Grateful Dead

Dennis - I can remember about 3-4 years ago both Two and Three were listed on Amazon UK as upcoming releases. I paid in advance for number Two and sat here waiting. Every few months I would get an email from them telling me the release date had been delayed and did I still want a copy. Of course I did....but this process continued until one day, a year or so after I ordered it, they emailed me to say they had cancelled my order as they wouldn't now be getting any copies.

I only saw it for sale yesterday by chance, scrolling down whatever Dead releases they have in stock at the moment. It's supposed to be delivered tomorrow. Didn't want to go out anyway.

What a long saga on those LP's.

Experience vinyl seems to have them in stock. Quick check on #2,,, they have and they're 100 bucks.

I ordered these (all three) over a year ago. 1 came in about a month ago, they've been "shipping" 2 & 3 for a while.

Finally, 2&3 are in the mail,,, should be by Tuesday I think.

Extra funny note - I mistakenly order two copies of 1 over a year ago. I never cancelled one of them because I didn't want thing to get fucked up. They finally send 1, but not the second copy?!?! Once I get 2 & 3 in hand I will see if the extra 1 can be cancelled. I really not sure if they charged me when I ordered or they charged when shipped?

In any event Dave might be worth a look.

I noticed a vinyl Two From The Vaults for sale on Amazon yesterday. Only three available, and not that expensive. This morning there was only one available. Gulp. Thought I'd better jump on it. Squinting at the cover on the screen, it looks as though it is the same pressing as the one that came out in 2014. I got my original cd when it first came out, the one without the bonus tracks - so this new one might sound a bit better.

Not to keep harping on about it - but this might be another reason cds from deadnet don't sell out as quickly as they used to. There are more options available. The fact that I have just bought this, makes it less likely that I will buy Daves 47-unless it's from a year I really like a lot.

I bet they put a vinyl box set of the shows out next year, hopefully they also put it out on cds. I still think there is hope for a 1980 Warfield box set by using cassette masters.

Who knows for sure on this one, do good tapes exist or did Jerry and Phil accidentally smoke them backstage at the '76 Tower Theatre shows?.... I do recall an interview with someone (Jerry?), it might have been on the documentary Athem to Beauty where they learned a valuable lesson recording Anthem.. not to wear out the masters making the mix.. "by the time we were done it sounded terrible and muddy??" It might have been part of that quote where Jerry says, laughing hysterically, "we mixed it for the hallucinations"

There's a lot out there in the ether about the Winterland '74 source recordings. Google "Steal Your Face Album" and in the Wikipedia article they go into detail on Bear and Phil's take of the recordings and the mix they used for the album. Also.. the usual suspects were not used to record these shows.. (Bill Wolf???) Owsley was especially pissed.. claiming (again from source I cannot remember) that the shows were mic'd incorrectly and there was terrible bleeding, that the tapes were almost unusable (or was it unlistenable?).

It sounds pretty good to me..

..but it does sound drastically different from other GD recordings of the era. There is a reverb quality and some bleeding that comes through. This after someone spent a tremendous amount of effort cleaning them up before release.

It could be there were problems on the source masters, that cleaning them up created fatigue or the like or that much of it did not sound great. It simply might not be as easy as waving a wand and poof.. we have Winterland '74 the Complete Recordings. Then again, I could be wrong.

As for Deadheads dying off and there are less of them now. I don't know.. I remember hearing That exact quote in 1982. In the Dark anyone? Could be. Could be we are undercounting the newer folks that never even got to see Jerry play yet somehow were able to see the light. Some are every bit as passionate as the next rabid teleporting, time and space travelling, seasoned dead freak.

I agree with the saturation comment.. especially the '77/'74 pole position shows to lead off the series and some less desirable shows filling the three and four positions of the series. That might have worked better when 12k were made, just saying.

HOW ABOUT SOME 1968! Or More like December 26th 1969? Yes.. they will not eclipse Cornell in hype but fluck it.

With few exceptions, this series is excellent. The Summer 73 Box should fill whatever perceived void might exist. So that brings us to exactly now, which reminds me.. we need another release and soon.

....a bunch of young bands get IT.

Seems like The Dead won't die off anytime soon, which is good news. They don't have such a high profile in England, of course, but archival albums are often reviewed in music mags, and they are nearly always positive.

DocMarty - yes, how could I forget that? Walking football sounds alright to me. I do that too - minus the football. I had a casey when I was about 8. Brown leather, it collected the water if it rained, and if you headed the sucker after that you ran the risk of knocking yourself out.
I always keep a lookout for Wolves on Match of the Day. Watch the highlights. Though they are so brief for all games that they seem more like an interruption in between the incessant analysis. Start to watch a game - go in the kitchen for a cup of tea - come back - the games already over and it's back to the studio.

30 trips seems like the likely candidate for both size and variety. After that Id probably go with the second spring 90 box and Europe 72.

Thinking I'd spend to much time trying to decide, which boxes to take...so I gonna put out the Fire,

Like Dennis, have things on external hard drives in different locations/properties

Don't forget your pets

that is true. I mentioned my friend Craig the other day. He left us on April 30.

In addition, after I get this box, I will be preeeetty close to saturation with shows. Time for listening is ticking away for me, as well. Unless the NEXT box includes 11/19/72, I might well pass on it.

Subscribe next year? maybe.

anyway...