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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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.

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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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No tapes from 1970 second half is what I’ve thought too via the nice folks here who know way more about all that then me. But he has it on that list he put out I think right before the start of Dave’s Picks and so far many of the releases (not just DaP‘s) are on that list. Sorry, I can’t find the link and I have the list written down on paper at home....Somebody here posted it again last winter I think?
Since he posted that in I believe 2012 even before all the big returns, I’m assuming there’s tapes for that show?
But that’s all I have, so just speculation....

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'Cause you can't push Jerry 'round
Jerry won't go
Tried tellin' everybody but,
whoa no
Little Jerry Jerry won't
go home

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Putting our feet down -- give us the very best fall '70 show left in the vault to go with AB 50th or we're walking out of here, every single one of us.

Uh, wait, you guys are behind me, r-r-r-right??!!

Dang, all alone again on a windswept highway and no cars in sight............

I have said it before, and I may be wrong, but it doesn't make sense to me to release the anniversary of AB this year. We have already had the WD 50th anniversary release, and as they didn't release a studio album in 1971 there isn't an anniversary edition available for next year. So I would think the anniversary AB will come out in 2021 sometime.

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I imagine it will probably be from 1972 or 1973, I don't believe we are going to get another box set this year, unfortunately. We will have to wait until next year when Dave releases that big 10 show 1969 box set. It will be 10 of the best remaining shows from 1969. They will probably put out an economy model, for those who don't want to drop so much cash.

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Daverock, too late, I'm pretty sure AB 50 is a lock for this fall.

As for DaP36, a '72 or '73 would be most welcome. Although two '69 shows are not out of the question. Too few '74s left, too many '77s and '78s already released (and a '77 already this year).

As for the 2021 box, I just hope I'm still in my home by this time next year. We really don't know what's coming down the pike. "This darkness got to give...."

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I share your enthusiasm for 1969 Billy, but unfortunately I don't think the 1969 set lists are varied enough to offer a marketable10 shows with what's left in the vault. Maybe 3 or 4 shows if the tapes sound good. 1972 is a much more likely candidate for 10 shows I believe. But why stop there? May as well go 30 Trips on us.

Hendrix, sorry to hear about your house situation.

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I'll take as much 69 as I can get. Dreading might be right about the marketing aspect..

Still, I keep thinking we are due, we could start with the Ark, but why stop there - let's slip put a few '68's for good measure.

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To me, with improvisational music, the actual set lists don't matter so much. Between 1968 and mid 1969 ( at least), the Dead honed and developed some incredible music, and I would be interested to hear, literally, every show from that timespan. As the song lists developed, the intensity maybe reduced over the timespan of the whole show. In the 60s they burned the candle at both ends. Shorter shows, less songs - but history in the making.

I guess with listening to shows with limited sets lists, listening pleasure depends on what is done with the material, rather than on what the actual material is. I have a 3cd/1 dvd set of the second Miles Davis Quintet here from October/November 1967. Basically the same set list on each of the 5 shows, but it really works. Listen to one show, and I can't help going on to the next.
The opposite is the 4 cd Humble Pie box from Fillmore East 1971. 4 shows which are virtually identical. Play one - that's all I need. Its a good show - the sound quality is amazing but the same show repeated 4 times, almost note for note, is a bit much. Listen to one, and move on to another band, I'm afraid.

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Whoa, oh what I want to know-Oh
Where does the time go?

Can't believe it is September first already. WTF. This year has both whizzed by while simultaneously dragged me through the mud whilst plunging hot forks into my eyeballs. And somehow here we are.

Give Me Five!
I'm Still Alive!

Oh, and 69 is a fantastic number as well as a mighty fine year of the GD.

Carry On, Be Well People.

- Sixtus

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The show from San Jose State , 10/31/69, is a good one. There are 3 shows from Winterland in late October of 1969 that look cool. Also the shows from the Veterans hall in n Santa Rosa, June 1969, are cool. But that 10/31/69 show, if not part of a larger box , certainly could be a stand alone release.

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Thanks gents, no immediate threat to home ownership here, just recognizing that biz has to pick up and we don't know what the next 12 months will bring. I should have worded it differently: many face uncertainty. No woe-is-me here, just putting my hopes into starker terms than needed at this point.

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36, sheeeett, I’m still waiting to know WTF happened to 35...
4 weeks since it was a mile from our house but was sent back (still not sure why shipping label was changed?)
3 weeks since the PO in Carlsbad said the receiver, Rhino?, refused it? and now nobody seems to have a clue where it is and the radio silence is deafening...

69 is mighty fine, but concur that a ten show box is probably not marketable. Also don’t think they’d want to deplete what quality shows they have in one shot. Sure an Ark box now, a Dave’s or 2 later, ya know, spread it out. Sorta like 74, been spreading that since way back in the nineties. But with Dave & company, who the hell knows? From what I read recently, something tells me Pinkus is likely hands on too...
But hey, here’s to 69! Perhaps 36 will be 69, which might somehow tie to if 6 were 9, which ties to Hendrixfreak, which means it’ll be a fall 72!
figure at some point he’s gonna hit those Summer Berkeley shows again...2 I believe are on that list of his...

PS: Love Weir doing if 6 were 9

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Whew..

I guess it was a bit premature to claim dibs on your E72 box then. Sincere apologies.

:D

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Here’s that Dave’s Possible List that someone posted I think last winter? Sorry, can’t find the link to the original interview...
The gist was these were shows he was “thinking“ about back then (2012?, maybe earlier?)...
Since he’d been around for a while by then you’d assume he knew of sources? Maybe not?
Apologize for any mistakes...just find it interesting that he’s used 17 outta 45 of this list in what? 8 years or so...

POSSIBLE LIST
-1/20/68 Eureka DS
-4/21/69 Ark DS
-4/23/69 Ark DS
-1/2/70 Fillmore DS - DaP 30 ✔️
-1/3/70 Fillmore p/o - Dap 30 ✔️
-9/19/70 Fillmore DS
-11/7/71 Harding DS
-1/2/72 Winterland
-8/24/72 Berkeley DS
-2/15/73 Dane DS
-5/26/73 Kezar (BB)
-6/10/73 RFK DS
-6/30/73 Universal Amp. DS
-9/11/73 W&M DS
-5/17/74 PNE - PNW Box ✔️
-5/19/74 Portland - PNW Box ✔️
-6/23/74 Miami DS - DaP 34 ✔️
-7/31/74 Dillon - DaP 2 ✔️
-9/28/75 Lindley - 30Trips ✔️
-6/14/76 Beacon (BB) - 76 Box ✔️
-6/15/76 Beacon (BB) - 76 Box ✔️
-10/3/76 Cobo - 30Trips ✔️
-5/18/77 Fox
-5/26/77 Baltimore
-11/4/77 Colgate - DaP 12 ✔️
-1/18/78 Stockton
-1/22/78 Eugene - DaP 23 ✔️
-1/15/79 Springfield
-8/30/80 Spectrum
-10/14/80 Warfield
-3/9/81 MSG
-5/16/81 Cornell - 30Trips ✔️
-8/30/83 Hult
-10/21/83 Worcester - 30Trips ✔️
-10/9/84 Worcester
-11/2/84 Berkeley
-9/18/87 MSG - 30Trips ✔️
-7/29/88 Laguna
-10/26/89 Miami DS - 30Trips ✔️
-12/27/89 Oakland
-10/27/90 Zenith- 30Trips ✔️
-6/22/91 Soldier Field DSJ
-9/26/91 Boston DS
-3/29/93 Albany HCSS
-9/13/93 Spectrum DS

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10/31/69 or 5/26/73

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I'd like to see 10/19/71 at Northrop Auditorium. First Keith show, debut performances of Tennesee Jed, Jack Straw, Mexicali Blues, Comes a Time, One More Saturday Night, AND Ramble On Rose.

Historic night deserves Pickin.

--A Charlie Miller SB Remaster

Fox Theatre
St. Louis, MO
10/18/1972

Set I
01 Bertha
02 Me And My Uncle
03 Don't Ease Me In
04 Mexicali Blues
05 Brown Eyed Women
06 Beat It On Down The Line
07 Bird Song
08 Big River
09 Loser
10 Jack Straw
11 Big Railroad Blues
12 El Paso
13 China Cat Sunflower >
14 I Know You Rider

Set II
01 Playing In The Band >
02 Drums
03 Dark Star >
04 Morning Dew >
05 Playing In The Band
06 Deal
07 Promised Land
08 Brokedown Palace
09 One More Saturday Night
10 Casey Jones

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Sacramento 8/12/72 or
Long Beach 12/15/72

*predicted by Gollum 9/1/20, 8:35pm(PT)*

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I get the feeling Maples Pavilion 73 will get released one day too.

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...love everyone’s picks for Dave’s Picks #36!
I love Dave’s Old List!
I love More Pigpen!
I love another 80’s Dave’s Picks for #36!
I love...what?! wait a minute...What?! 🙃
🙃

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Although it is quite possible that DaP 36 will be from the 2nd half of 1972, it's unlikely either show release will come to fruition. We can cross off 1974, 1976, 1977, and the rest of the 1980's decade.
My prediction is a 60's show or a 2 or 3 60's compilation.
We will find out what Dave's Picks Volume 36 will be sometime in mid-October.

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I really find annoying when the band started not having the Phil intro in The Other One. 6 29 84 for exmple. Bobby whispers the first set of lyrix.

Phil intro, please.

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I read an interview with Keith Richards recently, in which he said that he felt one of his principle roles in creating Stones records was in setting them up with a memorable introduction. Which figures...countless records by The Stones can identified by their opening chords. These intros are excellent scenes setters - much as Phil's bass runs are for The Other One. As indicated by Proudfoot, below.

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We Want Phil!

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DROP THEM I say!
Agreement here is simple.

Sixtus

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In Phil we trust.

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AWESOME

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It is the lack his identifiable presence that is a major let down, for me, on Dave's 35. One of the enduring aspects of the Dead's music is the way Phil and Jerry played off one another. Maybe he had given up the ghost by 1984.

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He was there.. the main problems in the '80's were the recordings and the mix, but there were weak nights. The Weir Mickey Mouse voice effect was got old exactly the second time it was deployed as well, and I do miss the thundering opening bass riffs that mark peak Other Ones. The whispering vocal entries don't compare well.

...perhaps Phil began his triumphant return with the Hampton Box of Rain breakout in March, 86.

Much like with the Grinch's heart, his bass and amp grew three sizes that day and doubled again that the day he gave up the Heinekens.

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Following trends, it seems that Dave has been giving a good mix of eras each year. Eras based upon band makeup:
Pigpen
One drummer 1971-74, with or without Pigpen and/or Keith, which can be separated into three distinct eras (just Pig, Pig and Keith, and just Keith)
Two drummer post-hiatus 1976-early 79
Brent era
He has skipped Vince era so far

So far this year, we have gotten two drummer post-hiatus, one drummer 71-74 (no Pigpen) and Brent era. I don't see us getting something from 73 so close to the Jai Alia 74 show. It seems they usually use this release to help with subscription sales for next year, so I don't see it being a Vince era. I think this will be a Pigpen release, hoping for a two show 68 or 69 release personally.

I doubt 1970 as there will be an American Beauty release with a show, hopefully something from said year. I saw somewhere speculation that they would put off the 50th anniversary AB release until next year because we already got one this year with Workingman's Dead. No way. What, we are going to celebrate the 51st anniversary of the release? I don't think so....

Anyway, I am really hoping for Pigpen on this next release, preferably pre-Keith. I would like more Primal Dead in my collection.

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I believe thats the show where the wolfman introduces them for the 2nd set and they go right into Ramble on Rose.

Clap for the wolfman,
he gon rate your record high
Clap for the wolfman
You're gon dig him til the day you die

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I came up with this hypothesis before Volume 35 and it seems to be on point so far.

Dave’s Picks 2020 Subscriptions on 10/29/19 Dave states:
“I love the 2019 as much as I’ve ever loved any of the years we’ve done. I really do, I think that the variety is quite perfect.”

He goes on and IMO implies that the 2020 release schedule will be very similar to that “perfect” format.

2019 - Eras
1977-02-26 - Volume 29 - Keith & Donna 2 Drummer Era
1970-02-01 - Volume 30 - Pigpen Era
1979-12-03 - Volume 31 - Brent Era
1973-03-24 - Volume 32 - Keith & Donna 1 Drummer Era

2020 - Eras
1977-10-29 - Volume 33 - Keith & Donna 2 Drummer Era
1974-06-23 - Volume 34 - Keith & Donna 1 Drummer Era
1984-04-20 - Volume 35 - Brent Era
Volume 36 - Pigpen Era!

So for what it’s worth - I call Pigpen Era ’68 - ’69 for Volume 36. (Since we'll prob get 1970-71 stuff with AB 50th)

I guess we’ll find out next month ;)

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This is a killer show, time to get this out Dave. This is just a few streets over from where the Dead played their first show as the Grateful Dead, the San Jose Acid Test, The house they played in is still there, they saved it as a landmark. The Rolling Stones were playing at the San Jose Civic Auditorium that night and two of them showed up at the Acid Test later that night.

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Rest in peace Jerilyn Brandelius, passed away a few days ago. She was author of The Grateful Dead Family Album, and Mickey Hart's girlfriend for many years. She was very sweet, and had a great sense of humor.

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are a lot like Brad Marchand. They both bale when you need them the most.

Islanders dominated, but got screwed by a broken shaft. The NHL should ban those damn things.

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People of Earth-

Greetings from the great beyond.

I am contacting you at this time to assure you that all is well and to let you know that Dick's Picks shall continue in my absence just as before. My plans for future releases are well known to my teammates and they have sworn with their blood to remain true to the cause.

I hope this release will alleviate any doubts concerning my posthumous powers.

The Archivist formerly known as Dick

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