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    18,000 happy Dead Heads could not be wrong. Deer Creek, my how you deliver.

    We're closing the books on DAVE'S PICKS 2021 with not one but two - nearly - complete shows from Noblesville, IN 7/18/90 & 7/19/90. Yes, we've packed it all on four CDs, save for that second night encore which we promise you'll get to hear in the very near future. Sometimes there really is just too much good stuff.

    For now, we'll invite you to cozy up with two exceptional back-to-back shows, shows with precision and clarity, shows with more than a lion's share of exploratory jams, and most importantly, shows that were simply a damn good time for all. Highlights from night one include the bookends of a spectacular "Help>Slip!>Franklin's" and an epically intricate "Morning Dew" followed by a classic cover of "The Weight." Night two, is the sleeper hit, with flawless playing from start to finish, the set list inviting you to find new favorites in top-notch renditions of "Foolish Heart" or "Victim Or The Crime," and if that's not one of the finest versions of "Desolation Row" Bobby ever did do! We would be remiss if we didn't mention that these shows were among Brent's last and they are some of his finest of the era at that.

    Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOL. 40: DEER CREEK MUSIC CENTER, NOBLESVILLE, IN 7/18 & 19/90 was recorded by Dan Healy and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman.

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  • LedDed
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    10,337 reasons why I love the Grateful Dead

    Because #10,337/25,000 is playing now. It arrived yesterday but - GASP! - I waited until tonight to rip and listen because we had people over who aren't really musos. I know, letting riff raff like that into the house... blame my wife.

    After indulging in that last box set from St. Louis, then seeing Dead & Co. on the Rocks last month, and now this two-show set arriving, I realize how much I like to mix up all the eras to keep the ears fresh. Dave does a masterful job of era surfing. I know he can't please everyone, but I have zero complaints about this series from day one.

    30 days of Dead is a nice little pre-holiday gift every year as the days get shorter and the nights get longer.

    I lined a basement wall with bookshelves, each of them different sizes and styles. I picked them all up used off Craigslist or whatever when we moved in here, I said, that wall in the basement will be my wall of sound. There's dozens of rock and roll books and cds and music dvds, blu ray etc. Box sets are stacked along the top along with Germanic beer steins, old absinthe bottles, decorative skulls, signed baseballs, and other random tchotchkes. My guitar cases and amps fill a hallway next to them, with two full stage racks of electrics lining another wall.

    The cd's only get played on a boombox when I work out on Sunday mornings or in the garage when performing some manly task... the rest of the time all that shit just sits there, except for the guitars. My kids are getting older and moving their scene down into the basement gradually, trying to bust in on my space. I worry about their idiot friends getting their hands all over my shit but haven't been into boxing it up or anything. I guess we'll see how that plays itself out.

    Never had enough vinyl to fill up more than a couple of old fruit crates (thank God) or I'd need a storage locker.

    Out in the garage there still remains an old hard-sided suitcase that looks like something out of Kerouac, filled up with unboxed cassettes and 45 rpm singles. My last friend with a cassette player in his car has finally moved on to a smoother ride, so it looks like those cassettes are headed to the grave at long last.

    Last 5:

    Rolling Stones - Tattoo You Deluxe cd (none of the 'new' songs are worth a shit, but the original lp remains a classic)
    Grateful Dead - Dave's Picks 40 (show one, as bad as Brent looked he still sounds great)
    Dire Straits - Love Over Gold (more people need to make that choice)
    Various Artists - The Metallica Blacklist (eclectic as fuck and not half bad)
    Elle King - Love Stuff (Sassy!)

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  • icecrmcnkd
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    Storage

    My CD rack was getting full when the DaP series started. That rack now holds DVDs, Blurays, and non-GD CDs.
    GD CDs are all stored in plastic storage boxes where they are protected from sun, dust, dog drool, etc.

    Music files on HDs are in chronological order and in AIFF, ALAC, FLAC, and AAC formats; backed up extensively.
    ALAC files are played in the living room from an iBasso DX120 connected to the stereo.
    AAC files at 320 kbs are played in the car from a USB drive.

    Vinyl is stored in tie-dyed Victrola record storage cases.
    Interesting fact: when I was buying the Victrola storage cases (I have 7 currently) there where a lot of different colors and patterns, and tie-dye was the lowest price. Score!
    I think that most people don’t want tie-dye. All the more for me.

  • carlo13
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    #3021 - dr.demento

    I just opened the mailbox and what do you know, dap 40. The first disk is sounding good. Thismikebenz, yes it dr.demento. He is now 80 yo and still kicking. I just bought his book on great blues players of all time. He was a big blues fan. He writes about leadbelly, srv, blind lemon, and others. The book came out in 2000 and he signed it twice with his real name Barry hansen and dr.D.. The book was also a rhino release. For twenty clams you can get one on his site. Good quality paperback too.

  • Crow Told Me
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    The Dream of the '90s is Alive ...

    ... in Deer Creek!

    Just received #40, listened to the first two discs. A really good show! Enough so that I feel I've probably been missing out by not listening to more 1990.

    I think I'm always going to prefer the early '70s, when they were still playing theaters rather than arenas: I always get the feeling, with these really big shows, that the Dead feel obligated to keep things moving and deliver a rockin' good time, whether they feel like it or not, and I kind of prefer the more intimate feel of smaller places where they seem like they felt they could just relax and play whatever.

    You can hear a little bit of what I mean at the end of disc one of this set, when they do the final a cappella chorus of 'Rider.' In a lot of the best (IMO) versions, they take the dynamic way down at that point, sometimes slowing the tempo, and sing it quietly and kind of wistfully before they bring the volume back up for the final chords. In this case, it sounds like they were thinking of doing that, but then the crowd was hooting and stomping so loud they can't slow down or ease up. But it still winds up being a pretty good China-Rider.

    Seems like a very welcome addition to the collection, and I haven't even listened to discs 3 & 4 yet, which are supposed to be the better show! Clearly, I need to rethink my bias against the '90s.

  • nitecat
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    Shelving or lack thereof...

    10213 arrived right on time today! Looking forward to listening.

    I'm really impressed with different approaches to shelving. I proudly display on my office shelf Dead by order of release for DP, DaP, Road Trips and Garcia releases. Box sets are displayed on the office shelves wherever they fit. I moved recently, and don't yet have a shelf unit for my non dead cd's, except for a few in a shelf in the dining room.

    A few years ago I purchased two used library card catalog units, which cassettes fit perfectly if you take out the center rod. When I moved, I got rid of one of the units, and most of my cassettes. I held on to the cassettes I recorded myself at a show, and they live in my office card catalog. I am slowly digitizing my recordings and plan to upload them to Archive.org. My LP's have had a hard life, they were ignored for 20+ years, living in the garage. They are in bad shape, in plastic boxes in the current garage, and I hope to clean them and store them better some day.

  • JoshByTheBay
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    A request if I may...

    Just got my copy of #40 today and to my disappointment Disc 3 was scratched up along the edges. I've already written emails requesting for help but now I turn to y'all and ask if anyone can send a FLAC file of Foolish Heart. It's the only song I'm unable to burn due to the scratches and it's a favorite. A massive thanks and a small gift will be given in return. Thank you and hope everyone is having a great day!

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    Good comments Spacebrother. My era for shows was this as well, 1988-95. I have gotten through most of the first night and it sounds just like a solid GD show from the era. I like this as a change of pace from the St. Louis box. Nice show, so far (halfway through Dew). Can't wait to hear the rest.

    My first 4 shows were Alpine Valley (when is Dave going to release Alpine 89 in video and audio) and then went to Tinley Park in 1990-- first and third shows for us. The venue sucked from the parking lot to the acoustics. It all had a bad vibe. The first night at Tinley was a good show, the third night was fine but not stellar. We were in the pavilion that night and even 31 years later I remember we all noted how Brent looked that night (bugged out eyes a few times on the big screen). Come to find out he was not well in mind, body and spirit.

    I was also at the blues summit show at Alpine (Clapton, SRV, Cray and Buddy)-- first night of two. That was my first time seeing SRV and he blew my mind. I walked out saying he sold me all his cds. Just a stellar show. Then I heard of his passing on the radio. I really don't listen to SRV too often, it makes me damn sad. It was very foggy the night of our show, too. I remember my buddy driving and ending up on the wrong side of the highway at a spot where a divider appeared. The fog got SRV the next night.

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    re: The Shelf is Actually A Time Machine

    ....I actually house the vast majority of my Dicks/Dave's/Official GD Releases in numerical then release order within my 1/3 scale British Telephone Call Box....the red version of the Dr. Who TARDIS; it's about 4 feet tall. It serves as my GD time-machine, capable of exploring the greatest depths of the known musical universe.

    The other myriad artistical boxes are displayed all around the house in various, notable locations.
    Sixtus

  • Dennis
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    DaP 1 Vinyl

    I'm a little surprised this is still available.

    I would have thought these be gone in a heartbeat since the cd's of 1 go for so much>

  • Deadheadbrewer
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    Dennis--LOL!

    I'm glad I had JUST swallowed that mouthful of coffee before I hit your closing remark! :)

    And I should have mentioned--the shows in the box sets stay in the boxes, next to the GD CD rack; they aren't on the chronologically-sequenced rack. That sometimes bothers me . . .

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18,000 happy Dead Heads could not be wrong. Deer Creek, my how you deliver.

We're closing the books on DAVE'S PICKS 2021 with not one but two - nearly - complete shows from Noblesville, IN 7/18/90 & 7/19/90. Yes, we've packed it all on four CDs, save for that second night encore which we promise you'll get to hear in the very near future. Sometimes there really is just too much good stuff.

For now, we'll invite you to cozy up with two exceptional back-to-back shows, shows with precision and clarity, shows with more than a lion's share of exploratory jams, and most importantly, shows that were simply a damn good time for all. Highlights from night one include the bookends of a spectacular "Help>Slip!>Franklin's" and an epically intricate "Morning Dew" followed by a classic cover of "The Weight." Night two, is the sleeper hit, with flawless playing from start to finish, the set list inviting you to find new favorites in top-notch renditions of "Foolish Heart" or "Victim Or The Crime," and if that's not one of the finest versions of "Desolation Row" Bobby ever did do! We would be remiss if we didn't mention that these shows were among Brent's last and they are some of his finest of the era at that.

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOL. 40: DEER CREEK MUSIC CENTER, NOBLESVILLE, IN 7/18 & 19/90 was recorded by Dan Healy and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman.

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I will always remember this as the release where Dave got his first remote control. I suspect he is playing with it at this very moment.. hey look.. when I press this button the little red light on the recorder across the room comes on. Is this thing recording? Great Scott!! it is recording! This button records in slow motion, I can make my own 6 million dollar man videos. Look, Squirrel.. This thing is great.. hey mom, check this ooote, I taught it to turn the TV on and off. (note to self, delete the video of the squirrel and mom before I send it to Pinkus).

Wow.. I don't have to clap to turn the lights on and off anymore.

Looking forward to this, especially the Desolation Row.. I guess I have a soft spot for this song, how did Bobby remember the words for this time after time but Truckin', forget about it...

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These latest releases have really got me high. Can it get any better than this? The ST. Louis box and this Dave's 40 is really hitting the GD spot, thanks to all who participate in this never ending constantly evolving music that is the Grateful Dead.

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These shows are a welcome surprise to me, and a needed one. After the monster box set we just got, it is great that we are going to the 90s with Brent. I like that my future listening will be comprised of great shows from the 70's abd then the 90's, merely for the change up. The vault still has a lot to offer, and Dave and company keep giving it to us.

Now I say great shows because in regards to the 7/18 & 7/19 I have not heard them. However, I will take everyone's word that these shows are great. It also nice to see that many heads that have commented here and elsewhere where at these shows. I think it is safe to say the 89-91 time period was a sweet spot for the band and these shows fall in the middle of it, even if these shows are part the end of an era with Brent. I only wish I was on the bus a few years earlier so I could have seen the band then.

Also any time we get 2 complete shows for one Dave's Pick, that is always great. The more Grateful Dead that is released, the better. I think initially that was never in the plans, but it seems like they took the great responses to double 87 show release and applied it. Maybe this will open the door to a double summer of 85 show Dave's Pick. That would be cool too.

I am really looking forward to hearing these Deer Creek shows.

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It should just be made available as a download.
It can’t be filler next year on a release if the release is not a Brent show. I like Brent but don’t want a DaP that ends with 20 minutes of Pigpen grease then goes into a 90’s Useless Blues.
Just saying. It would be a jolt.

I’m looking forward to these, I got 7-19 on cassette in the summer of 92 and it was one of my better sounding cassettes at the time. Played it so much back then that I rarely play the digital copy I currently have.

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That's exactly what I thought.. make it a download and call it a day. Perhaps it's cheaper to just toss it at the end of a CD than setup a webserver to make a download available.., but I'm with you cone kid.

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Would be another great twofer. Better yet a West Coast 90 box that also includes Carson, Cal Expo, and the other two Shoreline shows. The bridge between the legendary Spring 90 and Summer 90. Every one of those are top notch.

A non butchered RFK 90 would be nice. Why they used that for filler on the RFK 91 release instead of getting it's own release, for perhaps the biggest show of summer 90 was an odd decision. The same for 9/20/90. The first sets from those shows are amazing.

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Considering they were a blues band for the 1st part of their existence I’ll take useless blues all day long

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My bet is he'll include it as part of 30 Days. He couldn't say so outright as that would be too much of a Dead giveaway.

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Sometimes encores only make sense in the context of the show in which they are played in. If this is such a one, and I suspect it is, maybe it would be better left alone. Better if it could have been included in the release of the recording of the show -but as it can't-no great loss.

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I generally agree with that, but being it as it may that we are now in the digital era, one could simply insert the encore into their DaP 40 folder for 7-19-90 and the context is thusly restored... :-)

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Somewhere along the line Dave mentioned that if it's a good show, and the tapes are in shape, the show will be released. So I knew it was just a matter of time for July 18 to come down the pipe. And Voilà! Here we go..... And wouldn't you know, this past summer while at Deer Creek seeing Phish, I found myself talking to a head about what a great venue Deer Creek is-- when you are seeing a show there, you know there is no other place on this earth you would rather be. Which is great, great feeling. We were also both in agreement that the first night of the run was a 'grateful dead' show. Truly. 7/18/90 specifically came to mind.

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I never made it to Deer Creek, but it looks like I'll be going back in time at least in the space between my ears. And I'm all for it. After another 70's box (man am I loving this one!), a shift to the 90's is totally in order. Something for the folks who prefer later-era Dead having only had those experiences, and something for those of us like myself who enjoy all the eras.

I love this series. Whenever I think the annual subscription or box set announcements are coming, I check the site multiple times a day so I can immediately place the order, and relax, knowing I won't be missing out or paying overinflated reseller prices (Ticketbastard, anyone?) for some of the best music in the world.

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This entire tour was great. It seemed like the Dead were really hitting their stride when tragedy struck. I thought this tour should have been the boxed set over the Spring. It's nice to see a couple of these shows finally see the light of day.

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Anyone else think that when I ask for certain shows and complain about others, my brothers and sisters three states away are loving those shows I am complaining about??
I’m sorry, but we Heads are so blessed, it seems we lose all perspective at times. There are a small handful of Dave’s that I wasn’t pleased with and don’t play anymore, but I just set those aside and play the ones I do enjoy.
Also, I agree with almost everyone that it is a real kick to have a show that I attended be released. I’ve had this happen with other bands, but not the Dead(yet).
I look forward to receiving this one, with the knowledge that if I don’t love it, I don’t have to play it a second time. There’s too much music out there for me to waste time complaining about the tiny fraction I’m not in love with.
It’s like the girl you dated once, and decided that was enough, time to date someone else.

Rant officially over. Peace and love to all.
Thanks Dave!!

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This one (7/18) happens to be my sister's 15th birthday show. Not a raving dead head like we though...

P.S. edit... The shows the GD played on my birthday (that there are tapes of) are 1970, 1978, 1986, 1992 and 1993. Can anyone guess the day? A little brain teaser for y'all on a Sunday... :-)

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Yes, Mr. Ones. Totally.. Great point.

I'd hardly call that a rant, the comment was noticeably polite.

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The Grateful Dead played 5x on my birthday: 12/15/71, 12/15/72, 12/15/78, 12/15/86, and 12/15/94. I went to the show on 12/15/86, it was Garcia's first show back , the Dead played great and the place was rockin!

I can indeed say it is a thrill to have a show you attended released. I was lucky enough to be seeing shows from what some (most) call the last peak era of dead (1989-90) and so, I have had numerous shows I was at released in some form (video, CD, etc). Giants '89, Alpine '89, my Spring '90 stops (Hartford, Copps, Atlanta), Pittsburgh '90 (with some KY added), Copps '92, and now these from Deer Creek. Very cool. If you count Meet Up at the movies, a couple more (more Alpine '89 and Foxboro '89).

Was also fortunate enough to see the Dead on my birthday, which I share with Pig (9/7 and 9/8 in Richfield) for my 21st. No better way to turn 21. Also got the 9/8/73 release this year. To my knowledge, Dead on my birthday: '67, '69 (OK, 9/7, but they had to go after midnight, yes?), '73 (released this year), '83 (Red Rocks), '85 (OK, 9/7 but maybe after midnight?, Red Rocks again), '87 (9/7, 9/8, 9/9 Providence), '88 (Spectrum), '90 (Finally able to go), '91 (MSG), and '93. Possibly In Room in '65. Again, fortunate. Wasn't really able to road trip for most of them as school was in.

MR Ones: glad you received your box, good comment, interpreted no rant.
It’s like someone? Billy? said once about playing certain songs: if even one person didn’t want to play it they wouldn’t. Figured there were so many songs they actually wanted to play, why bother otherwise.
I love everything they’ve given us, but I do feel sometimes Dave picks the right neighborhood and street, but goes to the wrong house…

BDAY SHOW: 11/9/79 only one : (

ENCORES;US Bloooozzzzeee. Sure it’s nice to get complete shows, but we have soooooo much music out now that I don’t mind occasionally missing a song or 2.
LOL, except for perhaps messing with the flow, I wouldn’t miss a Me and My Uncle now and again ; )
Perhaps he has plans next year for another late 80 or 90 show to tack that onto, and not just wherever there’s space for it?
I rip the discs then store them, so I wouldn’t mind it showing up randomly though. Dead air is Dead air, I’ll take all the music he wants to give us! Loving the twofer again to end the year. Hopefully we’ll see more!

The Creek. Never made it. From tour scuttle, didn’t seem like head friendly place to be?
BITD, that I 90 drive through Ohio, Indiana and Illinois could be pretty scary. Ohio State patrol would pull ya for going 1 or 2 over the limit, and that was in the 55 days. Excruciating for a young Cassady wanna be lol.
Nassau always seemed to be referred to as the unfriendliest head scene, what with the po po basically trolling to Fill the dungeons they built below, probably just for heads!

I liked summer 90, but it felt like they had peaked in the fall 89 and spring 90, and though summer was a great tour, it felt like something was a tad different? But tge band was definitely at a high water mark and it’s interesting to think what might of been if ole Brentski hadn’t checked out?

EDIT: what about 7/12/90? That puppy needs to see the light of day fo sho!

DBL EDIT: after perusing summer 90 shows, perhaps my above thought was influenced more by “history” and some limited notion, than reality, cause there were some shows! So if these truly are the best of the tour, that’s saying something!

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Everyone loves to get shows they were at!
To me it adds a level of excitement knowing you were there, even if you can’t remember LOL

- 11/9/79 p/o (part of)
- 9/2/80 p/o
- 4/15/83 (2 songs/bonus material)
- 10/14/83
- 7/4/86 (Farm Aid etc)
- 3/26&27/87
- 7/4/87? (D&D?)
- 3/27/88
- 7/2/88
- 4/2&3/89
- 7/4/89
- 7/17/89
- 10/8&9/89
- 3/20&21/90
- 3/24, 25, 26/90
- 6/16/90
- 6/20/91 and 6/19/91 p/o
- 3/20/92
- 6/23/92 (1 song)
- 7/9/95 (1 song)
With 7/16/90 Shakedown stream, and bits of 6/9/91…

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....may the four winds blow him safely home.
The only officially released Dead show I attended is View From The Vault 1. Anaheim.
There are a few Phish ones.

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My fathers birthday was 12/15 (1929). This vein of the family seems to like the 15th. I'm 1/15,,, my son is 6/15 and Dad was 12/15.

It's a nice middle of the month date.

Anyone ever had shingles or shingles vax?

I juuuust now got the first shingles vax.

Youch!

I understand shingles is to be avoided

Dad hadem
Brother hadem
I dont wantem

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Ain't ya gonna listen to it again? I always wondered that.

Anyway, be well all. :-)

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Let me see..

10-9-76
12-29-77
12-31-77( bonus disc closing of Winterland)
10-21-78
12-31-78
12-26-79
12-28-79
12-30-79(Road Trips bonus)
10-9-80

JGB: Bay Area '78

I think that's it; can't think of any other post 1980 Bay Area release. Until they release Greek '81 or Frost '82.

43 years ago tonight: 1st "From Egypt with Love" show - great run!

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Ok, color me a lil jealous... Holy cow. Wow! Them's are some good shows to hit...

Any photos. Memories?

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After finally going through both Spring '90 boxes in order this spring, I started wondering what other treasures lurked in 1990, so just a few weeks back I finally cued up 7/16/90, which always appears near the top of the "favorites" lists . . .

That show kills it, so these two shows, which immediately follow that one, should rock hard!

And yes, Hit, I wonder if Summer '90 isn't a titch better than the spring tour . . .

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No photos - only memories, mostly music related.
12/29/77: loudest cheer I've heard when they broke out China Cat, even louder than the Dark Star the following year. Dance floor was literally bouncing, and plaster was coming off the walls.
12/31/78: longest show ever, got there around 6 right for Animal House showing. Left around 8 the next morning, our car was one of three left in Winterland's "parking lot", if you can call it that. I had found street parking nearby earlier, but was heavily "discouraged" by a local resident
10/21/78: loudest Jerry ever for the wind up at the end of The Other One, and the following beautiful Stella Blue.
Nothing else stands out except the shows themselves; we were local, so getting to and from the shows was uneventful, which was fine by me.

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I hope that they remaster and re release some of the Dick's Picks: 2/13 & 14/70, 5/2/70, the 1968 Lake Tahoe shows, and others. I would much rather have these put out as complete shows, cleaned up and remastered, then any shows from the 1980s or 1990s.

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Turned on the oldies station to give my wife her fair share of audio time and the first song up was Elvis' Suspicious Minds with Donna and the rest of the Muscle Shoals crew really belting it out on background vocals. She is easily picked out as the loudest (on key!) and most distinctive background singer on this and I think some other Elvis tunes as well. Next song, Hair. With the reference: it's not for lack of bread... like the Grateful Dead. We are, and were, everywhere. Cheers

Proudfoot- a no brainer to do the Shingrix. We got ours in January with zero side effects. The wife had done the previous one a few years ago and was told the Shingrix is much more efficacious and long lasting which apparently the first one was not. Smart move.

Unbelievable list of released shows Cousins.. I can only imagine there are a few you have seen that were not released that were equally amazing, thinking especially some of the small venue JGB shows. Still, some of these are legendary.

BTK, could not agree more. I would love to see some of them remastered too, as I think they have gotten better at that.

Were we talking birthday shows on this thread too?? I get them confused. Got to see one show on my birthday (a Hampton) and missed one by that much (Morgantown, saw the night before).. why I didn't take the drive the next day I still cannot figure out.

I think I have seen four (?) shows that have been released. I had some great, up close pictures, but they disappeared during my last move. So great memories and in a way I came of age seeing the GD. Learning how to negotiation my life and still see shows, I certainly learned how to read a road map and drive across the country, a skill that is lost in the younger generation.. how to fend for myself when the vehicle broke down in the strangest of places under the strangest of circumstances.. made some great friends and had a great time.

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I agree that I'd love to have some of the "partial" releases released in full. A lot of the early Dick's were not full shows. 2/13-14/70 would be sweet. But those 2 (plus 2/11) seems like a box set rather than a Dave's. Too many discs. I guess you could do them one at a time, but most of the show is already out (Dick's #4 + Bear's Choice). Still, I am with you, there is a lot of territory that I'd like to see released in full that has only been partially released (2/13-14/70, 10/16-20/74, 4/25-29/71, 7/17-19/89, 6/26&28/74, Dick's #3, etc). Again, some of that is more box set than a single release. And for some, most of the show has already been released, so a Box would allow more new stuff in there.

FWIW, those King's Beach shows on Dick's #22 are the full shows. Both nights. 5/2/70 is pretty darn close. I can recall something about 1 song the tape was unusable (Cold Rain). Other than the cut at the beginning of St. Stephen, everything else is there.

Dave has been throwing more filler on his releases lately. Usually some from a night at the same venue or some such. But I wouldn't mind using filler to "complete" some previous releases. He said he was going to do that with the US Blues encore from the 2nd night Deer Creek. Finish up 5/22/77!

As for 2/13 & 2/14. both 2nd sets appear in full on Dick's #4 save for the 2/13 Bid You Goodnight. The only song from either early show that has been released in the Dark Star from 2/14 (LST). A tad less than half of the acoustic sets is on Bear's Choice. A little of the short Electric 1st sets on either Bear's or DiP#4.

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Went to the Atlanta Dead Co show. No encore that night and people bitched. There was an encore planned that was blacked out on the official set list. Setlist.fm suggests that it was to be US Blues - maybe so maybe not - but either way so what?! We got an 18.5 minute Shakedown, a 15 minute Let it Grow, 10 minute Deal, a 20 minute Playin in the Band (including the reprise) and a 28.5 minute China>Rider. I'll take the extra helping of jam over a US Blues encore any day! I will apply that logic to this release as well!

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My only b-day show was my 21st at Riverport - 7/27/94. My (now) wife and I celebrated her 21st the year before at Deer Creek - 6/23/93. She got the better show (Terrapin>D/S>Dark Star>Wheel with Jerry out for all of D/S as I recall!). Funny thing though, no one asked to see our IDs when we ordered drinks anyway.

My buddy has been couch touring and raved about this show.

He sent me a copy this morning and I plan on listening tonight at the store.

I agree with you, I'd take a 20 minute playing over a us blues :-)

FYI - the Joni Mitchell vinyl lp's pushed back from 10/31 to 2/15,,,, quite a pushback.

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the only time i saw them on my bday was the hampton 86 box of rain break out, that was pretty cool, i was a little tired and chillin' high up in coliseum cuz i had had a big night there on 3/19

Cold Rain was on the vinyl edition of 5/2/70 that came out a few years ago. If you haven't heard it, you have missed nothing. I think it was deliberately left off the Dicks Picks cd because it was so out of tune. They did things like that in the early days of Dicks Picks

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Cousins, you did most of the research for me, with your list, as I was at those shows, also. I would add:

8/25/72
10/16-20/74
10/10/76
6/7-9/77
10/21-22/78
10/10/80

Never fortunate to experience a birthday show.

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Perfect opportunity and place to thank you for making me a copy of 12/10/71 back in...1980, I believe. It was my favorite GD show then, and still is now. Thanks Scott for this one, and other shows you kindly shared with me!

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50 years ago today…..

October 19, 1971
Northrop Auditorium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Set 1: Bertha-Me And My Uncle-Sugaree-Beat It On Down The Line-Cumberland Blues-Tennessee Jed-Black Peter-Jack Straw-Big Railroad Blues-Brown-Eyed Women-Mexicali Blues-Comes A Time-Playing In The Band-One More Saturday Night-Casey Jones

Set 2: Truckin'-Ramble On Rose-Me And Bobby McGee-Brokedown Palace-Cryptical Envelopment>drums>The Other One>Cryptical Envelopment reprise>Wharf Rat-Sugar Magnolia-Uncle John's Band-Not Fade Away>Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad>Not Fade Away

Deadicated to jiminMD, dantian, kayakguy, spacebrother, icecrmckd, Sixtus, Jack Baller, Billythekid, alvarhanso, and angry jack straw, because change……….

The second great seismic shift of 1971. The Yang to the Yin of February 18. Similar, yet different. Old, yet new. A vision of the new era. Change can be for good if you combine audacity with safety………

An old friend missing, a new guy who seems to fit in right away. Six new songs. The return of the complete CE/TOO/CE suite. The unusual occurrence of back-to-back Garcia songs twice in the first set. The first of the Fall 1971 FM broadcasts. One of only two 1971 shows that featured both Black Peter and Brokedown Palace. There ain’t no grease, but there’s plenty of Bakersfield left, as well as big jams.

Not without its rough edges, yet somehow it hangs together oh so well. Absolutely historic and worthy of a serious listen……

Rock on!!

Doc
He who rejects change is the architect of decay, the only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery………

attended
6/8
6/9 (Cassidy...:))))
6/10
6/23 (the tether show)
6/24

I bet I'll like this release

even though anything after 86 I tend to relegate to "I'll listen someday".

I tried spring 90 bootlegs and just couldn't get into it.

"but I try"

"trip or trip not
there is no try"

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Real Gone Music is having its annual CD sale with several Dick's Picks and Road Trips discounted.

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My pleasure, Pierre. I'll have to dig that one out and give it a listen.

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. . . for $17,640.00 . Per Relix Daily: 'Grateful Dead T-Shirt from 1967 Sells for a Record $17,640 at Auction'. Previous record was a Led Zeppelin tee from Knebworth '79 that sold on eBay for 10K

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...and can you believe it? It's sized too small.

I'm having one of those days.. Deep breath.

Crap, now I spilled coffee on it.

Proves there are just too many people with too much time on their hands.

Edit: No really, it's not me.. it's sized too small.

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5/26/77

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You beat me to it Nitecat. Went to the Real Gone sale to fill in some gaps in my Road Trips collection and only came away with the 6-8-76. Even at sale pricing it was hard to justify paying that much for things I already have on burned copies. But couldn't resist a $6 Willie Nelson and $13 Booker-T & the MG's. It's not so much the CDs that will cost me but the additional furniture to hold them. Most of my GD is currently spread out in three different places including bottom cabinets that make it difficult to read what's there. Honey, can I buy another CD cabinet? Why do you need that? Well there's a lot of Dave's yet to come and I want to be ready. Yeah, that might work! Maybe.
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