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    Sweet liberty! We're venturing into the depths of 80s Dead with the complete show from 4/20/84 at the Philadelphia Civic Center and we're placing bets you'll think this one is more than fine. A strong contender for our mega 30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN boxed set, 4/20/84 missed the cut by virtue of its setlist being a wee bit too similar to the years before and after. As DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 35, it's found its time to shine. The first set delivers yin yang harmony between Jerry and Bobby songs, yielding driven and powerful takes on tracks like "Feel Like A Stranger," "Cold Rain And Snow," and "Brown-Eyed Women." The second set begs the question - will we ever stop peaking? - with a monumental "Scarlet>Fire," a ripping "Samson and Delilah," a "Space" that pulls shapes that know no names, and that "Morning Dew" - get.in.to.it! And because this one might have ended just a little too soon, we've packed disc 2 and 3 with knock-your-socks-off bonus material from most of the second set from the previous night, 4/19/84. Grab ahold while you can!

    Limited to 22,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOL.35: PHILADELPHIA CIVIC CENTER, PHILADELPHIA 4/20/84 has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman and is guaranteed to sell out. 

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

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  • #111
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    Small venues

    Patti Smith, Princeton
    Hot Tuna, Starlight in LA, an open floor with about 200 people
    Television, possibly Starlight again, 100 people, man could Verlaine play
    Canned Heat, high school dance
    Henry Kaiser, Cal Tech, 200 people, also can really play

    Do front rows for Dead or Garcia Band count? A number, but never enough....

    Edit/add; Captain Beefheart at a movie theater; best 'band come on stage and start playing to get crowd riled up for entrance of star', all in about 45 seconds. You went from sitting in a theater with low lights waiting to 'where the heck have we been transported to?'

  • #112
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    “And then more stories…

    “And then more stories started coming in from other people who you had BS'd. Overpriced merchandise being sold through dead net. Incomplete orders. People who gave you brand new CDs out of pity for the deadhead with cancer that you turned around and sold.”
    This statement of your is a bag of wind and a total false Lying, slander is what it is. I never had one prosit he anyone on this forum for except One Member! One member do you understand that.its not hard to understand your repeated posts of false allegations you accuse me of and you Even mention other members Have complaints about me.your wrong about me, show me all these dishonest remarks you accuse me of! Except that pne member who was telling me I had to give him a free gift for purchasing an item and when I said “no!” He and this member alone made up stories about my humanity which are completely false!
    Please show me all these accusations in a post. Tell me, show me and prove your accusations and All these members you say had problems with me! Show me your prof! Just one! Besides the One member started all this slander and outrageous lies and now like some kind of conspiracy which involves my medical disabilities using my disabilities to get free products or petty sorry dude but that’s just not it! Everything else is just a made up march of this ridiculous actions! Your actions are false and full of Lies ! Pure lies.
    Not one piece of evidence shows otherwise. That pm you posted about wanting to get free CDs from you and I demand such actions so I would tell what was the next future releases concerning the Grateful Dead. It’s completely just downright awful to accuse me of such actions. The picture you posted is incomplete and missed used to add more false accusations & slander! Just a bag of wind ! I’m finished talking to you too, peace be with you!

  • #113
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    Robert Hunter in some small room in Seattle...

    man...that was...when?

    also, there used to be a place in the Ballard neighborhood in Seattle called the Backstage: Phish in 1991; Allen Ginsberg, Ray Manzarek, Michael McClure in...?

  • #114
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    Back with small venues...big shows

    Alvarhanso... I have seen25-30 shows at Ziggy's from 1994-1997. Again another legendary small club. I did some post-graduate work in Winston-Salem. I wrote a few days back about my friends in Brother Cane, I think they played either 2 or 3 times while I was there.. Of course, I wrote about seeing them in Charlotte, at the amphitheater, the other day. The date of the Brother Cane Van Halen show was September 1, 1995. Other bands I saw there included Dave Matthews, and Edwin McCain. Some of you might remember that I got sick unto death a fews years back where I was in a coma for a while. Unfortunately, my memory since then struggles some, so I can't remember all I saw there. Of course, most were local or regional acts.

    Any way, I wrote the other day about seeing Steve Morse and Kenny Neal at a small dive in my hometown. The place was called The Tip Top Cafe. After I wrote about it I did some research about and found an article on it. I have been hesitant to post because of various reasons. I have decided to post the article. This was a true dive bar dump, or should I say my favorite dump. Ooops. In the article it states that the building was sold in 2013 for $15,000. As part of my memory problems, I had forgotten I went to the auction on the last day the doors were open and my bid was $8,000. I had thought about bringing shows back as another friend is a decent sized concert promoter around here. Again hate to do it, but will write about him some other time. The building had lost it's certificate of occupancy, one step before condemnation. I know the gentleman that bought it and he has cleaned it up, external paint, etc. but it remains w/out a certificate of occupancy still. He said to expensive to open as one of the load bearing external walls is leaning in. Any way, between 1986 and 1994 I spent probably between 150 and 200 nights there and saw a lot of fun bands. Many nights I did not go in, just hung out in the small shakedown across the road (barely a road.)

    Real quick, some back history. Starting in the early 70's my dad would take my brother and I to eat lunch there every 6-8 weeks. Just good ole greasy bbq. As stated in the article, the place did not become a dive until 1986.

    If any one needs a 15 minute read to kill some time, here is the article on this previous dive.

    https://www.al.com/entertainment/2016/07/tip_top_cafe_the_saga_of_legen…

    G

  • #115
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    My favorite Anniversary

    Well, I get to have a total Green Day and enjoy the 31 anniversary of my last show. I have planned for several years to write about Hampton 89, and meant to do it last year on the 30th anniversay. The problem is there is so much to write, I need to write it in a text editor before posting on here. I will get to it.

    I also need to write about what I have called my last push. A push of course meaning a lot of travel to see shows. Know most have been down that road. I wrote about my previous push going to the 88 Greek shows on their 30th anniversary. And how I did it by flying east coast and back while only missing one day at work, the Friday of the first show. I was back at work on Monday morning. I wrote about a cab driver that drove me from San Fran to the airport and that he was from close to where I lived. He really encouraged me to not get on the plane and stay in the bay area, permanently. Over the last two years I have really allowed that to sink in deep. It has been troubling to realize how my life would have been so much different if I had stayed. But also, that you can't ever look back but push onward. If I had stayed, I would have missed some other incredible moments (like probably Hampton 89). I will write about this third and final push soon, without waiting for its anniversary.

    But today and tonight is about cranking Hampton 89. It is amazing how good it sounds blasting from my Big Boy Stereo. I have written before, it shakes my hardwoods. Can't wait.

    Thing is for today I have some other things to wrap up. More later...

  • #116
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    Remembering Lennon's 80th birthday today....

    https://youtu.be/nci7OoEq4Vg
    ....Jerry & Merle covering Imagine. Grate stuff.
    Also, Blue Oyster Cult is releasing their first record in 19 years today. The Symbol Remains. Love the cover.
    Spoiler alert. It's really good. I give it 8 umlauts out of 10.

  • #117
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    LMG I think it's your latest BS story to Butch

    Guy asked for a simple explanation to a simple statement you made. Your statement of course was related to this imposter identity you've created for yourself in which you are an inside Grateful Dead associate. I offered you the Fillmore West box set and spent many hours trying to convert it from FLAC which I didn't really have the time to do but I felt sorry for you because you said you were blind with cancer. It was you who began offering advanced information on what the box set would be that year, well after I offered you the CDs. You eventually PM'd me, and I quote

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    07/07/2019 - 11:36
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    Lovemygirl

    What happened to my CDs???
    You forgot about that or you just wanted info?!!!

    Subject Where’s my CDs ???

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    My partial answer to in the PM

    07/09/2019 - 17:36
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    Mind-Left-Body

    You were not answering my posts. I do not know your address. The dead net PM Inbox only holds 10 messages and you gave me your address a long time ago. You think I spent time trying to get those CDs burned for info LMAO. You told me you would let me know what the box set was several weeks ago at this point. You said it would only be a couple more days. That time has long since passed, so that makes you a liar in my book.
    ********************************

    And you kept it up over time. "Just a few more days. Next week I will be able to reveal." I think now you were just making it all up in an effort to get me to keep up my attempts at converting from FLAC. I even posted to the board here to see if anyone knew how to do it. And then more stories started coming in from other people who you had BS'd. Overpriced merchandise being sold through dead net. Incomplete orders. People who gave you brand new CDs out of pity for the deadhead with cancer that you turned around and sold.

    Everyone is tired of being conned by you. I think it was Butch used a word I never heard before. Gas lighting. I looked it up and man that is what you do. Even now in your response to Caseyjanes you have attempted to turn the tables and make it sound like it was all in his imagination.

    And what a joke that you scolded Butch for quoting a much less obscure quote with the word p**** in it (Eddie Murphy Trading Places) because your daughter reads these pages and found it offensive. At least that was a comedy skit. But it's okay for her to read you "jokingly" threaten to bring a guy out back and beat the s*** out of him. You're so full of it it's coming out of your ears. 🙏✌❤😇🙏

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    1/3/69 vinyl and 1970

    That's the one for me, too. My favourite show of that incredible run. Hopefully it will be released next year.

    I have been listening to some old shows I recorded online from sources like Dead Show of the Month, Shakedown Stream etc. I could only record them in 79 minute "chunks"- with no separation between tracks. So if I stopped listening to a cd half way through, I had to go back to the beginning again. Not very satisfactory, but I used to drive long journeys up to about 7 years ago, and they fit the bill then.
    The reason I am telling you this fascinating story is that there seem to be a few 1970 shows in there-I have played 6/6/70, 10/31/70, 5/24/70 and 9/19/70 in the last day or so - all really powerful shows. They all sound pretty good, too-maybe not A1, but they would make great official releases, to my way of thinking, despite this. Sometimes a song might end abruptly, and they might not be complete shows-details of no, or little, import for shows of this vintage.

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    Can’t recall them mentioned here before. What a great band. I was a huge fan of From Good Homes before RE formed.

    RE played a local club, must have been 20 years ago. They were fairly new band at that time. I somehow got the starting time wrong. So I show up and nobody was there except the band. I grabbed a beer and went into the back room where they were setting up and asked if I could hang out. No problem. Had two or three beers watching the soundcheck by myself before folks began to filter in. Tremendous show.

    Other small club highlights - a few hundred or less. Hootie and the Blowfish, Blue Rodeo, and the Freddy Jones Band.

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    Is 10/24. Was just wondering when the hell this was coming out, since it was announced way back before the universe imploded, and a use of the google machine yielded the result of it coming out in 2 weeks. And one is already on the ebays for 299.99, since you probably want to buy an unreleased product for 2.5x the list price. Now that that's settled, when is 3/1/69 being released on vinyl? That's my favorite of that magical run for that Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven intro into an utterly devastating That's It For the Other One opener. That must be what Latvala was talking about when he described cowering in the bathroom while Phil Lesh assaulted his acid-soaked ears.

    For small venue big performance wins, Railroad Earth on their first visit to NC at the Pour House in Raleigh with about 10 other people (capacity a few hundred), all of whom were quite impressed by that magnificent band; at the much missed Ziggy's in Winston-Salem I saw all number of bands with it packed to the gills for Dark Star Orchestra (1/14/78) to a few dozen people for bands like Rob Barraco's Dragonflys with a certain Jimmy Herring on guitar, and me and other Jimmy freaks standing right in front of him slack-jawed all night. Particularly noteworthy that night was Jimmy destroying Kid Charlemagne, after which I dryly complimented him with "That was pretty good." Causing him to bust out laughing. He knew he slayed it. Others seen at Ziggy's: Del McCoury Band, John Scofield a few times, once each with Derek Trucks Band and Susan Tedeschi Band opening, plus an evening of Derek's band and Susan's band when they had just started dating, I believe; he came up to sit in with her on My Man, and I got their autographs on the setlist, the Disco Biscuits 4x, the first they did the entire Hot Air Balloon rock opera as a 2 and a half hour second set, Sam Bush Band, Sex Mob (killer jazz band led by Steve Bernstein), Medeski, Martin, & Wood, and many others. But my dad saw The Ramones there. Which is about as cool as it gets.

    One more incredibly intimate show was a super jam of Leftover Salmon boys Drew Emmitt, Mark Vann RIP), Magraw Gap guys Danny Knicely, Larry Keel, and Will Lee with David Via and others picking right next to my tent in the festival workers area at Smilefest in 2001. I came back from a campfire pick with Vince Herman, who was driving a golf cart madly and blindly through the woods at 4am, occasionally turning on the headlights, frightening even more people when he did so. We careened back through the woods to find those guys sitting by my tent killing it with maybe 25 people still awake checking it out. That was a fantastic cap to an amazing weekend.

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Sweet liberty! We're venturing into the depths of 80s Dead with the complete show from 4/20/84 at the Philadelphia Civic Center and we're placing bets you'll think this one is more than fine. A strong contender for our mega 30 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN boxed set, 4/20/84 missed the cut by virtue of its setlist being a wee bit too similar to the years before and after. As DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 35, it's found its time to shine. The first set delivers yin yang harmony between Jerry and Bobby songs, yielding driven and powerful takes on tracks like "Feel Like A Stranger," "Cold Rain And Snow," and "Brown-Eyed Women." The second set begs the question - will we ever stop peaking? - with a monumental "Scarlet>Fire," a ripping "Samson and Delilah," a "Space" that pulls shapes that know no names, and that "Morning Dew" - get.in.to.it! And because this one might have ended just a little too soon, we've packed disc 2 and 3 with knock-your-socks-off bonus material from most of the second set from the previous night, 4/19/84. Grab ahold while you can!

Limited to 22,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOL.35: PHILADELPHIA CIVIC CENTER, PHILADELPHIA 4/20/84 has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman and is guaranteed to sell out. 

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

Saw him in Paris in 1974, fantastic performer. Some of his musicians had been with him since the 50s, Dave Bartholomew was there on trumpet, it was amazing hearing the New Orleans brass sound in person. He closed his set with When the Saints and proceeded to push the piano across the stage with his stomach. After that he shook hands(including mine) with a few people in the front row
He did do Walking to New Orleans, and if I recall he opened with Hello Josephine

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Submitted by simonrob on Wed, 07/22/2020 - 15:53

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Ahhh. Bobby Charles. A fine, fine songwriter. His 1972 Bearsville album remains essential.

In the end it's an easily copied 3 cd set. Remind me why it goes for 100's of dollars. Oh yeah scarcity and people collect them. Being unable to walk in another's moccasins is a common thing now

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Submitted by JimInMD on Wed, 07/22/2020 - 19:52

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What did they call this in the Lorax, Thneeds? I wonder how many truffula trees it takes to make the fur on one of those pair of Furry Moccasins?

I think not that I truly thneed one.

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Submitted by Mr. Ones on Wed, 07/22/2020 - 20:30

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Was very pleasantly surprised to see this(and bonus disc) in my mailbox this evening. Have just had a chance for one listen through both discs. The sound is excellent, Jerry’s vocals are mostly good, with a couple of exceptions. Bird Song(both versions) is an early highlight. I need a couple of more listens. Look forward to hearing feedback about this one.

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Submitted by That Mike on Thu, 07/23/2020 - 09:02

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Enough with the gimmicks and shoes and these astrology (!!) shirts that absolutely blow - just focus on getting the music right, and out there, and do a scorched earth to the Dead.net shipping and customer service departments, because having folks wait months for delivery (see Europe) is not cool, and ignoring inquiries is just pissing off your customer base. This is not Covid related, either, this nonsense has dragged on for close to two years.

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Submitted by JeffSmith on Thu, 07/23/2020 - 11:48

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If you try to check out the bandana Vguy mentioned, you'll land on a page that Queue-it has commandeered that says, "The store is temporarily closed for a private event. We will be back online shortly..." Guess they're auctioning off the fuzzy shoes. 🤪 Onward?

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Submitted by That Mike on Thu, 07/23/2020 - 15:05

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David Crosby discussing the Dead in an interview (Rolling Stone, Ben Fong-Torres):

“Something happens when the Dead get it on that don’t happen when Percy Faith gets it on”

At 64 years of age,* I don't care for these Nike shoes and most of the merchandise doesn't appeal to me anymore. A couple of collared polo shirts would be nice. Yet I really do see a need for all this merchandise.
However, ALL the archive musical releases do interest me deeply, especially the full shows.
Keep the music as the main focus.

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Submitted by Born Cross Eye… on Thu, 07/23/2020 - 16:49

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Is a WINNER!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
I have this show which is still on cassette and although the tape is several generations down the line the performance is great. I was unable to make the show due to unforeseen circumstances, but I still have the ticket.
This DaP 35 will be an upgrade to perfect duplications of the original cassette.
Again, I THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

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Submitted by seabird17 on Thu, 07/23/2020 - 20:37

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Bought the new Garcia Live 14 plus bonus CD. They forgot to send me the Bonus CD and tell me it's out of stock. I'm ticked off by their screw up. Would anyone provide me a download link. thx

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Submitted by seabird17 on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 02:55

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I Bought Garcia Live 14 from Garcia web site.
Pretty sure Amazon did not offer the bonus CD

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Submitted by seabird17 on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 02:55

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I Bought Garcia Live 14 from Garcia web site.
Pretty sure Amazon did not offer the bonus CD

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Submitted by KRIYAS on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 03:14

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ordered from the Garcia site, received Tuesday with bonus. The release said early orders for a limited time while supplies last, so who knows where, what the cut off could've been?? Good stuff though. The bonus disc is a must when i saw it had a 'Gomorrah' knew had to order from Garcia site. I have the Pure Jerry single disc from this era also.

From email:

The GarciaLive series is set to return with our first dip into the acoustic realm! GarciaLive Volume 14: January 27th, 1986 The Ritz spotlights an exultant Jerry Garcia & John Kahn acoustic duo performance in the heart of New York City. The newest installment in the series will be released on July 24th as a single CD, digital download, and available via streaming services. A 2-LP version pressed to 180g vinyl in a limited edition of 5,000 will also be made available on August 14th. The collection includes a liner note essay by bluegrass virtuoso Billy Strings. While supplies last, fans purchasing GarciaLive Vol. 14 on CD via Garcia Family Provisions or their local, independent record shop will also receive a bonus CD featuring Garcia & Kahn’s complete January 28th, 1986 performance at The Ritz.

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Submitted by JeffSmith on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 07:08

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Check your PMs.

Well Jim unless you popped a 100 bucks for DP26 you can only guess how I feel :-)

Was on the fence until I got to the part about "limited"! SAY NO MORE!

Glad I didn't get the axe.

The shoes - I don't wear sneakers, I probably have only owned 4-5 pairs in my life, wore the same pair thru 4 years of high school. I sent my name in (for the opportunity to be offered a chance to buy) a pair, not for wearing, but for resale. I know these POS's will be worth a chunk of money to some asshole stupid enough to spend 2G for a pair of sneaks. Only question do you sell right away or sit on them for a few years?

The only thing I hadn't thought about (and yes I knew) was the slave labor that went into making them. On the plus side, the Nike factory said that if they increase production by .01% they will provide the employees with NEW anti-suicide netting! Apparently the old nets have baked in the sun long enough to reduce the strength and spring of the net. So a few got through the nets last week.

Love Chinese workers, buy Nike so the workers can get their nets!

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Submitted by billy the kid on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 08:38

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33 years ago today I was watching Dylan play with the Dead. The Dead played a great show, throw in Dylan, ,and Garcia playing pedal steel, and it was a blast!

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Submitted by Charlie3 on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 09:38

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Dennis, that is some dark humor. Spot on and dark.

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Submitted by stoltzfus on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 10:21

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I went to Golden Gardens on Puget Sound two days ago, and had the hankerin' for Aoxomoxia.

That was a lot of fun. Some mindblowing synchronicity.

There was a guy wading at low tide with a fishing pole. "Take my line and go fishing for a Tuesday." It was Wednesday, but how many times do you see such a thing?

Other stuff, too. Aoxomoxoa is a greaaaat album.

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Submitted by wilfredtjones on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 10:24

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Check your shipping notice, if it includes the bonus disc it will be noted there. I hope yours reads like mine...

For example mine says:

Your order is on its way! The following items have shipped and will be delivered to you soon.

Item Name Sku Qty
GarciaLive Volume 14: 01/27/86 CD JYCD76 1
GarciaLive Volume 14 Organic Cotton T-Shirt Medium JYCT164SMYW 1
GarciaLive Volume 14 Bonus CD JYCD77 1

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Submitted by wilfredtjones on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 10:26

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I was doing some painting the other day and heard a Masterpiece and a Franklin's Tower (while I was rolling out paint) Roll Away! :-)

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Submitted by drpryan on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 10:46

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Glad I could help.
When I saw Dick's 26 and also limited, I said Damn gotta have it. Then I thought why should I be the only one to suffer financially. Let me find some other vinyl addicts and spread the word. Also and more importantly, April '69 is one hot month for the band with the Ark and numerous 20+ minute Dark Stars. The month of the Dark Stars, ( I counted an even 13 with the short jam on the 26th)
So, again. glad I could help

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Submitted by Dennis on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 12:31

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WTJ, I laugh about your painting experience. Lord knows everyone here has had them. Probably not uncommon because the Dead have a song for everything. Am I right? :-)

Doc Pry, Dick 26, you have to wonder when the cut in Dark Star will occur AND will the next album pickup on the next note. I prefer next note, versus 5 second repeat of last 5 seconds. Moot in the end, no turntable. :-)

Quick note, my kid got a Seth Sentry box set of lps. Nicely done and nice art work. Neat thing, they left a place holder in the box for when their next album comes out! (oh, and no, kid doesn't have a turntable either)

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Submitted by rusty string on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 13:10

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I almost couldn't believe it! There it sat on my porch here in Germany this afternoon, "June 1976" (3/27 order; 4/8 shipping notice; 6/24 contacted customer service; 7/24 delivery). No extra costs, tax or anything (Dave's 34 was 11,50 €). Listening to disc 8 first, for whatever reason. It's the last day of school here in Germany, summer holidays ahead, warm summer night, sitting outside. Oh, that "High Time". Not my favourite song but this version is beautiful, no doubt about that. I'd really like to thank all the people here who express their compassion with European heads now and then and write a few words of encouragement. I know it might get a bit tedious to read all our posts about items not yet delivered. And of course, there seem to be extra problems with distribution and dispatch at the moment due to Covid-19 (my local independent record shop has not yet managed to get me GarciaLive 13 and 14, I just don't want to order from Amazon). It's just that when you get a release here, the discussion has moved further and further away from it and sometimes you just feel like checking out things that people post here about a certain release. And now it's on to "Crazy Fingers" - that definitely is one if my favourite songs. For one week, I won't be waiting for anything. And then it'll be a 84 show, great choice, arriving probably mid-September.

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Submitted by musicnow on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 14:05

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Great to here Rusty String getting his box. Hope more of the European heads receive their soon too!
For me that Shrine '67 from 30 TATS Alligator > Caution is HUGE and hit the spot today.
Happy weekend all and be safe!

As a native of the great city of philadelphia, i love that yet another dead show from my hometown is an official release. Here is the list (at least off the top of my head). 

Dicks picks 36 - September 72
Daves picks 32 - March 73
Dicks picks 31 (at least partially) Aug 74
Road Trips Download 11/5-11/6 1979
Road Trips April 82
Dave's picks 35 - April 84
Crimson, White & Indigo - July 89

Now just release the Oct 89 shows!

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Submitted by Charlie3 on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 15:03

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You are in for a treat Rusty String, that June '76 box is spectacular and should pair well with a summer holiday. After getting that box it was just about the only dead that I listened to for month because I just kept wanting to give one of those shows another listen. The 6/14/76 show still stands out as my favorite of the run, but there wasn't a weak show in the bunch. Definitely dug hearing the High Times and Crazy Fingers, and I found all of the Help-Slip-Franklin's to be great each time they played that sequence in that June '76 run of shows.

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Submitted by RobbZ on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 16:08

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...and fell ass-backwards into 10/23/89 Charlotte. Just an outstanding, and quite rare I believe, "California Earthquake" opener. If you've never experienced a "California Earthquake" before, here you go.....

https://archive.org/details/gd89-10-23.sbd.jeffm.2223.sbeok.shnf

Psst...and a pretty sweet Crazy Fingers>Terrapin as well.......

09/29/89 Shoreline. A late era classic, Garcia playing a modified Wolf, the first Death Don't Have No Mercy in 19 years. It's playing right now.. hope at least one person tunes in and checks out.

Oh, it's National Tequila day, pairs well with 1989 Grateful Dead.

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Submitted by RobbZ on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 18:32

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09/29/89 Shoreline!!!!....thanks for the reminder, I was at that show!....tuned in (or should I say found my seat) at Wang Dang Doodle...Brent killin it! Now, just need to dig out my bottle of Don Julio.

Note: currently 9,260 heads tuned in....nice turn out.

I'm jealous.. I have searched high and low.. and I am quite confident this is the best late era Death Don't played. A great show.. awesome to hear you were there.

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Submitted by Charlie3 on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 22:46

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Just saw news that William Leonard Pickard is being granted compassionate release from Federal Prison. Looks like the court granting the compassionate release order specifically referenced the impact of the First Step Act, passed by the 115th Congress and signed by President Trump in 2018, citing it as support for granting the compassionate release. I can't help but think that it is a good thing if Mr. Pickard does not have to die in prison for his involvement with psychedelics.

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Submitted by billy the kid on Sat, 07/25/2020 - 05:47

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I think it would be cool, if Dave and Co. could put out an online list ,so we could see what tapes are available in the vault. I'm sure they have such a list and it wouldn't be that hard to put it online , so that we could see it. I would like to know what tapes they have from 1966 to 1970. I would also like to know if they have the 1980 Warfield shows and what Greek and Frost shows they have. I think that most people on this forum would be very interested in a list from the vault.

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Submitted by JimInMD on Sat, 07/25/2020 - 07:08

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Good news that he is getting released.. is he ill or is this coronavirus related? He's been locked up for more or less 20 years, way too long if you ask me...

Edit: I see.. he has a host of medical conditions:

Pickard’s motion for a reduction of sentence was made in light of his age (74), his deteriorating medical condition (listed as chronic kidney disease, hypertension, anemia, hypothyroidism, cataracts, posterior vitreous detachment, prostatic hyperplasia, vitamin D deficiency and pre-diabetes), the risk he faces from the COVID-19 virus, and the positive role he has played in writing about the fentanyl epidemic.

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Submitted by Charlie3 on Sat, 07/25/2020 - 09:08

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You are correct Jim, Mr. Pickard has a host of medical conditions related to his request. It is unjust and unfortunate that he did 20 years already, and it is unjust and unfortunate that his co-defendant Clyde Apperson is still incarcerated (I believe that he got 30 years, no parole). It is noteworthy in my mind that the Court specifically referenced the First Step Act.

As reported at psymposia.com the court noted that “Pickard’s offenses were serious, but having spent two decades in prison he has been seriously punished. The government correctly points out that Pickard has prior drug convictions, but does not challenge the defendant’s argument (Dkt. 849, at 31-32) that the First Step Act’s change to sentences for drug crimes would substantially changed [sic] the treatment of his prior offenses. The fact that Congress has changed how such offenses are treated now is relevant to the determination whether a defendant faces disparities among similarly-situated defendants under § 3553(a).” Note: § 3553(a) is the US code for Imposition of a Sentence.

If I am not mistaken, the First Step Act is the only federal legislation passed in my lifetime (since '66) that has reduced penalties for drug war violations.

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Submitted by Colin Gould on Sat, 07/25/2020 - 09:33

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I’ve just seen a notice in my online newspaper announcing the death of Peter Green.
A fantastic guitarist in the early blues based Fleetwood Mac.

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Submitted by Forensicdoceleven on Sat, 07/25/2020 - 10:13

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Yo rockers!!!!

Don't really care what's in the vault, as they as they keep releasing good stuff. LOL whether it's 1971 or not. Don't want all our future surprises to be destroyed. Given the amount of "leakage" that's taken place over the last few decades, we have a pretty decent idea of what's in there. And no, the Summer/Fall 1970 Port Chesters aren't in there...........

There have been a few surprises the last few years, but I think they've been mostly "returned tapes"..............

RIP Peter Green, a really fine guitar player............

Rock on!!!!!

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