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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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  • 1stshow70878
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    Marye, Help!

    As Oro says, we are still experiencing censorship at a massive level trying to post. I tried a four sentence post and had to cut it to two. It was about Christmas albums, clearly dangerous stuff. I hope you can help. Thank you.
    Cheers

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    Egypt 78

    RIP John Cutler. Loved his recordings.

    Interesting info. Alan Trist has a great write up in the liner notes of the Rocking the Cradle release. They used The Who's PA system from London. Quite the production to make these shows happen.

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    Was anyone there?

    I can't remember ever reading a post on here from anyone who attended those Egypt shows. Maybe I just missed it.

  • Oroborous
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    Fix this effin nonsense already, FFS!

    Just wasted a half hour and late for work trying to post about the Egypt thing, including quotes from Healy, but it’s all another effin waste as I can’t post it, I’m so over this BS!
    Hey rhino, we’re giving you millions of dollars a year, how bout you fix your lame ass site!

  • PT Barnum
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    really

    the Camp David Accord ended all hostilities between the two countries, so technically not at war, just hostile to each other. Thanks for pointing out that little bit of history to us all.
    My previous post was correct, just because one can't find the information doesn't mean it didn't happen. Do you think I made it up? 1979 Egypt was very primitive. I did not use Rock Skullys book, I did research it a bit and I stand by my post, the wire was ancient, probably left over from WW2.
    The main point is that without forethought by the band and them sending John to Egypt these shows might not have happened.
    Thank you John, and fare thee well.

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    RIP John Cutler

    Y'all be cool

  • mark_mumper
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    no war during the Egypt shows

    There was no war actually going on between Egypt and Israel at the time of or preceding the Dead's Giza concerts. (There hadn't been since the October War/Yom Kippur War/Ramadan War in 1973.) What was going on, mostly secretly until signed on Sep 17 1978 (the day after the last Giza concert; also Ken Kesey's birthday), were negotiations mediated by President Jimmy Carter in Maryland
    between (not usually together in the same room) Israel's Menachem Begin and Egypt's Anwar el-Sadat that culminated as the Camp David Accords and led to the Egypt-Israel peace treaty signed six months later. (That treaty made a formal mutual recognition and normalization of relations between the two countries, ended their state of war existing since the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, and led to Israel's departure from Sinai.)

    oh, and I think it's doubtful that the inadequate cabling provided to try to wire up to the King's Chamber for echoing the concert feed dated from the Nazi era; that's probably someone's tale-telling exaggeration (I checked Rock Scully's entertaining but facts-challenged memoir Living with the Dead as a likely source for that, but it's not there. Maybe in Nicki Scully's or Kesey's accounts of the Egypt adventure?)

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    Anniversary shows , 12/ 27/79, 80,81,82,83

    Fun times! Great to be in the Bay Area in December.

  • 1stshow70878
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    DiP 2 Vinyl at RGM

    ALERT: Only 150 left an hour ago.
    Oct. 31, 1971. That's a show worthy of vinyl.
    Cheers

  • PT Barnum
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    mom always liked you best

    RIP Tommy Smothers tried to show us what was going down, and the censors cancelled him. A true warrior who will be missed. The Smothers Brothers comedy hour was ahead of the times and spoke negatively about racism, the president and the Vietnam war. They also had an incredible list of rock stars on the show, along with anti war folk singers. The Who almost blew up the stage when 3 explosive charges were put in the cannon inside Keith's bass drum and when it went off, caught Pete's hair on fire and sent a piece of cymbal into Keith's arm. All on network tv.
    Thanks for the memories, now over 50 years ago.

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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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