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    "And with this incredibly tight batch of prime 1987 Grateful Dead, we’re thrilled to bring you Dave’s Picks Vol. 36, matching the number that will be forever tied to Dick’s legacy. Thanks for sticking around this long, and for joining us through these past nine years of archival live Grateful Dead releases." - David Lemieux

    We're doing things a bit different for this one - two complete shows on four CDs, bringing you one of Dave's faves and what very well could have been one of Dick's Picks. Yep, back-to-back nights from peak era 80s - the furthest we've gone into the decade, in fact - that will bring you to joyful tears. DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 36: HARTFORD CIVIC CENTER, HARTFORD, CT (3/26/87 & 3/27/87) delivers emotional takes on tracks like "Row Jimmy," "Black Peter," Uncle John's Band," and serves up a hit list of covers ("In The Midnight Hour," "Good Lovin'," "Desolation Row," "Promised Land," "Little Red Rooster," "Morning Dew," Johnny B. Goode") that'll have you hootin' and hollerin'.

    Limited to 22,000 numbered copies, this one has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman and is guaranteed to sell out.

    *2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

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  • Deadheadbrewer
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    Aw, shucks, folks. Elmira Synchronicity

    Thanks for the kind words, all y'all!

    TWO DAYS AGO my friend called to tell me about driving back to MN from NJ. WHAT did he mention? He told me that he drove through a town called Elmira (neither of us had heard of it previously), and he wondered if I could guess who he learned was buried there. And now Professor Bob mentions it?! [theme music from 'The Twilight Zone' swells . . . ]

    Be kind . . . rewind . . .

  • Jason Wilder
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    Cool choice plus HB Bobby!

    A day late on Bobby's birthday wishes. My father had the same birthday. And I am 9/8 with Pig. The Dead runs strong in my family.

    As for the pick, I love '87. And an ultramatrix! So glad we will get some audience to pick up the vibe. Jerry was back and people were psyched! Two shows is cool.

    Though I gotta say, while I am sure these shows are fine, I could pick 20 shows from '87 I'd rate higher. '87 has a ton of variety song selection, and aside from the Midnight Hour opener, this is pretty standard.

    EDIT: On further review: 2nd set Cumberland & UJB>Dew are nice.

    OK, and though I am loathe to admit it, I kind of like Push (ducks!).

  • icecrmcnkd
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    Cheezy light toys

    When Dead & Co started in 2015 there were a lot of younger ‘ravers’ who took their annoying and distracting rave light toys with them to D&C. By 2017 there were far fewer of the toys in the audience, so it seemed that they got the message to leave that crap at home.

  • Selector Lopaka
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    On the second night, I was…

    On the second night, I was seated on Phil’s side probably 20 rows up. A few songs into the first set, a young fellow sitting next to me broke out a homemade projecting kaleidoscope flash light thingy, and proceeded to shine it around the arena including the stage. Within minutes, road crew member, Robbie Taylor showed up to our and scared the living shit out of the kid while tearing him a new one, and took his contraption. I felt a little sorry for him because it lookEd like he spent a lot of time making it, but it was not a good idea, clearly. Another reminder to not mess with the GD road crew.

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    Thanks Prof

    A little history...

  • prof bob
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    Books in Hartford

    Of course, we don’t know what the artist intended. Hartford was the home of many “subscription” publishing houses, most notably The American Publishing Co., which published the first half dozen or so books by Mark Twain and was one of the reasons he moved to Hartford in 1872. It would be his longest residency anywhere, and he loved the city; sat on the Board of APC and some of the insurance companies, raised his children there, conceived his most important books there. The actual work of writing those books happened during the summers in his octagonal study at Quarry Farm, on his wife’s family’s extensive property near Elmira, NY. The social whirl in Hartford was incompatible with the real work of writing Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Connecticut Yankee, etc. Harriet Beecher Stowe was his neighbor in the “Nook Farm” neighborhood, as well as many other authors who were well-known at the time, like Charles Dudley Warner, editor of the Hartford Courant and co-author, with Twain, of The Gilded Age, but are largely forgotten today. I don’t know if the artist was thinking of all that, but Hartford was as synonymous with books as it was insurance and guns (the Colt Arms Factory was there) in the mid to late 19th Century.

  • proudfoot
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    I read vguyz professing his love of

    Cumberland Blues just after hearing the CB of 9 10 83.

    :)))

    80s skeptics...have you heard 9 10 83 at full volume? If that doesn't change your mind, then nothing will.

    And

    10 8 84

    Listen to that "blind" (ie dont look at the setlist)

    Goooooood stuff, especially pre-drums

  • icecrmcnkd
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    Daverock

    I think that most of the people here are subscribers so they aren’t going to influence the rate of ala carte sales.
    Also, if you go to other boards or chats on this site you will see people who don’t usually post on the active rotating board like this group of usual suspects. I think that there are also a lot of lurkers who read but don’t post.
    The Deadheads that I know, and who never read the posts on this site and only come to this site to make purchases, listen to all the years. They aren’t going to stop subscribing any time soon.
    Dave and Rhino know what the sales numbers are, and know how many people buy a single copy and how many buy multiple copies (based on name and address), and what they can release without risking losing loyal customers. Someone also monitors these boards and comments as shown by the ‘Community Bits’ section of the October Bulletin, and so they also get some Feedback that way on how well a release is received.
    Back-to-back 80’s releases shows that they don’t feel that they will lose too many subscribers. And if they do lose some subscribers they will actually make more money in the long run since ala carte copies cost more and always sell out.

  • Across the Rio
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    Good Looking Release

    I am looking forward to adding this release to my collection. Very happy it came out after the Philly 84 DP 35, and still sold out in a blink. 87 is a bit under represented in my collection, so this will help. I was only at Hampton this tour, and enjoyed that, so I expect I will enjoy this.

    Given the two releases from the 80's, I expect the subscription announcement show will be something special from 1974 or earlier. Will subscribe again, no doubt.

  • musicnow
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    Nailed it

    Great post DeadHead Brewer! Spot on!

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"And with this incredibly tight batch of prime 1987 Grateful Dead, we’re thrilled to bring you Dave’s Picks Vol. 36, matching the number that will be forever tied to Dick’s legacy. Thanks for sticking around this long, and for joining us through these past nine years of archival live Grateful Dead releases." - David Lemieux

We're doing things a bit different for this one - two complete shows on four CDs, bringing you one of Dave's faves and what very well could have been one of Dick's Picks. Yep, back-to-back nights from peak era 80s - the furthest we've gone into the decade, in fact - that will bring you to joyful tears. DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 36: HARTFORD CIVIC CENTER, HARTFORD, CT (3/26/87 & 3/27/87) delivers emotional takes on tracks like "Row Jimmy," "Black Peter," Uncle John's Band," and serves up a hit list of covers ("In The Midnight Hour," "Good Lovin'," "Desolation Row," "Promised Land," "Little Red Rooster," "Morning Dew," Johnny B. Goode") that'll have you hootin' and hollerin'.

Limited to 22,000 numbered copies, this one has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman and is guaranteed to sell out.

*2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

Yes.. you are not losing your mind.. there must have been an error or mishap at some point in the supply chain and there apparently more than a few who have not received their DaP 36's yet. My guess is that they are having more made.

Send a PM to MaryE. That's probably your best advice. I bet they make you whole hopefully soon.

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I too have not received my DaP36. I had an address change, notified customer service a month+ ago that I hadn't received it. Still nothing. Any help appreciated (Marye?)

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Happy New Year everyone.

I once received the Treasure Trove of soundboards from one of the good guys here, and there was so much on it and I had so many commercial releases to still go through that it took me a long time to really get into them.

Then a couple of years ago, I don't know if you remember a guy on here known as wjonjd - he used to be a regular but I guess has moved on. Anyway, he once wrote the following to me about 12/31/72, which I just dug out of email archives by doing a search on the show date:

The Truckin'-Other One-Morning Dew sequence has to be one of the greatest jams of absolute all time. Simply fuckin' mind blowing. I remember turning on someone to the Dead in school, lending him that tape. A couple of days later he asked me, "Where does that come from? Where do you think the inspiration to keep creating like that comes from?"

So of course I immediately queued it up, and what I wouldn't do to have a Full Norman copy of the show. It's been my favorite New Year's Eve show ever since, with Cow Palace '76 coming in as a close second.

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Since DaP36 only tied the DP series, shouldn't DaP37 be celebrated as much as #36 since it's the tie-breaker?

What about a mirror image release?

DaP36 = 4 CDs / 2 shows / '87 = '78 \ 2 shows \ 4 CDs = DaP37...in the video for #37, Dave L. seemed to be unusually vague and a little giddy as far as the bonus material. It would be a great way to start the 10th year!

Or has this been announced already? If so sorry.

I hope all are well.

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Yes, KF.. Wonjonjd was last seen digging a tunnel 37 feet below the vault in a last ditch, vain attempt to free the master reels for 6/9&10/73 RFK. On the bright side, I hear ZuckFun has escaped and is laying low in an undisclosed location. Many thanks to whoever freed him.

Rumor has it wjon has been enslaved by Rhino and answers customer service calls 19 hours a day.

Sad. Someone needs to tell his wife and kids his hardship was not in vain.

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Surprise appearance of Tom Constanten as an interviewee in the documentary "Rebirth of the King" about Elvis Presley in Las Vegas. Again shown on Brit T.V. over Christmas.

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DaveStrange - The "mirror image" release for #37 won't happen, because the bonus disc is for the second release of the year, which will be #38 ( 9/8/73 Nassau Coliseum). The extra material is an hour + from the previous night, Sept. 9th. I listened to my audience recording of that show the day before they announced what #38 was going to contain, and it's a stellar show!

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I think it would be similar to last year: #s 33 & 35 were 3 disc releases, #34 had the bonus disc and #36 was 2 shows. This year could be #37 is 2 shows, #38 would have the bonus disc, and #s 39 & 40 would be 3 disc releases.

I realize this would only occur for milestone releases like #s 36 & 37, and in the future for DaP100 (!) if the series is still going. I know the odds for another 2 show release are mighty slim, but you can always hope, wish and dream right?

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With about 90 min from another show on this tour, likely to be announced in the video, which should come out around next Friday or thereabouts. Glad there's filler, been annoyed at 2 of the '78 DaPs having very short 2nd discs and no filler, with plenty of good material laying there for use. But filler is also very good because it sometimes produces some of the best material of a release. I just finished my first complete listen to DaP 35 and I'm very thankful for the filler from the night before. I found it to be the best part of the release, the Scarlet Fire was good, too, but the filler is pretty darn good. Being a beggar does prevent me from being a chooser as well as I'm hoping the filler on DaP 37 is not from 4/12/78, which was surely the best thing to ever happen in that pit of hell Cameron Indoor Stadium, and that that show is released in its entireity since I imagine it was part of the returned Bettys. That should be several years worth of DaPs down the road before hitting April '78 again, 3 is pretty high already and no Fall 1972 since DaP 11 and Hofheinz were released in 2014, but hope that Duke show can come out sometime, it is spectacular. Incredible energy, as evidenced in the video on the youtubes https://youtu.be/I_zD1_J5eYs Not every day you see Jerry doing Townshend-like windmills. Though if anybody else witnessed Jerry doing windmills at other shows, I'd love to hear about it.

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:'(

On Vol 35 they printed my address and phone number wrong... only got that one b/c I happened to run into the mailman wandering in the neighborhood looking for where to deliver it (I'm a westerner in China.. and he wandered up to me asking if I knew the person with the foreign name...). He said it was the third time they sent him out to deliver it...

I know it's old hat to complain about their shipping services.. but come on guys...

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Does anyone know why I have received another copy of Dave's 36? It arrived in the mail yesterday with no shipping notification. On the back of it, where the edition numbers are usually listed, it says "Hindsight is 2020 limited edition: 92/300". I haven't actually listened to it yet but it looks exactly the same as the first one I got.

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I’m running out of patience after emailing four or five different email addresses (Dr. Rhino, wig, etc.) for the past five months now about a missing Dave’s 36. I have yet to even receive a “we received your email.” But yet they are allowed to continue selling product? Any ideas on how I can rectify this?

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I received mine Friday from the 300 run. I am really enjoying this right now, as times have been tough, and the matrix sound I like. The mix has brought my spirit up, so I won't dwell on the service. Billfgrady it was sent without notice, so you should be getting yours any day.

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I finally got to listen to the first show (yeah, I'm way late, I know). I was floored! Once you get past the obligatory 80's fodder like "Push Comes To Shove" and "My Brother Esau", it is SOLID throughout. Even Looks Like Rain is tolerable. Gee, who knew? As always, go Brent!

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