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    "Basketball and music have always been alike for me, the celebration of life and all other good things. These two art forms represent the best of teamwork, constant motion, creativity, leadership, communication, focus, execution, friendship, loyalty, cooperation, hope, opportunity, purpose, sacrifice, discipline, honor, and fun. Fun to play. Fun to practice. UCLA and the Grateful Dead embody the highest levels of this celebratory joy. At UCLA, it was endless fun, every day, in every way. We couldn’t wait to get there, to get going — though it was never as much fun as when the Grateful Dead came to play with and for us." - Bill Walton
     
    Is there anyone who knows the acoustics of Pauley Pavilion better than Bill "Grateful Red" Walton? We think not, so we signed him on as a liner note scribe for DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 48, the complete previously unreleased show from UCLA's Pauley Pavilion 11/20/71. He was there, after all, "driftin' and dreamin'" as the Dead shape-shifted through a first set of Americana classics from WORKINGMAN'S DEAD and AMERICAN BEAUTY into their second one featuring truly primal psychedelic jams (a 23+ minute "The Other One"). They peppered in hot takes on tracks from the recently released SKULL & ROSES ("Bertha," "Me And My Uncle," "Not Fade>GDTRFB") and road-tested tunes like "Ramble On Rose" and "Tennessee Jed" that would make the cut on the following year's EUROPE '72. It's all delivered with such precision that we've had to come up with some overtime for disc three. There you'll find 75+ minutes of music from the Kiel Opera House, St. Louis, MO, 10/24/70, with the rest of the show due sometime in the near future.
     
    Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 48: PAULEY PAVILION 11/20/71 was recorded by Rex Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering.

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  • icecrmcnkd
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    Took 2 attempts

    To get that posted

    Will this one work?

  • icecrmcnkd
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    Hey now, get off my lawn you hippies!

    And stop trying to socialize on Rhino’s platform.

  • JimInMD
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    No New Comments

    Is it safe to assume there are almost no new comments today as a result of efforts of the new director of Web IT at Rhino, William HeyNow?

    Is it BECAUSE PEOPLE CAN'T POST?

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    Frank Parry

    Still waiting for mine. I think it will sound great irrespective of subscription status....but it would be nice to confirm mr daverock younaughty teaser!!!

  • Colin Gould
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    Frank Perry

    Yes, mine is still missing.

  • FiveBranch
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    Immediately reminded me of…

    Immediately reminded me of Albuquerque when I started up disc one. Jerry bending the holy living realm out of the notes in particular. At times it sound like he's making his guitar speak old world Castilian. But then in contrast that very brief clean succession technique at the peak of Not Fade Away. Very expressive time for Jerry's playing. First set highlights would be Beat It On Down the Line, El Paso and Ten Jed. Second set is one giant highlight.

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    DaP48 in the U.K

    Has anyone in the U.K. NOT received it yet? My two friends who also subscribe got theirs last week. Thanks.

  • JimInMD
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    Wow..

    First, the skinny columns on the new look for these forums makes the posts look longer than they really are.

    Second, I can't believe I wrote something with more than six words and one paragraph that slipped past the Crapatcha and Ney How Nazis. Take that you IT weenies!

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    Re: Wall Of Sound

    The vocals certainly suffered on the WOS recordings, that noise cancelling mic worked but was far from perfect. I think the band really enjoyed playing through the Wall of Sound and knew it was a special thing they put together, both for the fans and for themselves. You hit on a good point, mixing down to 2 tracks was a problem, I also recall hearing they were experimenting with quadrophonic output (at least on Phil's bass) and other sound projection techniques that may or may not have lent themselves well to two track recording.

    They sounded great throughout this whole period and the band was playing like they meant it. Hopefully they had loads of fun as well. Whatever they were doing, whatever it was they put in the water, it worked. I am speculating that sometime in the late 60's to early 70's they realized the value of having a master and did not play they heck out of the original reel to reels. I suspect many of the late 60's shows suffered because someone was playing the originals too many times when they got home or at least it sounds that way. This seems true especially in 69, many of the tapes sound muddy and lack a crispness that does not seem to be the case in the banana box show recently released. Or it could be they are just ancient, and some benefited from better storage.

    Thank whoever it is you thank that someone had the foresight to hit the record button. Without that, it would all be a dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago.

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    Thankee Bluecrow

    Thanks for weighing in, Bluecrow! Your reasoning matches with mine. And as time goes on and Grateful Dead scholarship has continued to improve, I started thinking that maybe there's a chance that I could not only say it with certainly - but might even be able to get it down to which song was being played at my, er, entrance. (exit?) That's probably a pipe dream... but 'tis a good dream...

    And I'm with everyone else who is enjoying Dave's 48, the final Pick of the year. It's been a blast. In fact I've got it playing right now - Cumberland! Oh myyy. And I've got a copy of disc 3 all loaded up in the car for tomorrow's commute. Shoutout to Rex... man did a pretty darn good job with the recording given all the variables he was dealing with. It makes me want to pull out Dave's #3 for comparison - to see how far he (and the band!) came in a month's time.

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"Basketball and music have always been alike for me, the celebration of life and all other good things. These two art forms represent the best of teamwork, constant motion, creativity, leadership, communication, focus, execution, friendship, loyalty, cooperation, hope, opportunity, purpose, sacrifice, discipline, honor, and fun. Fun to play. Fun to practice. UCLA and the Grateful Dead embody the highest levels of this celebratory joy. At UCLA, it was endless fun, every day, in every way. We couldn’t wait to get there, to get going — though it was never as much fun as when the Grateful Dead came to play with and for us." - Bill Walton
 
Is there anyone who knows the acoustics of Pauley Pavilion better than Bill "Grateful Red" Walton? We think not, so we signed him on as a liner note scribe for DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 48, the complete previously unreleased show from UCLA's Pauley Pavilion 11/20/71. He was there, after all, "driftin' and dreamin'" as the Dead shape-shifted through a first set of Americana classics from WORKINGMAN'S DEAD and AMERICAN BEAUTY into their second one featuring truly primal psychedelic jams (a 23+ minute "The Other One"). They peppered in hot takes on tracks from the recently released SKULL & ROSES ("Bertha," "Me And My Uncle," "Not Fade>GDTRFB") and road-tested tunes like "Ramble On Rose" and "Tennessee Jed" that would make the cut on the following year's EUROPE '72. It's all delivered with such precision that we've had to come up with some overtime for disc three. There you'll find 75+ minutes of music from the Kiel Opera House, St. Louis, MO, 10/24/70, with the rest of the show due sometime in the near future.
 
Limited to 25,000 numbered copies, DAVE'S PICKS VOLUME 48: PAULEY PAVILION 11/20/71 was recorded by Rex Jackson and has been mastered to HDCD specs by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering.

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I would love to hear the vinyl remaster of this pick. I don't really have a "favorite" year for band. Sure, I like some ears better than others but, i consider myself blessed to "like it all". With that being said, Dicks Picks #2, 10/31/71, single disc knockout release! would definitley be in my "you can only take 10 shows with you" stack!!!

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My 48 was handed off to USPS, and the phuqing idiots sent it to the wrong post office. Who knows if I’ll ever see it. Dumbasses

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BTK....once again, I'm sure we were at alot of the same shows .... I have great memories of Halloween at BCT in 84 ... both the music AND the crazy costumes ... as I recall, they did a great "halloween space". Also (still have) one of my favorite t-shirts ... black, full moon in upper left corner featuring Jerry's face in the surface, skeleton with shades playing a pumpkin guitar flying through the frame... "Halloweeeeeeeeen at Berkeley". Good times had by all..........tcc

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Morning, rockers!!!!

Awesome sonic upgrade on the UCLA show. Super nice crunchy Other One. But I knew that already. Did you?!!!

Looking forward to 10/24/70 on drive home.............

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time......

Rock on,

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39 years ago today ( along with top China cat and allot of other folks who post here on this forum) we were having a great time with the the Good old Grateful Dead at the tiny BCT. Great show , great run. The Dead had put up big sheets of paper out in the lobby on the walls so you could write them messages.

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I noticed when I ripped 48 in someone out there in internet-land created an into symbol....

17 - The Other One →

versus using ->

I like it, now I need to figure out how to use it!

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Hopefully 48 will warm me up as it appeared in our box serendipitously this WE (no notice)
10/24/70 interesting after 1 spin…

Hope this posts…

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Sold out.. ?

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Yes, looks like it sold out

#46 and #47 are still available.

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yes seemingly sold out.

Meanwhile my own copy is supposedly out for delivery. No notice rec'd.
edit/update: sure enough, received today!

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… believe it or not , Kieth is only credited of playing piano on only one of the Dave’s Picks series so far which is Dave’s Picks #45. He also plays keyboards on this release as well.

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Oh man I loved the BCT! Probably rubbing shoulders with some of you all there. We were so lucky in those days we had a connection for "family tix" down in front maybe center 8 rows back. I had a D5 in the brand new taping section and would run back there for the flip! Oh what fun we had!

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In the house. Getting reading to rip it!

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I bought the yearly subscription and I'm kind of worried that there's no shipping notice yet.

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Nice Brent tribute.

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No shipping notice at all but my USPS account says I will be receiving DP #48 tomorrow 10/31. I'm pretty much fed up with the customer service.

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No shipping notice, but it arrived anyway, along with a few inches of snow!

I was heading out to run an errand and grabbed Pure Jerry from July 1977 off the shelf for the drive, but then found #48 in the mailbox, so stuffed that in the van's CD player instead.

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40 years ago tonight, The Grateful Dead were tearing it up in their hometown and we were lucky enough to be there. It was really hard to get tickets for these shows at the tiny Marin Vets Auditorium. The Dead played great, and we really cut loose and had a great time. Next stop Halloween and the last St Stephen.

I think it was Thatmike that mentioned this book by David Cain a year or so back. It's a Deadheads guide, in that it written by one, for others, of all the shows from October, briefly reviewed according the the writers subjective views. Hugely enjoyable it is, too. Maybe not for everyone - he talks about things he doesn't like as well as what he likes, which might freak some people out. But I like it.

He attaches a rose to shows he really recommends, and I noticed he gave one to The Frost show from 10/9/82 which I think -forgive me if I'm wrong- Cousins recommended recently. Obviously a show to look out for if I've got that right.

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yesterday no. 4756 w/out notification, no BIGGIE as that happens from time to time,
enjoy PAULEY and the Kiel Opera everyone!

Peace All!
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10/12/68 has to be up on top of that list October shows, because it is a knockout and should be an official release. Cousins is right about 10/9/82 at the Frost, it was a blast and definitely should be released.

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Fastest "sold-out" in a few years I believe.. Hopefully that will mean more 70/71..

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but the website won't let me post the discount code I ran across that brought the price down to $89.73....Hey Now That's Bogus Folks That Be!!!

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test

Edit. damn I cant respond to icecreamkids kind words about my tribute to brent!

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Damn, there's nothing objectionable in my response to kid AT ALL. Why is my post being blocked? Marye???

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gfy

there's either gremlins in the machine or this is just another example of lameness taking over the world

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#5925 has arrived unannounced.

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Is the Kiel Opera House a different venue from the Kiel Auditorium?

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Back at the tiny Marin Veterans Auditorium with the Good old Grateful Dead for Halloween. The last time the Dead would play St. Stephen. I saw the Dead play it 2×, 7/13/76 at the Orpheum Theatre was the other time. The Dead first played St. Stephen 5/24/68 in St. Louis, they played it 289 times.

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made it home.

Trying to decide...halloween. Do a crack a cold one and delve into it tonight?

Maybe a bowl will help me decide.

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Same building BITD but separate with one side auditorium and the other side opera house with the stages actually back to back. Auditorium torn down later but they left the opera house standing, now renamed. That wasn't the first auditorium on that site either as I recall.
Cheers

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10/12, 1968.

Been forever, over 20 years since I listened to it.

A little philosophical discussion. I tend to agree that as much of the early stuff as possible needs to be released as soon as possible as there are precious heads that either went to that show or wished they had, that would like it to be released while they are with us. I still want the newer material but I think we owe it to these older heads to help them get what they need.

Edit: I still believe they will move to streaming only sometime in the not too distant future. I also think they are putting out these elegant releases as only they can do it. 25 years from now, these physical shows with elaborate artwork will be worth a fortune. I mean there are kids that pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for the digital image of a lunchbox, because it is the only image of that particular lunchbox. I am so happy I grew up when I did, the best of times, now may be entering the worst of times.

Trouble posting - I would image many realize how close we are to quantum computing. Once we have that, there are no passwords as computers can crack any code.

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10-31-71 vinyl has been delivered on 10-31.

Number 18/3500 no less.

Probably won’t spin it for a few days as I’m going with DaP48 first.

Now to taste test some candy before I start handing it out….

Saw your message nitecat.

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Made it home despite it going to the wrong post office. I never got a shipping notification

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Never mind that #9641 had hit my mailbox several hours earlier today. It’s all good. Not spinning it tonight but read the liner notes already. Loves me some Bill Walton.

I’m a big fan of the Keith initiation tour so this one helps to salvage a somewhat lackluster year in the Dave’s Picks series. Very encouraging to see it sell out this quickly.

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I had to go with disc 3 first, because I don’t have time for the whole ‘71 show tonight.
I just gotta say, when the boys bust into a St. Stephen riff towards the end of Good Lovin, well, let’s just say I “lost my mind” a little bit.
I’m always hesitant to put ‘70 ahead of ‘71 ( mainly because I know Doc is on here) and with his complete 1971 expertise and knowledge, it seems silly to prefer 1970. But I do. It’s just a bit more raw and unhinged. I’m sure Doc loves ‘70 stuff too, but, I like what I like. In fact, I will coin a phrase none of you have ever heard before:
It’s ALL good!! 😂🤣

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Hey now is out of control

Can't post anything

Proudfoot style posts the only way to go now

EDIT: of course this one gets through right away

....which is a first for me. Like Mr. Ones, I'm going to start with 10.24.70 right now. Because I've got a double header tonight. Corpse Bride, followed by the new Evil Dead movie. Let's get greasy and gross.
Happy Halloween you freaks!

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