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  • #6651
    wilfredtjones
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    You know it's on Dave's radar as he has played some of it on 30 Days in past years. Good show and one of my first tapes. Keep the stories coming! :-)

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    So after basically staying up for 2 days at SPAC, we finally pack it up and hit the road the next day. I believe it was a rainy, gloomy day most of the day. But that didn’t stop our idiot patrol from basically racIng at high speed through the fine but conservative state of Pennsytuckey, where they were one of the last to let go of the 55 mph laws, and back then there usually wasn’t much tolerance. So 2 cars of totally raging nutknicks, with probably enough cargo to keep us detained for decades, thought it’d be a good idea to race at speeds up to 90!, Idiots!.....yes, one car had a radar detector, but in those days smart cops would wait for some nut traveling high speed and click it on when they had ya dead nuts.
    Luckily, all was well and it was one more “miracle” as we earnestly pursued our quest for “too much of everything is just enough”, aaaa, never considered back then maybe Bob was being sarcastic? Lol
    So we roll on into Chocolate town late and all beat up. I’m guessing we grabbed some kind of drive through, but not sure and as we were hardcore vegetarian then, perhaps we thought we’d grab something there? It’s all such a blur, I do recall the lot we were in had no or little Shakedown action going on. That still wasn’t in full flight anyway, and don’t recall much there, so maybe we drank our supper? I know I scored some Carlsberg Elephant beer, and believe I may have finished it, though that is a tall order even under good conditions so perhaps not. I’m sure I put in dent in it at least! So, that and the last of one z of veggies, though the tricky part was it was mostly just powder and scraps and so no normal produce to properly gage etc, which would turn out to be a tactical error...
    So it’s late, we’re tired, but tweaked, perhaps no dinner, and of course it’s horrible out. Dark, rainy, and cold is usually not how you want to do your Dead. Eventually we get in perfect time, slip right in front of the SB and try to make the best of the situation. Well I had a shirt, a black baseball jacket, and the electric Buffalo Hyde, but even still it was damp and cold at first. Eventually, when things started to take hold and we started boogieing, we began to warm up a bit.
    Meanwhile, the set list is awesome, but the conditions, which necessitated all the stage and PA speakers being covered in plastic (there was no stage lid) thereby severely effecting the audio. It’s was such a weird show that way, loved the little “stadium” and the nice audiophile stereo set up, with surrounds, great set list, mostly good playing, yes JGs vocals are a little ruff in the first set, but you have to cut some slack as it was terrible, I mean depending on the wind/rain they were getting rained on playing electrical instruments! Weird indeed, but like so many times in adverse conditions our heroes seemed to rise to the challenge. Thus the playing was perhaps more relaxed, steady and together and not forced like the previous night. Really, besides JGs vocal issues in the first, its a top notch show!
    The second set really starts to take it higher with stellar versions of Music Never Stopped, Terrapin, Miracle and one of the best Dews I’ve ever seen! I think I saw about 14 or 15 Dews and when I think about Dews I’ve seen, this one is the one I always think of first! Rocking Stones/NFA with a spirited Day Job. I liked Day Job, but by now it was getting a tad old, and was a disappointment for this show considering how high it was at that point. A She Belongs or Baby Blue would of been a perfect Cherry on top, but perhaps that’s being greedy?
    Now since the weather was such a factor, we must discuss that and how it influenced this show. The second set starts out with their “signing in the rain” as Bob says, and it’s a good’n! Next they slowly slid into an unusual sounding Tom Thumbs which I had never heard yet, and wasn’t even sure at first what it was, but hey, it was Phil so that’s all I needed to know! Good but perhaps truncated Estimated, followed by an awesome Terrapin. So as the set started to progress, so did the weather until (I think?) around Estimated it really started to clear up and they started pulling the plastic tarps down. It was almost like you could immediately hear it get better after each one was removed. Eventually by about Terrapin, they tarps we’re gone, the moon and stars were out, and Healy started increasing the volume and tweaking the mix. I remember we were goading him to turn it up, and man eventually he sure did!
    As the night wore on it began to warm up a bit too. But as you’ve heard this scenario, or been there yourself, many times I didn’t feel quite high enough so what the hell, one more time with the powder veggie crumbles just before drums......hee-hee....you know, “I’m not feeling it?” and then...Dooah!
    So the problem with those baseball jackets is they don’t really breath and the electric Buffalo Hyde was thick plastic. We didn’t have all the nice technical outer gear we have now, or at least WE didn’t. I could barely afford the free plastic one from the old mans work.
    Well a perfect storm mounted; little or no food, Elephants, veggies etc, no sleep, excess everything and underlying exhaustion, with me starting to overheat due to the above and dancing with that plastic shell on. Things were going unbelievable well, and partly influenced by the very recent passing of my Grandfather, during Dew, things peaked musically, the sound, the night, the stars, emotionally etc etc until I had one of the most powerful musical/emotional/psychedelic peak experiences of my life. Perhaps my all time GD moment, it was that powerful. But what goes up must come down and just like that the radiator blew and that last handful of shroom dust fully kicked in and somewhere in Throwing Stones, right during ashes, ashes all fall down, well.....I say i didn’t really fall down, it was more like an immediate realization that if I don’t sit down rapidly, I’m going down! LOL, so one way or another, depending on who you believe, I end up down in the soft, cool mud until near the end of the song, but I swear just as I tried to get up I knew it wasn’t going to happen, so right on que again I go back down. My friends to this day always bring up my perfectly coreographed “Dance moves” above all else that happened on this tour..35 years later and it’s still “ashes, ashes, Pedro falls down” !
    That would of all been well and good except things were very strange and weren’t wearing off, and I was barely functioning. I never would of found the car etc If not for my homies. Honestly all I remember is them pulling into a Wendy’s or something, but I just sat in the car with my face literally stuck to the window and crackled! Zzzzttttt. I really thought I had finally fried some essential circuits and thought this time I really did it. At some point I snapped out enough to find some kids in another car staring at me with a look of concern if not fear. Luckily, the boys finished up and came out and got us outta there. Somewhere near the state line we finally grabbed a motel as we all had had more than enough rain and adversity. Plus the next day was off and the drive short. I remember they propped me up in bed and I just sat and crackled and worried. Eventually I slept and though I felt better the next day, I didn’t feel normal and don’t recall much except when we got to Merriweather and found a good spot just over the creek, right next to the path, in some trees, on the way to the big parking lots to the right of the venue. But now it was nice and I was feeling more normal so not so freaked out. I also remember going to a nearby sorta plaza with an upscale liquor store where I scored my first sixer of EKU 28 ever which was awesome!
    So now we’ve moved beyond the insanity of TOGA, the adversity and majesty of Hershey, and ready for perhaps the best overall show of the tour on 6/30/85....

    EDIT: Otis, congrats on the stereo. All that matters is if your happy with it. After all the specs and hyperbole etc, no matter how big, small, expensive etc, in the end, that’s all that counts!

  • #6653
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    Nice rec for the TDIGDH 6/28/76 show! I'd never heard that one before, and it is pretty sweet. The "Happiness is Drumming" is certainly a highlight!

    I have been out of the loop for a bit - trying to deal with some personal stuff on my end, and I just kind of lost track of things around these parts. I hope to be able to participate more going forward.

    To that end, how about a pick for tomorrow, Monday 6/29? I am thinking Dave's 31 - 12/3/79 Uptown. I feel like this pick got a short shrift on the DaP page, but I remember being very happy with it, though I haven't given it a proper listen since it first came out. What do you all think?

    One positive thing that I have accomplished since I've been away has been the set up of my first component stereo system. I don't know if it compares to all of your "big boy" systems, but it certainly feels BIG in my little row home! Looking forward to playing it LOUD tomorrow when the wife goes to work.

    Peace

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    Bode Miller...

    First, GOGD, I did not mean to single you out, over generalizations, which become stereotypes, which become truth etc, really bum me out. So it was more of a trigger to that, not you personally. I know you were just repeating this line.
    Actually, as I’ve dug in deeper, there are probably a significant number of shows where he often doesn’t sound so good, but to over generalize that “his voice was shot”, as in never more, to me, imho, that completely devalues and discounts all the amazing, great sounding stuff he was still able to do. 87,88,89,90,91anyone? Micro view versus macro perhaps?

    SECOND: I must humbly recant my tale of dancin in the rain. As we were diligently experiencing TOGA last night. Too things became apparent. First, perhaps JG was a tad “caffeinated” at the start of both sets. Listening close on a real system, (not the big boy, but the living room system which ain’t no slouch!), he seems a tad to fast and/or their not fully entrained. One could argue not fully so until Women Are?...so probably something to do with him totally skipping the Key Rain Storm, and Jailhouse versus, of Bertha, lol.
    Thus, while I wasn’t deceitful, I was not accurate. Sure enough, when Holmes and Watson ripped a spleef and fired up Bertha from SPAC 6/24/84, and bingo, ding, ding, ding, ding! Right venue, wrong year! 😂 Ooops, my apologies to the dear reader...but hey, it’s a fun interesting new tid bit, and it did rain, I think, lol.
    While doing this research I was listening just on the iPad and interestingly he doesn’t sound as bad? Also, I’ve been going with the HS matrixes, especially shows where I want to hear those crowd big moments. Generally they’ve been pretty good, but researching, I used a CM transfer and man, definitely a big difference. Perhaps number one being the speed/time of the Miller seemed better and more natural?
    Subjective I know, just that it’s interesting how every variable can effect perceptions.
    6/27/85: so this beast is still as much of a rocket sled ride as I’ve thought, but it’s perhaps a tad more unpolished then I would of said in the past. But that’s being picky, and you know I prefer danger dead to safe, so as at this moment, Hell in a bucket is scorching, I stick by this show for that, the cool set list, and the fact that eventually, say around Women Are on out, that part of the show stands with its lofty summer 85 neighbors. Probably have to give 6/24& perhaps 6/25? a slight advantage overall, but man I haven’t been to many shows that had the vibe, fun, and overall madness of this puppy.

    So why is 85 Dead like Bode Miller? He often was criticized for his erratic style, or lack thereof, his nonconformity, often disregard for the rules, including parting then basically going 80 MPH down an insane pitch, that was usually hosed down to make it more icy, and thus faster! So just like this era of Dead, sometimes he’d DQ, sometimes he’d slack off, sometimes it was ugly, but when he brought it, that mofo brought it!! and when he was able to be one with the force, it was fucking breathtaking! Scary, but breathtaking. No matter what, if he was racing there was an energy, an excitement, that larger than life vibe......that, to me, is 85 Dead.
    FINALLY: Ladies and Germs, May I present the Electric Buffalo Hyde! as christened by my degenerate cohort due to my resemblance of the great beast of the prairies back in the day, and this baby used to be so bright people would ask if there were batteries. But Alas, like youth itself it’s faded dramatically, and is old and bartered. It definitely gave it’s all to R&R. So many Dead shows, festivals, camping, parties, you name it! Also, it will be a part of an unfortunate situation at the next night, where I lost my shit in Hershey! So until then....

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    If you are too busy to listen to whole show, listen to Happiness is Drumming from set II, if you have never heard or listened to listen you will be pleasantly surprised!!! There is a Charlie Miller soundboard on Internet Archive!!!! bob t

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    Sounds like the ole SPAC '85 show will get some play today.

    Always a fun revisit. Vguy & Keithfan that was you guys?! That's funny.

    I guess I always thought this was an indoor show because of the balcony stuff and didn't know about the rain storm.

    Tell us more.

    And just for the record if I happen to say Jerry's voice is shot, what I mean to say is I love Jerry's voice, even though it's a little shot here. ;)

    I agree, it always sounds great to me.

    Enjoy party people!

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    We were out on the lawn so actually there were many drops, I mean it was already raining hard, and right when he sang that line, biblical!, but it just added to the madness and was one of my favorite concert/rain moments ever! I believe that’s right when folks crashed security on those balcony ramp ways and turned it into a free for all? Yeah, that was the shit, such energy all around, but that rain just took it to another level. Luckily I had my electric buffalo Hyde on! .....it was a psychedelic neon yellow long rain coat with
    BS CORP
    WORK SAFELY (from pops work) printed on back, and a Dancin skeleton sticker underneath that I added. Still have it! I should take a pic and post...fond it moving last year.

  • #6658
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    Summer 85, and why I’m not prepared for class

    Deadheadbrewer: yeah, I’m with you, I can’t keep up with these rascals! Pant-pant 😉
    Haven’t done Riverbend, Nassau or Dane. Prolly give Nassau a spin this WE. Dane I’ve tried to stay away from cause ya gotta believe their going to give us that one someday! Bastards better! and I’d prefer it on virginal ears!
    hey, by the way, how you guys coming on that tunnel under the vault?
    So I listen to Riverbend 6/24/85 sort regularly so no biggie there except in the sense of comparing shows. Except It’s cool to go in order to see the subtle changes and how things progress. Like 6/25/85, definitely have felt a ascending arc since the first night in Alpine. Funny thing is I don’t think I’ve heard the second set of this one before? Had a tape of the first all along, but I think it was a tad too crisp so didn’t get as much love as the shows around it. Plus I think maybe I harbored some subliminal resentment for the show because of our decision to skip it to go to Toga early like we did in 84, which was awesome. Obviously if it made us skip a show that close to home, but Doooaahhh. So not sure how it’s the shows fault. LOL, but I think somehow I’ve had some weird thing about this show that has kept me away? Sorry, ramblings of a deranged lunatic!
    Anywho, finally gave this bad boy a spin yesterday, though had to do it in 2 sessions as life just keeps buttin’ in like a 3 year old when mom and dad are trying to get down! Man what a show. The only really noticeable hiccup I recall was JG at the start of Jimmy, and Bob missed a vocal, really a great set, better than I remember, though I always liked it, just the tape was lesser then the others...
    Second set was hot too, though perhaps they lost just a little near the end? Or maybe that was me as it was late, and by that time on a Friday this ole cowboy is usually not feeling much pain! I recall a couple little blemishes, but so what, you name any show, anyone, and I can find stuff wrong. And sorry, but I’m kinda over hearing about how terrible JGs voice is. Yes, sometimes it’s ruff, but sometimes I think the gravelly age worn voice ADDs to the affect of the songs, which is perhaps what he did best. And frankly, I’ll take the gravel voice singing in tune over a lot of that 1970 stuff we’re between the guitars and the vocals something is ALWAYS out of tune. That’s torturous for a musician.
    Now I’m not trying to diss anyone’s favorite Dead etc, just stating an opinion that people perhaps overdo it with the voice comments. My favorite is when people say “I can’t listen to anything after 77”....ok, we’ll that’s cool as it’s your choice and all, but I’d say really you just have made up your mind you don’t want to like anything after that, and you probably haven’t heard enough and with the right kind of ears. Seriously, I challenge anyone to pick a “perfect” “best of “ show and if I have time I will find the cracks!
    But that’s missing the point which is ITS ALL GOOD! and every era has something positive that the others don’t have. It’s all ways been yin yang folks, there is no such thing as a perfect show, except in our minds eye, which is quite A ok.
    Ok, rant over, I’m obviously biased about my beloved 85!
    Which brings us back to TOOOOOOOGGGGAAAAA!! Yo Butch, back in your seat, there’s 50 thousand people waiting for you to get back in your seat! Madness, the whole scene there was just surreal fucking madness, but in a good way.
    I’m actually going to try and call my old house/band mates at the time as we all went. 2 I think went to blossom, and Pittsburgh. That one too, like WTF basically could of stopped by on the ride home from Merriweather, idiots! Lol, actually, I’m not sure I could have done another show. I may have caused permanent damage at Hershey, and thank god for that day off that I can’t recall much about, and I did take it a tad easier after, but not much. We ate so many veggies on that run that nobody would believe it. But I know what I came with and what was left after so.....looking back, it’s all kinda scary, we’re lucky we never had any real casualties of any sort. Few close calls, but nothing major, phewwww.
    So going to call the lads, and fire up Toga tonight as We have to do a Zoom wedding this afternoon. We were supposed to be out at the Promised land for said wedding and a actual vacation, first since Seattle in ?? 2012!
    Think Homer Simpson “oohhhh, Ssstttooooopid Covid”
    Speaking of living via the net, was that not a fine show on Shakedown last night! Didn’t have the fire like the night before, but a fine well played outing, thanks so much to Dave and Co. for giving us this nice diversion. It’s getting to b3 a regular weekly thing, and gasp, the Mrs has actually been joining me and digging it! .....as long as I give her a good foot massage (usually during drums). She really digs the trippy graphics and colors which is even funnier as she’s never partaken except booze back in da day, it’s like giving a kid castor oil just getting her to have a beer, lol. So yeah, this Friday thing has been like the “ONE” in our music! Right on! and please keep em coming!
    Ok, gotta try and call the guys and reminisce before the wedding. Then.....drum rolls please..........TOOooooGa!

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    JimInMD
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    but there are black clouds building on the horizon here. Looks like a thunderous day on the river is in store for me. Got my waterproof device loaded with 6/27/85, thanks to the gentle steering of the GOGD.

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    Ran into a rainstorm, indeed!

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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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37 years ago at the Marin Veterans Auditorium, they played the last St.Stephen. I had a lot more fun the night before, 10/30/83, when we all dosed, fun city. My favorite Halloween show is 10/31/69 from San Jose State. I saw the Garcia Band on 10/31/86, the Oakland Auditorium kinda swallowed them up, when you were used to seeing them at Keystone Palo Alto.

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Just scored 5-9-77 vinyl at a local shop, $125 + tax.
There were 2 copies, another guy was there at the same time and grabbed the other.

Sounds awesome, but the curse of vinyl means that you have to flip the record after Slipknot!

DaP 36 is ‘in transit by post office’, so fingers are crossed that it comes today.
AB50 is also supposed to arrive today.

Good thing clocks turn back tonight, I’ll need that extra hour for listening if in fact all the CD’s show up.
Not sure if I’ll get in the Halloween anniversary listens, I’ve heard them all many times and the new arrivals may have to come first. We’ll see how things play out tonight.

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Fifty years ago this time I had arrived at Stony Brook by hitchhiking from the panhandle, of Connect over the Throggs Neck Bridge and out the Island to S.U.N.Y. First time seeing the Dead away from the Fillmore. 1970 rural Long Island would have been a different world from now.
Charlie from Brooklyn was numero uno Dead Freak in those days. I met him before the Halloween shows at the student union. He was playing a cassette he made the night before on a high end recorder, boom box. To my memory that was the first Dead tape I ever heard aside from records. Vintage Dead and then Historic Dead were considered like bootlegs.
I recently listened to the complete night from 10/31/70 during the last full moon October 1, same time as breaking a four month Ganga fast. It was blissfull. Otherworldly. NRPS was great with Garcia on pedal steel. Relisten ing now. I easily bought tickets for the two shows. Although everyone was let in free for late show around midnight. I vaguely recall being on Gymnasium floor for early show. Late show was on the top bleacher on the end closest to the stage not 80’ away. One light projection man had a wizard get up with a pointed hat. Pigpen wore a psychedelic fireman’s hat, (for a few songs)each section was painted a different day-glow color.
After the late show ended (3am or later?) I left the Building out the exits behind the stage. Met Pigpen in passing as he was getting in his limo as I was funneled down the police barricade right behind him. I told him thanks, he asked me “did jya have a good time?” , to which I replied. “Definitely!”, . Pig;”that’s good”. My one time meeting the man.
Afterward vaguely remember catching a ride in a Dodge Challenger that drove close to a 100 mph. Over the dawn Troggs Neck Bridge with no traffic. Dropped off in New Rochelle , got on a train for the last stretch. Home by 8am.
The Viola Lee Blues into Cumberland Blues is so excellent.! Happy Halloween

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Happy Halloween all. Pretty cool Dennis, sounds like a blast. I never made it to a Halloween show.

Yes, GOGD, I watched the Preshow with DL.
I think Jim had some comments on this as well last night....
What a drag, they recorded over some of the master reels for Brent's solo stuff. What a bummer.
They used two 16 track to record the whole run.
Per DL there is definitely material available, fair amount, half or more, but not complete shows. DL stated a multi track box release is not necessarily feasible.
So this stinks.

He did mention they still have the mixdown tapes and the sound is okay.

Could they make a box set from mixdown tapes?

Seemed to me that the Warfield Radio City box is a long shot at best. They looked into it in the early 2000s and we are sitting here in late 2020.

Thank god they didn't record over other tapes. We have had some unbelievable releases.

Stay well out there.

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Submitted by billy the kid on Sat, 10/31/2020 - 17:11

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Strider, very cool story meeting Pig Pen. You saw the Grateful Dead at their peak, 1970, their greatest year as far as I'm concerned.

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Great times.. wish I was there. Thanks for sharing. The closest I got to a New Years show was 11/1 once. Oh well.

I did finally get through a quite uninterrupted listen of Dekalb. A high energy show with flawless transitions. Still far from my favorite from '77, but it is a great show. Perhaps I am just splitting hairs.

I will say this, this is one of those shows you really need to play loud, from Might As Well to the end.

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Submitted by Strider 808808 on Sun, 11/01/2020 - 06:43

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Listened to 10/31/70 NRPS early show yesterday. Early show Dead last night with full moon. Viola into Cumberland rocks. Second set this morning at 420 am with coffee, full moon. Today is Todos Santos , All Saints Day or Day of the Dead. Fifty years ago at Pritchard Gym at S.U.N.Y. I remember it took a long time before they opened the doors for the late show. There was a very large crowd at the gym entrance. Nevertheless way less intense than in the city for a Dead show. Sometime after 11pm they finally let everyone in for free, they did not collect tickets. As NRPS was around midnight the late show Dead set was technically November 1, Day of the Dead.

Wow, meeting Pigpen.
That's a keeper for sure.

Strider do you recall your impression of the difference between the Gymnasium vibe and the Fillmore East or what you were thinking about the scene in comparison?
EDIT: Mind Meld Bro!! I see you were just discussing this in your post below 1 minute before I posted this question.
Diff vibe from the city. I'm thinking FE vibe had to be intense!

Also I wonder if that tape Charlie-O was playing came from the SBD that the Sound Crew made?

Thanks for sharing man, Great Story!

In regards to 10/31/70 tape, the Taper's Compendium mentions the following:
Bobby going into "a tirade against some nameless soundman. After Pigpen threatens to rip off the head of the aforementioned sound engineer and defecate in it, the problems seem to get resolved, thereby saving the show from a decline into fecal ultraviolence." - Haha, I love that line.... (Shout Out - Nice work Paul Bodenham & Taper's Compendium Crew!)

However, I don't hear that anywhere on the "tapes" I've got or the sources on Archive.org.
Supposedly it happened after Cosmic Charlie. Anybody got that / hear that on "tape"?

It might be the case where the source mentioned in Taper's Compendium isn't in digital circulation, but now I'm curious what's going on there. If anybody has info on that, let me know as I was looking forward to hearing that all day and darn it, I'm not hearing that anywhere.

Started listening to 2/18/71, it's sounding good friends. Strider was that your next show?
EDIT: Scratch that question you were at all 4 nights at the Cap in November '70. You Lucky Dog You!!!

Alright, well this is probably long enough as I spent some time already today on... 30 Days of the Dead!
Guessed it, if you can call searching through other versions and comparing a guess.
Do people actually just remember the version upon hearing it, or how does that work for you all?
I remember the first year just thinking how in the world do these heads know this shit?!?!?
Now.. I might be there. Is that a good thing? Not sure.

Anyhow, if you read this far, thanks for visiting and I hope you have a wonderful day!
Go play Dead.
I'm gonna finish up 2/18/71 today and might have to do it all over again.
Good stuff!

PS - if this wasn't so long already I would've talked a bit about 1977-10-29 - Sounded ripping / Might As Well is a power house version and the energy seems to stay there, but I was distracted and didn't finish. And 1980 Warfield / Radio City Reels, 2 Track & Multi-Track but it'd all be speculation.

That’s everyday for folks here.

Just started spinning 2-18-71 and it sounds spectacular!

USPS is in possession of my DaP 36, but apparently they have to accept the package. So current status is “received, the acceptance of your package is pending”.

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Submitted by bob t on Sun, 11/01/2020 - 11:36

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Mcgaw Memorial Hall.... 11/1/73 Evanston!! Morning Dew>Playing>UJB>Playin!!! Last show of the tour that started in Oklahoma City... Next up Winterland 73 a week later!!! Don't think the first set of 11/1/73 circulates but i could be wrong... The snow has melted here in Rhode Island... Made it through the first Hartford 87 show last night... I cheated and listened to the Wall Song from the upcoming 5/21/71 Jerry show,, really good I have to say... Bob t

Bob T, 11/1/73 that's a good call, Now I wanna give that a listen.
No Set 1 that I'm seeing, anybody got it?

Got caught up in 2/18/71. Wow great sound quality. Really cool to hear Ned's contributions so well. Can't remember if they showed up in the ole bootleg, but they're nicely placed in the mix here. Good stuff.

Whose playing 30 Days Guesses?

Today is fun.

BTW I really dig the 5/12/79 Set 2 material in Taper's Section today.
SBD doesn't circulate so check it out.
Has some reel flips in Terrapin & NFA and a few drop outs in PITB. But if you haven't heard it, it's worth a visit.
I like '79 cool year.

Alright, lmk if there's a pick today.
Lots a Dead a happening.

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Submitted by DeadVikes on Mon, 11/02/2020 - 12:47

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Send us a pick GOGD.

I am thinking 11/4/77 for Wednesday. Colgate, Dave's #12.

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Submitted by The Good Ole G… on Mon, 11/02/2020 - 15:13

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How about 3/26 & 3/27/87?

I just got mine today. Anybody else on here get there's?

Or 2/18/71 needs a nice day of listening...

Couldn't resist, the Dead has landed.

Otherwise give 11/1/73 a listen, it's late in the day and it's only a partial Set 2.

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Submitted by JimInMD on Mon, 11/02/2020 - 15:17

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I'm no help.. hopelessly behind again. I'm in for Colgate though. It's been years since I listened to it. ..and fresh off my (our) other recent Fall 77 listen, quite timely. If we did something, something short as the hour is getting late.

Greek 68, 30 Trips, Holfheinz Pavilion 72? Something like that??

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Submitted by DeadVikes on Mon, 11/02/2020 - 16:09

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I don't have my Dave's 36, maybe by the end of the week. Don't know why some of us get these so much later than others. Don't blame you for cracking it out.

Shoot, you have people getting them in Europe faster than here in MN.

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Submitted by bob t on Mon, 11/02/2020 - 16:46

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I was lucky and got Dave's Saturday, and the 2/18/71 show arrived today... (That one just sat in pre-whatever and just showed up US mail).. I am listening to the Omni 6/20/74 show, just started. I listened to 6/8/74 yesterday.. Trying to listen to my neglected 74 shows.... Roanoke is up for tomorrow. have a good night everyone. bob t

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Submitted by JimInMD on Tue, 11/03/2020 - 06:41

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..but I live in the middle of nowhere. Mail still comes via pony express and coal train.

Maybe today?

Roanoke sounds like a good pick for today. I always thought it was one of the lesser shows from '74, but I'll take 'lesser' show from '74 any day of the week. Nice eyes encore. I should get some time later today. Things are beginning to ease up a bit.

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Submitted by bob t on Tue, 11/03/2020 - 07:39

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On Playing already for end of first set... I know why i gloss over this show, and it is because of set II. There is a 10 minute US Blues that goes into Promised Land.. That is it for the jam. Eyes encore... Well played, good Charlie Miller board. Like i said in previous post, I neglect 6/8 Oakland, 6/20 Atlanta (No tapes available back in the day), Roanoke, and the 9/14 Muenchen show... Bob t

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Submitted by Slow Dog Noodle on Tue, 11/03/2020 - 09:38

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I'm in. Im not familiar with this show, but it is close to the Selland Arena show. How bad could it be ; )

I hope everyone voted today!!

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Submitted by JimInMD on Tue, 11/03/2020 - 10:31

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That PITB is a hot one. Perhaps the highlight of the show. Staring the second set now.

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Submitted by Slow Dog Noodle on Tue, 11/03/2020 - 11:46

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Agreed Jim. I like in the Playin how they break it down about 13 mins in with Jerry doing some nice runs up and down the neck with the wah wah and Billy filling the space with toms.

Im at MAMU in the 2nd set. What really strikes me about this show is how much Keith is on the Rhodes, and how out front in the mix he is. I dont remember him playing a Rhodes for a whole show like this. I'll have to revisit Selland and see if this show may be an outlier.

I really liked the smooth transition from Mississippi to Must Have Been the Roses.

I probably haven't given this show its due because there're no big 2nd set jam, but like Jim said, that 1st set playin is killer and probable makes up for it. I'm looking forward to this Brokedown in the late 2nd set ballad placement, which is a rarity.

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Submitted by Slow Dog Noodle on Tue, 11/03/2020 - 12:49

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All in all a nice show. First set is better than 2nd set, which is odd for this vintage. Mississippi to PITB was the highlight. Not sure what they were trying to do in that US Blues. Seems like Billy didnt get the message or something. They never really righted the ship after that.

Keith was the star of this show though, taking over on the Rhodes. Release worthy? I dont know. Sounds quality is there but the second set fizzles. Maybe one of the last '74s to see the light of day. Still, lots of fantastic music and very glad i spent 3 hours of my work day jamming to this.

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Submitted by DeadVikes on Tue, 11/03/2020 - 13:19

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Shorter show for 1974. Good show, sound quality is really good for the most part. I really liked Biily's drumming in the summer of 1974. For some reason no Eyes of the World Encore from the version I listened to from Relisten.

Good pick Bob t.

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Submitted by JimInMD on Tue, 11/03/2020 - 13:59

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My version doesn't have it either.. Show's how good my memory is. Decent little show. I agree with the comments that a big jam sequence in the second set would have improved this one. Still, some very nice moments.

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Submitted by bluecrow on Tue, 11/03/2020 - 18:49

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so last week i zigged while most everybody zagged. went on a '74 search - that's where my main vibe was. first listened to Springfield 6/30 - fantastic show! then Roanoke, with that excellent and very cool Playing, and solid playing overall, and a mysteriously missing major jam sequence but still fun. so its a cool coinkydink to see everybody dialing in on Roanoke last day or so. first night of Jai Alai after that. then Roosevelt Stadium show from 8/6. today was listening to another new '74 for me, the Olympia Hall in Munich 9/14 - there is a really really sweet Usborne matrix of that show - highly recommended! and finished with the last show of that European tour which at times is as deliberate as anything i've heard from that era. morning dew seemed remarkably slow.
i too voted for sanity. be well everybody.

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Submitted by DeadVikes on Wed, 11/04/2020 - 05:40

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Looking forward to putting this show on today. Short show. Bonus for 11/2/77.

Stay well out there folks.

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Submitted by JeffSmith on Wed, 11/04/2020 - 06:40

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I found this note on the Archive from Sirmick on his AUD transfer (132282): "A reviewer at archive.org says "This was a weird event-the band was somewhat scared of the crowd which was yelling at them the whole time." and "There was no encore at this concert-the eyes thing is an error perpetuated through the years starting with deadbase. The Dead left after Johnny B Goode and I think they were glad to get out."
https://archive.org/details/gd1974-07-27.akgd200e.unk.sirmick.132282.sb…

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Submitted by bob t on Wed, 11/04/2020 - 13:00

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No cavity creeps here!!! Love the Aiko coming out of drums, this one and the RPI Fieldhouse show are my two favs from this era!!! I had an audience tape of this show back in the day that was amazing quality!!! Aiko just coming on... the whole second set is pure bliss!!! Bob t

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Submitted by bob t on Wed, 11/04/2020 - 18:48

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Disc 3 of Colgate show...... Scarlet>Fire forgot how good it was, I like the Broome County one a few days later but totally forgot about this one... Good night all. Bob t

Yes, Bob t, Disc 3 of Dave's 12 for me might be the best part of this release.

Another chunk of this show appears on Dick's 34. Should we check out 11/5/77, Dick's #34 for tomorrow?

11/2 is a bit under the radar..

This whole release smokes, high energy and excellent recording. I made it through discs 1 and 2, #3 awaits. Good pick Bob. I need a refresher course on this one, it's been a long time.

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Submitted by wilfredtjones on Thu, 11/05/2020 - 05:40

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Is there good video of that show? I heard a young lady came up and gave Jerry a big hug and kiss at the encore.

-edit- A kind soul somehow posted a review of this show IN THE FUTURE YESTERDAY over on Internet Archive. Of course, I was wondering how the heck that happened, maybe minor digital glitch? Anyway here it is to shed light on my recollection and for you to enjoy! :-)

Have a Grateful Day today everybody :-)

Reviewer: MtnHigh73 - favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - November 6, 2020
Subject: Bill Walton's Birthday Show... Sweater Incident
I was at the show. It was one of my first Dead shows and a memorable one, and I want to set the record straight...

Love the crystal clear soundboard recording...
Lots of mention of Boston Celtics players sighted at this show, and to set the record straight. This was "Bill Walton's Birthday" show, and at the beginning of the 2nd set, the band came out. Bobby announced, "It's our buddy Bill Walton's birthday (with full echo effect), and we'd like to sing happy birthday to him, and you can all join in...". You can hear the end of happy birthday on this awesome soundboard version... the audience version of this show has the full announcement before Shakedown.

Anyways this show ripped, and my twin brother and I (not a head) dosed and were in the 1st 10 rows for the entire 2nd set. Memory is a whirlwind of sights and sounds, but I remember dancing my ass off to the Good Lovin'.

THE BEGINING OF THE ENCORE (capitalized because I went on to see more than a hundred shows after this and never saw the next thing happen ever again)... a woman jumped on to the stage with a thick wool-like sweater that buttoned down in the front. She DRAPED THE SWEATER OVER JERRY'S SHOULDERS... just as he started to sing the opening lines to Brokedown Palace... then she was ushered off the stage. The sweater remained on his shoulders the majority of the song, and by the end, it was hanging by one arm off of Jerry. I distinctly remember seeing the woman join her friends back a few rows in front of us during the encore. I'm getting goosebumps writing and recalling this... after the show, my brother and I, two sweaty 16-year-olds leaving the Centrum, and my twin brother turned to me and said: " We got closer to Jerry Garcia then some people do in their entire lifetime!".

The next morning, burnt out catching a ride with my Dad to school, the local Boston radio station announced, " the Celtics were off last night and Bird, Mchale and Ainge accompanied Bill Walton to a Grateful Dead show in Worcester"... goosebumps.

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Submitted by bob t on Thu, 11/05/2020 - 19:37

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I never burned this Dick's Picks. So When I put it into my computer, love that a picture of the Lincoln, NE/ Salt Lake City 73 Dick's Picks CD picture shows up.....Just got to the Phil Jam>Eyes of CD #2.... Anyone in the mood for June 29, 1976 Chicago tomorrow... Big fan of the 5th and final Mission in the Rain!!! Good night all... Bob t

This is a gem in my book Bob t. Of course the chop job, but it is still really good.

I am up for 6/29/76, hope there is a good board out there. Mission in the Rain!

Big fan too.. I think the best of the few played.

I'm in. I did the first set of the first show in the June 76 box yesterday on my bike ride. I was in the mood for some crystal clear dead and it was in the device I picked up.

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Submitted by bob t on Fri, 11/06/2020 - 06:55

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Deadvikes there is a really good board as well as a FM copy from WXRT.. That whole June tour had the last show of whatever stop broadcast.. Jim i also agree with the crystal clear sound of the 76 box!! Surprised that Mission in the Rain didn't make it two weeks later into the Orpheum run in San Francisco. Bob t

I am working my way through it late. The Betty is sounding good. Another show that was part of the ABCD LLC transaction. Maybe some day.

My Dave's 36 is now scheduled for tomorrow. We will see. Love this system.

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Submitted by Oroborous on Sat, 11/07/2020 - 09:45

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Maybe a little Crotchfester from 11/7&8/85 sometime this weekend, perhaps extra credit as GOGD would say....
By the way, where is that rascal?

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Submitted by JimInMD on Sat, 11/07/2020 - 10:00

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I'm doing 11/7/71 today.

I have not listened to the War Memorial shows yet.. I would be interested to check them out.

I'm in.

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Submitted by Oroborous on Sat, 11/07/2020 - 10:27

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Have garage work to do: sanding etc so need some good working music! Plus, I’ve been doing the “five year anniversary” plan for years since it’s hard and very limiting to try and do every anniversary. So for instance this year being a “0” that means I shoot for 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, and 95. Since that still leaves a lot, next criteria is shows from those years I was at, thus, going 85...but,
Have been starting a 71 bender though as I went totally grateful yesterday after grueling gig with no tunes this week.
Vegged out to 2/18/71 and was digging it so much followed up with 2/19/71...perfect as I was so whooped I don’t think I could have fully grasped a big spacey show, and Rockin later years would have been too much energy in my delicate state lol.
Realized, that there isn’t much difference between sets then, meaning 2/18 at least is like 2 bookend sets. They both are mostly just songs, with one tasty smaller jam at the end. I need to find more early 71 jams, like biggins’ if there are any? Where’s GOGD or DOC when ya need em? ; )
Definitely going to Poke around there as time allows. Really hoping to finally get to 10/19/73 tomorrow if time allows a full immersion. Haven’t givin that one a spin in a while and it always calls to me in the fall.

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Submitted by Strider 808808 on Sat, 11/07/2020 - 13:27

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Been preoccupied. Will consider what to write about being there fifty years ago. Attended all four nights.
David Lemeiux was born November 8, 1970. Must have been something in the ethers that day. Pre-destined.
My late brother Rick was at the Harding Theater one of those nights 49 years ago.

I've listened to this show once.. I am going to try and give it a second listen.

I love the last half of this comment from setlists.net

"Finally, the space interlude in the Dark Star is some of the scariest Dead I have ever laid ears on. Its like the Book of Revelation--it'll scare the crap out of you. Listen to it at one in the morning with no lights on, at a loud volume, alone, and check back with me. WOW!"