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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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    Nitecat, I was at that Oakland Dylan/Dead show in 1987, I thought the Dead played great, and seeing Garcia playing the pedal steel was really cool. My favorite shows of 1987 were the Garcia band acoustic/electric shows, those shows at the Warfield Theatre in Nov. 87 were a knockout, and the show up on the Eel River was a totally cool scene. We drove back to the Bay Area to see Garcia play at the Greek on Sunday. Bonnie Raitt was also on the bill.

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    ....my mailbox is chrysalis. Gonna start glowing soon.

  • hitmeister
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    I haven't received mine yet,…

    I haven't received mine yet, but I've had a recording of this one for many years. When I think of this show, I always think of the NFA. Perhaps it would be my favorite version if not for the one from Hartford 2 nights later.

  • alvarhanso
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    I'm quite into concert videos, and if they get some good film of the Dead from '65-'77, I'm likely buying it. Would love one of those Acid Test videos to be released on something if a whole Viola Lee exists and is in the Vault or if they work out a deal with whatever Merry Prankster may have it. The footage they shot for TV doing their new single Golden Road would be good if that's in the Vault. Or if more of Europe '72 was captured on film. Any Wall of Sound footage, like the Last Shows at the Winterland in '74... For '76, it'd be nice to get an official, cleaned up release of 8/4/76, paired with cds like Sunshine Daydream. I don't really care that it's in black and white. It's a great show that exists complete in both formats, and would make a great combo release.

    My love of concert film is derived from The Kids Are Alright and The Who 30 Years of Maximum R&B Live video with fairly good snippets of shows, and led me to tracking down bigger chunks of those shows. I got a VHS of the Who at the Isle of Wight in 1970 in 1994, two years before they released the whole show on cd, and at least another couple years later, finally the video was released. Fast forward 28 years, and I have a decent hoard of Who videos I've traded for or downloaded, and got quite a bit of Pink Floyd, too. And if they release any Duane era ABB officially on video I'll be getting that, hopefully the master of that PBS film of 9/23/70 Fillmore East is somewhere to be found. The one on youtube is good quality, slightly better than the VHS I had and VCD I still have, and I hope there's more footage of the Love Valley Festival July 1970, Duane is jumping around during Mountain Jam, and just tearing it up. Some bits of their opening set at Atlanta Pop Fest have been shared on Instagram, and a May 1971 show in Chapel Hill, NC had at least one song set to a montage of footage from the events that day. Stuff like that popping up gives hope there might be more buried in a closet somewhere. Talking Heads Stop Making Sense is also just a masterpiece of performance art, and some of the Peter Gabriel concert films I've seen are incredible as well.

    Also, Couch Tour is an awesome and amazing thing that pre-dates COVID, but really hits its stride because if you wanted to watch live music, that's what you had. It's also a great way to go through an entire Phish tour without getting Wook flu, which has no mild symptoms, nor any known vaccine. And the ability to pause and go to the bathroom, YOUR BATHROOM, which is even better.

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    First.. thanks Nitecat.. it's refreshing for a relative newbie like me to hear an old timer like you saw more shows in 87 than any other year.. because, well, same for me. Saw 8 CA shows, Red Rocks, Telluride, Alpine, first shows in Boston (well Boston area, Boston Proper, ...) plus many more. I had the time and saved for tickets and gas and by 88 and especially 89, responsibilities came to roost and try as I might.. from that day forward they remain (although I still try and see as many shows as I can pull off). My only Greeks and Ventura.. Love VFTV IV and videos in general, but I do sort of agree with OB.. I don't revisit them as much as I should, not sure why.

    Sauce.. anyone who gets sauced needs a proper sauce staining prophylactic preferably loose fitting with a pocket for a left handed monkey wrench. They're good at keeping gooey stuff off the friggin sofa..

    Finding shit.. so my older brother came out to visit today. We left early for some backcountry skiing the first part of the day. Perfect conditions plenty of snow, crisp temps balanced with plenty of sun and edibles for me. Had a blast. Got home just before the kid got out of school and planned to take him downhill skiing for the afternoon/evening. My brother reaches for his wallet and his hand comes out the bottom end.. big hole in pants, no wallet. He took three diggers, most in the first hour. Additionally, he is an avid birder and is supposed to head to India next week to catch migrating fliers and other interesting foul feathered fun. So having no wallet causes big problems when balanced with international travel. We can do this, I said.. no new snow to bury it and I don't think anyone else skied there today. Lets retrace our steps, no time to waste. ....and I found it.. about two miles from the truck and a foot off the trail close to where he last fell. About 1/4 of the wallet was sticking up above the show, made it back to the truck in record time. Drove home as fast as one can drive and call it safe, made the last two hours of downhill skiing before resort closed, got some BBQ to go on the way home, just finished eating. Whew.

    What does any of this have to do with the GD. It has everything to do with the GD, what else am I going to listen to?
    Starting with 7/17/76 of course. What a great day ....and HF, no, I did not bring my hatchet. That's all I've got. As you were.

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    Funny thing, just last night I was watching View From the Vault 4, which features two stadium concerts which wrapped up the 1987 6-stadium Dead-Dylan Tour. 1987 was a great year for this deadhead, it was the year I saw the most Dead concerts in my life. I saw all three west coast stadium shows on the tour. When I watched the video, I enjoyed watching Jerry's fingers as he plays such beautiful runs on his guitar, and also the interaction between Jerry and Brent. It was great to see them smiling at each other. There were some distracting special effects the director through in from time to time, but fortunately not too much. The show was excellent too.

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    Received this morning. God Bless The Grateful Dead!

  • frankparry
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    Picked up from Rough Trade in Nottingham this morning for a penny under £85 (about $114). I couldn’t find it on dead.net store so don’t know if that’s a good price.

  • hendrixfreak
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    Okay, I surrender to the prime directive: sauce protection

    And I confess:

    I got through one tough winter a few years ago by buying more than a half dozen Rolling Stones vault videos. Some are fantastic, but some will drive you crazy. The music's going, Jagger's done with a verse, and Keith ramps up a solo -- while the camera follows Mick doing his stupid prancing across the stage! Or the camera is on Keith and it's Mick Taylor or Ronnie soloing. So, yeah, rock video can suck. If I recall, the Scorcese film of the Stones was pretty good, as was the Last Waltz. (Though I hated to see The Band break-up.)

    Hmmm, do they make those aprons in XL? I put on a few covid pounds....

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    So, DMCVT...talk about irony...I actually stumbled across that one - The Daily Doug - last week, and meant to rant about it here.

    I won't spoil it, but hey now it was so entertaining to see a classically trained ear totally break it down and 'get it', our beloved Terrapin Station.

    Goose is good, from what little I've checked out on uTooB.

    That somewhat infamous Mini-Quarter Scale Wall of Sound is being utilized by a Dead Cover Band this Sunday evening, in Lancaster, PA. Local Heads Rejoice. I'm looking forward to the Future Scales Project those shows are funding....one Day, one Day...the Full Scale will come....Muah ahh ahh ahhhhhh.

    Daverock...see, that's the beauty of DeadZoomin'...easy to make new friends/maintain current ones, minimal commitment to travel plans/accommodations other than trips to the loo or refresh your vessel of choice....can come and go as one pleases....no pressure situations...yet a somewhat shared experience; but agreed that a solid setup helps nudge the whole thing along a bit.

    Reporting with Storm Track Blues,
    Sixtus

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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.......................

Doc
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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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