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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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  • proudfoot
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    Watching Bills vs Steelers the other day

    Going into commercial they played studio version of Cold Rain and Snow

    That was a surprise

  • proudfoot
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    Mars Hotel

    Yes...50 years ago

    Redo with a show? How about it Dave??

  • Vguy72
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    Dusted off TTATS....

    ....aka Boxilla.
    Realized it's been a minute since I've listened 🎶 to the Providence '78 offering within.
    Let's see what up, shall we?
    Half-Step opener it is. Bodes well.
    The scroll begs to be framed.
    I'll get to it eventually.

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    I was there as well. That’s why it’s a personal fave. I tried to leave attendance bias off my list, but that one I couldn’t.

  • alvarhanso
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    Forgot about Unbroken!

    Magisterial studio cut, decent song live when finally played, as you said dmcvt. I've seen Phil do it a few times, and they've been magnificent and jammed out.

    It's cool some of us love exactly the same flavors, some like it spiced just a bit differently. :)

  • dmcvt
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    Studio v. Live

    Have not be able to post due to hey now, trying again, cant keyboard much, thumb in a brace. Nominate Unbroken Chain for studio is better... though it was epic when finally played live. Wow, it went through, here's some earlier text to try again. Lost became so mysterious, will have to go back and check it out. Jack Kerouac wrote about The Dharma Bums, maybe that explains it.

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    The 4/30/77 Scarlet>Fire is funkier with more envelope filter than the 5/8/77 version. Not necessarily “better” but more to my liking. IMHO, the studio version of Estimated Prophet is really good. Again, not necessarily “better” than some live versions with improv jams but always listenable and well done.

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    About when will the "Mars Hotel Shop" be rolled out.. ?

  • musicnow
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    I concur with your personal favorite of She Belongs to Me 11/8/85, but I'm biased since I was there in Rachacha.

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    Personal favourites

    For many years I've thought of 6/9/77 as being my favourite H-S-F. Similarly, the version of The Other One that first comes to mind as a classic is the one from 5/2/70 at Binghampton.
    Possibly because of the box set, apart from 5/26/72, I can't distinguish individual shows from the European tour so easily, in my memory, after I have played them.

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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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The dictionary definition of trip is "the first or second stomach of a cow or other ruminant used as food." Pretty interesting, eh?

Hey Now!

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Agreed '79 is due, bring on 12.1

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I tried to keep it simple by only posting my last five listens. Seems like that was too radical.

This really sucks now!

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?yaw siht ti yrt I fi tahW

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Ti yrt

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..I mean yes - they cobbled my last 5 too. Maybe it's the choices that are too radical. Here's the last one -
A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind - volume 3 - Pagan Love Vibrations by The Amorphous Androgynous.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Deadnet!

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.. speaking hoping everyone is having a grateful new year so far, I would Love another News Years Release from the Vaults! Way over due! So many primo shows! in my deadhead !
I Love Everything they released so far! I listen to a lot of new years gigs every now a then. You always get something special. My last was at Oakland Coliseum arena! Special guests WithBranford Marsalis on tenor sapransosax! & Hamza El Din on Percussion! 1990! What a Rock’n Show!!! Or did they release this, I can’t remember? I’m getting old from my head to my cowboy boots! ;) Phil is playing awesome tonight! Really primo stuff!

Sadly Brent had passed away by this Tim. So they has keyboards and piano tonight

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thanks. Working on it.
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Just to test the Hey Now:

James Brown and the JBs: Funky People
King Crimon: Vroom Vroom
Herbie Hancock: The Prisoner
Little Feat: London show from the Waiting for Columbus box
Allman Brothers: A&R Studios

(Wot, no GOGD?)

I am STILL not a robot!

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Man, I'll probably never get that feeling I used to get watching Monty Python's Flying Circus. Or Fawlty Towers. English humor is... different, absurd, hysterical.

I had managed to never hear Taylor Swift (or know it was her) until this past Christmas Day at the in-laws. The wife and teenage daughter had Swift on in the kitchen while the lads watched football in the living room. The food was in the kitchen, so I was exposed to it a fair bit. I knew, in my mind, before I asked that it was her. It just had to be. A lot of acoustic, bland, dispassionate... I could go on and on with the negative adjectives but it wasn't like I hated it, like, say, Bro Country or Gangsta Rap, it was just mildly annoying because Taylor Swift music is so void of energy it can hardly alchemize into anything else.

Most people here are passionate enough about music to probably not be Swifties. I harbor no ill will at all toward her for her incredible industry success, she's a pop culture phenomenon and now with the Travis Kelce thing it's just taken it to the next level... beautiful girl, handles herself well in public and I do believe she has a large hand in creating her music, unlike, say, Britney.

Last 5:

Pink Floyd - Pulse (currently on next to last song on disc 2, Comfortably Numb. DG never gets old).
Montrose - Montrose
Van Halen - Women and Children First
John Mellencamp - Strictly a One-Eyed Jack (check this out! It is so far from Jack & Diane it'll blow you away)
Soundgarden - Down on the Upside

Be well, all of you.

\m/

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Dave's 37
Love this William & Mary show.
Never saw the Dead there, but I did see The Cure and Love & Rockets at the college.

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Had it on DVD for years, got the restored and re-edited Blu-ray a while back.
Saw the same setlist second night at the Pontiac Silverdome (went both nights, on floor both nights).
Good stuff.

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....is up on the toob.
🥳.
Tela, Tela.
The 42 minute mark. Lordy.
If I ever want goosebumps, I'll play that.
Thumbs up to the production crew. 👍
Unsung heros.
Edit.
I tried to edit this with Swift/Football/Dolphins vs Chiefs and got hey nowed.
It was a good rant.

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Great triple cd of John Lee Hooker on Ace records - "The Sensation Recordings 1948-1952". These sides have never sounded better.

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Hi Proudfoot - are you from Denmark ? "Ja, gerne" means "yes, please" in Danish.. Happy new year - all..

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George Harrison-Disc 5 from ATMP Deluxe box
Ambrose Akinmusire-Owl Song
Iron Butterfly-Live at Fillmore East-Disc 1
George Harrison-Disc 3 from ATMP Deluxe box
The Babys-Live From The Bottom Line 1979

Music is the Best!!

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I'm straight outta the USA

I do speak a good bit of German

Ja, gerne is German for, you guessed it, yes please

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The Billerica forum tape was given to me from a guy named BJ in1987 who lived in Natick. We met somewhere and had a few beers, and a bone while hanging at his apartment. He was a die hard deadhead. I was pretty happy, because this was the first time I actually started to listen the dead. The set list was so great that we poured a beer over his cat. The cat didn't really care much. Maybe we did it since we popped a purple micro-dot.

Dennis - foundational. Check out "Burnin' Hell" track 22 cd 1. There can't have been many other records made in 1949 that sounded like that.

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Someone should remind my neighbour of that when she hears my guitar playing. She can be very judgemental. Ears like a bat.

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The last 40 seconds alone is worth the price of admission!!

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Gettin' Hey Now'd on my reply but wanted to acknowledge how awesome a story that is!! If I can get my initial thoughts into this here 'puter without rejection, I will.
I know Marye is on it.

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Makes me want to go skiing.

Sounds like DaP51 filler will be the rest of 10-24-70 (at least that’s my interpretation).

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....Sacramento 11.30.96. A show I happened to attend and it's a scorcher and the mix is spot on.
In fact, the last two releases were ones I was at.
Thank you Kevin Shapiro! (Phish's Lemieux).

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The funny episode where they had German guests, and basil took their dinner orders while making references to nazi Officers like one "eva prawn," one "herman goring", and two Colditz salads.

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That's some serious cold rain and snow.

Any favorite shows with Cold Rain and Snow out there? Love the phat chords in the 12/26/79 show in Oakland, for example. Show's with great Weather Report Suites fit nicely in the days when "Seasonal" weather goes a bit too far.

Edit: Notice posts with the work "Negative" flow right on through the crackpot evil algorithms developed by Dr. HeyNow.

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It’s always fun when a show you attended gets an official release. I was at the Brooklyn show in (2004??) and an Atlantic City show in (2010-2011??) I’m not sure if it’s drug/alcohol related but I can’t remember shirt anymore!!

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Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you. Just one word regarding 51.

Benjamin: Yes, sir.

Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?

Benjamin: Yes, I am.

Mr. McGuire: Bruce.

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They shouldn't play

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Mixed feelings about that show

Kinda good

Kinda meh

Listening on that u t oo b

To Led Zeppelin
Live
r n r into celebration day

Yummy

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I am re listening to LTTR box

Nice

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44 years ago I was was up in Oakland for a show with the Grateful Dead. Also on the bill was Santana, The Beach Boys, John Chipollina, and Joan Baez, it was a Benefit show for Cambodian refugees. The Dead played great!

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Hello all - great day in Denmark; we have a new King - Frederik X - his mother (at 83) stepped down - and we have a new queen - Mary of Australia.. BW from (royal) Copenhagen..

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Check out the list of best Grateful Dead songs in the most recent Paste newsletter. Just give Paste a Google, enjoy the list and let the controversy begin...
I still like Wharf Rat the best!

When I think of best songs, I tend to think of the studio versions - of which "Box of Rain" and "Ripple" shine very brightly indeed.
Because The Dead's songs were so fluid, a more interesting question might be -which is the best version of songs.

Listening currently to 1 17 79

The recording starts with Bobby saying Garcia is sick and on a respirator and the show is cancelled and will be made up later. (From the cancelled Fall 78 shows )

Then the recording switches to 1 17 79.

Interesting.

For the most part I would agree - Live Dead is where it is at. But for me there are a few exceptions - I can think of 4 from American Beauty - Box of Rain, Ripple-Brokedown Palace and Attics of My Life. I don't think I have ever heard any live versions of those songs that I prefer to those studio cuts.
American Beauty as a whole is amazing, of course!

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