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    Bolo24 says: An Idea, Perhaps? Since we're all going to have a fair amount of spare time on our hands for the foreseeable future, what about starting another thread where we all listen to the same show/release on a given day and then share impressions afterward? Folks can submit suggestions and one person (not me) picks what we'll all listen to - call it Deadnet Picks or something. Anyway, if this idea is deemed to have merit, I'd suggest one of the loyal regular posters take the lead and do the picking - y'all can decide who. Might be fun. If it does go forward, I nominate Dick's Picks 18 for the first listen. Been talked about here lately, and, had it been a single show rather than a compilation, we'd probably be talking about it in the same conversation as Cornell, Veneta, etc. Or perhaps even Gainesville?? Stay safe and healthy, friends - this planet needs as many Deadheads as possible.

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    9/2/68; AWESOME! Had to check and make sure it wasn’t 69? Great Lil show! Yeah, wish they’d come up with some way to release more of these. Perhaps a “60s” box; maybe a few sets from the early years; say 3 or 4 short 68s; and a bad ass 69 or 2...? That would be a way to get the short stuff out and feed our primal Jones!
    9/2/78; really enjoyed the first set, and yes the chatter was fun and brought back memories, especially jumping the wall to get down on the floor! The second set, not as much. Good S/F but best? sorry MR L RIP, not with ya there, and the Estimated was a bit of a train wreck...after that started losing interest a bit and/or was preoccupied, but still an enjoyable show. Glad I finally got to it, good call!
    9/2/80; didn’t get to this one until today so didn’t get the natural DHbrewer Hat Trick, but really enjoyed it!
    Now I’m pretty biased, but still, I think it’s an all around great show with a neat set list. Awesome Dew! Wish there were slightly better recordings, but I like Aud tapes. Tried the matrix but that wasn’t working for me.
    Funny, I was so green back then, I know I loved it, but not having many reference points yet, many of my early shows really surprise me now how good they were! And I don’t think it’s nostalgia so much since I can’t remember much, lol.
    Rock on Mi Amigos, maybe I’ll circle back to those 9/3&4 shows since I’m in a 80 mood?

    STRIDER; been doing some 8/27/72 detective work...I remember you said third set you got to trade with your brother “back stage” on a platform, next to a particular cameraman. So I assumed you were on that platform right in front of JG basically leaning on the stage monitors, and there’s a camera guy there, or was it the platform just left of the stage about ten rows back, up about 15’ in the air? Either way must of been so amazing!
    The best shot I could find was just after the weird animated stuff in DS, the camera on the back higher platform does a sweep pan from back into towards the stage above the crowd, where you can pause and see that cameraman (with Grateful Dead on back of white tee shirt) and there’s folks on both sides of him. The cameraman on the back/higher platform has white pants but no shirt. So curious which “platform” you were on? What were ya wearing?
    As I say, either way, must of been mind blowing, especially if electric! ⚡️And what, think you said you were just outta high school, can’t even imagine! I’ve always felt pretty lucky/fortunate with the shows I saw for my time, but man, you really seemed to be at many top historic shows! Totally giving me show envy LOL...
    So thanks for the stories and please keep em coming!

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    I wasn't convinced...

    ...and the recordings all seem to be subpar. I didn't realize his review predates his keeper of the vault keys period.

    I think 2/5/78 might be a stronger and more cohesive effort, the recording is certainly better. That being said, the jam in Scarlet is hot, the transition smooth, they sound rehearsed on this one. Plus it marks the first version with the added verse in FOTM. For these reasons it's noteworthy. Not shabby, best? Well.. until five minutes ago it was the last one I listened to.. but not anymore.

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    Dick's 18 Scarlet Fire

    2/5/78 has that weird beautiful passage in Fire (~9:56...). That's hard to top. I'll need to listen carefully to 9/2/78 a few more times. Even if Latvala thought 9/2/78 was among the best, that means a lot.

    EDIT: Legend has it that Latvala was known to enjoy a puff occasionally, GOGD, so you might be on to something

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    Mighta Been High?

    Thinkin' Dick might've been High (Both times).

    It's good and all, but Best Ever?
    I'm not seeing it.

    But then again, I'm not high.
    Maybe I oughta get High..

    For now 9/3/72 is kickin' in.
    Gonna see where this takes me.

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    Scarlet Fires

    I might have to check out the Dick's Picks 18 version to compare this with from Cedar Falls in February.

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    I feel ya Jim.

    I'm just listening to 9/2/78 now.. got a stack of more to come.
    I wonder if Dick changed his thoughts on best ever Scarlet > Fire seems like his review was 6/16/83.. before he had keys to the Vault I believe.

    While off the beaten path and in the weeds I stumbled on a New Audience source of Alpine '87 night two, I thought it was killer diller! Has that Alpine feel, and man that '87 Crowd Roar (peaking during Terrapin) was giving me the chills.
    Dug it, here it is if anybody else wants to dig it -
    https://archive.org/details/gd1987-06-27.148849.senn.me80.hessberg.mill…

    Set 2 Rocks!

    Also stumbled on a SBD of Dylan & Tom Petty set from 6/26/86 and really dug it, IMO they smoked the Dead that night, Dead opened with 1 long set, so not their typical scene, but Dylan was annunciating and seemed really into it and Tom Petty and the HBs are Hot along with Dylan's back up singers.

    I saw them at the next show on 7/2 and Dylan was slurring / mumbling and not as on.

    Fun Trip... but now I'm playing catch up.

    How was 9/2/80 OB?

    Enjoying the comments all, keep em coming!

    I'm in the weeds for sure, might have to stay here and get deeper ala Jim style :)

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    The shortest shorts

    I dunno, I’m thinking the 89 or 90 vids where as a viewer your worried that somethin’s gonna pop out......ewww

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    Re: Shorts - Too Funny

    Compared to what they would become in '84.. these shorts were more like highwaters or capri pants. Too funny... The socks weren't all that weird either compared to what would become. Bob Weir, fashion icon. Ha.

    I have to admit.. I got a little carried away with edibles and home improvements yesterday.. I didn't get nearly as much done as I would have liked and to be honest.. I got a little lost in the cobwebs of the second set, but in a good way.. a feeling that carried right into the Berry farm 68 show. So to hell with productivity in favor of scary fun.. and hopefully a good time was had by all.

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    Short Shorts

    Haha that's rich!

    Ironically, the shorts aren't as short as they would get.

    Bunch of pictures from that show, it was massive.

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    You got me to read the comments.. much more colorful than normal and cracked me up.

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Bolo24 says: An Idea, Perhaps? Since we're all going to have a fair amount of spare time on our hands for the foreseeable future, what about starting another thread where we all listen to the same show/release on a given day and then share impressions afterward? Folks can submit suggestions and one person (not me) picks what we'll all listen to - call it Deadnet Picks or something. Anyway, if this idea is deemed to have merit, I'd suggest one of the loyal regular posters take the lead and do the picking - y'all can decide who. Might be fun. If it does go forward, I nominate Dick's Picks 18 for the first listen. Been talked about here lately, and, had it been a single show rather than a compilation, we'd probably be talking about it in the same conversation as Cornell, Veneta, etc. Or perhaps even Gainesville?? Stay safe and healthy, friends - this planet needs as many Deadheads as possible.
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West Coast Time, be careful with your smokes

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Me likes that concept

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I always listen to the first set, listening to CD 2, wow 17 minute Playing to open followed by a good other one.... what a pleasant surprise i have to say !!!! Be good everyone.... bob t.....
P.S. I hope your 72 predictions are right!!!!

Interesting news Strider. Hope you all are right.

The big question is, has Glasser stopped working on Jim's roof?

If so, we might have something.

By the way, we need a pick.

Bells Octoberfest is in the house!

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I didn’t see any at the store the other day. Grabbed a case of Oberon, probably the last one from that store this season.

I think that Glasser finished the roof and now Jim has him installing a thumping stereo system in that empty beer truck he still has parked behind the garage.

I’m up earlier than usual for a Saturday, half way through a large cup of super dark roast, think I’ll make the pick.

And the winner is......
Tomorrow’s anniversary
8-23-87, with Carlos on a couple of songs.

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I didn’t pick 8-22 solely because it wasn’t in the CD holder that is in my living room. I have newer versions of both shows on HD’s, but they currently aren’t on the microSDXC cards in my music player. So I went with the CD-R’s that I burned years ago.

Feel free to do either or both of the shows. We’re flexible here.

Looks like a great show. I am on it. Box of Rain opener.

Thanks for the pick Conekid.

Oberon is done here in MN, which is a bummer. That Octoberfest is a good replacement.

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Carlos Santana with the Dead on a couple songs. “Say thank you Carlos”, Bob Weir. Will have to check out 8/23/87. Also Road Trips , Volume 1 Number 2 is excellent and includes the Dead’s second New Mexico appearance. Jam of the week has filled in some of the gaps. Full soundboard must be in house.

Strange occurrences on the desert. Been reading some Science Fiction lately and started reading The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury a couple days ago. Mind you have not read it since I was 12 years old back in the mid 60s. So yesterday I google Ray Bradbury and read that today would have been his 100th birthday. Enter Twilight Zone theme. Who are the Grateful Dead and why do they keep following me.
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Carlos has a sweet sound on that Solo during Iko, you can feel the rush just listening, dig it.

Hats off to the Good Ol Grateful Dead Hour! Turned me on to this show BITD, I can still remember sitting in front of my tape deck taping it, still have the tape. Who'd a thunk what the future would bring.

Speaking of the future, looking forward to Thursday and the anniversary of the GRATEFULest Dead Show EVER!
There's been some clever hints, winks and nods about fun stuff.

Top 5 for sure... if you're into ranking stuff, all I know is I can listen to almost any song from that show and go places, far out places, that are fun to explore. Powerful stuff.

Hope all are well and enjoying some good tunes!

PS - Thanks Gollum, good to know it's not just me who's not in real time ;)

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always been a big fan of Road Trips , Volume 1 Number 2. in near synchronicity mode as I listened to first 2 discs early last week and then the bonus disc yesterday to start the work day. the bonus disc is just exactly perfect, one of my fave discs from the RT series and it was in the cd player while traveling for a long long time. i love that sequence from Albuquerque that begins with Iko > Wheel. I mean they only had played Iko once before back in that AMAZING Fox Theater show in St Louis 5/15! a show IMHO that seems to not get the love it deserves amid so many other stellar spring tour shows. Also the Let It Grow from RT, V 1 No 2 is super super fine.

Been decades probably since I listened to the '87 Angel's Camp shows with Carlos. that little festival had to have been a real hoot with David Lindley and Santana also on the bill. I'll dip into 8/23 today. '87 was a solid good year.

and just realized missed call out to 8/21/93 (and 8/22) in Eugene - super fun show. Standing On The Moon that first day was out of this world gorgeous and emotional. favorite version hands down.

and I should probably pull out Sunshine Daydream while I'm at it since I won't have a chance to participate later this week.

my long shot mini box guess is RFK '73 including the set with the Allmans. but would be very happy with some of the other suggestions floated here.

also been having issues with the most recent posts not being immediately visible even when I first open the page - my workaround is to click the sort by drop down and click "Recent" (which is already my choice) and that updates the posts. seems silly but it works.

stay safe. be well. have fun.

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.... I'm all over it. I was present and somewhat accounted for at that show. There were naked people. Bobby smashed his guitar. Angry Jack Straw indeed. It was the bees knees.

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we were in the stands straight out from the stage both days - exquisite sound and sight lines. i was watching with a pair of binoculars when bobby walked off and I could see him swinging that guitar like a freaking axe and it was a complete "what in the f*** am i seeing????" Jerry just kept jamming away with his head down - curious if he knew what was going on via earbud or just that Bob had left the stage.

just flashed on a funny 8/22 related memory. excellent tapes of both shows circulated immediately afterwards as they were broadcast on the local public radio station. a few years later i was traveling with my girlfriend in the low desert. I was driving an '87 Isuzu Trooper at the time. We spent a couple days in Cabeza Prieta at the end of the trip before heading back to the NW. We exited the CP at the west end and started heading west on I-10. We were listening to 8/22 Set II. During Drumz she said I can't deal with that can you turn it off, and I did. A few miles down the road a crazy banging noise started coming out of the engine compartment. She says - I thought I asked you to turn that off?! and I'm like it IS off - that's coming out from under the hood!! We were near Yuma and pulled into a rest area. Pop the hood to find that the adjustment bolt on the alternator had snapped and the alternator is flopping wildly on the belt. Dropped some quarters in a pay phone and called a garage in Yuma. They had it tapped out and fixed by supper that evening. Spent a pleasant unplanned night in Yuma and on the road next morning. If that had happened in the CP it would have been a whole different and way more expensive story.

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Excellent post,Also with you my friend! Grateful to see & read your posts As always, rock on brother! I’m stuck in dicks picks #28 for the past 3 days, my cat lock’d me in! Ha ha lol
Tomorrow I’ll be spinning Buffalo 77! I look forward to listen this release thru my tube system
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Dave throws this set up once a year....Eyes>Dancing>Wharf Rat>Franklin's Tower>Sugar Magnolia....nice little jam between Eyes and Dancing, early on sounds a tad like Comes A Time might be popping up.. very different feel than a few weeks prior at the Swing with the Phil Jam between Eyes and Dancing... Yes 5 song Set II (Two encores) also, but what 5 great songs....be good... bob t

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Someone asked me if I love palindromes. Yes, ever since the release of AoxomoxoA, 6/21/69.
Also while reading The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (he would have turned 100 August 22, 2020) yesterday I came across the passage “way up in the middle of the air”. From the Bible apparently.
Another palindrome;
⚡️ A man a plan a canal Panama ⚡️

How does 9/3/1980 sound to you all? Download series #7. Extra credit for partial show on 9/4/1980.

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9/30 works.. spending a quality day on my roof until the temperature decides otherwise... Might as well have some upbeat 1980 to keep the spirits high.

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I wish I had a computer & actually know how to use it. I grew up in a time of typewriters lol I really wish I could get them on CDs, I believe there was only 12 total releases issued by download only, very much like the new studio crecordings of WMD “ angels” release in studio sessions . Made available.
Man, I wish I wasn’t so Technological handicap.
I would love to get all 12 shows to add to my collection. I’ll keep praying for a miracle , who knows , maybe someday soon ;the Grateful Dead will release all 12 downloads into a physical Boxset one fine grateful day! I would buy it in a hart beat ! Lol 💀🌹🙏😉

I did some extra credit first and 9/4/80 is a great listen, looking forward to 9/3/80 a little later.

The March '77 shows would be a cool release. Home turf at Winterland sure seems to bring out the best in the boys, that PITB > Samson > PITB at the end of Set 1 of 3/19 is dreamy.

Strider is that a quote from Bradbury? Far out!

I read Kesey's The Further Inquiry the other day, that's some far out stuff too, had to watch the Magic Trip to go along with it, now I'm digging into the Electric Kool Aid Acid Tests... getting ready for Thursday ;)

Recommended Pandemic Reading & Viewing for anybody that enjoys that type of stuff.

Alright, time to go Further!

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Special guests for pre-show, Ken Babbs and Sue Kesey. Please get the word out there.
Veneta, Oregon was an amazing place to see the Grateful Dead, especially August 27, 1972. August 28,1982 was quite different but also magical. These are golden memories. The Springfield Creamery and Health Food and Pool Store was quite the operation back in the 70s. There was a pool table elevated above the food bins below a skylight. We could play pool for free. I remember a couple days after the 72 Veneta Dead show seeing Ken Kesey, his brother Chuck and Ken Babbs shooting pool on the old famed pool table.
I bought a couple quarts of Nancy’s Yogurt in Silver City today to prepare for the Thursday broadcast of Sunshine Daydream. Great way to finish out summer and Shakedown Stream. Hats off to all who helped to pull this together, Adrian Marin, Ken Babbs, Sue Kesey, Sheryl Kesey Thompson, and all the hard working people at the Springfield Creamery along with Gary Lambert, David Lemieux, Doran Tyson, Marty Dolan and all the hard working people at Rhino Records in beautiful downtown Burbank.
The dream lives!

Jim, I thought they were supposed to send you a PM, not a post.

Looking forward to Thursday Strider. You were there, that is cool. Can't imagine.

Is that box announcement still coming?

Love the variety you get with 1980. This show hits it for me. Half Step Franklins to start, yes! Really like this Althea and Brokedown Palace. He's Gone, Truckin, Black Peter, oh yeah! Sound quality on this one is A++. Super solid release. More 1980 would be great.

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I like Brent's vocals on the outro to Deal on this one. Check out the China>Rider from the day before (Rochester). There's some interesting things going there vocally, too. This time between Jerry and Bob.

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Love this year, the halfway point for the band.

Reflected on releases from this year this morning sipping on my Morning Brew:

Deadset, Dead Ahead, Reckoning, etc. all excellent, multitrack recordings.

Go To Nassau, 10/9/80 & 10/10/80 - Same as above

Road Trips, Volume 3 No 4 - Penn State and Barton Hall. Great songs and performances but the recording to me sounds a little thin and tinny. I put that in the Road Trips cassette master snafu category.

11/28/80 Lakeland FL - Sounds a little warmer than Barton Hall and Penn State, but still lacking a touch in fullness and richness. Still, has nice, clean sound and a good feel to it.

11/29/80 - Board segments have surfaced, the second set soundboard circulates and segments of the first set have been played by Lemieux on jam of the week. Some of the audience tapes that circulate are works of art. To be continued I guess, stay tuned. Would love to see a Matrix type effort and become an official release.

11/30/80 Fox Theatre - the Holy Grail of 2 track 1980 recordings/releases. The perfect marriage of the thinner boards of the year with the full sound of a truly great audience master. Hats off and many thanks to Dr. Bob Wagner for his contribution.

I would love to see more efforts like Dave's Picks 8, 11/30 Fox Theatre. That's the best sounding solution to the lacking cassette masters from the year and currently my personal favorite 1980 release or as I started spinning this while writing up this post.. more accurately stated as the last 1980 show I have listened to. As Tony the Tiger would say, It's Great!!!

One last nod goes to the unsung hero, Jim Wise for his audience contributions to I think the Lakeland show which was released and no credit given for his aud patch. Another great 1980 audience tape. I think I have this right.. I think it was Jim Wise and I think it was the Lakeland show, but I could be wrong about the exact show this happened on.

Ok.. coming off a bit of a health scare, thankfully not covid and something modern medicine is quite capable of treating.. I am trying to venture on a little bicycle, music adventure before it gets too hot with my new music toy. I took advantage of my down time by taking up some free advice Cone Kid gave six months or so ago.. I upgraded an old, used IPod Classic I bought of Amazon a couple years ago that unfortunately suffered from a bad heart (battery). I upgraded it myself and replaced both the battery and the hard drive using IFlash Memory instead of the old, standard hard drives they used to contain. Powered by 4, 256 Gig MicroSD Chips that are super small and light. So I now have a 1TB IPod both works like new and has literally every single GD show I have imported / Ripped / downloaded into my digital world. 10,000 songs.. would take more than a year of solid listening 24/7 to get through the whole thing and the sick part.. I still have 450 gigs of free space left.

If you picked the best recording of every show (officially released and the best version that circulates) and stored it as either Flac or ALAC (lossless but compressed) I believe you could fit every single Dead Show that circulates on this device that fits in the palm of my hand. I am calling it Podzilla. Many thanks to Cone Kid for the dead.net tip of the day six months ago. So 30 years of live GD music on the go, and off I go..

Have a great day, stay cool and best of luck to our friends in the Southern Gulf States (and Western Mexico) that are about to get hit with a couple (few) hurricanes any day now. A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall. Did someone say 1972?

Going with 11/28/80, Lakeland.

If we have already done this show, guessing we did at some point I was absent that day so consider this a makeup test day. Like the sirens sweetly singing, this one called to me this morning.

Hope you all have a great day... I'm off like a prom dress.

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I believe that was Gary Jenson. Been passed on a few years. I was real wild as a teenager but not quite that wild. I had my clothes on at both 1972 Veneta and 1982 Veneta. Maybe it was my puritanical New England upbringing.
1980, any complete recordings of the acoustic set Dead shows from that year should be considered holy grail material, Radio City, The Warfield and the two New Orleans shows with acoustic sets. Between the two years 1970 and 1980 plus the two or three December 81 acoustic sets with Joan Baez I have counted 70 something shows with acoustic Dead.
Shakedown Stream tomorrow, I’m preparing like a Saturn Rocket on the launch pad. 🚀

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Strider, yes, the Warfield and Radio City shows in fall of 1980 are very special in the Dead's history and I am hoping for a miracle. Do you believe in miracles in 1980? Yes!

Jim, yes we hit up the Lakeland show earlier, but another listen is always welcome.

Veneta tomorrow!

Be well folks.

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Glad you are ok!! Bob t

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It’s a good thing to have.

Mine also has 4 x 256 GB microSDXC cards. Says 953 GB available, so it must be saving quite a few GB’s for storage info.
I also have an iBasso DX80 (worked great for about 2 years then died) and an iBasso DX120 (bought it before the DX80 died). Both have dual microSDXC slots that can each take 1 TB cards, but the iBasso user interface is pretty crappy, glitchy, and often slow to respond.
The iPod software is still superior even though it’s close to 15 years old. Glad I converted it to Podzilla.

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Just got word, test zoom for tomorrow’s Shakedown Stream went well. Pass the word, “Have you heard the Dead brother!!” Or maybe it was more like a satanical puritanical New England upbringing.

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8/27/72 , be it old bootleg cassette, Sunshine Daydream old bootleg VHS, Unofficial DVD, Official Rhino 2013 release CD/DVD or CD/blue ray. Or stream?

Years ago it was a prized and favorite bootleg cassette tape.
Pick of the day was a brilliant idea from Bolo. Keep it rolling.

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I'm in. The funny thing with GD music, and I doubt I am alone.. some songs congeal and some pass right through me at any point in time. The Dark Star was never my favorite, but I love the China>Rider and PITB from this show.

...but all it takes is one receptive moment and the right music playing at the right time and I suddenly 'get' something that used to pass right through me. ..and there are the old songs that used to be key that I have moved on from.

Still, Veneta was always a favorite, I just got sucked into the PITB and the transition in the China Rider more than the Dark Star. I think because Jerry teased Morning Dew and Bob telegraphed El Paso and I always wondered what could have been.

A great show and both well recorded and documented.

So if Strider was wearing his clothes, it should be easy to pick him out. I only recall one person fully clothed in the whole movie, I'll be sure to be looking out for ya tonight, Strider..

Thanks so much for posting and giving us some context.

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I talked my way backstage. My brother had been on the planks next to cameraman John Norris during the second set and let me take his place. Playin’ reprise in the film is the music only, film footage is from the third set. I’m on the planks turning around and waving at friends. It’s the shot from that log tree house.
I love Bird Song big time, also China Cat into I know you rider may be one of the most uplifting moments in the history of music.
As for Dark Star performances I saw live that I love, 9/19/70 and 2/18/71 were perhaps tops. Winter/Spring 1969 Dark Star may be some of the most classic of all time. I didn’t start seeing the Dead until January 1970. The evolution of Dark Star is phenomenal. But I was directly in front of Jerry for the third set. August 27, 1972 stands out as one of the most amazing days of my life.
As far as being naked in 1972, swimming (skinny dipping) in the really warm water of Lookout Point Reservoir that summer was no big deal. High School graduation (class of 72) , moving to Oregon, the old days of Eugene, Grateful Dead and being 18 were the most liberating rights of passage I could have ever hoped for. I thank my lucky Dark Stars for those experiences.

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My favorite Sing Me Back Home, hands down.

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When I first moved to Portland in mid-late 90s, I met a group of heads that got together every Wednesday night to trade tapes. They were always talking about Veneta.

Veneta, Veneta, Veneta!

Finally I was like, so what’s Veneta?

Gasp!! They were shocked with my lack of knowledge. Legendary Oregon Dead show? Springfield Creamery Benefit? Kesey & The Merry Pranksters? Oregon Country Fair? They quickly flipped me a tape, winked, nodded and smiled.

First I was amazed at the sound quality. This tape sounded better than any of the tapes I had. These Oregon heads! Not only did they have great weed, great beer, but my God, the Tapes! (I’m pretty sure this was 1996ish, so before internet trading for me). Hearing Babbs and the commentary the experience started to form in my mind, and then the music. Oh man, this was it. Too much! I was deep in the pudding.

It quickly became my goto and my all time fave show. Veneta, Veneta, Veneta! I’d say.

Definitely one of the tapes that made me want to get them all.
Hearing this show, I had to know, how many more shows did they play like this?
Well, there are quite a few close to it, but there’s nothing else quite like it.

Happy Anniversary Veneta, a special place and a special show!

PS - Let Me Tell You It Was Hot! How Hot Was It?!?!
Strider, tell us more Veneta Stories.
Love when Wavy Gravy tells that Sewage story… started laughing just thinking about it.

Veneta, Veneta, Veneta!

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That China Cat-Rider is fantastic - great dancing by that girl with long black hair.

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I wonder what ever happened to the kid that runs a circle around the band during Dark Star!!! Also played 5/3/72 Paris last night, and listening to Tivoli 4/17/72 right now... Don't know what put me in the Europe 72 mood.... Also last thought, if we do get a second box this year, maybe its a 2 or 3 show box like the RFK box was a few years ago.. bob t

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To blast off 🚀⚡️🚀⚡️🚀⚡️🚀

The faster we go, the rounder we get

Boyee don’t stop now

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Three Sisters, Crater Lake, Cape Perpetua, Cascade Head, Strawberry Mountains, Steens Mountains, Wallowa Mountains, Painted Hills, Pendleton Roundup, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Grateful Dead, Paramount Theater , Portland, Veneta, University of Oregon, Lowell,(this ain’t no commune) expired beer, brown rice, seaweed and a dirty hot dog, Klamath Falls, Robert M. Petersen, Ken Kesey, Ken Babbs, Mountain Girl, liberation, freedom ain’t free, no free lunch, Florence, sand dunes on the shore, heal the sore wound from the Rainbow Trail, is there more over the next horizon, or is the world flat, was the moon landing just a sham from Craters of the moon, Idaho ? I don’t know, but something does ring true the time has come, comin around- in a circle.

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Nice Shout out!

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“This is where we really get off best!”
- Phil Lesh

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....I was planning on watching hockey, but postponed for a reason I am behind 100%, so Veneta is the back up goalie tonight. Also my mom's birthday. 83 years young. Happy Birthday Madre!!