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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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  • nitecat
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    More Dead Head TV

    DTV released today on dreamswedreamed dot com:

    Fall 1989: The Dark Star Tour
    Dead Head TV Host Open Episode 016 August 1989
    Dead Head TV Credits Episode 016 August 1989

  • Vguy72
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    Paying way over price re events....

    ....let's just say, I paid a little bit more than that Taylor Swift ticket price re the Golden Knights Stanley Cup winner game. Worth it? Yes. You either want it or you don't.
    To be fair, Swift plays for over 3 hrs and her shows look top shelf.

  • Oroborous
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    Gary! (and other gearheads)

    Check out the geek fest on Meyers D&C Panther system at Light Sound Journal dot ya know…
    I haven’t read it yet, but it looks mighty tasty!
    PROPER!

  • alvarhanso
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    Funny you mention Grace Potter, DMCVT was talking about her recently (and talked TO HER and Bernie Sanders, too). Also, funny you mention Zakir Hussain, he and John McLaughlin have reunited Shakti, put out their first album in decades, and are doing their first US tour in decades, just began in Boston a couple nights ago with John Scofield opening. Bela Fleck joins the tour as opener soon. Sorry I missed that.

    I've never listened to Taylor Swift (knowingly, anyway), and don't really plan on it. Wish she would use her ticketing clout to call for a revamp or destruction of Ticketmaster. The fees are absolutely astronomical, and the higher your ticket cost, the higher the service fee, yet it's the same exact service, for the exact same event, being processed by the exact same people! They lost a lawsuit a few years back and I got emailed some worthless free ticket vouchers that magically never were available when I tried to redeem any of them. Not sure how they could just blithely raise those very fees that got them in trouble, and the new system with ticket exchanges and the killing they make off every single transfer is ridiculous. One of my favorite things about String Cheese Incident is their lawsuit against Ticketmaster over monopolistic practices. They won, Ticketmaster settled, but Cheese had to find funky non-Live Nation venues for some time. I only wish the bigger artists who could effect a change would try it. Pearl Jam spoke out and didn't take a hit, but that was 30 years ago, and this Sisyphean Rock keeps rolling back downhill, with more and more expensive undertakings to roll it back up. I yearn for the days of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and a Teddy Roosevelt to wield it.

  • Deadheadbrewer
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    T. Swift

    A friend just revealed to me that at the last minute she decided to take her daughter to a Taylor Swift show here in the Twin Cities. The afternoon of the show she paid $1000 per TICKET ($400 "Service Fee" to someone) to sit in the absolute worst seats in the 75,000-person stadium! Their backs were literally against the wall, as they were in the top-most row, behind the stage by about 15 degrees, so there were no more seats behind or to the side of them.

    I have always had mad respect for Taylor Swift, as she keeps it classy, writes good tunes, and REALLY looks out for her fans, just like the good ol' Grateful Dead did. Those two, Pearl Jam, and Garth Brooks stand out as musicians who always tried to keep tickets cheap and available. Garth in particular just kept adding shows in a town until people quit buying tickets, so as to appease every fan who wanted to hear him.

    I don't really listen to three of those four, but do give them all credit for actually giving a darn about the fan experience.

  • Deadheadbrewer
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    Never knew I would love streaming (Qobuz!) so much, but it gives me a chance to sample TONS of stuff . . .

    The Wake Outtakes are on there, but while mistyping a search for K'naan, I stumbled across this band, and I had to check them out just for their album covers--turns out their moody rock music is very cool, too!
    Kanaan--Windborne

    Then I listened to someone named Grace Potter, who dropped an album yesterday--quite tasty blues rock!

    And Zakir Hussain (who I saw in concert this past winter) from Bear's Sonic Journals, which led to a bunch of Ravi Shankar listening. I'll have to check out his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival . . .

    R.I.P., Robbie--that first solo release of yours is an all-time classic.

    Finally got around to showing our teens "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" last night--still terribly clever and hilarious! R.I.P., Paul. I remember renting the VHS of that (and "Children of the Corn") for my 15th or 16th birthday sleep-over.

    And of course, stickered on every VHS cassette was a good life motto: Be Kind . . . Rewind . . .

  • alvarhanso
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    Growing up in the Carolinas, I well remember my mom driving us to our grandparents through Hugo, and we rode out the storm at their log cabin, which actually had less trees around it than our house at the time. I believe Hugo was still a 3 or 4 at that point. Was surprising to see so many people on the road, especially after watching it tear through Charleston the night before. One of my biggest memories is all the wonderfully strange sea creatures that had been taken on a very, very long journey inland, mainly little bugs, but most still wriggling and writhing. More recently, riding out Matthew, Dora, and some others. We came through unscathed, excepting limbs and leaves. Power went only briefly, which, during Matthew, my dad actually went on oxygen the day before it hit, so we were glad it came back on pretty quickly. But flooding and power outages persisted in town, and even Waffle House closed due to Matthew. My wife, from Jamaica, knows of hurricanes as well, and takes it more seriously than I do, filling tubs with water, because she lived through Gilbert, which knocked out power for 3 weeks I think she said. Something unprecedented like a hurricane hitting California, Utah, and Colorado could conceivably do greater damage due to the unforeseen threat. Another reason we need that new power grid in the East and West.

    But hey, it's perfectly normal phenomena, right? Also, I agree with Jim, I like all the Weather Report Suites. DiP 14 features two of them that are excellent, DaP 19 7/19/74 has a really good one, Winterland '73 has two excellent ones and a good one, DaP 13 2/24/74 is really nice, especiwlly the segue to Row Jimmy, and the king of them all is DiP 12 6/28/74 a fantastic one followed by a 29 min jam that features MLBody becoming a proto-Music Never Stopped jam, Dark Starish jam, and then out of nowhere becomes US Blues. Sonically, one can never go wrong with DaP 34 6/23/74, my favorite Wall of Sound 2 track, and everything is played exceptionally well, including this WRS> China Doll. Think 6/23/74 will be my soundtrack for working on my music room today...

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    La-La-La-La-La Oro

    La-La-La-La-La-LaFontaine!!!! RJ was quite a character, Oro.
    I got to playing some Seeds last night and I forgot how fun these early bands were, including the Zombies and the Blues Magoos, a favourite of my older brother back in 67-68ish. He used to belong to that Columbia record club back then where you would get a batch of albums for a penny, and signed up for a year’s subscription. Then he got hip, and got way into The Doors and some others, but those early psychedelic band albums he bought were a hoot.
    I hope everyone in the SouthWest stays safe through the inclement weather. Up here, it seems like half the country is burning with forest fires really bearing down. Stay safe, all.
    PS - Jack: I’m glad Bedard went to Chicago, and can hopefully turn that storied team around. This kid should do for the Blackhawks what Patrick Mahones did for KC - make them relevant again.

  • Oroborous
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    Oh, RJ

    How could I forget.
    One of the all time greats, May the four winds blow him safely home…
    Old school, didn’t need to chatter incessantly like they all do now. Like Collingsworth et el that even after decades, still seem compelled to force you to know every damn thing that’s in their thick sculls and prove how smart they are…gag!
    With RJ, Always felt like you were sitting with a buddy watching a game, all relaxed and sorta mellow, until WHAM something would happen and he’d weave his magic with one part entertainer, one part emotion.
    Yep, unfortunately they don’t make em like that no more : (
    Damn, what’s next? No more Anchor beer, no RJ, DTV NFL, women’s rights, etc, etc, etc, oh well, nothing lasts as the pranksters say…
    Thanks for the decades of fun and memories, gonna have to dust off the ole RJ Top Shelf video disc tonight.
    He was a great guy, “Top Shelf Where Mama Hides the Cookies” to use his famous quote.
    Hopefully Tim Horton has a hot coffee waiting for him in the big press box in the beyond!

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    HOOOWWLLLLL! (Cue Jer bear on the shredding machine)
    Yeah similar here last night 1stshow. Huge lightning, first heat lightning all over, then the real stuff bombing the valley.
    It’s pretty impressive when the big thunder booms through these valleys and canyons! And very intense but short deluge. Hopefully no fires from all that lazy lightning.

    SPRING: 78: yeah that DaP was a real fine surprise. Sometimes you get shown the light…Spring 78 wasn’t really on my radar until that one dropped. Now I wish he’d drop a box from that tour. Really sweet Betty’s too!

    Yeah PT I remember being in SoFla and those “lil” 4 pm downpours…tropical thunder mate!
    That’s some rain!

    Hang in there boys and girls! and remember…
    When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro!

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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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What would yo mama think
Pretty Peggy-O

Acid Mothers Temple

"Pink Lady Lemonade"

I discovered this walking Green Lake yesterday after a snack

Veeeeerrry nice

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Did I beat BTK to the punch with this one?
Two great shows I was lucky to attend. 76 was just exactly perfect. 1982 is the last year I really enjoyed, just couldn't take Jerry's voice, health and appearance going downhill after that.

Last 5(all vinyl):
Caravan: For Girls who Grow Plump in the Night
Misfits: 12 Hits From Hell
Jefferson Airplane: 9-30-66 boot
GD: 10/9/76
Motown Chartbusters Vol 4

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Good choice Cousin! I forgot that had been issued. RGM?
10-9-76 set 2 with a 10 song jam. And what a jam.
Cheers

It is indeed possible (and quite quick 'n easy) to download the JotW @ForensicDocEleven

However, I cannot seem to post instructions, nor even DM it to you; I tried my level best, removed all l1nks etc but it just kept saying that the site won't allow embeds or lnks and it even flagged me when I tried to send you my emial addr (misspellings deliberate). UPDATE: I finally got a DM sent w/ my contact info

Oro - what a great tape to get practicing on! I love to hear how 12/5/71 has stirred people, their hearts and minds or their souls or their ears or their hands. Or all of it. There's just some powerful magic radiating from that night's efforts. God Bless the Good ol' Grateful Dead

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41 years ago today I was up at the Frost to see the Dead put on a fantastic show. This was the first time the Dead played at the Frost and it might have been my favorite. This one is a must release, if they ever release any shows from the Frost.

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Mornin', rockers!!!

I was able to capture that 1/21/71, anybody who needs/wants, you know where to find me.............

Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man................

Rock on!!!

Doc
Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters...............

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10.22.83: Carrier Dome

Chet Atkins: Almost Alone

11.23.73: El Paso

Howlin' Wolf: The London Sessions

10.23.73: Bloomington, MN

...leave nothing but footprints; yet in a digital world, one man gathers what another man spills...

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10.22.83: Carrier Dome

Chet Atkins: Almost Alone

11.23.73: El Paso

Howlin' Wolf: The London Sessions

10.23.73: Bloomington, MN

...leave nothing but footprints; yet in a digital world, one man gathers what another man spills...

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Per Reddit, Dave's Picks 48 is 11/20/71.

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I'll withhold judgement until I hear it in full processed form.

I listened to 11/17/71 over the past few days...it was OK, but no wood.

I hope 11/20/71 remedies that.

(I love ya Dave....1968....1968....1968....1968....1968....)

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Alan I haven’t rechecked but looking at my subscription order a few days ago the date you mention was shown as DaP #48. Unless this is a cunning plot by deaddotnet to throw us off the scent it would seem that it is more than a rumour.

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43 Years ago today, 2 rocking Grateful Dead shows! Casey Jones encore on 10/9, these 2 shows burned! I'm really glad that the acoustic sets for these 2 shows were released, hopefully we will see all these shows put out in one BIG BOX SET. Fun times !!!

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… received my Grateful Dead vinyl box set,
Over 5 Lp’s recording of the Madison square garden concert from 3/9/81 and it sounds awesome! Great job on this first pressing. Really nice performance & audio quality is primo! Any one else purchase a Boxset??!

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Enjoy hoisting the banner.

Connor Bedard initial thoughts. Young and skilled, but smaller than I expected.

Thoughts and prayers go out to Barry Melrose. Tough news. I wish him well.

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....the pre-game was extra over the top. Hey! It's Vegas!
Melrose. Ugh.
Not good news regarding Mary Lou Retton either. But I guess that's on her.

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Where's forensicdoc when you need him?

Doc??

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Around comment 62 or so when it first leaked.
Not a full review but it'll do.
We said his name 3 times fast and he appeared.
Good health to the Doc & wife.
Cheers

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Anyone else order this disc? Was supposed to release over a week ago,,,, I've had no word, see no tracking on order receipt.

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The 4th pick of the year is generally good but not grate, seems this year is no exception.

In Burlington, VT visiting my daughter for her 21st and leaf peeping, she's at UVM. Was at Nectar's last night for "Dead Night." It rocked, I was one of the oldest guys there, mostly 20's and 30's. Also, this town is FULL of Dead stuff, Phish music, flags, images, nowhere to be found. Cracking me up

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Good morning to HF and all you other rockers!!!

I am here, but in serious lurker mode. One only has to ask............

IF 11/20/71 is the next Dave's, I think people will enjoy it. I'm guessing it's a returned tapes type of deal, if it's an upgrade I'm thinking of quality comparable to Albuquerque/Ann Arbor. Solid show, especially the second set. The question is, what to put on the third CD? Maybe the recently exhibited 1/21/71? Ah, one can only hope.........

Don't really wanna get into details about health issues just yet, but here's a clue.......H/O.............and I don't mean trains..........

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.......

Rock on!

Doc
There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.....

Maybe it would be as well to ignore the Keith era for the next couple of years. Unless something truly different can be found, like the Fall 73 shows with horns. Otherwise there's a risk we could be getting slightly inferior versions of shows we've already got.
And 10/12/68 would be brilliant way to start. No Dave's Picks released so far is remotely like it.

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… on the subject of future Dave’s picks , how about the performance at Tacoma Dome 10//20/85 ?!

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Billy's getting enough love and playing enough incredible stuff that we kinda thought he deserved his own thread.
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I'll see what's up with that...
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but hey, I'm a mod, so if you and/or others continue to have this difficulty I will pass it up the line. Sorry for the trouble! And if you have problems, describe the error messages you're getting and anything else that seems to be going on...thanks!
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10 8 81

From my Craig collection

Worth a listen

Also, another reason why I don't look at setlists: 9 25 81

A few nice surprises in that show

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I've been listening to a lot of October 83 and now I have Day Job stuck in my head... :(

Why hasn't 10/15/83 ever come out? Maybe Dave doesn't bother if there are already good boards around?

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I was at this show, lots of fun, th4e sun dome is a great place with a floating dome, place sucked you in and spat you out. Second set here is awesome, with a great Drums>Space into Jerry doing a great reading of "Comes a Time". Gimme some loving too, First time hearing the band doing that one. Good times had by all.

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...30 seemed so old.

Just reflecting back over the last few weeks and posts I had not been able to post.

Someone posted about Hampton 1988, specifically 1988-03-27. I went to the Atlanta and then Hampton shows. They were all very good, but the March 27th shows was spectacular. It had the first Space to open a set since 1985-10-31. That one was space>Werewolves of London. Know everyone around here knows that but just thought I would post just in case.

Then was discussed the 1988 Cap. Center shows. We did that run, so I was extremely happy to see the Ripple. One of my favorite songs. Although, it was sad why they played that Ripple. Did those shows, then hit Miami, Tampa-St. Pete, and New Orleans.

Someone posted about Eric Clapton 24 nights. I have the dvd and cd's. Watched the dvd a couple of weeks back. It is very good but has its flaws also.

Seems like there was one more but it slips me.

I also in the last few weeks listened to Chicago's first 2 albums remastered on cd, both are great. The first album is still my favorite.

Oh well, enough for now.

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are relatively brief. But fun.

Ripple....they played that in 88 immediately after the two blechy shows in the Northwest, Tacoma (actually, kind of OK with Touch of Grey out of Space) and Eugene (still annoyed by that show in 2023)

I like the idea of it. I am half way through Paris 9/18/74, so I will be having my brain drilled by Seastones later tonight. That opens set 2, as it did for a few other 74 shows, so maybe that was a sort of precedent for the set opening Spaces.

Too busy lately, whats happened to our daylight. Thank goodness for GOGD. Have been trying to review much of E72, including the couple shows never heard before like Newcastle and loving every minute. As much as I have banged on the primal drum and would love to have more 1968, 71-73 is such peak period too, E72 monumental. Just had the extra fun and unlikely experience of running into John Scott of Deadbase fame a few minutes ago in a place so close to my home as to be almost next door. John is a friend of a friend but we had never met, a student at Dartmouth, where I later worked. Quickly traded stories, both at the 1980 Lewiston concert, recent music etc. Am certain I made him late for something. This crazy world can be such a small place, we must keep love friendship and peace in our hearts, madness and hatred out.

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I just received my email about Vol 48, on sale next Tuesday the 17th...it is 11/20/71 at Pauley Pavilion as we all knew...faintly remember it...they had two lines...one for the floor and one for the upper level seats...some fun...

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