Dave's Picks Vol. 39: The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA 4/26/83

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We're feelin' Philly 4/26/83 and its '80s highs. See what we're on about when you pick up DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 39: THE SPECTRUM, PHILADELPHIA, PA, 4/26/83, the final show of a three-week tour, played at the venue that the Dead played more than Madison Square Garden (there's your daily dose of Dead trivia). This one fires on all cylinders, with extremely well-played, high-energy tight sets featuring newbies "West L.A. Fadeway," "My Brother Esau," rarities like Brent's tune "Maybe You Know," precise medleys "Help>Slip>Franklin's," an inspired new pairing "Throwing Stones>Not Fade Away," and the Dave's Picks debut of "Shakedown Street." And before you come down, we've got a prime slice of bonus material from the previous Spectrum show 4/25/83 and an extra dollop of '83 from the War Memorial Auditorium, Rochester, NY 4/15/83 (featuring the Bobby rarity "Little Star").

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 39: THE SPECTRUM, PHILADELPHIA, PA, 4/26/83 was recorded by Dan Healy and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman.

*2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

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August 14, 2021 - 1:09pm

#581

hendrixfreak

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Two avenues of drift

To DaveRock's point, if you judge the GD by Bobby doing Lovelight or Good Lovin', there's an argument for decline -- those were poor choices, just as Bobby's slide playing really marred a lot of material. Then you have Jer checking out on H, which according to Hunter, "ruined everything." Then you have Phil and his "Heinecken years," which started in '73-'74. So the roots of decline coincided with the loss of Pigpen, and the vagaries of being a rock star (affecting Phil and Jer) and the delusions of grandeur affecting Mr. Short Shorts. Another factor: age and the way maturity and creature comforts rob people of the intensity of their youth. Still, only Jer soldiered on with his own band, sounding fresh and intense even during his H years. (Yes, Bobby too, but not in the same league, and I'm a huge fan of and saw many shows by Kingfish.)

As for the Stones, I'd had it when Mick and Keith started wearing eye makeup. Yet they regrouped and followed my advice by cutting an all blues album a few years ago. I told 'em, stop writing Jagger-Richards crap and just do the classics you grew up on. Although I only howled this at my stereo in the privacy of my home, somehow the message reached them.

I will say that I quit the GD scene after 1987's three at the Rocks, two in Telluride. I'd been going full tilt with that band from '71 onward (1st show, '72) and by '87 (full disclosure: I turned 30 that summer), I was done. So I had an age-related issue, too. Still, when cultivating in Vermont in '92 I agreed to catch 'em one last time in Albany with a little help from my friends. (Mr. Blow.) One weak show, one fairly strong. So I bookended a 20-year live thing with the band. But I never flagged on Jerry's band and caught a huge show in '91 at MSG that they just released. One man's story... Which has a lot to do with actual concert attendance. As for the music, well I think everyone knows my position on a hot tape in the comfort of one's home. Gawd, back in fall '72, and the summer of '73, GD shows were marathon survival tests for a 15 year old. I mean, we were essentially little kids with grownup tastes. We had nothing except a t-shirt, jeans, sneakers and blotter. Literally nothing else, no IDs, no money, no hats (RFK '73 = 100 effin' degrees and like three water fountains for 25,000 people...) Yet, here I am!

Blah blah, woof woof!!
August 14, 2021 - 12:55pm

#582

hendrixfreak

Joined:
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Thin

Good points. I agree.

Check your pm.
August 14, 2021 - 12:19pm

#583

billy the kid

Joined:
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Fun times 1975 to 1995

All I know is ,seeing the Dead from 1975 to 1995 I really got high a lot and had a lot far out crazy times. Saw a lot of great shows , even the last shows I saw at Shoreline, 6/95 were enjoyable. 40 years ago today, I was hitchhiking up to Portland from the Bay Area to see the Dead. Fun times at the Greek, Frost , Winterland, Ventura, The Warfield and on and on. Garcia & Grisman , Garcia & Nelson & Rothman at the Warfield, those shows were historic. Acoustic Dead at the Warfield, fun times for sure.
August 14, 2021 - 11:10am

#584

daverock

Joined:
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Not literally, no

I don't think anyone was suggesting that the post K and D Dead were literally a cover band. They weren't like The Australian Doors or The Bootleg Beatles or whatever .What I was trying to suggest was that after 1975, they lost touch with their creative source-their muse - however you want to think of it. This became, for me, even more pronounced from 1979 onwards. They still played quite a few songs written from up to 1974 after this date, and it was when they did this, that they gave the impression, to me, that they were no longer as creative as they had been in the past. They seemed to re-presenting their earlier more innovative selves in much the same way that a literal cover band might have done. They still played jamming vehicles like Playing, Eyes, Other One etc - but the spark seemed to have gone. For me, any way-its all obviously very subjective.

They didn't sound like a cover band doing Lovelight with Pigpen singing - but they did when Bob started doing it. Same with a lot of traditional material they played circa 1969-1972. The sounded to me to be connecting with their roots which was then expanded into their own repertoire. So, contradictory as it may sound, they seemed less like a cover band playing other peoples songs between 1969-1972 than they did playing many of their own songs after 1979.
August 14, 2021 - 10:51am

#585

KeithFan2112

Joined:
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Berkeley '71

Thanks Doc, I don't recall hearing about these shows. Will see if there's a good Charlie Miller on Archive.org.

Uncle Gary sent me the suite of shows from the Manhattan Center last week, back in early April '71. It's been primarily '71 for me this past week.
August 14, 2021 - 9:54am

#586

Cousins Of The…

Joined:
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No cover

Take the example of the Sons of the Pioneers: they've been around since 1933 and have been performing ever since with no breaks, with new members coming( while the old ones go...); they were never perceived as a cover band in the 60s or 70s, even though all the founding members had already retired by then.
Whether you like post-hiatus Dead or not, they were not a cover band; by definition, a cover band performs other artists' songs, and if they copy precisely the original arrangements, they become a tribute band; the Dead were neither(on the other hand, most of Jerry's solo ventures were cover bands with a few originals sprinkled in)
The big change when Brent joined is the formatting of songs/sets: first set songs, pre-drums songs, drums/space, post drums songs, shorter jams, and overall predictable shows(with a few exceptions here and there.)
August 14, 2021 - 9:53am

#587

Angry Jack Straw

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Cover band

Not sure what the appropriate term is, but clearly not the same band.

Just look at the videos. While the available footage from 74 and prior is limited, the band plays with purpose, focus and intensity. In later years, they just seem to be going through the motions. And please don’t mistake the smiles and giddiness for passion.

You can make the argument that the band had peaks from 78 on, but they are few, far between and often measured in songs rather than shows or entire tours.
August 14, 2021 - 6:02am

#588

Exile On Main St.

Joined:
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Uh huh Thin

I do agree with you on a point Thin. The Dead were not a cover band to me immediately after Mickey came back in 76. I did accidently write that through many copy and pastes trying to organize my thoughts. My bad. What I lost in the process was a comment I had wrote that there was a large enough change in sound and way of playing the songs that the Dead was at that point a substantial degree off separation from their early 70s sound.

You did not need to point out that they still made great music with K&D after 74 because I said so in my post. So I agree with you on that point too. Just please try to be more attentive.

Disagree on crushing the oldies. There was an occasional Bertha like Dick's 18 that rocked. Very few Playing in the Bands or Eyes of the World came anywhere near 73/74, emphasis on very few.

After K&D left is a different story. Yeah they were evolving. Into a cover band. That's when they turned into a new band all together. If the degree of separation from their 71 to 74 selves was a 5 out of 10 to their 76 to 78, selves and the degree of separation from their 78 selves to their 1987 selves was at least another 5 out of 10, and their sound and style of playing those 71 to 74 songs was substantially changed, which it was, then a band is just too far from their former selves to be anything but a new band playing there old songs. Same as the Who. Yeah it's fun, but it's not same band. The word cover band is used very loosely. Obviously they are still called the Grateful Dead and still playing the music that some of the members originally made, but not really the same at all. Wasn't the 2015 reunion a cover band? Of course it was they were the Grateful Dead only in name.

I do not believe I am projecting but you may be in denial ;-)

Peace
August 14, 2021 - 4:47am

#589

Forensicdoceleven

Joined:
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Oops, double post...........

Apologies, too much King Crimson, not enough coffee......

Rock on!

Doc
August 14, 2021 - 4:26am

#590

direwulf

Joined:
October 15, 2007

Interesting conundrum about iterations of the music

Ironic a band with a song called "the music never stopped" has so many diehard fans claiming the music has stopped. My favorite quip to someone at a show these days jibing a younger fan with the old trope "you never saw Jerry! You have NO idea!" I like to ask if they saw Pigpen?! The music IS the true thing we are all after, even the band. A nightly search for the just exactly perfect moment or inspiration from the ethereal realms. The music ending with the band is NOT what I've gathered they intended from their comments. Even Bob recently said he had a dream where Dead and Co. was playing away fiercely except he wasn't in the band. When he looked John, Oteil, and Jeff were old and gray with new players in his spot with Mickey and Bill. Personally I like Bob's dream and that's the way to make sure the music never stops. A lineage of players keeping the flame alive and bringing in younger generations. Not telling the kids its over they missed the party and life sucks now cause you're watching a cover band. I've said it before Fare Thee Well was simply "Fare Thee Phil" It was Phil's retirement party so he could do his own projects, never once thought that was THE END nor was that a Grateful Dead show as advertised.

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We're feelin' Philly 4/26/83 and its '80s highs. See what we're on about when you pick up DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 39: THE SPECTRUM, PHILADELPHIA, PA, 4/26/83, the final show of a three-week tour, played at the venue that the Dead played more than Madison Square Garden (there's your daily dose of Dead trivia). This one fires on all cylinders, with extremely well-played, high-energy tight sets featuring newbies "West L.A. Fadeway," "My Brother Esau," rarities like Brent's tune "Maybe You Know," precise medleys "Help>Slip>Franklin's," an inspired new pairing "Throwing Stones>Not Fade Away," and the Dave's Picks debut of "Shakedown Street." And before you come down, we've got a prime slice of bonus material from the previous Spectrum show 4/25/83 and an extra dollop of '83 from the War Memorial Auditorium, Rochester, NY 4/15/83 (featuring the Bobby rarity "Little Star").

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 39: THE SPECTRUM, PHILADELPHIA, PA, 4/26/83 was recorded by Dan Healy and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman.

*2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

Grateful Dead Garcia Birthday shows

The Grateful Dead played 4 times on Garcia's birthday : 8/1/67 Toronto, 8/1/73 New Jersey, 8/1/82 Oklahoma, and. 8/1/94 Michigan

I attended 8-1-94

Floor seats through mail order, aisle seats Phil side, approximately along the center court line.

The jam from Space into Watchtower was cool and had a good light show.

A set 2 SBD was in circulation pretty quickly but Set 1 was noticeably absent, and I think it still hasn’t surfaced.
SBD’s from 7-31-94 also surfaced pretty quickly, although I think that they were recorded from the monitor mix.

SBD’s from The Palace the following year, 6-27,28-95 also never surfaced.
From listening to the AUD recordings those shows could potentially be official releases, and maybe were kept out of circulation. There’s some good stuff there, notably the transition from Victim to Foolish.

Happy Birthday Jerry!!!

May The Spirit>

Of Jerry commune with us all today. I am partial mainly, to good shows, and in my opinion, this is a real good show. It’s nowhere near my ‘67-‘74 preference, but it’s a fun listen, and it’s well played. I don’t live all of Dave’s Picks(or even Dick’s Picks for that matter), but I love most of them, and this for me is a keeper. Well, of course they’re ALL keepers. I’m enjoying a rainy day in mid-Atlantic region, the Dead just makes it even more enjoyable.
I sure wish I could figure out which part of grammar Dead Net is objecting to!! Sheesh.

Music is the Best!!

Meadowlands 11/10/85

Half Step-Rider 2nd set opener. My 2nd show as a 15 yr. old, lived in DE, parents let me take charted bus with juniors/seniors, keg in the back, smoking all around, with ticket to boot, 1st level, midway, Jerry's side. I have the fondest memories for my casual indoctrination into the Dead from older kids, it was so natural back then.

I was already long hair, ear pierced, wearing deer shin moccasins, smoking, listening to usual stoner music with AC/DC, Sabbath, Zeppelin,Floyd, etc. One day I'm cutting class out back the wall at Mt. Pleasant High when this older kid, I shit you not his name was Casey Jones, his main bud was Joe Kelly if anyone went to Mt, asks me I'd been to a Dead show. Goes on to explain how it's right outta what we were doing and the 60's, but alive here and now. I took a chance after getting tapes from him and others, and my parents took me to my first show 6/28/85. Like I mentioned earlier getting turned on to the Dead was just a natural progression back then.

Just popped on #39, Phil is out the gates!

@SWR

Well at least THEY got it to Morrow, GA. Hopefully you'll get it to-morrow, too! :-)

Geez, an '83 show? (RIGHT! An '83 Show!!! THANKS DAVE!!!)

It's not that I was expecting 'not to like' an '83 release, but I did feel the need to set my expectations. I was sure it would be a good 'solid' show, but I was NOT expecting the brilliance of Dave's Picks 39. WOW! To say this show is 'exceptional' is no understatement. The performance is truly fantastic & the recording is sublime. Shakedown & its funky goodness is worth the price of admission all by itself. Play it, play it again. Even though this is a soundboard (of the finest sense) you can hear the Philly crowd in between tracks going apeshit from the 1st note all the way through US Blues. There's no doubt that every bobbing & spinning head was wearing their grins ear to ear - & now so am I !!! This entire show rocks, the band is tight, & the ballanced soundscape nothing short of magnificent. Go '83! Go Dave's Picks!

So glad..

Y’all are getting yours and enjoying them!
Mine is in Denver, so now it needs to go all the way back across the state to GJ, (passing within a mile and a half of our house in route), then halfway across state to back here. Problem is I-70s been closed more than open lately through Glenwood Canyon due to mud slides associated with the big Grizzly Creek fire from last year. That means a long 2 lane detour of many extra miles and several hours to cover the usually less than an hour (from detour start/finish points) so guessing it might take a couple extra days. Tracking says late Tuesday but we won’t get our hopes up. Wednesday would be good for “batch nite” lol.

FIRST SHAKEDOWN: 3/13/81, not the GOAT, but no slouch either.

8/1/94: we were at those shows, sounds like we were pretty close to you on the floor Conekid!
Agree, those were good shows, especially for the times. Made up for the poor experience at Vermont.
Fun camping stories after 7/31 with skunks in the camp and my cousin and I unintentionally waking up the whole damn place lol.

Sounds like this is a winner....

....judging by early recipients. My delivery date got bumped up a day. Arriving manana.
Happy Birthday Jerry. When I'm down, your playing never fails to cheer me up.
Miss you every day.
I feel like hearing a Here Comes Sunshine. Brb.
Ooh look! Dave's 38 Bonus disc happens to have one!

So 33 years ago this weekend

was a fine time with David Lindley, Los Lobos & The Grateful Dead at Laguna Seca....what a great weekend we had...the following week I moved to Grand Canyon National Park where I pretty much have lived since then....

supposedly mine arrives

tommorow....

Damn, sorry...

Almost forgot, the thing I seem to do best now, ahem. Lol
A big radio hello out there to our ole buddy Skulltrip!
Glad to see you sir! We were getting worried about ya!

Great “stubborn” on a cellular level comment!
Makes me think of Anthony Hopkins in Legends of the fall “SCREW EM!!”
Be well amigo!

Laguna Seca '88 was indeed....

....a great time nappyrags. Although we missed the 29th. Oh well. At least we caught that Midnight Hour encore on Sunday Funday. And, for some reason, I can hear that Gentlemen Start Your Engines like it was yesterday.

Dave's Picks Series / Possible Digital Downloads

I wish there was a Digital Download option for Dave's Picks as it would be nice, like the Box Sets.
(16-44 / 24-96/192) resolution at the fingertips. No running out of copies and can go as far back as necessary to keep feeding our head(s) and for those that totally missed out. More revenue I would think?
Keep the CD "option" for those who prefer, but allow digital download options if ppl missed out.
Would be a great "option".

3 28 81

My solo MUATM

Essen on dvd

Sound is great!!!
Visuals!!!
OCD on my part? You betcha! However, I ain't often right, but I've never been wrong.

What a great show.

There has been a lot of Shakedown Street talk here...check out the one from this show.

Pete fookn Townshend...

morrow

/m.youtube.com/watch?v=pBFmrcWxtQ0

Laguna

another California dreamin looking kinda place I wish I’d made, but, unfortunately not...
88 line up looks sweet!
I have a tape from there? Not sure the year, but think 88, that was good? Hmmmmm?
synapses not connecting...

3/28/81: always loved this one, yaasss good Shakedown but kinda unusual if I recall?
Different location? Yeah, this was out all over the place, decent vids (for the times) and audio. Had a buddy who taped onto reel off the radio while stationed there. One of my early collection jewels.

Colorado Dead

A lot of you freaks live here in my state. I'm just sayin'. The fire smoke sucks, but other than that this is pretty good living.

Don't any of you other motherfuckers even think of moving here, permanently, for one second. Have your weekend at Red Rocks and Garden Of The Gods, then go back home. Ski Telluride, buy your T-shirt, and don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

"Welcome to Colorado! We're full. Now get the fuck out of here."

\m/

Ha..

I think I might going to Montana soon...

Colorado?

Ledded - sounds like you own it! Or think you do.

Mr. Roger's Rocky Mountain Oysters

Don't worry, doesn't sound like its big enough for the two of us. Sheesh, I'd hate to ask for a cup of sugar. You can't even go to the ocean for real oysters. :P I agree, this release has a plethora of surprises and sounds 👌 for what I was expecting.

Plangent

Dave mentioned they used Plangent for this release. Direwulf, can you verify that?

Unfortunately, mine hasn't shipped yet so I have no idea when it will arrive.

And Dave thought this would sell out in less than two hours?? Not sure when it will sell out.

Last Settler Syndrome

I totally get Ledded's remarks in warning off would-be interlopers to Colorado. We call it the "last settler syndrome". Once you've escaped megalopolis, it's "close and lock the gate!" My wife and I live in the mountains of west Texas, 9.6 miles off pavement on a 4WD ranch road. For the first 8 years there wasn't anyone within earshot except for an occasional lost pickup grinding around in low gear – our ears would prick up and we'd wonder who'd dared to violate our tranquility. Now we grudgingly have a "neighbor" about a half mile away. Getting claustrophobic around here. Onward.

My Dave's 39 should arrive in town by tomorrow. The story of its first of only three "Little Stars" is cool:
web.archive...
org/web/20030817114106/(insert* here).elizabundledee.com/littlestar.htm
* h t t p : / / w w w (without spaces)

Umm yeah

off topic,,, what else

My paycheck last week was only 800 bucks for two weeks, but,,,,, I just bought the Mosaic Records set - "The Savory Collection"

Mosaic Records presents “The Savory Collection” – six CDs with 108 tracks locked away for more than 70 years and finally available on CD for the very first time anywhere. The recordings are from the personal collection of Bill Savory, a quirky and secretive studio engineer in New York whose day job in the late 1930s and early 1940s was transcribing radio broadcasts for foreign distribution, and whose nighttime passion was turning on the disc recorders to pull in and preserve what was happening in the clubs of New York City and other cities.

Does this sound good or what?? This is early Deadhead shit, bootlegs from the 30's/40's!!!

Had to Have!!!

Enjoy

No room at the inn

But plenty of manger space available...

Cue that Eagles song The Last Resort...

Led may be agro, but he’s not wrong!
Though I believe he lives in or around Denver, which IS a huge metropolitan area, so not sure why he’s upset now?
It’s been a cluster there for a long time...although now that half of Cali, Texas, and Florida have moved here it’s outta control there too.
Meanwhile, out in the boonies, the population in our town has more than tripled in the last twenty years.
Fucking town council people never met a developer they didn’t like, WHORES!
The point of moving so far away was to get away from all that.
I have a sticker that looks like the state license plate that reads “save an Elk, shoot a developer”
When we moved here 25 years ago, you could get on I70 and go hundred and see few cars, or cops.
Now, I70 is like a frickin parking lot! SL is 75 (so WE drive 80-85) but all the interlopers drive 60 in the left lane.
And forget about when it snows as most of them come from warmer climates. I70 shuts down constantly now, which means you can’t get ANYWHERE, usually because of some lost sailor who has no business driving up here!
Yes I am aware of the irony. Coming here we’ve contributed to the problem, be we’ve fought overdevelopment amap.
The vast majority of folks moving here now are not doing so for the reasons we did, which was in tune with the way it was.
We’ve been thinking it’s time to cash in and go somewhere cheap to die.
Somewhere nobody wants to live, to get some land cheap, with little or no taxes, but with a college/hospital somewhat near by...
Of course many of those places are full of angry rednecks, not freaks...
All we want is a quiet place to lay our heads and listen to the River sing sweet songs!

Got mine - a few thoughts

Got mine. Sounds great for an '83 (in terms of audio quality, from a cassette master). This is actually from the same tour as my first show (4/16/83 w/ Stills), so its nice to hear something from my introductory era. Some initial thoughts:
- OVERALL a great show - Wow! Phil is big in the mix, unlike many 80's soundboards. Dick is right - this show pops with energy from beginning to end.
- Shakedown is long and well-jammed, and has Brent very prominent in the mix and clearly not on the Hammond B3 - using a electronic 80's tone instead - kinda distracting, but hey, you have to experiment. He uses varying organ voicings for the next few songs.
- Minglewood Blues.... Jerry rips, and this version smokes. My brother and I use to joke that during Bobby's slide solos Jerry was cringing thinking "Oh god, my solo after this better be good!" Bewildering. "These Philly phillies start looking good..."
- Maybe You Know - They actually played this at my first show the previous week, 4/16/83. It was only played 6 times total.... I don't remember it at all, until I heard this version and looked at the setlist from my show.
- My Brother Esau is only a month old, and is without the quirky intro riff which is fine since it was often clumsy. This is GREAT version of one of my favorite Bobby songs. Very chill and understated, at about 3/4 regular volume and slower pace, without the overwrought bombast that can sometimes hamper other versions. Almost sounds like they're just casually rehearsing it and running through the changes in some parts, but it totally works.
- Let It Grow rips!! As do many version from this era. Always loved this 1st set jam.
- Help On the Way starts with us overhearing Bobby telling the drummers "After Women are smarter you guys go RIGHT into the drum solo!" Then you hear Jerry clarify the whole pre-drum setlist, Mickey confirms the setlist back to Jerry ("Got it!") and they're off! Cool banter. GREAT clear version of Help - Jerry's voice sounds great for '83, and the guitar work is generally crisp and confident, which is not always the case for this song in '83.
- Truckin' ending jam has great energy (Phil seems to trigger a breaker on the big Phil-bomb part, as his bass tone suddenly hiccups) but they disappointingly end it just as it gets interesting. After the crescendo, It almost immediately dissolves into brief "Nobody's Fault" and "Spoonful" teases before they bail out completely. Would have loved them to stretch it out a little longer. The mid-late 80's seem to have many truncated versions of otherwise heavily jammed songs (especially '87).
- Morning Dew - Like going to church. Apocalyptic Phil bombs, majestic guitar. Thanks Jerry.
- Throwing Stones> Not Fade Away - This is the early era of this pairing, before it was maligned as "Throw Away" for being overused.... But for many in that Philly audience, it was the first time they'd ever heard this perfect pairing with the audience chant at the end. You can hear and feel the magic in the air.

Happy Camper!

Love the artwork on this release! All the little Philly references (like the pretzels and the guy up front with the cheesesteak to name two,) are cool. I really like this artist - she might be my favorite of the series so far!

In terms of the show, I haven't had a proper listen, but from what I have heard, it sounds great! Only took 8-some years and 38 volumes to get a Shakedown Street.

Finally, I am pleased to see such positive energy surrounding this release. Part of me was expecting to log on and find a lot of less-than-enthusiastic comments. Perhaps the nay-sayers are playing it cool to allow those of us excited about it to have a moment in the sun.

Hope all is well! Continue to stay safe out there!

Peace

Colorado, you can keep it!

Colorado - The New Jersey of the West

Lots of assholes with Green Plates showing up in New Mexico, just sayin’

Colorado

Colorado sounds like where everyone escaping the coasts and bringing their bullshit with them should go. Montana? We're full up, we're a bunch of angry rednecks, and many of us aren't vaxing for a disease with a 99% survival rate. Colorado, that's where you want to go.

Relocating....

....I have relatives in Idaho. They said they're full too lol.
Philly out for delivery.

Crowded around here

You should get a load of all the newbies in Seattle!!! "Go home, tech bro"

Grump grump grump...

I am beyond certain the indigenous populations living and deceased are laughing themselves silly over modern complaints of "too many aholes moving here".

Awesome

When your lost in the rain, in Montana, and it’s Easter time too.
And your gravity fails you and negativity won’t pull ya through...

Well, hell then come on Deadnet, usually a happy place, and spew hate!

Welcome back! We missed ya.

Pilgrims , Romans, Countrymen

“Be of good heart”

I don't post here often but…

I don't post here often but lurk a lot. This conversation sucks. I guess asshole is a universal language.

Skulltrip, good to hear from you!

Keep on truckin', man.

Be kind. Rewind.

#5216 Has Landed

in Santa Barbara. I've been warming up for this with Woostah '83 from Thirty Trips.
The real estate market is too hot to handle here, as well.

Whining boy blues.

I can understand why people consider that America is too full. The population density is 88 people per square mile. That may seem like a lot to you, but here in the Netherlands we have a population density of 1183 people per square mile. Please don't get the idea that this density is artificially high due to the fact the there are mega cities here. The largest city has around 742000 inhabitants. Bearing this in mind, I don't see how one can justify any statement that suggests that the state you live in is full. Maybe it would be a good idea to move to Mongolia. Big sky country and endless empty grasslands where your nearest neighbours could be way over the horizon. What more could one wish for? Possibly a sense of perspective is lacking here.

Clarification

I apologize to all, I was just “whining” about the irresponsible overdevelopment by greedy developers that is ruing my state as well as others. Then shit git weird...
Mongolia sounds kinda nice!

Movement

Throughout history humans have been moving from one place to another

DP 39 Whew

Since I commonly gripe about some of the mediocre offerings, it's only right to extend a compliment when appropriate. DP 39 is really good. I was not anticipating a show from 1983 would have this much energy. Pleasantly surprised. Thanks.

OROBOROUS - Come Back! We Love You!!

My #39 is being delivered today. Surprised it hasn't sold out.

I completely identify with the irresponsible developer stuff.

Born and raised in Idaho.

Haven't Got Mine Yet

..it takes mail a bit longer to arrive here in East Central Mongolia.. but I am a recent fan to this show. Agree with the high energy and good recording (for the era) comments. Sometimes you need some high energy, jazzercise workout Grateful Dead. This fits that bill, works as prescribed.

Mosaic-Dennis - sounds good to me!

I only have one box set issued by Mosaic, and that is The Complete Dean Benedetti Recordings. A 7cd box set featuring just the solos played by Charlie Parker during a number of live dates in the 1940s. Each track starts with a blitz of a Parker solo, and ends abruptly when the solo ends. All lovingly recorded by Dean Benedetti using primitive recording techniques from wherever he could hook up in the club Parker was playing in

There is an essay on Dean in the So Many Roads box set, called The Children of Dean Benedetti, a self explanatory reference to taping Deadheads. The box set is a true work of devotion, with great essays and photos.

No. 1,034 ...

Is in da house...ok we shall see what we shall see

Perhaps today

If you dont have your 39 yet, give a listen to Captain Beefheart and the magic band's Strictly Personal. It'll blow your funky mind.

"Strawberry caterpillar!!!"

moving

did that 13 years ago, moved up from Florida to North Carolina mountains. Used to be quite nice, low noise, didn't hear a siren or cop for weeks at a time, then started to hear one weekly or so, then more, more till daily now. The natives are a bit well, country or mountain, but basically harmless, except for the rednecks, they have weapons and don't mind using them. Mountain William (hillbilly) all the way.
Everyone from Florida is following our lead and moving up here, and they don't know how to drive on these mountain roads. Way too much traffic now and no improvements to the roads, so, you get a lot of parking lots too, or very slow moving lanes. Used to be, you could fly around here, not any more.
The weather is good, not too hot in the summer and not too cold in the winter, but we still will get an occasional snow in the winter, 4 distinct seasons that you can pretty much set your watch to, like on the Autumn equinox, the weather will change that day, believe it or not.
Soon, Florida will be up here, the weather has all ready changed from what it was when we first moved here, it's unsettling to think about it that one day, it could be just as hot here in these mountains as it was in Florida, but it seems to be happening.
So, to sum it all up, where is the perfect place? No, it's not here in the mountains, thanks for looking, now go home. Ha, go to captcha and it says, pick out the mountains

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