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    You can listen to Grateful Dead records over and over again and never understand the attraction they have for certain people until you attend one of their concerts. Sometime during the Dead's usual five-hour set, it will all click: Jerry Garcia's Indian bead string of notes on the guitar, the ozone ooze of the vocal harmonies, the shifting, shuffling rhythm of bassist Phil Lesh and drummer Bill Kreutzmann, and the distant echo of the oldest of American folk music. - Columbia Flier

    "Certain people" will know that we're coming in hot with one that's got all these things and more, DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 41: BALTIMORE CIVIC CENTER, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 5/26/77. Yes, there's still plenty of spectacular May '77 to go around. Nearly chosen for Dave's Picks Vol. 1, 5/26/77 delivers three-fold. There's one count for the energy - all the precision of the Spring tour conjuring up the raw power of the Fall tour that was to come. There's another for the setlist which featured beloved songs from WORKINGMAN'S DEAD and soon-to-be favorites from the freshly recorded TERRAPIN STATION. And a third for its element of surprise (or shall we say surprises) from an astonishingly peak 15-minute "Sugaree" to new delights ("Sunrise," "Passenger," "Jack-A-Roe') to a rare first-set finale of "Bertha" to the second set's "Terrapin>Estimated>Eyes," traveling leaps and bounds towards the improvisational journey that is a nearly 17-minute "Not Fade Away." 

    Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 41: BALTIMORE CIVIC CENTER, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 5/26/77 was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. Grab a copy while you can.

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  • billy the kiddd
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    Nappy/ Muddy Waters

    Nappy, is that a picture of you with Muddy Waters? If it is , let's hear the story. It looks like Muddy from the late 1970s. If it's you, it doesn't get any cooler then that.

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    re: 2/9

    Whenever this date pops up in real life, anytime I go to write it or type it, I ALWAYS instantly write-in '1973' because 2/9/1973 is so embedded into my psyche on this date for all of the reasons noted here.

    Perhaps the best Eyes of the World ever played; ever so skillfully, subtle, improvy, and delightful at almost 20 minutes for a 'first timer out of the gate'. A definite highlight that gave and gave and gave until the very last days of this band. One highlight among so many from this monumental show.
    It will see the light of day.
    One Day.

    Sixtus

  • billy the kiddd
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    Led Zepplin

    My friend was a big fan of Led Zepplin; he saw them play at Kezar Stadium in S.F. in 1973 ( a week after the Dead played there) and he was real disappointed in the show. He was used to the songs on their records and he didn't think they sounded as good live.

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    @BTK & Dennis......

    On Maples your Brother wasn't the only one there...Listening to an ESPN broadcast of a USC - Stanford game recently, Bill Walton talked about it...made me laff as he stopped talking about the game and talked about the show, all the new tunes and how the newish WOS sound system kept breaking down...his broadcast partner made a comment about how "After all these years of working with you I still don't get it..." And Dennis as far as '77 Zep goes no comparison...Page was out in La La Land behind his smack addiction, boring crowds endlessly as he nodded and bowed his guitar...Bonham wasn't much better with his plodding drum solos, his well documented addiction to alcohol did not make for being a great timekeeper...the last good Zep shows I saw were in '73...by '75 it was on it's way downhill...

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    An early tape of mine, and an early favorite. This one will get released one day. It's one of those shows with so many firsts. Some of the embryonic jams and solos are unusual and catchy. It really highlights the birth of some of the great songs in their cannon. So yea.. it's not if, but when this will get released.

    Wasn't it also the test of a brand-new sound system? I seem to recall someone saying they blew out all the tweeters or blew out the tweeters on one side of the stage or something along those lines.. One of those shows that has some warts but shows so much promise.

  • Dennis
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    Question on 41

    I'm sure most read the newspaper article that was in the middle of the "booklet".

    It compared the recent "dead" show with a recent "zep" show.

    I know there are people here who were seeing zep in 77, what was your opinion about the comparison?

  • billy the kiddd
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    2/9/73 Maples Pavillion

    This would make a great release, it needs to be cleaned up a bit. My brother was at this show.

  • proudfoot
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    thank you Vguy

    and I did know Exodus was a metal reference. I just have never heard them.

    hey! today is 2/9!

    2/9/73, Dave! 2/9/73!!!

    Electric sheep love Daaaaaaaave's Picks

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    Pester, pester, pester. . ..

    Dear Dave L: A September 1979 3 show run in N.Y.C. @ MSG would be a great mini-boxset. These were Brent's first N.Y.C. shows and at MSG to boot. They were very solid shows: The GD Came, Saw, Conquered!!! As another poster noted Steve Parish' Harley was parked on stage and someone gunned the engine multiple times during the show and it was noticed by the audience and would be audible. Cool. Period.

    Pester, pester, pester because this squeaky wheel will get that oil!

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    My guesses would be:

    April '78
    April '69
    Oct. '89
    Summer '85

    But, you know what they say: Good things come to those who....Pester, Pester, Pester! :-)

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You can listen to Grateful Dead records over and over again and never understand the attraction they have for certain people until you attend one of their concerts. Sometime during the Dead's usual five-hour set, it will all click: Jerry Garcia's Indian bead string of notes on the guitar, the ozone ooze of the vocal harmonies, the shifting, shuffling rhythm of bassist Phil Lesh and drummer Bill Kreutzmann, and the distant echo of the oldest of American folk music. - Columbia Flier

"Certain people" will know that we're coming in hot with one that's got all these things and more, DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 41: BALTIMORE CIVIC CENTER, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 5/26/77. Yes, there's still plenty of spectacular May '77 to go around. Nearly chosen for Dave's Picks Vol. 1, 5/26/77 delivers three-fold. There's one count for the energy - all the precision of the Spring tour conjuring up the raw power of the Fall tour that was to come. There's another for the setlist which featured beloved songs from WORKINGMAN'S DEAD and soon-to-be favorites from the freshly recorded TERRAPIN STATION. And a third for its element of surprise (or shall we say surprises) from an astonishingly peak 15-minute "Sugaree" to new delights ("Sunrise," "Passenger," "Jack-A-Roe') to a rare first-set finale of "Bertha" to the second set's "Terrapin>Estimated>Eyes," traveling leaps and bounds towards the improvisational journey that is a nearly 17-minute "Not Fade Away." 

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 41: BALTIMORE CIVIC CENTER, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 5/26/77 was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. Grab a copy while you can.

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"About 120 shows were played in 1967 and only about a dozen tapes are in the vault". Hopefully more will show up, were lucky to have the tape from the Shrine Auditorium.

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Nappy, as soon as he figures out your passwords you're done. With your PC and Amazon two day shipping they have little use for us.

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Hey Pedro, I ordered the re-released DP 19 CD directly from Real Gone.

They are producing the correct Disc 3 and mailing out to everyone who got the duplicate disc through them.

Mine is theoretically scheduled to arrive today, after an epic USPS routing journey from California to Denver to Harrisburg PA to Lancaster PA to Chicago and finally back to Denver.

Chicago, New York, Detroit, it's all the same street...

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So, after Jimmy Buffett dies and enters the pearly gates, God takes him on a tour. He shows Jimmy a little two bedroom house with a faded parrot banner hanging from the front porch.
This is your house, Jimmy. Most people don’t get their own houses up here, God Says.
Jimmy looks at the house, then turns around and looks at the one sitting on top of the hill.
It’s a huge two-story mansion with white marble columns and little patios under all the windows. Tie-dyed flags line both sides of the sidewalk and a huge Grateful Dead banner hangs between the columns.
Thanks for the house, God, But let me ask you a question.
I get this little two bedroom house with a faded banner and Jerry Garcia gets a mansion with brand new Grateful Dead Banners and flags flying all over the place. Why is that?
God looks at him seriously for a moment, then with a smile God Says,
That’s not Jerry’s house, it’s mine.

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Hey rockers!!!

Is it just me, but did every DaP just disappear from the Dead store. In the past, they always left even the sold out one up there for a while..........

Rock on, with a tip of the hat to H G Wells and Claude Rains,

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I was wondering the same. Dave's picks have disappeared completely.

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I think it's because they're all going to be replaced by Doc's Picks..............

Ah, one can dream.......................

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Lene Lovich!!! Mas cool...saw her at the Whisky in West Hollywood way back when...Her and Les rocked the joint!

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Lots of fun people and not crowded. The band came out smokin' with a new killer drummer (so sorry, Bugs, you were major fun) and Conrad's son played electric bass throughout (no guitarron, unfortunately), as Conrad is recovering from a non-threatening health thing-y. With a new rhythm section, these guys simply rocked out, though they also did some multi-instrumental Mexican folk songs for which they're deservedly famous.

Naturally, especially for Boulder, they did NFA and Bertha in a medley that turned into an insane, long jam. Caught up with some of my peeps after a too-long hiatus and we had a blast, with a little whiskey and a little Indica to sweeten the already amped mood.

Let me tell you, folks, going to a show, hanging with a fun crowd, catching up with friends and partying to the hardest-working American band of 50 years standing (I've caught them maybe 15-20 times over the past 30 years) was, in a word, humanizing.

Got up today, went about my business with a smile, renewed, eager for more. This period right now is likely to be a lull in the pandemic and I'm going to take advantage of it by hitting my local open mic sessions and catching a few local bands. Once spring arrives, it'll be easier to be safe outdoors.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it. As you were....

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Just listening to the first set pitb. My daughter was visiting, and she said "good jam dad." The dead right? ...........yup.

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....they played my favorite Samson that evening 👍.
I've caught The Wolves four times. Never left disappointed.
Jim. Just Do It.
Thumbs up to the "good jam Dad" Carlo. My son did that during a Hell In A Bucket I played the other day.
And no, I'm not a Nike spokesperson. I'm an Adidas, Sketcher and Birkenstock kind of guy....yup.

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Yup. That Sampson on 76' can be tricky for novice deadheads since it starts quite different , and can be passed by if not looking at set list. aka. Browsing.

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Rodney dangerfield and joe pesci said in easy money, "we're just browsing". "Well , you dont look like browsers". "Mabey I'm just half browser, on my fathers side". I guess you had to see the movie.

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By the time that CD came out, I was looking for new Dead releases every time I went you the record store. I was only really into the two-tracks in those days, but I did try out a few Dick's Picks (16, 18, & 20). I understood two-tracks to be anything that was not a Dick's Picks (but they did sneak To Terrapin: Hartford '77 right under my nose; that thing was mixed perfectly at the board and they knew it). Anyway, I remember listening to Disc 2 first, because seeking out a Sugar Magnolia to supplant Rockin' The Rhein was an undercurrent in my Dead upbringing (I still love Rhein the best).

When that Samson pre-jam came on, I had lost track of where I was in the disc but remember being enthralled by it and thinking, yeah, this is why I love the Dead. And then the Jam merged into Samson, and all was good in the world.

Stoltz, that might be my all time favorite Floyd moment. The Echoes "guitar part" is right up there.

Only two more months until Winterland Feb '74 + Bonus.

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....from New Year's 76 also sticks out way far in my mind. The totally seamless switching they do during the Good Lovin into that Samson is something to behold. I still remember where I was the first time I actually *heard* that sequence, driving from DC to Baltimore to go hang with my brother. When this segment came on I recall jaw dropping, staring blankly at my car CD player saying *WHOA*. The light had turned green, I was none the wiser.
That show has been a top tier '76er for a looong time.

Be Well People.

Seventy-Sixtus

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A much happier story, "the light had turned green, but I was none the wiser"

then

"The light had turned red, but I was none the wiser"

Sampson and Terrapin Station (the studio version at least) are two songs that really benefited from two drummers.

Back to your regularly scheduled Dark Star > Discord & Mayhem. May the peak be with you.

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Apparently a mummified body was found in a wall at Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center.
Did someone get stuck while trying to sneak into a Dead show?

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a DJ in LA early to mid 60's...his name was Gene Weed and he went by the promo name of "The Weedy One"...he worked at KFWB and also hosted the TV show "Shivaree" which was a syndicated answer to "Shindig"...the weedy one indeed...by '67 he was weedy no more...I say a strain should be named after him....

Both tragic and hilarious. One of those things you just can't reconcile.

To all you kids watching at home.. being stoned does not give you walk through solid objects superpowers.

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In the early 90's there was a gig at the LA Memorial Coliseum ...Headlining was Guns 'n Roses, 2nd bill was Metallica and opening was Motorhead...A buddy of mine took his 14 year old nephew and copped a couple of backstage passes from a friend of his...his nephew was a big Metallica fan and wanted to get their autographs on an LP he brought...a band flunky was standing by the door to their motorhome/dressing room and rather rudely told them they couldn't go in...Lemmy watched this go down, told my buddy "we'll be right back" and steered the kid towards the door, gave the flunky an "I dare you look" and they both went in...a bit later they came out and Jace was loaded down with swag and his autographed LP...my buddy thanked Lemmy and then Lemmy asked Jace "do you want G'nR's autographs too?" and Jace told him "Nah, they suck"...Lemmy looked at my buddy and said "That's a smart kid..."

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That's a wild story. I saw some great shows in that building. The last time I saw the Grateful Dead there was Feb 1989.

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I've been digging on this one lately! I agree with Dave on his thoughts of this show sounding a little more raw/gnarly compared to other spring 77. Dave has spoken of this show often since arriving on scene. Another great pick!........ such a great time to be a Deadhead, right?........ have a grateful day, Gang!!

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The Mummy was a DH who got so high that at the exact moment he was peaking somehow his molecular structure vibrated at the right frequency to move through the first wall, but because of the composition of the second wall his progress was impeded at just the moment when his peak and the peak of the song subsided, thereby significantly reducing the molecular frequency such that he was now unfortunately trapped inside the wall. To make matters worse, his attempts to pound on the walls and yell were dampened by the unfortunate fact that Drumz was now in full progress and by the time the sound was quiet enough for him to be heard, he was unconscious due to lack of oxygen, thereby sealing his macabre eternal fate, until now.
Brings new insight into “you’d be better off dead” !
Goes to show, ya don’t ever know! Perhaps he shouldn’t have dropped that last tab? You all know the story “ well I dropped a couple hours ago but I’m not feeling it, maybe I should eat another one”

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from the Napster! Keep ‘em coming.
Too funny, nobody likes Axel, even other heavy metlers lol.

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From my post on 2/19 -

here's the clue for Today: Miami greyhound squid

You may notice that the "T" in Today was unnecessarily capitalized. Hence, show date is 2/19.

The Dead played seven times on 2/19. But where and which year?

"Miami greyhound" was the nickname for Hall-of-Fame basketball player Rick Barry of the Golden State Warriors. The team played their games at the Oakland Coliseum Arena. But not on 2/19/91, because the Grateful Dead played there that night.

For extra credit, I was going to ask if anyone knew the historical significance of that show. That's where "squid" comes in. If you Google "Grateful Dead squid," a video pops up of a band called Squid playing "New Speedway Boogie." Rick Barry's jersey number was 24, and 2/19/91 was the 24th time the GD played that tune. It was also the first time they played it since 9/20/1970 - on hiatus for over 20 years!

Over and out.

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What a weird find! Gives new meaning to the phrase “If these walls could talk”. The press is speculating it may have been someone “accidentally” (on purpose al a Jimmy Hoffa) got caught in the wall during construction.
It begs the question - didn’t any of the other workers notice when the young carpenter’s apprentice disappeared after lunch? Stopped reporting for work? Never came for his pay?

I’d say there is skullduggery afoot in Oakland all those years ago…a mystery for the ages.

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I just listened to Ry Cooders fine Paradise and Lunch album containing the awesome song “ain’t ya glad” that walls can’t talk etc
Spooky, must be that 5/14/74 DS we been messing with on POTD, like a psychedelic weegee board!

Sorry about that Chief (er uhm Bolo)

So Bolo, who is that mummified twirler hiding in the walls of the Kaiser? If anyone knows it's you.

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But if he told you he’d have to kill ya!

EDIT: notice the way back machine has been reprogrammed.
Do you know somethingbyer not telling us?

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