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    A sealed, unlabeled box sat undisturbed for decades on a shelf in the Grateful Dead’s San Rafael tape vault on Front Street, its contents an enduring mystery, even to those few with access to the vault. All David Lemieux knew about that box when he became the Dead’s archivist was that it contained tapes belonging to Bear—Owsley Stanley, the Dead’s first soundman and architect of the Wall of Sound. Even in the Dead Heads’ Holy of Holies, the taped-up box was tantalizing. But this was Bear’s personal property, and so he didn’t touch the box out of an abiding respect for the elder luminary of sound. Bear’s archive of Sonic Journal recordings had been kept safe for him for years within the Grateful Dead’s vault—over 1,300 reels of tape stored in heavy-duty cartons like old banana boxes. At any time, David could have popped the tops and explored them to his archivist heart's content. But they were off-limits without the nod from Bear. - Starfinder Stanley, Hawk, and Pete Bell, Owsley Stanley Foundation

     

    With a wink and a nod from Bear, we've peeled back those banana boxes to find some of the oldest and rarest of all recordings of the Dead including the double dose of shows that make up DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 43. The two virtually complete performances from San Francisco 11/2/69, Live At Family Dog At The Great Highway, and from Dallas 12/26/69, McFarlin Auditorium, are complementary in their clarity and consistency thanks to Bear himself, and in their ability to foreshadow where the Dead were headed in the years to come. If the two killer 20-minute+ "Dark Stars" don't get ya, how about the Pigpen-centric sets featuring "Midnight Hour," "Next Time You See Me," "Big Boss Man," "Good Lovin'," and the once-lost-now-found complete rendition of "Dancing In The Streets," or the first full acoustic set ever performed? And we're certain you'll be fascinated to uncover the "Mystery Of Bear's Banana Boxes" as told by Starfinder Stanley, Hawk, and Pete Bell in the liners.

     

    Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 43 was recorded by Owlsey "Bear" Stanley and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. Grab a copy while you can.

     

    *2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

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    Holy Scalpers, Batman!

    I was skulking around the T-Master site for possible Pearl Jam tix for an upcoming show (and long after they went on general sale), and some of the prices are pure science fiction, especially for where the seats are! I know everything has gone way up, and Springsteen has been getting flack for his pricing through T-Master that is supposed to muscle out the scalpers, but what’s the difference to the fan that just wants to see a band. You pay some dude in the alley, or you pay T-Master, they are both ripping you off. Not going Karl Marx here, just an observation that major sports and concerts are becoming the domain of the truly wealthy now. As a youngen, like virtually everyone here on this site, I saw so many concerts and sporting events for pocket money. How teens or young peeps afford to see their Lady Gaga or The Weeknd shows baffles me.

    VGuy, New Mexico sounds special. I love art, and when I hear Taos or NM, I automatically think of their renowned art community, and of Georgia O’Keeffe, whose not a personal favourite, but she was a pretty interesting character, and free spirit when that still meant something. Enjoy, and everyone enjoy the weekend.

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    I know this is wrong, but

    I'm already thinking of next year's anniversary-type release(s)(?)...

    I had the good fortune to catch my first show, 19 Sept 1972, after endless listening to WD, AB and Skullf**k, but it was summer '73 that we really piled on. In May it was the ABB at MSG. In June the ABB and GD at RFK (caught 6-9, had to miss 6-10 because ... I was 15!), then on to Watkins Glen for two big daze, Roosevelt Stadium with GD and The Band for two big nights, then Nassau Coliseum in September (DaP 38). May not sound like much, but it did the job.

    I read that long ago, they had mixed and selected tracks from the GD and ABB covering RFK and Watkins, but the weasels got in the way of the music release. I'd hope for a WotF 50th with the Watkins Glen soundcheck, AND a summer '73 box. Sure would be great if they managed a package with ABB and The Band.

    It's only August 2022 and I don't want time to fly -- EXCEPT with vault releases.... (and this year's box ain't even out yet.

    Shout-out to Nappyrags bein' back in action. And Vguy in Taos -- can they handle the Fist-Bumper-in-Chief??

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    I saw Eric burdon, Ronnie Earl, and other blues bands play Bowditch field in Framingham, MA. In 2003. Mohegan sun promoted it. Erics' voice sounded just as bad ass as it sounded in the 60s, and 70s. He was real cool, talking to the audience after the show. I wonder if sixtus was there, too.

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    Nappy back on the prowl....

    ....good to hear from you man.
    I'm currently in Taos visiting more family. Taos is a home away from home. Visited here every other year when growing up. My moms family is pretty much grandfathered in here.
    Magical place with a vibe that is hard to explain. But northern New Mexico is like that. At least to me.

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    I saw John Fahey play in 1985 at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, a super small place on San Pablo Ave, He put on a fantastic show, after the show we walked up the street to Everette & Jones BBQ for some fantastic bbq at 2am, fun times! Nappy, glad your feeling better, that sounds like an interesting show about Son House

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    Re: Son House...

    Hi everybody...I'm starting to feel normal again so I thought I'd post on Son House...I have previously mentioned the documentary "Two Trains Running"...it's about two different groups of college kids, one from Cambridge the other from the Bay area who went looking for Son House & Skip James in 1964...this coincided with the Freedom Riders who went into the deep South to help register Southern Blacks to vote...the guys from the Bay area included John Fahey & Henry Vestine (the original Canned Heat guitarist, the Sunflower)...after numerous false leads the Cambridge guys found Skip James in the hospital...after he recovered they had him brought up north to attend the Newport Folk Festival...if I remember right Son House was finally found living in upstate New York and hadn't touched his guitar in decades...Alan Wilson (future Canned Heat member) was enlisted to reteach Son House his songs...a great documentary...I watched it on Amazon Prime...I think it was $3.99 to watch, well worth it...

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    Keith

    At the time of the DaP43 reveal, which was virtually simultaneous with the MSG box set announcement, I mentioned that I would be willing to pay the same price for DaP43 as the box set. That was before I ever heard it. Now, I would be willing to pay double. So no, it’s not wrong to listen to it every day. I do.

    Fortunately, my CDs download to a hard drive in my car. As it turns out DaP43 and the DaP5 are adjacent, so I can easily toggle between the two releases. I consider those two DaP releases to be in the same league as FW69 and E72. Sure, a lot of the other stuff is great and I listen to it quite often. But, they are vastly superior to everything else.

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    Anthem Bonus

    Keithfan - looking at the recording details of Anthem, it looks as though they recorded the studio parts of the album between September and December 1967. Of the live concerts used, two look as though the were from 1967 too, at The Shrine in November although most of the live music seems to have come form 2/14/68.
    Which could explain why they felt it was appropriate to include a 67 show as a bonus.
    But they do seem a bit random, these bonus discs. The 1966 shows with the First album and those two 1971 shows with the 1970 studio albums don't seem to have much to do with main releases to me - although they are all worth having in their own right.

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    Now I know why I bought the old album Renaissance Scheherazade last month. I remembered I had a tape of it which has long been recorded over so I gave it a try. It was new in '75 when I recorded it from a roommate's album and discovering progressive rock. Annie Haslam! The woman has the voice of an angel and a FIVE octave range. This one was recorded at Apple studios and at what I would expect was a considerable expense having the London Symphony Orchestra doing the orchestrated cuts. Only a couple of the songs had much airplay but are memorable none the less. A masterwork of prog-rock, a sort of It's A Beautiful Day or Moody Blues with a lady singer sound. Dated now but an enjoyable mellow buzz in a busy world. But I digress.
    Now back to your regularly scheduled Cumberland.
    Cheers

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    JIm (MMJ) and Tom from Rage Against, torn the living shit out of the ballad of tom joad at the Springsteen tribute!!

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A sealed, unlabeled box sat undisturbed for decades on a shelf in the Grateful Dead’s San Rafael tape vault on Front Street, its contents an enduring mystery, even to those few with access to the vault. All David Lemieux knew about that box when he became the Dead’s archivist was that it contained tapes belonging to Bear—Owsley Stanley, the Dead’s first soundman and architect of the Wall of Sound. Even in the Dead Heads’ Holy of Holies, the taped-up box was tantalizing. But this was Bear’s personal property, and so he didn’t touch the box out of an abiding respect for the elder luminary of sound. Bear’s archive of Sonic Journal recordings had been kept safe for him for years within the Grateful Dead’s vault—over 1,300 reels of tape stored in heavy-duty cartons like old banana boxes. At any time, David could have popped the tops and explored them to his archivist heart's content. But they were off-limits without the nod from Bear. - Starfinder Stanley, Hawk, and Pete Bell, Owsley Stanley Foundation

 

With a wink and a nod from Bear, we've peeled back those banana boxes to find some of the oldest and rarest of all recordings of the Dead including the double dose of shows that make up DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 43. The two virtually complete performances from San Francisco 11/2/69, Live At Family Dog At The Great Highway, and from Dallas 12/26/69, McFarlin Auditorium, are complementary in their clarity and consistency thanks to Bear himself, and in their ability to foreshadow where the Dead were headed in the years to come. If the two killer 20-minute+ "Dark Stars" don't get ya, how about the Pigpen-centric sets featuring "Midnight Hour," "Next Time You See Me," "Big Boss Man," "Good Lovin'," and the once-lost-now-found complete rendition of "Dancing In The Streets," or the first full acoustic set ever performed? And we're certain you'll be fascinated to uncover the "Mystery Of Bear's Banana Boxes" as told by Starfinder Stanley, Hawk, and Pete Bell in the liners.

 

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE’S PICKS VOLUME 43 was recorded by Owlsey "Bear" Stanley and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. Grab a copy while you can.

 

*2 per order. Very limited quantity available.

Yes, here's to good health for all.

I am truly sorry for the loss of the previous child. How can a person fully come back from that?

Treasure your days, folks.

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Submitted by FiveBranch on Sun, 09/04/2022 - 17:13

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In Japan and there was an arena size greenhouse with monstrous tropical birds flying around and the GD was playing on a stage at the base of it all.

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Submitted by JimInMD on Sun, 09/04/2022 - 21:56

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Marrying four girls years ago and admitting to it now is not advisable during an election year.
Just saying.

On a serious note, sorry for your loss but happy that things have gone full circle. The VGuy family is alive and healthy. Good to hear..

Edit: Married into, sorry. Reading glasses....

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Submitted by Charlie3 on Mon, 09/05/2022 - 13:06

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Charles Bradley - No Time for Dreaming - fantastic raw, modern soul, Charles Bradley smokes, worth a listen
XTC - Oranges and Lemons, thanks to whoever mentioned them on here recently, been a while since I gave that a listen, good album
Khruangbin - Mordechai, I dig everything these folks have put out, they put on a cool live show too
Washed Out - Mr. Mellow, dreamy mellow vibe, as might be expected from the title, cool to chill to
Black Pumas - Black Pumas, back to the modern soul sounds and these guys do it well, just spinning it now

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Submitted by proudfoot on Mon, 09/05/2022 - 13:10

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Rolling Stones
Its only rnr
Black and Blue
Goats head soup
Some girls
Beggars Banquet
Let it Bleed
Sticky Fingers
Tattoo you

Nirvana Bleach
Motorhead Overkill
Nirvana in utero
Nirvana incesticide

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Mon, 09/05/2022 - 13:14

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....speaking of dreams, I had one where I was married to several women. In hindsight, that was actually a nightmare. Woke up in a cold sweat.
Last Five
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Ghost Of A Dog
Phish - 9.3.22 Dicks Sporting Goods Park, CO
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties
Motley Crue - Girls, Girls, Girls
Neil Young - Harvest
I treasure all my step-daughters as if they were my own. It was tough sledding at first due to the fact that their moms prior boyfriends were apparently assholes that treated them like crap and their trust factor was low. But, I persisted and just tried to be a good dad. Guess it worked because they call me dad now. Except one. She's a little lost and spiteful. But my work is not done.

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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Mon, 09/05/2022 - 14:16

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not necessarily in this order : 1) Dire Wolf. 2) Cumberland Blues. 3) Easy Wind. 4) Uncle John's Band. 5) Attics of My Life 6). Ripple. 7). Alligator. 8).Stella Blue. 9)Brokedown Palace. 10)High Time

So are Cumberlands.

Top 10 GD Songs, impossible.. I love all my songs the same.

Eyes, Brokedown, To Lay Me Down, PITB, UJB, tossing in Morning Dew because they made it their own, Brown Eyed Women , Comes a Time (yea yea, JGB, whatever.. it's on the list), Stella, China Doll, TOO, BCE'd, New Potato, anything on the Live Dead suite, anything on Anthem/Working Man's Dead & A.B.

and I'm just getting started.

I surrender, throwing in the towel

I believe the GD are seriously under-rated songwriters. The material they wrote is rich, timeless, and classic.

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Submitted by dmcvt on Tue, 09/06/2022 - 05:51

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First, thanks to all who post here on their recent music, dreams, loves and adventures, this diverse wellspring of interests most always freshens and diverts my attention towards something new. Breathing walls, three dimensional carpeting, matrices of coincidence, synchronicity, guitar heroes in the back seat. Recent talk of Miles soon to arrive 7th Bootleg Series made me go back and listen to some of the earlier ones. I would add, if you can find a copy, listen to Miles Cellar Door Sessions 1970 recording. Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, I began to run with a camera and have been searching for those photographs, for example, my first Dead show, Baltimore March 1973... have not found those yet, but did find my own images of Mahavishnu John MacLaughlin, BB King, Bob Dylan, The Band, Roy Buchanan, Tom Waits, Leslie West, ELP as well as photographs from some music festivals and anti-war demonstrations in downtown DC. There's more and too many times I did not have the camera at hand. Never pass up the opportunity to be present in the moment.

Some of us have read the long letter Robert Hunter wrote to Jerry after his passing, I just found Hunter's farewell Bob Weir spoke upon his release of Jerry's ashes upon the Ganges:

"Last Words for Jerry Garcia"
Go naked in the world, wind for your cloak and coverlet. Whom the Gods love best they reward with early death, gather them into the sun, reflect them in moonlight, crown them with comets, annoint them with shooting stars. Go naked to the Throne of Love, go as the stars go, arrayed in their own incandescent light. Go and our hearts go with you. Return to the source of the soul by way of the Sacred River, royal road to the sea where all shall be music and dreams shall be dreams no more, but visions of the World's foundation scattered among stars. Dust shall be dust and the voice of dust shall be music, pleasing to God who sent it forth in search of melody to crown His silence with eternal song.

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Submitted by 1stshow70878 on Tue, 09/06/2022 - 08:40

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Catching up on some purchases from months ago.
Garcia Live Vol. 7 at Sofie's Palo Alto.
Tapes from Donna's storage.
Keith is SO good in this type of presentation.
And Donna can hear herself and jumps right in.
Her Muscle Shoals and gospel roots just shine.
Who Was John, Strange Man, Stop That Train,
are all seldom heard and choice cuts!
Cheers

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Submitted by frosted on Tue, 09/06/2022 - 12:00

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I know someone's got to be a true Deadhead when they explicitly list New Potato Caboose among their favorite songs....

Most of American Beauty, then a selection from Workingman's Dead. Mountains of the Moon and China Cat Sunflower. New Potato Caboose.
I'm taking Dark Star, The Eleven and The Other One to be more jams than songs - otherwise them too, maybe at the expense of the Workingman's songs.
re New Potatao- that's a coincidence, considering the simultaneous post below this one

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Submitted by nitecat on Tue, 09/06/2022 - 13:58

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So funny... I noticed the rave reviews of the Jayhawks recently, and ordered one that was mentioned here. Two days later, at a thrift shop, what do I find, a different Jayhawks CD than I ordered!

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Submitted by 1stshow70878 on Tue, 09/06/2022 - 14:00

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So many of my choices are joined at the hip that I went with an > list:
In no particular order,
Scarlet > Fire
Estimated > Eyes
NFA > GDTRFB
China > Rider
Truckin' > Nobody's
The Other One > Wharf Rat
UJB > name your song
Playin' > name your song
Shakedown > name your song
Bertha > Good Lovin'
and the singles are way harder or just today's idea as there are just too many
Smokestack Lightning
Sampson & Delilah
Black Throated Wind
Cumberland
New Minglewood
New Speedway Boogie
Friend of the Devil
Attics
Standing on the Moon
Days Between

That's all I got (today), Cheers

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Submitted by nitecat on Tue, 09/06/2022 - 14:00

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First Show, I love that Sophies show! Kieth is really playing great and very prominent in the mix, thanks to Betty!

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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Tue, 09/06/2022 - 14:10

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It's hot here. Temperature wise, I imagine the hottest Grateful Dead show I ever went to ,was probably the Oregon Country Fairgrounds 8/28/82. or One of those shows up at Cal Expo, it gets pretty hot up in Sacramento.

....I'm sure one of those was the hottest shows I attended. Once you go over 110 on the floor, it doesn't matter anyway. The only time I recall Garcia wearing sandals. Veneta? Ptth. I would have reveled in that heat. Lots and lots and lots of water and sunblock. A few of those shows had awesome storm cells that cooled it down though.
I caught every one of them....
Edit. Just found out Jeff Beck is playing Vegas Nov 4th. Hmmm.
Tix price edit. $200?

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Submitted by deadfeat1 on Wed, 09/07/2022 - 14:55

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The Sept. 6th edition of Paste has an enjoyable article about TTB's I Am The Moon.

I can't come up with a top ten list of favorite Dead songs, but Wharf Rat is my all time favorite - right up there with Spanish Moon by Little Feat...

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Submitted by That Mike on Wed, 09/07/2022 - 15:01

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I was just tuning into this new Brit spy vs spy show on Apple TV called “Slow Horses”. Normally you can skip the opening theme (thankfully) once you watch it through once - I’m listening to this theme song, and hey, you, get off of my TV! That sounds like Mick Jagger. No - that is Mick Jagger, singing some song I’ve never heard. Quick search on the net, and yup, he has written and performed the theme for this show, something he calls “Strange Game”.

Top Ten Dead Tunes? Yikes! Monday’s list would be completely different than Tuesday’s list, which wouldn’t at all match Wednesday’s list, or come close to what you choose Thursday…

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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Wed, 09/07/2022 - 20:15

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What a bargain it was! 41 years ago today I was out at the Concord Pavillion to see Jerry Garcia put on a great show , admission to the show was $1.00. Queen Ida and her Zydeco Band opened the show. We had our tickets. for the first run at the Greek Theatre, only four days away. Fun times!

Haven't got Apple TV so can't watch Slow Horses....but the whole series of Slough House books by Mick Herron are brilliant. Very funny with great characters

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Submitted by Forensicdoceleven on Thu, 09/08/2022 - 05:09

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Mornin', rockers!!

Favorite originals: Dark Star, Other One, Saint Stephen, The Eleven, New Potato Caboose, Truckin', China Cat, Easy Wind, New Speedway Boogie, Black Peter, Cumberland Blues, Friend Of The Devil, Dire Wolf..........

Favorite covers: Hard To Handle, Dancin' In The Streets, Viola Lee Blues, Not Fade Away, Know You Rider, Big Boss Man, Next Time You See Me, Morning Dew..........

Songs I never did handle very well: Casey Jones, Attics Of My Life, Row Jimmy, Stella Blue, China Doll, anything Brent....

Just sayin'..............

Rock on,

Doc
But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.....

I intentionally left out combos (S>F, H>S>F) as they take up multiple picks.

Bertha
Bird Song
Brown Eyed Women
The Eleven
Eyes
HCS
Jack Straw
Mountains of the Moon
Rubin & Cherise (Yup. JGB song , but I had to put it in since they played it)
Terrapin
The Other One
To Lay Me Down
Wharf Rat

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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Thu, 09/08/2022 - 10:35

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Born on Sept 8th 1945 in San Bruno Calif., Pig Pen would have been 77 years old today. My favorite songs that Pig Pen did, Alligator, Hard To Handle, Big Boss Man, King Bee, Smokestack Lightning, Mr Charlie, The Rub, Next time you see Me, and of course Easy Wind, one of the greatest Grateful Dead songs of alltime, that was played far to few times. The Dead were never the same after Pig Pen left them. Hopefully today he's hanging out with some of his favorite blues musicians like Lightning Hopkins, Jimmy Reed and Muddy Waters.

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Submitted by 1stshow70878 on Thu, 09/08/2022 - 12:16

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New picture on that page with the opened box itself.
Doesn't look like it will fit on the shelf. Kinda long?
The artwork is fun!
Cheers
Edit: Got the Sept. bulletin email now with the "unboxing".
Community Bits cites the same thing I found (Sept. 3 post on this thread) on the fake WakeOTF LPs. I checked. Mine's good.

P.S. Why does the Lyceum box page have no listening party?

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Thu, 09/08/2022 - 13:09

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....add this to the list of things that make me go "hmmmm".

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Submitted by daverock on Thu, 09/08/2022 - 14:21

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Anybody heard about this new release of the 4/26/69 L.A. Forum show ? I have just had an email about it - supposed to be coming out in November from Experience Hendrix. Looks terrrrrific.

A favourite Dead cover of mine is Death Don't Have No Mercy - that version on Live Dead is incredible.

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Submitted by Sydney Prentice on Thu, 09/08/2022 - 15:57

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£28 pre- order from that South American river online name, I'm tempted I know nothing of the history of the recording but judging by the previous vinyl releases from the estate it should be worth it. I haven't got around to listening to the newly arrived latest Bears Sonic Journals of The Chieftains it appears to be in a deluxe booklet style package.
Not long now before the dispatch of MSG box set either,hoping to have it before the end of this month.

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Submitted by Sydney Prentice on Thu, 09/08/2022 - 15:58

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£28 pre- order from that South American river online name, I'm tempted I know nothing of the history of the recording but judging by the previous vinyl releases from the estate it should be worth it. I haven't got around to listening to the newly arrived latest Bears Sonic Journals of The Chieftains it appears to be in a deluxe booklet style package.
Not long now before the dispatch of MSG box set either,hoping to have it before the end of this month.

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Submitted by nappyrags on Thu, 09/08/2022 - 20:37

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the majority of this show was on the Reprise Box Set "Lifelines"....and various boot sbd's have been released too...But I will definitely grab this CD set ($12 on the SA river system)...and before you ask Oro...yes...I was at this show...

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Submitted by frosted on Thu, 09/08/2022 - 22:58

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Sorry, no way I can keep it under 30 or so, so I'm going to lay it out a little differently. Even then, I still left out another 20 or more of my besties. These are all ones that I almost always like to hear, rather than feeling so-so about them or having to be in the mood to get into them.

My favorite rock tune presentation, not just from the Dead but from any rock band, which I think was also the most original and ahead of its time group of songs ever strung together. This first one is to me the very essence of the Dead:

1969

Dupree>Mountains>Dark Star>St. Stephen>Eleven>Lovelight

Favorite other combos strung together:

Scarlett/Fire

China Cat/Rider

Estimated/Eyes

Not Fade Away/GDTRFB

Help on the Way/Slipknot/Franklin

Cumberland Blues/Big River

Best Evolution from pretty good to great tune over a few years:

Hard to Handle

Best old timey Ballads:

Jack a Roe and Peggy-O

Most underrated:

Operator, Second that Emotion, and Oh Babe it ain't no Lie

Favorite outright rockers:

Deal and Bertha

Favorite cowboy tune:

El Paso

Favorite country-ish tunes:

Friend of the Devil, Brown eyed Women, and Dire Wolf

Favorite early cover tune:

Baby Blue from 1966 (?) History of the Dead

Best songs of the road:

Jack Straw, He's Gone, and Mississippi Half Step

Most haunting tunes:

Morning Dew and Death don't have no Mercy

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Submitted by Oroborous on Fri, 09/09/2022 - 08:45

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Top ten: a fools errand!

I mean Dark Star, Stephen, King Solomon’s Marbles, Help-Slip, Blues For Allah, New Potato, Brown Cross Eyed, Victim or the Crime, What’s Become of the Baby, 74 Eyes, 74 WRS, Days Between, Antwerps Placebo, Serengeti, Terrapin Station,
Attics, Ripple, Saint of Circumstance…that’s just trying to get started, they doesn’t include covers, most of the ballads, or anything else!
Fools errand I say!
So what’s the best ten songs…the last ten I heard!

DOUBLE HA!
Of course Nappy was there 😃

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Submitted by Crow Told Me on Fri, 09/09/2022 - 09:53

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So I read this book called The End of Time. It was about physics. I understood almost none of it. But the tldr version goes something like this: eventually, the sun will expand and vaporize the Earth, all the stars will explode, and entropy will cause all matter in the universe to be so widely dispersed that there will be no light, no heat, no life nowhere (like Jimi sed!), and Time will End. Which, to me, suggests that we should all forget whatever minor shit is bothering us right now and just enjoy the miracle of conscious being while we can.

(Yes, fuck it! That’s your answer to everything, isn’t it Mr. Lebowski?)

(Well, yeah.)

One of my favorite exercises in time travel is to search Youtube for tapes of local TV coverage of dead concerts in the early ‘80s. At that point, the Dead was mostly unknown to mainstream America, and the good people of Des Moines or Salt Lake City didn’t know quite what to make of several thousand tied-dyed and tripping heads descending upon their downtown areas. So you get these local news reports where you get the Guy in the Blazer doing a live shot from the parking lot and talking to the viewers about the “Dead heads” (you can see the air quotes around the words) and relate with amazement to their viewers the amazing spectacle of people lined up days early, playing hacky sack (still then unknown in the provinces) and selling grilled cheese for a buck. (What the fuck?) Sometimes you get a brief interview with a head or two and maybe even 5 seconds of the band onstage.

There’s lots of ‘em, and they’re awesome. As far as the whole scene goes, the early ‘80s were kind of a sweet spot for me. We were all part of a self-contained bubble that was big enough that it was beginning to draw the attention of outsiders, but small enough to still be self-policing and generally reasonably under control. (Unlike late ‘80s and beyond, when shit got seriously outta hand on occasion.)

No way can I list favorite Dead songs. It’s too too too too too to put a finger on.

A big THANK YOU to everybody who posted about Little Feat recently. Hadn’t listened to ‘em in years, and it’s been such joy to revisit. Music is the best.

There’s a fat man … in the bath tub … with the blu-ooh-ooh-oohs

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Fri, 09/09/2022 - 09:57

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....as some of you know, I was a metalhead before a deadhead. My granddaughter and new hubby flew down from Reno last night to attend a wedding gift I got them. Def Leppard/Motley Crue/Poison/Joan Jett tonight at Allegiant Stadium. It will be her first real concert as well as my sons.
Saw Poison in a little club here in Vegas in '84 right before they made it big. Seen The Crue once back in '86 I think opening for KISS? Or maybe Ozzy. Never seen Def Leppard or Joan.
The general consensus of the the tour in internet land are mostly positive and Vegas is the last stop. Lots of concern on whether Vince Neil's voice could hang, but hes doing it. Vocal trainers for the win! Looks almost sold out except for the nose bleeds. Rock On!

Unfortunately Crow I don’t think we’ll make it that long (mankind, not “us” specifically) as we seem hell bent on destroying our beautiful home. The planet might live on, but the way we’re going about it…

But I totally agree with your last paragraph!
Late seventies/early eighties there was a palpable sense that we were wining: we weren’t just a bunch of dirtbag good for nothing freaks like perhaps many civilians watching those old broadcasts would think, at least on first impression.
Not that we cared. Being an outcast was a important influence on my becoming a DH. When the going gets weird and all that…
I won’t say it became “popular” yet, but it started to not be a bad thing to be a head. The scene was growing, but as Crow said it was still self manageable etc. To me it peaked in 85, meaning too much of everything was just enough. It seemed like the last year before the regular stadium shows and the crowd perhaps getting too big and unfortunately all the less than acceptable behavior. Sure there were instances of this before, but it was usually frowned upon, where as later people started to think this behavior was somehow cool.
Ah, well, ce la vie, anytime something good gets big it’s usually the kiss of death.
Nothing lasts as the pranksters say!
But hey, to end on that little positive JG uptick that Keasey eulogized: it was @#&*ing fantastic while it lasted and it makes me feel beyond grateful to have been alive and young then!
“Those were the days my friends, we thought they’d never end…”

JOAN JETT: one of the weirdest Dead parings we ever saw: poor JJ opening for Bobby and the Midnights in 82 at small Rochester theatre. Fans were not interested at all and unfortunately they eventually booed her off, ya know “fuck this, where’s Bobby”, but hey, not as bad as the Hollander stadium show where the Good Rats opened and the crowd pelted them off with these little Rat souvenirs they handed out!
If you go down to Deep Elem, the DH will put you on the rocks!
Oh sweet mama, I got them Friday afternoon happys!
Happy Friday peoples, is time to crack a cold one yet 😃

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Submitted by 1stshow70878 on Fri, 09/09/2022 - 11:26

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The sun is over the yardarm as they say.
FAC is on!
Why do you think I'm always saying...
Cheers

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Submitted by deadmike on Fri, 09/09/2022 - 13:18

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Am I the only one who haven't recieved Dave's Picks 43 yet?

According to my tracking info my package have arrived to Fontana, California on July 27th for processing but it has never left Fontana after that. I have sent my email back to the sender and I have recieved an automatic mail on September 4th, that I will get an answer as soon as possible but no answer yet.

The alternate tracking number is usually searchable by this time through the Swedish Postal Service app by this time but nothing so far, and also nothing on the Postal Service where I can pay the Swedish tax. I wonder if I will get the DP volume this time ... it doesn't feel like it ... :-(

Micke Östlund,
Växjö, Sweden

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