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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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February 19, 2022 - 7:52am

#781

PT Barnum

Joined:
December 2, 2009

moving fast

so much, DMCVT enjoy those meds, had stones 20 years ago, passed most of them, quite painful but after being able to relieve oneself again without pain or dribbles is great. Hated it when they said no more meds, love those Percocet.
Billy 82' was a great year, saw a show in Nov. of that year, First Passenger for me.
All this box talk has really got me thinking about an early box Primal Dead, awesome choices, but I would love some 1970 Dead too, those Spring shows at the universities, the summer Festival Express shows have been touched on but there were some great shows with that train trip that need furthur exploration. The fall of 70 also great shows there too, lots to choose from and we have really only gotten Jan. 70 with Dave's if I remember right (which is highly suspect nowadays)
Also those European tours from 81 and 90, both have some fine music and we haven't seen anything from those tours and the 90 tour has Bruce so could scratch a couple itches at once. There are a lot of eras that we haven't heard and I think variety is the spice of life, although just about any Dead is good dead to me.
Learned to type in 72 and back then, 2 spaces after a period to start a new sentence, now, only one so it is hard for an old dog to learn new tricks but will try. lol
Keep those last 5's coming. Here's mine:
Box of Frogs - 1st
Bloodrock - Bloodrock
Trapeze - Medusa
Pat Travers - Radioactive
Greg Lake - 1st
Todd Rundgren - Todd
that's six, but it's been a while I know it's early, but I've got spring fever...
February 19, 2022 - 7:47am

#782

JimInMD

Joined:
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Re: HF/PNW68 Tapes

This was discussed during the Road Trips Vol. 2 No. 2 announcement. I might check the liner notes, but I don't think that's where it popped up because most of this in on the Bonus Disc.

Someone out there help me clear up my failing memory, but what I recall is Dave saying someone found a box of tapes at either one of the theatres or perhaps (more likely) a studio somewhere. Like they were left behind after mixing Anthem of the Sun. I believe they recorded the whole tour on multi-track, 8 Track to be precise. I'm flying on memory which should scare us all.. I also think this wasn't too far removed from the Houseboat Tapes which was released late in 2005, so returned reels were still a thing.

So I hold out hope that somewhere, more of these gems exist or perhaps instead of pulling one or two songs they could piece together a complete show or three.

My four cents.. please someone out there either confirm or deny my memory of this.

Peace. Stay warm, stay safe. Speaking of peace, FU Count Vlad!
February 19, 2022 - 6:58am

#783

Nick1234

Joined:
September 10, 2008

I've lost the faith a bit

I'm struggling with the Dead at the moment. Post '74 has never really been my thing, the 1977 Winterland box is OK and I really liked those actual Winterland boxes, they're a nice size, but I really can't settle and listen to any GD at the moment. I first heard Europe'72 in 1974 and have been a big fan since then but now I don't know. Maybe It'll come back. My St Louis box is not far from the Missouri river in Columbia MO at the moment, at my sister's house, that's how I get round the import taxes here in England. Haven't gone to pick it up yet, maybe she'll bring it over next time she visits. Fox Theatre 1972 was always a big favourite of mine.

Last 5

Molasses-A Slow Messe
Dylan-disc 2 More Blood More Tracks deluxe box
The Who-Tommy
John Eliot Gardiner-Bach Cantata Pilgrimage Vol 10
Mogwai-Come On Die Young

The 5 records I reckon I've played the most times over the last 50 years

Love-Forever Changes (the winner by a mile)
Talk Talk-Spirit of Eden
Dylan-Blood on the tracks
Spirit-Spirit of '76
Traffic-John Barleycorn Must Die
February 19, 2022 - 6:51am

#784

hendrixfreak

Joined:
February 26, 2014

Somebody said we "shouldn't threaten Dave..."

Why the hell not?? He's out there, rolling around on logs and mossy rocks and looking for eagles. Why not cuff him a bit around the ears and order him back to the Vault to dig out the '68 tapes? He's Canadian, he won't fight back (oh, wait...).

Okay, 6 brief communiques and I swear I'll stop (!):

Mr. Ones: "ultimate souvenir," awesome phrase, could be lascivious or a band name.

JimInMD: how long ago did Dave mention PNW '68 tapes?? Are "one-offs" simply one reel of several for a show? (The OSF just revealed the number of reels used in their various outputs and it surprised me. The average is 11 reels per release, but vary from 2 reels to 32 reels or something like that. I'd guess the faster the tape (71/2, 15 ips) the better the sound...)

DMCVT: glad you're healing! Good John Hammond story. I've got a pretty good one for another time. I interviewed him for a Jimi-dedicated magazine.

Icecreamed: Yes, the solution is TWO boxes per year, one small, one large-ish. Rule: small box MUST contain Pigpen material...

Proudfoot: I sure hope "Public Castration is a Good Idea" is the title of a CD, not your new mantra.

DaveRock: I needed something meditative and new to play around with. When the pandemic started, I taught myself to fingerpick on the back porch. Lately, getting better acquainted with the fretboard and slide in standard tuning is a challenge. I put the Gretsch through a Tube Screamer for tone and a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe and use a short, fat glass slide (Ernie Ball). I'm just doing 12-bar blues in open position, then doing some Elmore-type licks higher up, staying within the rhythm using a metronome. Takes some work, but the payoff is there. What I love about learning guitar (I picked it up ~17 years ago in my late 40s) is that whatever you put in, you get like 5x back. Great ROI! Plus it feeds the soul. Have a crappy day? Pick up the guitar and feel better.)

Maybe Vguy could try crushing the stovepipe can into his head. Or at least do a doctored video of such an act.....
February 19, 2022 - 4:29am

#785

daverock

Joined:
September 1, 2014

Good combination

HF - that's a great combination...to have seen the band so many times and in 1973, one of their peak years. Also, maybe, being young at the time. Bands I saw when I was, say 15-18 had a massive impact on me - that's from 1972-1975. Although I got into The Dead in 1976, it was through records only, and I didn't know anyone else who liked them. Bit of private interest in a way.

Mr Ones - I too would get anything from 1967-1970...make that 1974. I would get any of the 5 shows I actually saw from 1981-1990...and maybe other shows from those European tours, too. Apart from that....I might get some more 1976 onwards shows...but not before checking out what it was, and what people said about it in Deadheads Compendium etc.

Incidentally-HF- that's a good idea, playing slide in standard on your Gretsch. I knackered my left hand overplaying mine last week - its has a slightly higher action than normal for me - ouch! - so rather than let it gather dust I should try what you do.
February 18, 2022 - 9:28pm

#786

proudfoot

Joined:
August 2, 2020

5

Swans feel good now
Swans public castration is a good idea
Motorhead inferno
Husker Du zen arcade
Husker Du new day rising

Raw sounds for raw times
February 18, 2022 - 8:45pm

#787

carlo13

Joined:
April 26, 2017

Stone ipa stovepipes

I love these 19.2oz stovepipe cans of west coast ipa from stone brewing. I'd like to see Belushi crush one of these bad boys on his skull.
February 18, 2022 - 5:48pm

#788

icecrmcnkd

Joined:
October 20, 2015

My 3¢

Started as 2¢ but inflation……

I listen to all years, and think that the 1-Box-per-year model isn’t enough. A 2-3 show Box and a 5-10 show Box every year, along with the Dave’s subscription would be just exactly perfect. And some video too, please.

All years sell out eventually, Dave/Rhino seem to be doing pretty good on the production numbers for a given era.
I think that Giants Stadium sold out faster than PNW. 76 was a hit and St. Louis will sell out eventually.
We are due some 67–69 at this point.

A Bruce Box is absolutely needed in the near future, and the 2-Box-per-year model will make it possible to keep everyone happy.

And more video Dave/Rhino!
February 18, 2022 - 5:44pm

#789

dmcvt

Joined:
April 4, 2013

near normal now

Thanks for kind words and my apologies if sharing TMI last night. Pushing 70, am not conversant with hospital grade pain meds, never was (they took very good care of me) and I did have a driver. My vision of a 60s box is much like HF wrote below, six or nine discs of 60s material, we already know there are partial sets, or short sets that could be a stitched together. Would love to see some photos of those early venues as well. Playing a little catch up here, there's a great look at some Gram Parsons back story on a website easily found mrporterdotcom, which includes his bromance with Keith Richards, Stones music, great photos.

Love to know more about the refinement of the processing Jeffrey Norman uses to bring us such great recordings, just barely aware that it started out as a way to correct inherent distortions of analog recording. Surely it has progressed far past that, there's a story there.

recent music:
Charlie Haden's Montreal Tapes with Geri Allen led me to:
Three Pianos for Jimi: Geri Allen and the Batson Brothers (not your typical Hendrix tribute)
Allman Brothers Band, Live from A&R Studios
Bruce Katz Band Live at The Firefly
Bruce is a truly gifted musician and teacher, there's a bunch of his great music out there.
so, boring story: went to the 2016 North Atlantic Blues festival in Rockland Maine to meet an old friend who knows Bruce. Bruce was there to play with John Hammond Jr. We hung out with Bruce and his wife first night, got to know this great keyboard guy, born in Baltimore within a few weeks of my own birthday in D.C. Quickly discovered our first Dead show was the same, March 1973, Baltimore Civic Center. During that evening, before ever hearing Bruce play, he asks, where are you guys staying? Oh yeah, that's where John and his wife are staying... next morning we head to the little breakfast area and there is John Hammond Jr. and his wife. We do not bother them of course, but later, my friend drops the news that we were hanging with Bruce, looking forward to their performance that afternoon. John invites us over to chat and tells us a few stories over the end of breakfast. John met Jimi in NYC in 1966, before almost anyone knew about the immense potential about to supernova. John is a very fine bluesman, began to listen to him around 1970.
We meet up with Bruce after the music is over and continue to hang. Bruce learns I live in Vermont, says I will be there in September with Les Brers in Rutland would you want to come? I am at the afternoon sound check, we meet for dinner before the show. Bruce tells me he is very concerned about drummer Butch Trucks, lots of stuff going on, way too much stress. One of the last Les Brers shows, Butch left the world a few months later. Derek's uncle. Guess all I am saying, this community right here, these connections, means a lot to many of us, life is precious, taking care of and with each other, it matters, no matter how small, pay kindness ahead. This is the spirit I felt at every Dead show, it was there in the seventies. And when i went to Dear Jerry a few years back at MPP I saw and felt it again. I still get shivers when I hear Jorma start that version of Sugaree, he was singing to his ole buddy.
February 18, 2022 - 4:57pm

#790

JimInMD

Joined:
June 27, 2011

Primal Box

My Primal Box pipe dream is that there were more of those 8 tracks from the PNW Winter of 68 Tour. When Road Trips Vol. 2 No. 2 - 2/14/68 Carousel Ballroom was released, Lemieux indicated they found a box of 8 Tracks that were lost or mislabeled or something from the PNW tour, but most of what was included are one-offs.

I think it's a long shot, but wouldn't it be grand if they were somehow able to piece together a few full shows from this tour recorded on early 8 track tapes?

Primal Dave.. or we will be forced to taunt you a second time.

John Perry Barlow

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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.

I know Proudfoot's message couldn't possibly be to me, but...

Did the word "cannonball" -- or the imagery -- possibly trigger you?

I know some folks really hate to get splashed on...

Or was it the maniacal look on my face as I sank beneath the waves?

Proudfoot

Another catalytic converter stolen?

Julian Lennon performed Imagine....

....live for the first time in support of Ukraine.
Last Twelve.
Skull & Roses Festival artists.
Circles Around The Sun and Pink Talking Fish personal highlights beyond the obvious choices.
Booked my hotel for Tedeschi Trucks Band in Red Rocks today.
Mrs. Vguy gave me her blessings. "Have fun. Be safe. Come back in one piece."
She knows I've wanted to go there since we were dating circa 1997.
Got Billy Strings this Fryday @ The Brooklyn Bowl.
Speaking of awesome venues, there's this place called The Caverns in Tennessee. Any of you ever visit? Looks neat.

C-4

Proudfoot, I have some surplus C-4 plastic left over from my tripline rigged cat. converter jobber. Just pick up the priority mail package very carefully.

There is Anchorage footage....

....on utuube. Kevin Tobin.
Just do it.
Go. What are you waiting for? The "effects" during Sugaree are priceless....
I love surprises, and this is a good one.
Baked Alaska Box.

HF Cannonball

When you said that I was thinking Bill Murray in Caddyshack…

At least Bill Murray's depravity fueled a feature film....

In contrast, this is MY LIFE!

Still, I'm flattered. Thank you. Thank you very much!

Vguy and Alaska

Effects, priceless. But what makes them all possible is the miracle known as "the steady cam".

Really though, great recording soundwize,,, Baked Alaska would make a fine release!!

Do it Dave!!!!

The WTF or HS effect

while checking on something saw on ebay someone selling every Dave's AND the PNW box set for the incredible low price of 7500 bucks!!!!!!

I always wonder, are people getting these prices?!?!?!?

At least I can always show my wife the fine investment I've made to our retirement fund!

Daves #41 Collectible Series Glass

Mine's on the way. Crab cakes are lined up. Now where can I get some Natty Boh?

re: Natty Boh

Right on, love that beer.
The Forever Winking man.
The puzzles under the cap always threw me for a loop.

Be Well People.
Sixtus

re ebay prices...

One that made me do my best Danny Thomas spit take was seeing the price of $165 for the empty box, no kidding, the empty cardboard box that the PNW set came in...Really? Never checked to see if it sold...

shipping boxes

People are saving the Shipping Boxes???

E 72 record box

Has anyone checked out how much the 72' record box shipping would be? It's 28 lbs.. I'm guessing around $60.

what it sold for on the bay

Greetings Dennis,
when using eBay, you can check what stuff sold for by locating and clicking the boxes on the left margin (after searching specific items) for "completed sales" or "sold" items, words to that effect. Doing that, one can see that recently for example, some Daves Picks Vol 1 sets did sell for $350-450 or so, plus shipping and tax on top. $150 for a CD seems a bit steep to me...

Saving shipping boxes....

....I still have all mine except the May '77 one. The missus used it to mail a package to our daughter years ago and she threw it away before I realized what had happened. Oh well. Dead World problems.

Crazy Trained

People are something else... as a response to the horror in Ukraine, I am seeing so much beauty and love put forth by so many from many nations... Julian Lennon, David Gilmour, so many artists are contributing what they can.

It's like the light side/dark side of the coin. I guess the thread just needs to play out. There's something whack about humanity. Whether it's the angel on one shoulder or the devil on his other, one of them needs to take V. Putin out.

Last 5:

Audioslave - Revelations
Harry Skoler - Living in Sound: The Music of Charles Mingus (I have an advance copy!)
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Not Fragile
The Rolling Stones - Still Life American Concert 1981
Jimi Hendrix - People, Hell & Angels

\m/

Hey Nappy!....

....not sure if you're a Gov't Mule fan, but they are playing Flagstaff on June 12th. Vegas shortly after.
Edit. They only way Putin gets taken out is via the route of an inside hit. My 2 hits.

wow thanks...

...for the heads up...unfortunately I start a new gig in a few weeks working Fridays to Mondays starting at 5:00 AM...I see that they're playing the Brooklynn Bowl in Vegas...great venue...saw the Lobos there once and stayed across the walk at the hotel there...so great not having to drive anywhere after a gig...also took Señora Nappy to see one of her faves, Steve Winwood, there...thanks again...

Comments

Carlo - Shipping cost me 8 bucks for the 24 lp box,,,, tax was 47.

Chuck - I save all the boxes also,,, my wife will bitch about the pile. If insurance agent dropped by he'd probably cancel my homeowners for the fire hazard.

Big B - waiting for my 41 glass also AND watching for 42 to be announced.

Nappy - you may have lost the youth with the Danny Thomas reference, literally.

Re: Boxes

I might have read this incorrectly.. but I think the original box all this started from might have been the actual PNW Totem Box, not the shipping box. I could be wrong, and I don't think the box is worth the $200 or whatever they are asking, but it's a pretty cool looking box set 'box'. I've got mine looming over the big screen looking down at me as I write this next to a couple of the Dave's Picks overpriced by cool highball glasses (or whatever they are). Useless swag that somehow is appealing (channeling WMD hatchet).

Dennis, after we collectively begin to pass on to the next adventure in the afterlife, all us folks at dead net are going to begin the canonization process for your wife. She is a saint, we will make sure the world knows it. As for witnessing a miracle, I am personally aware of several times she made the credit card bill go away, which saved you great personal harm, thinking specifically 30 trips around the sun, E72 travel trunk, etc. I'm sure we all have plenty of documentation and validate her trip into sainthood.

Julian Lennon singing "Imagine"

While I completely appreciate the sentiment behind Julian's song choice, not sure it was the best choice. I'm pretty sure John said "Imagine" was basically the communist manifesto. Which would have made it a poor choice given the fact it was sung in support of Ukraine.

Maybe it's just me.

re: Boxes

Saved all my boxes in case I ever need to store them from display. Have all the ones typically CD size in bookshelf with the DPs, RTs, DaPs, GRs in chronological order. Also if I ever need to sell, might be an added bonus.

They charged me $25 to ship Lyseum LPs across the continent, (if coming out of the west coast).

Last 5+2:

78-04-13 30 Trips Providence Civic Center
72-04-11 E'72 Newcastle City Hall
Aladdin Sane David Bowie
All Things Must Pass George Harrison
Amnesiac Radiohead
72-04-08 E'72 Wembley Empire Pool
72-04-07 E'72 Wembley Empire Pool

Been sticking to vinyl and T-shirts for non-cd stuff with the exception of the WMD apron which is great for using when I'm BBQ'n and Pizza cooking. Wood've loved the hatchet to cut the wood for the pizza oven!!!

Corrugated Cardboard Origami

I too have a fire hazard in one corner of the studio from accumulated shipping boxes. Amazing how well-designed many of them are – bordering on functional origami.

So, a pyromaniac walks into a bar....

and sez:

Hey, how about a fall '72 box this year, eh?

Then he cannonballs into the bar's Olympic-sized pool, just to get attention. Then he dries off, looks around, and sez:

WTF?! Isn't ANYONE gonna give me a yea or a nay??

Time to beat a dead pony...

Ok, I know I'm old and "metrics" are all the rage for baseball BUT....taking Clayton Kershaw out of the game after he threw 7 perfect innings and had 13 strike outs to boot is something I can't handle....fuck...

Paul Butterfield/ To tell the truth

Paul Butterfield was on the game show, To tell the Truth, just type in, Paul Butterfield to tell the truth. He actually gets up and plays the harp. One of my favorite harp players.

Kershaw....

....exactly. And the next pitcher gave up a hit against the next batter lol.

Baseball

Nappy.........I feel your pain, I grew up in Philly and Robin Roberts had 33 complete games one year. It is a different game and it is changing every year

Happy Happy...

Happy 78th Birthday to Mr. Jack "Bad Ass" Casady!!! Such a monster player and all around great person....

So...

If a divorced parsley farmer falls behind on child support can you garnish his wages?

Hendrixfreak

Okay, Hendrixfreak, still love your passion for fall 72, but didn't we just have three 72 shows in the last box?
I don't see it.

Would love to see Dave surprise us with something completely new, but old patterns die hard. Oh and don't forget the shorts Hendrixfreak!

Fall 1972

Maybe they will release the same shows that were in the box last year, but this time on vinyl. Presented in a newly designed, super deluxe, cardboard box.

Any Fall '72 box set

MUST contain 11/19/72.

Jack Casady

Hey Nappy, Thanks for the birthday wishes for Jack. Maybe I am too old to resist another back in the day comment... but they are next door to being homies. I grew up just outside of DC in Maryland, Jack and Jorma lived across the street from each other around two miles away, but they were in DC so they went to a different high school, Woodrow Wilson. And they were a little older but they were jamming back in junior high and had a band, The Triumphs in high school. My only knowledge of them then was through a mutual friend who also lived in DC and went to their school. Have seen them a bunch, last show was acoustic at a beautiful old opera house in central Vermont, Jack was playing a gorgeous custom instrument. The line to meet and greet after the show was way too long, so wrote to their publicist afterwards and asked about it. Two days later, a personal response came from Jack describing it and how there was a lock of his dearly beloved wife's hair inside. May go see them over in Plymouth NH in a few weeks, if not out of town.

Jack Cassady/ Live Dead Photos

In the photos from inside Live Dead, Jack Cassady is guy who is laying face down on the ground in the one photo where the Dead are all sitting on the car.

thanks deadvikes

So my actual thought process (read: mind spasm) was that
a) Dave once said that a fall '72 box "would happen someday"
b) It's 2022 this year
c) a fall '72 box would sell like hot cakes
d) it's counterintuitive, but last year's (3) '72 shows wouldn't stop Dave/Rhino from scoring $$

Still, there's that pesky question of how often I've predicted the box to come. It's about 1 in 1,000. So there's that.

At least I'm sticking my neck out. What's YOUR prediction?? Anyone?? They're not going to stop with E72 vinyl...

And yes, long live Jack and Jorma! Been catching their shows since ~1975. Last show I saw at Boulder Theater ~27 Feb 2020. The Before Times.

Next Cd Box

Hendrixfreak,
Alpine Valley East Troy Wisconsin
Three shows from 1987
Four shows from 1988
Three shows from 1989 with Blu-ray.

Has to be coming out at some point, why not this year.

Do they have the Alpine Valley tapes?

Anything certainly is possible and Dave spoke of "something different," which of course could mean Rhino gets into selling frozen salmon...

So I tout fall '72 cuz that was the period of my first show.

What do Alpine Valley performances do for you? Favorite tapes or did you attend a shit-ton of shows there?

Funny you mention those years, because after 3 shows at Red Rocks and 2 shows in Telluride in '87 I voluntarily stepped off the bus after 15+ years. Of course, I timed it so I had caught every single Red Rocks GD show they ever played. Just got a tad burned out on the scene and Jer had faltered, etc.

Anyone else dare to play the 2022 box GUESS WHAT game?

Alpine

I thought the Alpine Valley shows were recorded in glorious multi-track. Then again, I could be wrong..

If not, Healy recorded them and most of the Healy era appear to be in the vault. Downhill From Here is certainly not a cassette master and I do believe these shows are in the vault. If you don't trust me, feel free to ask someone that really knows. :D

Box 22

For christmas season

Some 89 tour

Which island does kreutzmann live on?

Juss cureeuss

Huge fan of venue based boxes....

....just ask my St. Louis Box.
Also a fan of regional boxes. Just ask my PNW Box.
Anchorage mini-box one day.
Or a VEGAS BOX?
Lot of artists that sat in during those shows though. To much appreciation of the crowd. Musical rights will hinder it and will probably never happen. But one can dream....
I got Billy Strings tomorrow. My body and mind are ready. Probably my last chance to catch him at a relatively small venue. Dude is lightning in a bottle. He caught me off guard last year. Not this time.
Edit. Marlins win their home opener and the Golden Knights are crushing my old team. Vegas needs W's.
Phish is playing on 4.20. MSG delayed New Years run.
I'm making bacon. AKA meat candy.
Insert Homer Simpsons mouth drool gif HERE.

Alpine

Hendrixfreak, yes, as Jim said, 89 was recorded in multi-track and those three shows in July might be the best of the July run. Although, it is all relative as July 89 was all so good.
I would think they have 87 and 88 as well, but those most likely are not multi track.
So, I did see all the shows there 87-89 and 86.
The post coma shows and the return of Jerry to me were the time of my life. Alpine was probably the best outdoor venue in the Midwest at the time. They allowed camping back then and it was so great. I think they really enjoyed playing there and they were able to stay in Lake Geneva and helicopter to the venue. A real experience. If you don't have Downhill from Here, it is worth grabbing a copy. More stories to come when the box gets released, don't want to bore you too much now.

And yes Vguy, bring on Alaska 80!

Decent 87 Masters

Are few and far between.. alas.....

Re: What Island

I believe it's Kaua'i.

Great pick, Billy.

Seaside Chat #42

Are we going to get a seaside chat today?

4/15/70 Winterland

This is my favorite show from the big box.

The powerful allure of shows we attended...

So fall '72 is near and dear to me because I caught my first show (9-19-72) exactly one month after turning 15. Having listened for the prior year to WD, AB and Skull & Roses, the new E72 music kinda mystified me. (The E72 album didn't come out til November.)

Word (can't recall my source) is that this show is in the vault but lacking the first reel. So I'm keen to find out if it resides among the mystery reels in possession of the OSF. Perhaps I'm not the only one. When a "new" '68 tape (3 reels) shows up, hope springs eternal.

Fortunately, so far, TPTB have released seven shows I attended, just under 10% of the shows I caught. What an odd flashback-laden memento... Certainly, the juxtaposition of that 15-year-old lad loose in a minor league ballpark with 20,000 tripping freaks to the 64-year-old in smoking jacket, listening to the music of 50 years ago, could produce the basic plot for a Twilight Zone episode.

But I digress. I did not catch the GD in '89, but the one official video I've seen, Jer is killing it and physically animated. So the attraction of Alpine '89 is clear, even to this addled crunch-o.

Well, first up is Feb '74 and then I'd guess a delayed box announcement as they flog the '72 vinyl. Wouldn't surprise me if this year's box doesn't land until fall, which would mean a summer pre-order. Hey, I'm in no rush, at this age... but, yeah, the annual mystery always intrigues me.

P.S. the "I'm not a robot" thing-y must be getting suspicious that I'm an evil algorithm, because it made me take like three tests: fire hydrants, then chimneys x 2. They'll never catch me!

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I notice the new limited edition print from Garcia Family Provisions comes on acid free paper! Surely a missed opportunity?

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