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    Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye! Gentle mistresses and most distinguished gentlemen, we have come upon the release of the DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 37, from the Fifteenth of April in the year Nineteen Seventy-Eight, at ye olde College Of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Cast your waistcoats and your bonnets aside, the Grateful Dead are on steady gallop from the opening high-kick of "Mississippi Half-Step" into a where are we going? where have we been? "Passenger," followed by full-on versions of "Friend Of The Devil," "El Paso," "Brown-Eyed Women," and a double-barreled "Let It Grow>Deal." Catch your breath and straighten out your tricorne because the 2nd set shows no bounds with delightful takes ("Bertha>Good Lovin'," "One More Saturday Night") and introspection ("Candyman," "Playing In The Band"). Then - great fifes and drums - it's 15 minutes of "Rhythm Devils," with band and crew gathered round to amplify the merriment before delivering a rare incantation of "Not Fade Away>Morning Dew" that sets the soul alight. Pure jollification!

    The town crier's addendum:

    Three bags full! Lest you feel 4/15/78 beginneth and endeth too quickly, we've selected highlights from Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA, 4/18/78 to satisfy your fancy.

    Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 37: WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA 4/15/78 was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman. It is guaranteed to sell out - often within hours.

    *2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

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  • #1351
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    #128 arrived today from USPS. I can't believe it. I have never received any of these on a Sunday. Did anyone else notice the picture when you first open the case is the exact same picture from Dave's 15, the Nashville 78 show?

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    DP37..... and Neil Young.

    My wife and I are just finishing our first listen of DP37, and we both agree that this entire set is absolutely electrifying. The Candyman was sublime, and Morning Dew..... wow! This one ranks high on our list of best of DP’s. Three discs of unforgettable performances by our favorite band.
    Everyone is running on all cylinders here, and you can really feel everyone is really listening to each other too.

    We also can’t wait to find out what this year’s box set will be. Personally I would love to see a set from 68 or 69, but I know whatever they come up will be awesome.

    Off subject : To any Neil Young fans out there, he’s currently preparing to release a substantial amount of archival music this year. At least six bootlegs from the 70’s using his soundboard tapes. Perhaps three unreleased albums that were never released at the time they were completed. The import only release Eldorado on vinyl for the first time ever. A box set from the Alchemy tour, An archival recording called Young Shakespeare recorded right after Massey Hall, along with a series of films he’s been working on during this pandemic.

    Looks like 2021 is going to be EXPENSIVE!

    Peace 🙏

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    I recommend 8/10/82, jiminmd

    Probably a bit warmer than -40 F at this show in Iowa in August

    The show itself is high-energy hot

    Spring arrives in 41 days

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    Temperature and Separate but Equal

    Starting with a comfortable temperature and a great GD Year, 1974. The F to C formula is (X-32)*(5/9) so 74 degrees F =
    (74-32)*5/9 = 23.33 C. Separate but equal, and most importantly above zero. Now.. what to listen to.

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    Only up to Let It Grow, but so far the energy has been amazing (and the recording is great, although Keith and Bobby are coming out of the wrong channels than we're accustomed to on these two tracks).

    Jerry's solos are incredible, especially on Mississippi Half-Step and Friend of the Devil. Not a big fan of the slowed down versions of Friend of the Devil post hiatus, but they speed it up a few notches here and it sounds great.

    Keith is absolutely on fire on every track so far - I think he's pretty much exclusively on that Yamaha electric piano at this point, and I can't think of a show where he's played better since switching over to it almost exclusively, sometime in the Fall of '77. That's how good he sounds like on headphones anyway.

    Bobby is also extraordinarily up in the mix and I don't know...it doesn't sound like his normal thin Ibanez of this period. Maybe he just has the distortion cranked way up. Sounds good.

    If all three discs sound like this, and there's coke reason they won't, I'll be playing this one quite a bit.

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    Warts and all...

    An endearing sloppiness... kind of jangly, barely held together at times, just like some of us. This was what kept me from really getting this far into the Dead until I was older, it took me a while to be in the right place to really hear the spirit of this music beyond the actual notes...

    And now it's one of the things I love about it most. This past week not once but twice a song came on in the car where the band played for fifteen seconds or so before Jerry stopped the song, saying "somebody messed up the changes," or some such thing. So they gamely start over, with no apologies. Bob and Jerry both flub lyrics and the band just keeps on trucking... a sign of musicians who are very secure in themselves, to be sure. I also love it when, after the band blows an intro, they'll play a few bars of some mexican drinking polka or what have you. It's loose... I can't imagine, say, Don Henley doing that onstage.

    No matter... another thing I totally dig is the way the Dead played covers. I mean, Werewolves of London, for example, or anything by the Beatles... they are so unfaithful to the original, you know what song it is but they completely make it their own. Even bar bands try harder than the Dead in trying to sound like the original, these guys couldn't care less. One more thing to absolutely love about them.

    Apparently, Hornsby didn't love it so much. He's been documented as being very disappointed in the guys taking the piss out of his songs, not giving them what he considered a fair effort. True or not, it didn't seem to bother Bob Dylan. But then he's another guy who would go up and do exactly what he wanted onstage, still does, and if you don't like it, well, there's the door.

    This release just blends into the whole rest of the canon for me. I'm always excited for something "new", and I hope these releases keep on coming for as long as we have the pleasure of listening. I'm looking forward to the next box set announcement - whatever it is.

    On another note... if Brady wins today, in his first year in Tampa, I believe it cements him as the greatest team sport player in professional history, ahead of Michael Jordan. My two cents.

    Cheers!

    \m/

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    Ah yes Benjamin Orr

    Thanks Leded, I'd quite forgotten which Car was which. Sorry Benjamin.

  • #1358
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    40 Below?

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DAp7FvZ5Opw

  • #1359
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    Temperature trivia

    At what temp does F = C?

    Answer:
    -40 F = -40 C

    The F to C conversion factor is (x 1.8)+32

    ((-40) x 1.8) + 32 = -40

    Looks like Deadvikes and DH Brewer are headed towards F and C equality.
    Brrrrr....

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    This is a grate release.
    It’s pretty amazing that people focus on the 5-10% of the release that isn’t quite up to par, rather than the majority of the release which smokes.

    Mistakes in GD shows are common. That’s what happens when you go on stage and play it ‘real’ rather than just replay your studio recordings on stage.

    We are fortunate that GD tried to play it ‘real’ every night and that there were people in the organization with the foresight to record it.

    I haven’t heard the out of sync drumming on BEW but will listen for it next time. I did hear it on TN Jed after someone pointed it out, but I couldn’t confirm that it wasn’t actually intentional.

    Edit:
    Just listened to BEW and didn’t notice anything wrong with it.
    It did seem a little fast, clocking in at only 5 minutes, but I also don’t know what the average length is for that song.

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Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye! Gentle mistresses and most distinguished gentlemen, we have come upon the release of the DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 37, from the Fifteenth of April in the year Nineteen Seventy-Eight, at ye olde College Of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Cast your waistcoats and your bonnets aside, the Grateful Dead are on steady gallop from the opening high-kick of "Mississippi Half-Step" into a where are we going? where have we been? "Passenger," followed by full-on versions of "Friend Of The Devil," "El Paso," "Brown-Eyed Women," and a double-barreled "Let It Grow>Deal." Catch your breath and straighten out your tricorne because the 2nd set shows no bounds with delightful takes ("Bertha>Good Lovin'," "One More Saturday Night") and introspection ("Candyman," "Playing In The Band"). Then - great fifes and drums - it's 15 minutes of "Rhythm Devils," with band and crew gathered round to amplify the merriment before delivering a rare incantation of "Not Fade Away>Morning Dew" that sets the soul alight. Pure jollification!

The town crier's addendum:

Three bags full! Lest you feel 4/15/78 beginneth and endeth too quickly, we've selected highlights from Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA, 4/18/78 to satisfy your fancy.

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 37: WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA 4/15/78 was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman. It is guaranteed to sell out - often within hours.

*2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

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Submitted by KeithFan2112 on Thu, 04/29/2021 - 20:10

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Lowest # I've ever had.

Couple spoilers ahead if you haven't received yours yet.

Just queued up the show. I think Bertha / Uncle is my favorite Jerry / Bobby 1-2 opening duo. "Smoking" I think Carlo said about disc one. Yeah, I hear it so far. Jerry is really tearing it up on Me & My Uncle. Even Sugaree is a bit harder than usual. Works for me.

I hear you AJS on the Bertha sound issues. They should have pre-opened every show with LLR to straighten out the audio.

I'm hearing Bobby much louder than usual. As loud as Jerry at least. Keith is nowhere to be found, but I'm strangely okay with it for the moment, I think because Bobby is playing that Gibson so well and it sounds so good.

Yeah, another cookin' solo in Tennessee Jed. Good stuff. Oh dear, LLR came on and I'm enjoying it. Lol, guys, honestly I probably should have sobered up to report the real story here. Well I mean - it's not the alcohol so much as I probably shouldn't have drunk all of that cough syrup this morning.....stay gold Pony Boy.

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Submitted by KeithFan2112 on Thu, 04/29/2021 - 20:42

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Been awhile, glad to see you weighing in. I don't know if it's that I usually listen on headphones or what, but I found the three PNW '73 shows very uneven from an audio standpoint. I figure it has to be the headphones because everyone else loves them. By "uneven" I hear the symbols coming in piercingly loud on half the tracks maybe. Also some tape hiss creeps in and out and there. My recollection is the Bird Song show is the least affected of the three. And the Dark Star / Eyes of the World from show #2 is right on the money. But overall I'm constantly dicking around with the EQ trying to get the sound right on PNW "73

Now the '74 shows are a completely different story; the audio on these is about as good as I've heard any '74 show sound. They've just about eliminated the tinniness that those Wall of Sound phase cancelling microphones used to cause. Not sure how they did it but they did. Or maybe I just wore out the mid-range in my ears. That could definitely be it. But yeah, those '74 shows are ultra smooth. I should revisit those '73 shows again. I recently listened to the Dark Star => Eyes of the World after Daverock mentioned how well Bobby was playing on that Dark Star; but otherwise it's been awhile. Now I feel like I should do an immediate comparison. I may have undiagnosed ADD.

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Submitted by carlo13 on Thu, 04/29/2021 - 22:08

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Your right about the loud vocals bob and jerry sing. It was the first thing I noticed as the first set played through. The high vocals make this Dap a lot of fun.

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Submitted by Thin on Fri, 04/30/2021 - 02:26

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Yeah, when I was listening to China rider, I noticed the audio seemed a bit edgy. Maybe with headphones I'll be able to isolate what I was hearing, but I went back and toggled it with one of the 1973 NW box china rider and the sound is very different. As if somebody's signal is a little too high in the mix and getting slightly distorted maybe? Or maybe the master recording's levels were a little too high making the mix sound a bit saturated? Not sure.

Not a complaint, just an observation. Great show. Listened to most of the release last night, and it's glorious.

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Submitted by Sixtus_ on Fri, 04/30/2021 - 07:16

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...I've noticed this same thing on the sound Thin. You've described it pretty well. And, I don't hear a whole ton of Phil either, which usually helps to solidify and round out the overall sound with some deeper depth. Not so much here. I assume it's because of the limitations of a two-track to some extent.

I will say though, the 'Let Me Sing Your Blues Away' caught me surely off guard, where I had to stop and do a double take before a huge grin took over my stolen face. It's a pretty jaunty tune, a shame it was shelved so soon.

Hope Others' are receiving theirs and enjoying the ride - off to get #2 JAB shortly, here's to hoping for no adverse events!

Sixtus

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Submitted by MDA on Fri, 04/30/2021 - 07:39

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I have been seeing that a bunch of people have had their 38s for a few days now. I’m sitting here in Colorado still waiting on a shipping notice. Should I be worried??

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Submitted by Jimbobwe on Fri, 04/30/2021 - 07:59

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MDA - I also live in Colorado and have yet to receive a shipping confirmation email...we must be the last batch of subscriptions to ship. Hopefully we hear something soon.

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Submitted by proudfoot on Fri, 04/30/2021 - 08:08

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What, me worry?

With all the versions of "The Shipping Blues" in the past, one might.

Give it until at least next Friday before any panicking.

No, I am still not a robot.

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Submitted by 1stshow70878 on Fri, 04/30/2021 - 08:15

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No worries Jimbobwe and Proudfoot. Keep the faith. I was thinking the same then got my shipping notice here in Colorado this week showing Monday 5-3 for delivery. You never know. My July '78 box is #36/15,000.
Cheers!

I wouldn't worry about a shipping notice. For #36 I never received one but it came the usual 4 days after date like all the others. Come to think of it a notice has been an iffy thing. More than a couple of times I didn't get one yet it came nonetheless.

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Submitted by Gary Farseer on Fri, 04/30/2021 - 09:53

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I watched a documentary a few days back. I am sure you all have seen on the History Channel the various docs. I cant remember what the title was, and like I have written, memory aint what it used to be. It was on the building of the Golden Gate Bridge. I had posted a few years back that on the day off during the NYE1987 run, my friends and I walked to the mid-point of the Golden Gate Bridge and back, somewhere around 10 pm. It was super cold and a strong western wind. In the documentary, it talked about them at one point putting up a net to protect the bridge builders. I also remember a couple of years back that they had a drive to collect money to put another permanent net type device to prevent jumpers. Any way, long story short, I never put it together that the live album, Without a Net, was not just shot in the dark title (about the circus coming to town and the razor's edge of improvisation without a net) but also some San Fran history to boot. Those guys were on top of so much Americana that it is mind blowing.

If I had missed the page for the sale of #38. Now I know this is maybe a new rule for sales. Ship subscribers and dont open for sale until the day of release. Not sure if that is true or is it the or some special artwork??? Cant wait to see. I hope it is the poster for these shows, which I have. Will write more later, not wanting to spoil the trip...

Edit: well just checked my farseer email and see the artwork. Not the poster. Email sent 10 minutes ago...

Edit 2: OOOps wrong show poster is for March shows, see old brainism

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