’s what landed him his TV show Mayberry RFD. His old routine “What it was, it was football” is a hoot.
Thank you for mentioning Lily Tomlin. That I failed to mention women comedians es muy falta de mio.
I read the George Carlin autobiography a few years ago. Brilliant. He spoke of his having once been conservative and how in the early 60s a fellow radio station employee said to him one day after work “George, let’s go have a couple beers, we need to talk.” He changed his heart.
Wavy Gravy was an understudy for Lenny Bruce. By the way the old “Hog Farm and Friends “ book wavy wrote is one of the funniest books ever written. He talks about how BB King gave him his nickname Wavy Gravy at the Texas Pop Festival a few weeks after Woodstock.
Nobody for President / Hugh Romney for Vice President. (Inside joke)
Funny, but not a comic
William Shatner's autobiography's were very funny.
I hear tell Lenny Bruce thinks Mrs Maisel is funny.
Years ago on politically incorrect, Bill had Jon Lovitz on and a playboy model. She was prattling on and throws out the old line about "humor" being the most important thing to a girl. Lovitz looks at her all serious, pointing to himself, "I've been told I'm funny". She didn't seem to get the humor!
It must be gone this time ...
Anyone else in Europe waiting for the DP34? Mine left Brussels on May 23 on the way to Sweden and since then ... nothing. It's not waiting for me at the Swedish Customs Service and it's not in the system of the Swedish Postnord. Soon to be three weeks on its way from Belgium. I have a bad feeling about this one. Hope I'm wrong.
Micke Östlund,
Växjö, Sweden
Finished Europe '72. Virtual Graduation Ceremony?
Well, my first trip through the E72 box has reached its end. Previously, I had never done more than dabble in a disc from the box here and there, but this year endeavored to begin each show on its anniversary date, complete with region-specific beer in hand. I tried to listen to each note mindfully, and rarely had a disc on simply as background music. I have listened to no other Grateful Dead music since April 7th except E72, and listened mostly to the Academy '72 shows just before leaving for Europe.
Does this mean I've earned a Bachelor's of Europe '72? Supposedly KeithFan has earned his Ph.D. in the tour, so does he hand out the diplomas? Who speaks at the ceremony--Betty?
Like anything that takes a long time, there were great peaks as well as some trudges. For those who are interested in a longer post-tour diary, please PM me. I'll end this note by saying that some of the second-set jams were as interesting as anything I've heard the Dead do. But I would kill to hear a Scarlet-->Fire or Bird Song right now.
Now I might tackle the Corona Box, a.k.a. June '76 on their anniversaries, as I didn't get much time with that box before E72. And then the plan is to make my first run through DaP 34 on June 22nd/23rd, complete with Cigar City Jai-Alai Pale Ale in hand. Again--I didn't want to distract myself from the European tour with shows from other eras. Still need to put on GarciaLive 13, too . . .
DP34 to europe
None of the distributors mange to give a clear answer. The thing is that packages and letters to europe from the US is now being shipped by boats and no one knows how long it will take. The tracking system is all fucked up - we just have to wait, Dead'76 took 2 months. When I track my DP34 on USPS (UPS have some other dates and places on the same package..) we re talking CA>VA>NJ>LA>NY>LA>NY and now it says "departed a metropolitan airport in Oslo" on june 8th - It is probably in a container in a ship somewhere.
DaP 34 to Europe - Deadmike, it's not gone
Hello Micke,
same here. Mine left Frankfurt (FRA Airport) May 26. This is not even an hour's drive away from where I live.
I'd bet it hangs at the customs. Tough weighing up whether to charge custom duties and do a lot of paperwork for 10 to 15 Euros or wave it through. I'm confident it'll show up some day soon. It took 3 weeks to leave L.A., pretty much normal in Corona times. The '76 box made it within 8 weeks, so there's still good hope.
Gerd
Deadheadbrewer, Europe '72
...speaking of diplomas, I could be of help when it comes to the German section.
Just drop by and you'll receive yours with a fine German Kellerbier (or two…).
No speech necessary at the ceremony, ha, ha.
Gerd
*Re/ George carlin RIP
... I’m grateful to say I was his friend.he called me his friend and even gave me a nickname ! nicked named me “ Thumper” because he joked I rolled my joints as thick as my thumb lol ha ha. Every time we would see each other, the first thing George would do was give me a thumbs up with a beautiful grin hiding beneath his beard! I still remember the first time I met him at the Englewood New Jersey Bergen PAC theater where he was performing that night.my family is in the union for the tickets and my aunt actually works at the Theatre part time Since the 70’s in one way or another. I have some family members who are in the music industry as well so ived within this sacred community of artists from the lower east side since my childhood. Any way getting back to George , I was in the back of the theater hanging out with the Union boys & production & so on shooting some words over a couple of some primo home grown blueberry joints I rolled and put in my cigarette pack for the evenings entertainment. George arrived early because he had met with friends earlier in Alpine nj for dinner and didn’t feel like going back into nyc until show time so he was hanging out in the theater walking all over the place. He told all of us that he really loved Ed this theater and played a part in the. Restoration process that the theater went through over the years since it was first opened in Englewood no and was not called the Bergen PAC but an actresses name , Helen Hayesi think or I may be thinking of another actress. Well then he mentions that the smoke smelled amazing, so I introduced my self and gave him one of my. Party favors For himself. He said wow that’s a thumper! I brought along some of my old LPs he released and asked if he would mind signing one of them. I told him to pick the record as well!, lol ha ha he signed everyone to my amazement and addressed each one to “ thumper ! Lmao ha ha . It was a grateful night and a memory I hold very dear to me. Over the years, I met his wife and pets! He loved his pets very very much. He always loved talking about them. And some other family members , very nice family! And George was really a loving man. He loved life even though he made his career making fun of it all, I respected him tremendously he was a true artist! I miss him just as much as I loved my friend. RIP old friend, god bless! 🙏❤️😔
DP34 to Europe
Maybe they should slip a bonus disc in for subscribers from Europe, as a thank you for all the extra time and expense incurred !
Mine arrived last week, and its well worth waiting for, I'll say that much. Right from the second song-Black Throated Wind-Jerry slips into gear, and its feels as though they could take off on a jam that early on. But they don't, and after a few technical difficulties, we are treated to some otherworldly electronic bleeps, as an indication of what is to follow.
A great end to the first set, too. After a superb WRS, the band drift seamlessly into China Doll, and the set ends in pin drop silence-beautiful. Some first sets seem like entities unto themselves, but this one is quite different. It feels like the end of the first part of a play, and you are left with a feeling of anticipation as to what will happen next. Which is, of course, Seastones.
Which reminds me...Seastones-the original album - was reviewed in this months edition of the Brit psychedelic magazine Shindig. Makes me wonder if it has been re-released.
*Re/ Europe 1972 Boxset - 22 complete shows
...it’s strange seeing talk of the 72 Boxset. I had to sell my original Boxset as well as my Music Only Edtion to pay major medical costs. It started about 2 or three years ago. I was grateful for everyone s support back then, it was heaven sent and one of the reasons I’m still alive, so thank you all involved & played an important part in my life. You will always be in my heart of graditude !!!
I found an all music edtion for sale on Monday to my surprise! Brand new , each show sealed and in perfect condition.Still in the same box dead.net used to ship with! No bent corners or spines...Nothen but brand new A+ primo/Mint quality. It loooks like it was made yesterday all 22 individual shows back in my collection. I would of liked the original packaging but I couldn’t say no to this deal! I paid $500 plus Shipping costs.it was sent over nite, 1-Day ShippingI’m grateful to once again have this primo Boxset back in my Grateful Dead collection, it arrived yesterday night about 8pm . I’ve never had a delivery come so late in the day but I welcomed the parcel with Open loving arms! I haven’t listened to this box in order for over 3 or 4 years I can’t really put a date on it but it’s been a long time coming! I’m almost afraid to Open them lol! I will start my listening party after summer comes to an end and the fall weather begins!im Looking forward to this years remaining releases for 2020 to be made available! Until then, have a grateful Day my brothers and sisters, Rock on! 🙏❤️💀🌹
I’ve been listening to dicks picks #28, Another Primo release from the dead’s vault, since I started my day.when the dead started a set with ‘Cold, Rain & Snow , it was pretty certain it was going to be a grateful performance!
Another beautiful day here in Bergen County, NJ , sunshine daydream everyone!
Peace be with you all!
Seastones Lives!
Hey now Daverock, Yup, Seastones was re-released in 2018 as a 2CD set or as a download: http://spiritcats.com/seastones.html . Glad your Dave's 34 finally docked with the first live performance of Seastones (an admittedly acquired taste, but tasty nonetheless). Onward.
*RE/ Davidrock & ‘Seastones release...
...I think I read they are being issued for apart on RSD , I might be wrong if it’s this year or if it was last year, parts 4 parts5 seastones record Boxset I’ll have to take another look at the RSD List. Take care David 🙏😎
Check-in & Toss
Hey Folks
Just checking in, it's been a bit but I've been lurking. Been on a few interviews, and hoping for a bite following a perceived home-run yesterday; time will tell. I've got three more lined up over the coming days. For those who may be in the same situation, keep your head up - things will come around, with some effort and luck.
Also just tossing this one out there for today, which is indeed also my actual birth date show. This explains why I am such a deadhead freak along with you All:
https://archive.org/details/gd1973-06-10.sbd.miller.89640.sbeok.flac16
Be Well people, and Happy Day.
Sixtus
P.S. Speaking of tossin', I see several rounds of disc golf in my immediate future...where are the local Heads???
Happy Birthday, Sixtus! Hang in there!
Cool story, LMG. Glad you got E72 back. Thanks to a friend's "advance" notice I was able to score one of the original steamer trunks. (he had seen a news article somewhere and alerted me) I didn't receive my official E72 e-mail from Dead.net until the day AFTER the trunks sold out, but had already ordered one.
Gerd, if I'm ever in Europe, I'll look you up. Would love to have a bier with you.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag, Sixtus
Best Wishes, stay healthy!
(On June 10, 1972 I attended a Emerson, Lake And Palmer show in Frankfurt).
Long, long time ago.
Gerd
George Carlin
funny funny funny guy
my wife and I had the good fortune to be in the front row at a show of his at a theater here in Seattle, back...sometime. Not hyperbole, front row. We laughed.
Also, in the 80s, we were on a flight when they had "channels" of entertainment you could listen to. we listened to GC with earphones and laughed a lot. the guy sharing our row must have thought we were crazy.
Seastones
Frank-that's the one that Shindig reviewed. Credited solely to Ned Lagin, I notice.
I got the original on Round Records at a record fair in the 1980s, but it's in such poor condition that its impossible to see who it is credited to on the spine of the cover. At the centre of the album it states Ned Lagin and Phil Lesh, though.
Very tempting, as a treat, on RSD. Not the best album to come out of the Dead stable, but arguably the strangest, and for that alone it warrants investigation.
You say it's your birthday?
Well, it's my wife's birthday (and Uncle's) birthday, too yeah! Happy Birthday to you! :-) Birth-day (singing here) :-)
Hooray for Seastones!!!
gotta listen to that again reeeeeally soon.
right now it's Orgasmatron (Motorhead).
"Hey! Hey! Riding with the driver!" (who is the driver? Cowboy Neal, of course.)
George Carlin
Great story. George Carlin was backstage before a performance one time in an undisclosed city (protect the guilty and the innocent) when the promoter was chopping up some cocaine and making lines. The promoter says “hey George wanna do a little coke?”. To which George replies, “not that little”.
This in no way is an endorsement of cocaine or other black market white powders. The cause of endless suffering.
Finally... ...DaP34
After paying the custom's charge online at the weekend, DaP34 was awaiting my arrival home from work today. Playing the bonus disc as I type: opening track, a lovely PITB. Reminds me of what John Peel said about The Fall - another favourite here in South Lowestoft, where Hex Enduction Hour was played last night (my wife is not a fan apparently) - in that it's always different, but always the same... . I hadn't realised Seastones had been re-issued. I've got a pretty pristine copy of the original LP stored somewhere, still in a partial shrinkwrap if I remember rightly. Bought it from a dealer in nearby Norwich with about a hundred other things, when I was younger and single, and had some disposable income, including the Keith & Donna LP, and many other great US issue originals from the late 60s to mid 70s. If I remember rightly, he'd bought them off a collector who also worked for some record company. As I said, it's not to hand, but my records suggest it was credited to both Lagan & Lesh.
Deadhead Brewer
I'm a few pages back on the posts, but just read yours on your Europe 72 listening journey. You definitely earned your Bachelors lol. I'm proud of you man. When I made my metamorphosis from the casual Dead fan who only listened to the official multitrack releases to full-on DeadHead, it was probably a solid year of nothing but multitrack releases, which was mostly Europe 72, Veneta, and all the rest that you can buy in a record store that's not a Dick's Picks. That left me with a lot of 1972 time.
But there is almost at least one multitrack from every year in the 60s and 70s, so I was reasonably well exposed to all eras in those years. I believe 1970, 1973, and 1977 are the exceptions if you don't count 1975. Eventually I discovered the Winterland box sets from '73 and '77, under the impression they were multi-tracks when I purchased them, but eventually determined they were just great sounding two-tracks (I have to fiddle with the EQ on the 1973 set a little bit but it's all good). But anyway, the point is I was such an audiophile at that point that my boundaries were limited and E72 took up most of that space. I remember Dave's Picks 13 came out (Winterland 2/24/74) and I couldn't stand what I considered at the time to be subpar audio quality (it's one of my top three now). Somebody here commented that there's no sense having a PhD in Europe 72 and glossing over an entire year like 1974 (although I did have the Movie Soundtrack, which I listened to a lot - multi-track :D)
I would love to read any notes you took on Europe 72. There's always another moment to discover in all things Grateful Dead.
P.S. - tired of waiting for the official 6/10/73 release. This was one that I listen to very sparingly so that the full Norman would be really special, but I'm not even sure it's going to happen in my lifetime.
Our European bros are finally getting the goods....
....sit back. Relax. Or. Get up and dance your socks off!
Sunshine Daydream!!
Here's a thought. Pump some Workingmans/American Beauty into the streets. Couldn't hurt. Might wake up some people. Civilians and Police alike.
I've been reflecting a lot lately.
"Good morning Mr. Benson, I see you're doing well
If I had me a shotgun, I'd blow you straight to Hell"
Who is Mr. Benson? My wife just asked me that.
Keithfan...
The only way to get 6 10 73 released is not to subscribe to Daves. Boom! It will then be released immediately, and will then sell out in 13 minutes.
I really want that one released, as well as 11 19 72.
Those two shows really melt my cheese....oh, yeah....so good...mmm...