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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. 

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  • Morning Sun
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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?'

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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!

  • proudfoot
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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...?

  • Gary Farseer
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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…

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  • Gary Farseer
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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...

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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.

  • Mind-Left-Body
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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.
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    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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    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.

  • Angry Jack Straw
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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.

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I haven’t listened to enough fall 72 to make a request, so I’ll trust HF.
Of course, if we got a fall 72 Box this fall we wouldn’t need a 72 for DaP36.

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Young and fast.

Love Barry Trotz as a coach. Nice to see him sticking it to the Caps. Ove got his Cup, so I am O.K. with him getting bounced. My Canadaland teams are looking shaky.

We all have our favorites, but it’s funny how most folks relegate the same four releases to the bottom. DaP 35 got shelved instantly.

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Something not done before...tie in DaP36 with a 3 show Mini-Box. I'm looking at you Texas 11/19, 22, 24, 26/72. Even the folks who get 1 show win.

Last 5:

1. GD - DaP23 1/22/78 Eugene, Or. No #35 yet.

2. Dillard & Clark - The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark

3. Son Volt - American Central Dust

4. Lindisfarne - Fog On The Tyne

5. The Byrds - Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

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Puck your face
Get pucked
Steal your face-off (a shirt, methinks)
Hell in a puck-et
Steal your puck
Skaight-Icebury

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Its not bad, in fact parts of it are excellent. As others have rightly said Jerry is vocally challenged and is just plain sad on some tracks. That said, Bob's vocal contributions are certainly not amongst his best either. In the vocal department that only leaves Brent and thankfully I only heard him for five or ten seconds singing harmony on one track. Another plus point is that there are no Brent-penned songs. The sound quality is not bad, but seems either frequency limited by the recording medium (cassette tape) or the mix is not well balanced. Only on "drums" can I hear cymbals, Phil is well down in the mix, as is Bob frequently. That leaves vocals, Jerry's guitar, the drums and Brent's keyboards. That is fine if you're not really paying attention but it is hard trying to listen to it seriously, to take in the nuances and details, because they are mostly missing. All in all an enjoyable listen but it doesn't stand up to comparison with many (most?) other shows.

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my Daves arrived yesterday! No not 35,but 34!

(Owning up- this is a replacement for the one which never arrived having been reurned to sender by the Swedish postoffice who had previously assured me on multiple occasions that it had never arrived in Sweden from Brussels where the tracking trail went cold.But actually I dont deserve it because I cancelled my sub after waiting so long, so this is an unexpected bonus, though unlikely to be subscribing again or ordering from Rhino.)

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You are correct, Daverock. When I went to school, for sport boys played football (soccer)⚽ or rugby🏉 in the winter and cricket 🏏in the summer. Girls played hockey🏑 on grass naturally. The variant that is played on ice is something else again. 🏒

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...I will be listening to...

Fillmore West
San Francisco, CA
August 21, 1968

- Set I -
s1t01 - That's It For The Other One
s1t02 - Good Morning Little School Girl
s1t03 - Alligator

- Set II -
s2t01 - Dark Star ->
s2t02 - Saint Stephen ->
s2t03 - The Eleven ->
s2t04 - Death Don't Have No Mercy ->
s2t05 - Turn On Your Love Light
s2t06 - Midnight Hour

a revised version that is pitch corrected, etc...unfortunately Dark Star fades in and Lovelight fades out, but what the hey...

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Folks here previously mentioned how much they enjoy holding Cd's, Vinyl etc in their hands, seeing the art work and liner notes...I am in agreement...back in the day (or era) it was always great to anticipate a record and pick it up on it's release date...back in the early 70's I worked on the West Side of LA and lived in Silverlake...I would take a bus home and where I transferred from one bus to another in Hollywood there was a shop called "Record Paradise"...not only did they always have new product ready to go on Fridays they were one of the few stores that I was aware of that carried import vinyl...Friday's also being payday it worked out just fine...I can remember buying "LA Woman", "Sticky Fingers" etc...also records were in my bones as that was the family business...I have pictures of my Pop (who was also a jazz bassist) in his shop surronded by 78's (probably from between '49 - '52) ...after that he went to work for one of the largest record distributors for 15 years or so until he opened a new store in '69 or so....

I checked on archive.org and a poster said of the rather poor audience tape of 9-19-72 that he contacted Lemieux on this show, and Dave responded:

"I suppose because it was never leaked from the vault. There is a board tape, as good as the rest of them from that tour, although it is missing one reel. I think we have 5 reels from this 6 reel show."

Of course, because Owsley taped 9-17-72 and 9-21-72, then he must have taped 9-19-72. And that gives me a wee bit of hope that a missing reel might turn up at the OSF or somewhere else.

So unless something wonderful has happened since that undated comment by Dave (above), my first show will hang fire til the end of time .... or until they release what they've got.

Sniffles........

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Are there any other audience recordings of the section that the missing reel is from? Why not give us 5/6 of bliss and a spruced up (as much as possible) aud patch?

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37 years ago today, I was having fun at the Frost, the Dead opened the show with Cassidy, that didn't happen to often. Dave, think about a West Coast 1980s box set , Frost, Greek, and Ventura, lots of good shows to choose from.

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The person who commented on Dave's remark on 9-19-72 posted that in September 2012.

So, as in a second marriage, hope springs eternal in the loin of a rabid Deadhead!

Oh, Powerful Tape Gods, could you conceivably have ushered the 6th reel back to the vault over the past 8 years?

Say it is so, and I vow to go out and buy a Barry Manilow record ON VINYL!

I swear by the blood below my feet!!!

Edit: I went back to archive.org and did the math. The show is about 143 minutes long. We have no idea which reel is missing, but the final reel somehow seems to suggest itself. If you divide 143 minutes by 6 you get 24 minutes per reel. Except those reels might have been 1/2 hour reels. If Owsley got the entire show through The Other One, and the 6th reel is missing, would that be the closing five songs -- Stella Blue, Sugar Mag, Casey Jones, One More Sat Nite, JB Goode? If OSF doesn't have it (Betty's stash probably didn't), perhaps it was a reel returned by Mtn Grrrl, from Jer's former stash? If the 6th reel remains missing, then this show might itself be a candidate for filler on another '72 release, as was Boulder, on Dick's 36 (9-21-72). I'd take what I could get. Back to my old "hope springs eternal" remark. Thanks for indulging me, folks. I love it when people rally around someone else's suggested release just because they went to the show. No wonder I enjoy hang out here!

2nd edit: If you check the aud tape, it would never be used to augment the boards, IMHO.

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I agree

But some would deride it, most likely.

And the ptb probably wouldnt like the inconsistency

In summer '69 I joined the Columbia Record Club: 12 LPs for one penny. I selected 11 and couldn't decide on the 12th. ''

I dawdled between Tommy James and the Shondells and this "Jimi Hendrix" character's Smash Hits. My older brother (by two years) said he had heard that Hendrix was pretty cool, so I went with that choice.

Talk about a fork in the road! So 51 years ago this summer, I veered away from bubblegum pop music.

Proof, like a parking spot, that there are gods in this world. Maybe that's my sign -- a SIGN!!! -- that a missing reel with show up.

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Dude, do something about those fires over there! It's wrecking the air all the way over here in Utah...makes hiking a bitch!...cool sunsets thou.

But Seriously...hope you and the Bay Area (my old home) are staying safe.

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Nappy, great to read your post. It sounds like you & I are on the same page when it comes to physical product. For me, it's the only way to fly!! I don't care if I'm out of touch/step/my mind, it's what I enjoy.
Proudfoot, I bought a couple of Manilow 45's way back when. I am no longer ashamed of things I bought or will buy in the future. In fact, to me it just means that even as a young pup, my musical tastes were broad.
I just busted out my Partridge Family Greatest Hits cd the other day, who wants to demean me? The beauty is, after the Partridge Family, I can play Sabbath, followed by Albert Ayler, then Jerry Douglas and Terry Riley. On and on we go!
Peace and stay safe, healthy, and Dead!!

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I hope all the people who are working so hard to fight these fires are safe and I hope no more people lose their homes. RobbZ, thanks for the kind thoughts

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As a kid the only 45 I bought was Paul Revere and the Raiders Cherokee People...the drums are awesome!
The first LP, The Partridge Family, not sure which one, had that groovy hit I think I love You....several years later as a yoot, it was Frampton Comes Alive, followed by Dark Side of the Moon. Think I still have em all?

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I trust the announcement will be for preorder, like 6 weeks ahead of release, as with WD.

Is old Dave-o waiting til after Labor Day to get the widest audience in place?

And can we expect a two-disc show along with AB? Outtakes? Alt mixes? More PIGPEN?

And is that it for 2020 or is there, say, a second box of June '76 coming our way? (I'd definitely grab that...)

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I agree with Mr Ones - no shame in first purchases. My first single was Blood, Sweat & Tears “Spinning Wheel” (must have been Top 30 at the time), and my first LP was The Fifth Dimension “Up, Up, and Away” (they were ubiquitous in the 60s). Now, I can go from Bill Frisell to Miles Davis to Hot Tuna to Byron Berline, and points in between, in an afternoon. Like dogs, there really isn’t “bad” music - even Polka and Pit Bulls have their place - but some endures and transcends, such as the GOGD!
PS - Six emails and a phone call about my “cancelled” DaP 2020 Subscription since August 2, and not a word of reply. Sigh!

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T. Rex "The Slider"

I have known electric warrior for a while

Took a chance during pallette cleansing

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Have you tried contacting Marye at the 'Got Issues With Your Store Order' forum? She might be able to help as she has many times in the past.

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This will be a fall '72 show with special guest and has a returned missing reel.

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I like your optimism.

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When I was 3 or 4 my neighbor across the street worked for RCA I believe. He used to give us 45s all the time. The 1st one I remember is Little Willy by Sweet. Then came Detroit Rock City with Beth as the B side. That Bob Ezrin was a genius until he achieved his goal to snort one Tony Montana sized pile of cocaine in 24 hours. That must have been with the money The Wall hauled in, because KISS "Music From The Elder" the following year was so bad Ace Frehley quit the band.

The first LP that was technically mine was Bridge Over Troubled Water.

My first non-KISS LP was Who Are You. Who who. Who who. Highly underrated as far as Who records go. Daltrey and Entwistle should have seved time for rejecting the Empty Glass song and Gonna Get Ya. There's a demo with just Townshend and Moon on the Who Are You special edition. So close. Who Are You was a well received album anyway, but it would have been absolutely killer with those two tracks.

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First album I got was Electric Warrior by T.Rex - Christmas 1971. Hotly followed by Fireball and Deep Purple In Rock, Relics by Pink Floyd...maybe Very 'eavy Very 'Umble by Uriah Heep. Slade Alive came out early 1972, and that was, and remains, incredible. Shame they turned into a comedy act shortly after. I have yet to hear a more full blooded, coruscating vocal than Noddy Holder's intro to Get Down and Get With It. Well arllllllllllright every body -let to haaaaaaaaaaaaaaair dowwwwwwn. Great words, too. Also recorded by Little Richard - but this version, on Slade Alive is the best I have heard. It also features a great version of Born to be Wild, which leaves BOC standing in the dust.

Simonrob.....we had boxing at our school up until the year before my sentence began. They used to have photos of little kids wearing enormous gloves, merrily knocking shit out of each on one of the walls. I was more of a long distance runner type myself-which came in quite handy when dealing with local skinheads. I don't think learning the Marquis of Queensbury Rules would have been much use in dealing with them anyway.

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We also had to take part in the annual school boxing knockout competition. Supposedly character building. Fortunately I never actually saw anyone getting knocked out. I was also more of a long distance / cross-country runner.

First single: The Beatles - I want to hold your hand. Purchased on release day in 1963

First LP: Deep Purple - Deep Purple. In 1969.

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So your Golden Knights are going up against my beloved Canucks. Good luck.

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....Knights vs Canucks. Don't make me drop the gloves.

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Apparently, your man did not listen to 9-19-72! It's missing from his list. But an aud circulates.

When young, perhaps 1970, for reasons lost to me today, I sold/gave away all my electric albums and kept and bought only acoustic music. Six months later, I had to re-collect all the records I had shed. Of course, at that time I had maybe 50 LPs tops. Yesterday I counted ~150 officially released GD shows in my collection and I probably have another 150-200 unofficial shows on hard drive. Not to mention perhaps 1,200 CDs (wild guess) with several hundred each of Jimi, Roy, Jerry, and dozens+ of Dylan, The Band, Allmans, etc. Can't afford to do anything crazy at this point.

And I sure as hell ain't listening to every GD show. Geez, it took us 2 1/2 years to absorb Euro '72 box, one show every month or so. Well worth the time, that one.

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1st lp I bought with my own money "Paul Revere and the Raiders, Midnight Ride" this one had "Kicks" on the first side. .99 cents new in shrink. Had a ton of 45's before that, but the Raiders lp was my first lp.
Daverock, I saw Slade in 1973, they opened for Joe Walsh. They sucked, they were booed off the stage after they flipped off everyone in the audience because we didn't get up and dance to their music. After they flipped us all off, the audience (Tampa, Fl crackers) went a bit nuts and started booing and throwing things at them. They called us crazy and I seem to remember a song of theirs that had "crazy" in the title? The looks on their faces as they were dodging projectiles was hilarious kinda like "why? why are they booing? look out for that shoe...funny. BTW Joe Walsh was absolutely fantastic that night, him and the Barnstorm band. After several encores, Joe came out and said we were all crazy, which got a lot of boos, he changed it and said that we weren't crazy, not wanting to add to Slades' interpretation of the crowd. The last encore (3rd if I remember right) was Funk 49.

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Dang, we're pretty much stuck indoors in Colorado with massive air quality issues from the wildfires. Really wanting the firefighters to be safe, but nothing I can do except send money...

So I sit here and post on dead.net.

Oh, my question, what's the current over/under on another box this year? Dave has mastered the art of being vague, which is kinda fun. Get the '76 box out early in the year because... WHAT???!!! WD and AB releases? Each about $25. I can spend that at the bar in an hour. Or, I used to be able to. But if AB 50th is announced in Sept for Nov release, what's left of the year? Oh yeah, DaP 36 announcement and 2021 subscription "fly strip" announcement - ya know, always a killer show to draw us to that sticky paper, where we re-up before ... okay, having The Fly visuals ("help me, help me")... So many freakin' "announcements" to go.

Dropping in on a local blues band later today for the first time since early March. It'll be 95 degrees, smoky and ... isn't that enough? Oh yeah, raging pandemic...

Thanks for letting me rant and rave! I had no point to make. Only questions.

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The first record I purchased for myself was Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog," on a 45 rpm single with the flipside being "Don't Be Cruel." At the Ben Franklin in Chetek, WI, with my grandmother in 1975 or 1976. I dug Elvis, Elton John, The Beach Boys, KISS, and just about any and all classic rock at this time.

The first album I bought was KISS Alive II.

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I purchased my first two albums with birthday money from grandma in the Fall of 1976. My parents were so angry as I was expected to "save" the cash and not "waste it" on such a frivolous purchase...and of course, the whole "rock-n-roll is the root cause of all debauchery" thing.
Anyway, this hard-headed 12 year-old secretly rode his banana seated, 1970 style Schwinn, to a local record store and eagerly snapped up these two newly released albums---and I've never been quite the same since!

Rush: All the Worlds a Stage (I had worn out my older brothers 8-track of 2112 that summer)
KISS: Destroyer (the album cover looked really, really, really cool)

And wasn't buying albums back in the day just the best? All the band photos and cool art on the album jackets and sleeves. Double albums would fold out into a sweet "weed cleaning" tool. Also the occasional posters and stickers that would come inside. I remember getting some goodies inside the "Dark Side of the Moon" and almost all my KISS albums....

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Unkle Sam, that Slade song is Mama Weer All Crazee Now. I like them, they were a great 45 band and the Slade Alive LP is great in its own right.
Hoping for a 40 yr anniversary Warfield/RCMH box set. I had the June 76 box on my mind this morning(funny thing,others too); if you haven't gotten it yet, like Gene Vincent says, git it!
Edit: my 1st record, the Beach Boys' I Get Around French 45 EP, 1964

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Right in my neck of the woods. I'm just south of Bloomer. I grew up in the era of cds and tapes, so most of my record buying was solely for the art. Happy Saturday, all! As they say, Play Dead! :-)

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John Denver...enjoy most of his stuff. But "An Evening with John Denver" is a favorite and has a pretty cool version of the Beatles tune, "Mother Nature's Son" on it. And a double album as well.....

Also he does a really good version of "Me and My Uncle"........Far Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FhF8iLWcMc

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Best of the Beach Boys was my first LP in 1966. I bought it off my sister! My first 45 was (don’t laugh) Cliff Richard I Could Easily Fall In Love With You in 1964. I was only 10 but, it still brings back memories and yes, I still like it, so there!

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