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    Who's ready to boogie with a little Brent-era Grateful Dead from the Gateway to the West? DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 47 features the complete unreleased show from Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, MO, 12/9/79 and you're going to need stamina because this one is high energy from start to finish.


    By the time December 1979 rolled around, Brent Mydland had fully cemented his place in the Grateful Dead canon with his twinkling keys, harmonic tenor, and songwriting skills. No more is that evident than at this show boasting 25 songs including soon-to-be classics from GO TO HEAVEN like "Alabama Getaway," "Don't Ease Me In," "Lost Sailor," and the Brent-penned "Easy To Love You." It's also packed with whirling takes on fan-favorites like "Brown-Eyed Women," "Shakedown Street," and "Terrapin Station." And you've never heard a 2nd set quite like this with eight songs before "Drums" including an improvised "Jam" launching from the end of "Saint Of Circumstance." It doesn't stop there though, with a blazing finale of "Bertha>Good Lovin'" and perhaps one of the best versions of "Don't Ease Me In" the band ever did play. We've rounded out Disc Three with an extra nugget from '79.


    Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, this release was recorded by Dan Healy and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. Grab a copy while you can.

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    I found a video of them pre-glam in 1969 outfitted in skinhead garb performing Martha My Dear. With a violin, no less.

    Truly bizarre.

    I of course know Cum On Feel The Noize from Quiet Riot's cover in 1984. I've heard of Slade mostly in passing and as an influence on punk's creation.

    Thank you for the insights, gentlemen.

    PS crapcha images have begun showing up again. Please, NO!

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    Been away in Maine for the last ten days, holy smokes 15 pages of posts to catch up. Fishing, light hiking, nearly off the grid, no television, music from WERU Blue Hill and WMEB UMaine Bangor student station, eclectic mix to say the least. At Lobster Boat Races off Long Island Casco Bay, top speed was 63 mph, that's fast for a lobster boat. A very good friend had offered me lawn tickets to Phish SPAC, but that was a show too far. Did listen to the Friday night on the drive back, the noon Serious day after show, really nice version of Velvet Sea. Back just in time for a reggae concert last night, so Vermont, about 100 people dancing on the grass outside an old barn mountainside with a 5 piece band and local brewery, Thai buffet. LIve street music in Hanover today, Della Mae outdoor show Wednesday. Live music is the best! Hope everyone is having a great end of summer.

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    DaveRock- I have a retired firefighter neighbour that is crazy about Slade, one of his all time favourites. He plays guitar, even has a small studio in his home, and has everything Slade ever released legally, illegally, or in between. Except for the early 70s when I was in high school, I have never heard anyone ever mention them.

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    Not often you see those two names together. Still. It must have been great to see John C. with whatever band he was a part of - I never knew about that gig with Nick Gravenites. It was probably before I started travelling to London. The closest I ever got to seeing him live would have been that tour he did with Man, around 1975. It was over before I knew about it.

    PF - when I first started getting Dead tapes, around 1987,the guy who used to do them for me was also into The Dinosaurs, and he did a few good tapes of their shows for me. Robert Hunter also performed with them sometimes.
    Much later - 2004 in fact, I have it here, a double cd of The Dinosaurs came out - "Friends of Extinction" - one cd live, one studio.

    As for Slade...the first rock n' roll record I ever got, in Fall 1971 was their single "Get Down And Get With It". There is a version of that on the 1972 album "Slade Alive!" that has to be heard to be believed. It has possibly the greatest rock singing I have ever heard from anyone from any era. Incredible tonsils that man must have had. My Dad thought it was hilarious.
    They were desperately uncool at the time though. They started misspelling titles of their songs, and started to seem almost like a comedy act after a while. I still liked them, but I didn't go on about it. If anyone asked me who I liked, I said Gong.

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    You know who was most pumped about Derek joining the boys? Yours truly. He and Jimmy Herring have been my top living guitarists for 25 years, and I was fortunate enough to catch Derek when he last sat in 7-7-99 in Charlotte. Caught him four days later at the same Blockbuster Pavilion with the Allman Brothers, on his first tour after Warren Haynes and Allen Woody left in March of 1997, Derek was wanted then, but was too young, so they had Jack Pearson for a year and a half before Derek got the job in '99, and held for 15 years. He blew me away that first time seeing him, but Dickey Betts was just as monstrous a player beside him, and pushed Derek as much as he got pushed. No matter what they say about Dickey's last year in the Allmans, all four shows I saw him play '98-'99, he was every bit as good if not better than Jack Pearson or Derek, still sharp, no signs of drinking, or being overly loud. Anyway, Derek shows up to jam with Phish was like a dream come true back in '99 at my second Phish show. They did Funky Bitch and Possum, the first a Son Seals blues tune, the second a Phish original that was tonight's encore, a nice easy blues rocker with tension and release. I already dug the show, but him on the encore was delicious cream cheese frosting on top (hate cherries). Five years later, I got to see him guest with String Cheese at the Jerry Garcia Birthday Bash, and it was just as exhilirating. They did a rocking, Allman-esque original into Wayne Shorter/Miles Davis tune Footprints, where Derek really lets loose. The String Cheese guitarist, Billy Nershi, makes a typical sarcastic remark as Derek leaves, that "He'd be good if he practiced more, jeez", which I recall the crowd didn't take as intended. Luckily, Derek didn't seem to mind, as he came back for the encore (after Cheese debuted Deal) of Way Back Home> On the Road, an African-prog tune that went into a middle eastern jam with Derek into another Allmans-esque song (Southbound).

    Tonight's sit in with Phish was the last hour of the show. They could've whipped out a Derek and the Dominoes tune, an Allmans tune, hell, Joe Cocker. In the first set in Twist, I think (after they did a pronounced The Wheel Jam), Trey teased With a Little Help From My Friends, the Cocker version, just the Jimmy Page opening riff. Nice serendipity there. But the whole first set was quite good, from the rocking, classic Free opener to funky Wolfman's to solid Maze, the newer tunes were good, Pillow Jets sounds like a Who song and Sigma Oasis sounds a lot like Runaway Jim at the beginning. But Tube was nice and funky, a little spacey jam with Page on clavinet, then the Twist with Wheel Jam into the Hood I wanted. And I mean that, as it was a delightful Hood all the way through. Second set started nice and deep jam in Down with Disease (my personal first in 20 years, just 11 shows since then), but a smooth as silk segue to Ghost then led right to a major key switch a few minutes in, and thought they were gonna do Sweet Jane, nice jam into 2001, which basically served as an Elvis-like intro to Derek freaking Trucks.

    He came out, they did Golden Age, a TV on the Radio cover, they killed that, then they did the newer Phish song Everything's Right, and had a raging guitargument onstage. It was glorious! A Life Beyond the Dream featured more measured fills by Derek on slide and standard. He was quite interchangeable. Most improbably after he handled two, obviously rehearsed newer Phish songs, they came to the end of the set for a raucous finish with First Tube. Never in a million years would I have guessed this one. They do the first "verse" of this funky, endlessly grooving instrumental with Derek accentuating, they get to "verse 2", and he plays harmony, and the crowd flips out. The encore break after the Jedi Trey feedback and general cacaphony of that crescendo had my ears ringin' somethin'awful in the long, quiet encore break. A lot of people were leaving to beat the traffic, but it seemed as if people were stunned silent. Anyway, they come back, and luckily, Derek is in tow again, and they launch into Possum, which was a fitting capper to an awesome night.

    I stopped seeing Phish in 2003 after a terrible couple of shows in a row. Their breakup in 2004 didn't change that, but I did go to Knoxville 2009, it was great, Trey was sober, and they had obviously rehearsed and practiced the crazy difficult songs, so saw them basically annually when they came to NC. When I moved north a few years ago, thought I'd see tons of shows, but just two. And these are my only shows since COVID started. But since 2009, I've only seen one bad show, and one mediocre show, the rest have been good to excellent to legendary (for Phish). Those legendary would be 8-26-12 and 6-21-19, missing out on 6-17-11 by a Maxwell Smart that much. Just hope it doesn't take more devastation to get more shows.

    By the way search the interwebs for tonight's show, the video may stay up on the youtoobs, last night is still playing, so tonight should be up permanently one would hope, especially since people might still give to the benefit linqs. Check it out, some awesome music tonight. At least, I thought so.

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    Derek Trucks sat in with that band from Vermont....

    ....outstanding and epic. Golden Age.

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    Slade

    Big in the UK back in the day?

    I just flashed on them and am looking up stuff about them. Apparently they were quite a big deal.

    I know just a few tracks at the moment.

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    in 1987 methinks when he played as part of the Dinosaurs. North of Seattle, a place called Parker's.

    He, Barry Melton, Country Joe McDonald, and several others. Maybe Merl Saunders and Peter Albin.

    I'm very glad I went to that show.

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    Great John Cipollina Documentary called Recoil, check it out. What a great guitar player!

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    bout due for another binge, dug the 89 stuff I’ve seen so far!

    Need to learn more about ole Batman, another great, and great band that I’m way behind the curve!

    Bob Barker. Ever since I saw Happy Gilmore, I’ll never think of him otherwise again, which is nice!

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Who's ready to boogie with a little Brent-era Grateful Dead from the Gateway to the West? DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 47 features the complete unreleased show from Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, MO, 12/9/79 and you're going to need stamina because this one is high energy from start to finish.


By the time December 1979 rolled around, Brent Mydland had fully cemented his place in the Grateful Dead canon with his twinkling keys, harmonic tenor, and songwriting skills. No more is that evident than at this show boasting 25 songs including soon-to-be classics from GO TO HEAVEN like "Alabama Getaway," "Don't Ease Me In," "Lost Sailor," and the Brent-penned "Easy To Love You." It's also packed with whirling takes on fan-favorites like "Brown-Eyed Women," "Shakedown Street," and "Terrapin Station." And you've never heard a 2nd set quite like this with eight songs before "Drums" including an improvised "Jam" launching from the end of "Saint Of Circumstance." It doesn't stop there though, with a blazing finale of "Bertha>Good Lovin'" and perhaps one of the best versions of "Don't Ease Me In" the band ever did play. We've rounded out Disc Three with an extra nugget from '79.


Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, this release was recorded by Dan Healy and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering. Grab a copy while you can.

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My Guess is the bonus material is from 12/4/79 from Chicago after space. We got the Estimated /Frankiln’s / Jam pre drums on No. 31. But it looks tasty. I dig me some early Brent.

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Fall of '79 is super under rated. Jerry was really trying to show the new kid how to play, there was soooo much good music on this tour, really, the best Brent tour until Spring of '90. Been waiting for Fall '79 since the early days of Road Trips. Now what about Pittsburgh Dave? That was the best show of the tour?

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Of Billerica is only logical, Dave. I have been told by natives (who laughed at my own use of Bill-erica), that it is pronounced Bill-rick-a. They have some strange pronunciations here, I just laugh and move on while trying to make a mental note of that "correct" way to say something.

Was not a huge fan of DaP 31, the Jack a Roe and the filler jam is about all I recall from it. Listening to the Lazy Lightning now, and Bob mumbles through some verses, the sound of cassette hissing away. But will definitely give it a good listen when it comes. Don't think it will get near the workout DaP 45 and HCS box will, but I like random shows to pull out for a change, too. This could fill that need.

Don't Ease is not a favorite of mine by any means, but a band I was in started doing it, and I came to like it more then. Especially when we found it is a perfect way to do a stop on a dime segue into The Other One. So, I could see an encore version working well for a rocking closer. At least it's not yet another Around and Around.

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For 12/1 however any fall '79 show is worth a listen or two. I guess it's time to play DEAD & play DEAD loud. Happy Tuesday to all you kind folks out here in DEADLand.

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instead of sea side chat lol

I remain hopeful about this one, but apprehensive…

ha ha, yes you've bottled that up appropriately: Bill-rickaaaah

Others that fall into the same category 'round these parts:

Stoneham = Stone-um
Worcester = Wust-ahhh
Woburn = Wuuuu-bern or just 'The Woooo'
Peabody = Pea-biddy
Cape Cod = Down The Cape

Just to name a few.

Bring on DaP 47!

From Greater Beantown,
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Dave is Canadian we will give him a break on that pronunciation. God Bless The GD Grateful Dead!

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Unless I am wrong from long ago. What about

Haverhill: Have - rill

Leominster: Lem-in-stir

Gloucester: Glaw-stir

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Hi All - Haven't been here forever - hope all's well.

I like the 1979 energy. I just wish they didn't have to use cassette masters...

Most interesting was Dave's tease at the end about DaP48 - he seemed ESPECIALLY excited about that one: "I will see you here in 3 months for the DaP48 announcement. That's a Doozy! Gonna be a lot to talk about on that one!" What is it? Special guest? Special missing reel was returned to the Vault?? What could it BE???

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In Med-fid.
Grandparants lived in Stone-um
They went round dancing in Woo-bin
Other family lived in Scituate (that's Sitch-you-It)
Vacationed in Barnstable-Bon-sti-bull
Enough!!

I will give Dave's 47 an unbiased listen, and probably tell Y'all what I think. Not that anyone would care!! :)

Music is the Best!!

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More Dead Head TV released on DreamsWeDreamed dot com:

Kezar Stadium: Two Historic Grateful Dead concerts (just in time for the 'Sunshine" box!)
Dan Healy interview part three
Spring Tour 1989 Report part one
Dead Base: the Origins of the "Taper's Bible"
The Dead News May 1989

Enjoy!

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It is indeed pronounced Bill-Rick-A. I saw that night (from right in front of the very low stage) and the next at UMass. Great shows! Apparently no soundboards exist, but one can hope.

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I've never heard a late '79 show I didn't enjoy sitting down with and I'm sure this will follow in kind. Regarding DaP 31 (12/3/29), a great show but a recording where the vocals are disembodied from the instrumentation-- reminds me of that Journey arcade game where you have to connect the heads to the instruments. A definite damper when you have so many other official shows to choose from. This release however sounds much more balanced. Not as dynamic as RT Vol3#1 (12/28/79), but nothing that will keep me from giving it a listen when the mood strikes. Looking forward to it. A nice antidote to all that boring '73 stuff!

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Always happy to see a new Brent era release and 79 was a good year.

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Now what that could be?

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I love 1979 Grateful Dead, especially this whole fall tour. I am know I am not the only one who is slightly disappointed about not getting 11/30 and/or 12/1. Again this is minor as this show intrigues me. I have never heard it and now I am really curious about the jam that comes out of Saint of Circumstance. And what about a 2nd set composed 7-8 songs pre-drums??? I don't think that happened too often post-hiatus. I am really looking forward to this one.

The extra nugget is the post drums segment from 12/4/79, at least I think it is. We got the Estimated Prophet > Franklin's Tower > Jam > as bonus material, so now we can close out the 2nd set of that show. We are just missing the China Cat > Rider and LLR that opens the 2nd set. Still with the extra material on this release this is not a bad little nugget to have.

I am glad I have some time before this release makes it to my mailbox as I am still taking in the here Comes Sunshine box. Those shows on that box are wonderful.

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Hey Thin, good to hear from you.

I think there is a possibility they used Plangent on this one as they did with Dave's #39, the 83 Philly show (MSG box as well). Cassette masters with the Plangent process makes a big difference.
We will see....

#48, I think he breaks into 91.

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…in part of the art department. I graduated college, ‘ Cooper Union’ NYC , had full scholarship!

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… Dicks picks 5 is a favorite of mine! I Love 1979 Grateful Dead! Every release the Dead has been released to date are All, in Dave’s Words, “top tiers” performances from the Grateful Dead as a whole Band gives me the feeling of opening the “doors of Perception ind my mind! 1979 , especially December of 79’ is filled with’Primo Shows! Betty recorded 12/26/79 , the source used for Dicks Picks #5.
Sure wish this was a Betty board but I’m just grateful for the release no matter who recorded it, Healy, did Dave’s Picks #47, which the Dead uses for our next pick in the series!
“Smile Smile Smile “ my brother and sisters, I believe everyone is going love this latest pick!
Peace be with you all!

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....there is a Lost Saint.
I kinda forgot about that pick.
And that's on me.
Making up for lost time currently.
#3046.
Refresher course.
Better late than never!!
Lots of good music out there if you look at it right. And I tend to be all over the place recently.
Let's call it a mydland life crisis.
Extra nugget? Well, I've got one right here.

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My first show was on 11.9.79 and these early shows with Brent are so sweet as he feels his way around with the band. Phil was playing so well in this time period that you can shred your speakers just to add a little more Phil.

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The '60s didn't really end until 1974 or so, and the '90s didn't start till about '92. And I think the '80s got started in '79, at least as far as the GOGD was concerned.

It's kinda weird, isn't it, the way we obsess on numbers that end in zero? The way we pretend the world changes every ten years as soon as the calendar flips over to a year with a zero? Too bad our civilization didn't stick with roman numerals, everything would be different,

Anyway, glad to hear 47 is an '80s show, even if this one took place in '79. I think it's appropriate that Dave tries to represent different eras, and we were overdue for an '80s. I also think that, in this case at least, his interest in unusual set lists is likely to pay off: lots of then-new tunes on this one, and the unusual second set will be a breath of fresh air, for me, anyway. Looking forward to this one!

Meanwhile still working through the HCS box. (No defective discs so far, praise ye gods.) Like a lot of people, I was surprised and blown away by the excellence of that Des Moines show! What's that expression about "the strangest of places"?

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But we all are waiting for 12/1/79. But still, I am open to more December shows. Good energy. Another tidbit from 12/4/79 (is he gonna piece the whole show together via bits & pieces a la 3/24/90?). But speaking of '79 shows we want, I'd love 2/17/79. K&D's finale.

Still, we have had our 2 K&D shows this year (1 without Mickey, 1 with), and now a Brent. Does he go Pig or Bruce (for the first time?) for 48? A sneaking feeling #48 may be some 1970 Allman Brothers/Dead (2/11 + completing 2/13 or 2/14?). The 1973 HC sunshine box has me hoping that there was a breakthrough with the ABB on some stuff.

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Also Watkins Glen. I've been getting promotions for a Woodstock type documentary for the Watkins Glen performances coming out this year. Hoping all the music sees a release this year, including the Allman sets from RFK. Wake of the Flood 50th will also be announced soonish so there's definitely more 73 coming out this year.

For completing 79 Dead show releases there are a bunch on that first Road Trips plus hopefully a rerelease of the download shows that came out from that tour that were briefly available.

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interesting pick, it already floats around freely traded and in good to excellent quality depending your source. same with almost everyting in the 73 box set. i got it, and compared to the bear boards, miller re dos, etc the shows dont sound that much better if they do at all. i have nice 73 box set if anyone wants one... reach out to me.

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Mid-song second set. Had some friends there. I've always wondered about it, especially with Walnut Creek '97, a legendary Phish summer show in Raleigh on 7/22/97, with an epic thunderstorm and lightning struck the lawn or very nearby during Taste. Nobody hurt, but Phish played to the storm. Then played an unbelievable second set. Sadly, tonight went unfinished. Interestingly, String Cheese made their debut at the same venue in Wilmington last Spring and one night was stopped due to storms with the band playing a set backstage and livestreaming it on Instagram and Facebook. In 2017, was in Atlanta for Cheese and we got dumped on both nights, but the first night was far worse. Full on July Southern Thunderstorm, and my most vivid memory is running back to my car in the pouring rain and feeling I was dodging lightning to put my camera back in my car (them was the rules for my photo pass). When I went back in, I was getting a bit of shelter from the storm for a bit and overheard the stage manager being told they got lucky as the radar showed the storm moving away, one more close lightning strike and they would have shut it down. Luckily for us, it was not. A fantastic show, really inspired, as the band was loving those of us who remained dancing in the pouring rain, while a lot of people crammed under the bit of shelter at the back of the amphitheatre.

Anybody remember any times they personally or knew of Dead shows getting stopped due to storms? I know Red Rocks one year got moved to McNichols Arena in Denver, and SummerFest '78 was cx'd, but they never started.

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I'm hoping the billerica clue will come to fruitation. I'm not sure how many times thy played there, but the 1989? Tape I have has an amazing setlist. That tape given to me in the late 80s? A deadhead friend gave it to me, and I was hooked ever since.

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#47 is $10 less than #46, so there's that, which I don't understand. I think they'll both be around a while, and I hope I'm wrong. Maybe 47 goes first.

It seems the Grateful Dead played Billerica only once, in May of 79 so I'm not sure whats going on there.
5/11/79

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Took 6 months for 45 to sell out, and 46 is still available. Take your time. Forget about Dave’s comments about 48, it’s 50 I want to know about.

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You are right. I remember the Estimated on my tape. It's the most incredible Estimated I've ever heard, in my opinion. The tape I obtained was unlabeled, so it was hard to pinpoint which show it was taped from, especially back in the day. Thanks for clearing that up. P.S. - when I mentioned 1989?, I was eluding to the time I obtained the tape, and was clueless to what show was actually on it. I started going to dead shows in 86' but started collecting tapes around 88' or 89'.The billerica tape was the tape that got me to dig my heels in, and really start to collect and trade shows.

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Billerica is a good show - I recall this had come up on here a few years back and I dove in then and am re-listening now. Good FOB and I've cranked the sub. Setlist right up my alley; Half Step>Franklins opener, LL>Supp, Peggy'O; a massive Shakedown, Estimated>Eyes and a powerhouse trio to finish it off. No encore this evening.....

...Dave?!?!?

Be Well People!
Sixtus

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Tony Bennett was 96. RIP
The best of the crooners.
Cheers

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Carousel Ballroom 1968

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Cool. I'll check out the C. Miller Tr. on archives.

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Third man records is releasing a syd barret collection on vinyl.

Has anyone got their garcialive 20 yet?

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Hello. I got a question. Although my "name" is Luis ( in spanish), I've never been in St Louis. I dont know why the cover has what looks like something in honor of a a dog. but I don't know.-:)

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6/21/71

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....got it about a week ago. Love it.
The AC broke at work today. Hate it.
Got home. Turned the shower to the coldest I could handle to help cool my core. AC set to 75.
Brain got a little scrambled.
I'm good now.

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Luis - that's a Missouri bear sculpted of limestone by Robert Cronbach. One of two, slightly different pose for each, at the entrance to the Kiel Opera House. There are 2 grizzly bears in the Missouri state seal. The Cronbach bears seem a bit chill for grizzlies. One of them in fact reminds me of my (late) dog Spirit, a very good dog, in his demeanor.

Listening to Set II on the Rolfe pull/Miller upload of Billerica 5/11/79. Wowza. Very very nice.

Edit - actually 3 grizzlies in the Missouri state seal. One small representation on all 4 paws, and 2 larger ones standing.

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Yes, I've just Saw It on wikipedia. Also un other article They say that the population of the Missouri Bear is increasing, lately.

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