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September 2023
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a new serie?
isn't it time to begin a new serie aka "road trips" with highlights? is it really important to get 100 looks like rain and 200 beat iodt line? i won't subscribe too.
I'm Biased
But yes, legendary.
That whole second set was a mindblower.
California deadhead standing next to me said he'd never seen anything like it.
They were swaggeringly good then.
Cheers
Road Trips
Yes, I'd be up for a series that released polished gems rather than whole shows. Road Trips was a great series. Also, in it's brief timespan, it covered more ground that the 50 Daves have so far - going from Feb 1968 up to 1993.
Complete shows only
Unless only fragments are available.
Just because one person doesn’t like a particular song doesn’t mean that everyone else doesn’t like that song.
If you don’t like the song skip over it.
In the days of cassettes people made mix tapes of the songs they wanted to hear. Now people make playlists. It’s easier to make a playlist than a mix tape.
Many fragments are in the vault I reckon
Give them to me for safekeeping
Only fragments? YES
it took time to get Nassau 73 and Miami 74, wich are among my favorite shows, like many others, like Fresno 74, LA73, Albuquerque 71, Hartford 74, Orpheum 76, Normal 78, Philadelphia 83, 84, etc. since the "we want complete show" at the begining of the roads trip serie, we lost confidence in an objective mind to gather the best of the band., what Dick did, and Dave and Blair tried to do. Why not try something new? listen to 30 days of dead 2023...good choices!
Fragments or whole shows?
On the whole I think I prefer...both of them. It's not an either or situation. If they only have fragments, and those fragments are diamonds, then I say lets be having them.
The Road Trips that are fragmented-thinking of 6/16/74 and 6/18/74 are chock full of great music, without a second to miss. Same with 6/26/74 and 6/28/74 in the Dicks series.
Eventually needs to be before I die
And conjecturing is in my DNA
I can'naugh stop, Captain
Warp factor 11 Mr Sulu
Aye Captain
Uh to where, Captain
Watkins Glen 73, duh, Sulu. The di lysergic crystals will get us there
Sulu grins
Aye Captain
January 79
The 10th and 20th would make a great twofer deluxe Dave’s!
Number one, make it so!
You are missing the point…
You are missing the point
Instead of wasting time wondering about what's next, when it's all going to come out anyway because we are paying for it, why not go for a walk and talk to a stranger in the street, call someone and tell them you miss them or volunteer some time to a charity
Happy New Year!
And we can fight our…
And we can fight our evolutionary tendencies
The point is:
We tip each other off to good shows.
We enjoy each other's suggestions.
We have kind hearts or we wouldn't be here.
Inquiring minds want to know.
Cheers to all
And have a safe amateur night, so named for when those that are not experienced do too much imbibing.
Telling people what to do
It looks as though you are reading what people are posting about future releases, Ian, which isn't much different from proposing something yourself. Anyway, I went for a walk yesterday. Day before yesterday, actually. And I talked to a stranger. At least I think he was.
Talking to strangers
I find this difficult because I’m fairly strange myself :)
I gave a stranger
the $5 balance on a $10 Starbucks gift card I had a few days ago
True story
He thanked me and said
Yo cuz how about 11 19 72
Or 7 18 76
True or not
U decide
66 gem collection
67 gem collection
68 gem collection
69 box
70 gem collection or box or both
Preferences
I prefer full shows, but will take anything.
Dick's Picks, Vol. 2 certainly gets plenty of airtime in this house.
Feel Like A Stranger
It was 37 F and raining today, I didn’t go for a walk
Instead I listened to music and contemplated future releases.
And while I wait for those releases I continue to run my torrent machine, which delivered to me this weekend:
6-27-69 166576.sbd.anon.gems
6-28-69 166577.sbd.anon.gems
9-3-72 166363.sbd.bear.gems
Looking forward to giving those a play.
Currently at Heart
Climate Pledge Arena Seattle
Jason Bonham opening act
Jason Bonham and pals
Rocked real good
Led Zeppelin
Love it
Heart did good, too
But they won’t all be coming out!
As the pranksters say: nothing lasts!
Perhaps that’s the real point Bro!
As much as we have a bountiful of riches from the vault already, if you do the math, at current release schedules, times X, with X equaling, what, 10, maybe 20 more years? That’s no where near “all” of em.
Dave’s in his fifties, and as much as I know he loves his job, don’t see him doing it forever. Also, you’d think demand will eventually cool. So even if they do 20 more years, times 4 or 5 Dave’s, and a five show box once a year, that’s only 200 more, no where near what’s left!
So yeah, some of us enjoy goofing around speculating what’s next. Don’t understand why that’s a problem?
Going for a walk is awesome, and sometimes just saying hi to a stranger can be a great thing in itself, but for this broken old goof, staying home and hanging with my homies and playing with my toys is da shit!
Walkin blues
good time to have a walk with all the good food around the end of the year. I had a walk too, and a good ride with the bike for Christmas.
I didn't mean I am against full show, maybe I was mistanderstood. What I meant, we can have full show, and we can have highlights...why not a serie with best moments of spring 84, or fall 81? everything is open,I just trust the MC of Dead archives..
last five very bluesy,
GD Nassau73
Willy Dixon I am the blues
Ellmore James blues after hours
Clapton R Johnson sessions(with dvd- highly recommanded)
John hammond rough & toughc
Future releases
With respect to Dave, I wouldn't think ongoing releases are dependent on his willingness to be involved. He, like Dick, like all of us, is just passing through. He doesn't own the music, which will surely live on after his involvement ceases. I guess the future lies with how willing people are to purchase it. Maybe a change in format would help. As Sheik has pointed out, maybe there is room for different kinds of releases, which might add and prolong interest.
Proudfoot
JB's band rocked out when I saw them open for Gov't Mule in Atlanta on August 12th. That show almost killed me. Contracted Legionnaires Disease from the hotel in Atlanta. 2 weeks after returning from the show I was in ICU on a vent and a paralytic. Came out the other side with partial paralysis down my right side. It was a great show though.
OROBOROUS
Haha! You have to keep a sense of humor about these things. It can always be worse. I left the hospital unable to walk, and now am able to walk 2.3 miles a day, and ride my recumbent bike 6 miles every morning.
Besides, it was an awesome show. Gov't Mule tore that amphitheater apart!