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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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  • GratefulFreak8
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    Multi-Act shows (fond memories)

    All this talk of Multi-Act shows inspired me to comb through my memory... it's been a lot of fun.

    Here is a list of some of the bigger ones I can recall.

    * Day on the Green 1983 #3 (Oakland Stadium, Oakland, CA) - Police, the Fixx, Madness, Oingo Boingo, The Thompson Twins
    * Day on the Green 1987 #1 (Oakland Stadium, Oakland, CA) - Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead
    * Aids Benefit 1989 (Oakland Stadium, Oakland, CA) - Grateful Dead, Tracy Chapman, John Fogerty, Los Lobos, Joe Satriani, Tower of Power
    * Bridge School Benefit 1989 - Crosby, Still, Nash & Young, Neil Young, Sammy Hagar, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Tracy Chapman
    * Bridge School Benefit 1990 - Cheech Marin, Jackson Browne, Edie Brickell, Elvis Costello, Steve Miller, Gene LaFond & Larry Kegan, Crazy Horse, Neil Young
    * Squaw Valley Music Festival 1991 - Garcia/Grisman, Booker T and the MGs, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, The Neville Brothers
    * Bridge School Benefit 1995 - Neil Young, Beck, Emmylou Harris & Daniel Lanois, Bruce Springsteen, The Pretenders, Hootie and the Blowfish
    * BB King Blues Festival 1997 - BB King, The Neville Brothers, Dr. John, Storyville
    * BB King Blues Festival 1999 - BB King, Kenny Wayne Sheppard, Taj Mahal, Indigenous

    Thanks to all who contributed to this topic... it's been fun to read and even more fun to travel down memory lane.

    Seems even more poignant given the current state of the world.

    Might have to have a hard think about the small venue question next.

    Cheers all... stay safe.

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    RIP Johnny Nash...

    A song for our times indeed...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_rB4v75jqU

    Sad to hear about Eddie today too...I had no idea he had been fighting the good fight for over twenty years...Fuck cancer

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    November1968
    Shrine Expo Hall Los Angeles Ca
    The Jeff Beck Group
    The Moody Blues
    Ten Years After

    November 1969 The Forum Inglewood Ca (two shows) (My 19th Birthday by the way)
    The Rolling Stones
    Ike & Tina Turner
    B.B. King
    Terry Reid

    @Ledded...I envy your '77 Long Beach gig...I never went to the Blues Fest but i would listen (and sometimes tape off of KLON) at home with the grill going....as for small venues I think for me it would be The Ash Grove...I saw mainly blues acts but Firesign Theatre did shows there too...Freddy King, Johnny Shines, The Johnny Otis Show that featured Big Joe Turner & Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson plus more...one time T-Bone Walker was in the crowd and came up on stage to do a few numbers with Otis including a guitar "cutting" duel with Shuggie...But for me at the Ash Grove it had to be seeing Lightnin' Hopkins play two acoustic sets one night followed by two electric sets the nexy night...

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    Gary Farseer, pm me your email I might have a Dead item you might be interested in , free. Led. Ded. what a great lineup of blues performers, a lot of the greats.

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    I expected a little more love for Eddie here, but things are what they are. People who know, know. I will say this: you talk about arguing Dead eras, man, the Sammy Hagar vs. David Lee Roth camps give no ground. I love both, which makes me an easy to please Grateful Dead fan.

    Last show: Dirty Honey, right after President's Day when we came back down from skiing in the Colorado Rockies with Covid. I spent three or four nights on the couch, couldn't sleep, went to work every day. It wasn't that big a deal... nobody knew what it was then.

    Before that one, Tool and Fleetwood Mac. I've seen FM enough and hate how they treated Lindsey Buckingham, but I went just to see Mike Campbell on a big stage one more time and he did not disappoint.

    As far as multi-artist fests, there's been more than a few but the 1997 Long Beach Blues Festival takes the cake:

    1997: Buddy Guy, James Cotton, Son Seals, Otis Clay, John Lee Hooker, Koko Taylor, Otis Rush, Snooky Pryor, Soul Stirrers, Chuck Berry, Ike Turner's Rhythm & Blues Revue, Bo Diddley, Joe Louis Walker, Chess All-stars featuring Hubert Sumlin, Billy Boy Arnold, Jimmy Rogers, and Johnnie Johnson, DJ Gary "The Wagman" Wagner served as emcee.

    Be well everyone.

    \m/

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    Sweetwater even famous down here...

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    Jerry Garcia / Sammy Hagar. Sweet. Water Mill. Valley

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY6-kJlxwZc. Talk about big names in a small place. I saw Elizabeth Cotton in the Sweetwater , it's a real small place.

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    Thanks Jim, need to proofread when I write

    It is another weird happening that Sammy Hagar and Bob Weir became friends. I think they live very close to each other. And y'all know the story/rumor.

    That is was Slammin Sammie that took down (stole) the beautiful murals that were hung on the side of Winterland for its closing. I dont check on this often, but last I heard those murals have never been found. They have to be somewhere. Anyway, condolences to Wolfgang for the loss of his dad, and to Valerie and the whole Van Halen family. Almost feel like hoisting a few and blistering my ears tonight.

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    I did see some great festivals.. four New Orleans Jazz Fests, Clapton / Beck and Clapton / Winwood, I really enjoyed GD/Dylan, Gathering of the (bad) Vibes (the crazed sweaty, stinky slam dance hugger I mentioned yesterday).. plus several others.

    The most interesting big band/small venue I saw was Wide Spread at Max's on Broadway (Baltimore). Had dinner with the band at Bertha's across the street in the late 80's before they were big. There were these stickers Eat at Bertha's and Bertha's Mussels, plus a nice tie into a rocking Dead song. Nice guys, they rocked it. Saw Zappa and King Crimson in a small place called Painters Mill in the early 80's. Love seeing bands in small venues and ornate theatres..

    Jazz Fest rocked but you couldn't get me do it these days... 12 music stages and always multiple bands playing at the same time.

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    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5OJEMbuh3YQ I saw Ray Charles play 3 times at the Paul Masson Winery, fairly small place. Ray Charles , bigger than life.

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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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...that’s a beautiful thing to say & yes I concur, 2020 could be used as well for a title, right on my cosmic friend & brother! Love out lives us all. Peace be with you all! Be safe be Kind.
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...where are these trolls & why are they following the Grateful Dead? Do you mean Freaks? Lol 🙃🙏💀🌹

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Mott the Hoople were a great live band before the glam era, we used to follow them around their gigs in little clubs around London. Listen to the second album, Thunderbuck Ram!
When their first album was released there was even speculation that it was a Dylan comeback album! Dylan being missing in action at the time after his bike accident if my adled memory serves me well.
I never could stand Bowie so I thought the Young Dudes era was crap. BUT: it did give Bob Segarini the name of his Canadian super group the Dudes after the break up of his fantastic band, the Wackers.
Wackering Heights anyone?

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There was a great box set of Mott the Hoople's first 4 albums that came out a few years ago, called "Mental Train". It has loads of bonus material, as well as two extra cds-one of which features a live concert from the Fairfield Hall Croydon September 13th 1970. Going off that, I can well believe their power as a live band - gives The Who's "Live at Leeds" a run for its money. This concert used to be available as a stand alone release. They only came to my attention in 1972, so I missed all this at the time. I never saw the original band live.

Ian Hunter is a much underrated songwriter, by my reckoning. To this day, there are songs he wrote that move me-the album "Wildlife" has two-"Angel of 8th Avenue" and the beautiful "Waterlow". Even in the Bowie years, underneath all the bluster, he wrote some amazing songs-often tucked away on B sides. "Rose" and "Rest in Peace"-come to mind. Like ballads by The Stones. Only better.

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5-9-77
I have had this debate with friends for years who think, as many others do, that Cornell is the ultimate show in this run. Or maybe the ultimate show in any run. I love Cornell but have always been partial to 5-9. It also contains my very favorite Comes A Time that I have ever heard. I just think 5-9 gets overlooked because of the night before. Sure that is the case with many other shows as well.

I have to concur! 5/9/77 is where it’s at for me as well! Primo performances from the whole group and sound quality is the “best of the best” in my humble opinion. You ‘hit the nail right on The head’, an excellent performance of “comes a time” , maybe one of the best for my taste buds!
I can’t press enough, lol, find yourself a copy and let it rock your soul! Have a grateful day everyone! 🙏💀🌹

It's off to drive I go...after doing an LA burn run this past weekend (1,100 miles r/t) I now have to do a 260 mile r/t to Prescott Valley AZ to pick up my new La Z Boy recliner...my old one gave up the ghost a few weeks ago...been sitting at weird angles...all I can say is play it LOUD there and back...

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Icecrmcnkd...thanks for the heads up about Hawkwind. They are both great albums-BBC 1972 is one I will be going for. It features the classic line up. The other release, Quark Strangeness and Charm is one of the best albums they made after Lemmy left.

There is also Gong Live in Sheffield 1974 which is as high as the sky.

5/9/77 is also my favourite Dead show from THAT run, so I may well be a poorer man come September !

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Quark,Strangeness and Charm is a great album. Highly recommended. One of my wife’s favourite memories of Hawkwind was seeing them in Manchester around the time of this album with Bob Calvert marching rapidly across the stage under strobe lighting hacking a flag to pieces with a sword. The music was great too.

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we're talkin' multi-tracks from '68????????????????????

Okay, that 8-21-68 with the silly "Origins" book should be available on CD to all. Then ... what? Is that the multi-track in question or is there more? And if it's "soon," then WHEN???

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Colin - I was there, too. Probably. UMIST or The Palace ?-maybe Salford University. I never made note of when I saw them, but I always did if I knew about it. From 1973 to 2019. This is quite likely the first year in 47 years that I have not seen them.

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Love this show. It's the one that turned me from casual Grateful Dead listener to fullfledged DeadHead. And a multitrack to boot. Right out of the starting gate with what I believe to be the finest Promised Land ever (5/23/72 and 5/16/72 are close behind). Bertha, Bird Song, Dark Star, China Cat Sun Rider, Playing in the Band, Deal, and just about everything else is as good as it it gets to my ears. Not a fan of Sing Me Back Home - would have preferred Truckin' or Brokedown Palace. Here we go......

My cats swear by them too...my old one lasted 13 years...kinda weird to sit in a new one...feel like I'm sitting on a phone book but it will break in soon enough ...

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I'm lucky if my cats even ALLOW me to sit in my favorite chair. You'd think that feeding, cleaning poop, playing and stroking might earn a little respect, but no. Apparently, these things are owed!!

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Three Dog Night-Suitable For Framing
Mark Lindsay-Complete Singles Collection
Dave's Picks 2-only disc 1 would play :(
Santana-Borboletta
Santana-Festival

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Hey now I too have lazy boys and cats, just got a new lazy boy couch with a recliner on both ends and a beautiful large lazy boy recliner that is controlled by a remote control, awesome. Being an armchair warrior during this revolution that is on going, I need my lazy boy. My cats also love them, the last one that I traded in I got in 1999 and the cats kinda tore and dug and scratched the front of the arms, like cats will do, but we let them do what ever they want as long as they continue to hang around. You know you live with them, they allow you to.
Revolution music
Volunteers Jefferson Airplane "looks what's happening out in the street"
In Rock Deep Purple "wait for the ricochet"
In for the Kill Budgie "when I was born I was given a will, that the meaning of life is I'm in for the Kill"
Captain Beyond Captain Beyond "what was my armworth when they took it away"
Buffalo Springfield Buffalo Springfield "It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound, everybody look what's going down"
If I could breathe, I'd be out there....

" I'm an urban guerilla, I make bombs in my cellar / I'm society's destructor, I'm a petrol bomb constructor"-Hawkwind's follow up single to Silver Machine in 1973. It wasn't a hit, partly because it got banned by the BBC and partly because it wasn't very good. They apparently got busted by the bomb squad , too. Its great when people take you seriously.

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Glad you agree

I was fluffing that show recently

Terrapin

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Then I must say, I really admire your fluff!

"Foot of Pride"...?? Robert Zimmerman I do believe......

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I liked 7-22-84 a lot as well.

Also liked Dave’s 35. Gotta put the show in order, but it’s all good.

And Foot of Pride is a solid Infidels outtake—there were many.

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just asking for anyone with accurate info on Dave's recent utterances, re: multi-track '68 tape release(s)...

We know there's that juicy 10-21-68 that goes with "Origins" -- is that multi-track?

Any other date(s) mentioned? Or is this idle guesswork.

As the victim/protagonist yelped in the final scene of The Fly: "Help me! Help me!"

pick up a family member. On the way I listened to 10 21 71 Dark Star > Sittin' > Dark Star. Bright moon, Jupiter, city skyline...I wait at a curbside for passenger.

At the end of DS reprise, Jerry says "go", and Bobby McGee starts. After a brief moment, my passenger opens the door.

The timing was perfect. That ol' Grateful Dead magic.

Went down to a Record Store Day in Bethel Connecticut to pick up The Who's ODDS and SODS and came upon an interesting BATCH of DAVE'S PICKS in the wrapper. I was shocked I think there was 5 or 6 of them from Dave's 30-35 or 36. These 2 brothers run the store and they do barter. So if your interested give them a holler. name of store is called Disc and Dat in Bethel CT (203) 797-0067. Also saw some LP's. Good Luck.

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I'm in Denver. Now that uninterrupted 90-degree days have passed, my wall 'o morning glories that protect the backporch where I fingerpick (the guitar, not my nose) in the evenings has gone from a wall of multi-colored blooms and sun-blocking big green leaves to seed, dwindling to a few hardy flowers and otherwise entropy is running its course. I love fall for the changes, the final bloom of the cannabis plant, the cool morning temps and quickening step, but the senescence is always a little bittersweet.

Correction: I see that it's 8-21-68 (not 10-21-68) that's on vinyl for purchasers of silly comic books. So, yes, I'd like that Dark>Stephen>Death medley on CD, it's a little under ~40 minutes. Tack on another show -- those '68 shows often only run 60-75 minutes, probably set's worth on a multi-act show -- and we've got a winner. Don't think Dave will kill off (3) '68s to make a Pick, though, sadly.

I see that the downloads with the book are all previously released tracks, so no '68 multi-track raising its head there.

Dreaming of another '68 multitrack. The one in 30 Trips is due for another spin.

Cheers, stay safe all.

I put this show back together as follows:

disc 2 Space - stop 3:13
disc 3 Space - start 0:16
crossfade 00:00:30

Also crossfaded the sets.

Total show time - 160:28

Tad too long for 2 CD’s.

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there is a sticker you can get that is a smiling frog doing the two finger peace sign

Might be nationwide, but not sure

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Put me in mind of the wonderful Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - I’m the urban spaceman baby, I’ve got speed, I’ve got everything I need.

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Frank Parry - that was nearer the mark!

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Not that Dave is listening to you, but 10 shows at 2 discs each, is another freakin' $250 box, doooood!

How about a three-nighter from fall '72? $100.... Or a $100 '69 box?

Seems like we must be only a week+ away from an AB 50th pre-order, no?

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I'm ready, I hope they release 9/20/70 with it.

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If he uses 70 at all, I’m going with 9/19/70 only cause Dave had it on his original maybe “list” way back when, and if you check it out, many of the releases put out so far are on that list. I’m assuming part of that would have been determined from knowing tapes were available (and that was back in like 2012?)....I think the only other 70 shows on that list are from 1/2/70 which of course is Dave’s 30...
Obviously just speculation but it is interesting how many of those shows have come out.

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The Dark Star alone is reason enough. I am under the impression that there aren't any high quality tapes from 2nd half '70, due to Bear in jail.

I would be surprised to see a 10 show box set from 68/69. Maybe 3 or 4 shows is marketable. For 10 shows we're looking at 2nd half 1972, and I'm all for it. Dark Star Galore.

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I would love ANYTHING from 1970, even if it was a compilation or highlights. Pickings are obviously slim, but something's got to be out there. How about the 5/24 Hollywood Festival from Newcastle England that year??I would LOVE to have a clean, crisp, clear, well mixed version of that show! The 4/15/70 show is one of my top 5 fave's from Boxzilla.

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