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  • #481
    hendrixfreak
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    We have a winner!!

    And the trophy goes to Oroborous for "fungal foxtrot" -- my gawd man, you should be a writer. Oh wait...

    Another story: Roy Buchanan. We first caught Roy at Carnegie Hall in spring '74 and probably caught him a dozen times across that year into fall, most often in small theaters and clubs. (See: Roy Buchanan at Town Hall 1974...) At many shows, we had purchased "seats" and we sat in them -- for about the first 15 minutes. Then a half-dozen of us would emerge from our sometimes scattered seat assignments and basically make our way to the lip of the stage. It's not a Dead show and most folks remained seated while we formed a small cluster in front of Roy. He would smile to himself. His drummer later told me that the band referred to us as "Buchanan's rabbits," because we were always "popping up" at the lip of the stage. To this day, I've got more hearing damage from Roy's Tele and Twin Reverb (maybe 75 shows, 1974-1986) than from a roughly equal number of key GD shows (1972-1992). (Key shows: RFK '72, Watkins Glen '73, Capitol Theater/Passaic '76, Englishtown '77, Red Rocks '78 and every single subsequent GD Rocks show.) Not braggin', just happy lookin' back.

    One such event featured a double bill of Roy and Boz Scaggs w/Les Dudek on slide. We were in the first 10 rows and it was so loud, no need to get closer! After both bands played, Boz, Les and Roy jammed at supersonic volumes...

    Not to mention the many times we spent the day on the east stairs at the Rocks, then dashed in to actually cop front row (one behind the actual front row, reserved for handicapped) and at one ABB show realized that we had WAY better seats than the fairly large contingent onstage in the wings.

    Basically, my life has been one dash for the front or a judicious stance near the soundboard when I wasn't working, going to school, chasing tail or poking around the backcountry. I'm semi-retired from the big shows and, looking back, pretty effin' happy with the way I misspent my youth.

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    Up Front when it was cool

    The first six or seven years we’d go up front any chance we could if it was GA and we got there early enough.
    Half the fun was hanging out with the heads all afternoon waiting for the chance for the mad dash to the front.
    We’re talking small Auds we’re up front you were often less than 10’ away from them and the stages were often only 4 or 5’ high, very intimate! And the stage sound was amazing.

    Speaking of the dash: At the 7/1/92 show that we worked production, we were on the stage when they opened the gates and it was wild watching the throng come swarming over the hill and down toward the stage at Buckeye as Healy blasted the Horse race Trumpet Fanfare lol. Like some kind of psychedelic scene from Braveheart!

    It could be physically brutal and grueling though, especially if you weren’t in the very front row on the rail, where you could sorta lean and push back against the throng. Better ventilation too. Basically, it was on the wall or nothing, with the wall being only about 4’ high.
    If you knew what you were doing, and the circumstances were right though, there was nothing like it, but nothing comes for free so it was often a long grueling day, but we were young, prepared and it didn’t really phase us, especially once we got electric!
    So early on it was all about up front. Yes the vocals weren’t as prominent but you got the golden pure unfiltered sound of their amps/speakers, and in 83 when they started using the Meyers stuff full time they’d put small monitors on the stage in a half circle pointing out to help fill in the vocals better.

    But besides the sound it was like going to school to be able to see how they played things and to check out all that marvelous gear out up close! “Oh, Finger Ease, that’s the stuff Bobs always spraying on his axe”, like going to school!

    Perhaps the best part was the eye contact. If you were really paying attention you could see them communicating non verbally and they’d pick up on if you weren’t just some stoned civilian, but could tell if you were really catching all the little things they were doing. It was like you were in the band and if they picked up on you, they’d watch you and see if you caught little things they’d toss about. They seemed to really dig folks who could properly pay attention to all this, especially if they made a mistake!
    I can still picture any of them throwing some musical little tid bit out there, and watch your reaction, and then smiling because they knew you caught it, PRICELESS!
    It was big fun to joke around between songs with them too. We used to pick on Bob about songs and Phil especially always had a good time with that!
    Sigh, those were the daze!
    BUT!!! learning the fungal foxtrot in front of the SB was pretty damn sweet too lol.
    And aw those awesome summer nights outside with a big ole moon during a hot Terrapin…
    Sigh, yep, those were the daze my friends, we thought they’d never end…

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    So apart from Watkins Glen we had partaken of the GD/ABB gathering at RFK earlier that summer, the first day. The GD went on first, I think because Jer had an Old & In the Way show in Boston that night -- that's what we heard. (He 'coptered from DC to Boston with Peter Rowan, according to hearsay.

    So a good friend who had not eaten the blotter said, "Let's go up front." Plenty of room to manuever that day. We got real close -- definitely whites of their eyes -- and several things unfolded, no longer sure the sequence. First, some Deadheads being assholes, a few miscreants were tossing fireworks around. Some genius lobs an M-80 onto the stage and it lands at Jer's feet. He used to do a little shuffle when he was jamming and, without skipping a beat, he kicks the M-80 (prior to explosion) back into the crowd with one smooth movement. When they started He's Gone, the crowd moans and boos -- the feral animals on acid syndrome. But Garcia carries it off and I think they closed the set with China-Rider. (Just looked at the Setlist Program, and that's backwards -- set closer with China-Rider, 2nd set opener He's Gone.) During China Cat I get acid-confusion. Bobby is playing a Gibson SG (I believe) and Phil is playing a big brown hollow body, but in my youth and ignorance I always associated the solid body with bass and the hollow body with a Gibson guitar -- so I'm like, wait, which one's Bobby and which one's Phil?? (I knew from photos who was who, but go figure in that "special moment"...) I said nothing, but I think my buddy realized he was leading a potential casualty around and we retreated. Also, when you're 15, although tall, you are rail thin and still getting initiated, so we did not make a habit of pressing forward. It was a foray only.

    In 1976, during their theater tour, I had something like 7th row center, 3,000 people, I could the band quite well right in front of me and discovered for the first time the buzz of the amps in the back line. I was much closer in May '73 for Old & In the Way: 3rd row, audience left, right by Jer and his banjo.

    If that's not a great way to grow up, I don't know what is.

  • #484
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    About 20 rows up at red rocks

    Is just exactly perfect. My first show 7th row middle was too close for the best sound. Got there early as HF suggested and had our pick. But it was so loud I had to sit some just to give my ears some relief. Next two times there we figured out, as Vguy notes, the balance and full bass effect was better about 20th row middle. A few rows in front the tapers section and soundboard (duh, that's why they put it there). For Brent's RR debut in '79 we got back closer to 12th row as we wanted to see the new guy and the sound was pretty darn good and it seemed the crew had figured out the Red Rocks by that third visit and how to bounce Phil off them. All my other shows were pitifully far back or to the side with McNichols '79 the worst sound of all, upper deck right side and an echo chamber. The Denver Coliseum, where I saw a few other bands, had terrible acoustics. College halls that were designed for good acoustics like C.U. Boulder's were ideal. Pin drop perfect for the Chick Corea/Gary Burton show. You could visually see the notes, no wait, maybe that was the shrooms.
    Cheers

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    close up Newcastle May 1970

    Probably late to the party on this, just discovered on utube , lengthy (almost two hours) coverage of the Dead's May 1970 trip to England, rough cuts, casual interviews, a few tedious moments, loaded with inside looks and about 35 minutes of concert footage from 5/24: "Grateful Dead England 1970 (The Lost Film)"

  • #486
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    Seeing the whites of their eyes

    As I remember it, it was quite easy to walk up quite close to the front of the stage when the Dead played at the Rainbow, London, in October 1981. It was standing room only down there.
    I was even closer the first night on the October 1990 run at Wembley. Brilliant! Seeing people you have read about and listened to so much, for so long, at such close quarters. Prior to this night it was hard to believe that they actually existed. Nobody I knew had ever seen them, or even heard of them. Like living in a world of your own. Which, given the alternative, might not be a bad thing.
    The last night I was up the balcony to the right, and that wasn't as good. I'll never know what was me - I was high as a kite - and what was really happening. The people around me appeared to be dancing and cheering before the band came on. It was like they could hear something I couldn't. When the band did come on, the only instrument I could clearly hear was Bruce's piano. I went bombing downstairs to try and get in to the stalls, but was easily ejected and went back to my seat. The balance improved during the show - but it was an odd sound. And as I have said before, drums and space was incredible.

  • #487
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    Being really close at the Dead....

    ....only twice. Vegas '91 and Portland '95. Sound sucks up there anyways.

  • #488
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    Getting up front

    Was fairly easy early on. Then it became a headache.

    Back in 93 or 94 we decided to go to the Spring shows on Long Island. You were still able to call in for tickets back then and somehow I got right through. To the customer service rep - I need tickets for Thursday and Friday, but purchase Friday first because that will sell out quickly. Of course when she reads the first order back it is for Thursday. Annoyed, but I got 6th row. By the time she put in the Friday order, we got the farthest section back in the upper deck. That was the last time we got up real close. Of course as any seasoned head would do, we brought our Thursday stubs to the Friday show. The usher gladly showed us to our seats right up front soon after the lights went down.

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    Pretty much gave that up around 85-86. Combo of no more GA, getting a little older, and most of all…discovered the Lysergic shuffle which requires proper floor space lol

  • #490
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    ....yup. They have changed a lot since I first saw them in 1994. People up front on the floor tend to get very territorial. Throw down huge tarps and will say they are "holding spots for their friends" and will get hostile sometimes. A lot of times I never see their so-called friends ever show up. Sad really. I don't go up front anymore.

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....been slacking, so I decided on GD 6.22.73 Vancouver. It's fours discs. One for each bedroom.
Regarding vax-deniers. Yeah. I have a strong opinion regarding them. My body my choice, unless it's regarding abortions, then "how dare you!"
Lame.
There is a reason there wasn't a red wave. Conservatives are out of touch and want it to be the 50's again.
Not happening. Maybe put forth some legislation that helps the younger generation. Stuff other than "owning the libs" and "these books are toxic" and "go woke go broke" and "religion ahead of politics" and "liberals are grooming your kids to become gay."
Some guy in Texas put forth a bill banning social media to people under 18 years old ffs. How do you plan to enforce that?
Smaller government my ass.
I could go on and on and on.
My political post of the month.

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Submitted by 1stshow70878 on Sun, 12/11/2022 - 14:43

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Get scored on by Saad while CO has a power play.
Sad alright. Then they waste the rest of the PP.
Then a quick goal to even it up. Where was that for 3 periods?
OT. Better put on some Dead for luck.
My STL buddy will never let me live it down.
Cheers
Oh, and the Donkeys are getting their clock cleaned by KC. Maybe next year already.

Metallica albums 2, 3, 4 please
Megadeth whatever I have heard so far

mix 'em up into one big pan of specialized brownies with vanilla frosting, give me a glass of milk, and lemme rock. (get it? get it? "Lemmy" rock? HAHAHAHAHA!!) Ha....

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Submitted by Mr. Ones on Sun, 12/11/2022 - 17:54

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Just because.

Paul Weller-Wild Wood
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Submitted by proudfoot on Sun, 12/11/2022 - 19:57

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Give 9/6/80 a listen. Hot.

Any of you esteemed folks have the good fortune of having attended?

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Submitted by Forensicdoceleven on Mon, 12/12/2022 - 01:38

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Mornin', rockers!!!

Lewiston? You bet, my friends and I were there for this very very fine show. End of summer, outdoors, Maine, other fine musicians (if I recall correctly, Levon Helm and Roy Buchanon), and our heros, the Grateful Dead. Big fun!!! Looking back over 22 years of going to shows, this one was one of the most enjoyable........

At the time, it seemed like a very long show. So-so soundboards of the first set have circulated for a long, long time, never run across top notch soundboards of the whole show. It would make a very nice nice official release some day!

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will......

Rock on,

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Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God......

My final Dead concert, indeed a very fine one, outdoors on a very warm late summer day. We were down front for a while, local friends worked as security for the show, shout out to Dave A. The atmosphere was fantastic, a long lovely afternoon into evening event, we were practically weeping with joy. A little like the Dead were playing in my back yard. Also my farewell to Maine, moved to Vermont right after. The so called state fairgrounds was a harness racing track, about to become obsolete because of Scarborough Downs. Knew Lewiston well, years as a student at Bates in the early 70s, a fair share of that at Lou's Place, the pub just next door to the track. Makes me smile to know that Doc11, whom I have never met was at this event and as well, Doc ran around this very area I inhabit now many moons ago while he was at Dartmouth. Fresh snow yesterday Doc, hope its not too hot down there in FL.

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Submitted by proudfoot on Mon, 12/12/2022 - 09:04

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Your final GD show?

After Lewiston, I would have gone to a few others. But I don't know your whole story.

Anyway...September 6, 1980. A date that will live in utter joy.

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Submitted by KeithFan2112 on Mon, 12/12/2022 - 09:34

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Jam after Alligator. Sixtus put me on this one a while back. Good call.

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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Mon, 12/12/2022 - 11:04

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A Winter land 1977/1978 box set is a possibility. There are shows from March and December for 1977 and shows from October 1978. They could combine both years, good shows.

Hard to say exactly why, Proudfoot, fell off the bus after I moved in 1980. The repertoire had changed, the jams not as compelling to me. Deep into jazz, a different vibe, what was happening with Jerry and shakedown scene was concerning, etc. People in the music business told crazy stories familiar by now. The death of Lowell George in 1979 had hit too close to home, more than I can say. Who knew George would show up on Gomer Pyle a couple days after the release of the Dead's first album? Eventually the early Dicks Picks brought me back on. One toe in that water, next thing I knew... and now, BTK has me thinking Winterland... setting the wayback machine for March 18, 1967, it runs fast, Bobby sounds so young, up front... Smokestack, Viola, lots of Pig, so primal.

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Submitted by musicnow on Mon, 12/12/2022 - 12:30

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Like everyone else here, Lewiston would make a GRATE official release.

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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Mon, 12/12/2022 - 13:09

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This is a cool show that would make a great release. It has version of the Golden Road, not many of those out there.

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Submitted by Angry Jack Straw on Mon, 12/12/2022 - 17:54

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Sorry about your boy, Eichel. That was a bad trade.

Lewiston. What a great show. One of the first tapes I ever had. Right after Cornell. Maine is probably my favorite state to see a show. Never had a bad time there.

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Submitted by Vguy72 on Mon, 12/12/2022 - 19:29

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....lower body injury. He'll be back. But yeah. The injuries in general are piling up. Went to the game against the Flyers Friday.
And the Dolphins continue to Dolphin. To say I've seen this movie before is an understatement.
100% behind an official Lewiston release. Grate show. Long too.

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Submitted by daverock on Tue, 12/13/2022 - 02:19

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I used to have a hissy tape of this show back in the day. Hopefully it wouldn't put them off releasing shows of this vintage if they had them, but in less than optimum sound quality. Hopefully it wouldn't put people off buying them too. Golden Road is right.

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Submitted by hendrixfreak on Tue, 12/13/2022 - 09:18

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3-18-67 is in the Vault in outstanding sound quality, based on The Same Thing by Pig from that show released on the 5-disc So Many Roads box.

What would be so wrong about releasing 3-18-67 (87 minutes) and a fall '67 show of similar length, toss in a stray dog track (no full show) and call it a DaP?

Otherwise that early stuff is gonna languish in the Vault without a plan.

In other words, I COMMAND YOU OH DAVE L!!

I tend to forget about that "So Many Roads" box. 3/18/67 would make a perfect Dave's Picks with another show attached from 1967. I'd be more for that than another 1977 show. Or another two 1977 shows for that matter.

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Submitted by PT Barnum on Tue, 12/13/2022 - 11:28

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no Jimmy Herring but everyone else in attendance at the Xmas Jam in Asheville. Check out the setlist for Phil and Phriends at Jambands. com

Open Sesame Dave L, the genie has been commanded, time to release a few of these early primals as a 3CD collage, DaP46?, we know they will clean up as HF documents. Less than a week after I saw Jimi at the Washington Hilton in DC, March 1968, he was cutting his teeth on guitar strings up in Lewiston, Maine at the Armory.

I still say lump it all in a big primal box (67-70) and get it out before we croak!
Times running out, screw this trickling out the vault!
Smithers, release the reels!

Yeah DR, anything but 77 at this point…

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Submitted by hendrixfreak on Tue, 12/13/2022 - 13:21

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Bro, I did a feature article on that show for Univibes: The International Jimi Hendrix Magazine by interviewing a few folks who attended, plus photographer John Gossage who shot the heck out of it. I have three of his excellent B&W pics framed on my living room wall.

Do you remember the "Chicken Man" incident?

Don't believe we have a legit tape of that show, tho a boot purports to be it.

Roy Buchanan attended one of the shows, but accounts that claim he and Jimi jammed later have been credibly refuted.

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Submitted by nitecat on Tue, 12/13/2022 - 14:32

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Just watched a very cool documentary about Paul Butterfield and his band called "Horn from the Heart." Highly recommend this on the utuube. Lots of interviews with band mates Elvin Bishop and others tell a great story.

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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Tue, 12/13/2022 - 14:48

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NiteCat, that Paul Butterfield documentary sounds very cool, Butter field is one of my favorite harp players. Thanks, I will definitely check that out!

Meteors are out tonight... Have told some of this story before here, so please forgive repeat and long version... hung with a group of high school friends deep into music, tuned in and up to speed with what was going on... one was Bob Ewan, who became Bobby Radcliff, blues guitarist, after he went to Chicago to study with Magic Sam. Somehow Bob got picked to drive Jimi Hendrix around DC for his first visit in August 1967 when he played the Ambassador Theater. Bob was fifteen at the time, so did not have his drivers license. Listened to Are You Experienced summer into fall 67 with rapture, could not believe what Jimi was doing on guitar. After Axis was released late in 67, when friends heard Jimi was coming back to DC, we bought tickets ($4) to the March 10th 1968 Hilton show. My father drove us down there, no license yet, we ate red Lebanese hash before hand because reefer at the time really stank, so obvious. General admission on folding chairs in the ballroom, we were about tenth row. Soft Machine opened the show, there was a light show called the Mark Boyle Sense Laboratory, brief pause then Jimi, Mitch and Noel came out and the place went nuts. Yes, at one point a guy with a chicken head mask climbed on stage and tackled Jimi who kept playing as if nothing happened. We were convinced it was staged, part of of the show. There are recordings of this show, horrible audio quality, the entire set was only about 45 minutes. A detailed account of how the chicken head thing came to happen was published not long ago by the Washington Post, a prank by college kids. Saw Jimi again later on at the Baltimore Civic Center, no chicken head. Will surf the web for those photos... began to take my camera to many shows not long after, have good photos of Roy B, decent ones of my first Dead show at Baltimore Civic Center spring 1973... many others, checked but could not find probable you in the Friday afternoon Watkins Glen shots.

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Submitted by daverock on Wed, 12/14/2022 - 01:28

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One of the earliest excerpts of 1966 I have heard/seen is the dvd of the Acid Test from 1/8/66. Plenty of live Dead, and a bit of hickey between Pigpen and the Pranksters - "Hey man, stop yo babbling and fix these microphones". Really good sound quality - if it's on youtube, definitely worth checking out. It would be a great addition if this film, and any others like it, could be included in a box of early Dead.

Those Soft Machine shows with the Mark Boyle light show circa 1968 are legendary in their own right. Together with Pink Floyd, Soft Machine seem to have been one of the main live bands of early British psych. Never really given due credit.

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Submitted by perithecat on Wed, 12/14/2022 - 06:06

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Stop press its 09/09/72 👍🏻

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Submitted by Gratefulhan on Wed, 12/14/2022 - 07:15

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Yep, I just saw my email from Dead.net. DaP 46 looks great. I think several of you were calling for a fall 1972 show so there it is . I have not heard 9/9/72 so I am going to hold off until I get my copy in the mail. It seems like 9/19/72 only has audience sources in circulation (I could be wrong) so that will be nice to get some snippets from that show. We already got the big jam form 9/3/72 so bonus disc will round out some of that.

At this point for me, I am open to any show that is released from any era. However, I will not lie about the fact that I am extra excited for DaP 45 & 46 as 1977 and 1972 are my favorite years of the GD. Maybe number 47 will be an 85 show (or two). That would hit the sweet spot for me. However it doesn't really matter anyway.

Once again, thank you Dave L and crew!

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Submitted by hendrixfreak on Wed, 12/14/2022 - 07:28

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Sept '72 is as good as it gets without the grease, so this will be a huge release.

However, the release of portions of my first show (9-19-72) confirms that they've given up the search for the missing reel and I have to surmise that the OSF now knows the contents of the banana boxes and the missing 9-19-72 reel is not there.

Oh well, guess I'll just have to enjoy four hours of Sept '72 and the several hundred other shows I have in pristine sound quality............... you win some, you lose some. Though a portion of my first show is hardly losing.

P.S. Wonder what this selection means for the year's box set? Not gonna be fall '72. So, maybe a 50th Summer '73? Plenty of material, between entire barn-burning shows and uneven though iconic shows (Watkins Glen main performance).

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Submitted by KeithFan2112 on Wed, 12/14/2022 - 08:54

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Let me take your coat for you, welcome, welcome. We haven't seen the likes of you since the St. Louis box set, and even that wasn't enough.

Any '72 is great '72. Still, I wondered why he chose the Palladium show from the 9th as opposed to the next night w/Dark Star. The Dark Star fanatic in me always wants the Dark Star show, and Dave certainly likes a good Dark Star. I have a solid SBD from the 10th. So I checked out archive.org and learned David Crosby was a guest on the 10th. I have a feeling that played a lrole in the release decision. First world issues.

I'm usually not too keen when they include duplicate songs on the Bonus Disc, but I would be happy with both Bird Songs from the two incomplete shows, 9/3 & 9/19. That would give us three 1972 Bird Songs in one release. YES. I am o-freaking-kay with that. They were playing the most killer Bird Songs in this timeframe. It would certainly make up for 4 discs of 1972 and no Dark Star.

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Submitted by Oroborous on Wed, 12/14/2022 - 09:27

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I don’t know this show but I’ve NEVER heard anyone discuss it.
I mean we have some serious fall 72 nuts here (yeah, I’m looking at you Mr PC), and out of all the shows folks discuss I’ve never heard a word about it?
So that and no Dark Star has me worried that once again he’s picked a good city and street, but gone to the wrong house! I’m sure I’ll dig it, I always do, but with no Dark Star etc Im not sure how much rotation it’ll get?
First world whining to be sure lol

Good stories DMCVT, keep ‘em coming por favor!

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Submitted by daverock on Wed, 12/14/2022 - 10:38

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Great that another show from this timespan is being released. I would get anything from this era without hesitating. Pity it's coming out under the Dave's Picks banner though, with a bonus disc that you can only buy if you subscribe. Needless to say, I would love to get the bonus disc, but I wouldn't buy the two October 77 shows if I had the choice, and not knowing what is in the pipeline, I can't be sure number 47 and 48 would be to my liking, either. So I guess I have to decide if it's worth subscribing and getting shows I don't want, for the one bonus disc I do. I don't like this buy one, get one free approach at all.

I know I could subscribe and then sell the ones I don't want online - but I have never sold anything this way, and can't really be bothered looking into how you do it.

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Submitted by hendrixfreak on Wed, 12/14/2022 - 10:39

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that a fall '72 box was "inevitable" -- I believe that's the word he used. And, yes, I leapt to the bait like a trout to the fly! Dave said that maybe 4-5 years ago and, knowing Dave as well as I do (I don't know the guy at all), he says all kinds of things but that doesn't mean they're gonna happen. So, a mere 4-5 hours of sacred Sept '72 will just have to suffice until such time as "They" decide on a fall '72 box.

So, what's the speculation or wish list for the coming year's box? "They" gotta do a Wake of the Flood 50th, right? Is the bonus show with that all the '73 they're gonna muster in 2023? Perhaps.

That is all.

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Submitted by Crow Told Me on Wed, 12/14/2022 - 10:43

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So, following up the excellent and dud-free 2022 sub series, we're starting off 2023 with 2 shows from '77 and then 4 discs from fall '72? Yes, please.

Announcing releases from '77 and '72 certainly seems like a good way to drive up subscription sales. You guys are a lot more knowledgeable than I am about what's good and still in the vault from those periods, but all I can say is I've never heard a "bad" show from either year.

Box sets? I have no idea how or if what's issued on the DaP series impacts their thinking about possible boxes. But I sure like some of the suggestions I'm hearing. A summer '73 box? Or a '60s set? Just take all my money, now.

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King Crimson: The Great Deceiver
Blind Willie McTell: Death Cell Blues
Neil Young: Noise & Flowers
Jefferson Airplane: After Bathing at Baxter's
John McLaughlin: Extrapolation

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Submitted by hendrixfreak on Wed, 12/14/2022 - 11:31

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I once pooh-pooh'd all the speculation on what's next, and now, for some reason, I'm the very worst speculator. And obviously my "great ideas" are pretty obvious attempts at mining the Vault. Primal box? Pretty easy to want that. Summer '73 box? Obvious. I mean, what the hay, how about '69 box?

And I sit here with several prodigous stacks of CDs ordered in the past two months. Tampa Red, BB King's earliest singles, a couple Dylan that previously escaped me, Pee Wee Crayton, Lonnie Johnson, Rev. Gary Davis -- I'm up to my keister in music.

But with the GD, it's more of a downright mania.....

So the next time I write "That is all," brace yourself for more to come.

Mmk. I don't think I have ever heard it, bring it on.

"first thing you learn" (though) "is that you always gotta wait"

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Submitted by SGD1977 on Wed, 12/14/2022 - 12:56

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Is anyone else having trouble checking your order status? I ordered my subscription right away when it was announced. Now it does not recognize my order number, email, or zip code.

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Submitted by JeffSmith on Wed, 12/14/2022 - 13:16

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Hey SGD1977, I had the same problem until I entered the 9-digit zip code (5 + 4) that I was prompted to use when I first placed my order for both the Dave's subscription and also for Ace. Hope maybe that'll help. Onward.

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Submitted by Forensicdoceleven on Wed, 12/14/2022 - 15:15

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Hey rockers!!!

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

I listened to the highlights of 9/9/72 on my commute home. Very fine stuff, especially Bird Song and Truckin'. It is definitely "of a kind" with the other shows from the Fall of 1972. Which means it's really really good music, enjoyable, and worthy of release.

Is it classic? Well, maybe not, but that's OK. Is it a step down from the creamy intensity of the Europe 72 tour? Well, maybe, but that's OK too. I predict that fans of this time period will really like it.

As far as releasing "fragments" of shows, I'm OK with that. It's a remnant, a holdover from my years of trading tapes. We often had only fragments of shows, but enjoyed them anyways. Just because something is "incomplete", does that mean it shouldn't be released so we can enjoy it? Decide for yourselves......

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.......

Rock on,

Doc
I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child........

.... I'm Ok with any release really. Feed me Seymour.
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Glad to hear that others are not opposed. I’ve never had a problem with it.

Now send us 9/19/70. Just be sure to include the DS and Not Fade. Thank you.

Someone brought up the So Many Roads box recently. That is an absolutely fantastic release and is nothing but fragments.

As is Ladies and Gentleman . . .

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Submitted by billy the kiddd on Wed, 12/14/2022 - 20:14

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Fragments of of 1967, 68, 69, & 70, would make a killer box set!

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Submitted by hendrixfreak on Thu, 12/15/2022 - 07:01

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Just read on that one particular site that someone had an email exchange with Dave L years ago in which DL responded that they have 5 of 6 reels of 9-19-72 in the Vault, missing one reel.

Aaaaarrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just doing a tragic operatic turn this morning. I suppose if that one reel shows up they could put out the whole show. But if it doesn't, how about 5 of 6 reels??

Now, THAT's a fragment!

Oh yeah, got on here to write: fragments = good. But include shows for which they have nearly complete reels. 5 of 6 is good with me.

Why is it that my first show is so important? Is it like losing one's virginity?

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