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    "Welcome to the 10th year of the Dave's Picks series! We're amazed and humbled that this community of Dave's Picks fans keeps growing, and we just wanted to let you know how much we sincerely appreciate your support of and interest in the series. We started in 2012 with 12,000 of each release, and now we've more doubled that, with 25,000 in 2021. Wow! We keep working as hard as we possibly can to bring you the best, most exciting Grateful Dead shows in the vault. Our 2020 releases included music from 1977, 1974, 1984, and the latest, biggest release yet in the series, the two complete Hartford shows from 1987. Looking ahead, we've selected two exceptional, A+ Dead shows for Vol. 37 (more on that in the video below) and 38, as well as the Bonus Disc that will come with Vol. 38. Big year ahead! As we head into the 10th year of the series, there's no end in sight. We love what we do, and have loads of plans and ideas for the next few years. Onward to more great music!"

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    In addition to the four releases in 2021, totaling 12 CDs, you’ll also get the subscription exclusive bonus disc, which has proven to be one of the most highly sought-after collectables we release, and free domestic shipping. Subscriber bonus discs will not be released outside of this offer. Early bird subscribers can nab a sub at $99.98 (regular pricing will be $115.92).

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  • Oroborous
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    That’s the fluid part; in the beginning of the tour the horns are used sporadically throughout much of the second set.
    By Pittsburgh/Buffalo, their used more like you say, in a concentrated portion of the second set, and not on as many tunes. The recordings were hit and miss so hard to say for sure, but possibly they were dropped in the mix a bit too?
    Of course if there was multitrack, things could be edited and cleaned up nicely, but I’m guessing there aren’t any?
    They could always do a chop job and use it for the Wake of the Flood bonus material...
    Personally I the like the novelty, and would really dig having the 11th! It would be yet another one of the multi headed hydra that was the Dead. Talk about a palate cleanse! Another totally different version of the Dead to go to. And As I say, if nothing else, sans the horns, you still get great 73 Dead and a 73 Dark Star! But that’s just me...

    EDIT: historically you have to think they’d want to get at least one version of Keith singing Let Me Sing Your Blues, sorta like they got the only versions of Money Money out, though of course those are tied to “big” shows without the controversy...again, makes me think good Wake bonus material?

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    And there is the patch at the very end of Morning Dew through the beginning of Sugar Magnolia they would have to work around. Such a difficult place to put a patch.

    I'd still take 9/11. Much of the tour is somewhat a novelty, at least that's how I compartmentalize it. Oro.. since you are fresher off this tour than I.. I think most of the horns come smack dab in the middle of the second set jam sequences, right? If so, if they would have snuck them in during the first set and perhaps a song or two in the second set this might have been less a distraction from the goods that evolve in the meat of the show.

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    Yaasssssiree Mayor Jimmy, ‘‘twas me, and Bluecrow, until I lost him at the rest area after Syracuse (hopefully made a few dozen people happy from that particular rest area on the ole I 90 before the 84 Carrier dome show, but that’s a whole nother story; ) So Old Crow was hangin round some fine young DH ladies in a burnt Orange VW bus from New Mexico and when I came back out he was gone and I haven’t heard from him since? But I digress.
    Yeah I did the whole tour this fall and though I enjoyed it, I’d say mini box at best, but for whatever reason, like DHB said and feels, and the vibe I’ve always got about these shows over the years, is that many folks feel there’s nothing there?
    It’s kinda weird, perched right in the middle between the epic summer shows, and perhaps the greatest tour ever, and yet it’s like it doesn't exist?
    Personally, I concur with the mayor and others, and Dave has it on that “list” he put out when Dave’s started, 9/11/73 is definitely the “one” if ya had to pick.
    And PSYCHE in my best Ashton Kutcher voice it’s from.....wait for it....William and Mary! Hmmmmmm
    Oh, I think it might’ve been Hornsby first show too?
    I also argue that there’s the historical factor. As some here have discussed, sometimes shows get hyped and thus released because of certain historical significance, and that occasionally their not necessarily top shows. Egypt being first to pop into my head, not the best show, and the quality certainly isn’t mind blowing, but come on, are ya not going to release it? I’m sure glad they did...
    Finally, if you look past the horns, your still getting primo Dead from just before what some consider their best tour, AND, a sweet 73 Dark Star!
    So I can’t believe they haven’t at least got 9/11 out!
    If I were to pick a mini box I think I’d go with;
    - 9/11W&M for sure,
    - 9/17 Syracuse and/or
    - 9/21/73 with either
    - 9/24 or 26 to illustrate the tour changes, mainly around the use and duration of the horns...
    A 3 show box would probably be perfect, and as the tour was very fluid, a good taste of that...
    I unfortunately agree though that this is highly unlikely, at least not anytime soon, and of course I’m not familiar with the tape situation?
    I think 9/11 will see the light if day at some point!
    I’d be a shame if it didn’t...

    EDIT: oops forgot, saw something recently about the ginger bread man guitar up for auction...

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    Never trust my memory. I thought we were talking about the Capitol Theatre, but...

    I know that guitar in KF's post is the peanut. Strider usually catches up on these threads and seems to have a great memory. One of the great personalities here.. what I wouldn't give to have seem some of the shows he has seen.

    More to follow. Any update on Jerry's Granola, Popcorn and Potato Chip guitars? In hindsight, it was not a good idea to name his guitars after junk food with all that good weed around. At least the Peanut and Pretzel survived....

    Agree on the horns comments, but I think if they found a way to clean up and fix some of the cuts, William and Mary might just be releasable.. and there is the archive. I think Oroborous or someone here just did a run through all those shows recently, maybe BobT?

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    Trottered, I remember Dave saying that none of those shows would ever be released. Many people enjoy the sets with horns from that month, but I think the band and a decent number of fans aren't interested in a release from those shows. Good thing there's the Live Music Archive! :)

    I really enjoyed this year's Dave's Picks. The first two shows (10/29/77 and 06/23/74, for those with shortened memories :) were killer, and then I appreciated hearing a ton of music from years that we don't have many releases from. At this point I would rather hear some good stuff from the 80s or 90s once in a while, rather than the 21st-best show from, say, 1973. Dave and Mark and Rhino are doing a stellar job of getting us tons of music from the entire span of the GD's career.

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    Guitars named after food

    Didn’t Jerry play the granola guitar at Boreal ‘85?

  • daverock
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    I vaguely remember Strider saying Jerry played the SG on 2/18/71. One of its last outings.

  • JimInMD
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    It's the peanut.

    https://rickturnerblog.com/2017/12/05/garcias-turner-peanut-guitar/

    There was a lot of talk about this a few weeks ago.. I think Strider88 might have been one of the ones leading the charge here.. plus, he got to see it sort of up close and personal at the Port Chester shows.

    The Peanut.. an early custom guitar made for Jerry Garcia. Originally rumored to have been invented by George Washington Carver, it was later confirmed to be an embryotic Alembic creature created by Rick Turner.

    Not to be confused with the Pretzel.. Another Garcia owned Turner axe which was stolen while in the possession of Sam Cutler circa 1975 and only recently resurfaced.

    https://relix.com/articles/detail/jerry-garcias-pretzel-guitar-resurfac…

    I'm holding out hope that the popcorn and potato chip guitars, missing since Woodstock and long rumored to be victims of the munchies, are found and safely returned.

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    First I have to get this out here - I really like the artwork they emailed for Dave's Picks 37. Yeah it's more skeletons, but I like the simplicity and colors. I have a feeling the new artist Helen is going to continue be a good one for this year, as far as my taste goes.

    As far as guitars go, I love the Gibson SG in terms of look and sound (Townshend memorialized this guitar on the Tommy Tour, which included the great Woodstock footage, Live at Leeds, and Isle of Wight.

    And then Jerry had his landmark moment with the SG on Live Dead (and Bobby pulled one out occasionally pre-hiatus).

    The Alligator Nash Strat sounds so damn clean, how can you not love that one too. Somebody on here once commented that nobody brought out the best sound of a Stratocaster like Garcia; I always took that comment to heart. And the Wolf is the Wolf - you need go no further than DP 18 for the Bertha solo or The Wheel into.

    But then there's this lost period in the guitar info on Jerry between the SG and the Nash Strat. Once I became a raging Dead-a-holic, I noticed those early '71 multi-tracks had a sound of their own.

    The two new Port Chester shows convinced me there's another guitar in there. The WMD and AB shows have some of the greatest sounding Jerry ever released (to my ears anyway); but more important, wtf was he playing?? Well, if you Google it, you can find a picture of one of the oddest looking guitars I've laid eyes on. At first I thought it was some kind of off-model Gibson Les Paul; the headstock looks it, but the body is narrower with symmetrical rounded off cutaway (similar to some old Rickenbacker Spanish body electric guitars I found online while trying to identify what Garcia was playing. There's a blurry picture of it in the booklet for AB 2/18/71. Here is a closer up pic:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qX11rUzflHxqDGIS2DssYoGA8hPsWrtN/view?…

    Whatever THAT guitar may be, is the one responsible for the rich melodic tone that Jeffrey Norman brought to life especially well on the 2/18 and 2/21 shows. Personally, I think 2/19 (aka Three From the Vault) is not quite in the same class of engineering perfection as these 50th anniversary shows, but it's also an old release at this point, so a lot may account for this (my subjective opinion not least of all). Yeah yeah, I know - It's only rock 'n roll.....

    Would love to know if anyone can positively ID Garcia's guitar here.

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    Thanks for the anniversary reminder. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NVqArOogY-c. I sure wish the Dead would have brought this back for the 1980 acoustic sets.

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The theory makes a lot of sense, but I hope it's not the truth. Between Reckoning and the 2019 RSD release, there's hardly any need for more of that material. Even those two releases feel slightly redundant in my collection.

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Thank you Daverock! I am lacking an email from Real Gone about this one, so your post had me rush right over there, and my heart sank when I saw SOLD OUT, but then clicked anyway and saw it should go onsale around 2/1, so just gotta be quick with the order next Monday. They did up the number to 2000 copies from 1500 for DiP 26, but that ain't a lot. Look forward to getting that one in my collection. I have Portland 5/19/74 on its way across the ocean now.

Speaking of ABB/Dead, with the ABB having a new record company that is releasing archival material, wonder if now the time is ripe for Kirk West (ABB archivist) and Dave Lemieux to become buddies like Dick and Kirk, and maybe work out a box with Fillmore 1970 material, RFK '73, and maybe Watkins Glen or ABB NYE 1973 with Jerry and Bill the Drummer. Dillon Stadium 1972 also featured an ABB sit in. If they both produced a box, that wouldn't necessarily have to count against a box set for this year, right?

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Dave's copy of DaP 37 is on the way as can be seen thru his twitter feed, here's hoping the rest of us get a tracking notification within the next few days.

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Alvarhanso - that one is exceptional. I always balk at the price, but I haven't regretted buying any of these reissues yet.
Two and Three from the Vaults are on the way, as vinyl reissues, too. They keep pushing back the release dates. I have just plumped for Two. So far.

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I'm too lazy to look at the setlists, but yeah, after four packed CDs of acoustic '80, another four might get mighty redundant. But if DL hints at an '80 acoustic box, we "do the math."

A similar but different question arises for '68. Similar setlists -- but the charm lies in the massive variations in execution. Complicating the picture: the shows tended to be one long, 75-90 minute set, as the GD often appeared with other bands at shows that year, plus the presumed, relative scarcity of '68 tapes suitable for release still in the Vault. We know they have 8-21-68, cuz they're giving it out on vinyl with that creepy "Origins" "book." (How 'bout an RSD with 8-21-68 on CD??)

The likeliest candidates for a box this year, to my mind, remain 1969-1972. A trio of double-disc spring '69 would do quite nicely....... I don't "need" anything over $200, after [code word] 2020.

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personally (again in my opinion), I hope it's not an acoustic set. They have their own charm, but if you are going to do a box of GD, do a box of the Fire-Breathing Love Beast.

1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
Summer 85

etc.

mawr, mawr, mawr!!!

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My guess.....is that it is a full Warfield/RCMH FALL 1980 Box Set. There is no way they would do just an acoustic box set from these runs. Hell, they already put out of course Reckoning, then the 2004 Reckoning release with bonus disc, then last year both 10/9-10/80 full acoustic set shows. The 2004 bonus disc included lots of extras from these acoustic sets, and basically another full acoustic set from 10/23/80.
There is no need to do a Fall 1980 ACOUSTIC box set, the best of these sets is out there. And frankly, as mentioned the acoustic sets were great, but very repetitive from night to night.
My guess(hope) is we are looking at a full FALL 1980 box set from both Warfield & RCMH multi-nights. Even if these aren't done in the original multi-track formats, there have got to be good soundboards of these shows for them to work with I would think???? I hope that they have 10/14/80 included in the box as a full show. This to me is one of the best setlist of any time period. BRING ON THE NEWS DL & RHINO!!!!!!!!

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Will we see a seaside chat video for Dave's 37 ?

I enjoy hearing Dave's thoughts on the shows being released, as well as the seaside wildlife observations ?

Hoping that shipping goes more smoothly for this release than for 36.

The 2021 subscriptions page is marked "sold out". Is it possible that all of the Dave's picks were sold via subscription this year, so there won't be single show sales and accompanying pages ?

Good humor there on the Seinfeld and Mail Innovations. Agree completely.

Cheers Ya'll

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I think no way on 1980 acoustic box. Dave has talked about the lack of tapes and just released two shows on the RSD release. I don't think that's what we'll see this year.

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It’s the subscription that is ‘sold out’,:a better description is that the subscription is no longer available. The single volume sales are, supposedly, starting on the day of issue, so 29th Jan for #37. Since the seaside chats are to encourage the sale of the individual shows I’d expect it to appear on 29th. Let’s hope so. I particularly enjoyed the one where he kept looking around in case a bear was sneaking up to photobomb the recording.

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into the pool was not justified. Just to review what I told DeadVikes, DL had been on Twitter last weekend and said anyone interested in relaxing GD (imagine!) should put on Reckoning. Someone responded: "I feel like you're telling us something good (in terms of a box set, that is)." DL responded "that's exactly what is happening." So you could get the impression that DL leaked box set news.

I think in retrospect that all DL saw was the beginning of the response to him, not the bit on the box set. Then our former forum-mate, Kate, posted the info on the '80 acoustic returned reels. I "did the math."

a) DL isn't going to casually leak the biggest news of each year like that, b) only PNW 73-74 leaked prior to announcement, c) an '80 acoustic box doesn't make sense, as posters here have pointed out.

HEY, I'M BACK TO FALL '72!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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8/21/68 playing on my record player tonight!
Now “This is PRIMO!” ...
The ‘Bear’ s tricks again! Loving the Audio Quality is top notch my brothers& sisters! Oh man I’m a grateful DeadHead today! The mastering is out this world! I’m dig’n this ‘Dark Star’ a whole lot, even for being a live take less than 15 minutes but WoW I feel like I’m floating in Space into St. Stephen then a Primo 11 minutes of ‘The Eleven’! recordings are jaw dropping amazingly beautiful as usual!!! 1968
This is a grateful way to start off the new year! Well worth the wait! My limited edition number is #525/6,800. I give this book five dark stars,lol, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for primo art production &quality from A thru Z & back again. This special Edtion Boxset & Art Prints are already have found a place in my library & record collection in My music room! Primal dead all the way folks ! Rock on !!! 1968

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Got my shipping notice this morning, Dave's 37 is inbound.

Take cover!

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I got my Origins box today. Great art, fun book. The vinyl is a nice glimpse into '68. I'm not a big fan of the extreme panning of inputs side-to-side, but I suppose I could collapse it to mono if I wanted to. Oddly, it says this was "produced" by Healy, not Owsley. Usually Healy had more sense than that.

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I think it will be one facility, different years. Maybe Greek, Frost, or Winterland, take your pick.

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Me too.

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morning folks,
my dave's is on the way too, to germany, will take about four to eight weeks. always happy when it arrives.
new box: different years, same place - sounds good. 69 and 72 as well. come on dave, give us some chat.

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Time for Dave to Let the Good Times Roll. Drop the Seaside Chat, cabin fever has already set in.
Curious about the filler show on this release.

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This was a night that the band was ON. Listen and you'll see.

1 Grateful Dead fan can't be wrong (Can he)??

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Still no Dave's 36 here even thought tracking shows it was handed from UPS to USPS on October 28. Numerous calls and emails have gone completely unacknowledged. I'm beginning to wonder if I should have subscribed again in 2021 after all. Would be the first year since the beginning...

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I have had that show in my on-deck case for a few days.

This is the day to hear it. Thank you for the prompt.

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So, yea... I passed the I am not a robot test... so let me see if I can pass this one :-) Dave, I have been on board for all 10 years... you've never let me down... I cant wait for 37 to hit this week. Thank you... I really appreciate all of the efforts you and crew have given this DaP project over the years... seriously, epic sh!t you have put out for us all to enjoy forever! Peace, and hope you and all of our Dead.Net family & friends remain safe until we can all shake them bones together one more time! (at least!) Thank you, iGrateful

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Well put iGrateful, we're some of the luckiest fans in the world. These archival releases are such a reliable source of joy in a world where most things are anything but. Hoping to get my shipping notice for 37 soon!

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Well put iGrateful, we're some of the luckiest fans in the world. These archival releases are such a reliable source of joy in a world where most things are anything but. Hoping to get my shipping notice for 37 soon!

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You are so right. We are a lucky bunch.

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Check out the special edition shop, assuming Dave will cover these brand new merchandise releases including the glass in the seaside chat coming today. Very cool!

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Hey Dave, all right? when are you going to relaunch the collection for those fans who have lost some numbers? Thank you. Claus of Brazil.

Agree, thanks for the heads up about the glasses.

With them only producing 1,000, it maybe real hard to get the last couple of the 4 glass set! Maybe it should have been an add on for the DaP series this year!

FYI - the coffee mug their selling with Dave fishing on it is a GREAT mug if you like your coffee LARGE. I have 3 of these TYPE mugs. Use them everyday for my bean. For their size, they are light and don't conduct heat.

I know, I know,,, you didn't come here for a dissertation on coffee mugs!

Time to go refill mine and bang the bong,,,,, sorry, bang the gong.

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I have a 10 mug Grateful Dead collection I've assembled over the years. The crown jewel is The Closing of Winterland. Double-sided, painted perfectly with very fine detail, professionally crafted - not some cheap knock-off that fades over time. It's Jeff Smith quality. Goes for $225 on eBay, just one available, but I was lucky enough to find a second one for 25 bucks a couple of years ago.

Ah, Down By the Seaside- probably my favorite Zeppelin album side:

In the Light
Bron Yr-aur
Down By the Seaside
Ten Years Gone

Still not sure how the song Houses of the Holy missed the cut and ended up in the can for use on Physical Graffiti, but it made that two-headed monster all the better.

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My 15 year old, insulated stainless steel Morning Brew mug still delivers the caffeine.. It's dented and scratched by now.. but still wakes me up each morning with a smile and some tasty java.

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Just finished a cup of super black and oily Columbian Supremo super duper dark roast.
Jim knows what I mean, he’s the one who convinced me to buy a bean roaster.

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I have a can of Espresso Stout in the fridge.
Think I’ll kick off the evening with that.

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Checkered Demon says they’re out back of the filling station.
I’m permanently scarred.
I blame it on S.Clay Wilson, R.Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Rick Griffin and Zap Comics.
I better throw in Batman and Superman. Both the television shows and D.C. Comics.
There was also Mad Magazine.

Grateful Dead, now that’s been good clean fun.

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Espresso stout, now that sounds good! If I had to choose 1 non hard liquor for the rest of my life it would be Guinness Stout with the nitrous cartridge. Mmmm....balloons....Okay well that fit has passed. Talk about your flashbacks. Just the word makes me salivate like a Pavlov dog. Ain't it a bitch.

My Dave's Picks 37 should be here by sundown Wednesday. I've been avoiding the post Hiatus era like the plague, just to make Dave's Picks 37 all the fresher. I've had some great April 1978 soundboards for a long time now that I received from the Man in the Castle, but I've never really listened to them because I figured there would be a time when they would be officially released, and if possible I like the first listen to be of a Full Norman. There are plenty of exceptions of course, just not April '78.

Yeah I like the dark roast as well. Starbucks French roast really does it for me. I have the hook up that gets me a 72 K cup box for $30. That's crazy inexpensive. Keurig makers really do make the perfect cup of coffee every time.

I had been doing a lot of mixes lately, but then someone commented on only listening to complete shows, so I've switched back and listened to "The Dead in Denmark" (4/16/72). Interestingly, this show was on the Rolling Stone top 20 Grateful Dead show lists. And so it became my first Europe 72 show, having missed the steamer trunk box set when they came out, and having been too soon to realize I needed all 22 shows via Music Only Edition. This is the no Donna show. There is also no Dark Star and a very abbreviated 2 part Other One totalling a mere 6 minutes. There IS a 16 min Jam after Truckin' so that counts for something. Still a little bit of an oddball show to put in a top 20 list of their career. I may run that Truckin' medley back later.

Right now I have Ramble on Rose on the headphones from "Treckin' Through Copenhagen" 4/14/72. Pure genius to multitrack every show on that tour. We are indeed a lucky bunch. Jerry throws a little bitta China Cat in at the end of Not Fade Away, Part I. I hear him do that once in awhile during Jams. I also noticed he throws a little St. Steven into a Jam once in a while too.

Starting to feel like early '73... or maybe that PNW box. Yes that's it.

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The Dave's 37 glass looks cool. Trying to decide if I'm up for an extra scramble every time a new Dave's drops this year. . . [Edit: Never mind – they're already sold out.]

When the talk here shifted to mugs, it made me think of the one I designed six years ago for the Sunshine Daydreamers as we started gearing up for Fare Thee Well shows in Chicago. I checked, and they're still available on Zazzle if anybody's interested:
https://www.zazzle.com/pd/spp/pt-zazzle_teapot?tdid=4ab00e97-a879-4ba7-…

You can also order other items (like pint glasses) with this design. Even a tea pot???

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Decided the crack out the Espresso Stout early.

16oz of 8.3%, so I’ll sip on it.
Grist House brewery
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Hey IceCream – how're those Espresso Stouts coming along? Yum! We even have breweries out here in the Trans Pecos. About time to crack open a Desert Fog (Hazy IPA) from Marble Brewery in Albuquerque. They're solar powered, but at only 6.8%, sipping is optional. Onward.

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I dragged out that Espresso Stout for almost 2 hours.
Then moved on to multiple Bell’s Bright Whites, and still going....

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Good chugging beer. Had a bunch tonight. P.S.- I know , who cares.

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Started with Mexican hot chocolate. (Ibarra) from the round cake variety, added powdered carob. Then I drank Folgers coffee. I remember the smell of roasting coffee entering San Francisco on the East Bay Bridge originating from the Hills Brothers Factory.
As Phil Lesh said on the night of October 20, 1974 at Winterland , ”God bless San Francisco”.

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