Grateful Dead

It’s difficult to know when pre-orders will be sent out. My unreliable memory tells me that dead.net said they had changed their system and would be sending pre-orders out ahead of the release date and I think a few lucky people got #36 before the release date. Previously, the sets weren’t sent out until the release date itself (29 Jan).
The rate determining step isn’t the dispatch it’s the delivery handling. I got an email telling me that #36 had been sent, but in reality it didn’t move for another 7 days and took a lot longer to get to me. I, at least, was lucky enough to get the delivery. I believe a few people are still waiting. Of course, times are strange at the moment so glitches in the systems must be expected. I’m confident it will be worth the wait.

Ark! Ark! I've been wishing for that release for a while, much like most here I'm sure. Here's to a miracle!

I'll call your unreliable memory and

What were we talking about? ah... 1/13 and 1/14/1970, The Grateful Goddamn Dead.. (oops, I got ahead of my skis. I'm a month early for the FE shows, either that or I have a very rotten memory)

Ark Ark.

I have the greatest memory in the history of humanity. Of course, I can prove this by letting you all know that......the tea cart I used to have is, Could I please have extra cheese on that, I need to know what the GVWR on that vehicle is, how many limbs are there in a box of Devonshire pub malt liquor, excuse me, I was talking here, Tuesday is the name of my nike shoes. I would like to pick up my order at 3:33, check on the hog all purple.

....Mississippi signed into a law a redesign of the state flag without the rebel symbol. Great news!! It has a magnolia flower on it instead!. Even better news! Blossoms Blooming!
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/533794-mississippi-hoists-new-…

I wish they send out the stuff already sold! I think Jim is still awaiting 36? My memory sucks too.

Even worst than physical product not being mailed is download links that don't work!!!

They used to say that smoking led to memory loss. It wasn't all good news - there were supposed to be negative side effects as well. But I can't remember what they were.

1) I think it's safe to say that if we don't receive a shipping confirmation by next week same time then it is safe to assume that DaP 37 will come out around the time or after the official release (1/29), which is a bit disappointing but not the end of the world

2) IDK what happened but it seems like every other person here had an issue with DaP 36, myself only receiving it in the latter half of December. However, as Dennis pointed out, paying for a download and not even being able to download it is a travesty in and of itself. Let's hope this year we can at least get a more consistent and smoother rollout of their products, especially with a box set down the line this year

3) Ark box set seems criminally late considering how great some of the recordings on the archive are. I'm also curious as to whether we'll see a Vince era release sometime this year. By this point in the DiP series, we had 3 seperate Vince Era shows (DiP 9, 17 & 27) which are all excellent shows from excellent tours. Same goes for the Road Trips (Vol 2 No 1 & Vol 2 No 4) and Download Series (11). Maybe they seem to think that with the standalone release of 6/17/91 and Ready or Not that they don't need to delve further into this era but some shows are just bananas, my personal highlights being shows such as 12/12/90 (just awesome), 9/22/91 (killer shakedown), 5/5/91 (H>S>F), and 3/17/93 (First Lucy in the Sky). Something from '91 would be really appreciated by me personally.

Anyways, thanks for listening to my TedTalk

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12/16/92

quite a contrast to 3/18/67

working from home has given me the chance to listen to a lot of GD (albeit usually on lower volume...c'est la vie).

is "sold out." See the Store page.

That's a first, no? And has anyone heard Dave say what number of subs are available versus ala carte?

Not important, just curious, as always.

Lookin' for that fall '72 box preorder sometime in May. When it is warm and many have been vaccinated. Gotta have something to look forward to!

As Colin Gould said some 70 posts back:

"Every year people come on and ask why the subscription button doesn’t work. This is because they have missed the deadline. If you want to subscribe for the 2021 DaP series then you have until 11:59PM PST Friday 8th January."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KFq102WIAL8. Now this 3 show run from the Avalon would be a killer release, 4/4,5,6/69

Avalon April 69

yessss

https://academictimes.com/legalizing-marijuana-boosts-junk-food-sales/
.....duh.

No shit

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KXCIgYtnrj8.

I always thought that was something of a self fulfilling prophecy. In fact, I seem to remember eating more crap in my early drinking days than when I smoked-late night curries and all that. Maybe a difference in American and British stoner culture.

Alcohol gives you the munchies more than weed for sure. Ever checked out that open till 3 am college convenience store after the bars close? If you look closely you can sometimes see drunk college students taking that radioactive nacho cheese sauce intravenously... including the pickled jalapenos.

...would have never done this!!!!

https://www.livescience.com/magic-mushroom-injection-case-report.html?f…

Wow. Some people scare me.

.....I'm rarely left speechless. This is one of those times. Mark you calendars.

After going whole-hog on the Dead for a while before the holidays, I'm taking a little break. I started a "serious" run-through of the entire Spring '90, so will pick that up again when I resume my GD listening. Boy, those shows were well-recorded, and the band was ON. I have also decided to try some streaming, so have trial memberships going in Qobuz and Tidal Hi-Fi. Man, a fledgling Deadhead could sure do worse than to pay $150/year to stream EVERY GD release in CD (or better) quality. :-O

So I'll present a Last Five Listened To, and a Last Five Read

Listened To:
Bach--Violin Sonatas and Partitias; Christian Tetzlaff
Shostakovich String Quartets--Pacifica Quartet
Debussy Solo Piano Works--Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Joni Mitchell--Archives, Vol. 1: The Early Years
Anthony Braxton--Three Compositions in New Jazz

Last Five Read:
All the Light We Cannot See--Anthony Doerr
Their Eyes Were Watching God--Zora Neale Hurston
The God of Small Things--Arundhati Roy
The Kitchen God's Wife--Amy Tan
American Gods--Neil Gaiman (hmmm . . . don't know why so many "God" books!)

Currently working on Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter (written in 1963!) and Thomas Pynchon's novel V. I think that latter book was recommended by someone here. I may abandon it if I don't start "getting it" soon.

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch . . .

RIP as another one of my heroes leaves us. Vanilla Fudge, Cactus and Beck, Bogart and Appice. Met him once when he was with Cactus, very cool guy and had a wicked sense of humor.

so many odd things going on
started in 2020
but daily, weird and terrible and great things are happening
twas ever thus I suppose
but man

if you have an idle 3 hours, I will tell you all about it

GD at the moment: RT 79 disc 2

"do everything that's in you, you feel to be your part"

Injecting anything you don't have to on the basis of medical advice is insane. There were people round here injecting alcohol a while back. I heard of someone suggesting injecting disinfectant last year, too. Crazy.

Reminds me of my old joke about the man injecting curry powder. I went round to help, but by the time I got there it was too late-he had already gone into a korma (coma). Sorry if you've heard it before.

Boogie With Canned Heat
Green Line-Steve Marcus
Laughing Stock-Talk Talk
Blue World-John Coltrane
Electric Tonic-Medeski, Martin & Wood

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NHST2-bR8X0. Wow, what a killer version! Time for that Avalon Box.

So does anyone have info on whether 4/4, 4/5, and/or 4/6 are in the Vault?

Looks like a wild three nights and only a month after the Live/Dead shows.

I guess we'll know in two weeks if Dave L. will tease anything about this year's goodies when he goes superlative over the upcoming April '78 show. (As you well know) I'm betting on a (6) show box from fall '72, 18 discs, $200.

Where do I get these detailed fantasies? C'mon, bein' a shut-in for 10 months tends to hatch all kinds of ideas.

Nothing surprises me anymore. Remember a few years ago when kids thought it was cool to eat laundry detergent?

Then came the alcohol enema. Becasue of course, the whole point is not to socialize with friends and loosen up a bit, its to proceed straight to blackout drunk as quickly as possible, and the upshot must be that you already have your pants down.

Its not a big leap to mainlining some mushrooms. I prefer shiitakes myself. After all, who has 45 minutes to wait for the drugs to come on? We are truly in the age of instant gratification.

Daverock, great one! That's V-guy worthy. 🤣

Abandon it.

the GD playing "Baby Blue" over the years.

and hooray for Bob Dylan for writing such an awesome song.

Sad about Tim Bogert; I remember seeing him with Bobby & the Midnights.

Here's where Dylan got the Baby Blue title:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOJrvMN0VK0

them groupies, though, at 1:25. yowzah!

Thank you, Cousins

Hear, hear - 12-3-81 and 2-24-74 are favs

.....dead at 69. Cancer.

Another great under the radar player. Saw him at my first Bobby show: Bobby and the Midnights at the infamous Kleinhans Music hall on Election Day 1980....still have newspaper clipping with headline “Weir Wins by a landslide”..
Besides his personal talents, Jeff Beck has always had a knack for finding awesome Bass Players!

As far as weird drug fetishes,I’ll stick with Ibogaine ; )

EDIT: Slow Dog, once again you’ve made me laugh and smile! Thanks!

A massive influence on British rock music during the second half of the 70s.

crank up Personality Crisis, folks.

Thank you, SylSyl. RIP

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/grateful-dead-best-guest-spots-sit-ins-jop… Check this out, very cool!

Such a tasty show

Okeefe centre
8 4 67
8 5 67

Only a few GD tracks, but they are niiiiice

The discs I have also have Jefferson Airplane

After psychedelijizzin' with the GD, JA sounds lame. Just saying.

Addendum at 9
JA i do like bless its pointed little head
And most of JA takes off
and Baxters

Jorma and Jack were kkeeyy to their sound

I believe the two partial shows were the first segments I pulled down from archive.org when I first stumbled upon it. I forget the reason, I think someone was hyping this.. perhaps Gans, I forget. The subject matter I remember.. the growth during this period and their ability to improvise. How different these shows were compared to their last.. and how rewarding the risks they were taking musically turned out to be.

Talking of hot 67...the above's concert at The Roundhouse was on television over Christmas, and I got round to watching it last night. I was at this show, and loved it to pieces, but I wasn't sure how well it would translate to a recording. I needn't have worried. It opens with an incredible sonic punch-Interstellar Overdrive-Astronomy Domine-Lucifer Sam. The kind of mad clatter that Pink Floyd jettisoned as the 70s wore on, all powered along by Nick Mason's high energy drumming. It sounds amazing. Looks as though its available on blu ray/dvd/cd, too.

Jorma turned 80 less than a month ago. These guys are true monsters. Saw them back in the '70s and ;pretty much every opportunity for the next 45 years. No idea how many shows, probably in the dozens. Lifers. Them and me (in a small way). Jack would actually leave the ground at times during their sets. When they got into their hard core electric jams, they still had the goods. True masters at acoustic and electric blues and rock idioms.

I had tickets for my other two favorite working bands -- Los Lobos and Tedeschi and Trucks -- but, well, you know.

Okay, lost my focus on the future for a moment, thinking back to nearly one year ago when Jack and Jorma rocked the Boulder Theater. Now looking forward again, won't mention "2020" ......

Awesome!

Playing it loud and looking out the window as big fluffy snowflakes come drifting down.

In the distance. They played about 2 miles from where I was sitting, in the middle of a huge crowd at Knebworth in 1976. Festivals were terrible in those days.

:)))

Completely agree.. these guys are the real deal.

I forget the first time I saw Hot Tuna, but it was not in the '70's.. these guys are the real deal and every time I have seen them has been more than worth the effort. Add in NRPS and you have a nearly perfect trifecta of great bands you must see perform live.

Especially Jorma, they guy can pick.

guested on 11 20 70

I am not a big fan of guests with the GD, but 11 20 70 is an exception

Check out Fat Angel on Blessitspointedlittlehead

Nice