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    What a setlist!... Made me jealous of those who saw this era live. Great sound… like ‘77 was yesterday. @derekb192 on 10/1/77, YouTube

    Wow! Just as when you think eyes is gonna go to drums out of the bliss comes dancing! One of my all time fave moments! Not just classic 77 but classic ever dead! - @emrysdavies1215 on 10/1/77, YouTube

    ...this show was off the hook from the very get go. The Casey Jones is the best I've heard... beginning a jam that goes through each member going off on an instrumental solo. The end has them jamming so hard you can no longer hear them singing through it. Now you know you're in trouble (The Good Kind) when a show starts like that... Weirtheir on 10/2/77, Dead.net

    Holy hell, the 10/2/77 Betty Board sounds incredible... I just wanted to pay homage to this unreleased gem, which features the lovely, tight playing you'd expect of a 77 show with some of the highest audio quality I've ever heard ... What a treat. u/monsteroftheweek13 on 10/2/77, Reddit

    I told my mother I was going into Portland with friends. I never told her where I went... @jamesmoore3694 on 10/1/77, YouTube

    We know where you've been and we're taking you back with the twice as nice DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 45: PARAMOUNT THEATRE, PORTLAND, OR - 10/1/77 & 10/2/77. Back-to-back complete previously unreleased shows on 4CDs? You betcha! Why? Because we couldn't pick one over the other of these two nights that have been described as "fire," "mind-frying," and "crispy" (bit of a theme here) too many times to count. Witness it for yourself when you dig into the inventive medleys and pristine sound, not to mention the first "Dupree's Diamond Blues" since '69 and the first live "Casey Jones" since '74.

    Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, this release was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson (with a boost from Bob Menke, more about that in David's video) 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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  • 1stshow70878
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    Stealie Hat?

    ESPN sports writer Wright Thompson is wearing some sort of GD stealie hat on the Masters pre-tournament show. Cannot identify the symbol inside the skull though. Some sort of shield or crest? Stylish dark grey tweed hat with black brim. Doubt if it came from dead net. Oh, and to really ungolf it he's wearing what looks like a bowling shirt.
    Cheers

  • Forensicdoceleven
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    When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.....

    Hey rockers!!

    So here I am at work...............need I say more?

    4/6/69: Concur with Billy The K. Loved this show since I first heard it. Yes, those Fillmore West and Ark shows are awesome, but this is the one I'll carry with me into the afterlife. OMG that Cryptical reprise, Garcia on the Death Don't, the classic pulled plug Viola Lee Blues!! Where is the rest of the broadcast?

    4/6/71: Oddballs for all us oddballs. Did somebody spike the water, or was it in the air? And that crazed Truckin' to close the show---very very unusual position. Hey, how about a Manhattan Center mini-box????

    Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better......

    Rock on!

    Doc
    Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work......

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    4/6/69. Avalon Ballroom.

  • 1stshow70878
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    Dennis

    Nice little ditty with a lovely sentiment.
    The wife's a quilter and she loved it.
    Quilts made of favorite tees are a thing now.
    But I'm sure my tees will more likely be shining cars.
    That's a first for me. Something she can relate to here, lol.
    Cheers

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    Guys, guys, guys....

    ....Google shop Make America Grateful Again tee's and buy one. There are a lot of options. Let's start a counter revolution!
    Has also gotten me drinks at shows and almost into a fight at a grocery store, but whatever.
    Humanity has extreme spectrums.

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    Me Shirts

    I have a bunch of shirts for which I have affinity.

    Alice in Wonderland t-dye that I purchased at the Psychedelic Shop, San Fran, December 1986. Starting to fade some, dont wear it often. Also have a Psychedelic Shop shirt, which has a wizard projecting lightning bolts into an orb with a key in it. Very cool. Also December 1986.

    My favorite is the 1977 copyright shirt by Ed Donahue I bought also in 1986 at a head shop in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. My understanding, Ed stuff sold in NE only. It is also on Dave's #39, the guy coming out of the house/camper has it underneath another shirt. You can search Ed Donahue 1977 GD shirt and find the image. I brought it home and took it to an old hippy friend. He airbrushed the back with a combined American Beauty image. It has the rose but says Grateful Dead instead of American Beauty. The GD is the same letting on the back of the album. Then on the bottom of the shirt he improvised, he brushed say 5 dancing skeletons. All with varying states of the skeleton. Dancing, head on, to dancing head missing. In between, it is being taken from the head. I wore it to maybe 5 or 6 GD concerts, it is "my precious." In February 2016, I wore the last time at a Widespread Panic show. People were blown away by it. Got me several cocktails and much smoke during the show. My hometown has always been ultra cop. Search any body any time. New regime. As I walked out of the concert hall, the fuzz was standing at the doors for exit. Except, they were handing out 24 oz bottles of water and wishing all to "Be Safe." Within 10 feet, thru 2 sets of doors, were the nitrous mafia, selling balloons. Pretty sure the cops just thought they were selling helium to go with the circus comes to town vibe.

    Nice that this year, get to see 5 shows in two weeks. Panic for 3 and Phish for 2. Never thought we would get here, but we made it. I am so glad.

    G

    always wish I had more time here...from last week my mother is still kicking, but again, at peace. So thanks again for kind words. Y'all be Fantastic!!!

    Oh yeah, I woolite clean only and wear a tshirt under my tie dyes.

  • Dennis
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    ORO and T's

    Okay, maybe you need some skill,,,, but you could sew them into a quilt.

    Tattered quilt on the goose down bed
    "Every stitch tells a story", my Grandma said
    Her mama's nightgown, her Grandpa's pants
    And the dress she wore to her high school dance
    Now wrapped at night in those patchwork scenes
    I waltz with Grandma in my dreams
    My arms, my heart, my life entwined
    With water from another time

  • Deadicated
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    Fav T-shirt

    My Europe Tour. Best one I saw? A fine-looking lass was walking with a friend across a hill side wearing "I'm so horny if I had a d...k I'd J.O." lol

  • simonrob
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    Holey moly

    Most of my T-shirts had many small holes in the front caused by burning bits of hash falling out of joints. If anyone asked I told them I was a welder.

  • Forensicdoceleven
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    Nobody wants the left-back's shirt.............

    My favorite Dead T shirt was the one I got at the 6-21-84 show. Third eyeball. So-so show, but loved that shirt...........

    Doc
    If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.......

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What a setlist!... Made me jealous of those who saw this era live. Great sound… like ‘77 was yesterday. @derekb192 on 10/1/77, YouTube

Wow! Just as when you think eyes is gonna go to drums out of the bliss comes dancing! One of my all time fave moments! Not just classic 77 but classic ever dead! - @emrysdavies1215 on 10/1/77, YouTube

...this show was off the hook from the very get go. The Casey Jones is the best I've heard... beginning a jam that goes through each member going off on an instrumental solo. The end has them jamming so hard you can no longer hear them singing through it. Now you know you're in trouble (The Good Kind) when a show starts like that... Weirtheir on 10/2/77, Dead.net

Holy hell, the 10/2/77 Betty Board sounds incredible... I just wanted to pay homage to this unreleased gem, which features the lovely, tight playing you'd expect of a 77 show with some of the highest audio quality I've ever heard ... What a treat. u/monsteroftheweek13 on 10/2/77, Reddit

I told my mother I was going into Portland with friends. I never told her where I went... @jamesmoore3694 on 10/1/77, YouTube

We know where you've been and we're taking you back with the twice as nice DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 45: PARAMOUNT THEATRE, PORTLAND, OR - 10/1/77 & 10/2/77. Back-to-back complete previously unreleased shows on 4CDs? You betcha! Why? Because we couldn't pick one over the other of these two nights that have been described as "fire," "mind-frying," and "crispy" (bit of a theme here) too many times to count. Witness it for yourself when you dig into the inventive medleys and pristine sound, not to mention the first "Dupree's Diamond Blues" since '69 and the first live "Casey Jones" since '74.

Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, this release was recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson (with a boost from Bob Menke, more about that in David's video) 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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Chill with lambasting the sound quality of Dave's 45. If you only listen to the first two tracks (Promised Land & They Love Each Other), as Dave himself explains on the Seaside Chat, you're listening to Bob Menke's audience recording. There's no soundboard of those two tracks and Bob kindly provided his tape. Some have said that the Smith/Miller/Clugston aud (140589) on the Archive is a little better than the Menke. In any case, once you get past those two, you're hearing "recently" recovered Betty Boards from the stash of soundboards returned by ABCD Enterprises. The changeover to soundboard actually happens before the end of They Love Each Other. Check out Dave's Seaside Chat for more.

The two shows on Dave's 45's 4 CDs are great sounding once they reach cruising altitude.

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I get where you're coming from. My main complaint on sound on many DiPs and DaPs is the drums are too loud. I used to blame Mickey for being involved in the remastering, lol. But to have two shows for the price of one totally outweighs the defects, and frankly that's what the tone controls are for on our stereos. And I also applaud Dave for being brave enough to get us the two shows with an aud. patch at the beginning. Patches are something they don't do very often and only when it's worth it. Especially, these two shows are so worth it. Don't give up on it.
Cheers

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I remember getting this on cassette in the late 80s and loved both shows even if there was "some" missing. I have listened to this release several times and I love it. My question is: how is this still available? I've noticed the last few Dave's releases have been selling at a slower pace than just a few years ago. Just wondering, maybe the uptick to 25,000 units was a bit much? Anyway, have a safe happy holiday.

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