Grateful Dead

....The Carolina Chocolate Drops.
Disbanded in 2014. Shame.

Yes, the Little Feat “Waiting For Columbus” Box is not sold out.
It was even on sale recently, and yet, it didn’t sell out.
Could this be the end of Rhino?
Only time will tell.

On another note, I’m currently listening to GD 1974-05-12 150221.sbd.miller.
Might be the best sounding copy I’ve had so far.

For the authoritative research!
I definitely have a reprint as it lacks the Greg Elmore credit.
Apparently I did get it at the friends of the library sale.
Usually a dollar but last time they wanted to move stuff so 50 cents.
All the baby boomers are passing and donating media to the library fund.
I need to go to estate sales. Friend found a McIntosh amp for $50. that works.
Nobody knows how to work the old stuff so they think they're broken when all they need is a fuse or a cleaning or the like.
Cheers

Daverock, yesterday I posted about a Quicksilver video from 1969, its actually from April 1970. I was corrected by my brother, who said the video comes from a film called "Go Ride The Music". My brother saw Quicksilver play in 1970 at the Frost Ampitheatre. He also said about a video about John Cipollina called Recoil that's really good, has Garcia in it and lots of performances by Cipollina throughout his career.

One of the rest live rock lp's ever. Used to listen to it on the way back from concerts, after I got the cd, after shows before that, we would get home and put the lp on the player. So fine. Great colors
The original lp was printed on the old capitol label, orange and yellow, reprints are in purple, black and red labels and other colors. The best way to tell if you have an original is to check the song credits for Who do you Love? If it credits Greg Elmore, then it is an original. Reprints credit Quicksilver Messenger Service and the Filmore Audience. Back in 13 this lp came out on HQ remaster vinyl and sounds just like you were sitting in the Filmore. So fine.
This is just a great lp. I have an original purchased in 69 or 70, plus the purple reprint that does not sound as good as the original. The HQ version is the best, hands down. I don't have the other reprints as after the first reprint, it just didn't have the punch as the original and never bought another copy. I also have their first lp, Son's of Mercury which is a 2 disc best of from 68-75. What about Me is another that I own and was turned on to it back in 72 by a California head who said, "this one's good" and I said, "as good as Happy Trails?" silence, like I had spoken blasphemy. Then the look, "like what are you, crazy? " It is a good one too, just not on the level of Happy Trails. i also own lost gold and silver which has a lot of the tunes from Trails, different and also good. The copy I have sounds great, not as good as Trails, but still to me any of that 68-69 Quicksilver is top shelf stuff.

Why hasn't 45 sold out? It's an enigma mystery rapped in a quagmire of lost thoughts and feelings. Who can predict or guess why, it just is.

I'm no historian, but I'm pretty sure in the 11+ years of Dave's, this is the first pick at a time a dozen eggs and a pound of bacon costs 15 freakin' dollars!

What Doc said.

My Happy Trails has no year printed on it that I can find. Vol. 2 ST-120 call number with Capitol and EMI symbol. Rear of cover was pasted on a little crooked over the cover art which is folded over about a half inch onto the back. Printed in USA. Has the album designer's small logo "Globe Propaganda" on bottom left of cover art. Red label on LP.

Credits include thanks to many including Alton Kelly, one half of the famous Kelly Mouse. I remember an interview with him on David Gans GD Hour show that described he and Mouse working on the same drawing board at the same time. One being left handed and the other right. He said they were like a two headed monster. I think he came from Detroit and that monster automobile art vein like Big Daddy Ed Roth and Von Dutch (Kenny Howard).

I like the fine print giving their address as Hollywood and Vine streets, Hollywood , Calif. and the info for how to book the band; WESTPOLE, 54 Martha, San Francisco, Calif. 94131 - Tel. 415-333-9400. Yes, hello? Yes, I'd like to book Quicksilver Messenger Service for my son's bar mitzvah. What dates are available?

Cheers

Hey rockers!!

All just one man's opinion...........

It may not be a "70s in general" issue, it may be a "1977 specifically" issue. There's been a lot of 1977 shows released, maybe people are oversaturated? Some folks may also be holding back dollars waiting for this year's box set. And, there's been a lot of other non-Dead music released recently, also competing for our dollars. That being said, I think releases from 1970 and 72-74 would still sell out quickly.

I could go for some 84-85 releases, but after that and into the 90s, I would probably pass............

All just one man's opinions......

Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount................

Rock on,

Doc
Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing......

I'm wondering if my vinyl "Happy Trails" is an original. I bought it waaaay back - about 1974, but looking on Discogs, I think even then it was a reissue. I'm not sure - it was probably in the record shop a year or two before I happened on it. But it also feels quite weighty. I've noticed with my old albums that they all seem quite substantial-up to about 1975, I guess when cassettes came in, and they started making quite flimsy records. Maybe there was a sudden shortage of vinyl or something. "Happy Trails" also has one of the all time great covers.

Re Bears Choice Vol 2 - I played the final cd of Dicks Picks 4 last night, the late show from 2/14/70, I believe. I tend to overlook this a bit, as it follows on from the more celebrated 2/13. But it's a great set in it's own right.